OUR AUSSIE MOSQUE

In March 2011, the Hon. Kevin Rudd MP, Australia's Prime Minister at that time, travelled to Oruzgan in central Afghanistan to officially present to the Muslim community of Sorgh Morghab nearby, a mosque built by the Australian Defence Force at an estimated cost of over $600,000.                              

Never-mind the project budget being originally $233,000 - having being built by 'infidels', the mosque was useless without a mullah after being black-banned by the Taliban.

So much for earning 'brownie points' with Islam…                                        

Australian taxpayer: 0  .  Taliban: 1

So what did the Australian government do about it?

Spent more taxpayer money on a Senate enquiry of course.

NEXT:  'Shariah the check-out chick'
http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/shariah-check-out-chick.html

Photo credits:  

couriermail.com.au    

smh.com.au                                                                                

                                                                                                                  

 

 

OH, CHRISTMAS TREE!



Christmas in the White House

Not long back, a well-respected local pastor advertised that he was going to preach on: ‘The attack on Christmas from within’.   His main beef was that Father Christmas should not be part of Carols by Candlelight, but… 
the surprise was in seeing a Christmas tree take pride of place beside him on the stage in a building ‘dedicated’ to the public worship of God, especially after finding what Moses has to say:

“Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee. Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the Lord thy God hateth.” Deuteronomy 16:21

There was further surprise when some friends pointed this one out:

            "Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of  Israel:

            Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.              

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workmen, with the axe.

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be born, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. 

            Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might..."                 Jeremiah 10:1-

Uhh!?.....‘Christmas trees’ in Jeremiah’s day – the 7^th century B.C.??                             

I wonder - is this what Jeremiah was trying to tell Israel?...                                                                            

Ho, ho, ho and away we go!

“Don't copy the pagans around you who worry about things like climate change. They fetch ‘Christmas’ trees for good luck, prop them up, then deck them with gold baubles and silver tinsel - how useless that is!  
God, you are the One who should be honoured...”

Are you now surprised too?                    

By the way, you will find that ‘Christmas’ comes from the ancient pagan festival of Saturnalia celebrated with much debauchery in Ancient Rome - adapted by the Roman Catholic Church, popularised with German superstition and adopted by Coca Cola. 

We used to enjoy decking a Christmas tree... 

“Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree,                                         
How richly God has decked thee…”

…or should it be: oh, idol-a-tree??

I guess we’ll find out in due course if the Almighty has had a problem with Christmas trees in Christian churches and homes.

Photo credits:                                                                          
newsholidash.com                                                                          
agrmachinery.com.au

Her Majesty's vows



Westminster Cathedral, Tuesday, 2nd June, 1953

 

The official website of The British Monarchy states that the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, held on Tuesday, 2nd June 1953, bestowed the title: ‘Defender of the Faith’.                                                                                     

The Archbishop of Canterbury asked: 

"Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel?..."                                                     

Her Majesty responded:                                                       

"All this I promise to do" then kneeling at the altar, laid her right hand on the Holy Bible and added: "The things which I have here before promised, I will perform, and keep. So help me God." followed by kissing the Holy Bible and signing of the Oath.

The British Government, led by Prime Minister David Cameron, advertises that on Wednesday 17th July, Royal Assent was given to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 for England and Wales.

Well let's see what that Holy Bible states, quoting from that which was authorised by His Majesty King James I in 1611:

“…Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh…”  Matthew 19:4 & Genesis 2:24

In other words, the institution of marriage, between a MAN and a ......WOMAN, was established at Creation. (4000 years before the Church)

“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” Leviticus 18:22…a summary offence then punishable by death according to chapter 20 verse 13.

“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another; men with men working that which is unseemly…” Romans 1:26 on, concluding with:                                             

“Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”

Does the Bible teach us that homosexual activity is worthy of God’s blessing in marriage.....or worthy of God’s judgment of death?

Never-mind what opinions you or I might have on this issue, or what King James I and other members of the Royal household might have got up to.....are the Laws of God being upheld?

Acknowledgements:                                                                      
royal.gov.au                                                                            
gov.uk
Photo credit: interactive.wxxi.org
 

#6 'EVEN MUMS & KIDS'

This is IOPNA’s 6^th and final article in our ‘Missing Link’ series.

Let's aim to be as brief as we can because…ahh... pretty or funny - it aint.                  
We found that theories of evolution received instant acceptance thanks to the Church publicly endorsing the notion that geological processes took millions of years; this is now imbedded as 'fact' in educational textbooks, nature documentaries, national park signs, museums, zoo displays and...Bible colleges!...except the 'millions of years' somehow keep evolving too – just add more zeros!

 At the end of our trail, let’s now take an overview of the awful legacies of the 'theory of evolution', thanks to the way it has fostered racism and devalued the sanctity of life, besides pushing the Creator out of the picture.                                                          

Prove it...you say?                                                                                                                         
Just ask the Australian aborigines who experienced at the end of a rifle, Darwinian theory practised in the field, except you are going to have to track down over 50,000 specimens in museums world-wide that they are reluctant to release for proper burial.                                                                                                                 

No, we are not going to make scurrilous claims such as ‘all evolutionists are Nazi's or communists’. All we are going to do is look at some of the main players, hear some of what they are reported to have said and see how they ran with this theory - with appalling results: about 160 MILLION people died violently during the 20th Century thanks to war and genocide. That’s 7 times Australia’s total population wiped out violently in just one lifetime.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), an English philosopher presumed to write ‘Principles of Biology’ (1864) and coined the expression: ‘Survival of the fittest.’  How was this played out?

The founders of communist philosophy were Germans, Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) a Jew from the Marx Levi family and Freidrich Engels (1820-1895) who jointly published their ‘Communist Manifesto’ in 1848 – the blueprint for future communist regimes based on Materialism, ‘Dialectics’ (development thru conflict) and racial superiority.

Engels: “Darwin is splendid!” and published an article:                                                    
‘The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man.’                                                                        

Marx:  “This is the book which contains the basis in natural history for our view.” “Darwin’s work is most important and suits my purpose in that it provides a basis in natural science for the historical class struggle….Despite all shortcomings, it is here that, for the first time, teleology (design for a purpose) in natural science is not only dealt a mortal blow but its rational meaning is empirically explained.”

Koncordie Amelie Dietrich (1821-1891), ‘the angel of black death’ was a German eugenicist who spent 10 years in Australia ‘arranging specimens’ of aborigines.

Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronshtein 1879-1940) was born to Jewish parents but reinvented himself to become founder of Russia's Red Army.

"Darwin's discovery is the highest triumph in the whole field of organic matter."

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) a lawyer who led the world’s first communist uprising of Bolsheviks in October 1917.

Joseph Stalin (‘Man of Steel’ born Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili, 1879-1953)  studied to be a priest in the Georgian Orthodox Church but presided over the murder and starvation of millions of his own countrymen.

“There we had to teach (seminary students) the age of the earth, the geological origins and Darwin’s teachings.”

 

...even mums and kids

Evolutionists like to distance themselves from the horrors of Nazism under Adolf Hitler but factual history has the final say:
no-one can deny the murder of Jews in the Holocaust, along with Jehovah's Witnesses, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill…. all under the application of ‘Entwicklung’ - in a ‘Christian’ country.                                     

In 1937, Western countries including Australia, USA and Britain refused to accept European Jews en mass before the Holocaust consumed 6 million of them.                                          

Mao Zedong (1893-1976)   “Chinese socialism is founded upon Darwin and the theory of evolution.”

Pol Pot (1925-1998) of the Khmer Rouge presided over the murder of millions of fellow Cambodians.

Other evils of the western world are rooted in the racism found in the ‘theory of evolution’:  colonialism, slavery, and South African Apartheid.

USA and Germany practised eugenics which involves forced sterilization, selective breeding, and euthanasia. Let’s see what that lead to.                                           

Apparently the number of violent deaths has declined in recent years. The weapons are now 'dirtier' or nuclear so nobody is game enough to push mankind’s self- destruct button. Apart from starvation or natural disaster, how else has life been cheapened?

Out of legitimate concern for destitute or abused mothers, Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) founded the Birth Control League in 1921 which became the Planned Parent Federation of America in 1942 but since her death this organisation has identified with the Pro-Choice lobby. Following the Roe vs. Wade case before the Supreme Court of USA in 1973, there are now about 125,000 abortions performed world-wide every day – some ‘full-term’ - with about 6 million so far this year.                           

Now at least 1 inconvenient child loses its right to life every second - day and night!

Here in New South Wales, an unborn wanted baby is now protected by law whereas an unwanted one is just a foetus.  (By the way, a foetus has its own pulse from Day 20.)  Our most vulnerable are now the most disposable - as biomedical waste.

Where did we find this tragic saga began? 

With us Christians either messing with God’s Word at the earliest opportunity – the 11^th word – or else just sitting on the fence rather than upholding the truth.                                                                  

Where does our search trail end?

Me.

 

Photo credit: holocaustresearchproject.org

#5 ABOUT TURN!

This is IOPNA’s 5^th article of 6 in the ‘Missing Link’ series.

 This is my personal story - maybe you will be able to identify with some of it.  Even if you don't claim to be a Christian perhaps this factual trail of evidence we are discovering, by dusting off the 19^th Century, offers food for thought.                                                                

I was brought up in a strict Christian family who valued the Bible and 50 years ago, at the age of 8, I personally dedicated my life to my Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ. Our family was involved in a brethren fellowship that distanced itself from mainstream denominations with their clerical hierarchies, and constantly reminded us that we upheld the teachings of John Nelson Darby (1800-1882).

As high-schoolers we were warned against the teaching of evolution so I was ready to protest if a teacher tried to say that we had evolved from apes.  Never did I hear this taught but what we were taught was the geological time scale or column, with its millions of years.

For years I simply accepted that if scientists want to claim that the Earth is millions (or now billions) of years old that was fine by me - I could easily fit them between verses 1 and 2 of Genesis 1. Whenever I saw people with their heads in Creation magazines I would look on them as 'baby Christians' who needed convincing about that elementary stuff by subscribing to someone’s pet project. That was until I realized that this 'Gap Theory' of millions of years undermines the whole message of salvation for mankind!

After finding myself teaching Scripture in primary school classes to children who aren't sure if God exists, I commenced looking for evidence of God or 'iopnas' around us and sharing them on Facebook, then blogspot. 
We added variety and started to dust off the 19th century to find that the 'millions of years' have their roots in ancient philosophy and were finally endorsed by the Church publicly - and still are!  We are yet to look at the legacy of all this.
So why did I think I could fit something between verses 1 and 2? (...despite the Bible warning us not to add or omit anything!)                                                                                                            

I find that the teachers that I looked up to, such as Darby, also accepted the Gap Theory!

J.N. Darby Collected Writings, Apologetic No.2, Vol 9, p87-115

            "I should not suppose chaos to have been a first creation of God. It looks like the result of some catastrophe. Here all the Orphic, Grecian, and Phoenician cosmogonies begin, and the Romans.....Ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia coelum, Unu s erat toto naturae vultus in orbe, Quem dixere chaos."

"Scripture, which does not reveal scientific facts, is totally silent as to them, but leaves a gap which may have been filled by millions of years when we were not..."                                                                           

(Actually Scripture does reveal many scientific facts that we are presenting as ‘iopnas’ on our Discovery Safari. We are going to take a look at Genesis 1 soon and will see just how scientific this ‘religious book’ is!)

Well, THERE ARE NO VERSES in the original Hebrew text and THERE IS NO GAP for us to fill – on the contrary the word ‘and’ (Heb:waw) is there to maintain continuity.                                                       

(Remember being taught in primary school that ‘and’ is a joining word?) 
Modern translations have had a field day with that little word: 'and'.                             

Where does that leave me?

• We have Bibles all over the house, written in mostly plain English, but I never got past Genesis 1:1 without meddling with God's Word using human notions, despite the warnings not to (…and I presume to be a Scripture teacher!?)
• I presumed to know what God has not told me, making God a liar for saying that His Creation was 'very good', assuming Adam and Eve were standing over millions of dead animals. 
• My presumption not only undermined the Christian teaching on salvation for mankind but destroyed the credibility of the whole Bible as God’s Word
• I am complicit in the endorsement of 'millions of years' by the Church that gave token credibility and respectability to the 'theories of evolution', so my criticism of 'evolutionary science' is flawed. I must cease scoffing at David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins & co. with their ‘billions of years’.   At least they stand up for what they believe in! 
• I accept responsibility for the awful legacies of evolutionary teaching because I tolerated ‘millions of years’
• I must “About turn!”...and now devote myself to undoing the lies and telling people the truth. 

So help me God.

NEXT:  The legacy- '...even mums & kids'  Click on:
http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/even-mums-kids.html

 

#4 WHICH MISSING LINK?

This is IOPNA’s 4^th article out of 6 in the ‘Missing Link’ series.

Here is Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy who was fetched from Africa by Presbyterian minister Samuel Phillips Verner and displayed in an orang-utan’s cage in New York’s Bronx Zoo in 1906.                                                      

Sadly, by age 32 Ota felt he’d had enough and committed suicide.
Can you blame him?                                                   

But is the ‘missing link’ to be found in the jungles of Africa or in the pages of theologians’ Bibles?

                                                  

This ‘Gap Theory’ that was taught in theology lectures at Oxford University – let’s see what it’s about and where it came from.

 

Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) …

is hailed as Scotland’s greatest 19^th century churchman, being the moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, a university mathematics lecturer and a champion of social causes including education. He popularised the Gap Theory by publishing it in the Bridgewater Treatises in 1814.

The Gap Theory claims that millions of years elapsed between the first two verses of Genesis 1, during which evil forces ruined God’s first attempts at creation, hence fossils, so a reconstruction had to take place.           

How old was young Charlie Darwin when Thomas Chalmers published the Gap Theory? 

A 5 year old in short pants.

Wherever did this idea come from? Well, how far back would you like to go?                         

How about Ancient Greek philosophy – or even earlier.                                                   

We know that scientists have been searching for that elusive 'missing link' in the ‘evolution of Man’, but theologians have had their own 'missing link' for centuries with the Gap Theory, still ‘alive and well’ in Bible seminaries throughout the western world.     

(Doesn’t the Bible warn us in several places not to add anything or delete anything?)             

So what have we found so far?                                                             

Eventually the Church publicly embraced the Gap Theory from ancient philosophy and promoted it to university students who used the ‘millions of years’ to develop the ‘theories of evolution’ from their hobbies of geology and biology.

For instance, the reference Bible published in 1917 by Oxford University Press and edited by Cyrus Ingersoll Scoffield D.D. (1843-1921) supplies this ‘missing link’ between Genesis 1, verses 1 & 2:

“Earth made waste and empty by judgment”                                              

....cross referenced to Jeremiah 4:23-26 where another note is supplied: “Without form and void” (Gen1:2) describes the condition of the earth as the result of the judgment (Is 24:1) which overthrew the primal order of Genesis 1:1.                                                                   

What does all this mean?                                                                    

For the Gap Theory of ‘millions of years’ to be true, not only did God cover up the failure by not telling us the whole story, he must be a liar for claiming His creation was very good while Adam and Eve stood on top of millions of fossils of dead animals and furthermore Christianity’s teaching in Romans 5 about sin and death must be a lie: “…by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned.” In fact, you can’t rely on the Bible now – throw it away! – those preacher guys are lying.

So how many young people have given up their Christian heritage because of this?............ and we wonder why.                      

Acknowledgements: Dr. Carl Wieland, One Human Family, 2011, Creation Book Publishers, Atlanta                    
Photo credit: en.wikipedia 

Coming soon:                                                                      

So what has been the legacy of the ‘theories of evolution’?                                          

Who ran with these theories and could anybody count how many people have lost their lives because of it?            

            

NEXT: About turn!  Click on:
http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/about-turn.html