A few animal stories to precede a few remarks.
Prague zookeepers announced the birth of a Pangolin pup—the first captive-born in Europe. Pangolin are nearly toothless creatures from the same family as sloths, anteaters and armadillos. All have large, horny scales. Merriam Webster, Tenth Edition Dictionary, p. 839. A five-foot long female American alligator rescued from a lake in New York City had swallowed a 4-inch wide bathtub stopper. Weighing only 15 pounds, it is being fed through a tube, treated with anti-biotics, vitamins and other medication. Flaco the Owl, an Eurasian eagle-owl, in the New York’s Central Park Zoo, escaped when vandals cut the stainless steel meshing of its cage. Flaco has proven an adept predator, its large talons and nearly 7 foot wingspan swooping on the bounty of rats in the Park. And then we have the hatching of three endangered African penguin chicks. Officials at the Scottsdale, Arizona aquarium posted videos of them February 17, 2023. All from San Diego U-T, 2/26/23. Now the remarks. First, can this intense concern for creatures be an indication that people really believe we came from lower life forms, and therefore need to protect every specie when members of it have a problem? Do we think we’re protecting some long-lost grandpa Joe or uncle Al? As if we ascended from them by an exertion of effort that gradually changed from THEM to US? Is there anyone other than a confirmed evolutionist who believes that baseless nonsense? Second, do we think we’re Hindus, who consider all but human life sacred? Who can see a person kicked to death by a bull while protecting the beast from death? While we ignore the dead mortal, because they believe he’ll be back again, in another form, perhaps better? Good old transmigration of the soul, the deadly lie Satan tells and religionists actually embrace. Third, are we so simple to believe that the disappearance of a creature family endangers mortals? A colossal lie Satan tells spiritually darkened minds—and those supposedly spiritually enlightened believe! Humanity should fear ONLY the loss of our relationship with God in Christ. No other loss affects us at all, but that loss sends us to Hell—where NO creatures will be, but only those who reject GOD in Christ. What kind of condemnation from God awaits people and societies who spend billions on animals yearly while supporting or tolerating the murder of human babies aborted in their mother’s womb?
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Being begotten by a German officer and a 16 year old Norwegian girl in WWII didn’t prevent a California man from being moral, business owner and citizen of the United States. He did wonder if he would have been like his Nazi officer-father had he not been fortunate in having moral adoptive-parents. Possibly, but that’s not inevitable.
The critical spiritual question confronting all mortals demands a correct answer—for our personal good, our inter-personal relationships, our responsibility to God, our church fellowships. All mortals need to understand…whatever parentage we have, we’re first obligated to our Creator God. We can outgrow childhood limitations, but we cannot be what God ordained us to become without acknowledging and accepting his Son. It doesn’t matter who we have as parents; it matters only that we know and obey our ORIGINAL parent. If, as the evolutionist claims, we originated in the slime of primeval ooze, “forget our depravity. In 30 to 40 million more years, we’ll likely get better.” But if, as the truth is, we came from the all-wise mind of God in Christ:
THEN, it’s “Dear God, forgive our baseless, senseless, inexcusable, wicked thoughts and behaviors.” Dear readers, understand humanity is:
Part I briefly told of a Cardiff, California man’s discovery that he had been born in October, 1945, of a union between a German officer/pilot and a 16 year old Norwegian girl.
While most of us know at least our biological ancestry, others may have questions about theirs. In reality, potential medical problems can result from ignorance of our nativity. Or, as in my branch of the Hurley family, personal conflict-issues arise. My dad’s first wife died giving birth to my half-brother Claude. For some baseless reason, dad held that against the baby; that dreadful sin precipitated unresolved personal conflicts between the two as Claude matured. The Cardiff, California man still wonders if his life would have been different had he known, before 2010, that his biological father had been a Nazi. I doubt it, but who knows? He had a very happy childhood in his adopted family. That erased any remembrance of being an orphan when his mother abandoned him. He became a successful businessman in adulthood. Maybe his nativity genes inspired that skill. Would my dad’s acceptance of Claude eased his way through childhood into an emotionally-adjusted man? Very likely. I can still remember an adult Claude coming to the house to see mom anytime dad was absent. And they both standing in the kitchen crying, embracing each other: mom because she loved Claude as her own son; and Claude, dad’s own son by mom’s sister. My five or six years couldn’t understand the emotional outburst from both. For as they held each other and wept, I retreated to our living room. All of this has pointed spiritual lessons. End Part II Inspired by a misguided master-race theory, Heinrich Himmler established Lebensborn homes in 1935 Germany. The “font of life” program aimed to produce blond, blue-eyed babies begotten by German soldiers and national maidens. The program produced some 20,000 babies 1935-1939. It continued following Nazi occupation of Norway in 1940.
A Cardiff, California man’s interest in his nativity had been piqued by viewing a History Channel documentary on the subject. His research uncovered the truth: he had been born in October, 1945 to a German officer/pilot and a 16 year old Norwegian girl. His cousins affirmed his suspicions when he returned to Norway in 2010. He also learned that his father had been killed in action and his mother had abandoned him in 1947. The Norwegian government whitewashed those five years of history, as governments are in the habit of doing when confronting unpleasant facts. The boy/now California man, found himself in an orphanage, which is how the Cardiff, California boy/become man, came to America. While American citizens, his adoptive parents traveled to Norway to find a child. This fascinating story teaches us particularly interesting spiritual facts about human origins. End Part I P.S. Out of study the last two days. Glad to be back. V Philosopher David Hume declared it as impossible for God to create a miracle as for any mortal to believe in it. Yet, that deluded humanist glibly spoke of such universals while living a restricted number of years, in a restricted country, unable to declare universals by the nature of his limited humanity. He declared God the prisoner of his own laws, of the creation he made, of the limitations he placed on humanity, while ASSUMING authority to determine that God COULD be limited in any way.
Poor, ignorant mortal to think his 65 years of skepticism enabled him to remove the Everlasting God’s governance over humanity and history. Spare no sympathy on those who consider themselves capable in a short lifetime of small intelligence to displace the POWER, INTELLIGENCE, WILL, WORD and AUTHORITY of God. Who spins the earth daily on its axis around the sun and in its orbit around the sun 365 days every year, while continuing earth’s daily rotation. How absurd of mortals to claim intelligence that merely uses the resources of creation while denying the Creator of the resources. We fly planes around a globe already in place before any of us were born, yet boast of our successes while ignoring God’s creative genius. Or blast International Space Stations into a SPACE we had no part in expanding majestically to hold ALL we could send OUT THERE! Well…on and on. “In the beginning GOD….” Genesis 1:1. “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over all the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground’” Genesis 1:26.4 Note: in all that GOD gave man to rule, he exempted him from sovereignty over life, nations, history and…ETERNITY! Only fools claim the right to assume God’s Place Psalm 14:1, Psalm 2:1-6. Without knowing its provenance, a Texas art collector paid $35 for a marble bust in a Goodwill Store. To be shocked when discovering that her bargain dated from 1st century B.C. – 1st century A.D. and believed to depict a son of Pompey the Great.
It had last been seen in the private collection of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. An American soldier likely stole and brought it back with him after WWII. The art collector has made an agreement with Bavarian authorities to return the treasure in exchange for a confidential settlement. San Diego U/T, 5/15/22 We can learn an essential Biblical truth from the story: by right of creation in HIS image; by right of redemption in HIS SON's sacrifice; by right of re-creation in the HOLY SPIRIT's work of conversion, God owns all human beings. Satan naturally lies, using Darwin's horrendously false view that lower life forms merged into higher life forms. And spiritually-blind scientists continue his fallacy that we rose from LOWER forms of life, not fell from GOD's, the Highest Possible LIFE SOURCE. While there's nothing in creatures that makes us think we belong to their lower life form, everything about us shouts our nexus with GOD. True, rather than admit we belong UPWARD, and, therefore, have a responsibility to God, benighted scientists glory in our downward origin, therefore, congratulating us for bettering ourselves by ourselves. Though all created beings, according to God's will, continue to re-produce after their own KIND. Upward, in God's presence through Christ, we improve, mature, increase in God's Image. In no other direction do we get closer to our origin or destiny. With this caveat, only returning to God as our origin and destiny will slow, then stop, our decline into deeper depravity so evident everywhere in America. Should we continue in our present state long enough, God will one day have enough, and JUDGMENT will fall. Whether revival, or Christ's Return, happens then, God alone will determine. Eve’s disobedience resulted in the greatest catastrophe in humanity: it began the assertion of human egotism that has ballooned through the centuries to become Gargantuan. We believe we are in charge, and God is irrelevant.
During WWII General Eisenhower and his military entourage went hunting in Italy. They spent the night in a cold and drafty hunting lodge. A humorous incident provided relief for everyone. Kay Summersby’s dog flushed a rat from its hole in the General’s bathroom. Everyone rushed in. The General immediately said, “I can handle this.” He put on his glasses, took out his pistol, took careful aim, fired...and missed. The desperate rat jumped to a vertical pipe and hung on. Ike hurriedly re-fired...and hit the rat’s tail. He fired again and brought the varmint down...wounded. An aid rushed forward and finished it off with a log. Everyone but Eisenhower howled with laughter. When a semblance of quiet came, Ike’s Aide Harry Butcher quipped that it was great shooting—just what he expected from the Supreme Commander. Past Forgetting, 164. Humanity’s most famous and fatuous words: “We can handle this. Just give us enough time, education and money.” Though we invariably find ourselves impotent in dealing with life. God persistently teaches us the weakness of the body, the limitations of the mind and the POTENTIAL of his Spirit within us. But we ignore God’s Spirit to concentrate on the body—made like the animals from dust—then magnify the mind which, apart from God’s Word, proves as incapable of sound judgments as Ike trying to shoot that rat. New Apologetics book at: Amazon Check out Virg Hurley books at Amazon Check out Virg Hurley Digital books at: Smashwords |
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