Archive for September, 2009
Earth (our world) is how old? Part 2
by admin on Sep.27, 2009, under Faith Posts, Opinion
Gap Theory
This is a controversial subject which arises from the idea that there is a long period if time between verses 1 and 2 of Genesis.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of Elohim was moving over the surface of the waters.
So where do the arguments that there is a time span between these two verses come from? The key here may be the words beginning, created, and moved or hovered (depending on which translation you are reading). Typically believers assume that Elohim created the earth and mankind in the same week, but there is certainly room for some argument here. Believers can easily agree that Elohim did create the heavens and the earth. What many will not accept is the idea that before Elohim created the current lineage of humans there was another, possibly even multiple generations of humans or human like beings that failed His criteria for continuance and were destroyed.
The Hebrew word that moved or moving is translated from in Genesis 1:2 is רָחַף, pronounced ‘rawkhaf’; a word with a primitive root that means brood. It can also mean shake, tremble, or flutter. If in fact Elohim’s spirit was brooding over the water, the second verse has a very different meaning than moved over the face of the deep. Why would the spirit of Elohim brood over the face of the deep? If He had just destroyed a civilization that had turned to sin and given itself to the forces of evil, Elohim might very well brood over the failure of His creation to succeed in becoming worthy of eternal life with Him.
Why was Elohim’s spirit moving over or brooding over the
2 Peter 3:9 (KJV)
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Yahveh loves His children.His desire is that we join Him and live righteous, sin free lives. Those who consciously choose a life of sin and rebellion will perish and not attain everlasting life in paradise. When an entire generation or society turns their back on the creator, He is deeply disappointed. So when Moses writes first that Elohim created the heavens and the earth “in the beginning” and follows that with “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” it certainly seems plausible that Elohim did not create the heavens and the earth and then immediately begin to move over the face of the deep. Was there another world or even other worlds during the time period between verses one and two of Genesis?
Then in 2 Peter, these lines…
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2 Peter 3:4-7 (KJV)
that by the word of God the heavens were of old
But the heavens and the earth, which are now
It seems that Peter is referring to different heavens and earths in those statements. This lends further support to the notion that there is a time gap between verses 1 and 2 of Genesis.
Shortcuts in Windows Change to .lnk Files
by admin on Sep.07, 2009, under Information Technology
If you have had this happen as the result of a Virus or accidental association you can probably repair it by following these instructions. You may need to modify your registry.
I recommend that you create a system restore point and backup your registry before you do these things. Microsoft has an Instructional Page here that will guide you through this process.
First, try this: Since your shortcuts are not working, open the start menu and type explorer in the search box. This should start Windows Explorer. Navigate to the Windows\System32 folder and find cmd.exe. Depending on your system, you may need to right click it and choose “Run as Administrator”. Once the command window is up, type assoc.lnk=lnkfile and press enter. If you are lucky, that will restore your shortcuts and icons to the normal state for you.
If your icons are still not working and have .lnk extensions, open the start menu again and type regedit in the search box. In the Registry Editor navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Micorosoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.lnk. If there are subfolders underneath the.lnk entry delete them. Then run the assoc.lnk=lnkfile from the commad prompt again if you don’t see your shortcuts changing right away.
Hope this helps somene out there who is pulling their hair out like I was.
Goodbye Van Jones
by admin on Sep.06, 2009, under Politics, Uncategorized
Yesterday, 9/5/2009, Van Jones resigned as the Green Jobs Czar. If you are unsure what that czar means: A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917), or a person having great power.
Jones left crying foul, claiming that he has been the victim of a smear campaign with people inventing lies and distortions about him. I’ve been listening to some of his critics lately, such as Glen Beck and Fox News in General. Nothing Glen Beck said about Van Jones was invented by him. Beck showed videos and documents for evey claim he made about Jones.
Jones obviously does not like white people. According to Jones immigrants are allowed into into the United States so we (whites) can spray poison on them. Am I, a white person, not supposed to feel insulted by this lie aimed at distorting my image in the eyes of others? Jones said this on a video. No one made this up.
Jones refers to the animals on this planet as our brother and sister species. What? Animals are not our brother and sister species.
“Don’t stop there, don’t stop there”. That’s Jones’ mantra. He seems to enjoy working a crowd up with his perception of reality and then creating the illusion that his vision extends far beyond what he has just revealed on a subject. Jones constantly reverts to the white man is evil, black man (and all other races) is victim theme in order to gain support for people thinking that he exists to shift the wealth in this country away fro these evil people who have taken it from them and “Give them the wealth”. According to Jones, the new focus on Green Energy is all about shifting the wealth in order to make up for broken treaties of the past. Jones made these statements at the Power Shift ‘09 Conference in March. He’s really using this idea of new Green Jobs as a mask for redistributing wealth in this country. Finding cleaner energy is a good thing, but that is not what Jones is truly concerned about. He’s a socialist looking for an opportunity to restructure the power in the United States and do it in a way that appears to be for the betterment of us all..
Jones signed a petition which calls for an investigation of the Bush administration as co-conspirators of the 9/11 attacks in 2004. Today he claims that the ideas on the petition do not reflect his beliefs then or now. So why did he sign the petition? He says he should have read it more carefully. Does that mean he will continue to give his signature and approval to issues he has not researched? Or does it mean that he will continue to deny responsibility for his actions when they interfere with a more current and more personally important agenda?
By his own statements Jones reveals himself as an extreme radical, racist, propagandist, and divisor of classes.
By selecting him for such a high post, our president, Barack Obama, reveals his continuing inability to make sound decisions. Or maybe the president thought that as they were when he was elected, most people here in the U.S. were still asleep and no one would notice this continuing move to drive our country to socialism. Perhaps he made a bad decision either way. Please wake up citizens of the United States. Maybe Jones was just a decoy to divert attention from Obama’s socialist agenda.
I’m glad he’s gone. I hope and pray that the other leftists in the current administration can be stopped before they do great harm to our country.
If you think Obama is doing a good job and is concerned about the future of our country, then ask yourself this: Why is our president spending trillions of dollars that don’t really exist without having done one thing to repair the economy? Shouldn’t we get the economy on track before we start the spending? The current administration is behaving like a teenage kid with no job who just received a credit card with a $10,000 limit. It’s not too difficult to see how the teenager would get in trouble in that situation, but shouldn’t our president be capable of making a more sound decision?
Who can say, "I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin"? (Proverbs 20:9, ESV)
