Not a pretense of better living through higher thoughts or actions.. Not a contrived morality or confidence in my own imagined righteousness.. But an admission of being lost!.. Of being sought out, found and forgiven!.. Not an escape from pain or hardship, but an awareness that God loves and believes in me more than I could ever believe in Him. That He has the power to keep me and accomplish His will for me in this life and the next. www.@jackandcarlayoutube & www.morethanmanagement.life
Destruction... Both snakes died! One from asphyxiation and the other from venom.
But there is a better hope. Read on below.
Instead of faith in things like a precarious peace through, "Mutually Assured Destruction...
We should reject the call to, "Serpent Wisdom."
Instead of self-allegiance and defiance to God's instructions.
We should reject the call to become, "as gods," and seek to bear our creator's image and seek His wisdom.
Paul the Apostle stated... if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!—-Galatians 5:15 NKJV
Destruction is not God's purpose. That's the, "Serpents," plan.
Instead of becoming self-actualized, "gods." Our Heavenly Father calls us to a new life as His sons and daughters. New lives that can never be destroyed. New lives with new purposes and new goals.
But In this plan... He is God and we are not.
Who's plan are you going to follow?
And what does it mean to be saved from our sins?
Click the link below for answers to these questions.
As I said, "One of the best days of my life," was the day my wife finally called 911! Let me tell you why!
That was the dayI was awakened to seeMY PROBLEM.
Before that, my total focus was on others! I could only really see the shortcomings of the people around me. I thought they needed to change. I was asleep in the light and didn't want to see, "MY PROBLEM!"
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Today, I am So Grateful for our Savior Jesus! He saw my problem and gave himself for me. He opened my eyes so I could see my hidden forms of destructive anger!
But this didn't begin to happen until after I received a little motivationalhelp from the local police👮♂️👮👨⚖️and a judge.
Sadly, without this motivational opportunity I don't think my practice of citizenship or religiousness alone, would have ever motivated me to make the kind of changes I needed to make.
P.S. Experiencing, "motivational 👮♂️👮👨⚖️encouragement," is behind my reasoning for opposing the decriminalizing of drugs; both gateway and the, "harder," varieties, as well as the decriminalizing of so many other crimes that ensnare perpetrators and bring harm victims.
For more on this topics of, "Misguided Inclusiveness," and the true, costs of. "Embracing Lawlessness." Click the blog link below.
When I finally stopped and allowed Jesus to change me. When I sought and accepted correction through His word and through those who followed it in my Celebrate Recovery support group, He empowered me to walk in a new way! A much better way for me and everyone around me! On the day to day level, this was more lifechanging than any of the classes I have ever taken, and even more successful than my back and hip replacement surgeries!
In time I was able to lead others and was asked to lead an anger management group at our church. There I shared what Jesus had done in my life and got opportunities to encourage and challenge others. Over time, I also compiled a manual for forming anger management accountability groups, and for convenience, I put the manual on line to be viewed on our cell phones.
I also have a you-tube channel, and created a (You-Tube Playlist) that auto-plays a series of inspirational talks about understanding and overcoming life challenges and making healthy connections with others. And mixed in, the most important connection, our connection with our one and only, "Higher Power."
And so in closing, May Your Life be Changed as you find the strength and comfort that comes with learning to accept reality.
May you experience genuine fellowship with God and his encouraging followers.
May you experience ever increasing freedom from all addictive behaviors.
And may He extinguish the destructive fires of past and present toxic emotions and replace them with His Peace.
In the Bible, John 14:27 states, "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful."
In the unique satellite video above are portions that describe the Beautiful Blue E ring of Saturn that stands out from the other rings. Some have even described this ring as having,
"The Bluest Blue in the Universe."
This ring was created by the massive volume of steam and water being released from a very unique moon, Enceladus. A volcanic moon with waters above in the form of an ice shell, likely at or above our cumulus cloud level, high over the surface of the waters below.
This ice shell effectively traps most of the heat and moisture from the volcanic activities below the sea bed. Except for the many vents spouting hundreds of miles into space to create the deep blue trail that constantly replenishes the Blue of the E ring at Enceladus' orbit.
This moon has water covering it's inner surface similar to the description of earth as described in Genesis 1:2
... and the earth was a formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters....
Perhaps the original ice that formed on Enceladus floated directly on her ocean surfaces like the floating ice sheets here on earth at our poles. But with the creation of a continuous shell that covered the whole sea surface, over time a spherical ice dome formed. This dome has a significant compression strength, much like the strength of a bird's egg or on the half scale, an igloo.
When we consider a spherical ice dome formed with it's compression strength, we realize that this rigid dome of frozen water could also, appear to float, as it remained in gravitational balance even as the buoyancy support from the water below is removed. Removed by the recession of the sea as the water supply below is being vaporized and expelled hundreds of miles into space to create the Beautiful Blue E Ring of Saturn.
Describing earth, Genesis 1:7 states, "God made the expanse, and separated the waters that were below the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse...
Could our, "water above," also have been an ice dome similar to the dome surrounding Enceladus?
If something like this occurred here on earth, it would have created a global greenhouse effect across our entire planet. A greenhouse of lush plant and animal life that was not dependent on local climate conditions. Leaving a more uniform global biomass like the one we are discovering today. A biomass responsible for producing vast amounts of methane, like the methane being released from our thawing tundra near our glacial ice caps.
Again in, Genesis 2:5... Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth,... but a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface...
Doesn't this sound like the process used in our modern greenhouses?
No wonder Adam and Eve lived in a garden! And what a Garden it was!
And now more portions of our earth's early biomass are beginning to decay.
Also consider this descriptive, but overly simplified summary. Overly simplified because it ignores the likelihood of a global catastrophic event. A global event likely to be so big that it flooded and then flash froze huge expanses of land at our poles. Land that formerly hosted dinosaurs and exceedingly large amounts of biomass near our poles.
Catastrophic Climate Change is more in line with the geo/biological evidence we see! Not the gradual yearly seasonal change the video suggests.
But that's not all! Just as Enceladus has hydrothermal volcanic activity on her ocean floor, forcing the water and steam hundreds of miles into space to create Saturn's Beautiful Blue E Ring. Our Earth also has deep ocean vents spewing volcanically heated water! And at these vents, chemical reactions and amazingly unique forms have occurred! Life forms that occur nowhere else! At least no where else on this planet!
Consider this shorter but very detailed review of what was found on Saturn's Moon Enceladus from NASA.
Perhaps someday, if we send another expedition to this moon we could also search for missing evolutionary links. Like the ones that our scientist's so desperately seek here. Illusive lifeforms, that should greatly outnumber the, "clearly defined kinds of creatures," we see based on the logic of evolutionary progress. Intermediate life forms that have eluded discovery for about a century now.
But the more likely outcome will be, either another lifeless environment, or a vast array of unique and amazing, fully formed, functioning creations. Creations that present amazing built in abilities for adaptation and change. Creatures easily grouped into categories that do not loose their original distinctions over time. Creatures organized much like the creatures we find around us on this planet.
Consider the amazing ability of the creatures in the two videos below to both adapt and maintain their recognizable identities.
But until these suppositions are finally proven, we are stuck.
We can either say we don't know, and admit to our lack of pertinent critical knowledge and the limitations of the testable methods needed to form a comprehensive understanding, or we can make professions of faith.
We can profess to a faith in the presuppositions of evolutionary theory ignoring these apparent contradictions and expanding gaps in evidence. Or we can profess to a faith in a more intentional order like the order we see in the creation account.
And just one more thought about Enceladus...
If our universe is currently billions of years old. Why and how can massive amounts of water still be expelled from hundreds of vents each with plumes extending hundreds of miles into space?
Enough liquid to maintain the Beautiful Blue E Ring of Saturn?
And how long can it possibly continue?
I suppose only God knows.
Waters above and waters below and a dew that covered the whole earth, in the two most likely places for life to occur according to religion and science.
Just some ponderings, hope you enjoyed.🙂
And in closing, here are some interesting discoveries about our Earth's Core. It appears that portions of the ocean floor from near the surface have been pushed down into the core near it's center.
Earth's Core Appears to Be Wrapped in an Unexpected, Ancient Structure
"Analyzing [thousands] of seismic recordings from Antarctica, our high-definition imaging method found thin anomalous zones of material at the CMB everywhere we probed," says geophysicist Edward Garnero from Arizona State University.
"The material's thickness varies from a few kilometers to [tens] of kilometers. This suggests we are seeing mountains on the core, in some places up to five times taller than Mt. Everest."
According to the researchers, these ULVZs are most likely oceanic crust buried over millions of years.
While the sunken crust isn't close to recognized subduction zones on the surface – zones where shifting tectonic plates push the rock down into Earth's interior – simulations reported in the study show how convection currents could have shifted the ancient ocean floor to its current resting place.
It's tricky to make assumptions about rock types and movement based on seismic wave movement, and the researchers aren't ruling out other options. However, the ocean floor hypothesis seems the most likely explanation for these ULVZs right now.
So in pondering...
Could the collapse of an orbiting extra-global ice shell cause portions, each unbelievably huge, possibly even larger than the Pangea Supercontinent to crash into the earth?
Could their crash into the ocean sea floor have enough force to push the skin of the earths crust down into the mantle and even pull the continents toward their current positions?
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Stretching/Pulling After Orbital
Ice Sheet Impacts into Ocean Floors
Amazing thought! Most attribute it to a collision that resulted in the creation of the moon.
But couldn't an ice shell crashing event also cause unbelievable extremes in flooding and severe climate change like those described in Biblical accounts? And a cooling at the poles as the ice melted and swelled the existing seas.
Wouldn't a global change in the earth's climate status from a uniform canopy climate to an open sky weather climate flash freeze and burry the vegetation and animal life in these newly exposed polar areas due to our earth's regional weather extremes, creating the ice caps and the extensive areas of frozen tundra over the once thriving vegetation?
And finally; if this unimaginable flooding event occurred, how could the massive volumes of water recede from the earth's flooded surface? Could it be absorbed into the earth and if so; Where did it go? Consider the model and videos below.
From across the globe there is a vast array of stories that describe a catastrophic flood event. Labeled myths, most describe local affects on specific leaders and losses experienced by specific people groups, or even accounts of specific god personalities and conflicts in their cultures. The following link provides many historical/cultural examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd6I1T9efNo
In contrast, the Biblical account, presents a global catastrophic event. An event that affected all creatures on our planet. The pictorial examples, responses to common arguments and applied logical science in the video below give a more reasonable account of the physical features we see around us. This video, also addresses many of the cultural complaints modern critics and questioners present about the Biblical account.
Consider the video below. Especially the descriptions presented of the rock strata topped with sedimentary layers as seen in the Grand Canyon, Sedona Valley, and across the globe.
And one last thing that an ice dome would have provided! Protection from the damaging effect of solar UVB.
Could this account for the longer lifespans that humans experienced in early Bible times? Consider the mechanism of sun induced cellular DNA break down, in the short video below.
I hope that you have enjoyed pondering these questions with me.
Although I have no expertise on these topics, I take great joy in discovery, and am encouraged with questioning, wondering and exploring possibilities.
From childhood I have found delight in pondering hard questions. And I encourage you to find delight in doing the same.
Although very conservative in my life and choices. I am not content with blindly accepting shallow narratives once they are proven to be insufficient and I try to examine and reject illogical assumptions.
My purpose in presenting is to not to create controversy or bring challenge, but to encourage disciplined study and exploration.
And now, a very revealing perspective on Earth's global biosphere via NASA's satellite network presented by NOVA.
For a very detailed physics dissection of the forces involved in molding the EARTH WE SEE TODAY. The following videos are suitable for highly motivated High School or even College Level students.
