Love, oh such a pondering thought. What many have done for love! How destructive it can be! But what, oh! what is it? How many poets and philosophers have tried that very question? “To love another person is to see the face of God,” is how French writer Victor Hugo describes it in his novel Les Misérables . This is mirroring numerous quotes out of the Bible. That is what I want to go into. You see, love is of God, God is love. We were created in love, out of love, and with love.

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1 John 4:7-12, NIV

God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son! God loved us so much that he was willing to sacrifice his own Son so that we could know him. I wrote an article a couple months back called Not Religion that I went into the difference between the religions of this world and Christianity. I said that Christianity is not a religion, but a relationship. Religion is us reaching for God, whilst God sent his Son, Christ Jesus, to have a personal relationship with us. We don’t have to reach for God, because God knows that we cannot shed our sinful nature so as to reach his feet. All we need to do is call on Christ, and he comes running for us. He lifts us off our knees and hugs us and calls us brothers and sisters.

Love is the most illogical of all our emotions. Why, if it is God’s manifested in us, is it so illogical? Well, mankind made logic. We have changed what we deem logical over the last two hundred years because of evolution invading our minds. I don’t want to turn this article into an anti-evolution article, but the psychological effects of evolution on our way of looking at things has changed everything. Love breaks the wind of evolution of the selfless nature of it. It destroys the idea of everything being for survival of the fittest, and self-gain! We cannot even begin to understand what love really is without knowing God.

We can know love because God loves us! What is this love that God shows but relentless? His love is absolutely relentless! You see, the Word says that God knows all that will come before it even happens. This reasons that God knew, before he created us, that we were going to disobey Him, that we would fall from grace. Yet, His love was so relentless that he made us anyway. He loved His creation, through its faults. He knew that Noah’s line would fall to sin after the Flood, yet he let them live. He knew that we would kill his Son, Jesus Christ, yet he sent Jesus, and that is where the blow was turned. His son was killed, but it is through that death, that murder that we were saved. He allows us redemption through the blood of his son! Relentless love flowed from the tree.

Even looking at Jesus himself, you see relentless love. Jesus prophesied his own death. He knew who would betray him. He knew when, yet he showed his love for us by taking the cross to Calvary and dying. His blood and tears were spilled for us, and we didn’t even care. He died whilst we were yet sinners! Relentless!

And guess what? We are called to the same love. Yeah, if it came to our life or another, we are to give ours. We were told to love, as He has loved us. Relentlessly! So often Christians are portrayed as judgmental, but we should at our base be portrayed as loving. Anyone can judge _amp #151; and there is a day coming soon when the real Judge will do just that _amp #151; but for now we are to go out and love on everyone! Day after tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and I say use this day to share the love of Christ.

The lyrics of the classic “Christmas” song seem to mirror that of an omnipotent being, but in a very creepy, threatening way; implying a tally-taking man, named Santa is keeping track of our children, watching as they are sleeping and when they are awake. If it weren’t Santa Claus, himself, he would be considered a stalker, if not worse. Santa can technically be tracked, origin-wise, back to Saint Nicholas. He simply went around and gave presents to people. The Santa today is much more, and a much bigger distraction.

You see, the “reason for the season” is not just giving, it is salvation through the life/death of Christ. It is humility. It is love. It is surrender. With Saint Nicholas, we had a Christian disciple following in the way of Christ, sacrificing/giving his own for others. With Santa, we have a secular, non-denominational, disconnected, jolly old man that flies around in a sleigh giving presents. We have the idea that he gives to those that are good, and doesn’t to those that are naughty. That is a deeds-based reward system, but it is also teaches a relative “good”/“naughty” scale. What I mean by that is that it teaches what the adults deem “good” is good, and what they deem “naughty” is naughty, making it all in the eye of the beholder.

The real Creator, the real Giver, gives simply to those who ask and surrender. Not to the “good”. He corrects your moral/ethical standing after the gift is given. “Good” is designated by God, and anything that is against His command is evil. It is not to be determined by our minds, but his. Santa distracts from the real model of life. The gift that God gave us 2000 years ago was Emmanuel, Christ Jesus. Through His one and only begotten Son we were saved from our sin. Why do so many Christians integrate Santa Claus into their Christmas tradition? Because everyone else does it? Santa gives us gifts because we earned/deserved it, right? Did we do anything to deserved salvation, through the Son of God? Simply put: no.

The model taught by Jesus is to show love to everyone, even your enemy. Does your enemy deserve love? Santa wouldn’t give a murderer presents, would he? God saves the worst of the worst. For Christmas, we should focus on the real reason for the season: Christ. He was our gift, so learn from God’s act in Him. Give unabatedly! Forgive those that have wronged you. Give to those everyone else forgets! Santa is fake, made-up, dreck. Christ is the giver of salvation. The giver of life. He is every bit as real as you, if not more. Celebrate Christ next year, not Santa.

“You wrote that the world doesn’t need a savior, but every day I hear people crying for one.” Though it is very well known by now that Bryan Singer very much intended to make all the references to Jesus Christ in Superman Returns, it rings out a very true note. I just purchased the special edition DVD for my father, and in the special features they say that the world needs a superman, a savior, and that the people involved with making the movie took up the task because they believed that very much. I find this ironic that they mirrored words for the Bible, and mirrored Christ Jesus so many times very purposefully, yet don’t except Him as their Lord. They say that the world needs a savior, and we have one.

Superman, with his super hearing, says that he hears the world crying for a savior, so he takes up the cape to be the savior; to be a hero for a world in need. I hear it too. I have been blessed with great hearing. Sure, it is no where near that of the fictional superhero portrayed in Superman Returns, but I hear the cries. I hear the yells outside as people fight and argue. I hear their sobs as the world disappoints time and time again. But, Jay, you said blessing! You said that your hearing was a blessing, but you just hear pain and sorrow? No. Listen. Do you hear what I hear? “For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given.” I hear not just the pain, but hope. I don’t need to take up a cape and wear tights to save the world myself, because my Lord already saved it.

Can you imagine a time long ago, the ruler of the land orders a census to count the people. Everyone must return to the home of their ancestors. The travel was rough for many, and once their they had to have been aggravated severely. Did they hear it? Do you? A newborn baby’s cry rings out from the dirty manger around back, and in that little sob of infancy, the world met their Savior. If you were there, would you have heard the cry?

Today, just like then, we get caught up in the hustle of the world. To and fro daily. We yell and scream at the slow people on the road. We get frustrated by those that slow us down. Do you hear what I hear? Were you moving too fast, talking too loud, or just not listening? If God were to be the anonymous voice you heard in the mall that said, “stop and just listen, my child!” would you stop or continue? Maybe I don’t have superb hearing at all, but just hear things that most people ignore. Maybe I just care when I hear a fight down the street. Maybe I know when to ignore my own frustration, actions, tasks, etc. and just listen to the cries.

To us, a Child was born; a Son, the only begotten Son of God was given! Are you looking for a savior? Are you crying for hope, when all else is lost?Do you feel a void in your heart? There is someone listening, someone waiting and knocking at your door. There is a superman, a savior, ready to save your life. His name is Jesus, Immanuel, God With Us. He wants you to call for him. He wants to know you! Do you want to know Him? You see, it is as simple as calling out. God doesn’t make it hard. He saw that we cannot, in our own nature, come out of our sinfulness and into His righteousness. So He made it simple. Romans 10:9 says you simply need to confess with your heart that Jesus is Lord, believe this in your heart, that God rose his Son from the dead, and that then you will be saved. This means that you will have a protector over your life. You may still experience hardship, but you will have someone there to rely on, to catch you when you fall. And on top of having your own superhero, you will have hope for the life after this. Yes, Heaven is a very real place, but so is Hell. The Bible says that those that are not with the Lord Christ are against Him. You cannot earn your way into Heaven, only by the Savior, Christ Jesus, can you be redeemed and walk through those doors. You have hope to be in Heaven!

Now I ask: Do you see what I see? Your redemption is that simple! You see?

“They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator.” Well, if we are supposed to worship the Creator instead of the creation, who is our Creator? The Gospel of John says that the Word was the Creator, that the Word spoke the world, and everything on it, into creation. John 1:3 says that he spoke everything, heaven and earth, into place. The Word is a name given to Christ Jesus. John clarifies that the Word was with God and was God. (John 1:1) The Holy Spirit finished what Christians called the Holy Trinity or the Triune God. So, our Creator is Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

In the beginning, then, we know that Christ created us, and everything we can see. It was good. That is, until we turned. Adam and Eve were told not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge, for it would bring death. Then the serpent, the fallen Satan, came to Eve and said, “You surely wouldn’t die, God wouldn’t kill you.” He claimed eating of the tree would make them like God, knowing good from evil. Eve of course ate, and convinced her husband to also eat, and because of this a curse was put on Man. Hardship would befall them, and they would die.

Our sin, disobeying the commands of God, was ever present through time, a weight on your backs. When the Jews were called from slavery (under Egypt), they were given a set of laws. Yes, the Ten Commandments were part of them, but there were over six hundred laws given. For each law, a sacrifice or punishment was assigned. The Jews turned on God numerous times, as a nation, and were punished by God because of their actions. They were told of a savior, a messiach . Isaiah 9:6 declares, “For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given.”

For our sins, sacrifice had to be made, and that took the most perfect Lamb, the Lamb of God. (Isaiah 53:7) It was due to our transgressions, our sinful nature, that Jesus came as one of us, lived as one of us, and walked with us. He lived a completely sinless life, as an example of godliness. Jesus was the very Son of God. He then took up our infirmities, our sorrows, our transgressions. (Isaiah 53:4) “He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5)

Evolution says that we are what we are today due to millions of years of bloodshed and death, to wean out the weak and allow the strong, the fittest, survive. The Bible declares that it is by blood that we can have peace and eternal life! The blood shed by our Creator Jesus Christ was pure and perfect. He was hung from a cross, and rose from the dead three days later. It was by this act of love that we are saved.

Romans 3:23 says that all have sinned, falling short of the glory of God. But God demonstrates His love toward us, Romans 5:8 continues, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:12 says, “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned. [...] For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to many.” The wages of sin is death! (Romans 6:23) But guess what? Through Christ we are given eternal life! (John 3:16, Romans 6:23, and more) Romans 10:9 lays down how it all works: confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead and you will be saved.

Death is present, and when it all said and done, do you know where you are going when you are dead and buried? Do you believe in Heaven? Hell? They’re real, and I know where I am going. I know that I cannot argue you into believing, but you believe already. Deep inside every man and every woman is a soul that is screaming for them to believe, screaming for them to surrender to God. If you are ready to give it all over, say this prayer: “Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and that I have turned against you. I admit my sins, my transgressions. I am ready for my life to be more than just survival of the fittest. More than just evolutionary chance. I want more, and Christ, I give myself over. I surrender to your will, not mine. Lord, you are my Lord, and I believe that God raised you from the dead, so that all that believed in Him would live eternally with you. Please, Jesus, forgive my sins. In your holy name, Jesus, amen.”

If you said that prayer, please understand it doesn’t end there. Find a church, get a Bible, and get hooked up with a Christian group. Start studying, and learning more about your faith. Once you are under the blood of Christ, you must follow him. He is our Creator, and by him you are a new creation. Turn from your sins, and walk with him.

When interpreting any biblical text, you must look at it as the original readers did, as you should with any book. Doing this with the Bible, you must understand the basics of biblical interpretation. First, it was written by God (2 Timothy 3:16, “All Scripture is given by God and is useful for teaching, for showing people what is wrong in their lives, for correcting faults, and for teaching how to live right.”) And second, this means that it must have harmony, for God never changes, he stays the same. So if you find one thing stated in one book, you can prove or disprove your interpretation by comparing it to other passages of the Bible.

So this brings us to where it all started, Genesis. Genesis 1 and 2 give us a view of the Creation, by God. This takes place over a six day period (and a one day rest). This is where evolutionists start their criticizing of the Bible. “Creative intelligences, being evolved, necessarily arrive late in the universe, and therefore cannot be responsible for designing it.” ( The God Delusion , Richard Dawkins, page 31) Six-day creation is implied by the account in Genesis, but many Christians even believe that it can be interpreted in many different ways. Such as gap theory, day-age theory, and theistic evolution. I thought until recently that I was a day-age guy, myself, but found that I had been raised as a theistic evolutionist. There is confusion, so I will go into these and what they are, what they believe, and why creationists believe them to be wrong.

Theistic Evolution

This is the easiest of all creation beliefs to have. This is a step away from “Intelligent Design,” but still off. ID says that there was an “intelligent creator” that set the whole universe into action, which could be aliens, gods, or anything for that matter. It basically deifies the “natural forces” of evolution. Theistic evolution takes a step in the right direction by claiming solidly that it was God that was the creator, and that he created everything to evolve. This theory throws out the Creation account altogether as an old fairy tale given down through a scientifically ignorant culture.

Where does this fall short? Well, back to biblical interpretation: all Scripture is God-breathed! If it were written by ignorant people, and not by an all-knowing God, it would not be placed in the Bible! Basically, the followers of theistic evolution are believing everything that they are taught of evolution, but tacking God to the beginning.

Day-age Theory

Genesis gives us an account in six days as to what occurred in the beginning. Day-age theory states that those days aren’t days. They often cite 2 Peter 3:8, which says that for the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years, a day. They say that each of the days in the Genesis account could very well have been billions of years. This is not scientifically sound at all, which is why they modify the literal interpretation in the first place. The earth was no created before the stars, our sun, and the planets and vegetation did not come before the sun. And that isn’t even getting to the evolutionary issues. Many day-agers don’t believe in full evolution, but they believe that giving days the possibility of being billions of years, they reconcile with science.

What this theory ignores is that other passages of the Bible confirm that a day is a real day. (Exodus 8-11) They often claim that many of the dates in Genesis (which you can use to find the years between Adam and Noah, and Noah and Abraham) are wrong, added later (which both refute the godly nature of the Bible), or are not literal, but ages. The later doesn’t work either. Adam is said to be 930 years old at his death. If this were actually ages (thousands, millions, or even billions of years), he would have been ridiculously old. The days and years mentioned in Genesis must be taken literally!

Gap Theory

This theory states that there was a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, and in that time the stars, planets, etc. were made along with the dinosaurs and pre-human animals. Then the war broke out in Heaven between Satan and the angels of God, and the result of him being cast out was the destruction of the earth and everything on it. They say that Genesis 1:2 should be “The earth became without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep,” but the original word for “was” (the normal translation) is hayah which always means “was”. This is isigesis (adding one’s own interpretation or words to the Bible).

This theory allows for a nicer fit into evolution, as the dinosaurs came long before mankind, and the stars and the planets did too, but it denies the Genesis account, as the sun and moon were created on the fourth day, not on the first day. So it is basically another way to try to fit into the evolutionary interpretation of the origin of the universe.

Literal Interpretation

Now there are of course many variations on those above, but those are the primary forms of interpreting Creation. The only other one is literal interpretation, which means that you read it as it is written. Six days and a rest. This is easy to do, because you do not have to figure out where the “missing years” are or where evolution fits in. A day is a day, and a year a year. Now why does this interpretation work, and the others do not? The Hebrew word for day used in the Genesis account is yom , which can mean a day or an age/time period. Wait before you point at what I said about day-age theory, I will get there. When an old man is telling of his youth, he’ll say, “In my day…” and we know he is talking about his youth. If you say, “I’ll be home in three days,” you mean you’ll meet me in three ages, somewhere between a few decades and millions of years. No, wait! You actually mean in three days, and I know that. Well, Genesis says, “Evening came, and morning followed. This was the second day.” God is numbering the days off as he gets through his checklist of Creation! He doesn’t say that many evenings came and their mornings followed does he? If God were trying to tell us how he created the universe in six days, could he say it any more clearly? No!

When interpreting the Bible, you look at each passage literally unless otherwise specified or if a literal interpretation is not logical or possible. You can read through Genesis, and find no reason to interpret it other than literal. If you allow for millions of years for Adam to evolve out of the pits of chemicals, you allow for millions of years of death and suffering. The Curse (death, disease, pain, and suffering) was handed to Adam for sinning against God. This was given to all the animals and life on the Earth. If mankind (and the animals) was dying long before the sin of Adam, then what was our punishment for sin? If you interpret Adam as just a figurative character in a fairy tale, where did sin come in? And if Jesus was the second Adam, and Adam wasn’t real, what was Jesus.

Interpreting Genesis in any other way starts breaking apart much of the rest of the Bible. Why? Because it is the foundation of the Word of God. If you took the foundation out from under a skyscraper, it would likely crumble, and so does the Bible. You either believe it, or you don’t. You don’t choose what is good to believe and what isn’t. That isn’t our job to do. Our job is to trust our Lord God, because he has given us life, and can surely take it back.

This has been an eager topic for me over the last few months, and it is now time for it to be turned into an article. What is a religion? A religion is man’s attempt to bridge the gap between himself and God, trying to reaching to God. Is this what Christianity is? No, it is not.

Christianity is not a religion at all, but something completely different. Romans 3:10-11 says, “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.” We are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God! We cannot possibly, by anything we do reach the throne of God Almighty! This is what is so special about Christ Jesus. You see, he came down to Earth in the form of a man, and took up our sin. The prophecies of the Messiah in the book of Isaiah say, “He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5.)

Christ came not to condemn the world, but to save it (John 3:17.) The fact is that we are condemned already for the sins of our lives. We are already hellbound, but through Christ Jesus we are saved. This is no longer us reaching for God, across the greatest divide that could exist, that being sin. This is God sending his one and only Son to bridge the gap, that whoever believes in Him, and follows Him, will not perish but have everlasting, eternal life (John 3:16.)

So what is Christianity, if not a religion? Well, Christianity literally means following in the ways of Christ. Jesus came for a personal relationship with us, and died for our sins, thus filling the gap between us and God. All we must do is believe in him. We cannot rid ourselves of sin, and earn our way into Heaven. It is not even slightly possible. We can only get in by the grace of God, and that was given through his Son. Why do some denominations of Christianity try to make this more complicated than what the Word of God says it is? Catholicism makes you perform tons of “sacraments” and rituals to get into the Catholic Church, and then you are saved through these sacraments. The Word says this: “That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9.)

When you are saved, the Holy Spirit, the very Spirit of God, will come upon you as it did the apostles on the first Pentecost after Christ left for Heaven. The Holy Spirit can rid you of your sins. As I said earlier, you cannot do this yourself. Christ doesn’t only save those that come in clean! He saves those that are still in sin, and then the cleansing begins. The sins of your past are forgiven in full, so don’t look back, but the sins of your current life must be removed, killed. The Word says that the Holy Spirit will kill them, not just push them back, not just hide them, not just teach you to suppress them. No, they will be dead, but you must allow it. Be it addictions, lying, lust, or anything else, they can and will be cleansed and killed by the Holy Spirit.

Now this, my friends, is not a religion at all, but a relationship. You don’t have to do anything yourself to be saved and excepted as a child of God, and for the removal of your sins, God sends His Spirit to do it. That is personal and intimate, not far and removed. There is but one thing that you must do: surrender. Surrender your life to God, and he will save it; give your sins to God, and he will kill them; give all you have to God, and he will multiply it.

Many religions require so much ritual and so much is required for you to be considered right with God. Christianity is not like that. There are few commands, and if you follow God and surrender to his will, you are fulfilling those commands. Prayer is a conversation with God, not a ritual. It is personal, not like you are talking to a God that is millions of miles away that may not even be listening, but instead it is like he is in the room with you, because he in fact is.

Do you want to live for more than yourself? Are you tired of trying to find happiness on your own? Surrender. Give it all over to the Lord. Live for Him, and you will find more happiness, love, and peace in your life than you ever thought would be possible. He wants nothing more than a personal relationship with you. He wants to love you and show you all his grace and compassion. Surrender today, and be saved by the blood of Christ.

Well, as for everyone’s question, I will do my best to answer. What is that question, for those that haven’t asked it yet? How much longer do we have? What is going on in the Middle East? What is going to happen, and when?

A couple of months ago, when I launched From The Gates of Hell, I posted an article called “As The World Sleeps” , in which I said I saw a war of Iran and Russia against Israel. Today we have Lebanon and Syria attacking Israel. Well, Syria isn’t a part yet, but they will be soon. Very soon. They are trying to do it the smart way: get Israel to attack them first. Everything is framing up for the fulfillment of Isaiah 17:

An oracle concerning Damascus: “See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins.”

Now, this does not state weather it is God who destroys Damascus or if it is a worldly force. If Syria draws Israel or the United States into an attack against them, the destruction of Damascus is soon to follow. I see this all happening soon, by looking into the prophesies and into what is happening in the Middle East right now. So as for what is happening and what is going to happen, something will happen that will cause the destruction of Damascus, and this will likely bring the world against Israel and whoever else is involved. The UN, EU, Russia, China, and most of the rest of the world is already against them.

Following that, I can definitely see Russia and Iran attacking Israel in response, thus fulfilling the Ezekiel prophesies. If anyone is questioning this whole conflict/war in the Middle East becoming all out world war, World War III , I have to ask, how can this end peacefully? How can this turn to a treaty and cease-fire? I cannot see it turning that way.

I said back in February that there may be anywhere from 5-6 months, but a year max before Israel is attacked by Russia and Iran in the Gog _amp Magog War. There are two months left in that statement. Will the war happen within that? I don’t know. But is it soon? Yes, very soon. And once again I say clearly: don’t look at me, look at Him. Jesus Christ is the only hope for this world. Without Him, we are all damned to Hell because of our sins. We are all going to Hell, but if we give our lives over to the Lord, Jesus Christ, we can be guaranteed entrance into Heaven at the end of our life or the end of this world. Turn to Him for assurance of your eternity, or just keep on living in your sins and hope that God doesn’t exist and that at the end of this life, your life is really over.

I first must apologize for the stupidity in this subject over the past few years. I was raised with a really bad theological view on it. What subject am I talking of? Evolution. I was raised as a theo-evolutionist. What does that mean? Basically you cut Genesis 1-2 in half and melt it into the theory of evolution. You in turn get a chimera that allows a Christian to feel both faithful and they don’t have to defend Creation. They will tell you that evolution and Creation fit together, but guess what? It doesn’t!

The world was created in six days. Only six days. Not billions of years. Second, on the third day, vegetation was created and on the fourth, God created the Sun, the Moon and the stars. According to the evolutionist there was a big ball of gas in the middle of a void that exploded, creating the universe. This then created the stars, the planets, moons, etc. Not the Earth, then the flora, then the Sun and the Moon. So it fails. You would have to drop the Genesis account all together to fit it into evolution/big bang theory. So then you are just an evolutionist.

But you know, that is what I was raised on. Now, I tell you the world has likely only been around for around 10,000 years. This is from years and human ages given in the Bible plus the 2000 years since Jesus. I cannot give you all the numbers, but we will cover that in a little bit. And you see from the Genesis Creation account that Adam named every one of the animals. This means that all the animals that ever existed, existed at the time of Adam. Meaning no 12 million years between dinosaurs and mankind, or whatever they are claiming now.

Whoa whoa, Jay, how can dinosaurs have existed alongside mankind? We’d have been extinct years ago, right?

Then God said, “I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground–everything that has the breath of life in it–I give every green plant for food.”

Genesis 1:29-30

Get that? The plant-life was given to the animals and us as food. We didn’t eat animals, and animals didn’t eat of animals or humans. So this clearly means that mankind was safe from the dinosaurs! The dinosaurs were all vegetarians, and so were we. But wait? If this is so, why do we eat meat now? You just debunked your Bible there, Jay. Ha!

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority. You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it. For your lifeblood I will surely exact punishment, from every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person I will exact punishment for the life of the individual since the man was his relative.

Genesis 9:1-5

This verse is right after Noah and his family leaves the ark after the Flood. God then grants Noah and mankind to eat meat. The following verse says that no one is to spill the blood of a human, for they were made in God’s image, and punishment will be dealt on them for their sin. So when did this Flood take place in relation to Adam? Did humans have time to “evolve” from monkeys to what we are now? Well, in Genesis 5 we get the family line from Adam to Noah. And guess what? There we only 1,056 years between Adam and Noah, and then Noah was 600 when the Flood started. So, there were only 1,656 years between Adam and the Flood. According to the evolutionary theory, evolution requires millions of years to take place, not one and a half thousand.

Now after this, we can follow the line from Noah’s son, Shem, to Abram (renamed Abraham by God) in Genesis 11. Note how ages and times were given again. And how long was that? Two hundred and thirty-six years after the Flood, Abraham was born. So, according to theo-evolution, we were made monkeyesque at Adam, and evolved over time. Well, from Adam to the Flood there were 1,656 years, and from the Flood to Abraham there were 236 years. At this point you have God promise the land that becomes Israel to Abraham’s offspring. When he was one hundred, Isaac was born. Isaac was to be the line to the Israelites. From him, Jacob son of Isaac, Levi son of Jacob, Kohath son of Levi, Amram son of Kohath, and finally Moses son of Kohath. If we look at the descending lifetimes of man from Noah to Abraham, we can estimate three hundred years or less from Isaac to Moses, meaning that now we around 2400 After Eden (AE).

Now we all know the history of Moses and the Ten Commandments, as it is re-aired every year on ABC . Now that movie is not fully accurate, but it you can understand this: we were fully human at the time. Moses wasn’t half chimp or anything. So in 2,400 years, evolution couldn’t have brought monkey to man, and thus we had to have been human from the start.

Now the purpose of my article here was not to specifically prove the theory of evolution wrong, but to refute the idea that evolution and Creation can actually get along, because they cannot. There is absolutely no way that the timeframe that evolutionists have given us (millions of years) can even work with the thousands of years of the Bible. Creation happened in six days, and God rested on the seventh. These were real days, not ages, not millennia, not anything other than what the Word of God says. If you wish to get into a more in depth talk about all the things that can be proven erroneous within evolution, feel free to email me or comment on here. I would be happy to defend God’s Creation anytime.

And to those that want to read more into Creationism and the errors of evolution, go to AnswersinGenesis.com .

If you want to quote Him, walk with Him. I have faced it more and more. At school. At work. Out in the world. People that call themselves “Christian” yet are far from. People that can even quote the Word of God, but the next day I hear foul language coming from them.

I hear people that claim Christian, but tell me that they don’t believe that the Word is fully truth. If you don’t take it as a whole, you are making your own God to suit your opinions, attitudes, and preferences. Christ isn’t a God that you get to make your own! Just because you have no problem with homosexuality, pre-marital sex, drugs, or alcohol doesn’t mean that you can ignore what the Word says about that!

Realize that the Bible is set in stone. Everything said in the Word is 100% truth, and cannot be changed or ignored. You cannot be a Christian , yet still live and walk in sin! You cannot be a Christian , and keep saying those horrible, insulting words! To be a Christian , you must fully submit to Christ Jesus, and in that become like Him. Walk like Him. Talk like Him. Act like Him. You hear so many use the phrase “What Would Jesus Do?”, and they are not practicing it themselves. So I change this phrase to something that is better: Walk With Jesus, Dawg. That is what matters, the rest follows.

You can speak like Him, you can quote Scripture, you can do whatever you want to look more like Him, but guess what? Even Satan can do that! ( Luke 4 ) Unless you drop those sins in your life and flee from them, and walk with Him, you are not with Him. That is the key! Unless you drop your sins, flee from them, and walk with Him , you are not with Him! You have to shed the sins in your life and run from them. You cannot return from them, because in that, you are leaving Christ to walk on your own .

To all of you who quote Scripture to prove a point in an argument or use the turn “What Would Jesus Do?” look at yourselves: I know, many of you are with Christ and fully have the authority to use God’s Word in their lives, but there are others amongst you who do not have such authority. If you are using the Word of God in a harsh, condescending manner: you are using it for Satan. We are called to build each other up, not tear each other down. Too many have thrown Scripture in my face (often quoting it incorrectly or out of context) and have shoved it down my throat. Just because you can quote it doesn’t mean anything to me. If you are not following it, it means nothing. WWJD .

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

It is written: “I believe; therefore I have spoken.” With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead wil also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:6-18

Realize that we are only mortal. I’m a teenager still (until April 25th), and us teens are know to think that we are immortal. Nothing will hurt us, we are young and can do anything. This leads many into drugs, sex, immorality, etc. I praise God that I didn’t get into that stuff. This verse says that God chose to put His treasure, His knowledge, His ministry, in jars of clay. Jars of clay were about as common in the day of the Lord as cardboard boxes are now. And they were just as easily destroyed. God put the greatest of treasure in us humans. We are but jars of clay; mere cardboard boxes.

You prick me, I bleed; hit me, I bruise. But guess what? The Lord makes everything possible for us. The Word says that we can move mountains! We can do everything he did when he was here in our world. “We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.” Pressed on all sides, and this cardboard box that we are does not collapse! God gives us supernatural strength when we walk in His way, with his Son, the Lord Jesus. I have seen this strength, and believe me it is more than anyone can imagine!

We believe, therefore we speak. We are not to keep this glorious gift to ourselves brothers and sisters, but share it with “more and more people” as to “cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God”! We are called to bring people in, and yes we will be prosecuted by mankind, we will be struck down by this world, but remember that we will not be abandoned. Christ said that we are not of this world, and because of this, the world will hate us. We will face hatred everyday from all around. It is said, even, that in the end, families (brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers) will turn against one another! But we are loved by God, and until we leave this world, He will be walking with us, never leaving our side. Isn’t that cool?

Do not lose heart in the face of evil, brothers and sisters. God will prevail! You bow to the taunts of this world, and you lose. Have faith, and God will make the walls of our boxes stronger than concrete, stronger than a bomb-shelter, stronger than anything we could ever imagine. “Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” Look up, everyone! Forget the troubles of this world, and keep your eyes on the unseen. Our troubles here are nothing; for the Lord created the world in six days, don’t you think He can lift your troubles off your shoulders? Have faith.