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The world has been going mad since the day Adam and Eve disobeyed the Creator. That disobedience ultimately leads to physical death but until death, there are physical and mental issues to deal with.
For example, six thousand years later the world is confronted with ‘GO RAINBOW’ day! What in the world is GO RAINBOW day? Go Rainbow day is an ‘event celebrating
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT)’ and occurs on May 17th. Why May 17th? That is ‘the day in 1990 when the World Health Organisation removed the classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder.’ https://www.dailyliberal.com.au/story/5406885/community-heeds-go-rainbow-message-at-idahobit-afternoon-tea/?cs=112
Those who believe the WHO was correct in this are an example of the result of that first transgression to the Creator’s command in Genesis 2:16 and 17. For in the very beginning God had made ‘them male and female’ and told them to ‘Be fruitful, and multiply’. This command is certainly not possible with same-sex sex!
This same-sex issue and all the other sexual deviancy that goes with it is simply a continuation of that event that occurred around 3874BC (date according to James Ussher’s Annals of the World). It is simply a disregard for and disobedience to the God of Creation.
That one act by Adam and Eve has brought society to what Paul spoke of in Romans 1:26-31 that ‘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: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful‘.
Now, be honest, you must see some resemblance of today’s society in that list? However, the God of Creation never left humankind without hope and here it is; Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/240534263″>Creation Moments_Trunk Debunked</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user72715814″>Jim Park</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
In spite of what God has said in Genesis, ‘More than 50 religious leaders from across Australia have called on Gautam Adani, chairman and founder of the Adani Group, to abandon plans to build a new coal mine in Northern Queensland. In an open letter delivered on 18 April to representatives of the Adani Group at their Townsville office, the coalition of Christian ministers – including Anglicans Bishop Philip Huggins of the Diocese of Melbourne and Dean of Brisbane’s Cathedral Dr Peter Catt – Rabbis, Imams, Buddhists and Religious Sisters said they oppose all new coal mining in Queensland’s Galilee Basin. The faith leaders argued that the environmental impact of a new mine would be “too great”, while the economic rationale was “grasping at short-term profits from a thermal coal industry in worldwide structural decline” and could not provide the long-term jobs the region needs. Instead, they urged Mr Adani to invest his company’s wealth into renewable energies.
“We are at a crossroads,” the letter reads. “One way lies destruction; the other way, sanity. We need to turn immediately in the direction of a stable and compassionate future based on ambitious investment in renewable energy. Our love and concern for the wellbeing of people, other forms of life and our planet leaves us convinced that building this mine would be a giant leap in a very dangerous direction. We therefore call on you to abandon it and to work instead with state and federal governments to invest in good local jobs in solar and wind. You have the capacity to do enormous good.”
The letter was organised by the multi-faith environmental group Australian Religious
Go to https://www.arrcc.org.au/ and see what ridiculous things this group promotes.
Response to Climate Change (ARRCC). ARRCC board member Rabbi Jonathan Keren-Black, who was in Townsville for the letter’s delivery, said Mr Adani’s choice should be clear: “Dollar for dollar, renewables provide a lot more jobs than coal. The figures are very clear. Investment in renewables could provide all sorts of jobs, from fabrication to installation, operation and maintenance jobs as well as research, education and training. Mr Adani can do so much good, and right now he’s at a crossroads.
“There is so little time left to act on climate change and so much carbon dioxide that would be emitted if mining went ahead in the Galilee Basin,” Mr Keren-Black said. “This needs to stop being treated as a political issue and be recognised for what it is – simply a moral issue.”’ http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2018/04/faith-leaders-unite-to-oppose-plans-for-new-coal-mine-in-northern-queensland.aspx
MORAL ISSUE! As thousands of babies are murdered each year here in Australia through abortion these “religious” folk protest coal!? Sadly, this “religious” crowd is more concerned with preaching the false message of Climate Change than the precious soul-saving Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. 2Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears
The Enemy is real. Now, for the Christian, we know there isn’t just one enemy but three; the flesh, the world, and the devil. You do not have to agree but Facebook fits the “world”
and Islam is certainly the product of the “devil”. For instance, Islam as the product of the Devil denies the Scriptures that speak to the fact of Jesus’ death and resurrection. Christianity itself is based on those two facts; 1 Corinthians 15.
I say all of that to say that Facebook (the world) is working with the devil (Islam) to stifle your and my freedom of speech along with other precious liberties.
For instance, an Islamist website says ‘In addition to the armies of fake accounts and pages that Russia propagated on Facebook, we’ve also seen a disturbing trend of hate groups who are all too real using social media platforms to organize and spread their malice. As just one example, ACT for America and its founder Brigitte Gabriel continue to
have active Facebook presences (and in Gabriel’s case, a ?? verified account), despite being named as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. As other organizations, including Muslim Advocates, have noted, there are dozens more self-proclaimed and unambiguously hateful pages with thousands of followers. For them, Facebook becomes a useful one-stop platform for spreading false and fear-mongering information about minority communities, cyber-bullying individuals, and organizing real world events to spread hate and even launch outright criminal actions.
Along with a diverse group of community and advocacy organizations, MPAC has had the opportunity to meet regularly with Facebook to discuss these concerns and work on proactive solutions to make the platform empowering rather than targeting of our communities. We have joined our colleagues in urging that the company fundamentally address the way both fake profiles and real hate groups use the social network to prey upon our communities, and have stressed that such a task can only be accomplished through direct partnership and representation of those who are most directly affected. We have also expressed our willingness to work with the company to better identify problematic content, outright hate speech and patterns of anti-Muslim activities that Facebook’s staff may be less intuitively prepared to recognize.
Finally, no matter what steps Facebook takes to reduce the presence of hate groups and foreign actors on its platform, it can’t delete the underlying hate itself, particularly when bigoted users often cast their actions as protected free speech. In addition to combating hate speech, therefore, we also urge social media platforms and our own community to work closely together to better amplify our own voices. Russians and anti-Muslim extremists alike have demonstrated a far more sophisticated understanding of how to use these platforms to spread their messages and create real social impact. We ought to be able to do the same.
Facebook, to its credit, has often demonstrated support for our community. When President Trump unveiled his Muslim ban last year, COO Sheryl Sandberg
spoke forcefully against the move, saying that it defied “the heart and values that define the best of our nation.” And in 2015, in the midst of then candidate Trump’s Muslim ban rabble rousing, Zuckerberg wrote directly to Muslims to offer his solidarity and pledged to “fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment.”As Facebook thinks deeply about its future and the responsibility it has to its 2 billion users (both real and fake), we hope its leadership will follow through on their own words and work with us to create a better platform for all.’ https://www.mpac.org/policy-analysis/why-facebooks-future-matters-for-muslims.php
So Zuckerburg’s Facebook is working with Islam to silence those who speak against the “devil”!? For instance, Brigitte Gabriel is the spokesperson for http://www.actforamerica.org/ which states ‘ACT for America showcases the tolerant and patriotic nature of our nation through our diversity, as well as by fostering a healthy dialogue about the most critical threats facing our nation from the perspective of a variety of voices.
While we welcome all who share our beliefs, we never have and never will tolerate any bias, discrimination, or violence against anyone, based on their religion, gender, race, or political persuasion. Freedom to practice one’s religion in peace is afforded to each of us by the U.S. Constitution and we will defend it vigorously.
Through our advocacy and activism, we will continue to address the threat presented by those who seek to destroy our Western way of life through advocating violence or radical religious discrimination through hate groups, such as those represented by movements like radical Islam.’ http://www.actforamerica.org/aboutact
It seems Facebook and most of the social media we use have sold themselves out to the Devil! The Christian’s decision to stay on or get off Facebook may depend on how much the Christian loves their freedom of speech.
‘Sooner or later, anyone involved in the subject of Christian apologetics will be asked about the existence of death and suffering. The question can take many forms: Why is there so much suffering in the world? Why does God allow it? What about suffering caused by natural evil? Historically, the Christian response to this question has been to explain that the original creation, which was declared by God to be “very good” (Genesis 1:31), did not contain such aberrations as death and suffering. Apologists then typically point to the historical event of the Fall as that which allowed sin and death to enter and corrupt the created order (Romans 8:20–22). Such a response is a biblical one, yet many are seemingly oblivious that this answer can only be used consistently within a ‘young-Earth’ framework. While correctly pointing to the Fall as an explanation for death and suffering, many apologists who accept the evolutionary long-age paradigm of earth history are unaware of the massive inconsistency. Old-Earth belief directly undercuts the biblical defence against objections posed by death and suffering. The secular paradigm is built upon ‘dating’ methods and assumptions which place death, suffering, disease, cancer and carnivorous activity long before the Fall of man. Thus, pointing to the Fall as the terminus a quo2 for death and suffering is logically inconsistent, and many thoughtful skeptics have picked up on this.’
‘A recent example occurred on the Unbelievable podcast hosted by Justin Brierley. This is the UK’s leading apologetics podcast that brings believers and unbelievers together for discussion and debate. I listen to the show regularly and greatly enjoy the content. Recently, an episode aired which featured Christian philosopher Paul Copan.3 Paul is well known for his book Is God a Moral Monster? which attempts to explain many of the difficult passages in the Old Testament (see also this review of Copan’s book, co-authored with William Lane Craig, Creation out of nothing). As part of the show, listeners were invited to submit questions for him. The central part of the show featured what I considered an illuminating, yet frustrating, exchange between Paul and an atheist caller.’
‘This sorry episode clearly demonstrates that the age of the earth is not a secondary, peripheral issue, related only to the creation-evolution debate. It is absolutely pivotal in determining how we answer fundamental questions relating to death and suffering. If we are inconsistent, astute sceptics, like this caller, will pick up on it. It also demonstrates the irrational fear that so many Christian apologists have over the age issue, causing them to repeatedly make these types of contradictory statements. This fear seems to be driven by the incorrect assumption that deep time has been irrefutably demonstrated. However, such an assumption is unwarranted given the abundant evidence available today that the deep time paradigm is flawed.
The solution really is quite simple: rather than trying to invent different explanatory models or interpretations of Genesis that can accommodate millions of years, we need to realise that the Bible can and should be taken at face value. Its explanation for the origin of suffering and death needs no alteration and the problem only appears when secular evolutionary assumptions are imported into our theology (see Plumbing and paradigms). It is those compromising assumptions that need to be thrown out! Only then can we present the biblical explanation of death and suffering without contradictions.’ https://creation.com/age-of-the-earth-christian-apologists?utm_campaign=infobytes_au&utm_content=Popular+Christian+apologist+explains+away+%27very+good%27+creation&utm_medium=email&utm_source=mailing.creation.com&utm_term=AU+World+IB+-+2018.04.13
The truth of the matter is that there really are no secondary doctrines. All Bible doctrine is important.
Murdering the unborn is called ‘abortion’ and is utilized in almost if not every Western nation as a woman’s right. These murders go unnoticed by most politicians but let some television programme center in on the poor treatment of animals and the pollies speak 
out!
For instance ‘FORMER federal cabinet minister and NSW rural Liberal MP Sussan Ley 
has backed Green’s policy in demanding an end to live sheep exports.
Ms Ley took to Twitter to make a ground breaking public statement contradicting Coalition policy on live exports, amid the current controversy involving sheep shipments to the Middle East, exposed by 60 Minutes at the weekend with video footage supplied to a whistle-blower via Animals Australia of animals suffering extreme heat stress on multiple voyages.’ http://www.theland.com.au/story/5335203/coalition-live-exports-split-with-mp-calling-for-sheep-trade-ban/?src=rss
I also do not enjoy animals being mistreated but it is too bad politicians do not get as distressed over the murder of the unborn 
as they do ill-treatment of animals!
As for the number of abortions (murders) here in Australia, ‘The only state to regularly collect and publish their abortion data is South Australia, where the state health department releases an annual report on the state’s pregnancy outcomes. While their model of providing abortion procedures is vastly different from other states (SA is the only state where publicly provided abortions count for the majority of abortions), there is no reason to suppose the actual abortion rate differs hugely to other states, so their data is generally extrapolated to give a national estimate.
The South Australian data is also the source of the widely-used estimates that around one quarter of pregnancies are terminated and that up to one in three women will have an abortion at some point in their lifetime – see this Pregnancy Outcomes report from 2001 as an example – although it should be noted that in the years since this became widespread the rates have lowered. The most recent report available, from 2013, suggests that 27.6% of women would have a termination based on their data from that year.’ https://www.childrenbychoice.org.au/factsandfigures/australian-abortion-statistics
Note that in the above article that it is stated that over 25% ‘of women would have a termination’ and yet there is really no real national outcry by politicians or the public! IT IS TIME TO STOP THE MURDER OF THE UNBORN!
As the Psalmist said ‘I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well’ Psalm 139:14.
THE HAND OF GOD – It sustained Peter Rumachik through years of Soviet persecution
“If you don’t stop praying to God, weil keep you in prison for the rest of your life!”
‘This was one of many threats that Soviet wardens snarled at their Christian prisoner, Peter Rumachik. However, Pastor Rumachik believed in obeying God, not his atheist captors. He continued praying in the prison camps, and the Lord answered prayer. Today he openly preaches in Dyedovsk in the Moscow region of Russia.
Pastor Peter Rumachik was born near Brest, Russia, in 1931. Remembering his childhood, he shares that, although his mother wasn’t an educated woman, “she had a very sincere faith in God and constantly prayed to Him about me and all the other children.” But even as a child Peter could see that life for Christians wasn’t easy in his country. In his teen years he decided that someday he would follow Christ—but not until he was 50 or 60 years old.
Then, when he was 18, the suicide of a close friend shook Peter’s thinking. He realized that he needed something worth living for if he didn’t want to end up as hopeless as his friend. About three months later, while walking through a frozen forest, he felt moved to get down on his knees in the snow. There, he repented of his sins and asked God to cleanse his heart. At the same time he determined to serve God for the rest of his life, even though he knew that believers were sometimes arrested as criminals.
Four years of duty in the Red Army followed. When he was discharged from the military, Peter married a Christian woman named Luba in 1953. Pondering their decades together many years later, he remarks, “What a great joy it is when two married people believe in God, when their children can see that they have the same philosophy and outlook on life and the same relationship to God!”
Two years later, in 1955, Peter was ordained to the ministry in the city of Dyedovsk.
Nikita Krushchev took over leadership of the Soviet Union, persecution of Christians temporarily halted. So in 1956 Peter, his wife, and several Christian men redeemed the time to start a new church. “Many thirsty souls listened to the Gospel and received Christ,” he recalls with happiness. In time, however, policemen began attending services to spy on the believers. Then, like a returning tide, persecution resumed. The authorities forbade Christians to meet for worship, but God’s people—heeding a higher call— continued to gather in private homes and apartments. In 1961, Peter and four other leaders in his church were tried and sentenced to five years of exile in Siberia.
Even while in Siberian exile, however, Peter looked for opportunities to serve God. Confined to a village called Lesnikov, Peter heard that several elderly women were Christians. He located these ladies and learned that they had been without a pastor for 11 years. “Brother Peter, the fact that you’re here is an answer to our prayers,” they told him. So they began worshiping together. Later, Luba and the children joined Peter for his five-year-term of exile, and they joined in sharing about their Christian faith. Before long, other villagers professed faith in the Lord too.
When a local official warned that the authorities would ship Peter north to the Arctic Circle if he didn’t cease holding services, Peter replied, “Are you aware of the fact that I’m here by the will of God?”
“I wasn’t aware of that,” the man answered.
Peter continued, “I’m here by the will of God. Now, if I’ve fulfilled the task He has for me here, then He’ll allow you to send me above the Arctic Circle. But if I haven’t completed my mission, and you prohibit my activities as you are talking about doing, then God Himself will have to deal with you.”
Amazingly, the man agreed to leave Peter alone. When the Rumachiks were allowed to return home from Siberia, they left behind a growing church that had ties with congregations in other villages.
Back home in Dyedovsk, Peter and his family attended church, but the persecution was far from ended. “The church essentially met underground,” Peter explains. “Police units would burst into services held in private homes, forcefully take people out, and throw them into the back of trucks. Then they would take them and drop them off on some uninhabited road in the forest some 30 to 50 kilometers outside the city.”
Before long, Peter was arrested again and locked in a prison with criminals. “The life of the church was like the waves of the sea, always churning back and forth,” Peter recalls. “At one point, the persecution would subside momentarily only to redouble its fervor again. The goals of the Communist powers, however, always remained the same—to wipe out the existence of the church.”
Sadly, some individuals opted to avoid harassment and stopped worshiping. But other believers clung to hopes for a brighter day. Even when they couldn’t foresee a time of freedom when they could openly proclaim the Gospel, these believers continued praying for a change.
In all, Peter Rumachik ended up serving five terms (more than 18 years) in the Soviet penal system for boldly living his Christian faith. He admits that his health often deteriorated and that he frequently reached the end of his physical strength. But he doesn’t credit his survival to his own stamina. Rather, he notes that when the challenges were greatest, God intervened. “Even when I was in solitary, I was always aware of the presence of God, of His miraculous and wonderful help; I always saw His saving hand.”
Sometimes the convicts questioned why he was in prison. After all, if God were real, wasn’t He powerful enough to protect Peter? He replied, “I am here to serve the Lord. No one would willingly put himself in these kinds of situations. So God has brought me along this path so that you might be able to hear about Him while I am here in prison.” And occasionally a prisoner—or even one of the camp guards—would take an interest in listening as the imprisoned pastor shared his faith.
When Pastor Rumachik was released in 1987, he had no guarantee that he wouldn’t be re-arrested. After all, in the past his days of freedom seemed more like brief lulls between inevitable arrests and sentences. But God was at work. In an answer to countless prayers, the Soviet Union changed and eventually collapsed, and Peter has since remained a free man.
Today, Pastor Peter Rumachik is still active as a pastor of a church in Dyedovsk, Russia. In addition, with the aid of American believers, God has blessed him with several opportunities to visit the United States to raise funds to help construct more Russian churches.
Pondering the transformation of his homeland and the evangelistic opportunities it has spawned, soft-spoken Peter is pressed for words. But his reply points to the source that sustained him through years of persecution and that fuels his spiritual passion more than ever:
“Praise be to our Lord for all things! Alleluia, amen.” http://rusbaptist.stunda.org/engl/rum.htm
January 2017 Video Update from Sam Slobodian on Vimeo.
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