Author: adonai4oo

The Big Bang Theory is the leading explanation about how the universe began. At its simplest, it says the universe as we know it started with a small singularity, then inflated over the next 13.8 billion years to the cosmos that we know today. Because current instruments don’t allow astronomers to peer back at the universe’s birth, much of what we understand about the Big Bang Theory comes from mathematical formulas and models. Astronomers can, however, see the “echo” of the expansion through a phenomenon known as the cosmic microwave background. On the other hand, you have the explanation of God into how the universe began.

About eleven years ago, in a discussion with my colleagues [we worked at a Software Development House: Senior programmers, software architects, software designers, and software engineers], who were of the opinion that the Bible was not factual, their argument was predicated on the assumption that the totalling of the number of years mentioned in the Bible, which amounted to between five and six thousand years, does not tally with ‘physical evidence’ from archaeological discoveries with its attendant ‘Carbon dating’. Remains of ‘early man’ found somewhere in Africa was dated back to ~30,000 years. Furthermore, there is Darwinism, a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual’s ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Meaning, you and I come from the monkey and ape family.

Homo erectus, (Latin: “upright man”) extinct species of the human genus (Homo), perhaps an ancestor of modern humans (Homo sapiens). H. erectus most likely originated in Africa, though Eurasia cannot be ruled out. Regardless of where it first evolved, the species seems to have dispersed quickly, starting about 1.9 million years ago (mya) near the middle of the Pleistocene Epoch, moving through the African tropics, Europe, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. This history has been recorded directly if imprecisely by many sites that have yielded fossil remains of H. erectus. At other localities, broken animal bones and stone tools have indicated the presence of the species, though there are no traces of the people themselves. H. erectus was a human of medium stature that walked upright. The braincase was low, the forehead was receded, and the nose, jaws, and palate were wide. The brain was smaller and the teeth larger than in modern humans. H. erectus appears to have been the first human species to control fire, some 1,000,000 years ago. The species seems to have flourished until some 200,000 years ago (200 kya) or perhaps later before giving way to other humans including Homo sapiens.

So, going back to the debate with my colleagues, apparently the bone of contention was the report in Genesis chapter one, from which most of us that have read the Biblical report assumed that God created Creation [The Beginning, the Universe or Multiverse, the Big Bang up to Homo sapiens] in six days. It is from this that my colleagues concluded that the Bible was not factual. My viewpoint, then goes like this: I remember my referring them to Psalm 90, one of the verses of which states that “ a thousand years is like a day in the sight of God”, and therefore the ‘six days’ could be ‘X’ number of years or period of time. One of my colleagues surmised that, I apparently do not take the Bible literarily. Obviously, Biblical accounts have metaphoric elements to some of them. I do remember vividly that God posed a significant question in the book of Job, chapter 38, which goes something like “Who was there, when He the Lord created the heavens and earth? Now, if neither you, nor I, were there, and all our ‘so-called’ evidences are ‘best guesses’ and estimates, then whatever ‘we’ conclude or surmise is moot. We could turn it around and ask for evidence from God, and in the absence of such, conclude that the Bible is not factual and that God does not exist.

However, before we rush to do that, let us highlight certain areas of the Biblical account:

1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness [Black Hole!] was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light [The Big Bang!]. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day [whose time calibration; man or Gods’ ?].
2. And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.”  [space!] And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day [whose time calibration; man or Gods’ ?].
3. And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds [Darwinism crap!]. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day [whose time calibration; man or Gods’ ?].
4. And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” [now we get to man’s calibration of time] And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars [our solar system(sun + 8 planets + lots of moons) is just a single star]. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day [this section of the Creation account makes it obvious that the “Days” mentioned, totalling ‘Six days of Creation activities by God’ were not by our reckoning, but by His, Gods’].

But then, do not take my word for it, if you do not have a Bible, check online and verify the account for yourself. After which, see if you can obtain or already have, independent, corroborative, or non-corroborative evidence for the existence of God. By the way He does not need to prove to you that He exists, He only does that to those He had chosen, elected beforehand.

The Spirit of the Lord speaks through the ‘chosen’ ones, and the message is always the same and true. It does not have anything to do with financial prosperity or absence of trouble or problems. But the message always glorifies God and add value to man. The reality is that God is always compared to man, though man thinks that the comparative analysis is between himself and another man. Sadly, in the true comparison, man is nothing but dust that God has breathed life into, and to dust man always return, while God was, and is and shall be forever. The Creator of the universe, everything seen and unseen.

Psalm 103:15-16; The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

Isaiah 40:6-8; “All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”

Psalm 103:2-5; Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits— who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Isaiah 40:30-31; Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

True wealth and riches are not material things. Giving that we get to spend a ‘nano-fraction’ of time here on this side of Eternity. And since material things are transient and fleeting, including we human beings with evanescent physical body, housing a potential eternal component which is the soul. By 50 years in after death, human tissues will have liquefied and disappeared, leaving behind mummified skin and tendons. Eventually these too will disintegrate, and after 80 years in a coffin, human bones will crack as the soft collagen inside them deteriorates, leaving nothing but the brittle mineral frame behind. Given this, the Scripture 2 Corinthians 4:18 is sharply brought into focus; So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. Therefore, it goes that, true wealth and riches are those abiding concepts and believes that are eternal, such as: the fear of the Lord, the love of God, faith in God, hope in union with God and God Himself. Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands. Wealth and riches are in their houses, and their righteousness endures forever [Psalm 112:1-3].

More than three thousand years ago, man has separated politics from religion, since the time of Prophet Samuel. However, every modern day attempt on the part of man to bring religion back into politics always result in suffering, state-sponsored murder, genocide, wars, racism, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination, no matter how pure, sanctimonious, and self-righteous the motive is. Be it the evangelical movement in America or the Sharia Law in Moslem nations, secular or non-secular. People use God’s name or His words for the purpose of gaining power and other selfish purposes. God speaks harshly against false prophets, occult practices, and other means of sorcery. God describes a false prophet as one who “presumes to speak in My name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods” (Deuteronomy 18:20). In Jeremiah 14:14, God says these evildoers prophesy lies, offering “false visions, divinations, idolatries, and the delusions of their own minds.”

According to Scriptures, as an individual, I personally know many people (such as some so-called prophets in so-called spiritual churches)that should be put to death, though it is not my task to do the actual ‘putting’, see Deuteronomy 18:20; But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.” Not all scriptures are literally intended, there are Nigerian GO’s and megachurch founders, white garment church members and leaders, who have been on ‘holy’ pilgrimage to Israel, and also have made false prophecies. Well, how does that stack up in light of Scriptures in Ezekiel 13:9; My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

Some years ago, church leaders in Nigeria were prophesying to Goodluck Jonathan that he was going to win re-election, and last year 2020, I watched an American lady evangelical preacher speaking in ‘tongue’ calling on angels from Africa, south America and elsewhere to help Donald Trump win re-election for the November 2020 US presidential election. This made me think that these people’s Bible obviously did not have the text of Jeremiah 14:14; Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries, and the delusions of their own minds. For any person to actually believe that God would endorse a sexually depraved, lying, narcissistic, entirely devoid of empathy, and compassion, promoter of hate, bigotry, and racism, facilitator of death penalty, individual such as Donald Trump, simply because it was politically expedient for Trump to support certain policies such as “anti-abortion, pro-life, pro-Jerusalem as the political capital of modern-day Israel, and anti-immigration policies”, is the height of IGNORANCE and DELUSION. Apostle Paul described these so-called Christians in Titus 1:16; They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for doing anything good. In Jeremiah 23:16; This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.

There is the added complication of some of the so-called prophets, GO’s, bishops, evangelical preachers, and church founders, who may have in the past or do occasionally perform signs or fake miracles, to convince people desperate for signs, well the Scriptures had something to say on that subject too in Mathew 24:24; For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. In desperate times, it is easier to believe stuff about improvement of one’s personal situation, than the worsening of circumstances, see 2 Timothy 4:3-4; For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. The Holy Spirit through apostle Paul gave advise to the Ephesian church about 2,000 years ago and the advise is still valid today, see Acts 20:28-30; Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.

Though some people may acknowledge Christ Jesus with their mouth, but they do not do so with their heart which is of stone, 1 John 4:1-6; Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood. This tell us everything we need to know about the American evangelical movement lobby groups, white garment churches and the Christian association churches in Nigeria including Pentecostal churches in various countries of the world. Mathew 7:15-20; “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

The Holy Spirit is succinct in 2 Peters 2; But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority.

Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings; yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgment on them from the Lord. But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, revelling in their pleasures while they feast with you. With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed—an accursed brood! They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness. But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—an animal without speech—who spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness. These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.” If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”

So, what do we make of all these, well the Holy Spirit says in 2 Peter 1:20-21; Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. Furthermore, God’s patience, 2 Peter 3:9; The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. In addition to this, we should be on our guard against false teachings and false preachers and prophets who speak when the Lord has not spoken, or prophets who prophesy what their own human voice and desires are telling them. Individuals have to get off their butts and do due diligence to make themselves worthy of the greatest GIFT of all time, SALVATION. The Holy Spirit through apostle Peter said it in 2 Peter 3:14-18; So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.

Reference: https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/bible-verses-about-false-teachers/

What is the purpose or goal of genderization?

Going through the Scriptures, most especially the beginning, we discover that the first chapter gives us a kind of introduction to the origin of the universe, but not to that of God, which is kind of obvious, given that God has no beginning and no end. This chapter also tells us about the beginning of man and his place in the universe. Subsequently, chapter two goes into the ‘how’, pertaining to the creation of man. Firstly, the male, and given that God does not want the man to be alone, He created the female from the male.

The same God that created millions of species of plants and animals, should be able to continue to create from the dust, finite or infinite numbers of a particular specie, such as man. However, God decided on genderization for some specific purposes, such as companionship and later after expelling man from “the garden”, procreation (populating of the physical universe), in the physical universe. The physical universe is observable through the five sensory organs, while the Spiritual universe is unseen, 2 Corinthians 4:18; So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. So we have God’s account of the creation of man, that goes as follow, Genesis 2:7; Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Genesis 2:18; The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Genesis 2:20-22; But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The summary of the process was documented earlier in Genesis 1:26-27; Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

So, what are the mechanics of populating the spiritual universe? Luke 20:34-36; Jesus replied, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection. This tells us that neither marriage nor sexual intercourse within or outside marriage, is necessary for procreation, in order to populate the spiritual universe. Rather populating the spiritual universe is by means of adoption to sonship, Ephesians 1:4-5; For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will. Precisely what Jesus Christ explained to Nicodemus in John 3:3, 5-6; Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

From the above, we can conclude that God is neither man nor woman, even though He created mankind in His image for the purpose of maintaining this physical universe. God is spirit [John 4:24] and can not be perceived through our ‘normal’ five senses, unless on special occasions He chooses to communicate with selected persons through any media and or sensory organ of His choice. Genderization is something necessary for maintaining this physical universe, and is totally redundant and unrequired in the spiritual realm.