After almost one year since starting this blog, I have of course not met my expectations. I planned on doing lots more with it and really using it to get out ideas and tell the world about Jesus and His word. I guess my time just does not add up to the excitement I had when I started.
Here's what to look for in 2009 from me.
1. More personal stuff (photos like my wife's blog has and thoughts about my family and home)
2. More information on my goals and ideas for the future.
3. More business dreams stuff.
4. More deep Bible stuff from the storm in my mind.
5. My sermons, if I can figure out how to do slide shows.
6. More information on my work and cool projects going on out there.
7. Hopefully less politics, at least as a percentage of total additions.
Pray for us, as we plan to read the Bible together as a couple this year.
Remember that the new year brings about NEW OPPORTUNITIES:
1. TO GET RIGHT WITH GOD.
2. TO GET RIGHT WITH FAMILY AND PAST FRIENDS
3. TO REFOCUS ON WHAT IS IMPORTANT
4. TO LEARN TO LOVE WHEN THINGS ARE TOUGH
5. TO PLAY MORE AND WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
My mother
As my few readers know, my mother is very sick. She is dying. I can tell you she has been a great mom over these years. When I was growing up, she would pray for me and help me with things like homework, problems I was having at school and work, and issues with friends. When my friends, brother, and I slept in our tent in the back yard and snuck out at night to run the streets, and cause trouble, she rarely failed to catch us. She was the common sense source for me and often enabler of my lack of common sense. She was always there to bail me out of problems but never made me not learn from them and then be a better person. She kept with us despite our family issues - unruly kids and a husband who once drunbk too much alcohol. We all really respect her because she was and is a strong woman and one who would lead in the times of need, especially during my teen years. I thank her and love her.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Christmas is about family
With my mother very ill, I wanted to post this family photo, including me, Angie, my kids Mark, Alexis, Hannah (on bottom) and Ethan (mad). My two sisters and brother are in here too. Hopefully we'll be together again soon, but with mother sick and my brother living far away, it is hard. Pray for us, pretty, pretty please.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Hebrews Study
In our church adult class we are covering the book of Hebrews. Now this book breathes fighting the good fight. The book starts off with the author's proposition: Jesus is preeminent and majestic. The book proves this with three main points: 1) He is higher than the angels, 2) His law supplants Moses' Law, and 3) His covenant supplants the sacrefices of the High Priests. I hope to blog about this amazin' chapter in the weeks to come.
Remember, in these last days, He speaks to us through His sons. Someday we will judge the angels. IN HIS LOVE and GRACE.
Remember, in these last days, He speaks to us through His sons. Someday we will judge the angels. IN HIS LOVE and GRACE.
Exciting Times for the Lord's Church
This is an exciting time to be part of the church of Christ in our town. We had a man and his wife along with his 4 kids visit this past Sunday and preach and then answer questions from the audience. He is a young guy about age 30 and a godly man. I think he will be an excellent addition to our church and a good evangelist. He is a humble individuals but very idealistic. I think our church would be an excellent starting point for his ministerial work. We cannot wait for their final decision as to moving here and being part of our church. May the Lord bless us. Amen! And may we be worthy servants.
Global Warming - Check This Out
The photos here are of sea ice in Antarctica. Amazing striped icebergs.Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions.Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with meltwater and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form.When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a Green stripe.Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.
Antarctica Frozen Wave Pixs - Nature is amazing! The water froze the instant the wave broke through theice. That's what it is like in Antarctica where it is the coldest weather in decades. Water freezes the instant it comes in contact with the air. The temperature of thewater is already some degrees below freezing. Just look at how the wave froze in mid-air!!!
God is so cool!Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Nascar Over - How did I predict ?
In February I predicted the winners of the Sprint Cup in Nascar and the Chase contenders: Here was my prediction (victories in parentheses):
Winner: Jimmie Johnson (7)2. Jeff Gordon (4)3. Matt Kenseth (4)4. Denny Hamlin (3)5. Carl Edwards (3)6. Kevin Harvick (2)7. Tony Stewart (3)8. Kurt Busch (2)9. Clint Bowyer (1)10. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (2)11. Martin Truex Jr. (1)12. Jeff Burton (1)
Close and may upset: Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newman, Juan Montoya, and Greg Biffle
Correct results:
Winner: Jimmie Johnson (7)
2. Carl Edwards (9)
3. Greg Biffle (2)
4. Kevin Harvick (0)
5. Clint Bowyer (1)
6. Jeff Burton (2)
7. Jeff Gordon (0)
8. Denny Hamlin (1)
9. Tony Stewart (1)
10. Kyle Busch (8)
11. Matt Kenseth (0)
12. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (1)
Close: David Ragan, Kasey Kahne (2), Martin Truex Jr....
Most improved this year, especially second half and a real chance at the Chase next year: David Ragan and Jamie McMurray. Look for David and Mark Martin in the Chase next year in place of Tony Stewart and not sure who the other person will be that falls out. Daytona 500 is only 12 weeks. Git R Done!
Winner: Jimmie Johnson (7)2. Jeff Gordon (4)3. Matt Kenseth (4)4. Denny Hamlin (3)5. Carl Edwards (3)6. Kevin Harvick (2)7. Tony Stewart (3)8. Kurt Busch (2)9. Clint Bowyer (1)10. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (2)11. Martin Truex Jr. (1)12. Jeff Burton (1)
Close and may upset: Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newman, Juan Montoya, and Greg Biffle
Correct results:
Winner: Jimmie Johnson (7)
2. Carl Edwards (9)
3. Greg Biffle (2)
4. Kevin Harvick (0)
5. Clint Bowyer (1)
6. Jeff Burton (2)
7. Jeff Gordon (0)
8. Denny Hamlin (1)
9. Tony Stewart (1)
10. Kyle Busch (8)
11. Matt Kenseth (0)
12. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (1)
Close: David Ragan, Kasey Kahne (2), Martin Truex Jr....
Most improved this year, especially second half and a real chance at the Chase next year: David Ragan and Jamie McMurray. Look for David and Mark Martin in the Chase next year in place of Tony Stewart and not sure who the other person will be that falls out. Daytona 500 is only 12 weeks. Git R Done!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Why Conservatives Lost the Election
There is widespread speculation as to why the Republicans, including m0st conservatives, lost the election. Some say even the focus on social issues is the main cause. I strongly disagree. Here are the main reasons, period:
1. Voters took out the economic uncertainty on the President. This is expected, especially when the mainstream media was quick to paste the blame on W. Because the President was already not very popular, it was easy to "clean house" of his party.
2. Voters believed the message of change at a time of an unpopular President. They did not see Republicans as agents of change.
3. They weighed W's incompetence much higher than the Dem's incompetence at running the Congress, which had only 9% approval rating.
4. Voters fell for Obama's charisma. It did not matter what he said, the public wanted to hear it. Reminds me of Hitler.
5. Republicans have abandoned conservatism and the party platform in order to out-left the left.
6. Republicans have simply been unable to develop a clear and concise message, such as the 1994 "Contract with America."
7. Democrats have out-strategized and out campaigned Republicans at all levels, so that even better Republicans have been beat.
8. Republicans simply have not had the best candidates or were unwilling to back those that were. Consider my county in Iowa, Union County. Our county went for Obama by 51% to 48% or so. Our congressman Steve King, who is very conservative fiscally and socially, got well over 60% of the vote in our county. Another lady in an open seat State Senate race won the county by over 55%. When the message gets out and the candidate campaigns well, he or she can win in a Democratic year.
9. Republicans are infighting in Iowa right now. The right leaders are needed to ensure that the entire platform is advanced, social, fiscal, economic, and foreign issues. The Dems are taking advantage by putting in somewhat conservative candidates and stealing seats.
10. Illegal money is coming into campaigns. Gay agenda money is being used to target and oust good conservative candidates. The church is too spineless or ambivalent to go in and fight back.
11. 2 Chronicles 7:14: The church is not seeking God and demanding Godliness in their candidates and voting for what is right instead of their pocketbooks.
12. The financial crisis hit at a bad time for the Republicans in office and they did not have a clear message, except the bailout, which was the wrong message, to solve it. Without clear alternatives, the Democrat's approach for big government made sense. Now, we'll pay for it.
Any other suggestions?? Why not add a 13th.
1. Voters took out the economic uncertainty on the President. This is expected, especially when the mainstream media was quick to paste the blame on W. Because the President was already not very popular, it was easy to "clean house" of his party.
2. Voters believed the message of change at a time of an unpopular President. They did not see Republicans as agents of change.
3. They weighed W's incompetence much higher than the Dem's incompetence at running the Congress, which had only 9% approval rating.
4. Voters fell for Obama's charisma. It did not matter what he said, the public wanted to hear it. Reminds me of Hitler.
5. Republicans have abandoned conservatism and the party platform in order to out-left the left.
6. Republicans have simply been unable to develop a clear and concise message, such as the 1994 "Contract with America."
7. Democrats have out-strategized and out campaigned Republicans at all levels, so that even better Republicans have been beat.
8. Republicans simply have not had the best candidates or were unwilling to back those that were. Consider my county in Iowa, Union County. Our county went for Obama by 51% to 48% or so. Our congressman Steve King, who is very conservative fiscally and socially, got well over 60% of the vote in our county. Another lady in an open seat State Senate race won the county by over 55%. When the message gets out and the candidate campaigns well, he or she can win in a Democratic year.
9. Republicans are infighting in Iowa right now. The right leaders are needed to ensure that the entire platform is advanced, social, fiscal, economic, and foreign issues. The Dems are taking advantage by putting in somewhat conservative candidates and stealing seats.
10. Illegal money is coming into campaigns. Gay agenda money is being used to target and oust good conservative candidates. The church is too spineless or ambivalent to go in and fight back.
11. 2 Chronicles 7:14: The church is not seeking God and demanding Godliness in their candidates and voting for what is right instead of their pocketbooks.
12. The financial crisis hit at a bad time for the Republicans in office and they did not have a clear message, except the bailout, which was the wrong message, to solve it. Without clear alternatives, the Democrat's approach for big government made sense. Now, we'll pay for it.
Any other suggestions?? Why not add a 13th.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Recent letter to the editor I wrote
To the editor:
It is becoming abundantly clear that the election this fall from the top of the ticket down to the local races will be about the economy. The majority of the people will vote based not on facts and ideas but on perceptions. That being said, we should look through the smoke to the fire that is burning the life of this nation. While I am a fully unashamed conservative and Christian, and I believe that individual responsibility is paramount and that the government role is not to protect the economy but to ensure that people are not abused by its excesses, I am also quick to put the blame of the current credit crisis on both major political parties and the companies that abuse the public trust.
Therefore, let me present 7 general root causes for this financial mess in which we find ourselves:
1. Americans are greedy people as a general rule. We must spend more than we make and still feel our lives are lacking. Only worldly goods can fill this void in our souls, we think, so in good times and bad, we overspend. When bad times arise, such as exploding gas prices (hence exploding inflation to almost all goods and services we buy), we have no choice but to give up something. Since laws are in place to make it hard to foreclose on our homes, the housing payment is often first to go.
2. Politicians have been bought off by Wall Street and others. Powerful and rich CEOs and others have purchased our national leaders of both parties over the past two decades to write the laws to favor loose reporting and monetary policies. This has exacerbated the credit concerns by making it very easy to give out excessive amounts of credit when the economy is humming along. Now, when these CEOs shuffle through Congress for these hearings, one thing you do not see is them getting hauled off the jail and their assets being confiscated to pay for the damage they have done to their shareholders, employees, and taxpayers. That is why Congress votes to print more money and borrow more from China to do this bailout that the public hates.
3. Politicians are scared to death of political correctness. Primarily lead by Democrats in Congress, especially the likes of Barney Frank, who I believe is the most incompetent person in Congress, banks and other lenders are called to account if they practice any real discretion in the issuing of credit. If a bank wants to hold to traditional underwriting criteria, they are vilified as racist, because minorities tend to be unable to afford traditional loan terms. Hence, people are given loans they have no business accepting because they cannot pay them off if the interest rate increases or the cost of living rises.
4. Lenders use predatory lending practices. Lenders are taking advantage of loose regulations and Congressional/Presidential demands to flood the market with credit, seeing this as an opportunity to make money. In order to offer such low rates when credit is easy to find is to give them variable rates and even more predatory terms and then tell their loan officers that they will get a commission on every loan you make. Many loan officers, wishing to make money in the short-term, will make loans with the company’s assets to people whom they would never dream of lending with their own money, because they know the people are not credit-worthy. As long as the company approves the ratios, the loan is made anyway and the broker gets the commission. The bank or mortgage company will sell the loan on the open market and bundle it as stock. As long as the economy goes strong, there is no worry about a small amount of loans failing.
5. The economy is only strong when we overextend ourselves. Notice how Congress and our President are seeking to inject funds into our economy to remove the credit crunch, as it is called. This is because our economy cannot grow at a satisfactory pace if there is not enough easy credit to allow people to borrow money to make investments, entertain themselves, or purchase goods and services. The last thing our government wants is for us to quit buying on credit and overextending ourselves.
6. The Democratic Party, in particular, has wanted to lower the value of homes, i.e. slow the market down, to make homes more affordable due to their class warfare mentality. This practice diminishes the value of our greatest asset, all in the name of making homeownership affordable to all. Well, perhaps homeownership is not for everyone, at least not all at one time. While I am certainly all for affordable housing, I am not for homes valued less than the debt against them.
7. We are not pumping oil out of Iraq like crazy. We should be pumping so much oil out of Iraq to a) pay off the costs of our presence there and reconstruction, and b) flood the market so the prices go down. With $1.75 gas we can afford to buy gas and pay our mortgage payment at the same time.
Certainly, the economic problems we face are real. The corruption in both parties, their lack of leadership, their looking away from predatory lending practices, and the liberals’ effort to play political correctness and call homeownership a right has brought down our national economy. It sounds like conservatism with strong leadership will be necessary to stop the continued funneling of money into this socialist bailout. Taking action on the above seven issues would help, but I think our government, especially if liberal Democrats win at all levels, will solve this by increasing taxes, printing too much more money, and indebting us all the more to Communist China and the terrorists in the Middle East.
Sincerely,
Jeremy Rounds
It is becoming abundantly clear that the election this fall from the top of the ticket down to the local races will be about the economy. The majority of the people will vote based not on facts and ideas but on perceptions. That being said, we should look through the smoke to the fire that is burning the life of this nation. While I am a fully unashamed conservative and Christian, and I believe that individual responsibility is paramount and that the government role is not to protect the economy but to ensure that people are not abused by its excesses, I am also quick to put the blame of the current credit crisis on both major political parties and the companies that abuse the public trust.
Therefore, let me present 7 general root causes for this financial mess in which we find ourselves:
1. Americans are greedy people as a general rule. We must spend more than we make and still feel our lives are lacking. Only worldly goods can fill this void in our souls, we think, so in good times and bad, we overspend. When bad times arise, such as exploding gas prices (hence exploding inflation to almost all goods and services we buy), we have no choice but to give up something. Since laws are in place to make it hard to foreclose on our homes, the housing payment is often first to go.
2. Politicians have been bought off by Wall Street and others. Powerful and rich CEOs and others have purchased our national leaders of both parties over the past two decades to write the laws to favor loose reporting and monetary policies. This has exacerbated the credit concerns by making it very easy to give out excessive amounts of credit when the economy is humming along. Now, when these CEOs shuffle through Congress for these hearings, one thing you do not see is them getting hauled off the jail and their assets being confiscated to pay for the damage they have done to their shareholders, employees, and taxpayers. That is why Congress votes to print more money and borrow more from China to do this bailout that the public hates.
3. Politicians are scared to death of political correctness. Primarily lead by Democrats in Congress, especially the likes of Barney Frank, who I believe is the most incompetent person in Congress, banks and other lenders are called to account if they practice any real discretion in the issuing of credit. If a bank wants to hold to traditional underwriting criteria, they are vilified as racist, because minorities tend to be unable to afford traditional loan terms. Hence, people are given loans they have no business accepting because they cannot pay them off if the interest rate increases or the cost of living rises.
4. Lenders use predatory lending practices. Lenders are taking advantage of loose regulations and Congressional/Presidential demands to flood the market with credit, seeing this as an opportunity to make money. In order to offer such low rates when credit is easy to find is to give them variable rates and even more predatory terms and then tell their loan officers that they will get a commission on every loan you make. Many loan officers, wishing to make money in the short-term, will make loans with the company’s assets to people whom they would never dream of lending with their own money, because they know the people are not credit-worthy. As long as the company approves the ratios, the loan is made anyway and the broker gets the commission. The bank or mortgage company will sell the loan on the open market and bundle it as stock. As long as the economy goes strong, there is no worry about a small amount of loans failing.
5. The economy is only strong when we overextend ourselves. Notice how Congress and our President are seeking to inject funds into our economy to remove the credit crunch, as it is called. This is because our economy cannot grow at a satisfactory pace if there is not enough easy credit to allow people to borrow money to make investments, entertain themselves, or purchase goods and services. The last thing our government wants is for us to quit buying on credit and overextending ourselves.
6. The Democratic Party, in particular, has wanted to lower the value of homes, i.e. slow the market down, to make homes more affordable due to their class warfare mentality. This practice diminishes the value of our greatest asset, all in the name of making homeownership affordable to all. Well, perhaps homeownership is not for everyone, at least not all at one time. While I am certainly all for affordable housing, I am not for homes valued less than the debt against them.
7. We are not pumping oil out of Iraq like crazy. We should be pumping so much oil out of Iraq to a) pay off the costs of our presence there and reconstruction, and b) flood the market so the prices go down. With $1.75 gas we can afford to buy gas and pay our mortgage payment at the same time.
Certainly, the economic problems we face are real. The corruption in both parties, their lack of leadership, their looking away from predatory lending practices, and the liberals’ effort to play political correctness and call homeownership a right has brought down our national economy. It sounds like conservatism with strong leadership will be necessary to stop the continued funneling of money into this socialist bailout. Taking action on the above seven issues would help, but I think our government, especially if liberal Democrats win at all levels, will solve this by increasing taxes, printing too much more money, and indebting us all the more to Communist China and the terrorists in the Middle East.
Sincerely,
Jeremy Rounds
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Cell Phone Vs. the Bible
I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone?
What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?
What if we flipped through it several times a day?
What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?
What if we used it to receive messages from the text?
What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?
What if we gave it to our kids as a gift?
What if we used it when we traveled?
What if we used it in case of emergency?
Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being 'disconnected' because of an unpaid bill.
Jesus already paid the bill in-full.
And just think--no dropped calls! God hears them all!
What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?
What if we flipped through it several times a day?
What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?
What if we used it to receive messages from the text?
What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?
What if we gave it to our kids as a gift?
What if we used it when we traveled?
What if we used it in case of emergency?
Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being 'disconnected' because of an unpaid bill.
Jesus already paid the bill in-full.
And just think--no dropped calls! God hears them all!
Monday, October 13, 2008
Obama and the American Flag
Good to remember on voting day. Do we want a president who doesn't 'take sides' for America?
Perhaps there are SOME out there who are beginning to get 'the picture'. The following is a narrative taken from Sunday Morning's televised 'Meet The Press'. and the author is employed by none other than the Washington Post!! Yeah.....the Washington Post of New York and Los Angeles Times fame!! Must say that I'm duly impressed..................
From Sunday's Televised 'Meet the Press' Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag. Obama Explains National Anthem Stance, Sun, 07 Sept 2008 11:48:04 EST, General Bill Ginn USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain why he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
The General also stated to the Senator that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171... During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. At the very least, 'Stand and Face It.'
Senator Obama Live on Sunday states, 'As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides, Obama said. 'There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression. And the anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all. It should be swapped for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing.' If that were our anthem, then I might salute it. 'We should consider to reinvent our National Anthem as well as to redesign our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we as a Nation of warring people, should conduct ourselves as the nations of Islam, whereas peace prevails. Perhaps a state or period of mutual concord between our governments. When I become President, I will seek a pact or agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation have placed upon the nations of Islam an unfair injustice. My wife disrespects the Flag for many personal reasons. Together she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past, many years ago. She has her views and I have mine.' Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put aside my hatred. I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path of hope. My wife and I look forward to becoming our country's First Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you heard it right. This could possibly be our next President.
I, for one, am speechless.
Dale Lindsborg,
WashingtonPost
Perhaps there are SOME out there who are beginning to get 'the picture'. The following is a narrative taken from Sunday Morning's televised 'Meet The Press'. and the author is employed by none other than the Washington Post!! Yeah.....the Washington Post of New York and Los Angeles Times fame!! Must say that I'm duly impressed..................
From Sunday's Televised 'Meet the Press' Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag. Obama Explains National Anthem Stance, Sun, 07 Sept 2008 11:48:04 EST, General Bill Ginn USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain why he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
The General also stated to the Senator that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171... During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. At the very least, 'Stand and Face It.'
Senator Obama Live on Sunday states, 'As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides, Obama said. 'There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression. And the anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all. It should be swapped for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing.' If that were our anthem, then I might salute it. 'We should consider to reinvent our National Anthem as well as to redesign our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we as a Nation of warring people, should conduct ourselves as the nations of Islam, whereas peace prevails. Perhaps a state or period of mutual concord between our governments. When I become President, I will seek a pact or agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation have placed upon the nations of Islam an unfair injustice. My wife disrespects the Flag for many personal reasons. Together she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past, many years ago. She has her views and I have mine.' Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put aside my hatred. I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path of hope. My wife and I look forward to becoming our country's First Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you heard it right. This could possibly be our next President.
I, for one, am speechless.
Dale Lindsborg,
WashingtonPost
ONE MINUTE EACH NIGHT
This is the scariest election we as Christians have ever faced and from the looks of the polls, the Christians aren't voting Christian values. We all need to be on our knees.
Do you believe we can take God at His word? 2 Chronicles 7:14 says: “If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
During WWII, there was an advisor to Churchill who organized a group of people
who dropped what they were doing every night at a prescribed hour for one minute
to collectively pray for the safety of England , its people and peace.
This had an amazing effect - as bombing stopped.
There is now a group of people organizing the same thing here in America .
The United States of America and our citizens need prayer more than ever!!!
If you would like to participate:
Each evening at 8 PM Iowa Time, stop whatever you are doing and spend one minute (at least) praying for the safety of the United States, our troops, our citizens, for peace in the world, the up-coming election, and that the Bible will again be the basis for the laws governing our land and that Christianity will grow in the U.S.
Do you believe we can take God at His word? 2 Chronicles 7:14 says: “If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
During WWII, there was an advisor to Churchill who organized a group of people
who dropped what they were doing every night at a prescribed hour for one minute
to collectively pray for the safety of England , its people and peace.
This had an amazing effect - as bombing stopped.
There is now a group of people organizing the same thing here in America .
The United States of America and our citizens need prayer more than ever!!!
If you would like to participate:
Each evening at 8 PM Iowa Time, stop whatever you are doing and spend one minute (at least) praying for the safety of the United States, our troops, our citizens, for peace in the world, the up-coming election, and that the Bible will again be the basis for the laws governing our land and that Christianity will grow in the U.S.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Horror of Abortion
'They Didn't Prepare Me For the Horror'
Women Aren't Told of the Impact of Abortion
Melinda Tankard Reist
In a previous excerpt from her book Giving Sorrow Words: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion, journalist and women's rights advocate Melinda Tankard Reist discussed how inadequate and deceptive pre-abortion counseling contributes to the lack of choice. In this excerpt, she describes how women are often not told of the potential risks of abortion, and how it affects them.
Many women were not aware of the potential physical and psychological complications of abortion.
Most women said they were totally unprepared for what they would go through during the abortion—and after. They felt cheated that abortion was presented as something quick and easy and over with when the reality for them was very different.
For example, Melody felt totally unprepared for the experience of the abortion she had in 1990:
The doctor and nurse ... didn’t prepare me for the horror of termination ... I thought my uterus was being sucked out ... I could hear them saying it was a healthy nine-week-old fetus and everything was intact ...
Carol also describes her experience:
It has been ten years now, almost to this day, and I can still remember, clearly, those fatal few minutes that I will regret to my dying day. The abortionist did not speak or look at me except to growl, “Be quiet and keep still,” when I began to shake and cry against my own will as I felt his cold, sharp instruments cutting out the life that had been growing inside me for the past three months. The sound of the fetus dropping into the plastic bucket held between my legs is a sound I cannot erase from my memory.
Some women wrote of experiencing a sort of psychic trauma immediately after the abortion. Patricia wrote:
When I came out of the anesthetic I began to panic. I was dreaming or imagining where have they taken the soul of my baby. I felt robbed; I felt something hideous, terrifying. I was in a state of fright and shock. All I remember is thinking, “Where have they taken my baby?”
A significant number of respondents suffered physical sideeffects, ranging from heavy bleeding, sometimes for months, to infection and incompetent cervixes. A surprising number had to have a second procedure to remove “retained products.”
Mariah, from Melbourne, woke from the abortion in “excruciating pain.”
I began crying in pain, and as I lifted the sheets there was blood everywhere. The pain was unbearable, it was like a knife kept stabbing me in the stomach over and over again ... The nurse gave me an injection for the pain, but it didn’t help. About 15 minutes later she gave me another shot; it still didn’t help.
After the third shot she was so worried because I was still in pain that she called the head doctor who operated on me to take a look at me. When the doctor took the folder from the end of my bed and looked through the pieces of paper, he was shocked. He called the nurse over and asked if it was correct the amount of pain killer shots she’d given me. Because I was still crying and holding my stomach in pain, the doctor had no other choice but to inject me again ...
Lara, who underwent an abortion at the age of 21 in 1996, also suffered physically.
I began to have pains in my stomach and I rang the 24-hour
hotline where they told me to go back. I did this and I was given a course of antibiotics and treated for an infection in the womb. I was not really impressed with the service, as it appeared that they had no records of my procedure. A week later I was still suffering pains in my stomach and they were getting to the point I could hardly walk. I was rushed [to the hospital] ... I was told I was not the only one who had gone through this after a termination ...
I remained in hospital for four days ... I broke out in hives from the medication ... My condition was only getting worse ... I was now unable to walk ... [I was] told that my body was probably just in shock. [A few months later] I found myself still going through the emotions of a pregnant woman, and close to the day I would have had my baby, I had labor pains. I lay on the floor in pain, crying and alone ...
Ginny, a mother of two, also says she was not made aware of the implications of the abortion. She was told only that the abortion was “similar to a [D&C].” Ginny has been hospitalized on psychiatric grounds a number of times since the abortion and has not been able to return to work. She suffers stress-related skin conditions, self-mutilates and experiences terrible nightmares. At the time of writing, she was undergoing shock therapy.
I would hear a baby crying in my sleep or I would get up thinking I had to breastfeed or just getting up to check on the baby, but it was hearing a baby crying that was the worst. No one prepared me for the years of nightmares, the feelings of guilt and the pain.
A number of women wrote or spoke of subsequent problems with infertility. Katarina wrote:
I was told I may not be able to have children because of problems with my ovaries and ... fallopian tubes. If I cannot have children—after aborting [one] and miscarrying another—I will die of an unfulfilled heart.
Theresa lost four babies as a result of miscarriage and stillbirth. She attributes these losses to two abortions six years earlier.
Another woman, Trish, wonders if there is a connection between abortion and cervical cancer, having had three procedures to remove abnormal cells. She had two abortions, forced by her previous husband and, though having two children from that relationship, is not able to have any with her new husband because of the abnormal growths and related problems.
The more common abortion aftereffects experienced by those contributing to this book include uncontrolled crying, dreaming of babies, grief reactions on the date the baby would have been born, fantasizing about the baby, depression, emotional numbness, sleep disorders and anger.
A woman in her sixties wrote anonymously about the abortion her husband made her have almost 40 years ago:
I tried to live with having an abortion, but I lost my confidence in life and have been a very frightened person inside. The veneer that I parade in front of family and the world is very false.
~~~
Excerpted from the book Giving Sorrow Words: Women's Stories of Grief After Abortion, by Melinda Tankard Reist. This book is available from the Elliot Institute under our Acorn Books publishing imprint. For more information, visit www.theunchoice.com or call 1-888-412-2676.
See What You've Been Missing
Previous Editions of the The Elliot Institute News Available Online
We're pleased to announce that all the previous editions of The Elliot Institute News for 2008 are now available online at www.theunchoice.com/news.htm. You will find:
*news and commentary
*updates on new post-abortion research
*excerpts from our books and our traditionally published, hard-copy journal, The Post-Abortion Review
*and more!
Eventually we also hope to have editions from previous years online as well. So if you are a new subscriber, or are looking for something we previously published, be sure to visit this page!
You can also find many back issues (up to 2003) of The Post-Abortion Review online at www.afterabortion.org/PAR/index.htm. We are continuing to update these as well.
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Women Aren't Told of the Impact of Abortion
Melinda Tankard Reist
In a previous excerpt from her book Giving Sorrow Words: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion, journalist and women's rights advocate Melinda Tankard Reist discussed how inadequate and deceptive pre-abortion counseling contributes to the lack of choice. In this excerpt, she describes how women are often not told of the potential risks of abortion, and how it affects them.
Many women were not aware of the potential physical and psychological complications of abortion.
Most women said they were totally unprepared for what they would go through during the abortion—and after. They felt cheated that abortion was presented as something quick and easy and over with when the reality for them was very different.
For example, Melody felt totally unprepared for the experience of the abortion she had in 1990:
The doctor and nurse ... didn’t prepare me for the horror of termination ... I thought my uterus was being sucked out ... I could hear them saying it was a healthy nine-week-old fetus and everything was intact ...
Carol also describes her experience:
It has been ten years now, almost to this day, and I can still remember, clearly, those fatal few minutes that I will regret to my dying day. The abortionist did not speak or look at me except to growl, “Be quiet and keep still,” when I began to shake and cry against my own will as I felt his cold, sharp instruments cutting out the life that had been growing inside me for the past three months. The sound of the fetus dropping into the plastic bucket held between my legs is a sound I cannot erase from my memory.
Some women wrote of experiencing a sort of psychic trauma immediately after the abortion. Patricia wrote:
When I came out of the anesthetic I began to panic. I was dreaming or imagining where have they taken the soul of my baby. I felt robbed; I felt something hideous, terrifying. I was in a state of fright and shock. All I remember is thinking, “Where have they taken my baby?”
A significant number of respondents suffered physical sideeffects, ranging from heavy bleeding, sometimes for months, to infection and incompetent cervixes. A surprising number had to have a second procedure to remove “retained products.”
Mariah, from Melbourne, woke from the abortion in “excruciating pain.”
I began crying in pain, and as I lifted the sheets there was blood everywhere. The pain was unbearable, it was like a knife kept stabbing me in the stomach over and over again ... The nurse gave me an injection for the pain, but it didn’t help. About 15 minutes later she gave me another shot; it still didn’t help.
After the third shot she was so worried because I was still in pain that she called the head doctor who operated on me to take a look at me. When the doctor took the folder from the end of my bed and looked through the pieces of paper, he was shocked. He called the nurse over and asked if it was correct the amount of pain killer shots she’d given me. Because I was still crying and holding my stomach in pain, the doctor had no other choice but to inject me again ...
Lara, who underwent an abortion at the age of 21 in 1996, also suffered physically.
I began to have pains in my stomach and I rang the 24-hour
hotline where they told me to go back. I did this and I was given a course of antibiotics and treated for an infection in the womb. I was not really impressed with the service, as it appeared that they had no records of my procedure. A week later I was still suffering pains in my stomach and they were getting to the point I could hardly walk. I was rushed [to the hospital] ... I was told I was not the only one who had gone through this after a termination ...
I remained in hospital for four days ... I broke out in hives from the medication ... My condition was only getting worse ... I was now unable to walk ... [I was] told that my body was probably just in shock. [A few months later] I found myself still going through the emotions of a pregnant woman, and close to the day I would have had my baby, I had labor pains. I lay on the floor in pain, crying and alone ...
Ginny, a mother of two, also says she was not made aware of the implications of the abortion. She was told only that the abortion was “similar to a [D&C].” Ginny has been hospitalized on psychiatric grounds a number of times since the abortion and has not been able to return to work. She suffers stress-related skin conditions, self-mutilates and experiences terrible nightmares. At the time of writing, she was undergoing shock therapy.
I would hear a baby crying in my sleep or I would get up thinking I had to breastfeed or just getting up to check on the baby, but it was hearing a baby crying that was the worst. No one prepared me for the years of nightmares, the feelings of guilt and the pain.
A number of women wrote or spoke of subsequent problems with infertility. Katarina wrote:
I was told I may not be able to have children because of problems with my ovaries and ... fallopian tubes. If I cannot have children—after aborting [one] and miscarrying another—I will die of an unfulfilled heart.
Theresa lost four babies as a result of miscarriage and stillbirth. She attributes these losses to two abortions six years earlier.
Another woman, Trish, wonders if there is a connection between abortion and cervical cancer, having had three procedures to remove abnormal cells. She had two abortions, forced by her previous husband and, though having two children from that relationship, is not able to have any with her new husband because of the abnormal growths and related problems.
The more common abortion aftereffects experienced by those contributing to this book include uncontrolled crying, dreaming of babies, grief reactions on the date the baby would have been born, fantasizing about the baby, depression, emotional numbness, sleep disorders and anger.
A woman in her sixties wrote anonymously about the abortion her husband made her have almost 40 years ago:
I tried to live with having an abortion, but I lost my confidence in life and have been a very frightened person inside. The veneer that I parade in front of family and the world is very false.
~~~
Excerpted from the book Giving Sorrow Words: Women's Stories of Grief After Abortion, by Melinda Tankard Reist. This book is available from the Elliot Institute under our Acorn Books publishing imprint. For more information, visit www.theunchoice.com or call 1-888-412-2676.
See What You've Been Missing
Previous Editions of the The Elliot Institute News Available Online
We're pleased to announce that all the previous editions of The Elliot Institute News for 2008 are now available online at www.theunchoice.com/news.htm. You will find:
*news and commentary
*updates on new post-abortion research
*excerpts from our books and our traditionally published, hard-copy journal, The Post-Abortion Review
*and more!
Eventually we also hope to have editions from previous years online as well. So if you are a new subscriber, or are looking for something we previously published, be sure to visit this page!
You can also find many back issues (up to 2003) of The Post-Abortion Review online at www.afterabortion.org/PAR/index.htm. We are continuing to update these as well.
Tell Others About Us
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
BIBLE NUMERICS
The below is for the well endowed mathematical minds. Without knowledge of Greek and Hebrew, I really cannot figure this stuff out. However, may be interesting.
IS GOD A MATHEMATICIAN?
By Keith Newman.
The authenticity of the Holy Bible has been attacked at regular intervals by atheists and theologians alike but none have explained away the mathematical seal beneath its surface.
It would seem the divine hand has moved to prevent counterfeiting in the pages of the Bible in a similar manner to the line that runs through paper money. Bible numerics appears to be God's watermark of authenticity.
Vital research on this numeric seal was completed by a native of the world's most renowned atheistic nation, Russia. Dr Ivan Panin was born in Russia on Dec 12, 1855. As a young man he was an active nihilist and participated in plots against the Czar and his government. He was a mathematical genius who died a Harvard scholar and a citizen of the United States in 1942.
Panin was exiled from Russia. After spending a number of years studying in Germany he went to the United States where he became an outstanding lecturer on literary criticism.
Panin was known as a firm agnostic - so well known that when he discarded his agnosticism and accepted the Christian faith, the newspapers carried headlines telling of his conversion.
It was in 1890 that Dr Panin made the discovery of the mathematical structure underlining the vocabulary of the Greek New Testament. He was casually reading the first verse of the gospel of John in the Greek: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with the God and the Word was God...".
Dr Panin was curious as to why the Greek word for "the"' preceded the word "God"' in one case and not the other. In examining the text he became aware of a number relationship. This was the first of the discoveries that led to his conversion and uncovered the extensive numeric code.
Oldest manuscripts
Dr Panin found his proof in the some of the oldest and most accurate manuscripts - the Received Hebrew Text and the Westcott and Hort Text.
In the original languages of the Bible, mostly Hebrew and Greek, there are no separate symbols for numbers, letters of the alphabet are also used to indicate numbers.
The numeric value of a word is the sum total of all its letters. It was curiosity that first caused Dr Panin to begin toying with the numbers behind the texts. Sequences and patterns began to emerge. These created such a stirring in the heart of the Russian that he dedicated 50 years of his life to painstakingly comb the pages of the Bible.
This complex system of numbering visibly and invisibly saturates every book of the scriptures emphasizing certain passages and illustrating deeper or further meaning in types and shadows. The 66 books of the Bible 39 in the Old and 27 in the New were written by 33 different people.
Those authors were scattered throughout various countries of the world and from widely different backgrounds. Many of them had little or no schooling. The whole Bible was written over a period of 1500 years with a 400 year silence apart from the Apocrypha between the two testaments. Despite the handicaps the biblical books are found to be a harmonious record, each in accord with the other.
Dr Panin says the laws of probability are exceeded into the billions when we try and rationalize the authorship of the Bible as the work of man. He once said: "If human logic is worth anything at all we are simply driven to the conclusion that if my facts I have presented are true, man could never have done this.
Inspiration from on high
"We must assume that a Power higher than man guided the writers in such a way, whether they knew it or not, they did it and the Great God inspired them to do it''.
The Bible itself states clearly that it is the literal God-breathed'' living word of the Creator. The words "Thus saith the Lord"' and "God said"' occur more than 2500 times throughout scripture.
In 2 Timothy 3:16 it states "All scripture is given by inspiration of God". Then in 2 Peter 9:20-21 it plainly states: "No prophecy of the scriptures is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost".
Let's take the number seven as an illustration of the way the patterns work. Seven is the most prolific of the mathematical series which binds scripture together. The very first verse of the Bible "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen 1:1), contains over 30 different combinations of seven.
This verse has seven Hebrew words having a total of 28 letters 4 x 7. The numeric value of the three nouns "God", "heaven" and "earth" totals 777. Any number in triplicate expresses complete, ultimate or total meaning.
Also tightly sealed up with sevens are the genealogy of Jesus, the account of the virgin birth and the resurrection. Seven occurs as a number 187 times in the Bible (41 x 7), the phrase "seven-fold" occurs seven times and "seventy" occurs 56 times (7 x 8).
In the Book of Revelation seven positively shines out: there are seven golden candlesticks, seven letters to seven churches, a book sealed with seven seals, seven angels standing before the Lord with seven trumpets, seven thunders and seven last plagues. In fact there are over 50 occurrences of the number seven in Revelation alone.
Divisible by seven
There are 21 Old Testament writers whose names appear in the Bible (3 x 7). The numeric value of their names is divisible by seven. Of these 21, seven are named in the New Testament: Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea and Joel. The numeric values of these names is 1554 (222 x 7). David's name is found 1134 times (162 x 7).
God's seal also pervades creation as though it were woven into the very fabric of nature.
The Bible has declared man's years to be three score and ten (70). The development of the human embryo is in exact periods of sevens or 28 days (4 x 7). Medical science tells us the human body is renewed cell for cell every seven years.
We're told the pulse beats slower every seven days as if it were in accord with the seventh day of rest proclaimed in the Genesis creation week. And God formed man of the dust of the ground (Gen 2:7); science confirms the human body is made of the same 14 elements (2 x 7) found in your average handful of dust.
The light of the sun is made up of seven distinct colors as shown in the rainbow. In music there are seven distinct notes which climax in a chord or octave at the beginning of a new seven.
In almost all animals the incubation or pregnancy period is divisible by seven. Seven is often referred to as "God's seal" or the number of spiritual perfection.
Number of resurrection
Eight is the number of new life or "resurrection". It is the personal number of Jesus. When we add together the letter values of the name Jesus in the Greek we get 888. Jesus was called The Christ, the numeric value of this title is 1480 (185 x 8). He was Savior which has the value 1408 (2 x 8 x 88).
Jesus is also Lord which again is a multiple of eight being 800 (100 x 8). Messiah has the numeric value 656 (82 x8). Jesus also called himself the Son of man. The term occurs 88 times and is valued at 2960 (370 x 8).
Jesus said "I am the truth": the numeric value of "the truth" is 64 (8 x 8). The last book in the Bible is the Revelation of Jesus Christ which has exactly 888 Greek words. Eight persons were saved in the Ark at the great Nomadic flood. God made a covenant with Abraham that every male Jewish child was to be circumcised on the eighth day of his life.
There are eight individual cases of resurrection spoken of in the Bible apart from Jesus. Three occur in the Old Testament, three in the gospels and two in Acts. It was on the eighth day or the first day of the new week that Jesus rose from the dead. The Holy Spirit also came down from heaven on the eighth day.
Nine is finality or completion. The first example of its use is that infinitely sealed first verse of the Bible: "In the beginning God'' which in Hebrew is: Brayshith Elohim which has the numeric value of 999. The very next statement "created the heaven" is also sealed with 999.
Nine is finality
The number nine is endowed with a peculiar quality, it is finality in itself. Not only is it the final single number, but if you multiply it by any other number, the addition of the resulting figures will always revert back to nine (2 x 9 = 18 / 1 + 8 = 9 etc).
There are nine basic gifts available to the Christian believer through the power of God's Holy Spirit (1 Cor 12:8-10). There are nine basic fruits which should be evident in the life of the believer (Gal 5:22-23). The words "my wrath" have the numeric value 999. The word Amen or verily is valued at 99 and occurs 99 times.
The work on the cross was completed at the ninth hour when Jesus said "It is finished". The shedding of his blood was final. It saw an end to the old system of animal sacrifice to atone for sin. The word "blood" in this sense occurs 99 times.
Great superstition has always surrounded the number 13 as being unlucky or dark. Perhaps there is good reason. One of the most convincing proofs of the origins of this number can be found by unraveling all the names by which Satan is known. Drakon or dragon has a value of 975 (13 x 75) and it occurs 13 times. Peirazon or tempter has a value of 1053 (13 x 81). Belial which is personification of evil has a value of 78 (13 x 6).
Anthropoktonos or "murderer" has a value of 1820 (13 x 40). Ophis or "serpent" is 780 (13 x 60). The phrase used by the Holy Spirit Ho kaloumenos diablos kai ho Satanas or "called the Devil and Satan" is valued 2197 (13 x 13 x 13).
Small neat calculations
This article is in truth an oversimplification of the work of Dr Panin and others who followed in his footsteps. Dr Panin's work initially involved some 40,000 pages of material on which he had written millions of small neat calculations. It involved volumes.
He often labored up to 18 hours a day exploring the vast numeric structure. By and large it was a thankless task. Dr Panin said "When I first made the discovery I was of course, taken off my feet - I was in the same condition as our friend Archimedes who when he solved a great mathematical problem while in the bath, rushed in to the street naked, crying 'I have found it'. I thought people would be delighted to embrace the new discovery, but I found human nature is always the same. So I quietly withdrew and did my work all by myself".
Although it would appear that his work has been largely lost from popular reading today Dr Panin did accomplish several outstanding works. He published Structure in the Bible the Numeric Greek New Testament and the Numeric English New Testament.
The works of Dr Ivan Panin have been put before the experts many times. Dr Panin once challenged nine noted rationalists and Bible critics through the medium of the New York Sun newspaper Nov 9, 1899. He dared them to publicly refute or give explanation for a few of his presented facts. Four made lame excuses. The rest were silent.
Dr Panin issued a challenge throughout leading newspapers of the world asking for a natural explanation or rebuttal of the facts. Not a single person accepted.
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He was to devote over 50 years of his life painstakingly exploring the numerical structure of the Scriptures, generating over 43,000 detailed, hand-penned pages of analysis (and exhausting his health in the process). He went on to be with the Lord in his 87th year, on October 30, 1942.
The Heptadic Structure
The recurrence of the number seven--or an exact multiple of seven--is found throughout the Bible and is widely recognized. The Sabbath on the seventh day; the seven years of plenty and the seven years of famine in Egypt; the seven priests and seven trumpets marching around Jericho; the Sabbath Year of the land are well-known examples.
Also, Solomon's building the Temple for seven years, Naaman's washing in the river seven times, and the seven churches, seven lamp stands, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven bowls, seven stars, and so on in the Book of Revelation, all show the consistent use of the number seven.
But there turns out to be much more below the surface. Ivan Panin noted the amazing numerical properties of the Biblical texts--both the Greek of the New Testament and the Hebrew of the Old Testament. These are not only intriguing to discover, they also demonstrate an intricacy of design which testifies to a supernatural origin!
Vocabulary
One of the simplest--and most provocative--aspects of the Biblical text is the vocabulary used. The number of vocabulary words in a passage is normally different from the total number of words in a passage. Some words are repeated. It is easy, for example, to use a vocabulary of 500 words to write an essay of 4,000 words.
An Example
The first 17 verses of the Gospel of Matthew are a logical unit, or section, which deals with a single principal subject: the genealogy of Christ. It contains 72 Greek vocabulary words in these initial 17 verses. (The verse divisions are man's allocations for convenience, added in the 13th century.)
The number of words which are nouns is exactly 56, or 7 x 8.
The Greek word "the" occurs most frequently in the passage: exactly 56 times, or 7 x 8. Also, the number of different forms in which the article "the" occurs is exactly 7.
There are two main sections in the passage: verse 1-11, and 12-17. In the first main section, the number of Greek vocabulary words used is 49, or 7 x 7.
Why not 48, or 50?
Of these 49 words, the number of those beginning with a vowel is 28, or 7 x 4. The number of words beginning with a consonant is 21, or 7 x 3.
The total numbers of letters in these 49 words is 266, or 7 x 38-- exactly! The number of vowels among these 266 letters is 140, or 7 x 20. The number of consonants is 126, or 7 x 18--exactly.
Of the 49 words, the number of words which occur more than once is 35, or 7 x 5. The number of words occurring only once is 14, or 7 x 2. The number of words which occur in only one form is exactly 42, or 7 x 6. The number of words appearing in more than one form is also 7.
The number of the 49 Greek vocabulary words which are nouns is 42, or 7 x 6. The number of words which are not nouns is 7. Of the nouns, 35 are proper names, or exactly 7 x 5. These 35 names are used 63 times, or 7 x 9. The number of male names is exactly 28, or 7 x 4. These male names occur 56 times or 7 x 8. The number which are not male names is 7.
Three women are mentioned-- Tamar, Rahab, and Ruth. The number of Greek letters in these three names is 14, 7 x 2.
The number of compound nouns is 7. The number of Greek letters in these 7 nouns is 49, or 7 x 7.
Only one city is named in this passage, Babylon, which in Greek contains exactly 7 letters.
And on it goes. To get an indication of just how unique these properties are, try the example in the inset.
Gametria
There are even more features in the numerical structure of the words themselves. As you may know, both Hebrew and Greek uses the letters of the alphabet for numerical values. Therefore, any specific word--in either Hebrew or Greek--has a numerical value of its own by adding up the values of the letters in that particular word. The study of the numerical values of words is called gametria.
The 72 vocabulary words add up to a gametrical value of 42,364, or 7 x 6,052. Exactly. If one Greek letter was changed, this would not happen.
The 72 words appear in 90 forms--some appear in more than one form. The numeric value of the 90 forms is 54,075, or 7 x 7,725. Exactly.
We will defer other examples of gametrical properties of the Biblical text for subsequent articles, but it becomes immediately obvious that hidden below the surface are aspects of design that cannot be accidental or just coincidence. Remember, the rabbis say that "coincidence" is not a kosher word!
Other Implications
There are words in the passage just described that occur nowhere else in the New Testament. They occur 42 times (7 x 6) and have 126 letters (7 x 18). How was this organized?
Even if Matthew contrived this characteristic into his Gospel, how could he have known that these specific words--whose sole characteristic is that they are found nowhere else in the New Testament--were not going to be used by the other writers? Unless we assume the absurd hypothesis that he had an agreement with them, he must have had the rest of the New Testament before him when he wrote his book. The Gospel of Matthew, then, must have been written last.
It so happens, however, that the Gospel of Mark exhibits the same phenomenon. It can be demonstrated that it would have had to be written "last." The same phenomenon is found in Luke. And in John, James, Peter, Jude and Paul. Each would have had to write after the other in order to contrive the vocabulary frequencies! You can demonstrate that each of the New Testament books had to have been "written last."
There is no human explanation for this incredible and precise structure. It has all been supernaturally designed. We simply gasp, sit back, and behold the skillful handiwork of the God who keeps His promises.
And we are indebted to the painstaking examinations and lifetime commitment of Dr. Ivan Panin for uncovering these amazing insights.
Isn't God--and His remarkable Word--fun?
Notes:
1. McCormack, R., "The Heptadic Structure of Scripture," Marshall Brothers Ltd., London, 1923; E.W. Bullinger, Numbers of the Scriptures; F.W. Grant, The Numerical Bible (7 vols.); Browne, Ordo Saeculoreium, et al.
2. Ivan Panin (various works), "Bible Numerics," P.O. Box 206, Waubaushene, Ontario, L0K 2C0.
II. PROOF THAT GOD INSPIRED THE BIBLE
THE CREATION VERSE (Genesis 1:1)
The numeric features in this section are from Ivan Panin's book, "The Inspiration of the Hebrew Scriptures Scientifically Demonstrated," published by The Book Society of Canada Ltd., Agincourt, Ontario.
Ivan Panin's study of Genesis 1:1 remains one of the landmark studies in Bible Numerics. Here he used the value of the letters along with the "place values" of those letters. The chart of place values is directly below.
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The letters 11, 13, 14, 17, and 18 change in appearance when they are at the end of a word.
Both appearances have the same placement value.
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Genesis 1:1 (Hebrew is read from right to left)
Substituting the place values for the 28 letters (this portion is from left to right for convenience:
2-20-1-21-10-22 2-20-1 1-12-5-10-13 1-22 5-21-13-10-13 6-1-22 5-1-20-18
in beginning he created God *** the heaven and the earth
Features In The Whole Verse
The entire verse has 7 words.
There are 28 letters (7 x 4).
The three leading nouns in the verse (God, heaven, earth) have a numeric value of 777.
Their place value sum is 147 (7 x 7 x 3).
Features In The First Part
The sum of the first 3 words forming a complete sentence has 14 (7 x 2) place values (in red). Their sum is 140 (7 x 5 x 4) .
Of these 14 letters, eight are even (2, 20, 10, 22, 2, 20, 12, 10). Their sum is 98 (7 x 7 x 2).
This leaves the sum of the odd place values at 42 (140 - 98 = 42). 42 = 7 x 6
Three letters are wholly or partially silent (1, 5, 10). They appear in the first 14 letters: 1 10 1 1 5 10. The sum of these numbers is 28 (7 x 4).
If the first 14 place values are multiplied by the position in which they appear:
2 x 1 = 2 (a)(b)
20 x 2 = 40
1 x 3 = 3 (a)(b)
21 x 4 = 84
10 x 5 = 50
22 x 6 = 132
2 x 7 = 14 (b)
20 x 8 = 160
1 x 9 = 9 (a)(b)
1 x 10 = 10 (b)
12 x 11 = 132
5 x 12 = 60 (b)
10 x 13 = 130
13 x 14 = 182
1008 = 7 x 3 x 3 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2
There are 7 factors, and the sum of these factors is 21 (7 x 3).
(a) marks the products less than 10: 2, 3, and 9. The sum is 14 (7 x 2).
(b) marks products produced by place values less than 10: 2, 3, 14, 9, 10, 60. The sum is 98 (7 x 7 x 2).
The sum of the products produced by place values greater or equal to 10 is: 910 (1008 -910).
The units of the products alone: 2, 0, 3, 4, 0, 2, 4, 0, 9, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2. The sum is 28 (7 x 4).
This is only a portion of Ivan Panin's Genesis 1:1 study. There are many other elaborate constructions. Creation is an intricate process.
Most people will now ask, "What about the last half of the verse? What features are there?" Now if the last half had features similar in quality and quantity as the first half, then logically the second portion must be as important as the first. It should even be able to stand on its own. A quick check of the grammar shows this is not so. The last part lists what God made. This is not as important as God creating it!
Since the last part cannot stand on its own, it should not have as many features as the beginning. The first part gives us the most important concept: God creates. The second part changes the first part into a different statement. Taken together, the verse tells us God created everything. In fact, the whole verse must be used to find other numeric features. And this is exactly what Ivan Panin demonstrates with the rest of his study on Genesis 1:1.
For a deeper look into the Genesis verse, please read Ivan Panin's book, "The Inspiration of the Hebrew Scriptures Scientifically Demonstrated."
IS GOD A MATHEMATICIAN?
By Keith Newman.
The authenticity of the Holy Bible has been attacked at regular intervals by atheists and theologians alike but none have explained away the mathematical seal beneath its surface.
It would seem the divine hand has moved to prevent counterfeiting in the pages of the Bible in a similar manner to the line that runs through paper money. Bible numerics appears to be God's watermark of authenticity.
Vital research on this numeric seal was completed by a native of the world's most renowned atheistic nation, Russia. Dr Ivan Panin was born in Russia on Dec 12, 1855. As a young man he was an active nihilist and participated in plots against the Czar and his government. He was a mathematical genius who died a Harvard scholar and a citizen of the United States in 1942.
Panin was exiled from Russia. After spending a number of years studying in Germany he went to the United States where he became an outstanding lecturer on literary criticism.
Panin was known as a firm agnostic - so well known that when he discarded his agnosticism and accepted the Christian faith, the newspapers carried headlines telling of his conversion.
It was in 1890 that Dr Panin made the discovery of the mathematical structure underlining the vocabulary of the Greek New Testament. He was casually reading the first verse of the gospel of John in the Greek: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with the God and the Word was God...".
Dr Panin was curious as to why the Greek word for "the"' preceded the word "God"' in one case and not the other. In examining the text he became aware of a number relationship. This was the first of the discoveries that led to his conversion and uncovered the extensive numeric code.
Oldest manuscripts
Dr Panin found his proof in the some of the oldest and most accurate manuscripts - the Received Hebrew Text and the Westcott and Hort Text.
In the original languages of the Bible, mostly Hebrew and Greek, there are no separate symbols for numbers, letters of the alphabet are also used to indicate numbers.
The numeric value of a word is the sum total of all its letters. It was curiosity that first caused Dr Panin to begin toying with the numbers behind the texts. Sequences and patterns began to emerge. These created such a stirring in the heart of the Russian that he dedicated 50 years of his life to painstakingly comb the pages of the Bible.
This complex system of numbering visibly and invisibly saturates every book of the scriptures emphasizing certain passages and illustrating deeper or further meaning in types and shadows. The 66 books of the Bible 39 in the Old and 27 in the New were written by 33 different people.
Those authors were scattered throughout various countries of the world and from widely different backgrounds. Many of them had little or no schooling. The whole Bible was written over a period of 1500 years with a 400 year silence apart from the Apocrypha between the two testaments. Despite the handicaps the biblical books are found to be a harmonious record, each in accord with the other.
Dr Panin says the laws of probability are exceeded into the billions when we try and rationalize the authorship of the Bible as the work of man. He once said: "If human logic is worth anything at all we are simply driven to the conclusion that if my facts I have presented are true, man could never have done this.
Inspiration from on high
"We must assume that a Power higher than man guided the writers in such a way, whether they knew it or not, they did it and the Great God inspired them to do it''.
The Bible itself states clearly that it is the literal God-breathed'' living word of the Creator. The words "Thus saith the Lord"' and "God said"' occur more than 2500 times throughout scripture.
In 2 Timothy 3:16 it states "All scripture is given by inspiration of God". Then in 2 Peter 9:20-21 it plainly states: "No prophecy of the scriptures is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost".
Let's take the number seven as an illustration of the way the patterns work. Seven is the most prolific of the mathematical series which binds scripture together. The very first verse of the Bible "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen 1:1), contains over 30 different combinations of seven.
This verse has seven Hebrew words having a total of 28 letters 4 x 7. The numeric value of the three nouns "God", "heaven" and "earth" totals 777. Any number in triplicate expresses complete, ultimate or total meaning.
Also tightly sealed up with sevens are the genealogy of Jesus, the account of the virgin birth and the resurrection. Seven occurs as a number 187 times in the Bible (41 x 7), the phrase "seven-fold" occurs seven times and "seventy" occurs 56 times (7 x 8).
In the Book of Revelation seven positively shines out: there are seven golden candlesticks, seven letters to seven churches, a book sealed with seven seals, seven angels standing before the Lord with seven trumpets, seven thunders and seven last plagues. In fact there are over 50 occurrences of the number seven in Revelation alone.
Divisible by seven
There are 21 Old Testament writers whose names appear in the Bible (3 x 7). The numeric value of their names is divisible by seven. Of these 21, seven are named in the New Testament: Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea and Joel. The numeric values of these names is 1554 (222 x 7). David's name is found 1134 times (162 x 7).
God's seal also pervades creation as though it were woven into the very fabric of nature.
The Bible has declared man's years to be three score and ten (70). The development of the human embryo is in exact periods of sevens or 28 days (4 x 7). Medical science tells us the human body is renewed cell for cell every seven years.
We're told the pulse beats slower every seven days as if it were in accord with the seventh day of rest proclaimed in the Genesis creation week. And God formed man of the dust of the ground (Gen 2:7); science confirms the human body is made of the same 14 elements (2 x 7) found in your average handful of dust.
The light of the sun is made up of seven distinct colors as shown in the rainbow. In music there are seven distinct notes which climax in a chord or octave at the beginning of a new seven.
In almost all animals the incubation or pregnancy period is divisible by seven. Seven is often referred to as "God's seal" or the number of spiritual perfection.
Number of resurrection
Eight is the number of new life or "resurrection". It is the personal number of Jesus. When we add together the letter values of the name Jesus in the Greek we get 888. Jesus was called The Christ, the numeric value of this title is 1480 (185 x 8). He was Savior which has the value 1408 (2 x 8 x 88).
Jesus is also Lord which again is a multiple of eight being 800 (100 x 8). Messiah has the numeric value 656 (82 x8). Jesus also called himself the Son of man. The term occurs 88 times and is valued at 2960 (370 x 8).
Jesus said "I am the truth": the numeric value of "the truth" is 64 (8 x 8). The last book in the Bible is the Revelation of Jesus Christ which has exactly 888 Greek words. Eight persons were saved in the Ark at the great Nomadic flood. God made a covenant with Abraham that every male Jewish child was to be circumcised on the eighth day of his life.
There are eight individual cases of resurrection spoken of in the Bible apart from Jesus. Three occur in the Old Testament, three in the gospels and two in Acts. It was on the eighth day or the first day of the new week that Jesus rose from the dead. The Holy Spirit also came down from heaven on the eighth day.
Nine is finality or completion. The first example of its use is that infinitely sealed first verse of the Bible: "In the beginning God'' which in Hebrew is: Brayshith Elohim which has the numeric value of 999. The very next statement "created the heaven" is also sealed with 999.
Nine is finality
The number nine is endowed with a peculiar quality, it is finality in itself. Not only is it the final single number, but if you multiply it by any other number, the addition of the resulting figures will always revert back to nine (2 x 9 = 18 / 1 + 8 = 9 etc).
There are nine basic gifts available to the Christian believer through the power of God's Holy Spirit (1 Cor 12:8-10). There are nine basic fruits which should be evident in the life of the believer (Gal 5:22-23). The words "my wrath" have the numeric value 999. The word Amen or verily is valued at 99 and occurs 99 times.
The work on the cross was completed at the ninth hour when Jesus said "It is finished". The shedding of his blood was final. It saw an end to the old system of animal sacrifice to atone for sin. The word "blood" in this sense occurs 99 times.
Great superstition has always surrounded the number 13 as being unlucky or dark. Perhaps there is good reason. One of the most convincing proofs of the origins of this number can be found by unraveling all the names by which Satan is known. Drakon or dragon has a value of 975 (13 x 75) and it occurs 13 times. Peirazon or tempter has a value of 1053 (13 x 81). Belial which is personification of evil has a value of 78 (13 x 6).
Anthropoktonos or "murderer" has a value of 1820 (13 x 40). Ophis or "serpent" is 780 (13 x 60). The phrase used by the Holy Spirit Ho kaloumenos diablos kai ho Satanas or "called the Devil and Satan" is valued 2197 (13 x 13 x 13).
Small neat calculations
This article is in truth an oversimplification of the work of Dr Panin and others who followed in his footsteps. Dr Panin's work initially involved some 40,000 pages of material on which he had written millions of small neat calculations. It involved volumes.
He often labored up to 18 hours a day exploring the vast numeric structure. By and large it was a thankless task. Dr Panin said "When I first made the discovery I was of course, taken off my feet - I was in the same condition as our friend Archimedes who when he solved a great mathematical problem while in the bath, rushed in to the street naked, crying 'I have found it'. I thought people would be delighted to embrace the new discovery, but I found human nature is always the same. So I quietly withdrew and did my work all by myself".
Although it would appear that his work has been largely lost from popular reading today Dr Panin did accomplish several outstanding works. He published Structure in the Bible the Numeric Greek New Testament and the Numeric English New Testament.
The works of Dr Ivan Panin have been put before the experts many times. Dr Panin once challenged nine noted rationalists and Bible critics through the medium of the New York Sun newspaper Nov 9, 1899. He dared them to publicly refute or give explanation for a few of his presented facts. Four made lame excuses. The rest were silent.
Dr Panin issued a challenge throughout leading newspapers of the world asking for a natural explanation or rebuttal of the facts. Not a single person accepted.
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He was to devote over 50 years of his life painstakingly exploring the numerical structure of the Scriptures, generating over 43,000 detailed, hand-penned pages of analysis (and exhausting his health in the process). He went on to be with the Lord in his 87th year, on October 30, 1942.
The Heptadic Structure
The recurrence of the number seven--or an exact multiple of seven--is found throughout the Bible and is widely recognized. The Sabbath on the seventh day; the seven years of plenty and the seven years of famine in Egypt; the seven priests and seven trumpets marching around Jericho; the Sabbath Year of the land are well-known examples.
Also, Solomon's building the Temple for seven years, Naaman's washing in the river seven times, and the seven churches, seven lamp stands, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven bowls, seven stars, and so on in the Book of Revelation, all show the consistent use of the number seven.
But there turns out to be much more below the surface. Ivan Panin noted the amazing numerical properties of the Biblical texts--both the Greek of the New Testament and the Hebrew of the Old Testament. These are not only intriguing to discover, they also demonstrate an intricacy of design which testifies to a supernatural origin!
Vocabulary
One of the simplest--and most provocative--aspects of the Biblical text is the vocabulary used. The number of vocabulary words in a passage is normally different from the total number of words in a passage. Some words are repeated. It is easy, for example, to use a vocabulary of 500 words to write an essay of 4,000 words.
An Example
The first 17 verses of the Gospel of Matthew are a logical unit, or section, which deals with a single principal subject: the genealogy of Christ. It contains 72 Greek vocabulary words in these initial 17 verses. (The verse divisions are man's allocations for convenience, added in the 13th century.)
The number of words which are nouns is exactly 56, or 7 x 8.
The Greek word "the" occurs most frequently in the passage: exactly 56 times, or 7 x 8. Also, the number of different forms in which the article "the" occurs is exactly 7.
There are two main sections in the passage: verse 1-11, and 12-17. In the first main section, the number of Greek vocabulary words used is 49, or 7 x 7.
Why not 48, or 50?
Of these 49 words, the number of those beginning with a vowel is 28, or 7 x 4. The number of words beginning with a consonant is 21, or 7 x 3.
The total numbers of letters in these 49 words is 266, or 7 x 38-- exactly! The number of vowels among these 266 letters is 140, or 7 x 20. The number of consonants is 126, or 7 x 18--exactly.
Of the 49 words, the number of words which occur more than once is 35, or 7 x 5. The number of words occurring only once is 14, or 7 x 2. The number of words which occur in only one form is exactly 42, or 7 x 6. The number of words appearing in more than one form is also 7.
The number of the 49 Greek vocabulary words which are nouns is 42, or 7 x 6. The number of words which are not nouns is 7. Of the nouns, 35 are proper names, or exactly 7 x 5. These 35 names are used 63 times, or 7 x 9. The number of male names is exactly 28, or 7 x 4. These male names occur 56 times or 7 x 8. The number which are not male names is 7.
Three women are mentioned-- Tamar, Rahab, and Ruth. The number of Greek letters in these three names is 14, 7 x 2.
The number of compound nouns is 7. The number of Greek letters in these 7 nouns is 49, or 7 x 7.
Only one city is named in this passage, Babylon, which in Greek contains exactly 7 letters.
And on it goes. To get an indication of just how unique these properties are, try the example in the inset.
Gametria
There are even more features in the numerical structure of the words themselves. As you may know, both Hebrew and Greek uses the letters of the alphabet for numerical values. Therefore, any specific word--in either Hebrew or Greek--has a numerical value of its own by adding up the values of the letters in that particular word. The study of the numerical values of words is called gametria.
The 72 vocabulary words add up to a gametrical value of 42,364, or 7 x 6,052. Exactly. If one Greek letter was changed, this would not happen.
The 72 words appear in 90 forms--some appear in more than one form. The numeric value of the 90 forms is 54,075, or 7 x 7,725. Exactly.
We will defer other examples of gametrical properties of the Biblical text for subsequent articles, but it becomes immediately obvious that hidden below the surface are aspects of design that cannot be accidental or just coincidence. Remember, the rabbis say that "coincidence" is not a kosher word!
Other Implications
There are words in the passage just described that occur nowhere else in the New Testament. They occur 42 times (7 x 6) and have 126 letters (7 x 18). How was this organized?
Even if Matthew contrived this characteristic into his Gospel, how could he have known that these specific words--whose sole characteristic is that they are found nowhere else in the New Testament--were not going to be used by the other writers? Unless we assume the absurd hypothesis that he had an agreement with them, he must have had the rest of the New Testament before him when he wrote his book. The Gospel of Matthew, then, must have been written last.
It so happens, however, that the Gospel of Mark exhibits the same phenomenon. It can be demonstrated that it would have had to be written "last." The same phenomenon is found in Luke. And in John, James, Peter, Jude and Paul. Each would have had to write after the other in order to contrive the vocabulary frequencies! You can demonstrate that each of the New Testament books had to have been "written last."
There is no human explanation for this incredible and precise structure. It has all been supernaturally designed. We simply gasp, sit back, and behold the skillful handiwork of the God who keeps His promises.
And we are indebted to the painstaking examinations and lifetime commitment of Dr. Ivan Panin for uncovering these amazing insights.
Isn't God--and His remarkable Word--fun?
Notes:
1. McCormack, R., "The Heptadic Structure of Scripture," Marshall Brothers Ltd., London, 1923; E.W. Bullinger, Numbers of the Scriptures; F.W. Grant, The Numerical Bible (7 vols.); Browne, Ordo Saeculoreium, et al.
2. Ivan Panin (various works), "Bible Numerics," P.O. Box 206, Waubaushene, Ontario, L0K 2C0.
II. PROOF THAT GOD INSPIRED THE BIBLE
THE CREATION VERSE (Genesis 1:1)
The numeric features in this section are from Ivan Panin's book, "The Inspiration of the Hebrew Scriptures Scientifically Demonstrated," published by The Book Society of Canada Ltd., Agincourt, Ontario.
Ivan Panin's study of Genesis 1:1 remains one of the landmark studies in Bible Numerics. Here he used the value of the letters along with the "place values" of those letters. The chart of place values is directly below.
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The letters 11, 13, 14, 17, and 18 change in appearance when they are at the end of a word.
Both appearances have the same placement value.
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Genesis 1:1 (Hebrew is read from right to left)
Substituting the place values for the 28 letters (this portion is from left to right for convenience:
2-20-1-21-10-22 2-20-1 1-12-5-10-13 1-22 5-21-13-10-13 6-1-22 5-1-20-18
in beginning he created God *** the heaven and the earth
Features In The Whole Verse
The entire verse has 7 words.
There are 28 letters (7 x 4).
The three leading nouns in the verse (God, heaven, earth) have a numeric value of 777.
Their place value sum is 147 (7 x 7 x 3).
Features In The First Part
The sum of the first 3 words forming a complete sentence has 14 (7 x 2) place values (in red). Their sum is 140 (7 x 5 x 4) .
Of these 14 letters, eight are even (2, 20, 10, 22, 2, 20, 12, 10). Their sum is 98 (7 x 7 x 2).
This leaves the sum of the odd place values at 42 (140 - 98 = 42). 42 = 7 x 6
Three letters are wholly or partially silent (1, 5, 10). They appear in the first 14 letters: 1 10 1 1 5 10. The sum of these numbers is 28 (7 x 4).
If the first 14 place values are multiplied by the position in which they appear:
2 x 1 = 2 (a)(b)
20 x 2 = 40
1 x 3 = 3 (a)(b)
21 x 4 = 84
10 x 5 = 50
22 x 6 = 132
2 x 7 = 14 (b)
20 x 8 = 160
1 x 9 = 9 (a)(b)
1 x 10 = 10 (b)
12 x 11 = 132
5 x 12 = 60 (b)
10 x 13 = 130
13 x 14 = 182
1008 = 7 x 3 x 3 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2
There are 7 factors, and the sum of these factors is 21 (7 x 3).
(a) marks the products less than 10: 2, 3, and 9. The sum is 14 (7 x 2).
(b) marks products produced by place values less than 10: 2, 3, 14, 9, 10, 60. The sum is 98 (7 x 7 x 2).
The sum of the products produced by place values greater or equal to 10 is: 910 (1008 -910).
The units of the products alone: 2, 0, 3, 4, 0, 2, 4, 0, 9, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2. The sum is 28 (7 x 4).
This is only a portion of Ivan Panin's Genesis 1:1 study. There are many other elaborate constructions. Creation is an intricate process.
Most people will now ask, "What about the last half of the verse? What features are there?" Now if the last half had features similar in quality and quantity as the first half, then logically the second portion must be as important as the first. It should even be able to stand on its own. A quick check of the grammar shows this is not so. The last part lists what God made. This is not as important as God creating it!
Since the last part cannot stand on its own, it should not have as many features as the beginning. The first part gives us the most important concept: God creates. The second part changes the first part into a different statement. Taken together, the verse tells us God created everything. In fact, the whole verse must be used to find other numeric features. And this is exactly what Ivan Panin demonstrates with the rest of his study on Genesis 1:1.
For a deeper look into the Genesis verse, please read Ivan Panin's book, "The Inspiration of the Hebrew Scriptures Scientifically Demonstrated."
Monday, September 22, 2008
Obama fundraising
WHERE DID OBAMAS MONEY COME FROM???????
Subject: New York Times Editorial
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: June 29, 2008
OBAMA'S TROUBLING INTERNET FUND RAISING
Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating phone call I have received during this election cycle came this week from one of the Obama's campaign internet geeks. These are the staffers who devised Obama's internet fund raising campaign which raised in the neighborhood of $200 million so far. That is more then twice the total funds raised by any candidate in history and this was all from the internet campaign.
What I learned from this insider was shocking but I guess we should not be surprised that when it comes to fund raising there simply are no rules that cant be broken and no ethics that prevail. Obama's internet campaign started out innocently enough with basic e-mail networking , lists saved from previous party campaigns and from supporters who visited any of the Obama campaign web sites.
Small contributions came in from these sources and the internet campaign staff were more than pleased by the results.
Then, about two months into the campaign the daily contribution intake multiplied. Where was it coming from? One of the web site security monitors began to notice the bulk of the contributions were clearly coming in from overseas internet service providers and at the rate and frequency of transmission it was clear these donations were programmed by a very sophisticated user.
While the security people were not able to track most of the sources due to firewalls and other blocking devices put on these contributions they were able to collate the number of contributions that were coming in seemingly from individuals but the funds were from only a few credit card accounts and bank electronic funds transfers. The internet service providers (ISP) they were able to trace were from Saudi Arabia , Iran , and other Middle Eastern countries. One of the banks used for fund transfers was also located in Saudi Arabia .
Another concentrated group of donations was traced to a Chinese ISP with a similar pattern of limited credit card charges.
It became clear that these donations were very likely coming from sources other than American voters. This was discussed at length within the campaign and the decision was made that none of these donations violated campaign financing laws.
It was also decided that it was not the responsibility of the campaign to audit these millions of contributions as to the actual source (specific credit card number or bank transfer account numbers) to insure that none of these internet contributors exceeded the legal maximum donation on a cumulative basis of many small donations. They also found the record keeping was not complete enough to do it anyway.
This is a shocking revelation.
We have been concerned about the legality of bundling contributions after the recent exposure of illegal bundlers but now it appears we may have an even greater problem.
I guess we should have been somewhat suspicious when the numbers started to come out. We were told (no proof offered) that the Obama internet contributions were from $10.00 to $25.00 or so.
If the $200,000,000 is right, and the average contribution was $15.00, that would mean over 13 million individuals made contributions? That would also be 13 million contributions would need to be processed. How did all that happen?
I believe the Obama campaign internet fund raising needs a serious, in depth investigation and audit. It also appears the whole question of internet fund raising needs investigation by the legislature and perhaps new laws to insure it complies not only with the letter of these laws but the spirit as well.
Subject: New York Times Editorial
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: June 29, 2008
OBAMA'S TROUBLING INTERNET FUND RAISING
Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating phone call I have received during this election cycle came this week from one of the Obama's campaign internet geeks. These are the staffers who devised Obama's internet fund raising campaign which raised in the neighborhood of $200 million so far. That is more then twice the total funds raised by any candidate in history and this was all from the internet campaign.
What I learned from this insider was shocking but I guess we should not be surprised that when it comes to fund raising there simply are no rules that cant be broken and no ethics that prevail. Obama's internet campaign started out innocently enough with basic e-mail networking , lists saved from previous party campaigns and from supporters who visited any of the Obama campaign web sites.
Small contributions came in from these sources and the internet campaign staff were more than pleased by the results.
Then, about two months into the campaign the daily contribution intake multiplied. Where was it coming from? One of the web site security monitors began to notice the bulk of the contributions were clearly coming in from overseas internet service providers and at the rate and frequency of transmission it was clear these donations were programmed by a very sophisticated user.
While the security people were not able to track most of the sources due to firewalls and other blocking devices put on these contributions they were able to collate the number of contributions that were coming in seemingly from individuals but the funds were from only a few credit card accounts and bank electronic funds transfers. The internet service providers (ISP) they were able to trace were from Saudi Arabia , Iran , and other Middle Eastern countries. One of the banks used for fund transfers was also located in Saudi Arabia .
Another concentrated group of donations was traced to a Chinese ISP with a similar pattern of limited credit card charges.
It became clear that these donations were very likely coming from sources other than American voters. This was discussed at length within the campaign and the decision was made that none of these donations violated campaign financing laws.
It was also decided that it was not the responsibility of the campaign to audit these millions of contributions as to the actual source (specific credit card number or bank transfer account numbers) to insure that none of these internet contributors exceeded the legal maximum donation on a cumulative basis of many small donations. They also found the record keeping was not complete enough to do it anyway.
This is a shocking revelation.
We have been concerned about the legality of bundling contributions after the recent exposure of illegal bundlers but now it appears we may have an even greater problem.
I guess we should have been somewhat suspicious when the numbers started to come out. We were told (no proof offered) that the Obama internet contributions were from $10.00 to $25.00 or so.
If the $200,000,000 is right, and the average contribution was $15.00, that would mean over 13 million individuals made contributions? That would also be 13 million contributions would need to be processed. How did all that happen?
I believe the Obama campaign internet fund raising needs a serious, in depth investigation and audit. It also appears the whole question of internet fund raising needs investigation by the legislature and perhaps new laws to insure it complies not only with the letter of these laws but the spirit as well.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Unique Idea for Disposals
Even though I don't have a garbage disposal under our sink anymore, I get stuff on "green development." Green development is when we use sustainable practices in building a community or maintaining a home. I hope to publish ideas from this on my blog. Here's a start:
Garbage Disposal
If you use the garbage disposal, use cold water - which is energy efficient - to help speed up the process. Cold water will help solidify grease and oils, making the disposal work more efficiently. And remember: To keep the disposal clean and fresh, run ice and lemons through it. The ice will help sharpen the blades and the lemon eliminates odors.
--From "Do Just One Thing" - by Eco-Expert Danny Seo
This group also has a blog:
OSC is joining the blog world of online conversations and we encourage you to join in. Give us your feedback, ideas and steps you've taken toward sustainability in your own life.
http://icosc.blogspot.com
Take a look at the updates on the demo home section of our website as well.
www.icosc.com
Garbage Disposal
If you use the garbage disposal, use cold water - which is energy efficient - to help speed up the process. Cold water will help solidify grease and oils, making the disposal work more efficiently. And remember: To keep the disposal clean and fresh, run ice and lemons through it. The ice will help sharpen the blades and the lemon eliminates odors.
--From "Do Just One Thing" - by Eco-Expert Danny Seo
This group also has a blog:
OSC is joining the blog world of online conversations and we encourage you to join in. Give us your feedback, ideas and steps you've taken toward sustainability in your own life.
http://icosc.blogspot.com
Take a look at the updates on the demo home section of our website as well.
www.icosc.com
Monday, September 8, 2008
Check out these You-Tube sites
The following link should be something you check out. I learned about this today and think you may want to look. Check out Obama's plan for the military from his own mouth and a montage on Oprah's church. Scary.
http://macsmind.com/wordpress/2008/02/27/obama-plans-to-disarm-america/
http://macsmind.com/wordpress/2008/02/27/obama-plans-to-disarm-america/
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Mark Martin full time in 09
Yepper, get those cans of Coke out and enjoy some racin' action next year. My guy Mark Martin will be back to drive in the 5 car for Hendrick Motorsports. One last try to win a championship. For this year, let's cheer for Carl Edwards to beat Kyle Busch and win the championship by 200 points after winning the last 5 races. He's second behind Kyle now in the point standings. As Ethan would say, "Dar, Dar," for "car."
Thursday, August 21, 2008
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