Splinters of Silver Scripture declares that the Words of God are pure, as silver tried in a furnace [Psalm 12:6], that God proves us as silver is tried [Psalm 66:10], and refines us as silver is [Zechariah 13:8-9]. I pray through this blog, not my words but, through the reading of the scriptures, through the presentation of thoughts and of comments, splinters of silver may prick and stay with us throughout our lives. Statistics Unique Visitors: Total Unique Visitors: Outgoing: Total Outgoing: 9 1147 145 7464

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Will Be In Mexico July 6 thru July 14 2007-07-05 08:55:00 Dear readers,I will be out of the country in Mexico from July 6 thru July 14, therefore I will not be able to have any updated posts, or review and moderate comments until I return.Whether you simply enjoy my posts, agree or disagree, or just like to argue, I hope you will all return back after the 15th of July.Tim ...

Prove This Is a Picture of Jesus 2007-07-05 08:53:00 We have another song and dance around the words of Jefferson’s letter including his famous quote, “separation between Church & State”.Fox News reports, as others, that “A painting of Christ, with a sign reading "To know peace, obey these laws," has no place in Slidell City Court, the Louisiana American Civil Liberties Union says.”Can anyone prove that this is actually a picture of Jesus? How can a picture of a man (some claim as an artist's likeness to Jesus) in anyway violate the actual Constitution, Bill of Rights, Amendment I, wording, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”?To what I have seen, it is a picture of a man holding a book (not even in English) with words (apparently below I cannot see) that read, "To Know Peace, Obey These Laws".This picture does not establish a religion, nor does it even convey the outlandish idea that, "As an admonition hanging in a court of law, it clearly gives ...

Staged Hate Crimes & Crimes of Their Own 2007-07-03 13:22:00 We are told over and over again that homosexuals are just “consensual adults” that don’t try to convert anyone and “just want to be accepted just as every heterosexual”.I do not want to stereotype every single homosexual person into the following, but it must be noted that indeed neither are all homosexuals or the homosexual movement even remotely just a “friendly tolerant people filled with love for all that only wishes for equal rights to everyone”.In fact we find the following issues also within homosexuals:1. Homosexuals who commit faked hate crimes often admit to police that they did it either for attention or to express anger over the slowness of social "reform." In either case, the initial publicity creates the impression of an urgent need for the public to do something.This manipulative method is described in After the Ball, a 1989 book by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, two public relations experts who taught homosexual activists how to achieve societal desensit ... Amp

Treaty of Tripoli: Article 11 2007-07-03 08:39:00 I recently read an article entitled, “America is NOT a Christian Nation”, whereby the author quotes John Adams as they put it, “He didn't seem content just to point out problems with theism but attacked Christianity itself”:“As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?--John Adams, letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, 1816”I returned the favor with another quote of John Adams:“The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity…I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and the attributes of God.” [June 28, 1813; Letter to Thomas Jefferson]Interestingly a commenter suggested that they were less worried about the le ...

Homosexual Indoctrination: The Three Fold Secret Ops 2007-07-02 11:48:00 For more than 20 years, I and a few of my colleagues in the field of psychoanalysis have felt like an embattled minority, because we have continued to insist, against today's conventional wisdom, that gays aren't born that way. - Charles W. Socarides, M.D.“These activists got the media and the money to radicalize America-by processes known as desensitization, jamming and conversion.”“They would desensitize the public by selling the notion that gays were "just like everyone else." This would make the engine of prejudice run out of steam, i.e., lull straights into an attitude of indifference.”“They would jam the public by shaming them into a kind of guilt at their own "bigotry."”“Finally-this was the process they called conversion-Kirk and Madsen predicted a mass public change of heart would follow, even among bigots, "if we can actually make them like us." They wrote, "Conversion aims at just this...conversion of the average American's emotions, mind, and will, through ...

Prepare, Seek, Do, Teach 2007-07-02 07:00:00 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments. [Ezra 7:10]1] Prepare our heart.Our heart can deceive us. Before we can come to the Word of God we must prepare our hearts to be moved and spoken to by the Holy Spirit for the Bible is a spiritual Book and cannot be understood in the flesh. We must repent of sin, pray for understanding, have faith that God’s Word is true, and obey that which we already know to be right.2] Seek the teachings of the LORD.When our heart is right with God we can open His Word in prayer and allow the Holy Spirit to guide us unto understanding the things of God. When we trust God’s Word to be truth and obey that which we already know to be right, the Spirit will grant us wisdom into further knowledge of the things of God. When we are given new or greater meaning into the Scriptures we must be willing to accept them as the Word of God.3] Do what God has shown us.If we love God and seek ...

Experimental Mind Control 2007-06-28 12:44:00 "Experiments in influencing human behaviour through the administration of mind- or personality-altering drugs to unwitting subjects."Tell me it isn’t so, CIA. [“Family Jewels”, Not PDF number, but actual page 425 of report]Hmmm…Is Project MKULTRA real or do they only want us to think it is?[2 Thessalonians 2]I don’t know, you tell me. ...

Rethinking Evolution 2007-06-28 10:23:00 Is Darwin due for an upgrade?Is this to try and plug the holes in the theory?I can’t help but wonder. ...

Unnecessary Blasphemy 2007-06-26 08:41:00 Scripture declares:Ezekiel 3:18, When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.For this reason, do to the recent boast of using the name of God and Jesus Christ in vain on my blog, which I have not allowed to be posted, I have decided to post this warning to both the believer and non-believer.The commandments of God are very clear in that one is, “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”In the Old Testament law of Leviticus, “he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him”.Today there is physical grace and mercy whereby a blasphemer is not put to death, and I am in no way saying that we should put into law that all b ...

Racist Names In Science 2007-06-25 14:20:00 I saw this information in a blog I visit and couldn’t help but share it.“The International Space Nomenclature Council today adopted the term 'emplacements de hauts gravité super' - or 'super high gravity locations' - as the official replacement name for black holes.”You ask, why the name change?“Originally named in reference to the fact that light cannot escape their intense gravity, the term 'black hole' was increasingly criticized as being insensitive to African-Americans and African-Europeans.”“"We're glad the council finally took action on this issue." said Isaiah Herman, Chairman of the National African-American Coalition of People. "The unimaginable destructive power of these super high gravity locations was giving the word 'black' a negative connotation throughout the universe."”I doubt seriously that John Archibald Wheeler coined the term “black hole” with any racial meaning, so why must we today in 2007 still be looking for racial slang in what appe ...

Carbon-14 Dating 2007-06-23 22:27:00 BEAST said...My question here: Do you actually understand the concept behind carbon dating? If you don't, tell me and I will dedicate one post just for your poor grasp of science. My advice to you: Don't make yourself stupid by writing what you do not understand. Picking up Christian websites to debunk evolution is simply ludicrous.Beast,Since I don't know much, I would be most interested in your post of Carbon Dating. While you compose your post, could you take into account the following assumptions?First, for carbon-14 dating to be accurate, one must assume the rate of decay of carbon-14 has remained constant over the years.The second faulty assumption is that the rate of carbon-14 formation has remained constant over the years.Third, for carbon-14 dating to be accurate, the concentrations of carbon-14 and carbon-12 must have remained constant in the atmosphere.To make carbon-14 dating work, Dr. Libby also assumed that the amount of carbon-14 being presently produced had equaled t ...

Do the Gospels Deserve Our Attention? 2007-06-22 09:36:00 We have another good question from a blogger asking, “The Gospels were written decades after the supposed events they described by individuals who were probably not eyewitnesses given the short life expectancy during that era.”They claim the most common response they receive from Christians is, “If the story is false or embellished as you speculate, why would early Christians die for a story that was obviously untrue?”---I must also ask (the questioner), to establish the premise: By what authority do you conclude your ideas of when and by whom the Gospels were written?---I must admit that I agree with the author in that simply claiming that people becoming martyrs over the belief that something is true does not in and of it self make it true. In example they give the Muslims. Muslims indeed martyr themselves for a belief they hold, which any Christian must confess disagrees with the Word of the True God, I AM. Yet it could be noted that Christians usually become martyrs by the ...

My Personal Corrections or Thoughts toward “Christianity in Four Acts” 2007-06-20 11:55:00 An atheist blogger has done their best so simplify Christianity into what they call “Christianity in Four Acts”. As a Christian, I first ponder why the post at all. Is it to promote Christianity, mock Christianity, or simply to understand Christianity? I will assume they may actually desire to understand Christianity, so below I shall give what I believe should be the corrected “Christianity in Four Acts” whereby I believe they erred in some of their thoughts. Please bear in mind that bringing Christianity to such a simple layer of understanding does not guarantee the full understanding of it, nor the importance of it, nor does it remove questions but actually produces more, which could be considered a good thing. To ponder the things of God is a good start.ACT IGod is indeed all-knowing, all-powerful, and everywhere present, but these are but a few of the attributes of God. God is supernatural and could be considered outside and inside natural time and space. God is the Creato ...

Note: 2007-06-16 23:05:00 Blog set to Moderation while I am out till Wednesday.Will post comments (if any) when I return.Have a good one. ...

What Makes A Calvinist Hyper? 2007-06-16 20:45:00 Hint: It's not red Kool-Aid.When it comes to Calvinism it appears to me that there are sometimes misconceptions from non-Calvinists. The tendency to group all Calvinists into one group or to claim all Calvinists hold certain beliefs which all may not appears to be easily found. Sometimes it is most likely due to a lack of understanding concerning Calvinism, sometimes it may be just a repeat of what one has been taught, and other times could actually just be the spreading of a serious dislike for the theology and/or the people.If you find yourself condemning all Calvinists into one group called Hypers, honestly feel that you misunderstand Calvinism, or simply would like to know the difference between Calvinism and Hyper Calvinism, please consider reading the link below.The topic was brought up on a forum I am a member of and here is a link that was posted:A Primer on Hyper-CalvinismAgree or disagree with the theology labeled as Calvinism, but don’t incorrectly lump all those that cla ...