A sheep in wolf's clothing.
What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?
(Psalms 8:4) NKJV
If the truth about God is self-evident, as we’re told in Romans chapter 1 and which is confirmed by Hypothesis 16, what’s the significance for atheism? Atheism isn’t intellectually viable.
Continue reading “July 19th”
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
( Hebrews 4:14 )
So supposedly I was destroyed by a YouTuber. The funny thing is I don’t feel destroyed. I feel exactly the same as I did before I had even heard of that particular YouTuber. Do you know why? Because I wasn’t destroyed. What happened was that someone disagreed with me and made a video about disagreeing with me.
There is a simple reason why this is not a problem: my work is based upon the Word of God. I started with a simple premise: God cannot lie. If God cannot lie, but the Bible and science appear, at least superficially, to tell completely different stories about the origin of the earth, then science is always wrong. It doesn’t matter how many YouTubers want to go on record as saying the opposite: that science is right and the Bible is wrong. It’s sadly irrelevant. It’s sad because they have taken a stand which puts them in opposition against God, but that’s their problem, not mine.
The passage which I frequently refer to as being a Biblical expression of the truth that God cannot lie is in Paul’s letter to Titus:
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
( Titus 1:1-2 )
It is interesting that this is stated again with even more veracity in Hebrews:
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
( Hebrews 6:18-20 )
Two immutable things?
It is impossible for God to lie, therefore we have hope that the soul will enter into the veil, because Jesus Christ has already entered.
So Titus and Hebrews both tell us that it is impossible for God to lie. It’s interesting that atheists love to spout their superficial propaganda that if God cannot lie then he obviously isn’t omnipotent. What they haven’t grasped is that God had to created a physical system in which lying was possible in order to manifest free will, but he is outside, beyond and not limited by this system.
This gets me a little closer to the issue of the day: lying.
The YouTuber who supposedly destroyed me made a video so long and tedious that I only made it through about 1/3 of it, and that was a struggle. I have been pondering whether or not I owe it to him to watch the whole thing? On one hand, if I don’t watch it then I can’t respond to it point by point, and I won’t know if there is anything substantive in it which may have merit. This also gives him cause to say something along the lines of me being scared and unwilling to face the reality of his intellectual superiority.
The fact is I’m not scared enough to force myself to watch the video, because there’s nothing to be scared of. God cannot lie, it is impossible for God to lie. God had to create a whole creation just to make it possible for US to lie. Therefore the Bible is true and popular science is wrong. So here’s what I decided: The YouTuber who supposedly destroyed me may be the first but he will not be the last. I would imagine that if God allows the social media reach of Matty’s Paradigm to increase they will become fairly frequent. So how do I plan to handle this? Given that nothing any of them can say can change God, His Word, or the truth? I took another quick look at the video to collect some data:
I think I’ll watch any commentary video about me up to the first lie. That’s all.
Today’s image is from here.
Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
(Luke 17:1-2)
I need to make a short departure from the normal progression through the creative work of the sixth day to address something that, at first, I was quite excited about, but then found out that it wasn’t what I was expecting. Someone helpfully let me know that a YouTube video had been posted which, in their words:
Ha, you just got destroyed on YouTube by Martymer 81. Congratulations.
– Gleeful Troll
Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
(Ezekiel 22:26) NKJV
We can use our theory of gravity to make sense of the LGBTQIA+ identity fiasco by using an old Sesame Street song about differences to determine which identities are alive and which are dead.
Continue reading “June 21st”
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
(Job 40:15-24) KJV
Behold now Behemoth. Is there any doubt that this passage is about a Brontosaurus? If it’s merely poetry then the picture it paints for is of a sauropod dinosaur, lumbering around taking it’s time, eating everything in sight. See the full article.
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| Chronological | Psalms 119:89-176 |
having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
(1 Peter 3:16) ESV
As a result of the meticulous way in which we’re building our case for the scientific validity of the Bible, the defense of popular science (SciPop) has crumbled.
Continue reading “It’s Game Over for Atheism”
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
(Romans 8:18-21) KJV
Matty’s Paradigm isn’t what you have to believe to be a Christian, it’s what CAN be believed in the name of Jesus Christ which is in perfect harmony with both the Word of God and science.
Continue reading “May 29th”
Continuing on from the discussion started on March 28th we are looking at supposed examples of God lying.
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John 7:8-10, is only a lie if you omit the word “yet,” from the translation. Many modern Bible translation do indeed omit this word. This is not an example of God lying, but it is a perfect example of why you should be studying the King James Version, and not a version of the Bible which has been based on the use of corrupted texts.
God is not lying in this passage, Jesus is making it very clear that the father of all lies is Satan. Attempting to make the case that this is an example of God lying is saying that Jesus is falsely accusing Satan of lying, but since, technically, Satan would have to be real in order for this to matter then the atheist has once again chosen to believe that the Bible is authoritative in order to make the claim. Why would an atheist accept the Bible as authoritative? This is a level of confusion that the reprobate mind will sink to that is basically depravity. Anything goes, even citing the Bible as authoritative in order to say that the Bible is false.
John 14:11-14, is not an example of God lying, it is a quote of Jesus explaining the Spiritual and physical relationship he has with God the Father. God the Father is an eternal mind who conceived all things; God the Spirit is the Holy Spirit, his mode of action in the world; God the Son is the physical manifestation of God, the Word of God, the Word made flesh, the lamb slain from the beginning of the world, the one through whom all things were made, the deep, who was with God in the beginning. God is in Jesus because God made the world by Him. Jesus is in God because the world was made from Him. This is literally true as it pertains to the physical makeup of the universe.
We can have the power that Jesus manifested on earth when we are perfectly aligned with God’s will. This passage is not to be taken that I may ask God for a new Mercedes and the fact that I don’t have a new Mercedes means that God is a liar. I don’t need a Mercedes in order for me to do the work that God has assigned for me on earth. On the other hand, if I go to God to ask how to reconcile Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion with what the Bible teaches us about the solar system he shows me, through the Holy Spirit. There is another passage like this which is very specific:
Why don’t we see mountains moving around? Is God a liar?
The key to understanding this is the phrase: “If ye have faith.” Faith in what? Faith that God will do whatever I want? Or is it faith that God is going to do whatever HE wants? If we have faith that God’s will is going to be done, and because of our diligent study of His Word it is possible to deduce what that will is, then we come into alignment with His will such that, as he is carrying it out anyway, we are aware of it unfolding. We may also be so attuned to it such that we may anticipate it. As such, if we ask for it, we will see it come to pass.
One practical example is that God has promised to provide my every need. I had to get my car inspected but I couldn’t afford any repairs. I am in God’s will right now and the car passed the inspection without needing any repairs. As I was praying to God and asking for Him to provide for the car to pass the inspection, I deduced and concluded that no repairs would be necessary because I didn’t have any money to pay for them. When I got the call from the shop to tell me to come pick the car up I wasn’t surprised.
God’s will doesn’t require any mountains to be moved right now, therefore it is not possible for anyone to be aligned with His will such that they may move a mountain. However, if I am convinced that the Bible is true because God said it is, and Psalms 19 tells us that the sun is orbiting the earth, then I go to God to ask for the understanding of it. I need the sun to be less massive than the earth in order for Psalms 19 to be possible, to be literally true. The Holy Spirit teaches me how to use Kepler’s laws and Newton’s law of gravity to show that the sun is indeed less massive than the earth. The sun is a lot larger than a mountain (even if it is smaller than the earth). I just moved the sun from the center of the solar system to being in orbit around the earth. As far as I am concerned this passage is literally true because I just moved more than a mountain. I was able to do this because the need to do it is in alignment with God’s will, and I asked for it.
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Well, well, well, what have we here. Is this not the statement from God that the world will be led astray by popular science? Like the Pied Piper of Hamelin? This is the reason for my sense of urgency in wanting to write Matty’s Paradigm. The delusion has many components which have been brought together over the course of hundreds of years. A book that was very helpful to me years ago is “Evolution: The Lie,” by Ken Hamm, but this is actually just a small part of the delusion. The delusion is what I refer to as the dominant paradigm of modern science. As a theoretical foundation for the prevailing narrative of godless existence I have identified 5 critical pillars of the rationale:
None of these key theoretical building blocks can be proven, they are all leaps of faith. How is God lying if he is telling the truth about the lie that people will want to believe so that they can deny God?
If this were to be a nice neat 3-point sermon the points would be:
We have discussed the accusation: God lies. We have had the argument: we have discussed every one of the supposed lies and found them to be false accusations. The actuality is that, in order to make this argument the accuser has become a hypocrite. If an atheist believes that there is no God and that the Bible is a book of fables, yet wants to accuse God of lying in the Bible, there are three problems with the logic here:
Atheism is not intellectually viable.
Today’s image is from here.
O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
(Jeremiah 20:7) KJV
Continuing on from yesterday we are considering the charge made by members of the atheist community that God lies in the Bible. He doesn’t. Every one of the cited examples are flimsy at best.
Continue reading “Does God Lie in the Bible? Part 2”
The premise on which Matty’s Paradigm is based is “God cannot lie,” (Titus 1:2). I have used this premise from which to deduce how the physical evidence of “science,” can be accounted for by the record we have in the Bible of the earth’s origin, history and future. The reasoning is simple:
This also gives us the reason why we have to investigate “science,” to find out why the story it tells of our origin is so different from that we find in the Bible:
I have made significant progress with this approach and I believe that I have resolved some major issues, including the nature of gravity and planetary orbits, which allow a harmonization of the Bible with empirical observations. It is quite natural, then, for there to be an attack on my starting premise: God cannot lie. The following list, provided byย @religulous of the Twitter community, is supposedly a list of Bible passages in which God lies.
We will take each of theses in turn for the next three devotionals and see if these really are examples of God lying.
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When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge they did not immediately drop dead. However, the consequence of the act of disobedience was God withdrawing his physical presence from the world. This caused radioactive decay to begin and the world fell into its corrupted state. Adam and Eve began to age. In biology this is called senescence. Their cells began to die and had to be be replaced through cell division (mitosis) which is prone to errors in DNA replication. Radioactive decay caused ionizing radiation which caused mutation. The mutations were copied along with everything else. Adam and Eve’s bodies began to die.
As it turns out, this is exactly what God said would happen, but we will deal with this in a separate post during June.
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This is clearly an instance of false prophets lying, not God.
This gives us the context to understand why the prophets were lying to King Ahab. This is the prophet Micaiah speaking to King Ahab of Israel and King Jehosaphat of Judah. Micaiah reveals why, when the Kings went to the false prophets they were lied to, by revealing the truth to them. In heaven God asked how the fall of Ahab would be brought about. He had a volunteer from among the spirits who said that he would go and cause the false prophets to lie to Ahab. This is an example of God being truthful, and He is also being honest and transparent about the circumstances.
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This is a recounting of the same event as in the example 2. above. It is not an example of God lying, it is an example of an atheist lying about God.
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This is not an example of God lying. Its occurrence in this list is an example of an atheist lying about God.
5.
There is no Psalms 201. However, in case this is a typo for Psalms 120…
This is a lament of a person, such as King David, in context it is not God speaking, neither is it an example of a lie, other than being another example of an atheist lying about God.
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This tells us that the Lord God hates lying. It is another example of an atheist lying about God.
We’ll cover the remainder of these passages tomorrow.
Does it look to you that God lies? Today’s image is from here.
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