Hold Fast

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?

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.

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:

In the video the host described my blog as stupid at the 15 second mark,
The host starts lying at the 1 minute 42 second mark.

I think I’ll watch any commentary video about me up to the first lie. That’s all.

Today’s image is from here.

June 23, 2018June 3, 2020

Millstone Alert!

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

June 21, 2018June 24, 2022

June 21st

The LGBTQIA+ Identity Crisis

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.

June 1, 2018June 24, 2024

June 1st

Behemoth

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.

Salvation

Call upon the name of Jesus Christ,
- believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
confess your sin.

Read through the Bible in a year

Reading plan	June 1
Linear	Psalms 24-26
Chronological	Psalms 119:89-176

– Read 3 chapters every day and 5 chapters on Sundays

May 31, 2018January 6, 2022

It’s Game Over for Atheism

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.

May 30, 2018March 14, 2021

Water Of Gall

Deuteronomy 29:18-20

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

Water is the essence of free will. Water is inherently unstable. Water is the physical medium in which cause and effect are linked. Gall is defined in a variety of ways, but they represent cause and effect.

May 29th

Glorious Liberty

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.

May 22, 2018March 14, 2021

Unstable As Water

Genesis 49:3-4

Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

Water is inherently unstable. Anything created from it will also be unstable.

That’s how science can be so disastrously wrong about human origins but still produce a marvel like the iPhone.

Truth Is Light, Darkness Is Evil

John 3:16-21

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

It is ironic that the period of history that brought us Galileo, Kepler and Newton is called “The Enlightenment.”

Ironic because this was when the human race took a headlong plunge into darkness.

Numerical Computation of a Simple Orbit

This is original work submitted by a @Twitter community member

Programming a computer to plot an ellipse with one focus isn’t the same as providing a physical cause for why planetary orbits are elliptical. This is an example of scientific sleight-of-hand.

From FlatSlugBrains