FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

The Hebrew word to describe the flood, "Karabakh", never means the entire planet which was used to describe regions (i.e. Mesopotamian Plain). More importantly, The purpose of the flood was to rid the world of ungodly people who lived in specific regional locations because humanity was not global at that time. For example, no humans lived in Antarctica in the ancient world, so there would be no reason to flood that location or any others like it. DNA evidence proves that people were concentrated in one location around the time of Noah's Flood and then quickly dispersed to all other continental landmasses, excluding Antarctica shortly after the flood.

• "If He did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;" 2 peter 2:5-6

Noah's Flood only lasted 13 months and was not a catastrophic, global flood. A global flood model would not permit the existence of life and there is no supporting scientific evidence of this in the tectonic plate movement, Antarctica & Greenland annual ice core layers, volcanic annual dust signature eruption layers, raised mountains signs or changes in laws of physics for a flood that covered the entire earth's surface. 

The following verse is concrete biblical evidence that Noah's flood was not global. Psalm 104 was written before the flood describing creation day three. This is repeated in Job 38, Proverbs 8.

• "You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. 7 But at your rebuke the waters fled, at the sound of your thunder they took to flight; 8 they flowed over the mountains, they went down into the valleys, to the place you assigned for them. 9 You set a boundary they cannot cross; never again will they cover the earth." Psalm 104:6-9

The last ice age occurred between 15K-130K years ago, but the Bible hints the worldwide flood occurred ~45K years ago during the last ice age before the well-established dates for the great migrations of humanity occurred between 40K-45K years ago to all parts of the world that first originated out of the regions of the Persian Gulf, Arabia and Eastern Africa to Europe and Asia. The second great migrations were to North America, South America and Australia occurred between 13K-40K years ago. This means that Noah's had to be living years before these great migrations happened or longer than 45K years ago. It's not until Genesis 10 that we see any scripture that mentions the names of places located outside of described regions of the Middle East (Mesopotamian Plain). In Genesis 11, after the flood God had commanded Noah's sons to multiply and populate the world and they disobeyed God. The Tower of Babel fell so humanity would migrate and populate the world as God had commanded in Genesis 9:1. God ultimately forces mankind's hand because both Adam & Eve and Noah disobeyed God by not migrating and populating the entire earth.

Based on the scripture verse in Genesis 8:2-6, it takes almost a full year for the flood waters to completely recede so Noah's family could leave the ark. For it to take that long for the water to recede would require enormous amounts of melting ice and snow to replace the waters of the flood running downhill into the Indian ocean. This is why we believe it occurred during the last ice age because only during an ice age would there be warming episodes that could release these huge amounts of snow and ice. It also fits the scientific dating of the flood event because we now have accurate carbon-14 dates that tell us there was this very rapid, aggressive migration from the Middle East and Northern Africa local into all the landmasses of the world between 40K to 45K years ago which means the flood would need to predate that event. This also This same type of event is exactly what we are experience today in long lasting floods. A modern-day example would be the record snow melt off the Rocky Mountains flooding the Mississippi Valley 50 feet and lasted 4 months.

• "Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. 6 After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark." Genesis 8:2-6

A supernova event is often caused by a dying massive star exploding. This happens when a star at least five times the mass of our sun goes out with a fantastic bang! Massive stars burn huge amounts of nuclear fuel at their cores which produces tons of energy, so the center gets very hot. Heat generates pressure. When a massive star runs out of fuel, it cools off. This cooling causes the pressure to drop. Gravity wins out and the star suddenly collapses. Imagine something one million times the mass of Earth collapsing in 15 seconds!

Evidence points to a supernova that caused 95% of the deadly cosmic rays that we humans experience occurring 120K to 20K years ago. This exposure to radiation is one reason why humans experienced a transition from the maximum lifespans in Noah's day in Genesis of ~900 years to a current lifespans of 120 years (Noah lived to be 950 years old). The supernova caused a radiation event which aided in decreasing lifespans. This is only one of the four factors that have contributed to shortened lifespans.

Even with out a supernova event, humans wouldn't be able to live 900 years since we are all exposed to igneous rocks. Before the flood humans were living in one local on a large sedimentary plain and not going outside that plain. This isolated humans from radiometric decay that happen in igneous rocks. Igneous rocks are loaded with long lived radiometric isotopes like uranium, thorium and potassium. Our exposure to them impacts our lifespan as well as living at low or high elevations. At high elevations there is less atmosphere sheltering them from cosmic radiation. One other major factor is that humanity was on a vegetarian diet before the flood. Eating meat today isn't going to shorten your lifespan if we only live 120 years maximum, but if the human lifespan is 900 years eating meat will impact it significantly. Meat has about 1,000 times the concentration of heavy metals than vegetable material. 

The last human lifespan factor is a change in telomeres activity. Telomeres function prevents chromosomes from losing base pair sequences at their ends. Telomeres protect the end of the chromosome from DNA damage or from fusion with neighboring chromosomes. Our chromosomes get shorter and shorter as we age which enables us to deal better with cancer because they are also less able to reproduce cancerous cells and thrive. Shorter chromosomes results in less telomere activity. This is a good thing by design because chromosome shortening results in a factor of 20-30 times less cancer deaths. The enhancement of shortening of chromosomes occurred after the flood. There would be a lot more early cancer deaths if humans had the same telomere activity they had before Noah's flood.

There has been a lot of interest over the year about the location of Noah's Ark after the Great Flood. It didn't come to rest on Mount Ararat, instead It came to rest on the mountain range of Ararat. Today, it is in the country of Armenia and portions of the southern range north of Iraq. The Ark resting spot is most likely located in the far southern mountain range near the city of Nineveh (the closet one of six ancient cities where the ark likely rested). The Ark was built out of high tensile strength gopher wood which was probably taken from the Ark and used to build places in Nineveh. Nineveh has been burned to the ground dozens of times over the centuries so the ark remains are most likely found in the ashes. 

• "and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat." Genesis 8:4

Long before Noah’s flood there was just one continent. Geologists have a name for it, Pangea. Before Pangea, there were at least five other episodes when virtually all Earth’s landmasses were gathered together to form a single supercontinent.

Earth’s powerful and enduring plate tectonics drives the supercontinent cycle. In each cycle it takes about a quarter billion years for the supercontinent to fully break apart into separate smaller continents. It takes about another quarter billion years for these separated continents to come together to form a single supercontinent. The last time there was a single supercontinent was a quarter-billion years ago. The next time there will be a supercontinent is about a quarter-billion years into the future. 

The continents definitely were not gathered together as one at the time of Noah’s flood. From a few million years before Noah’s flood through the present, continental plate movement has never exceeded 6 centimeters per year. 

The Bible states multiple times that the laws of physics have not changed. One example is described in Jeremiah 33. Therefore, based on the Bible alone, independent of any scientific measurements, continental plate movement of thousands of miles per year is ruled out. However, Genesis 7–8 informs us that it took nearly a year for the waters of Noah’s flood to recede into Earth’s oceans. For this recession to take that long there had to be a huge quantity of melting ice and snow. This enormous quantity implies that Noah’s flood must have occurred during the last ice age. During the last ice age, the sea level was 200–390 feet lower than it is today. That is low enough that Alaska and eastern Siberia were connected by a land bridge as were Britain and France.

We find it interesting that God purposely divided one large landmass into 7 separate continents so that there would be more than one nation, one city,  one culture, one tower,  etc. God knew that this idea of "one" would allow the rulers of a one large nation to easily oppress their people. These continents geographical borders are designed such that there are natural borders formed so that large nation and smaller nation can exist side by side without worrying about one nation taking over the entire world. God's whole goal was to scatter us upon these different continents and for us to live in free market competition for citizens. Today's Globalists are trying to reverse what God had commanded us to do in Genesis 1:28, 9:1.

Noah did not build an Ark large enough to accommodate all the animal species on the face of the earth at that time. God told Noah to take a pair of every "basar" on board the Ark which is a reference to the "soulish" animals in relationship to human beings. This did not include the "basar" animals that were damaged by human sin at that time (those animals were destroyed by the flood). These soulish animals God designed to serve and please human beings. There are only two Hebrew words used in the Genesis flood account to refer to the animals destroyed by the flood and to those taken aboard the Ark. The words are nephesh and basar. The word nephesh translates as "soulish" animals and refers to those creatures endowed with characteristics of mind, will, and emotions, creatures with a unique capacity to relate to humans. We call them mammals and birds. It is their soulishness which makes them particularly susceptible to the effects of man's sin. The word basar refers more specifically to those birds and mammals that are part of man's economic system, that is; livestock, poultry, game animals, any birds or mammals that have had contact with man. Noah's flood destroyed the world of ungodly people (which were concentrated in a few regions), not the whole planet. Since the Bible clearly states that it wasn't a global flood, there was no reason to take a pair of giraffe, lions, polar bears, penguins, etc. 

Soulish Animals Side Note: Animals are designed to please their owners. If an animal is violent, it's because it's owner teaches it to be violent. The animal isn't sinful, it's just trying to please its owner. So if a dog bits you it's the owner fault, not the dogs. 

The purpose of Noah's Ark was not only to rescue his family and certain animals from certain destruction, but it was also used as a pulpit for Noah to preach to his generation and warn them way before the catastrophic event. Imagine how much curiosity would have be generated by someone building a giant boat in a place where it hardly rains. It must have drawn in the crowds.

• "if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;" 2 Peter 2:5

It is certainly possible. Genesis 5:32 and Genesis 7:6 indicate that Noah and his family had up to 100 years to construct the ark. It is likely that in addition to employing his 7 relatives, that Noah had hired many other workers.

• "After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth." Genesis 5:32

• " Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth." Genesis 7:6

Hebrews 11:7 implies that Noah, like the rest of the prophets mentioned in Hebrews 11, warned the people around him of the coming judgment. 2 Peter 2:5 explicitly states that Noah was a “preacher of righteousness.” Noah’s role as a prophet to his generation would be enhanced by hiring many of them to assist him and his family in building the ark. With a hundred or more people working for up to 100 years and an abundant supply of gopher wood and pitch, Noah would have faced no insurmountable difficulty in constructing a 450-foot-long ark.

It is also possible that Noah may not have been limited to Stone Age technology. The discovery that humans living 14­,000–33,000 years ago were involved in harvesting, roasting, and grinding grains to make a variety of bakery products was not made until 2015–2018 because of how small-scale the baking industry was at that time (as a consequence of the extremely unstable climate that persisted throughout the last ice age).1 Similarly, it is reasonable to presume that humans living before the Neolithic Revolution and the Copper and Bronze Ages may have been involved in small-scale metallurgy that archeologists have yet to uncover.

For example, paleoanthropologists have pointed out that the Inuit peoples of northern Canada, for likely at least the past 10,000 years, had made regular trips to northwestern Greenland to recover fragments of the Hiawatha and Cape York impactors (large stainless-steel asteroids) and used cold forging techniques to manufacture from those fragments sophisticated tools. Evidence that the ancient Sumerian and Hittite names for iron bear the meaning “fire from heaven” and that the most ancient iron relics (predating 5,000 years ago) in Mesopotamia possess nickel content ranging from 7.5–10.9%, establishes that ancient Mesopotamian peoples also were cold forging tools from stainless-steel meteorites.2 With the use of such tools, Noah and his family could have constructed the ark in far fewer than 100 years.

Explained in Navigating Genesis, chapter 18, gopher wood likely had a tensile strength much superior to oak.3 If gopher wood indeed was of that quality, it would have simplified the engineering designs of the ark, making its construction even more straightforward.

References:

1. Hugh Ross, “The First Humans Developed Food-Processing Technology,” Today’s New Reason to Believe (October 5, 2015); Hugh Ross, “Confirmation That Early Humans Were Making Bread,” Today’s New Reason to Believe (August 27, 2018).

2. T. A. Rickard, “The Use of Meteoric Iron,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 71, no. 1/2 (1941): 55–66, doi:10.2307/2844401.

3. Hugh Ross, Navigating Genesis (Covina, CA: RTB Press, 2014), 174–75.

One day we will find the remains of extraterrestrial life on the Moon and possibly even on Mars. Not because life originated there, but because the Earth is so prolific with life that every time the earth is hit with a meteor or asteroid, dust and soil from the earth is released into interplanetary space. There is approximately 44,100 lbs. (20,000 kg) of the Earth's soil for every 62 square miles (100 km) on the surface of the moon. If scientist would go back to the Moon and find that transported soil because earth's geology has destroyed the fossil record of the earths first life, but the moon has practically no geological activity. The moon has had such a stable geology for billions of years and has certainly preserved the fossils of Earth's first life.  If NASA would go to the Moon and locate those fossils, we can finally provide proof of the origins of earth's first life and determine who got the origin of life model correct. This would finally put it to rest on who go it right, the theist or non-theist.

Is there's a possibility of extraterrestrial life existing in the universe independent of life on earth? In 1995 we discovered the first planets outside of our solar system. There have been over 5,000 newly discovered planets in the past 40 years and it was thought that at least one would be similar to the planets in our solar system. We have yet to find a single planet outside our solar system that is a twin to any planet in our solar system as of 2022, which has led to the discovery that every planet in our solar system plays a vital role in making advance life possible on earth. For extraterrestrial life to exist we would need to find a planetary system exactly like ours. The probability of finding a planetary system that has planets exactly like ours and a sun exactly like our sun is virtually zero. Everywhere we look in our universe we see conditions hostile for life. Scientists have not found a single star that is sufficiently like the sun to be a candidate, or planets like ours that could be good candidates either. This also goes for other galaxies, galaxy clusters and super galaxies that are sufficiently like ours to consider. So we'll leave the idea of extraterrestrial life to Hollywood and the imagination.

Why would God stop at only one planet since He loves creating so much? Now we know there are two trillion galaxies in the universe and each galaxy contains approximately two billion stars. And it's possible there are as many planets as there are stars. Is it possible there are other beings on another planet that do not sin and do not need to be redeemed. This verse would imply that if there were extraterrestrial life God is the one who created it.  

• "This is what God the Lord says— the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it." Isaiah 42:5, also Isaiah 44:24  

• "How many are your works, Lord! In wisdom you made them all;  the earth is full of your creatures." Psalms 104:24

99% of UFO sightings can be explained by natural phenomena. For example, the planet Venus in the very early morning is 10-12 times brighter than in the evening and is the most frequently reported UFO sighting. Fireballs sightings are a close second. The other 1% qualify as residual UFO sightings (i.e,. remaining after the greater part or quantity has gone). There are over 2,000 documented cases of UFO's coming through the atmosphere and crashing into the Earth. When you visit these crash sites there is an impact creator, damaged vegetation and possible melted snow depending on the crash site. What's always missing is the UFO's debris, or any artifacts. If it were a physical craft, there would be remains. Also, if there are enough observers, they can triangulate to calculate the velocity of the UFO which ranges have been between 18,000 and 25,000 miles per hour (mph), yet the witness never heard a "sonic boom".  They just seem to suddenly vanish. The speed of sound in air is 761 miles per hour so you must have a "sonic boom". Nor do the eyewitnesses see heat friction coming off the UFO's as it enters the atmosphere. If you don't see heat friction or hear a "sonic boom", it is not a physical object. We do know they are real because there is a creator and damaged vegetation something real happened. Books have been written about and Interdimensional phenomena which is when real objects coming from dimensions outside our length, width, height and time. 

The Bible says that God created 2 different species of intelligent beings; physical human beings constrained by the physical laws of the universe and nonphysical beings, angels and demons, that are not constrained and have the power to come into our realm. We cannot travel into their domain, but they can come into ours. The other 1% of the UFO sighting are these angelic beings manifesting themselves into our realm because they are called by the occult. Documented cases of UFO sightings go back 3,000 years so this is not a recent phenomenon. What's interesting fact is that these manifested Angelical beings' sightings over history have changed to keep pace with our technology. For example, a 150 years ago, documented UFO sightings were not flying saucers, they were slow moving dirigibles (airship, dirigible balloon or blimp). During WW2 (100 years ago) they were craft moving at 500 mph. Now that man has spaceships that can travel 18,000 mph, they are manifesting themselves as flying saucers traveling that speed or at rates much higher. Another documented pattern you notice when there is a close encounter with these UFO's is that many people claim to have messages being communicated by beings aboard these crafts and the messages also keep pace with our technology. For instance, 150 years ago the message would be that they were "from the dark side of the moon" which we now know is impossible for the life to exist there. Then messages were from "Venus" which we now know is too hot to have life on its surface, so next planet became "Mars". Now the beings' communications are claiming to be from another planetary system. This is the kind of messaging and pace with our technology that you would expect from beings that have a mission to try and deceive us. If you look at the messaging, you can see the hallmarks of deception.

The best documented example for deception is when people claim to have contact with these beings and are put into a trance, then they are instructed to auto record what these beings want to communicate. The most dramatic example is The Urantia Book which has 4,000 pages from UFO encounters in which two thirds of the book is dedicated to demoting the deity of Jesus Christ and a n attack of the Trinity. Interesting that these aliens have such a devotion to attacking the person of Jesus Christ. The book text only describes limited human technology already known to mankind. 100% of close encounters of the 1st kind (communication closer than 500 feet) are always harmful, and never beneficial. The best that you can come away with is a harmful, recurring nightmare. The worst encounters involve injuries or even death. The fact is that we always see deception and its always harmful means that we are encountering the fallen angels (demons) and not the righteous angels. There also seems to be one to one correspondence between to what we see in these residual UFO's and what we see in demonology. The percentage of the population having these close encounters is proportional to the percentage of the population that has open doors to the occult activity. If you want to stop these encounters in your life, just remove all involvement in the occult. Pray to God that what you were doing is wrong and receive His forgiveness. In summary, we can conclude the following about UFO sightings:

• Witnesses never locate physical UFO debris or artifacts at crash site
• Witnesses never hear a "sonic boom" while traveling faster than the speed of sound
• Witnesses never observe heat friction from UFO's as it enters the atmosphere
• We identified them as angelical, nonphysical beings travel into our realm
• These angelical beings keep pace with human technology and communication
• Humans in the occult call out these angelical, demonic beings
• Encounters are always deceptive and harmful
• UFO sightings are proportional to the occult population activity

UFO sightings violate our laws of physics, there are no artifacts or sonic booms. There is no physical evidence to support a physical reality for UFO's which leads us to believe these sightings are caused by spiritual beings, not physical. 

Lights in the Sky & Little Green Men, June 1, 2002

by Kenneth R. Samples, Mark Clark, Hugh Ross 

What convinces a large number of people that reincarnation is real are the many claims of recalled memories from past lives. These memories occur in dreams, visions, and déjà vu experiences when people visit places they have never been before or engage people they have never met before.

There are two sets of explanations for these experiences that have nothing to do with reincarnation. The first is that our brains are capable of storing an enormous amount of incidental data for a long period of time. Thus, while you may be walking down a street in Bologna, Italy, for the first time, decades earlier you may have been exposed to a film, an encyclopedia, a history book, travel brochures, or a friend’s photo collection that planted details of that street into the subconscious of your brain. A recollection from the subconscious part of your brain may deceive you into thinking you must have been there before.

The subconscious part of our brain also houses a huge archive of our past dreams. Our dreams are varied and creative, especially in their background images and portraits of strangers. Given that there are tens of thousands of these background images and portraits of strangers in our subconscious, it is statistically probable that one of them will match at least part of a scene we are visiting for the first time or an individual that we happen to encounter.

Another explanation involves Satan and his legion of fallen angels. Given their vested interest in getting us to fail the test of life, it is to their advantage to plant false memories in our brains that make us think we have had a past life or two. However, lest anyone reading this article wonder whether, in that case, any memory in their brain can be trusted, Satan and the fallen angels need permission to plant false memories in our brains. Such permission is granted whenever a human being acquires occult articles, engages in occult practices, seeks paranormal powers, or worships false gods or demons. If none of these things are in your life, then your brain is protected from the implantation of such false memories. 

"The universe is a deadly place. At every opportunity it's trying to kill us."

 ―  Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist & Atheist

God created man with the ability to choose good or evil and He is sovereign, so He can't reverse His decisions or contradict His character. Man used that freedom to rebel against God and reject a relationship with Him. At that point, God was at no obligation to do anything. He could have just let man destroy himself. The reason why the Holocaust happened is because God decided to put up with evil men to allow more time to continue in order to give more people the opportunity to be redeemed, accepting the free gift of pardon purchased for us through His son.

The Jewish people as a whole have been rejecting Christ's redemption offer for the past 2,000 years. Prior to 1950,  there were approximately 150 known Christian Jews in the United States and Canada (Martin "Moishe" Rosen, Founder of Jews for Jesus). God already knew that some of the Jews in the holocaust camps might turn to Christ for salvation, but the majority of them would not. God used evil men's (Satan) genocide attempt on His people to allow more time to redeem future Jewish and Gentile Believers. Since 1950 there have been ~350,000 Jewish people come to Christ worldwide and many, many more Gentiles. God also used this event as a wakeup call to the rest of the world which eventually resulted in the Jewish people regaining their homeland back after 2,000 years. In 1948 a miracle happened and the state of Israel was reborn. God's knows how to take the most evil human act and turn it into something good (Romans 8:28). 

• "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." 2 Peter 3:9

God's not finished blessing the Jewish people. They will fulfill their purpose as the chosen people to evangelize the world (link below).

A lot of unbelievers look at earthquakes and other natural disasters as evidence of the nonexistence of God. The reason being that "couldn't an all-powerful, all-loving God of the Bible create and design the Earth so that it would not have devastating earthquakes?" What we see in the context of the laws of physics that God chose to govern the universe is that the quantity and intensity of earthquakes is fined-tuned to make human civilization as optimal as possible. 

Ground (G) acceleration is the most important factor in determining the impact of an earthquake even more so than the magnitude. Another factor is building construction. For example, the buildings and homes in California that are in close proximity to the San Andreas fault are designed to withstand major earthquakes. There are strict California building codes put in place to help minimize casualties during an earthquakes in fault areas. One positive attribute of faults is that they prevent earthquake energy from traveling very far and California has lots of faults. The more faults that exist in an area, the lesser the quake magnitude because the energy stops when it runs into another fault. This keeps the magnitudes of California at a maximum of 8.0, whereas in other places can get up to 9.0, which is a ten times greater energy intensity for every magnitude. California gets ~100 earthquakes every day of 1.0 to 2.0 magnitude, but are not noticeable unless you are right on top of the epicenter. California gets six earthquakes per year that are of magnitude 5.0 or grater and six per decade that are of magnitude 6.0 or greater.  The earth's tectonic plate activity was designed to have an exponentially greater number of earthquakes at a lower magnitude. It was also designed to have way more smaller magnitude earthquakes than larger ones. In order to sustain life on earth the tectonic plates must move. 

The 2010 Haiti earthquake in Port-au-Prince was a magnitude 7.0  and very devastating with 200,000 deaths and every building collapsed. In contrast, the 1994 Northridge earthquake in California was a magnitude 6.7 with only 60 death which were mainly due to heart attacks from the shaking, not from collapsed buildings or homes. The Northridge area has very strict building codes. What's interesting about the Northridge earthquake is that it holds the world record for the greatest amount of  ground acceleration in an urban area at 1.82 G's. The Haiti earthquake was of greater magnitude, but the real measure is the ground acceleration which is really what determines the total damage.  The 2010 Haiti earthquake in Port-au-Prince had a ground acceleration of 0.65 G's which is three times less than Northridge's. The devastation in Haiti was primarily because of the construction or lack of building codes do not take  earthquakes into account even though the frequency is much higher than most places. 

To minimize the earthquakes magnitudes there are various known terrestrial water reservoirs like lakes, rivers. glaciers, icefields, troposphere (atmosphere), shallow ground water (0-2 MM depth) and deep ground water (2-10 MM depth). Canada contains more than half of the worlds lakes so this is a great source of water. Water acts as a lubricant (called talc) so the tectonic plates can efficiently slip past one another easier generating less friction maximizing the number of small earthquakes and minimizing the number of large ones. Without water or talc the plates get stuck and the pressure builds up causing major eruptions. If we didn't have all of these water sources including the oceans, earthquake magnitudes would be enormous at 10.0 to 15.0. It requires all five terrestrial water reservoirs plus all the water in the oceans to sustain plate tectonics at the minimal level needed to recycle life essential nutrients at an optimal level of 29% of the Earth's surface. Once the earth's surface reaches 30% we will no longer be able to sustain a global, high-technology human civilization, only a primitive one according to American paleontologist, Peter Ward. Isn't it interesting that God created human beings right at the time when the continental landmass reached 29%. Even though we have aggressive erosion of our coast lines here in the U.S., states like California are growing in landmass size faster due to the high plate tectonic movement. Hawaii is the fastest growing landmass state. We also need all five of these terrestrial water reservoirs to ensure sufficient mantle convection needed to sustain Earth's magnetic field and magnetosphere. Earth's magnetosphere is a magnetic shield that protests us from deadly cosmic and solar radiation and prevents the sun from sputtering away our atmosphere and hydrosphere.

Given the laws of physics that God choses to govern the universe and the timing of our appearance here on Earth, we are experiencing the best possible earthquake plate tectonic activity. In the Second creation God will create a realm where natural disasters will not occur by having different universe and laws of physics.

• "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand." Matthew 7:24-26

What Jesus is saying that humans know we live in a world where things happen and that's why a wise man builds his house on the rock. For instance, if you live on the coast of Florida or New Orleans it would be wise to be prepare for hurricanes. We all know that the potential for an earthquake, hurricane, tornado and other disaster can occur especially if our residence has experienced them in the past and It's our responsibility to prepare for these event or we may suffer the consequences. 

• "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

The only information in the Bible that we know of that came directly from God himself were the Ten Commandments as God wrote these on two stone tablets which he gave to Moses. The rest of the information in the Bible came from other people that God somehow allegedly communicated with. Also, the words that Jesus spoke were communicated to us via other people years after Jesus said them. The only other time when God may have communicated with us directly is when Jesus was baptized but we're not certain. 

We have yet to find a provable error or contradiction in the Bible, except when Satan or humans are being quoted. That is certainly not the case for the other holy books that undergird the world’s predominant religions. Furthermore, the Bible has demonstrated unique predictive power. It predicted future historical events and future scientific discoveries specifically, frequently, and accurately. The Holy Spirit inspired the human Bible authors to write what God intended. 1 Peter 1:10–12 and 2 Peter 3:15–16 indicate that Bible authors understood that they were inspired by the Holy Spirit and longed to understand all that the Holy Spirit had inspired them to write. Jesus himself declared that the Scriptures were inerrant in John 10:35 when he said, “Scripture cannot be broken.”

This is called the Law of Decay or Law of Entropy (2nd Law of Thermodynamics). We wouldn't enjoy the life we are having if the rate of decay wasn't as high as it is today. For example; the rate of decay is optimal in the universe for the formation of stars and planets that physical life requires. If we increase or decrease the rate of decay they wouldn't exist. The decay rate is also optimal on planet earth for allowing plants to produce food for animals to digest the food. Change the rate of decay any less, physical life would be impossible. The fine tuning of the Law of Decay is extreme in order to make the abundance of life possible. Notice the rate of decay is not so high as to discourage work and not so low as to let sin and evil go unrestrained. We may be physically be wasting away, but our spirits are being renewed.

• "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all." 2 Corinthians 4:16-17

When Adam and Eve rebelled against God in Eden they made a choice to experience sin and evil personally. This introduced the law of decay, the laws of physics and the law of gravity. Because of these laws, mans sins will lead to more suffering, more work and more wasted time in order to undo the damage caused by sin. This should wake us up that we lack the resources within ourselves to be able to avoid the expression of sin and evil to pursue virtue. We need eternal help from an all knowing God who has a way and is loving enough to deliver us because he knows we are incapable of saving ourselves. That's why He sent His only son Jesus Christ to enter into the world, become flesh, suffer and die for our sins. Death through Adam, eternal life through Christ.  

• "that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time." Romans 8:21-22

Prayer is the most powerful tool God has granted to us humans. The power of prayer is illustrated in the sacrament of communion. The bread in communion symbolizes Jesus’s body broken on our behalf that removes the barrier between us and God the Father. We who have committed our lives to Jesus Christ as Creator, Lord, and Savior now have continual access and fellowship with God as a result. Thus, God always hears our prayers and is able to communicate truth to us through our prayers. The wine in communion symbolizes Jesus’s shed blood during his death on the cross. Because of that shed blood we have access to power from God. “There is power in the blood.” We gain power from God through prayer.

Anything we pray for that is in line with the will of God will happen. Prayer is a process wherein as we relate to God and listen to him, we discover in greater and more specific detail what his will is for a particular circumstance. We partner with God in seeing his will done through prayer. If we do not pray, God looks for a different partner and we miss out on seeing God’s miraculous hand at work through us.

Because prayer is such a powerful tool, God puts restrictions on how and when it is to be used. For example, we are not to pray for our own selfish desires (James 4:3), we are not to utter babbling, repetitious prayers (Matthew 6:7), and we are not to pray for reprobate people (1 John 5:16), people whose evil is so ubiquitous and entrenched that they are incapable of doing, saying, or thinking anything good and incapable of receiving any grace or truth from God.

Because prayer is such a powerful tool, God strongly exhorts us to use it and to use it often. We are to pray individually and privately. We are also to pray corporately and publicly with other people. There are times when God calls us to pray and fast, where we intensify and focus our prayers through abstaining for a time from some basic need such as food or sleep.

In a world view, opinions can change from moment to moment. What was once forbidden human moral behavior by our society only a few decades ago is now considered acceptable. Just take the issues of gay marriage (desecration) and abortion (murder) that are now legal, mainstream practices that defy God's word. Man's morality is a moving target, but God's word and character never changes. God is a constant like Archimedes' Constant (Pi) and mankind is a variable.

• "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." Hebrews 13:8
• "I the Lord do not change. So, you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed." Malachi 3:6
• "The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever." Isaiah 40:8
• "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek." Psalm 110:4

There are many people who have never read a Bible, attended church or have been introduced to a Christian. How can those people be saved or be judged if they never heard about God? In spite of this concern God clearly states that all have heard the message Colossians 1:23). God's handywork is evident through the creatures that exists around us for His care for us. God does send Christian missionaries to some of us, but He also provides through His creation a constant reminder of His existence, love for us and a desire for a relationship with Him. God's light has gone into every dark place where there has not been contact with the gospel message of salvation, the problem being that not everyone has received it. God did it this way so that we would also seek Him out. At some point in everyone's life God has spoken, worked miracles and given us opportunities regardless of our heritage, Jew or gentile. We have all received God's supernatural grace which brings salvation, and He has made it abundantly obvious. Not all have received God's message, not because it isn't abundantly clear or because it hasn't been preached over and over, it's because of our own wickedness and rebellion.

• "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; 8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? 10 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind. " Job 12:7-10

• "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. 3 They have no speech; they use no words; no sound is heard from them. 4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. 5 It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. 6 It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth." Psalm 19:1-6

• "The heavens proclaim his righteousness, and all peoples see his glory." Psalm 97:6 also see Psalm 50:6, Isaiah 6:3

• "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." John 1:5 also see John 5:9,16

• " Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.” Acts 14:17 also see Acts 17:27, Romans 1:20, Colossians 1:23

• "For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people." Titus 2:11

How can God judge a human fetus who dies before being born?  In Psalm 51:5, David declares that he has been a sinner since he was conceived in his mother’s womb. The reason I and many other Christians are against abortion at any time after conception is that based on this text and Exodus 21:22–25 (see The Fetus in Biblical Law), such an act is taking the life of a spiritual being. If the fetus is indeed a spiritual being, then it is likely that God’s Spirit can communicate with the fetus’s spirit independent of education, experience, and brain development.

Exactly how this communication occurs is unknown. However, based on John 1 we are persuaded that it does. John 1 declares that God’s spiritual light has been communicated to every human being. If any human receives God’s spiritual light, that person proceeds toward redemption and salvation. If any human rejects God’s spiritual light, that person proceeds toward condemnation. As for what exactly is God’s spiritual light, John addresses that question in 1 John. 1 John declares that God is light. 1 John:2–4 explains that God’s spiritual light has three components: life, love, and truth. God the Son gives us life. God the Father gives us love. God the Spirit gives us truth. Evidently, every fetus somehow has the capability of perceiving God’s life, love, and truth. Another scriptural example is Luke 1:39–45, where the fetus in Elizabeth responds to the fetus in Mary.

There are are a few things that God cannot do that are not part of His character. God cannot lie, deceive, or sin (Numbers 23:19, 1 Samuel 15:29, Psalm 89:35, Hebrews 6:18). He chooses never to violate His character attributes and in that sense He not all powerful. He is all powerful and has the capacity to do anything, but He chooses certain things never to do.

As an all-powerful being, God can choose to limit himself. For example, God chooses not to ever sin or commit evil (Job 34:10–12). God chooses never to lie or deceive (1 Samuel 15:29, Hebrews 6:18). God chooses always to do good (Matthew 7:11, Matthew 19:17, Mark 10:18). He chooses to never alter his character attributes (Malachi 3:6, James 1:17). He chooses to never change his mind or his purpose (Hebrews 6:17).

A human analogy may help. An athlete can consistently run a mile in under four minutes. However, that same athlete can choose to spend twenty minutes walking that mile. The fact that he takes twenty minutes to walk a mile in no way proves that he lacks the power to cover that distance in under four minutes.

Jesus' great commission will not be fulfilled until a large percentage r of Jewish people all of the world have come to faith in the one they have pierced as mentioned in Zechariah 12, 13 and 14. Also see Matthew 10:23. We are currently seeing more Jews in Israel converting to Christianity since the times of the Book of Acts.

• "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:16-20

In the late mid to late 1980's AIDS virus was predominant in the homosexual community. This viral infection attacks the immune system eventually causing AIDS. Homosexuals were the main target although there were also many heterosexuals and straight Christians who died from AIDS too. Romans 1:26-27 clearly states that homosexuality is a sin, and a penalty is charged if practiced by an individual or adopted by a society as acceptable behavior. God said it is the Churches responsibility to reject this lifestyle and stop it from spreading to the masses as normal behavior. This is the reason some people died from AIDs who were not practicing homosexuals. God allowed this to occur to get man's attention because the Church allowed homosexuals the freedom to express their way of life when God told believers don't let this happen. The Church has continued to allow this behavior to run ramped in society to the point where it is now mainstream. This is why God allowed believers to die from AIDS. The problem is that homosexuality is evangelistic hence we now allowed gay marriage and gay baby adoption.  What the homosexuals are really pressing for is to evangelize everyone to their lifestyle and if the heterosexuals allow them to do this then God is going to deal with us. Homosexuals are not content with just practicing their homosexuality in private. Now they have constructed a gay rights movement to carry out evangelizing the rest of us to their lifestyle.

There are numbers that are repeated over and over in the Bible like the number "3".  God attaches specific meanings to these numbers. 

#1  Union and oneness, perfect unity 

#2  Division, companionship, witness

#3  Triunity of divine design, perfect harmony as in the Holy Trinity

#4 Creative works of God

#5 Man’s humanness: limitations, insufficiency in himself, death

#6  Six is the number of man, man was created on day 6

#7  God’s number of completion, perfection, and rest

#8  New beginnings

#9  Finality and faith

#10 Completion of divine order

#12  God’s perfect government (12 Apostles, 12 Tribes of Israel)

#24  Associated with Priests (Leviticus)

#30   Dedication to a task or calling

#40   Trials, probation, testing's, and preparing

#70   Seventy can be understood by understanding it’s the product of 7 x 10

 Worship in it's simplest form is loving God back though He loved us first. You cannot love if you have no choice. Love is based inherently on the choice not to love. We show God love by choosing to obey His Commandments. That's why God created mankind to have the freedom to choose. You can't love God back until you know how much He loves you. God gave up His only son for our sins to show how much He loves us. Because God is love He immediately initiated a plan wherein He to become a man, live a perfect life, take our place and die in our place for our rebellion. So that Not based on human merit, but purely on grace He would give us forgiveness if we would accept it as a gift. In order for Him to give man a chance to accept the gift of pardon He has to put up with all the evil choices of the bad people who will not accept the gift of forgiveness and be saved.

 Marriage is a covenant, not a contract and cannot be separated. When you become married, you are not just marrying your spouse and becoming one flesh, you both are in covenant with Jesus Christ. Marriage mirrors the Trinity. This covenant cannot be invalidated just because two people grow apart. Modern day divorce is was designed by mankind to allow an easy way to escape the challenge of the marriage covenant. 

• "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,8 and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” Mark 10:7-9

• "He answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. 12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”  Mark 10:11-12

Most people don't understand that if you have sex with another person you are married to that person in God's eyes.

• "Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.” 1 Corinthians 6:15-17 

 There are only 3 reasons God allows divorce. Infidelity, death and if one of the married partners becomes a Christian and their spouse remains an unbeliever, the Christian is free to leave the marriage. God shows grace in that even if a believer is married to an unbeliever God will sanctify the unbeliever through the spouse. If you remarry or have a partner under any other circumstances you will be committing adultery in that relationship.  

• "For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. 15 But if the unbeliever leaves, let it be so. The brother or the sister is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace."  1 Corinthians 7:1

• "But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery." Matthew 5:32

• "For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him." Romans 7:2

Even though God allows for divorce, he still hates it.

• "For I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, and him who covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of armies. “So be careful about your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously." Malachi 2:16 

We typically see paintings of Jesus as a feminine man with blue eyes, long hair and a beard. Jesus was a carpenter by trade so he worked a lot with his hands. Carpenters in the ancient world would have to cut down trees, physically shape the wood and build the objects by hand. In the first century, this would have been very labor intensive work and would require a strong man. It is thought that Jesus walked 25 miles a day since that was the primary means of transportation in that day. His diet would have also consisted of healthy food like fish, nuts, bread and berries. Once can conclude that he was in excellent health. Jesus must have been a muscular man with great physical strength and minimal body fat. There is proof of His presence when He attacks multiple men at the same time conducting business on the holy temple grounds with a whip. Notice how He drove out the money changers and they didn't fight back after he pours out their money and knocks over their tables. I can only imagine the fire in His eyes and the temptation to use His divine powers to eliminate them.

• "And within the temple grounds He found those who were selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 15 And He made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; 16 and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away from here; stop making My Father’s house a place of business!” John 2:14-16

Isaiah describes Jesus as not vey attractive, dignified or impressive. Isaiah describes Jesus in a kind ways as not physically attractive. The average height of a first century man was 5'1" which compared to today's man he would have been shorter, stocky with probably brown eyes which were more common with Jewish men."

• "For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of dry ground; He has no stately form or majesty that we would look at Him, Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him." Isaiah 53:2

Jewish law required that every man should pay a tribute to the service of the sanctuary with a half shekel coin. It was a Tyrian shekel, not a Jewish shekel or Roman currency. So it became a matter of convenience that the money changers would be located at the Temple where people could exchange their Roman (Pagan) currency for Tyrian shekels. Of course one would have to pay a small fee for the exchange. Thousand came during the Jewish festivals so exchanging money became a very profitable business connect to fraud and further oppressions of the poor. Similarly, It was also required that sheep, doves, pigeons or cattle were required by Jewish law for certain religious sacrificed. A lucrative business also sprang up at the Temple for selling preapproved, high priest approved animals with the sellers gouging the faithful with high prices. The exchanges all occurred at the edge of the temple where "stoa's" or columns with a roof had been added by Herod the Great during his massive remodeling of the complex. The temple was surrounded with the column structures which became a farmers market and commerce place, not a holy place of worship. This is why Jesus became so angry and this started the violent clash between Jesus and the Sanhedrin who were profiting from temple activities by preying (or swindling) on the poor. According to the historian Josephus, Herod's reign began in 37 B.C.E. and the temple construction began in 19 B.C.E.. and ended 46 years later which puts this even occurring sometime around 28 A.D..

• "The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?” 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” 20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?”

When Jesus confronter the money changers in Matthew 21:13 He was referencing the passage from Jeremiah in the Old Testament.  He was primary upset because they were desecrating a holy place of worship.

• "Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord." Jeremiah 7:11

He certainly knew who he was when he was twelve years of age. Luke 2:39–52 records the account of Jesus’s family celebrating the Passover when Jesus was twelve years old. While in Jerusalem, Jesus’s parents lost contact with him and spent three days searching all over Jerusalem for him. Eventually, they found Jesus in the temple posing questions to the chief rabbis. When Jesus’s parents asked why he had left their presence, he responded, “Did you not know that I must be about my Father’s business?”

There is a hint in the Bible that Jesus may have been aware of who he was much younger than twelve years of age. When Mary visited Elizabeth when she was pregnant with Jesus and Elizabeth was pregnant with John the Baptist, Elizabeth exclaimed that the fetus within her womb jumped for joy at the near presence of Jesus. If John the Baptist knew who Jesus was while they still were both in the fetal state, it follows that Jesus also knew who he was even before he exited the womb of Mary.

Let us first sum up what we know from the New Testament of the brothers and sisters of the Lord. They are mentioned in Matthew 12:46-50, 13:55-56; Mark 3:31, 6:3; Luke 8:19; John 2:12, 7:3; Acts 1:14; 1 Cor. 9:5; and Paul speaks of a James as Jesus' brother in Galatians 1:19. 

Of the brothers, there seem to have been four who are named in Matthew 13:55: James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas (also see Mark 6:3). Matthew and Mark mention the sisters, but neither the number nor the names are given. From the language of the Nazarenes (Matthew 13:56, "His sisters, are they not all with us?"), there must have been at least two, probably more, and apparently married, and resident at Nazareth.

These brothers and sisters are not mentioned at all until after Jesus began His ministry and are first mentioned as going with His mother and Himself to Capernaum (John 2:12). It is in dispute whether any were believers in His Messianic claims, at least until the very end of His ministry (John 7:3-10). Most say that they were made believers through His resurrection, as they appear in company with the Apostles (Acts 1:14).

In all the references to Jesus siblings several things are noticeable: first, that they are always called brothers and sisters, not cousins or kinsmen; second, that their relationship is always defined with reference to Him, not to Joseph or to Mary; they are always called His brothers and sisters, not sons and daughters of Mary; third, that they always appear in connection with Mary (except in John 7:3) as if her children, members of her household, and under her direction.

In the Book of Acts you will find believes who are not baptized in the Holy Spirit. The disciples were not baptized in the Holy Spirit, but they were believers who knew the truth. The Samaritan's (mixed Jews) were believers who were not baptized and the same goes for the gentiles. The Jews themselves before the day of Pentecost were waiting for the Holy Spirit to come, they were believers who were not baptized. Historical doctrine found in the epistles from the Book of Romans through Revelation whenever it speaks of baptism it's synonymous with salvation. They are one in the same. All the epistles were written after the 3rd day of Pentecost. There are not one, but three days of Pentecost. There is a day of Pentecost for the believing Jews (Acts 2) that received the first anointing 50 days after the resurrection. The Samaritans and the gentiles are excluded. A few years later we have the day of Pentecost for the Samaritan's (Acts 8) and later the gentiles (Acts 10). So after those chapters of Pentecost's any believer is simultaneously baptized in the Holy Spirit. The reason in Acts 19 & 20 there are people who believe but are not baptized in the Holy Spirit is because they only had heard the Gospel of John the Baptist Gospel. They had not yet heard about the ministry of Jesus Christ. No physical, second baptism is required, but is should be part of the Christian experience.

• "For we were all baptized by[a] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink." 1 Corinthians 12:13