Archaeological Evidence for the Biblical Record
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
The Birth of Evolution in a Nutshell
Charles Darwin was born on February 12th, 1809, the same day as Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was destined to become President of the United States during its darkest and deadliest hour when more than 500,000 American lives would be lost in the Civil War, and Lincoln himself assassinated in 1865 and die at the age of 56. Darwin would ultimately die in 1882 at the age of 73, but his theory of evolution would captured the minds of millions and lead them from faith in God to scientific fatalism and here’s the story.
Until the 19th century, in the western world, the idea that God created the world about 6,000 years ago was quite universally accepted. Archbishop James Usher´s The Annals of the World first published in 1658 dated creation to about 4004 BC. The age of the earth and geology traditionally had followed this Biblical world view. Society was largely structured on the values laid out in the Bible.
It was in 1788 that James Hutton first published The Theory of the Earth, his book on geology. Here he explained uniformitarianism, or the idea that the present was the key to the past. In other words, by measuring the rates of natural processes in the present, scientists could extrapolate backwards to determine how long it took for geological features to form in the past. Traditionally, the geological column had been judged as the result of Noah´s flood. Hutton suggested that geology must be judged by natural causes present today and not by supposed events of the past. He said,
“The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now… No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principles.”[1]
For example, rather than seeing the Grand Canyon as the result of the catastrophic flood some 4,000 plus years ago, it was now seen as the result of slow natural processes over millions of years. He wrote, “But surely, general deluges (Noah´s Flood) form no part of the theory of the earth; for the purpose of this earth is evidently to maintain vegetable and animal life, and not to destroy them.”[2] The final line in his book stated, “The result, therefore, of our present inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,–no prospect of an end,"[3] confirming his idea that the creation and flood events were not valid.
“The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now… No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principles.”[1]
For example, rather than seeing the Grand Canyon as the result of the catastrophic flood some 4,000 plus years ago, it was now seen as the result of slow natural processes over millions of years. He wrote, “But surely, general deluges (Noah´s Flood) form no part of the theory of the earth; for the purpose of this earth is evidently to maintain vegetable and animal life, and not to destroy them.”[2] The final line in his book stated, “The result, therefore, of our present inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,–no prospect of an end,"[3] confirming his idea that the creation and flood events were not valid.
Charles Lyell, a contemporary of Darwin, following on Hutton´s ideas, wrote his own tome, Principles of Geology, which was published in 1830. Lyell, like Hutton, was from Scotland. He had trained as a lawyer and used his lawyer´s power of persuasion to draw a brilliant defence in favour of uniformitarianism and millions of years rather than the hitherto idea of catastrophism. Catastrophism was based on the Biblical events of the creation and the worldwide flood of Noah and therefore needed only thousands of years of earth time.
Lyell himself confessed that his goal in life was to get “Moses out of science,” for until that time the creation -flood / catastrophism had dominated the geological interpretation of the geological column. Lyell saw himself as “the spiritual saviour of geology, freeing the science from the old dispensation of Moses.”[4] His Principles of Geology was the most influential geological work in the middle of the 19th century and helped consolidate the concept of millions of years. He said during a lecture that “….the physical past of geological inquiry ought to be conducted as if the scriptures were not in existence.”[5] Such a position is not unbiased but is recommending that science take an anti- Biblical stance.
When Darwin took his five year trip around the world, passing through the now famous Galapagos Islands off the western coast of South America, he took his Bible with him. He had graduated university with a Divinity Degree. However, the captain of the ship the Beagle offered Darwin a copy of Lyell´s Principles to read. Doing so, slowly changed Charles world view. He abandoned the creation/flood model and accepted uniformitarianism and millions of years.
Once Darwin had abandoned the Biblical model and accepted uniformitarianism with the millions of years, he was open to finding a new reason for the variety of life not based on Biblical assumptions. Hutton had already toyed with these ideas but had “rejected the idea of evolution originating species as a 'romantic fantasy'. Hutton thought that natural selection allowed species to form varieties better adapted to particular conditions and was therefore evidence of benevolent design in nature.”[6] Creation scientists agree with this completely.
People normally picture the scientist as an unbiased scholar searching for the truth of the how and the why of things or of nature. But the truth is quite different. Every scientist starts off his work with assumptions, or a belief system of how he interprets the world around him. The data or evidence does not speak for itself, but needs to be interpreted. The scientist´s world view will affect how he interprets the data or evidence that he discovers.
Let´s take a look at how the scientists on a famous TV program CSI or Bones do their science. The investigators are trying to find out how something happened. They cannot go back in time, so they make a theory and then check to see if the evidence fits their theory. If the evidence shows the theory false, they throw out the first theory and develop another or revise or adapt the first. By doing science in the present, they try to determine how the murder might have occurred in the past. However, since they were not there, they can never be sure if they are right.
Often in the program they first think it is one person and then another, until finally they come up with the right person. Ultimately, they try to get a confession, or an eye-witness testimony because all they have is circumstantial evidence and that might not hold up in court. Sometimes in a program a bad cop fudges the evidence to make it look like someone was guilty when they were not. Sadly many of today´s scientists are fudging the evidence in order to have the public believe that the evolution of “molecules to man” has really taken place.
Often in the program they first think it is one person and then another, until finally they come up with the right person. Ultimately, they try to get a confession, or an eye-witness testimony because all they have is circumstantial evidence and that might not hold up in court. Sometimes in a program a bad cop fudges the evidence to make it look like someone was guilty when they were not. Sadly many of today´s scientists are fudging the evidence in order to have the public believe that the evolution of “molecules to man” has really taken place.
The famous British biologist D. Watson clearly expressed this view way back in 1929 when he said, “Evolution is a theory universally accepted not because it can be proved to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.”[7]
When talking about evolution, we are talking about “molecules to man” evolution or common descent from the first living organism. The evolutionary tree of life demonstrates all life springing from one source. Biologists often claim that since a change does take place in a species, therefore “evolution” has occurred. This is an example of what some scientists call “micro-evolution.” Creationist scientists agree that some form of “speciation” does take place, but never does a new type of “kind” of animal develop. Creationists would call this variation within a species or “kind” of animal.
Dr Jason Lisle talks about the shift of one meaning of a word in an argument to another meaning in his book Discerning Truth: Exposing Errors in Evolutionary Arguments. He says, “Evolution can mean “change” in a general sense but it also refers to the idea that organisms share a common ancestor or “particles to people” evolution. Many evolutionists seem to think that by demonstrating evolution in the sense of change it some how proves evolution in the sense of “common descent” or “particles to people” evolution. You might hear someone say, `Creationists are wrong because we can see evolution happening all the time. Organism are constantly changing and adapting to their environment.´ But the fact that animals change does not demonstrate that they share a common ancestor. This is a very common fallacy used in evolutionary arguments.”[8]
The finches´ beaks may be different, but they are still finches. The dogs may be Great Dames or Chihuahuas, but they are still dogs. The moths may be black or white peppered, but they are still moths. The bacteria may be resistant or non-resistant to pesticide, but it is still bacteria. Natural selection and mutation may have occurred, but no new genetic information has been added to the DNA of the organism. New genetic information would be necessary for a new body part or body function to appear. The error of the Neo-Darwinians is that they teach that fundamentally information is created by mutations.
Scientists have even discovered that some bacteria possess a genetic capacity to resist certain antibiotics. Mutations are not involved. In other cases, structural defects are caused in the organism where the antibiotic would attach itself thus making the bacteria resistant. But rather than saying that the bacteria gained resistant, we could say that the antibiotic lost its ability to attach itself to the bacteria. The mutation in the bacteria caused a structural defect in the bacteria prohibiting the attachment of the antibiotic.
Normally what we see in nature is variation within a kind of animal or organism, not “molecules to man” evolution. The term “micro evolution” is used in these cases, but “micro-evolution” plus millions of years will not give us “macro-evolution” or “molecules to man” evolution. The problem remains; neither natural selection nor mutations can add new genetic information to the DNA.
Sir Fred Hoyle, the famous British mathematician and astronomer, questioned the very origins of the first cell through evolution. He said, “The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 zeros after it. It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole General Theory of Evolution. There was no primordial soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must, therefore, have been the product of purposeful intelligence.”[9] As a mathematician he strongly argued against the mathematical probability of evolution. Because the improbability was so high, he concluded that evolution was impossible.
“Molecules to man evolution” has no mechanism. There is no way for one type of animal to change into another, no matter how much time is involved. When Charles Darwin was writing his Origins of the Species, the scientific community knew nothing of Mendel´s genetic studies. Mendel published them at about the same time as the Origins, but in French. However, scientists did not become aware of Mendel´s studies until the beginning of the 1900´s. Evolutionists were hoping Mendel´s genetics would offer the mechanism for evolution. But they were sadly disappointed.
Genetics proved a dead end and clearly showed that a great variety within a species was possible to obtain, but to a limit. The gene pool was limited; therefore the genetic variation possible was also a limited. Genetics did not help, but just confirmed the idea that there existed a barrier between the different “kinds” of organisms and that barrier could not be crossed. In fact studies show that a good course in genetics, even if taught by an evolutionist, reduces the student´s belief in biological evolution.
Genetics proved a dead end and clearly showed that a great variety within a species was possible to obtain, but to a limit. The gene pool was limited; therefore the genetic variation possible was also a limited. Genetics did not help, but just confirmed the idea that there existed a barrier between the different “kinds” of organisms and that barrier could not be crossed. In fact studies show that a good course in genetics, even if taught by an evolutionist, reduces the student´s belief in biological evolution.
Today scientists know that neither natural selection nor mutations can create new genetic information. New genetic information would be necessary, for example, to change a reptilian lung into an avian lung. Biologist Michael Denton does a good study on this topic which can be seen on YouTube on “From a Prince to a Frog,” [10]
Reiterating the point once again, neither natural selection nor mutations, which evolutionists claim are the mechanisms for evolutionary change, can form new genetic information.
Dr. Lee Spetner, who holds a PHD in physics from MIT said in his book called Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution: “In all the reading I have done in life-science literature, I have never found a mutation that added information. All point mutations that have been studied on the molecular level turn out to reduce genetic information, not increase it.”[12]
British scientist Michael Pitman has commented that “neither observation nor controlled experimentation has shown natural selection manipulating mutations so as to produce a new gene, hormone, enzyme or organ.”[13]
A final quote on the subject by Dr. Wilder- Smith a famous British geneticist: “The chemistry of mutations in the genetic code has an effect similar to that of water on a text. Mutations modify or destroy already existing genetic information, but they never create new information, they never create an entirely new biological organ. Herein lays the error of New Darwinism which teaches that fundamentally new information is created by mutations.”[14] Some fascinating lectures and debates by Dr. Wilder – Smith can be found on YouTube.
Today, many children are born with one of the thousands of genetic defects or diseases. These defects/diseases are a result of mutations in the parental genes. Evidence from science clearly shows that mutations are usually deadly or dangerous and not beneficial. The few that may be beneficial, like sickle cell anaemia, are still caused by the loss of or damage to the genetic information.
Why are students still being taught in their textbooks that natural selection together with mutations are mechanisms for evolutionary change? Evolutionists do not want to let the cat out of the bag. They do not have a better answer and do not want to admit that they have not found a mechanism for evolution. They hide the facts because they believe their paradigm so strongly and because the only viable alternative is divine creation.
Like one evolutionist Professor of Genetics Richard Lewontin said, “We take the side of evolutionary science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just so stories, because we have a prior commitment to materialism, that materialism is absolute for we cannot allow a divine foot in the door,”[15] or repeating the Watson quote, “Evolution is a theory universally accepted not because it can be proved to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.”[16] Scott Todd from Kansas State University has said something similarly, “Even if all the data should point to an intelligent designer, such a hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic.”[17]
Like one evolutionist Professor of Genetics Richard Lewontin said, “We take the side of evolutionary science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just so stories, because we have a prior commitment to materialism, that materialism is absolute for we cannot allow a divine foot in the door,”[15] or repeating the Watson quote, “Evolution is a theory universally accepted not because it can be proved to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.”[16] Scott Todd from Kansas State University has said something similarly, “Even if all the data should point to an intelligent designer, such a hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic.”[17]
The argument is not science verses religion as evolutionists like to present it. The argument is between two differing world views. Duane Gish said, “The battle is with the evolutionary philosophy and faith, not science. Evolution is a powerful religious concept, which if correctly understood, negates all of Christianity.”[18]
Evidence does not speak for itself. The fossils are not found with dates already attached. They do not talk. Science does not say anything. It is the scientists who make value judgments about their observations. But, if they are good scientists, they should make their judgments based on whether the evidence is in accordance with known laws of nature or physics, not according to their particular bias about origins. The evolutionist Bateson has confessed, “We cannot see how differences into species came about, variation of many kinds, often considerable, we daily witness, but no origins of species. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken, we have no acceptable account of the origin of species.”[19]
Science can never prove what happened in the past. Scientists can speculate, and can formulate theories. But historical science can never be proved in a laboratory. Historical science deals with speculating about how events or processes took place in the past. Historical science is at best philosophical, because it deals with assumptions about past events. Neither creation nor evolution can be proven in the laboratory. They are historical scientific models or ways to view the evidence and interpret how events happened in the past. They are not scientific facts. However, the scientific facts should align with a scientific model that is accurate.
Science which we perform in the laboratory is called operational science and is done by following the scientific method: observation, hypothesis, experimentation, observation, conclusion, testing and verification. Operational science has given us the man on the moon, mobile phones, laptops, modern medicines and so on.
But “origins” or historical science is speculation about past events and as such does not come under the same category as operational science. We are not able to go back in time and observe what happened at the beginning of time. Scientists speculate about the past and make ideological judgments before doing the science or the mathematical equations. Like Stephen Hawking admits in his book The Brief History of Time. When talking about the big bang, he mentions that he must add “a mixture of ideology.”[20]
Internationally renowned astrophysicist George FR Ellis who worked closely with Hawking said when talking about the Big Bang that, "People need to be aware that there is a range of models that can explain the observations .... For instance, I can construct a spherically symmetric universe for you, with Earth at its center, and you cannot prove otherwise based on observations, (that it is wrong) ....you can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my opinion, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide it."[21]
The point he is trying to make, as an honest scientist, is that the idea of the Big Bang without a center and without an edge is an ideological decision. Scientists choose a model without a center and without an edge to keep away from the Biblical idea that the earth is special and has a special place in the universe. However, if you start with the earth´s galaxy near the center of the universe, which the observable evidence cannot disprove and seems to agree with, you come to totally different conclusions. See Russell Humphreys´ Starlight and Time on the YouTube.[22] Today´s leaders of scientific inquiry purposely choose a center-less and edge-less universe for philosophical reasons, because they “cannot allow a divine foot in the door.”[23]
Basically, there are two world views in the scientific community: the Biblical creationist world view and the naturalistic evolutionary world view. The naturalists believe that the world and everything in it can be explained only by what we find in the natural material world. They do not believe in the supernatural. Naturalism was popular world view in the 19th century and on into the early 20th century. You have many naturalist writers at that time such as Stephen Crane, Jack London, and Ernest Hemingway, to name a few, which ultimately led to the existentialism of Kafka, Sartre and Camus.
We need to understand that naturalism is the underlining philosophy of evolution. The evolutionary scientists have tried or are trying to change the original reason for science and meaning of science. Science originally was the search for the truth of the how and the why of the world around us. Today´s scientists like to define science as the search for naturalistic reasons to the how and the why of life and the world around us. Even if the evidence should point to the supernatural, evolutionists will not accept it. They claim that the supernatural is outside the realm of science. Evolutionary scientist Ernest Mayr said in 1988, “In scientific controversies, there is rarely any argument about facts. It is rather their interpretation that is controversial.”[24]
By buildings their theory on the false premise “there is no supernatural,” the evolutionists were bound to come to the wrong conclusion. A false premise will not lead to a correct, logical conclusion. The supernatural does exist. Thousands of people experience it every day. People experience healings. They hear voices that keep them from danger. They have dreams or visions that warn them about some evil or tell them of the death of a loved one. Scientist and doctors have written numerable books about people who have had life after death experiences. Just recently a book about a young child who had a Near Death Experience has been quite popular. People have supernatural experiences that change their lives. The supernatural is real.
Naturalism starts with the metaphysical conclusion that there is no supernatural. Therefore, naturalism is false. Therefore, evolution which is founded on naturalism is also false. Honest scientists should be more open to the problems within the theory of evolution and consider the creation model as a viable alternative. Dave Schoch in his book The Assumptions Behind the Theory of Evolution says, “The truth can only be made up of facts, not assumptions. We should not be teaching assumptions as facts to our children, especially a theory that only stands upon one assumption after another.”[25]
In the book In Six Days: why 50 scientists choose to believe in creation,[26] scientists with doctorates in various scientific fields give clear testimony and reasoning to their personal decisions to accept the Biblical creation model over the current more popular evolutionary model. These scientists not only reject the Darwinian evolutionary model as unscientific, but chose a literal six day creation event to be the most scientific of the choices.
For more information on the creation/evolution debate from the Biblical creationist viewpoint the following websites are available, although there are many others:
Also, on YouTube many creation documentaries can be found as well as interesting debates between creationists and evolutionists. Jesus said, “Seek and you shall find.”[Matthew 7:7] He also said, “You shall seek me and find me when you shall search for me with all your heart.”[Jeremiah 29:13] If you really hunger and thirst after “truth” you will find it. That´s a promise!
Originally published April 20, 2013.
Footnotes:
1. Hutton, James; http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scottishenlightenment/jameshutton/learnmore.asp.
2. Hutton, James; The Abyss of Time: Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity After the ...
By Claude C. Albritton; page 100 chapter 8.
3. Hutton, James;. http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/vestiges-of-james-hutton.
4. Lyell, Charles; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lyell.
5. Lyell, Charles; God and nature: historical essays on the encounter between Christianity and ...
edited by David C. Lindberg, Ronald Leslie Numbers, “Geologists and Interpreters of Genesis,” page 337.
6. James Hutton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul N. Pearson (16 October 2003). "In Retrospect". Nature V. 425 #6959, p. 665. Comments on Hutton's 3-volume 1794 work, An Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge and of the Progress of Reason, from Sense to Science and Philosophy.
7. Watson, D; http://theevolutioncrisis.org.uk/to-the-reader.php.
8. Lisle, Dr. Jason; Discerning Truth; 20010, page 20.
9. Hoyle, Sir Fred; (1981)"Hoyle on Evolution,"
Nature, Vol. 294, No. 5837, November 12, p. 148
10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtDX17KjjG0
11. Denton, Dr. Michael; http://www.trueorigin.org/isakrbtl.asp.
11. Denton, Dr. Michael; http://www.trueorigin.org/isakrbtl.asp.
12. Spetner, Dr. Lee; Tornado in a Junkyard (James Perloff), 1999, page 26.
13. Pitman, Michael; Tornado in a Junkyard (James Perloff), 1999, page26.
14. Wilder- Smith, Dr.; Tornado in a Junkyard (James Perloff), 1999, pg. 27.
15. Lewontin, Professor Richard; “Billions and billions of demons,” The New York Review; http://dailyevidence.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/the-divine-foot/.
16. Watson, D; http://theevolutioncrisis.org.uk/to-the-reader.php.
17. Todd, Scott; correspondence to Nature 401(6752):423, 30 Sept. 1999; http://creation.com/a-designer-is-unscientific-even-if-all-the-evidence-supports-one.
18. Gish, Dr. Duane; Creation Scientists Answer Their Critics, 1993 p. 42,.
19. Bateson; http://www.scribd.com/doc/132636931/Predicament-of-Evolution quoted by George McCready Price, 1925.
20. Hawking, Dr. Stephen; http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/1998/01/21/review-relative-cosmology.
21. Ellis, FR. George; http://www.allaboutscience.org/big-bang-theory.htm.
22. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mooHSXTR2RE
22. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mooHSXTR2RE
23. Lewontin, Richard; http://creation.com/amazing-admission-lewontin-quote.
24. Mayr, Ernest; http://bevets.com/evobiaspics.htm.
25. Schoch, Dave; 2008.
26. John F. Aston (Editor), 2001.
Minuto a minuto debes caminar a mi lado - La Voz Diaria
Minuto a minuto debes caminar a mi lado - La Voz Diaria
Me buscarás y me encontrarás cuando me busques con todo tu corazón. JeremÃas 29:13
Minuto a minuto, hora a hora, dÃa a dÃa debes caminar a mi lado. Debes mantener una estrecha comunicación conmigo si quieres permanecer en el camino recto y angosto de mi voluntad. Para mantener esa estrecha comunicación, será necesario detenerte, esperar y escuchar mi voz apacible y delicada.
La oración es uno de los principales instrumentos que usarás en tu relación conmigo. La oración no debe ser solo hablarme. Debe incluir escucharme. Debes aprender a escuchar mi voz apacible y delicada en tu corazón. Si tomas lápiz y papel, puedes anotar lo que te digo para repasarlo después o compartirlo con otros. ¿No he dicho que mi lengua es la mano de un escritor hábil? Toma tu pluma y escribe lo que te digo al corazón.
Leer mi palabra y estudiarla, dejando que hable a tu corazón, es otro elemento importante para mantener una relación cercana conmigo. Mis palabras son EspÃritu y son vida. Leer mi palabra enciende un fuego en tu corazón. Mi palabra es viva y poderosa, y más cortante que una espada de dos filos. Que mi palabra sea alimento para tu alma. ¿No he dicho que el hombre no solo vive de pan, sino de toda palabra que sale de la boca de Dios?
La alabanza y la acción de gracias son dos disciplinas importantes que uno debe adoptar si quiere mantener una relación cercana conmigo. La alabanza es la voz de la fe y sin fe es imposible agradarme. La fe es la mano del EspÃritu que abre las puertas de la dificultad. La fe proviene de escuchar mi palabra, pero debe ponerse en práctica. ¿No he dicho: «Anda por fe, no por vista»? Da ese paso de fe y pon en práctica lo que te digo, mientras caminas en alabanza y acción de gracias.
El perdón y la humildad son los dos últimos que añadiré a la lista, y me detendré aquÃ, antes de añadir demasiado de una vez. Resisto a los orgullosos, pero doy gracia a los humildes. Por lo tanto, caminen con toda humildad ante MÃ. No sean altivos, sino condescendientes con los humildes. Yo soy amor. Si quieren que viva y actúe en ustedes, deben vivir en amor y perdón hacia quienes los rodean. Perdonen como desean que Yo los perdone. Amen como desean que Yo los ame. En esto conocerán todos que son mis discÃpulos: si se aman y se perdonan unos a otros; pero el mayor de ellos es el amor.
Minuto a minuto, deves caminhar bem perto de Mim - A Voz Diária
Minuto a minuto, deves caminhar bem perto de Mim - A Voz Diária
Procurar-Me-ão e encontrar-Me-ão quando Me procurarem de todo o coração. Jeremias 29:13
Minuto a minuto, hora a hora, dia a dia, deves caminhar bem perto de Mim. Deves manter uma comunicação estreita Comigo se quiseres permanecer no caminho reto e estreito da Minha vontade. Será necessário parar, esperar e ouvir a Minha voz suave e delicada para manter esta comunicação próxima.
A oração é um dos principais instrumentos que utilizará no seu relacionamento Comigo. Rezar não deve ser apenas falar Comigo. Deve incluir ouvir-Me. Deve aprender a ouvir a Minha voz mansa e delicada no seu coração. Se pegar numa caneta e num papel, poderá registar o que Eu lhe estou a dizer, para rever mais tarde ou partilhar com outros. Não disse eu que a Minha lÃngua é a mão de um escritor hábil? Pegue na sua caneta e escreva o que Eu digo ao seu coração.
Ler a Minha palavra e estudá-la, deixando-a falar ao seu coração, é outro elemento importante para manter uma relação próxima Comigo. As minhas palavras são EspÃrito e são vida. Ler A minha palavra acende uma chama no teu peito. A minha palavra é viva e poderosa, e mais cortante do que uma espada de dois gumes. Que a Minha palavra seja alimento para a sua alma. Não disse Eu que o homem não viverá só de pão, mas de toda a palavra que sai da boca de Deus?
O louvor e a gratidão são duas disciplinas importantes que alguém deve abraçar para permanecer em comunhão Comigo. O louvor é a voz da fé e sem fé é impossÃvel agradar-Me. A fé é a mão do EspÃrito que abre as portas da dificuldade. A fé vem de ouvir a Minha palavra, mas precisa de ser posta em prática. Não disse Eu: Andai por fé e não por vista? Dê este passo de fé e ponha em prática o que Eu lhe digo, caminhando em louvor e gratidão.
Perdão e humildade são as duas últimas que irei acrescentar à lista, e ficarei por aqui, antes que acrescente demasiado de uma só vez. Resisto aos soberbos, mas dou graça aos humildes. Portanto, andai em toda a humildade diante de Mim. Não sejais arrogantes, mas sede humildes com os de condição humilde. Eu sou amor. Se quereis que Eu viva em vós e me mova em vós, deveis caminhar em amor e em perdão para com aqueles que vos rodeiam. Perdoem como querem que Eu vos perdoe. Amai como quereis que Eu vos ame. Nisto conhecerão todos que sois Meus discÃpulos, se tiverem amor e perdão uns para com os outros; no entanto, o maior deles é o amor.
Minute By Minute You Must Walk Close By My Side - The Daily Voice
Minute by minute you must walk close by My side - The Daily Voice
You shall seek and find Me when you shall search for Me with
all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13
Minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day you must walk close by My side. You must keep in close communication with Me if you are to stay on the straight and narrow path of My will. It will take stopping, and waiting, and listening to My still small voice in order to maintain that close communication.
Prayer is one of the main instruments you will use in your
relationship with Me. Prayer must not just be your speaking to Me. It must
include your listening to Me. You must learn to listen to My still small voice
in your heart. If you take a pen and paper, you can record what I am speaking
to you, to review later, or share with others. Have I not said that My tongue is
the hand of a ready writer? Pick up your pen and write that which I speak to
your heart.
Reading My word and studying it, letting it speak to your
heart is another important element in maintaining a close relationship with Me.
My words are Spirit and they are life. reading My word ignites a fire in your
bosom. My word is alive and powerful, and sharper than a two-edged sword. Let
My word be food for your soul. Have I not said that man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.?
Praise and thanksgiving are two more important disciplines
one must embrace if he is to remain in close relationship with Me. Praise is
the voice of faith and without faith it is impossible to please Me. Faith is
the hand of the Spirit that unlocks the doors of difficulty. Faith comes from
hearing My word, but must be put into action. Have I not said, Walk by faith,
and not by sight? Take that step of faith and put feet to the things I tell you, while walking in praise and thanksgiving.
Forgiveness and humility are the final two I will add to the
list, and stop there, before I add too much at one time. I resist the proud, but
give grace to the humble. Therefore, walk in all humility before Me. Be not
high-minded, but condescend to those of low degree. I am love. If you want Me
to live in you and move in you, you must walk in love and in forgiveness to
those around you. Forgive as you want Me to forgive you. Love as you would have
Me love you. By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have
love and forgiveness one to another, but the greatest of these is love.
Deuteronomy 4 KJV
Deuteronomy 4 KJV
1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
4 But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.
5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
12 And the Lord spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
14 And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
20 But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
21 Furthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee.
24 For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:
26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
27 And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you.
28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
31 (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
34 Or has God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 Unto thee it was showed, that thou might know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him.
36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.
41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt.
46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
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Ephesians 6 KJV
Ephesians 6 King James Version
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
21 But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:
22 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.
23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
