Transcript Summer Series 2005 Stark Road Gospel Hall August 3, 2005

Summer Series 2005
Stark Road Gospel Hall
August 3, 2005
George P. Koshy
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
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God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Look Around:
 Design: His Wisdom In Creation
 Intelligent Design?
 Beauty: He Loves Beauty and Variety
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
 Through Nature: Psalms 8:3; 19:1-3;
Rom. 1:15-17, 19; 2:9; Hebrews 1:1-3
Through the Word of God:
 Written
 In The Person of Christ
John 1:1-14, 18; Col. 1:15-17, 19;
2:9; Heb. 1:1-3, …
 By Attributes:
 God is love
 God is life
 God is light
 God is Eternal
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A Brief Review of July 13, 2005:
Background:
My Trip to Sault Ste. Marie, MI
My Watch Said:
8:10 AM
Rt. 23
Leaving Ann Arbor
Enter Rt. 23 North
My Watch Said:
12:30 PM
I still have to go
Mackinaw City
How long was I driving? = 12:30 – 8:10 = 4 hours and 20 minutes
I conclude: I was alive and driving for 4 hours and 20 minutes
A Brief Review of July 13, 2005:
My Life Journey On This Earth
The Science Said:
Earth was 4.6
Billion Years Old
I still have to live
The Science Said:
Earth was 3.4
Billion Years Old
I Became An Indian Citizen
1947
I Became A US Citizen
1976
What can I deduce?
A Brief Review of July 13, 2005:
My Life Journey On This Earth
The Science Said:
Earth was 3.4
Billion Years Old
I Became An Indian Citizen
1947
The Science Said:
Earth was 4.6
Billion Years Old
I still have to live
I Became A US Citizen
1976
I Deduce The Following From These Facts:
How long was I living = 4.6 – 3.4 = 1.2 Billion Years
I conclude: I am over 1.2 billion years old.
I am a really, really, old man.
Older and more valuable than any antique!
-- According to Science --
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Isaiah 9:6 - “For unto us a child is born, unto us a
son is given; and the government shall be upon
his shoulder; and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of
Eternity, Prince of Peace.”
Father of Eternity = ABI-YD = du-yba
yba = ABI = Father of
Du = = YD = Eternity or Eternal
Father of Eternity ==> Creator of Eternity
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Genesis 1:1-2
“In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth. And the earth was waste and
empty and darkness was on the face of the
deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over
the face of the waters.”
Psalms 33:6
“By the word of Jehovah were the heavens
made, and all the host of them by the breath of
his mouth.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Romans 11:36
“For of him, and through him, and for him [are]
all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.”
Colossians 1:16
“Because by him were created all things, the things
in heavens and things upon the earth, the visible
and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or
principalities, or authorities: all things have been
created by him and for him.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
“See that there be no one who shall lead
you away as a prey through philosophy
and vain deceit, according to the
teaching of men, according to the
elements of this world, and not
according to Christ.”
(Colossians 2:8)
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Genesis 1:1-2
“In the beginning God
created the heavens
and the earth. And the
earth was waste and
empty and darkness
was on the face of the
deep, and the Spirit of
God was hovering over
the face of the waters.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
2 Chron. 6:1
“Jehovah said that he
would dwell in thick
darkness.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Genesis 1:3
“And God said, Let there be
light. And there was light.”
Hebrews 1:3
“Who being [the]
effulgence of his glory and
[the] expression of his
substance…”
1 Timothy 6:16
“Who only has immortality,
dwelling in unapproachable
light…”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
2 Corinthians 4:6
“Because [it is] the God
who spoke that out of
darkness light should shine,
who has shone in our
hearts for the shining forth
of the knowledge of the
glory of God in [the] face of
[Jesus] Christ.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Heaven
Job 26:7
“He stretched out the north
over empty space, he hanged
the earth upon nothing.”
Job 37:22; Psalms 48:2;
75:6; Isaiah 14:13-15;
Jeremiah 1:14; Ezekiel 44:4
 The heaven is in the
north.
Orbit of Earth
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Genesis 1:13-14
“And God said, Let there
be lights in the expanse of
the heavens, to divide
between the day and the
night; and let them be for
signs, and for seasons,
and for days and years;
and let them be for lights
in the expanse of the
heavens, to give light on
the earth. And it was so.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
A Shadow of:
Malachi 4:2
“And unto you that fear
my name shall the Sun of
righteousness arise with
healing in his wings;…”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
A Shadow of:
1 Peter 1:19
“…until the day dawn and the
morning star arise in your
hearts.”
Rev. 2:18
“I will give him the morning
star.”
Rev, 22:18
“I am the root and offspring
of David, the bright morning
star.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Look Around:
 The Beauty
 The Variety
Psalms 8:3
“When I see the
heavens, the work of
your fingers, the moon
and the stars, which
thou hast established.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Look Around:
 The Beauty
 The Variety
Psalms 19:1
“The heavens declare
the glory of God; and
the expanse shows the
work of his hands.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Pluto
Neptune
Mercury
Uranus
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Look Around:
 The Beauty -- e.g.: Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion
 The Variety -- The Size; Its Path; Its Spacing, etc.
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Look Around:
 The Beauty -- e.g.: Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion
 The Variety -- The Size; Its Path; Its Spacing, etc.
Centripetal vs. Centrifugal Forces:
God’s ways are in: Whirlwind – Nahum 1:3
Isaiah 66:15
Jeremiah 4:13; 23:19; 30:23
Elijah was taken up into heaven by a whirlwind -- 2 King 2:1, 11
Jehovah answered Job out of a whirlwind -- Job 38:1; 40:6
Jehovah shall go with whirlwind – Zech. 9:14
(Tornado, Hurricane: They come from the south – Job 37:9;
Isaiah 21:1)
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Look Around:
 The Beauty
 The Variety
What is the significance of these numbers?
0.4
0.7
1.0
1.6
Is there any pattern?
2.8
5.2
10.0
19.6
38.8
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Look Around:
 The Beauty -- e.g.: Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion
 The Variety -- The Size; Its Path; Its Spacing, etc.
Bode’s Law of Planetary Motion:
0
3
Add 4
6
12
24
48
96
192
384
4
7
10
Divide by 10
16
28
52
100
196
388
1.6
2.8
5.2
10.0
19.6
38.8
0.4
0.7
1.0
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God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Bode’s Law of Planetary Motion:
Astronomical Unit = The distance from the Sun to Earth
0.4
0.7
Mercury
1.0
1.6
2.8
Earth
Venus
5.2
10.0
Jupiter
Mars
19.6
38.8
Uranus
Saturn
?
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Pluto
(39.0)
Neptune
“Where were you when I founded the earth?
Declare, if you have understanding.” Job 38:4
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Bode’s Law of Planetary Motion:
Astronomical Unit = The distance from the Sun to Earth
0.4
0.7
Mercury
1.0
1.6
Earth
Venus
2.8
5.2
10.0
Jupiter
Mars
19.6
38.8
Uranus
Saturn
Asteroids
?
Pluto
(39.0)
Neptune
“Who set the measures thereof – if you know? Or
who stretched a line upon it?” Job 38:5
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Bode’s Law of Planetary Motion:
Asteroids
Pluto
Neptune
Mercury
Uranus
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
“For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.”
Psalms 33:9
Look Around: The Beauty and Variety of Planetary Motion
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
1 Corinthians 15:41-42
“One [the] sun’s glory, and another [the]
moon’s glory, and another [the] stars’ glory;
for star differs from star in glory. Thus also
[is] the resurrection of the dead.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Jude 13
“… Wandering stars (asteres planhtai =
asteres planetai) to whom has been reserved the
gloom of darkness for eternity.”
Believers are compared to “stars” at
resurrection.
The false teachers who crept unaware are
compared to “wandering stars” or ‘planets
that appear like stars,’ in this life.
This is a note for the next two slides:
You are to stare at the ‘white spot’ at the center of the slide for about
30 seconds. Try not to blink. After that click for the next slide and
keep on staring at the slide and see what is not there.
If you see a U.S. flag, then you can be sure about the correctness of
the saying, “Seeing is believing,” (SIB), or the demand, “Prove it to
me’ (PITM).
“Oh Say, Can You See!…
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Oh! What Do We See?
The Flag Is Still Here!!!
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Speed of light = 186,000 Miles/Sec.
Star-X
A Light Year
= The distance traveled by light in one year
= 365 x 24 x 60 x 60 x 186,000 miles
The Sun is about eight minutes away from the
earth = 8 x 60 x 186,000 miles
The nearest star is over two (2) Light Years
from the earth.
At least
2 light years
-- 4 years is the
distance of the next
star to us, except the
Sun.
Earth
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Look Around:
 The Beauty
 The Variety
} Of the motions of Stars
Star-1
Psalms 33:9
“For he spoke, and it was done;
he commanded, and it stood
fast.”
Psalms 148:6
“And he established them for ever
and ever; he made [for them] a
statute which shall not pass.”
8 light years
Earth
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Look Around:
 The Beauty
 The Variety
} Of the motions of Stars
Star-1
Psalms 8:3
“When I see your
heavens, the work of your
fingers, the moon and the
stars, which thou hast
established.”
2 light years
Star-2
6 light years
Earth
Note for the next two slides:
When we see the Stars 1 & 2 as colliding each other, they are far away in
different directions. One is six light years and the other four light years.
But it appears to us as occupying the same space. The Babylonian science,
Astrology, is based on such faulty observations. Therefore, the Children of
Israel were told not to give any attention to such sciences. We read about it
as ‘Science falsely called.’
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Look Around:
 The Beauty
Of the motions of Stars
 The Variety
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Psalms 19:1,3
Star-1
“The heavens declare the
glory of God; and the
expanse shows the work
of his hands…There is no
speech and there are no
words, yet their voice is
heard.”
Star-2
2 light years
6 light years
Earth
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Look Around:
 The Beauty
 The Variety
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Of the motions of Stars
Isaiah 47:13
Star-1
“You are wearied in the
multitude of your counsels.
Let now the interpreters of
the heavens, the observers
of the stars, who predict
according to the new
moons what shall come
upon thee, stand up, and
save you.”
Star-2
2 light years
6 light years
Earth
The Babylonian Science
Isaiah 47:12-13
Formulae of incantations (Sorceries)
Charms to be placed on afflicted persons or houses
(Enchantments)
Records of observations which mixed astronomy with
speculations (Astrology), resulted in the case of any two
successive or concurrent events, in the conclusion that
one was the cause of the other.
==> The reasoning from the FACT (PARTICULAR) to
the GENERAL. The calculation falsified the data.
==> The beginning of erroneous “cause and effect”
theory.
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Look Around:
 The Beauty
 The Variety
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Of the motions of Stars
Moon goes around the earth -- about 26 days
Earth goes around the Sun -- about 365 days
Sun goes around another star -- about 2 million years
The Milky Way goes around some other body
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Look Around:
 The Beauty
 The Variety
} Of the motions of Stars
Ezekiel 1:15-20
“… and their appearance and their work
was as it were a wheel in the middle of a
wheel…”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
God’s Method (Way) of Creation:
Genesis 1
“God said, and it was so.”
Psalms 33:9
“For he spoke, and it was done; he
commanded, and it stood fast.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
God’s Method (Way) of Creation:
Revelation 4:11
“You are worthy, O our Lord and [our]
God, to receive glory and honor and power;
for you have created all things, and for
your will they were and they have been
created.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
God’s Method (Way) of Creation:
Psalms 33:6 tells us that He created the
heavens by His word and the hosts of
heaven by the breath of His mouth.
God created where there was nothing
before.
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
God’s Method (Way) of Creation:
The objects of creation were the visible and
invisible things. (Hebrews 11:1; Romans 1:20)
Visible ==> The limitation of man
= The visible and hearing spectrum
Invisible ==> The spectrum of waves that
are beyond man’s senses.
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
God’s Method (Way) of Creation:
God’s creates not by parts that obey the laws of
nature. God’s creative act includes the laws that
govern the materials and things He creates.
When man designs, he designs things that are to
obey the existing laws of nature and understanding
the limitations of the objects.
(The infrastructure: Material Strength: Tensile,
Compression, Torsion, Shear, Brittleness)
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Man designs things by parts to fit them
together.
God does not design by parts, He says and
that comes into existence.
Man designs to be reproduced by others in
the likeness of the original.
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
 God made man in His likeness.
 God made man not by parts.
 The method of making or creating man was:
 By the method of Compressed Dust
 The method of creating the woman was from
Adam’s rib.
No man reproduces by the method of creation by God.
Adam begot a son in his likeness, and not in the likeness of
God or from the dust of the ground (Genesis 5).
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
God’s creation reproduces by growing into its
fullness using the elementary materials –
minerals, nutrition, etc.
Therefore, “The child grew…” (Luke 1:80)
When a child is conceived, it only receives the
minerals, nutrition, etc. through the mother, but
does not even receive a drop of its mother’s
blood. All parts come into being and not brought
in and assembled. Then it grows.
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
An intelligent designer is the one who
invents using existing materials and
technologies to obey the existing laws
of nature.
God’s creation is a WONDER
because even the laws are created
while creating things.
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Age of The Earth:
“…The photolysis of water results in hydrogen and
oxygen, the hydrogen escaping, thus leaving us with
molecular oxygen…There are approximately 1021
grams of oxygen in the present atmosphere, about
1017 grams are being produced each year,
calculating these quantities through gives
approximately 10,000 years or so. Thus, most of the
oxygen present is due to biological organisms.”
Dr. H.R. Hulett, Stanford University
Irreversible Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life
Proceedings of the Third International Biophysics Congress, MIT
1974
Photolysis = Chemical decomposition induced by radiant energy
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Who Is The Closest Blood relative?
The specific gravity of blood in:
Human
1059
Hare
1060
Pig
1060
Frog
1055-1056
Snake
1055
Monkey
1054-1059
It must be the pig and hare!
Source: Evolution or Creation; H. Enoch; 1974
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
The Mystery of the Left-handed Molecules
in Proteins:
“This is a very puzzling fact… All the
proteins that have been investigated,
obtained from animals and from plants, from
higher organisms and from very simple
organisms – bacteria, molds, even viruses –
are found to have been made of L-amino
acids.”
Linus Pauling; General Chemistry (3rd Ed.), 1970
(Note: There are D-amino acids in dead things.
L – for ‘levo,’ and D – for ‘dextro.’)
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
The Mystery of the Left-handed Molecules
in Proteins:
“This great character is, perhaps, the only
sharp dividing line which we can draw at
present between the chemistry of dead and
living nature.”
Louis Pasteur; quoted by A.I. Oparin; “Life, Its Nature, Origin
and Development.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Is That Bird’s Brain Packaging?
Or
God’s Wisdom?
A manufacturer of a highly perishable product
wants a porous container to pack his products.
Did the first pair of birds know this
fact, so that their progenies will
succeed to live and procreate?
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Is That Bird’s Brain Packaging?
Or
God’s Wisdom?
Hypothesis Testing:
H0: The first pair of birds knew
about packaging of eggs with
porous material (ie. Evolutionary
Process).
H1: God created them with the
porous packaging of eggs to “be
fruitful and multiply” after its
kind.
A Bird Is A Seed Picker
Note for the next slide:
The Eggshell is porous for the embryo to breath. Virus can get through these tiny
holes, let us call it ‘breathing holes,’ and will kill the embryo. If the shell is nonporous the embryo will die, because of the lack of oxygen. Being porous, virus will
enter and kill the embryo. How many thousands of years the rooster and the hen took
to figure this original problem and the shortcomings of their presumed solution? If it
takes thousands of years for an evolutionary process to take effect, the original rooster
and hen are dead and gone. The result is the extinction of the species, called chicken,
or any other bird.
Now we believe in creation. God made the rooster and the hen to lay eggs that are
porous. He also filled it with two things, the yoke and the white. Egg-white is madeup of a chemical that is highly attracted to iron and is separated from the iron rich yoke
with a membrane. When a virus enters through one of the holes in the egg-shell, the
chemical in the egg-white steals the iron in the virus. This will result in the death of
the virus before reaching the yoke. If there are too many viruses coming through the
breathing holes in the egg-shell, then the egg-white will be saturated with the dead
bodies of viruses and we get a rotten egg. This great provision for propagation of the
species from the first day of its existence (5th day in Genesis 1 in this case) is a definite
show of God’s creation and not of evolution.
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Is That Bird’s Brain Packaging?
Or
Iron rich yolk
God’s Wisdom?
Decision:
Reject H0 in favor
of
H
Porous eggshell:
Egg white: 1
 Oxygen
 Bacteria
 Conalbumin
- Protein attracted to iron
 Virtually no iron
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the surpassingness (excellency – KJV) of
the power may be of God, and not from us:
every way afflicted, but not straitened
(distressed – KJV); seeing no apparent issue,
but our way not entirely shut up; persecuted,
but not abandoned; cast down, but not
destroyed.” 2 Cor. 4:7-10
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
Look Around:
 The Beauty
 The Variety
2 Corinthians 5:17
“So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a
new creation; the old things have passed
away; behold all things have become
new.”
 There is a law  In Christ
 No one can change the laws of God
 John 6:44; 14:6 (Read)
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
John Looked Around and Saw:
 The Beauty of The New Creation
Revelation 21:1-2
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth;
for the first heaven and the first earth had
passed away, and the sea exists no more.
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down out of the heaven from God,
prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband.”
God’s Self-revelation: He has spoken (Heb. 1:1-2)
John Looked Around and
Saw The Beauty of The
New Creation
Like the first day of this
creation:
 No sun
 No moon
 Glory of God enlightens
 Lamp is the Lamb
God has spoken, do we hear the beauty of
what He said?
The End