The Martyrdom of Saint Philip the Apostle. 27th November - 18th Hator
On this day also, of the year 80 A.D., St. Philip the Apostle, one of the Twelve Disciples, was martyred. His lot fell to go to Africa and the surrounding regions. He went and preached there in the Name of the Lord Christ. There, he performed many miracles and wonders which astounded the people. After he led the people to the knowledge of God, con firming them in the faith, he went to Herapolis, where he also led the people to the knowledge of God. The non-believers took counsel together to kill him, accusing him of disobeying the king’s order that no stranger was allowed to enter their city. They jumped him and seized him, but he smiled at them saying, “Why do you keep yourselves away from everlasting life and why don’t you think about the salvation of your souls?” But they did not pay any attention to his words, instead they tortured him severely, then they crucified him head down. During the crucifixion an earthquake took place; the people were terrified and ran away. Some believers arrived and wanted to untie him from the cross, but he asked them to leave him, so he might finish his strife and receive his crown. He delivered his soul to the hands of Christ and received the crown of eternal glory in the year 80 A.D. and was buried there.
In the sixth century A.D., his body was transferred to Rome. The Lord manifested many signs and great wonders through the body of St. Philip. His prayers be with us and Glory be to our God forever. Amen.
The Departure of Saint Cosma, 54th Pope of Alexandria. 30th November - 21st Hator
Also on this day, in the year 89 A.D., St. Cosma II, 54th Pope of Alexandria, departed. He was born in Samanoud and became a monk in the monastery of St. Macarius. When the papal chair became vacant, the bishops and the people, with one accord, agreed to choose this father. He was ordained Patriarch and he experienced great tribulations. The believers also experienced tribulations and great afflictions; however, some wonders appeared during his patriarchate. Among them, blood flowed from the icon of St. Mary in the church of St. Severus, in the desert of Scete (the Holy desert). Also, many of the icons in the churches in Egypt became wet with tears. This unusual phenomenon was believed to be a result of the afflictions and sorrows that befell the Patriarch and the believers.
In spite of all the afflictions that he experienced, the Patriarch continued teaching the believers and strengthening them diligently and with great zeal. He stayed on the Chair of St. Mark for seven years and six months, then departed in peace. His prayers be with us. Amen.
The Departure of Saint Gregory, the Wonder Worker.
30th November - 21st Hator
Also on this day, in the year 270 A.D., St. Gregory the wonder worker, departed. He was the bishop of Neocae sarea, in the province of Pontos, where he was born to rich pagan parents. He learned philosophy and wisdom at an early age and surpassed many of his colleagues. Then he went to Beirut, where he studied the Greek and Latin subjects. From there he went to Caesarea, Palestine, where the erudite Origen was, who taught him Christian philosophy. He also learned Theology and the interpreta tions of the holy books. In the year 235 A.D., he went to the city of Alexandria, the cultural center of the world at that time, to complete his studies. He returned to his town in the year 237 A.D. In the year 239 A.D., he was baptized in the holy baptism and be came a Christian, for he realized the vanity of this world and chose the way of the everlasting kingdom of heaven. He directed all his attention to the salvation of his soul. When he knew that the Bishop of his town was seeking him to assist him in the bishopric duties, he escaped to the wilderness. He devoted himself to prayers and ardent worship, forsaking the world and the futility of its glories. When the Bishop of his town departed, they sought him in order to make him the new bishop but they did not know where to find him. It happened while the people were gathered with St. Gregory, the Theologian, that they heard a voice say, «Seek Gregory the hermit and set him a Bishop over you.» They sent a party to search for him in the wilderness and in the mountains. When they did not find him, they decided to take a Bible and pray the prayer of ordination over it, as though he were present. They called him Gregory even though his given name was Theodore. St. Gregory, the Theologian, presided over this service.
The angel of the Lord appeared to St. Gregory in the wilderness and said to him, «Rise up and go to your town, for they have made you the bishop over it and refuse not, for it is the Will of God.» He did not hesitate, rose up immediately and descended from the mountain and went to his town. The people went forth to meet him with great honor, and they completed his ordination in the year 244 A.D.
The Lord performed many signs and wonders at his hands, so that he was called the wonder worker. For ex ample, two brothers who owned a lake from which they made a good living by catching large amounts of fish had a falling out because of it, for each one of them claimed his ownership of it. When they were unable to reach an agreement, they sought the wisdom of St. Gregory to help them settle their differences. He ordered that they should divide the yield of the lake equally between themselves. When they did not heed his judgement, he entreated God and the waters of the lake dried up and it became a farm land, which they divided between them. Reports of the signs and wonders which he made were heard throughout
the land. Finally, when he completed his strife, he depart ed in peace.
His prayers be with us. Amen.
The Martyrdom of Saints Cosmas, Damian, Their Brothers and Their Mother 1st December - 22nd Hator
On this day, saints Cosmas and Damian, their brothers, Anthimus, Leontius (Londius) and Euprepius (Abrabius), and their mother Theodata, were martyred. They were from one of the Arab countries. Their mother feared God and was compassionate and merciful towards strangers. She became a widow, while her children were still young. She raised them and instilled in them the fear of God and the love of righteousness. Cosmas and Damian studied medicine and they treated the sick, free of charge. As for their brothers, they went to the desert and became monks. When Diocletian renounced the faith and ordered the worship of idols, he was told that Cosmas and Damian were preaching in the Name of Christ, and urging others not to worship idols. He ordered them to be brought to the Governor of the city, who tortured them severely by beating them and burning them. He then asked them the whereabouts of their brothers. Upon finding out, he brought them and their mother. He ordered them to raise incense before the idols, but they refused. He then ordered the five to be squeezed through the wheel. When they experienced no harm, he took them out and cast them into a red hot furnace for three days and three nights, then into hot boiling water. Finally he placed them on red-hot iron beds. Through all this, however, the Lord raised them up whole and unharmed to reveal His glory and the honor of His saints. When the Governor became weary of torturing them he sent them to the Emperor who also tortured them. Their mother constantly encouraged and comforted them. The Emperor rebuked her, but she admonished him for his cruelty and for worshipping idols. He ordered her head to be cut off and she received the crown of everlast ing life. Her body remained on the ground and no one dared to bury it for their fear of the Emperor. St. Cosmas screamed at those present saying, “Men of this city, is there not one merciful person among you who will cover the body of this poor old widow and bury her?” Straightaway, Victor, the son of Romanus, came forward, took the body, placed it in a shroud, and buried it. When the Emperor heard what Victor had done, he ordered that he be exiled in the land of Egypt, where he received the crown of martyrdom. The next day, the Emperor ordered the heads of the saints Cosmas, Damian, and their brothers to be cut off. They then received the crown of life in the kingdom of heaven.
At the end of the era of persecution, many churches were built in the name of these saints and God made manifest many signs and wonders therein. Their prayers be with us and Glory be to our God forever.
Amen.
The Commemoration of the Twenty-Four Priests 3rd December – 24th Hator
On this day, we commemorate the twenty-four incor poreal priests of the Most High, who are sitting around His throne. They are exalted above all the saints and the spiritual hosts. Because of their closeness to God, they intercede on behalf of the human race and offer the prayers of the saints as incense, in the golden censers in their hands, before the Glorious and Blessed Lord. St. John the Evangelist said in Revelation, “After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, ‘Come up here and I will show you things which must take place after this.’ Immediately I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes, and they had crowns of gold on their heads. (Revelation 4:1-4) ... each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints” (Revela tion 5:8) who are on earth raising it to the Almighty. St. John continued saying, “I heard the Four living crea tures praising God and saying, ‘Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come.’ Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him Who sits on the throne, Who lives forever and ever. The twenty-four elders fall down before Him Who sits on the throne and worship Him Who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, ‘You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your Will they exist and were created.’ (Revelation 4:8-11)
And when a command went forth from God they fell down, and worshipped saying, ‘Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints, who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your Name? For You alone are Holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, for Your judgments have been manifested.’” (Revelation 15:3-4)
The fathers of the church arranged this feast to commemorate them. Their intercession be for us and Glory be to our God forever. Amen.
The Departure of St. Cornelius the Centurion. 2nd December - 23rd Hator
On this day, St. Cornelius the centurion, departed. He was a captain over one hundred soldiers in Caesarea of Palestine and he worshipped the stars. When he heard the Apostles preaching and saw the miracles performed at their hands, which were above and beyond any human power or pagan gods, he was
astonished, confused, and he started to doubt his gods. He forsook the worship of the stars and opened his heart to the Lord through prayers, fasting and merciful deeds. In his prayers he repeated, “O Lord God, I am confused in my knowledge of You, direct me and guide me to You.” The Lord had compassion on him, accepted his prayers and his compassionate deeds, and sent an angel to announce to him that his prayers and alms had ascended before God and had been accepted by Him. He ordered him to send men to the city of Joppa, to bring St. Peter the Apostle, who was lodg ing with Simon the tanner and who would tell him what he must do. Cornelius did as the Lord said and had St. Peter brought to his house. As Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshipped him. But Peter lifted him up saying, “Stand up; I myself am also a man.” When Peter went in the house, he found many Gentiles who had come together. Then he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or to go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean. Therefore, I came with out objection as soon as I was sent for. I ask, then for what reason have you sent for me?” So Cornelius said, “Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms are remembered in the sight of God. Send, therefore, to Joppa and call Simon here, whose surname is Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea. When he comes, he will speak to you.’ So I sent to you immediately and you have done well to come. Now therefore, we are all present before God, to hear all the things commanded you by God.” Peter then opened his mouth and said, “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation, whoever fears Him and works righteousness, is accepted by Him.” Then he preached to them of Jesus Christ, the Lord of all, and explained to them the mystery of His incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension and the workings of miracles in His Name. Cornelius, his household, all his men and most of those who were with him, believed and were baptized in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Straightaway the Holy Spirit descended upon them. (Acts 10)
Afterwards, Cornelius left the military service and fol lowed the Apostles. St. Peter then ordained him a Bishop over the city of Caesarea of Palestine. He went there and proclaimed the Name of Christ, showing them the error of worshipping idols. Their minds were illuminated with the knowledge of God and they believed in Him. He strengthened them with the signs and miracles he performed before them and he baptized them all and among them was Deme trius the Governor. Then he departed in peace and received the crown of glory of the apostles. His prayers be with us. Amen.
Contemplation of the Gospel of the Third Sunday of blessed month of Hator Luke 14: 25 – 35 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.(27) No Christianity without the Cross. Christianity was always connected to the Cross. The Lord carried His Cross to save all humanity for His great love to us. He raised us to new life by His Res urrection. The Cross is a source of our bride and joy. When we carried the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, we became strangers in this world. This world cannot bear the Cross. The Cross expose their evil deeds. The world persecutes those who carry the Cross. The Cross became a true symbol of true discipleship and adhering to the sacred life in Christ.
When you carry the Cross, you separate yourself from the world desires and lusts. Carrying the Cross, you should be ready to count the cost. There will be sufferings and hardships. Are you ready to carry the Cross?? + and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also
The word “hate” is a very difficult word. God’s commandments never taught us to hate. We learned to love our neighbour and even our enemies. Here it is not meant to hate anyone. It meant to be able to sacrifice even the closest ties in your life that connect you to others if this is necessary for the sake of your love to the Lord Christ. Many of these ties can be a source of stumbling in your spiritual life especially if they are not based on sound spiritual foundations. Remember evil Jezebel who caused her husband king Ahab to get away from God. She introduced the worship of Baal to Israel she encouraged and arranged for her husband to unlawfully acquire the Vineyard of Naboot. She even plotted to kill him. (First Kings 21). Jonadab the son of Shimeah was a friend of Am non son of David. He advised him how to rape Tamar daughter of his brother Absalom (Samuel the second 13). This caused a lot of trouble in the house of David. Absalom son of David also listened to a bad advice from Ahithophel and made him rise against his father )Samuel the first 15, 16(.
Even a good mother like Rebekah wife of Issac arranged for her son Jacob how to steal the First-born rights from his brother Esau (Genesis 27). My beloved, do you stand on the way of the salvation of your close people? Do you hold back their progress in spiritual life through your bad model in behaviour and actions? Remember that “We ought to obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29). Do not be surprised if one of them will not follow your example as he cares for his own salvation. What type of advice you give to your son or your daughter about dealing with those who hurt him. Do you blame him/her for their humble forgiving response and teach them how to force others to respect them and even to teach others a lesson to respect? The Lord taught us to love and forgive even our enemies.
How do you advice you daughter who is caring about her chastity and purity and refuse to wear revealing clothes? Dou you encour age and support her or blame her for being backward and out of fashion of this world and may give her examples of those girls whom you think they are clever and smart and how they behave and act with others. Be ready even to hate your own self for the sake of the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. How to hate yourself? Are you ready to for sake your bad habits which also offend your own children and those around you? Are you ready to reform yourself getting red of these enslaving habits like smoking or drinking wine and give good example to your children in self-control? It may be difficult, but you should be ready to sacrifice and carry your Cross. Remember that if you are not ready to even hate yourself in this regard you cannot be a disciple of the Lord. This means you refuse to be disciple for the Lord Christ and refuse to follow him. It is true that the life in Christ has many commitments. It is also true that if a life full of joy and peace. The Lord comforts His children beyond any worldly measure and support them in their distress and pain. Dear beloved be always ready to count the cost.
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Today you want to build your spiritual ife. You want to be a disciple for the Lord. You want to carry the Cross. Sit today with yourself and count the cost. Life with Lord is not a picnic. The joy and inner peace and the magnificent life in Christ and the heavenly glory require you to offer many sacrifices. Be ready to bear temptations. Be ready to go through hardships. The life of the children of the Lord will for sure have sufferings. St Paul had to go through suffering more than any of the Apostles (read Second Corinthians 11: 16 – 33). His missionary was that of labours. He also rejoiced with these labours and he earned the Heavenly Crowns. He also mention his suffering from the thorn of the flesh )Second Corinthians 12: 7( which some commentators state that the apostle suffered from bouts of chronic malaria fever or some infirmity of the body which he had to endure for about fourteen years and continues through all his missionary travels. So much that “even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits went out of them” (Acts 19:12). He did not get much celebrations and acknowledgments where ever he went to preach, bout more pains and sufferings. In the midst of all this, was so much consoled with the Lord’s over beyond imaginations blessings and support and he says: “Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong” (Second Corinthians 12: 10). Many have left the glories and pleasures of this world to live with Lord Christ and they knew well that in this world they will have or comfort or worldly joy. They shall live as strangers in this world. “as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things” (Second Corinthians 6:10). They left behind all worldly glories and ranks such as Saint Arsenious the teacher of the King’s sons, St Maximus and Domatiums the emperor’s sons and St Damiana. Also, so many of the faithful martyrs who considered their life to be worth nothing “Yet indeed I also
count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord” (Philippians 3: 8).
Be ready to sacrifice your body’s comfort for the sake of Christ. Christianity does not deny your right to have a good comfortable life. But as a Christian you should refrain of indulging in worldly things which doe not suit you. Yes, you may look different than all other people in the yay you talk or dress or live. You cannot share many of these worldly activities which degrades you as Christian and makes you break God’s commandments. You cannot mix this world indecent pleasures with your life in the Lord. You cannot keep befriending the evil people and share their talks and ways of life and expect that in the same time you can enjoy the real joy of Life in Christ. You must choose clearly God or the world. If in real confidence choose God, you will be a blessing to this world. You are the salt of earth.
+ Salt is good You are that good salt. You are in this world to be that extra benefit for this life. Are you a good salt as Moses who became a blessing for his people and all the world? Can you be a good salt like the fathers the fathers Apostle. They left this world, but they were able to turn the world upside down lighting the darkness of this world. Ask yourself, are you a good salt? When you sit among friends, do they feel that you added special benefit and blessing to their gathering. They enjoyed spiritually your presence as you added good joyful peaceful atmosphere being in the midst.
Are you a good salt for your home? A source of blessings for them causing more joy and peace. Be careful not be a bad salt.
Remember my beloved, no salt at all is better that a bad salt which lost its flavour. Judge your self. Cain was a bad salt who introduced evil and disobedience his family and all the world. Salt which lost its flavour is a bad harmful salt which is not for a land or even a dunghill. It must be thrown outside. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
+ The Advent Fasting:
Friday 25th November the Advent Fasting started. It continues for 43 days and ends by the Feast of Holy Nativity at 7th Jan uary. It is allowed to eat fish during this fasting except on Wednesdays and Fridays and usually we abstain from food until 3pm. For those who got health reasons they can consult their father of confession. The Advent Fasting is a preparation for the Feast of Incarnation of our Lord. We fast 40 days taking an example of the Lord’s Fasting and from Moses Fasting for 40 days before receiving the Law and Commandments. We fast also extra three days in commemoration of the days fasted by people during the time of St Abraam the 62th Pope of Alexandria for the miracle of moving the mountain. The blessed month of Keiahk falls during the Advent days in which we sing and read all about the Incarnation of the Lord. Let us all pursue fasting in humility and repentance and offer our hearts to be holy sanctuary for our Lord the Child of the Manager the Incarnated Lord.
Episode 3 Can human come as a result of evolution?! - Cont https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=E.3-+15+Minutes+Apologetics Fr Luka Maher transcriped and translated by Mervet Eskander Stone-Man age “Homo-Erectus”
Another famous discovery claimed a primitive man who firstly discovered fire. You are familiar with the form of a stone-age man, holding a burning stick with a long hair and ape like jaw. They said “that is it” this is the form of something which neither man nor ape. Even our kids know well this shape/form from cartoon movies. This creature of the stone-age was shown holding a pointed stick and discovering fire. They called it “Homo- Erectus” the man who firstly discovered fire. Who discovered this creature? He was Charles Dawson in 1912. He claimed that he discovered an ape’s jaw, while the nose and the back of the skull (i.e. Occiput) is that of a human skull. He said “that is it” A human skull with a human nose, along with jaw of an ape. So this is the shape of a skull that neither belonging to a human nor to an ape. This is “man” who is still discovering fire- something between chimpanzee and man. Dawson made his discovery in 1912. The surprise is that in 1953, scientists discovered that Dawson had INTENTIONALLY fabricated his discovery. It turned out that the lower jaw was of ordinary ape, as of the nose and the back of the skull (Occiput) they dyed by potassium dichromate solution. As for the chimpanzee teeth, they were sculpted, dyed and placed inside the jaw. An intentional fraud! And it is supposed to be science. This forged creature is now called “piltdown” published in a magazine “Union Tribune with a title “Piltdown man was a hoax” It is called “the Piltdown Hoax” in the science books. Hoax means deception and forgery. It is such a forgery to the extent if you write now on Google “Homo – Erectus” or Piltdown man; Google will automatically fill in your search
with the word “hoax”. It is a hoax, yet ironically, it is still being taught to us as science. Articles about this hoax: Straus Jf. William L: the great Piltdown Hoax science 119: n.p 1954 Print and Armgnac, Ablen p. “The Piltdown hoax” Reader Digest Oct 1956: 182. Those articles say that “the man who discovered fire is the link between man and ape – this is neither a discovery nor fact”. The ape’s jaw and all these made by potassium chromate to look real, yet how we can possibly call this “science”!
Now I would like to talk about the third creature! This is a creature called “Java Man”. Java is an island in Indonesia. A famous Dutch Scientist named Sir Eugene Dubois, discovered it. He said that the primitive man was living in Indonesia and he claimed that he discovered a skull which mostly belonged to an ape and a thigh bone which is the femur which is upright (the one should belong to the ape is curved) so this must be an ape after straightening its legs. This is the creature between man and ape, and so this must be the ape-man and called it Java Man. At first when you read about this discovery you will find that the skull and the bone were found 50 feet apart, and the two were discovered in two different layers of earth. However, after he had discovered them and made up this whole story about them, German scientists came in 1907 and told him “why don’t you take us to Indonesia, so that we may find other bones?” and then we can set up a museum proving that the man’s origin was in Indonesia? But he declined and they insisted and threatened him to withdraw from him the announcement he made and question its credibility so he was forced to admit! Imagine we are talking about science, this is supposed to be “science”. He decided to confess after he had already received a number of promotions and recognitions. He confessed that the skull top (Crown) was for ordinary ape and he had found it in Indonesia. As for the bone of the femur; it belonged to an ordinary man that he found also in Indonesia in a human cemetery. He placed the two (skull and bone) next to each other and claimed that they belonged to the “Java Man”. That fraud is still taught at schools till now as science that it is the missing link between man and what resembles a chimpanzee. And that man was originally a cell that kept evolving until it became something like a man; and all the intermediate links/evolution stages in between were discovered as evidence by the forged “Java Man”!!
What do you think of this?
Similarly the so called “Neanderthal Man” turned out to be an ordinary man after testing his DNA, we started learning whether that was a human or an animal and found that the DNA matched that of a human.
Another is “Lucy’s skeleton” and other things of the sort, they keep announcing from time to time till now, only to be debunked later as inaccurate or unscientific or at least, we should be mindful of the scientific talk and be more rigorous in investigation and verifying.
Concluding this discussion about this topic with the National Geographic Issue Nov 2004, which says that “the record of fossils resembles a movie, consisting of 1000 images, 999 of which were lost in the video editing studio, means that the record of fossils comprises 1000 stages, of which we have only discovered a man and chimpanzee whatever is in the middle is “NON- Existent”.
The Evolution Chronicles itself, of Oxford University, Issue 2002 has stated the following: “The missing links are still missing”. Therefore, man and chimpanzee can never be the result of one evolving into the other because the number of chromosomes of one differs from of the other. Sadly, attempting to evade this part, some people claim “that it is” they found it! Since it is an issue of chromosomes, then mutations in chromosomes must have happened. This means that the chromosomes have undergone mutations over the years, so they changed, diversified and eventually became human; this is NOT a scientific talk at all. Because mutations ruin and deform rather than developing chromosomes. Also when chromosomes are subjected to mutations, they change and do not increase or decrease in number. They remain the same number, but only change. This why is called mutation “a change” not an “addition” The number of chromosomes in man and in chimpanzee is different. Even, if there were a degree of proximity between them, as some claim it is 97% but it is in fact less than 90% you may say but 90% is a lot..The answer is: the fact that chimpanzee and man are living beings that grow, eat and the Sun affect them etc; this already
creates an 80% resemblance between them, so it is not evolving from each other. The proof is: the resemblance ratio between man’s DNA and sweet potato plant is 60% so you don’t be surprised that there is 80% resemblance between man and chimpanzee. This doesn’t mean at all that they have evolved from each other. It means that they share physiological functions and this mandates a comparable numbers of chromosomes. The chimpanzee has 48 chromosomes and man has 46. Does this mean that the chimpanzee is more developed than man?! What would you say about the fact that man and banana have 46 chromosomes? Was man originally a banana because each of them has 46 chromosomes?! This is unfounded drivel and nothing but a fabrication of “premises” to prove a false idea. Mutations don’t not cause an evolution from chimpanzee to man. One more thing; you know if we followed the notion that mutations happened, and changed the chromosomes for the better and added more chromosomes; do you know that for the thigh bone of the chimpanzee to become upright instead of curved and become similar to human’s; it needs numerous mutations for 6 million years?! Only for the legs to be upright! You still have not changed the skull or the external shape; you still haven’t changed the physiological functions. For you to change just one bone you need 6 million years! Hence the notion of mutations is unacceptable. The final surprise when the evolution idea )Lamarck’s hypothesis which claims that man’s bent back started to be upright) turned out to be wrong, and then the fossils of the intermediate creatures turned out to be fake, and then the mutations notion turned to be impossible; do you know what most atheists today believe regarding how life came on earth? You will be surprised, 80% of the world’s atheists believe that life on earth came as a result of (it can’t be “by chance” or only big bang or the organic soup nor that the chimpanzee has evolved for all this turned out to be fake and not scientific( so what they believe in now? Led by Richard Dawkins on top, that life on earth came as a result of “outer space aliens” that came and sowed the seed of life on earth! What is the meaning of aliens being the origin of the universe?! Or which did these aliens come from?! We are not going to say that this talk is gibberish/delusional, because even aliens must also be creation of God since they could not have come through mutations either. You should note that, as long as man has denied God, he will eventually be inclined towards the metaphysics realm, to space creatures and to aliens, why? Because man has a need to be inclined to an outer force that controls him, that created him, to which he can pray and with which he can communicate. If this need was not fulfilled through God; he will try to realize it through space or aliens. Even St Paul in the first century through the Holy Bible inspiration, told us to beware of “what is falsely called knowledge” false knowledge or false science deceives man. In the epistle to St Timothy he says: “Timothy, avoid what is falsely called knowledge” 1Tim6:20. Pseudoscience and in another time he said: “because lest anyone take you captive through philosophy and empty deceit” Col 2:8
He once even said a verse, which amazed me after studied these false fossils in (2Tim 3:1314) which talks about those who deceive others: “But evil men and imposters will grow worse and worse deceiving and being deceived but you must continue in the things which you have learnt”.
Do not follow science alone because it is changeable and if you followed science, you should scrutinize it and do not be deceived by false science “pseudoscience”. We can’t be satisfied by a paper on Google with no credible references, or follow people who are desperate to prove a certain notion through FALSE changeable and unproven science.
What we learnt when we were children, the simple faith that God created me and so I love Him, He loves me and has prepared Heaven for me. It is comforting indeed to man are those such simple words.
Believers in these simple faith ideas live comfortably and reassure others, whereas, anyone who is constantly agonizing his mind, being unreconciled with himself, he will sadly end up either depressed, suicidal, deceived or a deceiver.
May God protect us all, and may we remain steadfast in the faith which has simply taken from Jesus Christ the Lord God. To God is the glory forever, Amen.
Blessed Marriage Darko Adjar & Kristine Hanna Saturday 19th November 2022 St. Mary’s Church
Construction of New Buildings started Thursday 28th April
The new Building is expected to be ready within 12 months. church services are continuing as normal as in the Timetable inside the Bulletin. You can donate monthly contribution using Direct Debit forms available in the church or downladed from church website. Cost of building works is around $12,000000. Your support and donations will be blessing and very appreaciated.
