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The earth is very old
Letter to the editor;
For generations we have pulled the rug out from under ourselves, devoutly believing that the earth was created ex nihilo (out of nothing) in the year 4002 BC. (And as a certain cynical atheist added, “on the fourteenth of October, at 9 o’clock in the morning.)
In the beginning G-d created the heavens and the earth.
Adam was created about six thousand years ago.
The Grand Canyon is only one of many mountainous pieces of evidence that The Beginning was thousands of millions of years before Adam.
Our children look at the rocks and hear us say the many layers of the mountains (and the fossils embedded within them) were created just a few days before Adam.
They know better. They can plainly see that this is not true. They may think we would lie to them about other things as well – like about the L-rd or the Ten Commandments.
There is not a solitary word in Scripture that indicates that the earth was without form and void only about a hundred hours before Adam first drew breath. Those numbered “days” of creation just didn’t necessarily have to occur back-to-back with each other.
For those who say G-d created the Grand Canyon and fossils and all that so shortly ago -- will you say He deliberately deceived us? That He manufactured false evidence?
Since the Creator would not lie to us, we can conclude that the fossils in the rocks prove that there used to be other kinds of living things – and that the earth is exceedingly old.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Pray for life
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Pray about abortion-politics
Letter to the editor;
We have laws against murder. Every nation severely punishes unlawful killing. Even a violent criminal may not be killed by a private citizen except in the very act of committing a dangerous felony.
Almost two generations ago our Beloved Leaders decided to ignore six thousand years of recorded history, law and tradition – and permit the deliberate slaughter of anyone who has not yet been born.
Now, babies in the womb are not puppies or kittens, but small-size human children.
Since then, all nice and legal, about forty million small-size human children have been killed because the adults who beget them suddenly found them to be, um, inconvenient.
President-elect Obama has vowed that on his first day in office he will sign a law to take away any shred of protection for pre-born persons.
Pray. Pray every day. Pray every day until President-elect Obama becomes President Obama – that Congress will not hand him any such law to sign.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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Pray about abortion-politics
Letter to the editor;
We have laws against murder. Every nation severely punishes unlawful killing. Even a violent criminal may not be killed by a private citizen except in the very act of committing a dangerous felony.
Almost two generations ago our Beloved Leaders decided to ignore six thousand years of recorded history, law and tradition – and permit the deliberate slaughter of anyone who has not yet been born.
Now, babies in the womb are not puppies or kittens, but small-size human children.
Since then, all nice and legal, about forty million small-size human children have been killed because the adults who beget them suddenly found them to be, um, inconvenient.
President-elect Obama has vowed that on his first day in office he will sign a law to take away any shred of protection for pre-born persons.
Pray. Pray every day. Pray every day until President-elect Obama becomes President Obama – that Congress will not hand him any such law to sign.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Saturday, January 10, 2009
The Blood Libel is false.
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Not all the Nazis are dead
Letter to the editor;
One of those dreary anti-Semites sent me a long and detailed e-mail condemning Jews.
It contained the regular, standard generic hate-tripe that we have all heard before.
He said “the Jews” are not real Jews, or even Israelites, but degenerate Asiatic Russians.
He said Jesus and the real Israelites were tall, blond and blue-eyed.
He said Jews are the literal children of Satan, part of a separate evil creation, especially created for the purpose of being destroyed.
He said every single Jew of every generation is guilty of the death of Christ.
THIS IS GRADE “A” UNADULTERATED MALARKEY!
Jesus was a Jew among Jews. His mother and step-father were Jews.
His disciples and Apostles were Jews. His friends and His enemies were Jews.
He was learned in the Jewish scriptures and traditions.
He taught Jewish Law and ethics in public, and He was called Rabbi in public.
He did not condemn the Jewish Law: Rather, He condemned those who violated it.
When he came to Jerusalem only a few days before His death, the words of the crowds of admiring believers indicate that they either wanted Him to be King – or possibly that they actually MADE Him King. Pilate thought Jesus might be the king of the Jews.
Yes, there were some Jews – maybe a hundred – who were conspired in the death of Jesus. They are all long dead. Their descendants cannot be guilty of that crime.
The Bible records that they shouted, “His blood be upon us and our children!” But they could not actually bring guilt on their children or on anybody else.
No. The old blood-libel that “the Jews killed Christ” won’t wash. It’s just not true.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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Not all the Nazis are dead
Letter to the editor;
One of those dreary anti-Semites sent me a long and detailed e-mail condemning Jews.
It contained the regular, standard generic hate-tripe that we have all heard before.
He said “the Jews” are not real Jews, or even Israelites, but degenerate Asiatic Russians.
He said Jesus and the real Israelites were tall, blond and blue-eyed.
He said Jews are the literal children of Satan, part of a separate evil creation, especially created for the purpose of being destroyed.
He said every single Jew of every generation is guilty of the death of Christ.
THIS IS GRADE “A” UNADULTERATED MALARKEY!
Jesus was a Jew among Jews. His mother and step-father were Jews.
His disciples and Apostles were Jews. His friends and His enemies were Jews.
He was learned in the Jewish scriptures and traditions.
He taught Jewish Law and ethics in public, and He was called Rabbi in public.
He did not condemn the Jewish Law: Rather, He condemned those who violated it.
When he came to Jerusalem only a few days before His death, the words of the crowds of admiring believers indicate that they either wanted Him to be King – or possibly that they actually MADE Him King. Pilate thought Jesus might be the king of the Jews.
Yes, there were some Jews – maybe a hundred – who were conspired in the death of Jesus. They are all long dead. Their descendants cannot be guilty of that crime.
The Bible records that they shouted, “His blood be upon us and our children!” But they could not actually bring guilt on their children or on anybody else.
No. The old blood-libel that “the Jews killed Christ” won’t wash. It’s just not true.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Sunday, January 4, 2009
How to help your nation in its troubles
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“A snowball headed for hell”
Letter to the editor;
The nation is in trouble. Big trouble. (Pick a nation and a trouble: We’re in it.)
A popular song likens this to a snowball rolling down toward the nether regions.
PLAN A: Ignore it. It’ll go away. Or maybe someone else will take care of things.
PLAN B: Trust our Beloved Leaders to fix it. (But they caused at lease part of it.)
PLAN C: Urge the government to hand out lots and lots of money that it doesn’t have, and to decree that it will do more of the same if the trouble continues.
PLAN D: Demand the government get rid of the Jews/ Blacks/ Mexicans/ drug-dealers/ homosexuals/ Socialists. (All of these have been tried at other times and other places and none of them fixed a thing.)
PLAN E: Stage a bloody revolution and wreck the nation’s foundations and build a new one on the basis of whoever kills the most people. (This always gives WORSE results.)
PLAN F: Sit crosslegged and say “Ooooom. Ooooom.” until your mind is calm like water. (This doesn’t fix anything -- but then you don’t care about it anymore.)
PLAN G: Phone and write politicians to tell them a better way to do things.
PLAN H: Demand the government hold a nationwide day of prayer and fasting. (Good. Good. But you cannot make ‘em pray, and they certainly aren’t going to fast on command.)
PLAN I: Repent. Not try to make your neighbors repent. Just repent. Not try to have the government proclaim repentance. Just repent. Seeing that you cannot make anybody else repent, just repent.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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“A snowball headed for hell”
Letter to the editor;
The nation is in trouble. Big trouble. (Pick a nation and a trouble: We’re in it.)
A popular song likens this to a snowball rolling down toward the nether regions.
PLAN A: Ignore it. It’ll go away. Or maybe someone else will take care of things.
PLAN B: Trust our Beloved Leaders to fix it. (But they caused at lease part of it.)
PLAN C: Urge the government to hand out lots and lots of money that it doesn’t have, and to decree that it will do more of the same if the trouble continues.
PLAN D: Demand the government get rid of the Jews/ Blacks/ Mexicans/ drug-dealers/ homosexuals/ Socialists. (All of these have been tried at other times and other places and none of them fixed a thing.)
PLAN E: Stage a bloody revolution and wreck the nation’s foundations and build a new one on the basis of whoever kills the most people. (This always gives WORSE results.)
PLAN F: Sit crosslegged and say “Ooooom. Ooooom.” until your mind is calm like water. (This doesn’t fix anything -- but then you don’t care about it anymore.)
PLAN G: Phone and write politicians to tell them a better way to do things.
PLAN H: Demand the government hold a nationwide day of prayer and fasting. (Good. Good. But you cannot make ‘em pray, and they certainly aren’t going to fast on command.)
PLAN I: Repent. Not try to make your neighbors repent. Just repent. Not try to have the government proclaim repentance. Just repent. Seeing that you cannot make anybody else repent, just repent.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
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