Of Telescopes & Microscopes

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On the very same day (February 12, 1809), God brought Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin into Hisworld. Why were they brought into the world? The first question and answer in the Westminster Shorter

Catechismhelp us there:

Q1: What is the chief end of man?

A1: The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.

Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin and every other person to have lived on this earth since Adam had or

have the same purpose, to glorify God. But what does that mean? Much can be learned from themeaning of the Hebrew word translated glory, namely, kabowd. Its ancient pictograph root is .Regarding this root, Jeff Benner writes in hisAncient Hebrew Lexicon:

The pictograph is a picture of the palm of the hand and represents a covering, the is a picture of

a tent. Combined these mean "covering of the tent". The black goat hair fabric used for the roof of thetent allows some light through giving the appearance of stars overhead.

The Hebrew word for star (kowkab) comes from the same pictograph root. Stars are numerous, massiveand brilliant:

1. Numerous: In Genesis 15:5, Yahweh told Abraham that he could not count the stars - and forgood reason, as there are an estimated 10 septillion (1025) stars in the universe. Even if you couldcount a million stars a second and lived to the age of 175 as Abraham did, you would only have

counted 0.00000005% of the stars.

2. Massive:The suns diameter is 100 times greater than the earths . The sun represents 99.86% ofthe mass of the solar system. As a result of its size, the gravitational force of the sun draws 8

planets, 5 dwarf planets & an asteroid belt to circle it.

3. Brilliant: Stars are visible as a result of nuclear reactions occurring in their cores, which generate

energy that radiates outward. Light intensity is measured in lux. Standard lighting in a house is


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about 500 lux. However, even though the sun is 93,000,000 miles away, the light we receivefrom it on a clear day is about 25,000 lux50 times more intense than the lighting in our houses.

Putting together the ideas of numerous, massive & brilliant, we will use the following definition:

Gods glory is the sum (numerous), substance (massive)and stunningness (brilliant)of His

perfections.

When we talk about glorifying God, what we are really talking about is an ever increasing appreciationfor and satisfaction with the sum, substance and stunningness of Yahwehs perfections. The appreciationand satisfaction in our hearts eventually points others to our Father in heaven (Matthew 5:16). Yahweh isignored by the vast majority of mankind He is not even on their radar. They have no desire to know

Him, let alone obey Him. He seemsas insignificant as a distant star. John Piper writes in his bookDon't Waste Your Life:

Magnify has two distinct meanings. In relation to God, one is worship and one is wickedness. You can

magnify like a telescope or like a microscope. When you magnify like a microscope, you makesomething tiny look bigger than it is. A dust mite can look like a monster. Pretending to magnify Godlike that is wickedness. But when you magnify like a telescope, you make something unimaginably

great look like what it really is. With the Hubble Space Telescope, pinprick galaxies in the sky are

revealed for the billion-star giants that they are. Magnifying God like that is worship. We waste ourlives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all

spheres of life. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes Him look more like the

greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that He really is. In the night sky of this world Godappears to most people, if at all, like a pinprick of light in a heaven of darkness. But He created us

and called us to make Him look like what He really is. This is what it means to be created in theimage of God. We are meant to image forth in the world what He is really like.

I would say that Abraham Lincoln was a telescope and Charles Darwin was a microscope and heres why.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE TELESCOPE

Lincoln is probably best known for his words in the Gettysburg Address, which begin:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceivedin Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Our sixteenth President believed that all men were created by God and that they were all created equal.You can say otherwise, but the Civil War was about whether we as a nation believed that proposition OR

if we were going to treat millions of people created in the image of God as animals or property. The truthbe told, until the Civil War, the Constitution protected slavery at every turn as noted by Paul Finkleman ina New York Times article (June 2, 2015) entitledHow the Civil War Changed the Constitution:

The first and most obvious change involves slavery. The 13th Amendment was possible (as were theother two Civil War amendments) only because the war broke slaverys stranglehold over politicsand constitutional development. The Constitution of 1787 protected slavery at every turn. Although

framers did not use the word slavery in thedocument, everyone at the Constitutional Convention

understood the ways in which the new form of government protected slavery. Indeed, the wordslavery was not used at the request of the Connecticut delegation and some other Northerners, who

feared that their constituents would not ratify the Constitution if the word was in the documentnot

because the delegates objected to the word itself.

The three-fifths clause gave the South extra members of the House of Representatives, based on thenumber of slaves in each state. Without these representatives, created entirely by slavery, proslaverylegislation like the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 could neverhave been passed.


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Equally important, votes in the Electoral College were based on the number of representatives in theHouse, and so slavery gave the South a bonus in electing the president. Without the electors created

by slavery, the slaveholding Thomas Jefferson would have lost the election of 1800 to the non-slaveholding John Adams.

The domestic insurrections clause guaranteed that federal troops would be used to suppress slave

rebellions, as they were in the Nat Turner Rebellion in 1831 and John Browns attempt to start aslave rebellion in 1859.

Finally, it took two-thirds of Congress to send a constitutional amendment to the states, and it tookthree-fourths of the states to ratify any amendment. Had the 15 slave states all remained in the Union,

to this day, in 2015, it would be impossible to end slavery by constitutional amendment, since in a 50-state Union, it takes just 13 states to block an amendment.

The political power of the slave states meant that the nation was always forced to protect slavery.Thus the South in effect controlled politics from 1788 until 1861. Slave owners held the presidency

for all but 12 years between 1788 and 1850. All of the two-term presidents were slave owners. ThreeNortherners held the office from 1850 to 1860 Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan but all wereproslavery and they bent over backward to placate the South.

It took the Civil War to break slaverys stranglehold on politics and fundamentally alter the nature ofconstitutional law and constitutional change.

The demise of slavery began with slaves running away and the army freeing them. But the key

moment was the Emancipation Proclamation, which was the first important executive order inAmerican history. In order to destroy slaveryand save the UnionLincoln found new power forhis office.

Even if our founding Fathers did not see slavery as wrong, Lincoln did. The destruction of the Satanicpractice of slavery and the preservation of the Union, which was used by Yahweh to destroy other Satanic

influences like Nazism, seems to me to make Abraham Lincoln our greatest President. But his birthdayhas never been a national holiday and is only celebrated in a handful of states.

In 1820, William Barton published a biography of Lincoln entitled, The Soul of Abraham Lincoln. Barton

concluded his study with a series of short quotations from documents, letters, and addresses, certifiedauthentic and touching directly upon points of Christian doctrine. He organized these quotations intowhat he called The Creed of Abraham Lincoln in His Own Words:

I believe in God, the Almighty Ruler of Nations, our great and good and merciful Maker, our Father

in Heaven, who notes the fall of a sparrow, and numbers the hairs of our heads.

I believe in His eternal truth and justice.

I recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history that those

nations only are blest whose God is the Lord.

I believe that it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling

power of God, and to invoke the influence of His Holy Spirit; to confess their sins and transgressions

in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon.

I believe that it is meet and right to recognize and confess the presence of the Almighty Father

equally in our triumphs and in those sorrows which we may justly fear are a punishment inflictedupon us for our presumptuous sins to the needful end of our reformation.

I believe that the Bible is the best gift which God has ever given to men. All the good from the Saviourof the world is communicated to us through this book.


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I believe the will of God prevails. Without Him all human reliance is vain. Without the assistance ofthat Divine Being, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

Being a humble instrument in the hands of our Heavenly Father, I desire that all my works and actsmay be according to His will; and that it may be so, I give thanks to the Almighty, and seek His aid.

I have a solemn oath registered in heaven to finish the work I am in, in full view of my responsibility

to my God, with malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right as God gives meto see the right. Commending those who love me to His care, as I hope in their prayers they will

commend me, I look through the help of God to a joyous meeting with many loved ones gone before.

Wouldnt you love to see a man or woman who spoke like that on the ballot? Abraham Lincoln was a

telescopehe pointed others to the greatness of his Heavenly Father.

CHARLES DARWIN THE MICROSCOPE

Charles Darwin is known primarily for his work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life . Only Yahweh knows how many peopleSatan has sold the macroevolution lie to as a result of the work of Darwin. For instance, just last week,Democratic congressman Jim Hines (CT) introduced U.S. House Resolution 67 which states:

Whereas Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by the mechanism of natural selection, together with

the monumental amount of scientific evidence he compiled to support it, provides humanity with alogical and intellectually compelling explanation for the diversity of life on Earth;

Whereas the validity of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is further strongly supportedby the modern understanding of the science of genetics;

Whereas it has been the human curiosity and ingenuity exemplified by Darwin that has promoted new

scientific discoveries that have helped humanity solve many problems and improve living conditions;

Whereas the advancement of science must be protected from those unconcerned with the adverse

impacts of global warming and climate change;

Whereas the teaching of creationism in some public schools compromises the scientific and academicintegrity of the United States education systems;

Whereas Charles Darwin is a worthy symbol of scientific advancement on which to focus and aroundwhich to build a global celebration of science and humanity intended to promote a common bond

among all of Earth's peoples; and

Whereas February 12, 2015, is the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin in 1809 and would be

an appropriate date to designate as `Darwin Day'':

Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the House of Representatives--

(1) Supports the designation of `Darwin Day''; and

(2) Recognizes Charles Darwin as a worthy symbol on which to celebrate the achievements of

reason, science, and the advancement of human knowledge.With all the problems are nation is facing, we have politicians wasting time on things like this. HaveDarwin and all his disciples provided us a logical and intellectually compelling explanation for thediversity of life on Earth? NO, a trillion times NO! The ideas of eternal mass-energy (an infinitely dense

point consisting of no volume whatsoever at infinite temperature, until about 14 billion years ago when itbegan to expand), random development of DNA, abiogenesis (spontaneous generation of life from non-

life) and macroevolution are illogical and Satanic lies.


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Microevolution is the variety within the same species, meaning variety within the same DNA structure.Microevolution never creates a new species. It creates a new member of an existing species and each

offspring has the same DNA structure as one of its parents (i.e., the parent which is of the same sex), evenif it physically looks different. Darwins finches were a good example of microevolution. All the fincheswere of the same species (i.e., they have the same DNA structure), but each breed of finch had differentnucleotide sequences within some of their genes, which may have created a different size, color of

feathers or hardness/shape of the beak. Natural selection or survival of the fittest may apply to thedifferent finches because of the differences in color or beaks. The phrases are valid with regards tomicroevolution. Before the discovery of DNA, no one, including Darwin, could differentiate betweenmicroevolution and macroevolution. The finches were legitimate examples of evolution in Darwins day,

but not since the discovery of DNA.

Macroevolution is the creation of a new species (where species is defined by a unique DNA structure)

by either:

1. Random mutations to the DNA structure of parents in the species which already existed prior to

mating;

2. Random mutations to the DNA of the offspring after mating; or,

3.

Two different species mating and having viable and fertile offspring.

Macroevolution does not occur. University of Bristol Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology Alan Lintonsummarized the situation:

But where is the experimental evidence? None exists in the literature claiming that one species hasbeen shown to evolve into another. Bacteria, the simplest form of independent life, are ideal for this

kind of study, with generation times of 20 to 30 minutes, and populations achieved after 18 hours. Butthroughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteriahas changed into another, in spite of the fact that populations have been exposed to potent chemical

and physical mutagens and that, uniquely, bacteria possess extra-chromosomal, transmissibleplasmids. Since there is no evidence for species changes between the simplest forms of unicellular

life, it is not surprising that there is no evidence for evolution from prokaryotic to eukaryotic cells, let

alone throughout the whole array of higher multi-cellular organisms.God can be seen through the things that He has made but atheists refuse to see Him. They refuse toascribe to Him the glory or give Him the thanks that are due to Him. They claim to be wise, but in factthey are fools (Romans 1:20-23). Their attempts to prove eternal mass-energy, random development of

DNA, abiogenesis, and macroevolution are futile. Science is supposed to be about searching for the truth,not trying to prove something you want to be true, namely, that there is no God. Every new discoveryabout the universe or cellular biology should cause us to see how great Yahweh is how wise and

powerful He is. But instead atheists can only see them as attacks on their hope that God does not exist.

Charles Darwin took something as insignificant as small differences in the beaks and colors of finches to

exalt his foolishness above the Gods wisdom. He was a microscope.

TELESCOPE OR MICROSCOPE

How about us? We were placed on this earth to glorify God. We can either fulfill that purpose, likeAbraham Lincoln, by being a telescopemagnifying Almighty God so that our world can see Him better

OR we can fulfill some much lesser purpose, like Charles Darwin, by a being a microscope magnifyingsomebody or something above Almighty God. Two famous men entered the world on the same daytheworld is a much better place because of Lincoln and a much worse place because of Darwin. What will

be our impact on the world?

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