What Does it Really Mean to be Jewish

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Jerry Kaifetz

All religions must be defined by their Scriptures.  Base them on anything else and you have a religious social club at best and a cult at worst.  I invite you to consider with me what it truly means to be Jewish:

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How To Find God

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Jerry Kaifetz

One hundred years from now, none of us will be here. By that time, each of us will have had their personal moment before God. What will that be like? Is God some kind of old, loving, forgiving Grandpa? Is He all judgment and no compassion? Most people avoid these thoughts their entire lives. In fact, I believe that I can fully answer these questions.

But you say, “Nobody knows for sure what that moment will be like!” Well, lets just say nobody whom you have ever met. You see,  I believe that I can prove to you pretty much what will take place at that moment, and more specifically even, what your two principal thoughts will be as you stand before Almighty God. I won’t keep you in suspense. Here they are:

“I HAVE GREATLY UNDERESTIMATED THE HOLINESS OF GOD.”

“I HAVE GREATLY OVERESTIMATED MY OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS.”

Now this may surprise you, but in my showing you that this is in fact what will happen when we die, I am going to appeal to your REASON, and not your FAITH. There are two reasons why the two statements above will always withstand the doubter’s perspective:

1. Every one of the Bible characters that has ever come face to face with God has had that exact reaction: they have fallen on their face in an act of utter contrition, guilt, humility and conviction. (Moses, Jeremiah, John, Paul, just to name a few.)

2. In order to dismiss the validity of those accounts, we have to do no less than dismiss or discredit the entire Bible. This is something that cannot follow a rational course and is always tainted with a personal agenda, for the evidences for the Bible’s historical accuracy from the field of archaeology alone runs into the tens of thousands. More proofs come to us from the physical sciences. The number of scientific contraindications to the Bible’s historical accuracy stands at zero. The Bible provides an extraordinarily credible account of how to find God. (He has no desire to remain hidden from any of us.)

My personal view, based on 25 years of dealing with those who have rejected the Bible, and listening to their arguments is this: PEOPLE REJECT THE BIBLE BECAUSE IT CONTRADICTS THEIR PERSONAL LIFESTYLE.   THEN THEY FABRICATE A PLAUSIBLE, INTELLECTUAL RATIONALE FOR THEIR REJECTION. I am in some pretty good company with this view. Jesus Himself put it this way: “Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:19) He said in this same conversation that a determinedly sinful man rejects the light of truth and runs from it, “...lest his deeds should be reproved.”

So how does one then go about coming to God? Yes, I know, all religions claim that theirs is the only way. So how can we tell which one really is? Why has there been so much disagreement and even wars and bloodshed throughout history over this one issue? Can God really expect us to get it right on our own? Whom do we trust? What do we believe? Who has it right?  TO WHOM SHALL WE TURN?

Well, I don’t feel that I can ask you to take that one giant step of faith based on my say-so. I am however, going to try to present my faith on the basis of a logical and almost entirely intellectual series of statements. That way we can get to the very doorstep of a real and personal belief in a living God without turning off our brains. Be forewarned though, if you should in the end reject the ultimate conclusion of this argument, you will not be able to reject it in an intellectually honest manner. You will probably respond in the way that a determined and intellectually dishonest unbeliever always responds: “I don’t care what you say, I don’t believe . . . ” If you think that could be you, then I would respectfully suggest that it is in your best interest to stop reading right now, lest you should heap to yourself an even greater degree of accountability that will not ultimately serve you well.

How to Find God

First, you must understand one key element of God’s nature: His righteousness. God can have no part with evil, however slight.

You must honestly evaluate your own human nature, and understand that it has a dark and sinful component.

You must therefore logically conclude that there is a basic incompatibility between the human and divine nature. We humans can never attain unto God’s righteousness on our own, and He can never overlook our sin. If he did, He would no longer be 100% righteous, and He would then not be God.

The Biblical Solution

Throughout the Old Testament, we find the recurring theme of blood sacrifice. Few people can understand this concept on their own. When Abraham conducted an animal sacrifice and shed animal blood, the Bible says it was “counted unto him for righteousness.” What God meant here is of utmost significance and very powerful: God understood that Abraham was sacrificing an animal as a picture of what he knew would take place one day; that would be the sacrifice of God’s own Son as the great sacrifice for mankind’s sin, the prevailing theme of both the Old and New Testaments.

With that sacrifice that took place on a cross 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ was able to make the only payment God, in His perfect righteousness, could find acceptable for human sin. God could not overlook our sin and still be God, and we had no means of paying for our sin ourselves and meeting God’s standard of perfect righteousness.  Is this  perhaps staring to make sense to you now?

Just as when a check is written, the bearer must express faith in the validity of that check by taking it to the bank; so must we express our personal faith in God’s sacrifice by personally “endorsing” it and openly “depositing” it.

My personal faith in Jesus Christ brought me to that place of decision in 1983. I slowly came to the honest and impartial realization that there was an overwhelming amount of empirical evidence that the Bible was true—the same book that made the link between Old Testament sacrifice and the vicarious death of Christ on the cross. It would have been easy for me to put up an artificial barrier to avoid that commitment, but I knew that intellectual honesty required me to admit that the facts that I have described above made a very compelling argument for the Christian faith. I knew that my life would have to change, but rather than make this an effort of will that seemed to always be doomed to failure, I came to God in the only way that had ever really made any sense to me: I admitted my sinful nature and told Him that I was accepting the substitutionary death of His Son Jesus Christ as the only payment for my sins that His perfect righteousness could accept. It worked! My life has never been the same. My sins were lifted at that instant, and I could not deny it.  I had run out of reasons to doubt the Bible and diminish Christians who talked of being “born again.”  I now understood what a fitting term this was for this experience, because even though I came to it in an intellectually valid way, the transformation took place on a dimension that far exceeded my puny human perspective.

That is how you too can come to God at this very moment. What do you have to lose?  You need only to understand the incompatibility of your flawed human nature with the perfect holiness of God, and trust in the role God sent his own Son Jesus to perform as your substitute in bearing God’s righteous judgment.  That’s it!  There is no magic prayer, no joining a church, no paying God back, no conditions to be offered.  Those decisions will be yours to make at some other time.  For now, God is just reaching out to you because He loves you.  If you want to reach out in return, this is the only way that has ever worked.  Why don’t you have a talk with God about this right now . . . . .

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Understanding Death

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Jerry Kaifetz


I got an e-mail today from a very dear friend who just learned that his brother-in-law had a day or two to live. He is in his 50’s with cancer. He asked me how to go about trying to comfort his wife, who is taking her brother’s imminent death in a very hard way.

I shared with him some general thoughts about death that had the most universal application, as this family does not have a strong Christian foundation, although they are all hard working people of wonderful character.

I thought I would pass these along:
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Wow; that’s a tough one. Here a few things that I would say — not to say that this is anywhere near a complete answer in a time like this. You know the family, of course, so you can go through these & see if you feel like anything may be worth sharing.

• Nobody’s life is permanent. When someone who is 50 passes away, they didn’t really “lose their life.” They lost a portion of it. It was cut short, but it had richness and meaning, and some wonderful and precious memories were left behind for others to treasure. In the end, we all can leave only that regardless of our lifespan. You find comfort by placing real value on those things, and that lets the person “live” beyond their time in your life.

• Life does not end with death; it merely transitions. Life is too wonderful and amazing for its Inventor to make us hit a brick wall at the end. Most religions teach that life is a preparation for eternity. There there is no pain, no disease, no suffering and no goodbyes. For now, our bridge to that time & place is faith and doing all that the Bible teaches to achieve atonement for our sins.

• In the end, God knows best & does not owe us an explanation for how He governs human life. We can only trust in His innate goodness and come to the conclusion that what He does is in our best interest, like any loving parent.

• Really in the end, it is very challenging to comfort someone in a time like this. You can only convey God’s comfort. Like I said a while ago, I always go to the Psalms to find that.

You can see what a challenge it is to lead a funeral service. Everybody is looking at you with one message in their eyes: make it right! That is a pretty unbelievable challenge, but it comes with the territory. That’s when you have to know right where to reach inside yourself to come up with the goods. I never feel adequate for a responsibility like that.

Hope that helps, my friend. My heart honestly & truly goes out to you guys.
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a few more thoughts on death . . . .

Death brings sadness for many reasons. A person we love has been taken out of lives. Before the world became such a small place, I remember airports and the great passenger liner docks of New York City being like that. Goodbyes had a different meaning then. Separations were much longer.

One of the most difficult things about facing death, especially our own, is its mystery. What lies on the other side? Many people do not know. Some would say that this is the province of faith to know. I would not entirely agree that it is.

So many of the important questions of life are to me based on how we answer one basic question. It is a rational, empirical, unemotional and non-religious question: Is the Bible a reliable text? You cannot move forward with the other important questions of life until you deal honestly and rationally with that vitally important question.

I have personally found the Bible to be a reliable book. It has over 55,000 verifications from the field of Archaeology alone. My personal life experience also confirms its reliability: I have applied its principles to my life and they have delivered as promised. This has been reinforced for me in the lives of thousands of others.

So when a person categorically refuses to accept these basic components of my life view, I almost always conclude that they are operating under a personal bias against religion or God. I have always found that that bias is only designed to protect their moral autonomy: they do not want a moral code governing their lives that they cannot be free to conform to their personal behavior. In the end, these are the people who have the greatest fear of death and the most difficulty in facing their own.

The Bible teaches that death can be a wonderful transition to an inexpressibly joyous and spectacular eternal existence in a place called Heaven. We see in the pages of this book a most interesting fact: there is no scale of innate or expressed virtue on which our position determines our access to this paradise. Rather, we are each and every one of us accepted or rejected on the basis of how we have dealt with our own sin. If we have atoned for our sins in the manner prescribed by God, the Atonement (at-one-ment), then we are accepted in Heaven when we die, for “nothing that defileth shall enter therein.” It is not about how we compare to our neighbor, it is about how we compare to perfection. We shrink from that divine standard at our own spiritual peril.

When that principle has been understood, and the personal commitment to God’s atonement has been accomplished through understanding and plying the biblical path of atonement, people begin to experience a whole new perspective on death. An inner transformation of spirit takes place that you will immediately know is bigger than yourself . . . . much bigger.

The Bible is crystal clear on the details: Jesus died in your place on the cross to atone for your sins. This act was the perfect expression of God’s righteousness (He couldn’t give us a pass on our sin) and His unfathomable love: He secured a place for us in Heaven for all eternity because of His great love for each and every one of us.

Having been through the process of atonement and having made a personal commitment to it based on the principles above, I no longer fear death; neither is there any great mystery in it for me. I understand perfectly how the Apostle Paul could even taunt death with the immortal words, “Oh death, where is thy sting?” This is not only a good place for heart and soul to live, but a position that I maintain should make a great deal of sense to the analytical mind as well.

One has no less daunting a task than to disprove the Bible before dismissing the empirical validity of the biblical atonement. That is quite a task, and one at which men smarter than many of us combined have failed to accomplish, though they surely have tried. Most who do try will grade their own paper, so to speak, and dishonestly give themselves a passing grade. Sadly, the closer they get to their own life’s end, the more daunting the realization becomes that their grade is undeserved, and that their failure comes with consequences beyond what they have imagined. That is a sad, tragic, and unnecessary fate.  There will be no peace in their death.

Perhaps the mystery of how man must come to his God is somehow contained in the words of Jesus: “Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.”

Jerry D. Kaifetz, Ph.D.

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The Little Drop of Water Who Learned to Give Himself Away

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Jerry Kaifetz

This is a delightful children’s books that will teach them many important life principles through the adventure of Willis, the little drop of water. In the end, Willis learns that he must give all of himself to become all that he can be.

Click here to see this book on Abeka’s website

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When a Cop or a Soldier Takes a Life

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Jerry Kaifetz


When a police officer takes a life in the line of duty, there will almost always be a period of emotional upheaval and for some, mental anguish will follow. It is as if one has pushed a large boulder off a cliff in the dark and heard a human groan coming from below. You are not sure exactly what the results of your actions have been, nor their long-term consequences, but something has just hit you hard in the gut.

I have for some time wanted to delve into this subject in order to help. I believe that I am qualified to do so, as I have a foundational understanding of human ethics and morality that I believe is anything but subjective. I have come to understand in the last few decades that there is a definable moral code that has been the civil, moral and religious underpinning of the human race for five thousand years: the Judaeo-Christian Ethic. I understand its history, its character, its laws, its symmetry, its application, and the consequences of deviating from its principles.

Our civilization has at its core the principle of human rights. These are sacrosanct in Western culture. Not so in God’s eyes. In His eyes, individual rights, even the right to life, do not rise to the level of the rights of the group. When God’s law had its inception, the nation of Israel was in the wilderness wanderings. In that harsh environment, to be exiled from the camp often meant certain death. Nevertheless, communicable disease was of great concern then, and so when someone in the camp developed symptoms of communicable disease, they were exiled from the camp. Was this fair to them? Had they done anything wrong? Were they guilty of any crime? No, no, and no. The operating principle that governed the situation was nevertheless a simple one: three million lives are worth more than one. The moral high ground was clearly defined: it didn’t matter if this was some mother’s son or some child’s daddy: the protection of that society was the paramount concern that governed action and judgment.

That same moral principle operates today. When a police officer or soldier takes a life in the line of duty under circumstances whereby the perpetrator presents an untenable risk to the innocent, the moral high ground demands that the safety of the group be prioritized. It is that simple. There is no moral need born of conscience that ever warrants questioning in such proper actions.

When undertaken under the codified policies and protocols of law enforcement, the use of deadly force is as high an expression of moral principle as is to be found. It is only the moral confusion within a personal conscience that brings the officer or soldier to a place of inner conflict. This is unnecessary. If you took a life under typical law enforcement guidelines defining the appropriate venues and circumstances concerning the use of deadly force, I am here to tell you that you deserve a clear conscience. There is no question that the foundational document of the Judaeo-Christian ethic, the Bible, agrees with and illustrates this principle over and over and over again throughout its sixty six books, 1,189 chapters, 31,103 verses, and 783,137 words.

The Bible gives man three circumstances where the taking of a human life is justifiable:

1. Killing in warfare: God makes it abundantly clear that protecting innocent lives by the killing of enemy aggressors bent on their destruction is appropriate and permissible— even an act of courage commanded from on High. We see men like Moses, Joshua and David respond heroically and decisively to God’s command to kill enemy aggressors. God told them clearly, “I will be with you.”

2. Self-defense: This is the same national principle described above on an individual level. When the police officer pulls the trigger, he or she is the legitimate and duly appointed representative of government. He or she must rely on his or her training to make a split-second decision. The training is all about making that decision purely second nature. Many criminals use indecision on the part of armed civilians to their benefit. This is moral confusion and cannot be a part of a professional response to life threatening situations by law enforcement. After the fact, moral clarity is vital for the proper psychological response. Moral confusion breeds unnecessary guilt in many police officers. They deserve a clear conscience, and then some.

3. Capital punishment: Genesis 9:5-6 says, “And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.”  This passage tells us that God commands that murderers should be executed. This moral command rests on the very principle most often expressed by its opponents: the sanctity of life. What was the life taken by the criminal worth? Opponents of capital punishment fall seriously short in this area. (In fact, it is curious to me that these people have at times defined life as, “an unviable tissue mass,” as well as “an accidental, purposeless series of random, genetic mutations.”)

So when a police officer takes a life in the line of duty under the proper circumstances, while we do not want to see the expression of callousness, neither do we want to see noble and dedicated officers torment themselves by failing to understand that it was the very One with authority to end that life, the God who created it, who authorized, approved, and gave the order to take it in the interest of protecting other  lives. This is the moral high ground. It is the path of nobility, virtue, courage and sacred honor. It is what should raise every soldier and policeman to the highest levels of respect in our nation. These are men and women who have stepped forward and said, “I will put my life on the line for principle.” There is nothing in this world worthy of more respect. This is not a personal opinion. This is what was clearly articulated by Jesus Christ Himself:

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13

There is no less nobility or courage in the expressed willingness to do this than in the act itself.  There are many heroes all around us who have never had the opportunity to demonstrate their heroism.

So when a police officer, corrections officer, or soldier sets foot on that path, and their bullets end the life of a perpetrator, the path to defining what is moral should be clear, simple, and unobstructed by emotion and the confused application of incorrect and subjective moral principles. The highest of moral principles found in the Bible will be “a lamp unto your feet, and a light unto your path” if you let them. It is in that clarity that you will find the peace you so greatly deserve.

I join millions of Americans in thanking you from the bottom of my heart for your service and dedication to these highest of principles.

Jerry D. Kaifetz, Ph.D.

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Forgiveness

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Jerry Kaifetz

Did you ever know someone who could not forgive? This is a deal breaker for a Christian in their relationship with God. This is because the relationship of a Christian to God is founded on God’s willingness to forgive their sins.

When a Christian decides that they will not forgive someone who is asking for forgiveness, here is in fact what they are expressing:

“Yes, I know that God forgave my sins, but the sins of this person against me are much harder for me to forgive than was my sins for God.” Thus, THEY ARE PLAINLY STATING THAT THEIR HOLINESS IS GREATER THAN GOD’S, HENCE THE SIN MORE EGREGIOUS AND THUS IMPOSSIBLE TO FORGIVE.

Is that what you want to express to God and the world? If you have refused forgiveness to a repentant and contrite offender who has asked for it, you have in fact made yourself God.
Nice going . . . . .

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Some Father’s Day Thoughts About Our Heavenly Father

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Jerry Kaifetz

It was Jesus who first brought the concept to the human race that God was not a master to be served, a dictator to be feared or a mysterious, whimsical tyrant to be appeased through meaningless ritual and pomp. Jesus taught us that God wanted to be our Heavenly Father through the miracle of the new birth.

Jesus was God’s Son, and so could speak on what it meant to look upon God as our very Father. He could speak of God’s perspective on His children and describe the love of the perfect Father: it was not the love of a husband made less divine by its passion; it was not the love of a brother or sister dictated by a genetic bond; it was not the immature love of a child, nor the love of a kinsman so often overshadowed by resentment. It was the love only a father could know for his child.

A loving father does for a son what no one else could. The love of a father burns away the dross of sin and rebellion that an outsider will never fail to see and forever remember. And how could it be any other way? Is the son not flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone? Is the son not a reflection of the father, complete with elements of personality, mind, body and soul? Can the father help but to see himself in his son and live again parts of his life in the young man’s life? Was the son not created in union with the one woman whom he passionately loves, chosen from among billions of others?

From the time of infant nurturing to the time that a personality and soul began to emerge, the father has watched the son grow up at his feet. Then, the rewards began to grow even greater as he saw his own values become the possession of the son, not just the predictable outcome of childhood training. In his son’s presence, the father begins to understand what it means to have been created in the image of God. Is God not a Creator? Did not Christ tell us He was our Heavenly Father?

This profoundly impacting concept of God as our Father introduces to us a marvelous understanding of how God can not only demand moral accountability from us, but how he can also deal with our transgressions with a loving and forgiving heart. If he sees in us a willingness to confess our sins before Him and claim His mercy as our greatest asset toward forgiveness and redemption, how could a real father do other than forgive? Is this not how a loving father will deal with his own son? Can a loving father chastise a son who comes with head bowed in the spirit of humility and contrition? Can a loving heart punish a son who is obviously punishing himself in the full recognition of his offense? Could God be God and not be a Father?

If we want to understand God, we must understand Fatherhood. We must see the loving heart of a God who does not violate His perfect righteousness in dealing with the rebellion of His children, but who offers Himself to pay the price demanded by His perfect justice: His only Son. In offering His only Son, since they are both One, does He not in fact offer Himself? What else could a loving father do?

Jerry D. Kaifetz, Ph.D.

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Why Darwinism is Doomed

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Jerry Kaifetz

by By Jonathan Wells, Ph.D.

Harvard evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote in 1977: “Biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God.” Darwinism teaches that we are accidental byproducts of purposeless natural processes that had no need for God, and this anti-religious dogma enjoys a taxpayer-funded monopoly in America’s public schools and universities. Teachers who dare to question it openly have in many cases lost their jobs.

The issue here is not “evolution” – a broad term that can mean simply change within existing species (which no one doubts). The issue is Darwinism – which claims that all living things are descended from a common ancestor, modified by natural selection acting on random genetic mutations.

According to Darwinists, there is such overwhelming evidence for their view that it should be considered a fact. Yet to the Darwinists’ dismay, at least three-quarters of the American people – citizens of the most scientifically advanced country in history – reject it.

A study published Aug. 11 in the pro-Darwin magazine Science attributes this primarily to biblical fundamentalism, even though polls have consistently shown that half of the Americans who reject Darwinism are not biblical fundamentalists. Could it be that the American people are skeptical of Darwinism because they’re smarter than Darwinists think?

On Aug. 17, the pro-Darwin magazine Nature reported that scientists had just found the “brain evolution gene.” There is circumstantial evidence that this gene may be involved in brain development in embryos, and it is surprisingly different in humans and chimpanzees. According to Nature, the gene may thus harbor “the secret of what makes humans different from our nearest primate relatives.”

Three things are remarkable about this report. First, it implicitly acknowledges that the evidence for Darwinism was never as overwhelming as its defenders claim. It has been almost 30 years since Gould wrote that biology accounts for human nature, yet Darwinists are just now turning up a gene that may have been involved in brain evolution.

Second, embryologists know that a single gene cannot account for the origin of the human brain. Genes involved in embryo development typically have multiple effects, and complex organs such as the brain are influenced by many genes. The simple-mindedness of the “brain evolution gene” story is breathtaking.

Third, the only thing scientists demonstrated in this case was a correlation between a genetic difference and brain size. Every scientist knows, however, that correlation is not the same as causation. Among elementary school children, reading ability is correlated with shoe size, but this is because young schoolchildren with small feet have not yet learned to read – not because larger feet cause a student to read better or because reading makes the feet grow. Similarly, a genetic difference between humans and chimps cannot tell us anything about what caused differences in their brains unless we know what the gene actually does. In this case, as Nature reports, “what the gene does is a mystery.”

So after 150 years, Darwinists are still looking for evidence – any evidence, no matter how skimpy – to justify their speculations. The latest hype over the “brain evolution gene” unwittingly reveals just how underwhelming the evidence for their view really is.

The truth is Darwinism is not a scientific theory, but a materialistic creation myth masquerading as science. It is first and foremost a weapon against religion – especially traditional Christianity. Evidence is brought in afterwards, as window dressing.

This is becoming increasingly obvious to the American people, who are not the ignorant backwoods religious dogmatists that Darwinists make them out to be. Darwinists insult the intelligence of American taxpayers and at the same time depend on them for support. This is an inherently unstable situation, and it cannot last.

If I were a Darwinist, I would be afraid. Very afraid.

Get Wells’ widely popular “Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design”

Jonathan Wells is the author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Darwinism and Intelligent Design” (Regnery, 2006) and Icons of Evolution (Regnery, 2000). He holds a Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in theology from Yale University. Wells is currently a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle.

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Giovani Papini Writing on the Cross

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Jerry Kaifetz

Now thou hast no one with thee, Jesus, called the Christ. these soldiers preparing that appalling bed, these thieves insulting thee, those hounds awaiting thy blood, are only shadows, cast by the great shadow of god.

Thou art alone as thou wert alone at night; the sun that warms thy assassins is not for thee. before thee lies no other day, no other journey. Ended are thy wanderings and now at last thou canst rest; this skull of rock is thy goal. a few hours hence, thine imprisoned spirit shall be torn from its dungeon.

God’s human face is wet with cold sweat. the blows of the mattocks ring in his head, as if they struck at him; the sun which he loved so much, just even to the unjust, now falls harshly on his aching eyes and swollen eyelids. his whole body aches with weariness, trembles in a yearning for rest which he resists with all his soul. has he not promised to suffer as much as is needful up to the very last?

At the same time it seems to him that he loves with a more intimate tenderness those whom he is leaving, even those who are working for his death. and from the depths of his soul, like a song of victory over the torn and weary flesh, rise up the words, never to be forgotten by men, “father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”

No more divine prayer was ever raised to heaven since men have lived and prayed; it is not the prayer of man but of god to god.

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Creation vs. Evolution

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Jerry Kaifetz

Evolution vs. Creation
Guest Commentary Northwest Indiana Times, 2/10/06
by Jerry Kaifetz

Proponents of evolutionary theory seem to often leave off that last word: theory. It is routinely assumed that evolution is science, when in fact it has never been more than theory.

For a theory to become science, it must meet two criteria: 1.) It must be observable; 2.) It must be reproducible in a laboratory. Evolution fails on both counts! The fossil record does not contain any intermediary species. The missing links are still missing.

More than 400 scientists have now signed onto a growing list of skeptics doubting that random mutation and natural selection can account for the complexity of life, according to the Seattle-based Discovery Institute.

“Darwin’s theory of evolution is the great white elephant of contemporary thought,” said David Berlinski, a mathematician with The Center for Science and Culture.

About 700 scientists from Africa, Europe and the United States attended the “Darwin and Design” conference recently to press their contention that evolution cannot explain the origins of life.

Other prominent biologists who have signed the CSC list include evolutionary biologist and author Stanley Salthe and Richard von Sternberg, an evolutionary biologist at the Smithsonian Institution. The list also includes scientists from Princeton, Cornell, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Ohio State University, Purdue and the University of Washington.

Darwin theorized that all living things evolved from simple organisms. Over countless generations, he claimed, random mutations have occurred with the strongest surviving.

The great embarrassment to evolutionists is the complete absence of evidence to indicate that any random mutation has ever been beneficial to an organism. No wart has ever become an eye!

A recent CBS poll has shown that most Americans believe the Bible is true in teaching that God created man in the last 10,000 years. Hundreds of top-flight scientists from the world’s best schools do not believe in evolutionary theory.

So why are evolutionists so desperate to marginalize creationists and proponents of intelligent design? Why can they not allow a rational debate to take place in an open public forum?

Perhaps they hold to the belief that we Americans are simply too dumb to make a choice, and they should function as our self-appointed guardians of an unproven theory whose inventor held no degree in any field of science.

I have no quarrel with anyone’s right to express faith in evolutionary theory.

I simply prefer to place my faith in the first four words of a book that has been upheld by more than 50,000 scientific discoveries in the field of archaeology alone: “In the beginning, God.”

Jerry D. Kaifetz, Ph.D.

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