Many in the occupy Wall Street movement are too young to remember the cold war and what life was like behind the bamboo and iron curtains..Many are calling for the overthrow of the free market in favor of a planned socialist economy..They naively have fallen for the socialist Utopian myth that brought so much human misery to the twentieth century..Not only would a serious study of economics help enlighten them, but just a rudimentary knowledge of the history of socialism and free market economies..Our current problems pale in comparison to the poverty socialism created in places like the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe..
Socialism brought to the last century a brutality and politically caused poverty and starvation such as had never been known to the world before..Socialism produced the Bolsheviks, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, etc..Socialism where it was practiced in it's entirety brought one party totalitarianism. Along with the total loss of religious and economic freedom.. Countries who have gone the socialists route historically have created weak anemic economies unable to meet their populations basic needs. North Korea and Cuba have socialist economies...Unbelievably there are those in this country who know so little about economic history they would take us in the same direction..
There is nothing wrong with government trying to help the less fortunate among us..However historically the best way to produce the wealth to do so has been free and open markets..The mentality that if everyone can not succeed, no one should be allowed to succeed, is based upon envy not sound economics..Capitalism alone will not make our country free and prosperous. A moral common ground that in the past was supplied by Biblical Christianity is needed. Freedom can only be maintained by those who are morally capable of governing themselves..
Political, religious and economic liberty have historically produced free and prosperous nations..It is no accident those nations have had in the past a Biblical and Christian foundation..
Wesley Jones
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
When The Fear Of Being Made Fun Of Determines Your Beliefs..
In the early 1980s I began my inquiry into the evolution-creation debate..I quickly realized true science often took a back seat to the battle over public perception..When I began my inquiry evolution had been the entrenched dogma of academia for decades..Because the belief in evolution is not accompanied by any moral code, or any incentive to be fair and truthful about any evidence contradicting it. It could be defended without science, often through the courts and politics..
The evidence claimed as proof of evolution's scientific certainty used in text books in my childhood. I later learned was disputed or even proven to be a hoax.. There is no moral incentive to be honest and truthful about the short comings of evolutionary theory..It is seldom defended by scientific method. It is often used as a religious litmus test to exclude it's detractors...Evolution is based upon an amoral world view and is promoted couched in scientific terms..It is believed by millions with little or no scientific knowledge, simply because they are told not to believe it would be irrational..In the case of evolution the fear of being made fun of, far out weighs the scientific evidence..
I have many friends and acquaintances who are certain evolution is a valid scientific explanation for origins. When I ask them to defend their position scientifically they haven't the slightest idea where to even begin..They believe it because the social cost is too high not to believe it...Evolutionists have framed the debate not on science but in religious terms and the popularity of their beliefs...They have promoted the idea that all scientists in every field believe evolution to be true..When in fact thousands of accredited scientist in every discipline know that science has left Darwinian evolution in the dust..The fear of being considered old fashion. a religious fanatic, or not in the mainstream has led more people to believe in evolution than any of its scientific arguments..
Evolutionist's have made the social costs so high for anyone who contradicts them, belief in evolution is driven more by fear than science. For those who are truly interested in the scientific study of origins there are brave scientists who have risked their careers and published the scientific evidence against evolution on the internet..
Wesley Jones
The evidence claimed as proof of evolution's scientific certainty used in text books in my childhood. I later learned was disputed or even proven to be a hoax.. There is no moral incentive to be honest and truthful about the short comings of evolutionary theory..It is seldom defended by scientific method. It is often used as a religious litmus test to exclude it's detractors...Evolution is based upon an amoral world view and is promoted couched in scientific terms..It is believed by millions with little or no scientific knowledge, simply because they are told not to believe it would be irrational..In the case of evolution the fear of being made fun of, far out weighs the scientific evidence..
I have many friends and acquaintances who are certain evolution is a valid scientific explanation for origins. When I ask them to defend their position scientifically they haven't the slightest idea where to even begin..They believe it because the social cost is too high not to believe it...Evolutionists have framed the debate not on science but in religious terms and the popularity of their beliefs...They have promoted the idea that all scientists in every field believe evolution to be true..When in fact thousands of accredited scientist in every discipline know that science has left Darwinian evolution in the dust..The fear of being considered old fashion. a religious fanatic, or not in the mainstream has led more people to believe in evolution than any of its scientific arguments..
Evolutionist's have made the social costs so high for anyone who contradicts them, belief in evolution is driven more by fear than science. For those who are truly interested in the scientific study of origins there are brave scientists who have risked their careers and published the scientific evidence against evolution on the internet..
Wesley Jones
Monday, November 21, 2011
There Is No Such Thing As A Moral Vacuum
In the early part of the twentieth century " higher criticism" ( debunking the Bible ) was all the rage in the universities across the western world.. For centuries the Bible had been the under pinning of western civilization..It offered a moral code of conduct and a foundation for reason, politics and philosophy..There was no place more adept at creating doubt about the Biblical God than the top universities in pre-World War Two Germany...Because what one believes is morally acceptable governs all aspects of our lives, it is impossible to be devoid of moral opinions and still be able to function.
The Nazis and Marxists moved in quickly to fill the void in Europe. Richard Wurmbrand the founder of , The Voice Of The Martyrs said his communist captors often reminded him during torture; there is no God, no punishment for evil, no reward for good, we can do what we want. As Europe and the United States, (in a lesser degree), forget and unravel their Biblical foundations looking in vain for moral neutrality. Other world views such as Islam and militant socialism stand in the wings waiting to fill the void..
Many if not most of the criticisms of the Bible taught in the twentieth century have been answered by science and Biblical apologists..Historically the Bible still remains the only moral system of thought that has yet to build anything close to a free and just society. The sermon on the mount, the golden rule, the ten commandments were the foundations western society was built upon. As we in ignorance of history move further from our Biblical roots. I am afraid we are heading for the religious tyranny of Islam, or a pagan-atheist, socialist totalitarianism.
Christianity when not controlled by government and lived according to the Bible not only promotes a just society, but also a free one as well..
Wesley Jones
The Nazis and Marxists moved in quickly to fill the void in Europe. Richard Wurmbrand the founder of , The Voice Of The Martyrs said his communist captors often reminded him during torture; there is no God, no punishment for evil, no reward for good, we can do what we want. As Europe and the United States, (in a lesser degree), forget and unravel their Biblical foundations looking in vain for moral neutrality. Other world views such as Islam and militant socialism stand in the wings waiting to fill the void..
Many if not most of the criticisms of the Bible taught in the twentieth century have been answered by science and Biblical apologists..Historically the Bible still remains the only moral system of thought that has yet to build anything close to a free and just society. The sermon on the mount, the golden rule, the ten commandments were the foundations western society was built upon. As we in ignorance of history move further from our Biblical roots. I am afraid we are heading for the religious tyranny of Islam, or a pagan-atheist, socialist totalitarianism.
Christianity when not controlled by government and lived according to the Bible not only promotes a just society, but also a free one as well..
Wesley Jones
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Some Things The Occupy Wall Street Movement Might Want To Consider
Our constitution gives us all the right to peacefully assemble and petition our government. However, we do not have the right to shut down commerce without due process..We do not have the right to destroy public or private property as a form of protest..We have the right to use our public parks and streets to voice our political beliefs. We do not have the right to render public places unusable by the rest of society who pay for their upkeep..
I saw an interview with a protester who claimed to be a spokesman for BAMN ( by any means necessary). She believed that any form of protest no matter how violent and destructive is justified to bring about the destruction of capitalism and to usher in socialism.. I know it is a tired cliche, but anarchy really is the cruelest form of tyranny..No one has any rights or protection..The end justifies the means mentality made the last century the most violent and oppressive in human history..It ushered in the era of Hitler and Stalin..There is a difference between principled protest that can bring about productive change, and lawless revolution..
I, like many of the protesters believe there is too much outside lobbied monetary influence (corporate and otherwise). It corrupts the decisions many of our politicians make..I do not believe that tearing everything down and disregarding the property and civil rights of others is a wise or effective form of change..We need principled people who will use principled methods to bring about peaceful change..The ( by any means necessary) attitude will bring about only misery and poverty, violence and tyranny..
Wesley Jones
I saw an interview with a protester who claimed to be a spokesman for BAMN ( by any means necessary). She believed that any form of protest no matter how violent and destructive is justified to bring about the destruction of capitalism and to usher in socialism.. I know it is a tired cliche, but anarchy really is the cruelest form of tyranny..No one has any rights or protection..The end justifies the means mentality made the last century the most violent and oppressive in human history..It ushered in the era of Hitler and Stalin..There is a difference between principled protest that can bring about productive change, and lawless revolution..
I, like many of the protesters believe there is too much outside lobbied monetary influence (corporate and otherwise). It corrupts the decisions many of our politicians make..I do not believe that tearing everything down and disregarding the property and civil rights of others is a wise or effective form of change..We need principled people who will use principled methods to bring about peaceful change..The ( by any means necessary) attitude will bring about only misery and poverty, violence and tyranny..
Wesley Jones
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Why I Believe Evolution Is Antithetical To A Belief In A Just God
The evolution, creation debate goes to the very core of the argument about the nature of God . It addresses whether God is a loving all powerful God, or a passive indifferent observer..Did God create a world perfect and pain free, only to have it stained by a rebellious creatures? Or did He devise a world predicated on death, disease, suffering and violence? The God of the Holy Bible claims to have created a world in perfection and innocence. The god of evolution claims the world came into existence through violent, painful trial and error. I refuse to bow the knee to evolution's god..Even if evolution's god did exist it would lack the compassion and power to create a just after life..If God lacks the power and compassion to create the mature, perfect world explained in Genesis, who is to say He has the power, or even desire to create a better existence for us in the next life..
Evolution's god is the god of chance...It is ignorant and blind stumbling through time straining at perfection..It has no sense of justice, fair play nor any reward for good and punishment for evil..The God of the Bible has proven His creative genius in the book of Genesis..He created a universe without death, disease and suffering. He created beings with the ability to be noble and creative themselves, but also with a free and independent will..We are not bound by instinct and chance. We are created eternal beings made in the image of God..We can worship the God of the Bible who created us in perfection and placed us in the Garden of Eden..Or we can continue to rebel against Him and bring even more death and suffering into a world that was never meant to be a place of sorrow..
The god of evolution has never known perfection, only millions of years of death, violence, filth and disease..The only promise the god of evolution promises is that maybe in a few billion years through trial and error it might get it right.. The Biblical God of perfection promises us justice, mercy and eternal joy as soon as this life is over.. I would never worship a god who created innocent beings through death and suffering..The God of the Bible created our world without death and pain. Our sin and that of the fallen angels have marred His creation. But God did not leave us without remedy. He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ to restore our souls now, and a promise to restore our fallen world later. I choose to worship and trust the God of the Bible who has proven His perfection and compassion by creating the world without millions of years of suffering and death..
Wesley Jones
Evolution's god is the god of chance...It is ignorant and blind stumbling through time straining at perfection..It has no sense of justice, fair play nor any reward for good and punishment for evil..The God of the Bible has proven His creative genius in the book of Genesis..He created a universe without death, disease and suffering. He created beings with the ability to be noble and creative themselves, but also with a free and independent will..We are not bound by instinct and chance. We are created eternal beings made in the image of God..We can worship the God of the Bible who created us in perfection and placed us in the Garden of Eden..Or we can continue to rebel against Him and bring even more death and suffering into a world that was never meant to be a place of sorrow..
The god of evolution has never known perfection, only millions of years of death, violence, filth and disease..The only promise the god of evolution promises is that maybe in a few billion years through trial and error it might get it right.. The Biblical God of perfection promises us justice, mercy and eternal joy as soon as this life is over.. I would never worship a god who created innocent beings through death and suffering..The God of the Bible created our world without death and pain. Our sin and that of the fallen angels have marred His creation. But God did not leave us without remedy. He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ to restore our souls now, and a promise to restore our fallen world later. I choose to worship and trust the God of the Bible who has proven His perfection and compassion by creating the world without millions of years of suffering and death..
Wesley Jones
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Kingdom Come !
From the garden of Eden forward God's people have been looking to when God's promised Messiah would rule the earth as king in truth and justice. There has always been a spiritual representation of God's kingdom on earth..Those who did not deny God's existence and sought to know and please Him.. From the time of Seth, Adam's son, through to the time of John the Baptist, that kingdom was hid in the hearts of God's people..John began to preach that the promised Messiah and King had come to earth..The kingdom or ruler had come and was manifested to the world. Mankind then proceeded in squandering a unique once in a life time opportunity.
The prophet Malachi in the last two verses of the Old Testament warned us; " Behold I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the lord; And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." Jesus told his disciples John the Baptist was the promised Elijah..The curse I believe was a time of wrath the Bible calls the "great tribulation". If John the Baptist's message had been heeded Christ would have set up His kingdom then and there. There would have been no need of a time of wrath and tribulation. But John was beheaded and our king and Christ was crucified. The curse lies before us...
There is still hope for those who have submitted to Christ and entered into His spiritual kingdom..We are promised we will be kept from that terrible time if we remain faithful until Jesus returns...The curse all of mankind could have avoided, if only they would have heeded the words of John the Baptist, has been set in stone and looms before us..For seven years a dreadful curse will afflict mankind, afterwards Jesus Christ will return with the people who made up His spiritual kingdom through the ages and we will rule and reign with Him forevermore..
Because Christ said that only His Father knows the hour of His return our duties as Christians are both short and long term.. Our job until Christ returns is to try and get as many people as we can into the spiritual kingdom of Jesus Christ..That is best achieved in societies based upon liberty and justice. The apostles taught that it is God's will that all of mankind come to the knowledge of truth..They also taught our duty is not limited to making life better for only Christians, but our duty while we wait for Christ is to make the world a better place for all of mankind in anyway possible..
Wesley Jones
The prophet Malachi in the last two verses of the Old Testament warned us; " Behold I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the lord; And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." Jesus told his disciples John the Baptist was the promised Elijah..The curse I believe was a time of wrath the Bible calls the "great tribulation". If John the Baptist's message had been heeded Christ would have set up His kingdom then and there. There would have been no need of a time of wrath and tribulation. But John was beheaded and our king and Christ was crucified. The curse lies before us...
There is still hope for those who have submitted to Christ and entered into His spiritual kingdom..We are promised we will be kept from that terrible time if we remain faithful until Jesus returns...The curse all of mankind could have avoided, if only they would have heeded the words of John the Baptist, has been set in stone and looms before us..For seven years a dreadful curse will afflict mankind, afterwards Jesus Christ will return with the people who made up His spiritual kingdom through the ages and we will rule and reign with Him forevermore..
Because Christ said that only His Father knows the hour of His return our duties as Christians are both short and long term.. Our job until Christ returns is to try and get as many people as we can into the spiritual kingdom of Jesus Christ..That is best achieved in societies based upon liberty and justice. The apostles taught that it is God's will that all of mankind come to the knowledge of truth..They also taught our duty is not limited to making life better for only Christians, but our duty while we wait for Christ is to make the world a better place for all of mankind in anyway possible..
Wesley Jones
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Why I Am Certain Jesus Christ Is The Messiah
I have studied many if not most of the world's religions in some detail.. What sets Jesus Christ apart from the rest of humanity can be summed up in one word, Mercy! Not only does the Biblical Jesus offer mercy equally to all. He teaches his followers to be merciful as well ( not all who claim to be his followers live by this unfortunately). There is no other act more beneficial and comforting to the soul of man than receiving, or extending mercy..Nothing is so antithetical to our nature as forgiveness without reparation..The mercy taught and offered by Christ is beyond ordinary man's ability to construct or invent. It is of divine origin there is no other example of it in all of human history.
The number of Old Testament prophecies Jesus of Nazareth fulfilled is astounding. If one were to reject the New Testament account of Jesus as prejudicial. The amount of secular evidence we have regarding His life is beyond reasonable debate; Jesus is the Messiah prophesied hundreds of years before His appearance in the historical record..( Since the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls the age of those prophesies and the time Jesus lived are no longer in doubt.) Isaiah Chapter 53 and the 22nd Psalm alone give a detailed account of the life, suffering and death of the historical Jesus..
I believe Jesus performed all the miracles attributed to Him in the New testament. But even if He had not done one of them His teachings are so profound and beyond human ability. I would still believe He is the promised Messiah..I also know from personal experience. There was a time I had nothing invested personally in Jesus Christ. I had only heard of Him. In a time of great trouble and anguish of soul I cried out for Him to forgive and save me. He heard me, forgave me, restored my soul and saved me out of all my troubles..This alone is more evidence than I need to believe that He indeed is all He and the Bible claim Him to be..Beyond any doubt whatsoever, I believe the Biblical Jesus Christ is God's Messiah, and the only begotten Son of the living God..
Wesley Jones
The number of Old Testament prophecies Jesus of Nazareth fulfilled is astounding. If one were to reject the New Testament account of Jesus as prejudicial. The amount of secular evidence we have regarding His life is beyond reasonable debate; Jesus is the Messiah prophesied hundreds of years before His appearance in the historical record..( Since the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls the age of those prophesies and the time Jesus lived are no longer in doubt.) Isaiah Chapter 53 and the 22nd Psalm alone give a detailed account of the life, suffering and death of the historical Jesus..
I believe Jesus performed all the miracles attributed to Him in the New testament. But even if He had not done one of them His teachings are so profound and beyond human ability. I would still believe He is the promised Messiah..I also know from personal experience. There was a time I had nothing invested personally in Jesus Christ. I had only heard of Him. In a time of great trouble and anguish of soul I cried out for Him to forgive and save me. He heard me, forgave me, restored my soul and saved me out of all my troubles..This alone is more evidence than I need to believe that He indeed is all He and the Bible claim Him to be..Beyond any doubt whatsoever, I believe the Biblical Jesus Christ is God's Messiah, and the only begotten Son of the living God..
Wesley Jones
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