How do we get different races of creatures

 I hate changing the subjecty in the middle of a sequence like the one about lying signs and wonders, but since Google messed up my blog I no longer have access to my other blogs in ofrder to keep things from iterfering from one another.   aND i JUST HAVE TO WRITE ABOUT THIS.

tHIS IS  A RESPONSE TO THE LATEST lET'S tALK cREATION EPISODE IN WHICH gARNER AND wOOD ANWER READER'S OR i SHOULD SAY LISTENERS' QUESTIONS, AND wOOD ANSWERS A QUETSION ABOUT HOW THE PEOPLEL ON nOAH'S ARK DIVERSIFIED INTO THE VARIOUS RACES AFTER THE fLOOD.  hE SAYS THEY REALLY DON'T KNOW, AND CLAIMS THERE REALL    Y  really isn't such a thing as race anyway, which drives me razy.

Race is just one of the terms for a variation in a species that forms a population unto itself.  You can also call it a population as many do, or a variation or some such.   The problem is just that it's become a politically charged confusion that causes all sorts of mental gyrations in the attempt to avoid the hot button.  

Call it a population if you prever, all it menasa is that some bportio of a gene pool gets isolated from the main population or other populations of the same species and interbreeds within its own group until a general change occurs in its appearance that sets it apart from the other populations of the same species.  That's all it is and it follows ordinary porinciplesa of genetic variation.    Ten lizards were set loose on an isoland with no other lizards and over thirty years they developed a different appearance as a whole populatioin from the populatio on the mainland from which they were origianlly taken.  That's the principle in action.   How do you get Chinese people who look different from Tibetan people who look different from Indian people who look different from Arab people who look different from European pewople etc etc etc.  Same pirinciple.  

ddAs for the people on the ark you just have to assume that each of tof the wibves of the three sons of Noah carried a genome that had all the variety in it to make a new population after  the people had exanded into new populations from the ark.   Noah himself may have had sufficient variation in his genome for that matter.  So would his sons then.   It's a simplew principle.  I'll come back and spell out my understanding of it later.

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Lying Signs and Wonders part three

 To be warning people about the biblical concept, lying signs and wonders, I can only expect Christians who are accepting of supernatural phenomena to take it seriously.  To others it can only sound preposterous, impossible.  I'm so at home in the supernatural realm I have to make an effort to remember my own state of disbelief before it all changed.  Now I have to fight ipatience with people who think miracles are impossible or even that levitation is impossible although I have trouble with that one myselfbecause I can't find even a supernatural explanation for it, except of course that God can do anything He wants.  Or maybe that demons lift people, but that doesn't seem to be the case in most of the examples I'vew been reading about.  If that were the case the perso woudln't need to be in a trance or his body rigid and incapable of feeling anything or his closthoing immobile and all that.  Whateve s goig on in those things I don't have a clue.

I believe they are real just because I have read of hundreds and even thousands of witness reports that asound quite credible.  Even with that I suppose the fact that I already believe in soe pretty outlandish things by many people's estimagtes probaobably plays a part in keeping me open to such things.

There is nothing more irritatio than those people who respond when you tell them about a supernatural experience instantaneously come up with a contrary explanatrion along the lines of mental delusion, hallucination or some such.     Okay I'll try to avoid hyperbole, maybe not MOST irritating.  Maybe a hair shirt would be more irritating.  I don'rt know.

Anyway, I did feel I needed to write abvout ghis as I was being led to the books I mention such as "They Flew" by Eire.  That came out of my reading Hunt's book, A Woman Rides the Beast", and in general pursuing more information about the Catholic Church.  Oh, H. Grattan Guinness' book, Romanism and the Reformation came before Hunt's book.  The Antichirst as a Pope has been one of my topics here since the beginning and I've strongly felt the Lord led me to it so I write about it from time to time.  It has bgiven me a perspective that makes me question the popular eschatologiy, Pre tribulatio rapture, which has also become a major theme here.   Enough of the scenario I hold at the moment is still future to remain Pre Trib, oddly, I just have a different view of the antichrist than the standard viewpoint, and I've also come to change my mind about the first six seals of the Book of Revelation, now seeing them as historically ongoing since the time of John's vision, and not part of the Seventieth Week of Daniel or last seven years before Jesus returns, known as the Tribulation.   I now also see the Roman beast of Revelation thirteen and the woman riding the beast of Revelation seventeen as ongoing since the popes gained power over the so called Holy Roman Empire, which is the revived Roman Empire rathern than some future revival, although it will have to come back to its former power at least for the very last act of the drama.

Sincew the lying signs and wonders are accepted by ERoman Catholicism as from God, that is the deception people need to be warned against because it lends credibility to the false Church and leads people awawy from slsalvation in Christ.   

Lying SIgns and Wonders, continued

 I wondered whether levitation was obe of the siddhis, or powers experienced in Hindu medidations, or Buddhist, so I searched on some relevant terms at You Tube and found out that yes indeed, levitation ois one of the siddhis.  So is the ability to make the body extremely small or extermeley large.  Levitation is the result of making the body weightless, and it is also said to be possible to make the body extremely heavy.  All these were listed as siddhis on one website, or You tube video I whould say.    Their method seems to be mainly mediation or strengthening the power of the mind over the body, mind over matter, and they may or may not be specifically seeking the siddhis.  Sometimes they occur inadvertently, depending on the type of spiritual practice, and are then rejected as irelevant to the quest, but in some disciplines they are actively sought.  

In the Catholic monastic context they were not sought at all but occurred apparently as a result of the extreme ascetic practices which suppressed the body, but also they were a respond se to emotional triggers as the person contemplated some adored religious object, such as the feast day of the virgin marry or the meaning of the Mass and so on.    In any case they were alsoways inacdvertent in that context, not soughtj.  

Both the Hindu and the Catholic contexts serve to corroborate Watchman Nee's understanding of them as latent powers of the soul once acive in Adam and Eve but rendered inaccessible as a result of their disobedience of God in eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  He says that these powers are sought in many of the pagan religions such as Hinduinsm and Buddhism, where some individuals are found to psossess the necessary abilities to bring them to expression.  Not everyone has this ability, but those who have it become the religious sages of their time.  

In Christianity they occur wherever concentrated practices  can bring them out.  The asceticism of the monasteries is one, but I also think of the Russian Starets who repeats over and over the line, Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner, and in one particular accountj of this developed clairvoyance in particular as I recall, I'm not sure about other powers.

The atemempted scientific study of these things in the early tewentieth century, by J B Rhine and others, wasn't very successful, although Watchman Nee, writing ib that same time period seems to think they were successful.   As I recall there were a few blips in the sutdies as it were where it seemed there was some kind of power manifesting, some psychic power, telepathy and that sort of thing, but it never ewent very far.  I didn't read a lot about all that although I was interested in it for a while, so I don't know how they perpursuied their evidence beyond setting up testing for its appearance, but it seems they never hit on the idea of training the mind to control th body or suppressing the body through ascdetic practices.  Those seem to be the key to the manifestation to these things in a person who icis temperamentally suited to them.  

There is quite a bit of information aouabout the yogic practices that bring out such things on You Tube.  

In all these cases the pwoers are considered to be manifestatios of the divine, spiritual powers.  The only source of a conterary point of view that I know of comes rom Watchman Nee's book, the Latent POwers of the Soul.  For fallen humanity in this fallen world, all there is is midn and body, or soul and body, but Christians receive the quickening of another faculty, the spiritual faculty lost at the Fall of Adam and Eve, with the indewelling of the Holy Spirit, and thus have the only rue spiritual power humniytuy is capable of.  Only the born again can be truly spiritual.  All these other powers are just soul powers, mind and emotion, exercised in such as way as to e taken for spiritual.  The soul is considered to be mind, emotion and will, in schristian thinking about these things.  God is not accessible through these faculties or pexperiences, even if refined greatly by medigations as mentioned above.  God is only knowable through the psirit and in ono other way.  He may vebe inferred, and is by much of humanity, but not experienced by any means at all available to fallen man.  Only by believeing that Christ died for our sins on the cross and devoting ourselves to living for Him are we born again and begin to have the power to communicate with God.

Thaiss is what makes the souls powers, the siddhis, lying wsigns and wonders.  They are not necessarily brought about by demionic influence although that may bget involvwed in them under some circumstances, and certainly as Nee points out Satan is very interested in finding wAYS TO GET PEOPLE TO EXPRESS THESE POWERS BECAUSE THEY CAN BE TURNED TO WORSHIPING HIM IN VARIOUS WAYS, WHICH IS HIS NEVERENDING QUEST, TO DISPLACE gOD IN HUMAN WORSHIP.  tURNING cATHOLICS TO mARY INSTEAD OF cHRIST IS CERTAINLY ONE WAY THIS OCCURS.  hE'S ALREADY SUCCEEDED IN GETTING THE cATHOLIC cHURCH TO OFFICIALIZE A LONG LIST OF FALSE DOCTRINES THAT REPLACE gOD AND cHRIST WITH DSOULISH AND DEMONIC SUBSTITUTES.

tHE ONLY SAFE HAVEN FROM ALL THIS IS BELIEF IN cHRIST'S DEATH ON THE CROSS TO PAY FOR OUR SINS AGAINST gOD'S LAW, MAKIBG US BORN AGAIN AND FIT FOR ETERNAL LIFE.  oTHERWISE EPOPEOPLE ACAN ONLY BE EDECEIVED by these things.

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