We are holding at 26 degrees, for the past 24 hours+ in our neck of the woods.  I seen where relative and friends in the Bend area are around five and friends in Burns are minus 15.

We do have our legendary wind from the North – here it is actually spitting sideways the small flakes that are falling.  Our winds are only 15 to 20 mph; The Gorge has a ‘bit’ more wind as it heads to the valley coming out the other end at Troutdale at 45+ mph – I am sure the road between us and them has even higher winds.

Watching the birds hover around the feeder, putting about a half gallon of seed out a day, humming birds are not as plentiful and they are only taking a quarter cup or so each day – which is a lot since there are only three and they are so small.

Haven’t seen any recent signs of deer, but I haven’t been down in the garden area for a while – doves and quail are doing a lot of traveling down there though.

Meanwhile all domesticated animals are spending their time in nice soft AND warm spots.

Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

Atheist: An unbeliever in God or deities

Evolution:  biology the theoretical process by which all species develop from earlier forms of life. According to this theory, natural variation in the genetic material of a population favors reproduction by some individuals more than others, so that over the generations all members of the population come to possess the favorable traits.

Natural Selection:  the process, according to Darwin, by which organisms best suited to survival in their environment achieve greater reproductive success, thereby passing advantageous genetic characteristics on to future generations.

(the above definitions from the Encarta on-line dictionary)

Survival of the fittest:  Survival of the fittest is a famous phrase of Herbert Spencer which describes the idea that there is, in nature, competition to survive and reproduce.

These and many other such terms are all wrapped up on man’s denial of God to make their life easier – to not have to answer to a Creator who has every right to define the terms of our existence.

By the denial of God these believers in a false ‘religion’ are able to make up their own rules, their own ‘moral’ code.  If at any time they wish to change it, they can, because, after all, they are not beholden to anything that requires their obedience.

You would think that these proponents of this world view would be supportive of the rich, powerful and famous – they are the fittest, they have succeeded where others have failed.

Yet, many say, you can’t do that – you have to protect the feeble, you have to have laws that control the actions of people.  So, society develops its own code of conduct as to what is right and wrong; it very often justifies changing the code as a protection – or improvement of man’s actions.

There are indeed many who do advocate that the rich and powerful should be in control – they should make the rules and they should determine right from wrong.

Interesting enough, many are the same people.  They have held themselves up to be the salvation of mankind, they pass laws that require others to obey – or be punished.  They often exclude themselves from these same requirements and hold themselves above the ‘common’ man in determining what is right and what is wrong. 

They have their own ‘moral code’ which is based on their collective ideas which change from year to year and sometimes day to day.  There is no moral compass, because morality can change at any time at their whim.

We but have to look at many of the laws Congress passes to see the truth – they often specifically exclude themselves from laws they expect the ‘common’ citizen to obey; because they have reached the ‘top’ of the food change – they are in charge.

If you have money you can have influence over others – you have doors that automatically are opened and your thoughts hold more weight that the ‘common’ citizen.

Many of these, who deny God, proclaim that THEY are trying to protect the unprotected by passing laws or referendums that require certain actions to be unlawful and other actions that were previously unlawful to become lawful.

But, many of these laws, instead of helping the oppressed, tend to hold them down and not allow them to get to the top – by the design of those at the top, they are the fittest.

What is ‘right’ is continually being changed, modified or even done away with because those that are adamant that God does not exist, have changed their minds as to the definition of right and wrong.

Perhaps one of the best current examples of these thoughts is what is happening in the Middle East where the strong are preying on the weak, demanding obedience to their codes and if any choose to challenge or disobey they will be persecuted, imprisoned, driven from their homes and even their country and often brutally slain.  They are the fittest.

That is their decision as to what is right and wrong.  Doesn’t matter that they do it under the color of religion, the bottom line is their religion isn’t of God and condones behavior that God condemns – but, they are the fittest and they believe they are in charge and can control others.

Another, of course, is China where they tell their families they may have only one child and will often force abortion on a woman who is pregnant with a second child.

The Nazis, prove that when man decides what is right and wrong it can become a basis for eradication of those that are ‘lesser’ who have not evolved, who are incapable of taking care of themselves.

The leaders claimed Norse God(s), they claimed that their Arian blood was loftier because they evolved into a superior race.  They were the survivalists of the fittest.

They were now in charge of a nation.  These men decided the fate of millions of Jews, not just those that were slain, but those that lost their homes, businesses, freedom and even their countries.

The Nazi’s did the same to the Gypsy’s, the Slavic people, the mentally ill or handicapped, any ‘race’ or ‘color’ of skin that was not acceptable to them they designed to eliminate, or enslave - all in the name of weeding out those that did not fit into their vision of a perfect person AND since they were the ones in control, they decided these what that perfect person was and the people’s fate that didn’t meet that criteria.

These men decided what was right and wrong.  They defined morality on the religion of evolution and its offspring, natural selection and survival of the fittest.

Without God and the foundation of His Word; without the obedience to His Word and the acceptance of His role in our lives we are no better than the lowest animal on the planet.

And if that is the case why do we prosecute someone that goes against societal norms?  Because we want order?  Because these actions have to be controlled?

They say that man has evolved into a reasonable thinking being that has evolved above our original nature.

But if man evolved from a stone, up through the many stages of life to become what we are today than we have no reason to comply with any code of conduct and do just what we please.  That is the base for the religion of evolution.

The fittest are in control, they pass laws that they like, they do things that they like, they are not really accountable to anyone else because they have evolved into the fittest.

What are these laws really based on – we arrest a man for murder when he went after those that tried to take something from him, or as a revenge for the killing of the person who wronged him in a violent manner – when evolution, the survival of the fittest actually shows that this action was just an animalistic action to survive.

Who decides what is right and what is wrong? – well those that are at the top of the evolutionary chain, those that have survived either by way of overcoming challenges or who have grown up in a powerful family. 

The world is in chaos because satan uses every device at his disposal to convince man there isn’t any God, that he is no better than the animals – just more evolved – and therefore can do whatever he deems appropriate.

Psalm 50:22-23 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

²² Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

When the world ignores God, declares He doesn’t exist and/or declares He has no say in our world it does so at its own peril, the peril of finally angering God enough that He says it IS enough and passes His judgement upon it.

God is alive and well, He is concerned about His people and while He hasn’t commanded the destruction of the world’s naysayers, yet, it doesn’t mean that He won’t hold them accountable.

Malachi 3:16-18 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.

¹⁷ And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

¹⁸ Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Mathew 24:25 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Man has been warned many times through the years, yet, it seems each generation must learn again, that God isn’t to be mocked.

We need to hold fast to our faith in God, no matter the provocation or temptation to abandon it.

The world doesn’t have the answer, they keep changing both the question and the facts, applying the current morality of the day for today, imposing it on history and then tomorrow will have a whole new set of rules. 

Only God has maintained the truth for which all men can be guided and which all men are responsible to obey.

Malachi 3:5-6a And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

⁶ For I am the Lord, I change not; the final word in all discussions of God’s intentions for those who choose to deny His rightful place in hearts and minds.

One more reason to continue to pray and witness to those that are lost.

Later, Art :-)

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