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Stephen Hawking's New Book - The Grand Design

From Unquestioned Genius To Unquestioned Fool  

I should have known something was up when the Scientistic Dictatorship Elite insisted on calling the Higgs Boson Particle, "The God Particle."  Little did I know that it was a set-up for Stephen Hawking to become the latest Scientistic Dictator to announce the Death of God.  Sadly as his new book proves, Hawking's disease has robbed him of his one functioning asset, a rational mind. Hawking's book commits the most basic philosophical fraud and fails to be Science.  What can you say when an unquestioned Scientific Genius publishes a work that is philosophically unsound and non-science and does so with serious intent? There is no other conclusion one can draw than an Unquestioned Genius has become an Unquestioned Fool.

I started to write an article the night before the Higgs Boson confirmation was announced. I was familiar with the premise of the particle and knew from the beginning that naming it "The God Particle" was merely another false Ikon of the Scientistic establishment. As very interesting as the Higgs Boson is (if that is really what they have discovered and not some variation upon that theory they do not yet understand - which is my educated guess) its being called the God Particle is simply insulting to a transcendent God. If we were to rightly name the Higgs Boson - the God Particle, then by the exact same assumptions we would have to name the entire cosmos - the God Cosmos . . . oh wait . . . damn . . . that would be correct and right!  But for the Scientistic Dictatorship Establishment (SDE) there is no such humility and the hubris of calling the Higgs Boson the "God Particle" is  . . . well just that hubris.  But it is cunning hubris meant to (as is the case in most cases) make it appear that the SDE hold more knowledge than they actually do.  

Well, I wrote part of the article and then deleted it and I'm glad I did. Here is a better article by Dr David Goldberg  - a member of the Astrophysics Group in the Physics Department at Drexel University. I would suggest that you read that excellent article entitled Stop Calling It The God Particle! linked here and a previous article entitled Scientists Still Chasing The Force, Getting Closer linked here. Both are very interesting much better in several ways that what I would have written.   

I have published a second edition of this article to include Dr. Ravi Zacharias' excellent analysis of Hawking's False Claims. 

I have written about the false Iconography that SDE uses for propaganda purposes and in other articles exposed in some detail the frauds of "iconography" that have been part of the SDE's Evolutionary paradigm scam. Since the SDE is losing the argument about the "spontaneous generation" of biological life, and so many steps of classical Darwinism and later brands of Evolution have been thoroughly refuted by real science, proving the concept of "irreducible complexity" the old guard is in a tizzy to create the next fraudulent Icon. On this link skip down to the middle of the article about Bacterial Flagellar Motor. For another short picturing of "irreducible complexity" this link is excellent.  Here is a page of graphics, some animated, each of which clearly demonstrated the reality of "Irreducible Complexity" any one of which would completely refute Darwin/Huxley/SDE's claim of "gradualism."  









My only point not covered by these linked articles is to remind you of the serial iconographic frauds by which the SDE has perpetrated its one hundred and fifty-year campaign to control the conversation in all walks of life as it has marched forward to Mark each human as Beast ONLY.  Now it is making pretensions of knowledge of something it is calling the "God Particle."  The Higgs Boson or some version of it is real, but the Name God Particle is a fraud.

The latest SDE Ikons for your viewing and brainwashing pleasure - they are mild compared to some of the frauds of the past and other frauds of the present - like the textbook mantra - "Evolution is a fact, not a theory."  

Here is a short history of the iconographic frauds of the SDE. 

The non-living gypsum rock Huxley claimed was
the missing Monera in Ernst Haeckel's Phylogenetic Tree

Con Man Thomas Huxley

The Bathybius haeckelii - a non-cell protoplasm or cytoplasm claimed to be discovered by Thomas Huxley - for which he claimed status as the missing link between non-living and living matter. In other words, he claimed for this gypsum rock the status as the "God Particle" of biology capable of creating "spontaneous generation."  This was soon discovered to be a fraud and in a private letter to the British Royal Academy of Science Huxley admitted his "mistake" but they collectively engaged in a conspiracy to keep the "mistake" secret, because it was the ONLY thing that gave any weight to Darwin's Theory of the Origin of Species. This fraud was part of the academic literature for more than a hundred years!  I read an article about it (as being true) in the New England Journal of Medicine in the 1970s. 

Ernst Haeckel the great Iconographer of Darwinist fantasies.

For an overview of some of the major iconographic and pseudo-scientific claims of the SDE - take the time to view the videos LINKED HERE.

Here is the great human/animal embryo hoax that pervaded(s) official biological and evolutionary science even to this day in one way or another.  Ernst Haeckel gave us the fake iconography of the SDE - something we are faced with - a lying encyclopedia of mythical pseudo science offering lying icons as fact. A mere compendium of which would fill a good sized book. And it has filled the book Icons of Evolution, Science or Myth?


 

Then there's Piltdown Man 



 


Just a reminder to remember the difference between Science - which is a good thing, and Scientism - the Luciferian World Religion that has killed now hundreds of million of people in the last century and has given us 1.6 BILLION abortions in the last 30 years alone.

Is Our Nation Suffering The Judgement Of God?

The lamestream media, secular humanists and liberal Christians scream when some Fundamentalist Christian talks about our nation suffering judgement at the hands of an angry God.  But ARE we suffering judgement? Is God Angry?

Truthfully, neither the secular humanists or the fundamentalist Christians are right and their opposite opinions represent a polarized ignorance. However, it is a fact that humanity devolves (the opposite of evolving) in the grips of evil. The only humans who have been seen to evolve are the Saints, who in their sanctity at times become very powerful for the good, and change history for the better.  

Civilization itself moves into greater levels of insanity, where the care of nature and the value of humans become questionable. Devolve enough and death and chaos reign. Where there is human devolution there is massive suffering and death. Yes, western civilization IS devolving, and it is happening very quickly under the guidance of the new international religion of Scientism, which is administered by the Scientistic Dictatorship Elite, (SDE). The fact is, at its core, it is not a new religion at all. It is the old paganism merely wrapped in pseudo-science to give it the appearance of "reason" and not the perennial "spiritual emotionalism and insanity" it is. 



Here is the situation with which we are dealing and it is an apt description of the means of Human Devolution. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. 

What does that mean? Does it mean that God is petty and has a bad temper? No it does not. It is anthropomorphic language, because what we are experiencing now in this country and others are experiencing around the world "feels" like God is angry. The Scientistic Dictatorship Elite (SDE) have been on a century and a half campaign inside the cultures all around the Globe to suppress the Truth of God and replace it with something that is ungodly and unrighteous - that is, to create a civilization that is absent God and NOT right with God. The apostle Paul wasn't lying when he said, "because of this, God will send them strong delusion, in order for them to believe the lie, so that they all might be damned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness. That is, they delighted in a way of life and a culture that was absent God and NOT right with God. It represents the devolution of Humanity, an overarching insanity of mankind.  

Two permanent refugee camps in Sudan -
no sanitation - no chance of escape. 

Horrible things are happening that have been well documented, increased earthquakes, horrible and huge fires, wars, seditions, threat from meteors, strains of super-bacteria, new deadly viruses, massive and sudden death of fish and birds, the sudden collapse of the honey bee population, horrible human displacement (now in the tens of millions) where people live in permanent camps, that are not "cities for the displaced" but mere concentrations camps by another name.  Worldwide, the list of chaos is very long and is the history of the last decades. Our answer has been to party a little more hardy, get one more tattoo, play Angry Birds, and Words With Friends, etc. 

We cannot pretend these things are not happening. But does this represent God's anger, or is it rather a fact that we as a culture have drifted so far removed from the Grace of God that we collectively cannot receive his blessings? What is his blessing? Jesus said, "I've come that you may have abundant LIFE." Certainly, officially, now codified in our laws mostly by the acts of unjust judges, we have removed God from our vision, from our laws, from our thoughts, from our reasoning, from our science, from our philosophy, from our conversations, from our hearts, from our town squares, from our memorials, but most damaging of all from our actions. It isn't just that we "ignore him" and he is petty and does not like to be ignored. It is rather that in our rebellion we remove ourselves from his blessings which are LIFE engendering and as we devolve into evil, we move further and further into a Culture of Death and Chaos. What else can happen when you purposely remove yourself from the "source of ALL LIFE"?  

We are merely repeating what the pagans of old did. The increasing barbarity of our society is not new. It is the exact same paganism, but this time wrapped in the language of the SDE.

Here is the story and it is absolutely true TODAY.  What can be known of God is not absent to the natural Human heart. God has shown us Himself in the majesty and awesomeness of the Universe. This is a witness of the reality of God available to every breathing human psyche. It is so much a part of the human psyche that in the hours and days post 9/11 in the U.S., all around the country, people pressed prayers to God from their gut, from the deepest part of them, people who had never uttered a prayer in their lives were sincerely bowing their heads and pressing their minds and hearts to God's saving power and God's mercy. But then they quickly turned to Idols the SDE erected for their salvation. George Bush, The Patriot Act, The National Defense Authorizations, the Creation of the Golden Calf called "The Department of Homeland Security" to which if we would just bow, surrender liberties as sacrifice, we would all be saved. We had a real chance for "national salvation" for a renewal of everything that was good in our culture and we blew it big time. 

Now we are without excuse. For that brief moment, we recognized God and his providential care for us, then quickly we fell back into the old patterns of devolution, accepted the Idols created for us by the SDE. We stopped honoring God, we stopped as a nation giving him thanks. We devolved into the abyss of death and evil even further in 2008. Being totally blinded by yet another Idol, we elected a man with NO respect for God, a man who has proved himself to be an enemy of Good People, a man who openly mocked the Bible, and tradition and patriotism, and he has been walking through our country with powers of destruction of Biblical proportions, destroying incomes, destroying businesses, mocking Christianity, disrespecting Jews, and now openly attacking the Church.

Let's use Saint Paul's words: For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God has shown it to them.  For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both His eternal power and Divinity, so that they are without excuse. Because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. 
Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and reptiles. Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of the own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 

For this reason God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for even their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature, and likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, were inflamed by their lust for one another, males with males, committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error. And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fitting; having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; they are whisperers, slanderers, hateful to God, insolent men, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, having known the righteous judgment of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve of those who practice them. 
  
What more accurate picture could one paint of our leaders . . . and wait, our leader merely reflect US.  In that horrible slave engendering ruling of the Roberts' Court, on June 28th, 2012 (a day that will live in infamy) Roberts said one thing that is absolutely true. He said in effect that it is not the job of the Supreme Court to protect stupid Godless people from themselves, who elect stupid Godless congresses and presidents who enact stupid and Godless laws. 

I rarely read the Church father and commentator Origen because it is most times repackaged Platonism but something caught my eye. He said,  "Things which have come to the wise of this world concerning the knowledge of truth, have come to them by divine revelation. But when they chase after vain glory, or are praised for ancient errors, or are silenced by fear of rulers, they become judges of their own damnation. The truth, which they had learned by divine revelation, is either hidden from them by their loss of freedom or else is denied by their wicked behavior."  

The Electorate in this newly minted Pagan Nation, are losing their sanity by both means Origen mentioned, they are losing the knowledge of right and wrong by BOTH the sacrifice of their freedom to the Idol of Pagan Safety, and to their increasingly wicked behavior. The Church father Pelagius said, "Even people who did not agree with these thing, these 'doings' nevertheless seem to have accepted them, because they agreed to idolatry, which is the source and cause of them all."

Saint Basil the Great said, "Perverted human tradition is the source of great evil for us, in that some sins are denounced while others are viewed with indifference. Crimes like homicide and adultery are the object of a violent but feigned indignation while others, like anger, reviling, drunkenness or avarice, are not considered deserving of even a simple admonition"  We live in a worse culture than St Basil, since in our culture adultery is celebrated! Anger is a way of life! Reviling, drunkenness and avarice are our motivations and pastimes.  Yet, many don't participate in the paganism of our culture, but like Clement of Rome said, "Those who do such things are hateful to God . . . and not only those who do them but those who take pleasure in those who do them."  Did you see the last episode of Jersey Shore? Did you enjoy it? Did you see the last episode of Two and A Half Men? Did you enjoy it?

That phrase Saint Basil uses, "Perverted human tradition"  what could be more perverted than the destruction of the family, the adoration of homosexuality, the tolerance of pornography, the willingness to sacrifice Liberty for faux-Security.  The choice is freedom or slavery. G.K. Chesterton said, "Only Christianity is capable of creating a society where both the Christian and the Pagan may play."  He wasn't talking about some "theocracy" but a society founded upon consciousness and thankfulness to God. A society that enslaves no one to an ideology, Christian or otherwise, but does not suppress God in the public square, in the community events, or in academia.  

Academia in the Scientistic Dictatorship's New World Order holds at its core "perverted human traditions" all founded upon an orchestrated attack upon God and all things related to him. And we wonder why our society spins deeper and deeper into insanity, and less ability to perceive truth . . . And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fitting; having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; they are whisperers, slanderers, hateful to God, insolent men, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, having known the righteous judgment of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve of those who practice them. 

Are we experiencing the Judgement of God?  God's judgement is not movable. It is not capricious. It is not temporary. It is tempered ONLY by his Mercy and Grace, which at this point in time is the only thing staving off Armageddon. The more unnatural our culture becomes the more judgement we will experience. To go against God is to go against nature.  Ungodly humans, create ungodly science, ungodly governance, ungodly therapy that is sickness producing, ungodly 'health care' a cover for eugenics and genocide, ungodly education that increases darkness in the minds of the next generation, so that our ungodly communities grow more warped and dangerous.  In the presence of ungodly humans our very nature and the nature of the creatures and the planet suffers; terrible things happen, atrocities against humanity and nature happen. 

The entire Scientistic edifice is unnatural. It is a world wide Tower of Babel, claiming the power of and knowledge for human eschatology (ultimate salvation). Just like Nimrod, they think they are about to improve humanity, by human's own efforts absent consciousness of God, they are overseeing the next step in human evolution. Human pride has made the wisest fools. Apollinaris of Laodicea said, "This means that although the visible creation was sufficient to reveal the invisible God, they nevertheless abandoned God and deified creatures instead, 'suppressing the truth of God in unrighteousness.'"  - He just described the extreme materialism of our modern mindset. A cardinal truth of the SDE paradigm is that humans are mere Beasts, mere biology, incapable of knowledge of what is invisible by means of what may be observed, so that the consciousness of God is seen as "cultural hypnosis, and the superstition of the pre-scientific era." That is the core Godlessness we face. And as long as, as a society, we accept that paradigm - which is the denial of God, we have nothing more than judgement ahead. We will spiral into greater levels of darkness and pain, because you cannot be thankful to God and at the same time deny him, or make heroes of the people who do deny him. 

God's judgement hasn't varied one iota, we simply keep moving into greater areas of unrighteousness, where God's judgement is constant. He judges both righteousness and unrighteousness. In the flow of Life that is righteousness (being right with God and acting inside the paradigm of everything that is LIFE producing) we experience that LIFE as blessing, as abundance. In the flow of death and chaos that is the permanent characteristic of life lived in unrighteousness, we cannot escape the reality, the judgement permanently in place in that territory. In this as a society we WEAR our sin and sin is death.  

Listen to a High Priest of the new religion called Scientism - he uses the style of a southern revivalist as he preaches his culture of death. Yes, brothers and sisters, we are all called. - Remember the description of the new Paganism I offered above, "Spiritual emotionalism and insanity."

Repentance, just like the people of Nineveh, is the only answer we have before us. Politics isn't the answer - the Beast has taken control of the system. 






Then next is needed, real and sincere prayer to renew the mind, which has been damaged by human pride and sin. 

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us! 


Archpriest Symeon Elias

Stop Calling It The God Particle!

I started to write an article the night before the Higgs Boson confirmation was announced. I was familiar with the premise of the particle and knew from the beginning that naming it "The God Particle" was merely another false Ikon of the Scientistic establishment. As very interesting as the Higgs Boson is (if that is really what they have discovered and not some variation upon that theory they do not yet understand - which is my educated guess) its being called the God Particle is simply insulting to a transcendent God. If we were to rightly name the Higgs Boson - the God Particle, then by the exact same assumptions we would have to name the entire cosmos - the God Cosmos . . . oh wait . . . damn . . . that would be correct and right!  But for the Scientistic Dictatorship Establishment (SDE) there is no such humility and the hubris of calling the Higgs Boson the "God Particle" is  . . . well just that hubris.  But it is cunning hubris meant to (as is the case in most cases) make it appear that the SDE hold more knowledge than they actually do.  

Well, I wrote part of the article and then deleted it and I'm glad I did. Here is a better article by Dr David Goldberg  - a member of the Astrophysics Group in the Physics Department at Drexel University. I would suggest that you read that excellent article entitled Stop Calling It The God Particle! linked here and a previous article entitled Scientists Still Chasing The Force, Getting Closer linked here. Both are very interesting much better in several ways that what I would have written.   

I have written about the false Iconography that SDE uses for propaganda purposes and in other articles exposed in some detail the frauds of "iconography" that have been part of the SDE's Evolutionary paradigm scam. Since the SDE is losing the argument about the "spontaneous generation" of biological life, and so many steps of classical Darwinism and later brands of Evolution have been thoroughly refuted by real science, proving the concept of "irreducible complexity" the old guard is in a tizzy to create the next fraudulent Icon. On this link skip down to the middle of the article about Bacterial Flagellar Motor. For another short picturing of "irreducible complexity" this link is excellent.  Here is a page of graphics, some animated, each of which clearly demonstrated the reality of "Irreducible Complexity" any one of which would completely refute Darwin/Huxley/SDE's claim of "gradualism."  










My only point not covered by these linked articles is to remind you of the serial iconographic frauds by which the SDE has perpetrated its one hundred and fifty-year campaign to control the conversation in all walks of life as it has marched forward to Mark each human as Beast ONLY.  Now it is making pretensions of knowledge of something it is calling the "God Particle."  The Higgs Boson or some version of it is real, but the Name God Particle is a fraud.

The latest SDE Ikons for your viewing and brainwashing pleasure - they are mild compared to some of the frauds of the past and other frauds of the present - like the textbook mantra - "Evolution is a fact, not a theory."  

Here is a short history of the iconographic frauds of the SDE. 

The non-living gypsum rock Huxley claimed was
the missing Monera in Ernst Haeckel's Phylogenetic Tree

Con Man Thomas Huxley

The Bathybius haeckelii - a non-cell protoplasm or cytoplasm claimed to be discovered by Thomas Huxley - for which he claimed status as the missing link between non-living and living matter. In other words, he claimed for this gypsum rock the status as the "God Particle" of biology capable of creating "spontaneous generation."  This was soon discovered to be a fraud and in a private letter to the British Royal Academy of Science Huxley admitted his "mistake" but they collectively engaged in a conspiracy to keep the "mistake" secret, because it was the ONLY thing that gave any weight to Darwin's Theory of the Origin of Species. This fraud was part of the academic literature for more than a hundred years!  I read an article about it (as being true) in the New England Journal of Medicine in the 1970s. 

Ernst Haeckel the great Iconographer of Darwinist fantasies.

For an overview of some of the major iconographic and pseudo-scientific claims of the SDE - take the time to view the videos LINKED HERE.

Here is the great human/animal embryo hoax that pervaded(s) official biological and evolutionary science even to this day in one way or another.  Ernst Haeckel gave us the fake iconography of the SDE - something we are faced with - a lying encyclopedia of mythical pseudo science offering lying icons as fact. A mere compendium of which would fill a good sized book. And Of has in the book Icons of Evolution, Science or Myth?

Then there's Piltdown Man 






Just a reminder to remember the difference between Science - which is a good thing, and Scientism - the Luciferian World Religion that has killed now hundreds of million of people in the last century and has given us 1.6 BILLION abortions in the last 30 years alone.

Tour of a Beautiful Orthodox Christian Temple

Mormonism Exposed - Jesus Christ Witnessed.

It is not enough for those who hold the Foundational and Ancient Apostolic Christianity to refute cults and heresies to their own satisfaction. They also have a biblical mandate, which is a mandate of truth and love, to reach to the people in error, not just with "the witness of Jesus Christ" but with the wisdom that can expose to the deluded the difference between the True Jesus Christ of History, and the false "christs" of the many heresies and cults.

How confusing it is for Muslims who hear the name Jesus Christ and assume from their fake bible, 'The Holy Koran' and the fake history of Islam that they know who and what Jesus Christ is. It is like placing a mote between the person and truth. But at least the atmosphere is clear across the mote, the Gospel may be heard. How much more confusing it is for the Mormons who hear the name Jesus Christ and assume from their fake bible, "The Book of Mormon" and other fake holy books, that they know who and what Jesus Christ is. For the Mormons it is like placing a mote between the Mormon person and truth, covering the area with a deep, dense fog, and blasting loud music into the atmosphere, so sophisticated the illusion created by Joseph Smith and gang and the delusion accepted by the birth Mormons.  The fog is the fact that the name of the Mormon's cult is "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" and that that cult does not "reject" the Bible.  Why, they have to know Jesus Christ, his name is in the title of their "church" and they don't reject the Bible.  The dense fog is the illusion that the "cultic corporation" that is Mormonism is a Church. The word "church" has history and etymology, the concept the word denotes has meaning, and the cult of mormonism meets none of the criteria, definition, history, recognition and agreement needed to call it, A Church.  Just as surely as you can't have a Hindu "Church" or a Buddhist "Church" or a Satanist "Church" you can't have a mormon Church. But the name Church is in the title of the Cult's official organization, it must be a Church!

Mormons and Muslims have been taught not just to reject the truth, but to reject the framework through which Truth may be spoken. They have been taught that the sects of Christianity all hold a false framework for the comprehension of Church, Christ and God, and it is only through the self-constructed framework, created by these cults whereby truth may be comprehended.

It is our job to explain the difference between the so-called "channelled texts" of single prophets, teachers, and cult leaders, like Mohammed and Joseph Smith and the rich history of  the "the writtings" as God revealed himself to man across thousands of years, as man was capable of understanding what God was saying. The revelation of God over time to humanity is very important to grasp. Why? The many books composing the Bible are that witness of God revealing himself over time, in the history of man as man became more capable of understanding. Those many sacred writings are not the witness of a single person's imagination or cunning, but true history (though not in the western-modern model of history) that is contained in the Christian "scriptures." These "writings - scriptures" are the many books of Jewish and Christian tradition composed by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, from many different "traditions" that we know under one cover as "The Bible."

Sadly many biblical fundamentalists and biblical literalist do not grasp the nature, the reality and meaning of The Bible and enter the debate with cultists, Mormons and Muslims, only partially armed, holding only an aspect of the revelation and the healing contained in the complete and whole Apostolic Tradition.  So what is the Bible? And Why is it different than the Koran or the Book of Mormon? Here is a short and wonderful survey of the Holy Scriptures, offered by Father Thomas Hopko, the former head of Saint Vladimir's Seminary. Father Tom is explaining the importance of understanding what the "scriptures" are, in connection to the debate with Doctrine of Darwinism, but what he relates fits as well, or better in the debate with "sola scripturist", Biblical Literalists and Christian Fundamentalist, Mormons and Muslims. It is a wonderful "survey" of the tradition of holy scripture, a romp through the history of the Bible. If you are not an Orthodox Christian here is much to be learned in this hour video.



Here is a audio of the same lecture - you can down load to Ipod.
http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/hopko/darwin_and_christianity_-_part_6

So do not mistake this; this is not an anti-mormon page, it is a mormon expose' and a witness of the REAL and TRUE Jesus Christ and his Church, his Body that has real presence in the world. It is a challenge to the false dehumanizing, family destroying, enslaving disciplines and worship provided by cults, and the true, human creating worship and LIFE in Christ.  It is an expose' of false traditions of men, and the witness of the Tradition of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, a witness that remains upon the earth unaltered to this very day. It is an expose' of fake holy books that have required massive re-editing and changes in the short history of Mormonism, and the witness of the Tradition of the many books of true scripture, which collectively tell but one story in Jesus Christ, composed and formed over thousands of years, from the oldest oral traditions, which became written traditions, which became lived traditions IN Christ.  It is the examination of Mormonism via the facts of their own history, linked to  a short lesson about foundational, ancient apostolic Christianity, the Christianity that gave the world The Bible. It is foremost a witness of the True and Living Jesus Christ, available to all who sincerely call upon His name.

If we grasped the true story from Father Hopko's romp through the history and meaning of "the writings" "the Holy Scriptures" "The Bible" then we must now look at how the sacred books of Mormonism came to be, and compare the two.

The following video tells the story of Joseph Smith's forgery known as "The Lost Book of Abraham" which today is still claimed as "real scripture" part of the "sacred revelation of the Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints."  It exposes the fraud in Joseph Smith's false claim of knowledge of Egyptian language.

Testimony of a recovering Mormon, the great-great grand daughter of Brigham Young. Co-founder of Lighthouse Ministries of Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Church is not an idea it is a place. The part of the Church that exists upon the earth is not a paradise but a battlefield. To find the True Christ one must step upon the battlefield. This video Father Thomas Hopko gives a short, direct way to come to know God in Jesus Christ, how to know that the God you have discovered isn't just a figment of your imagination or a religious sickness or delusion.  I recommend listening to this short lecture several times and then trying the method he explains. If you doubt God's existence, or that the Jesus Christ of the New Testament and Apostolic Tradition is real, I suggest beginning by praying, "To Whom it may concern. If anything in this video is false do not let it harm me. If anything in this video is true, let me understand it. If a REAL Christ exists, let me discover where he may be found."