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The Glory of God!
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:59 pm
by Gabrielman
The purpose of this thread is to glorify God and show His amazing Holliness. I plan on doing one on biology and God's design in the human and living things to show His vast knowledge and amazing ablity to get things down to a micro level. You can post anything that is glorifying God on this thread. I would like if someone does one of physics, maybe some on history and showing how He acted in the past being invovled in human life. But anything to glorify Him can go here! Look forward to seeing what you all have to say!
God bless, and God be praised!
Re: The Glory of God!
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:42 pm
by cslewislover
Here's a short thing from my son's 5th grade history text (BJU Press)! There are other war time stories that I've heard, that are really amazing, but I need to look them up (this one I already had on hand).
NEAR DUNKIRK, FRANCE, Late May to June 4, 1940
"The Germans surprised a force of about four hundred thousand British and French Soldiers in northern France, trapping them near the city of Dunkirk. It looked like certain defeat. The British leaders asked the people of Britain for help. King George VI, the ruler of England, called for a day of prayer for his nation.
The British people responded with courage and determination. Soon thousands of boats, barges, yachts, and even fishing boats started across the English Channel. Winds and waves usually make crossing the Channel difficult. But for nine days the Channel was almost smooth. Clouds and mists covered the harbor so that the German planes could not see where to drop their bombs. The British boats safely made trip after trip until most of the soldiers were rescued.
Winston Churchill, the prime minister of Great Britain, called the rescue at Dunkirk a 'miracle of deliverance.' Christians recognized it as an answer to prayer."
Re: God the biologist
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:01 pm
by Gabrielman
One is astonished when they look at the amazing complexity of living organisms. On the outside they look complex enough, but internally down to a micro level one really begins to see the amazing detail that has been put into the design of living organisms. This truly testifies to the glory of God. Who else could design the DNA that makes us? It is a random assortment of atoms that have come together and come to life. Only one has the power to do that and it is God!
Look closely at the design of Adenine. It is only comprised of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen, yet it is still so very vital in out DNA. Actually without this DNA would be incomplete and there would be no life. Adenine and Guanine are both purines made of identical matterials, but yet they are very different. It makes me wonder why if they are comprised of the same atoms that they play different roles. Who programed the atoms to do this? Why do they behave in this way? Why did they link together to form DNA? It is because the were made that way. They were forged by the hands of God and placed there.
It doesn't stop there, the bases of DNA are useless on their own. They need nucleic acids called nucleotides to support them and bring them together. This is the back bone of DNA. That leads me to ask again, why does it act in this way? Why do these chemical bases come together and link to the nucleotides to form the building blocks of life we call DNA? Does it really seem logical to say it just happened that way? By chance and convinence? No. Left to chance, I will leave it to God! It only makes sense that such complex systems come from a design. If you saw a car you would wonder who built it, so is it logical to say that we ourselves just happened? No, we are desigened.
It isn't just in our DNA we see the complex and seemingly impossible design. Every cell is a testament to His amazing intelect.
I would go more in depth, but I believe the point is made. God is the ultiment scientist and His knowledge knows no bounds!
God bless!
Re: The Glory of God!
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:33 pm
by cslewislover
Nice, Gabrielman. 
Here's another historical one. This is about Sergeant York, WWI hero, and more can be found here (where this was taken from): http://www.sgtyork.org/index_legacy.html
"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?"
(Romans 8:31)
On April 19, 1918, Alvin's camp started the journey that would find them in France. He was a witness to the savagery of war. "God would never be cruel enough to create a cyclone as terrible as that Argonne battle. Only man would ever think of doing an awful thing like that. It looked like 'the abomination of desolation' must look like. And all through the long night those big guns flashed and growled just like the lightning and the thunder when it storms in the mountains at home."
"On the morning of October 8, [1918] Corporal York was one of a body of sixteen men in the battle of the Argonne who were ordered to put certain enemy machine guns out of action. The guns they were after were on the other side of a slope. To gain their objective, the Americans were forced to climb a hill, exposed a part of the time to enemy fire from other positions. They accomplished this without loss and began to descend on the other side, their object being to advance upon the enemy from the rear. Presently they found themselves in a cuplike valley among the hills where they spied two Germans ahead of them. One of these surrendered and the other disappeared. Anticipating battle, the detachment went into skirmish order and continued to push forward. Arriving at a small stream, the Americans discovered on the other side some twenty or thirty Germans, among them several officers who were apparently holding a conference. The Americans fired, with the result that the entire body of Germans surrendered. Just as they were on the point of departure with their prisoners, dozens of enemy machine guns, hidden on the steep slope of the hill facing them not over thirty yards away, [Hill 223] opened up on the American detachment. Captors and captured immediately dropt flat on their stomachs, but not before six Americans had been killed. Three men were wounded, among them the sergeant in command. York and seven privates remained. Of these one had taken refuge behind a tree raked on both sides by enemy fire so he could not get away, and the others were guarding the German prisoners. Hence York was left to fight an entire machine-gun battalion alone." (excerpt from 'The Literary Digest', June 14, 1919)
"You never heard such a clatter and racket in all your life." "I couldn't see any of our boys. Early and Cutting had run along toward the left in front of me just before the battle started, but I didn't know where they were." "If I'd moved I'd have been killed in a second. The Germans were what saved me. [The prisoners they had captured earlier were laying on the grond in front of Alvin.] I kept up close to them, and so the fellers on the hill had to fire a little high for fear of hitting their own men. The bullets were cracking just over my head and a lot of twigs fell down." "Well, I fired a couple of clips or so — things were moving pretty lively, so I don't know how many I did shoot — and first thing I knew a Boche got up and flung a little bomb at me about the size of a silver dollar. It missed and wounded one of the prisoners on the ground, and I got the Boche—got him square."
"Next thing that happened, a lieutenant rose up from near one of them machine guns and he had seven men with him. The whole bunch came charging down the hill at me." "I had my automatic out by then, and let them have it. Got the lieutenant right through the stomach and he drops and screamed a lot... Then I shot the others.... At that distance I couldn't miss." "As soon as the Germans saw the lieutenant drop, most of them quit firing their machine guns and the battle quieted down. I kept on shooting, but in a minute here come the major who had surrendered with the first bunch. I reckon he had done some shooting at us himself, because I heard firing from the prisoners and afterward I found out that his pistol was empty." "He put his hand on my shoulder like this and said to me in English. 'Don't shoot any more, and I'll make them surrender.' So I said. 'All right'; and he did so, and they did so."
The German Major of the prisoners had providentially lived in Chicago for a time, and spoke English well. Thus, Alvin was able to give demands that normally would have required a translator. "I called for my men, and one of them answered from behind a big oak tree, and the others were on my right in the brush. So I said, 'Let's get these Germans out of here.' One of my men said, 'it is impossible.' So I said, 'No; let's get them out.' So when my man said that, this German major said, 'How many have you got?' and I said, 'I have got a-plenty,' and pointed my pistol at him all the time."
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"And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too
many for me to give the Midianites into their hands,
lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me."
(Judges 7:2)
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"And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him,
Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand."
(Judges 7:9)
Over thirty machine guns had been aimed down Hill 223, less than thirty yards away from Corporal Alvin York. Alvin later remarked upon revisitng the site later that day, "I noticed the bushes all around where I stood in my fight with the machine guns were all cut down. The bullets went over my head and on either side. But they never touched me." "So you can see here in this case of mine where God helped me out. I had been living for God and working in the church some time before I come to the army. So I am a witness to the fact that God did help me out of that hard battle; for the bushes were shot up all around me and I never got a scratch. So you can see that God will be with you if you will only trust Him; and I say that He did save me. Now, He will save you if you will only trust Him."
"After the Armistice was signed, I was ordered to go back to the scene of my fight with the machine guns. General Lindsey and some other generals went with me. We went over the ground carefully. The officers spent a right smart amount of time examining the hill and the trenches where the machine guns were, and measuring and discussing everything. And then General Lindsey asked me to describe the fight to him. And I did. And then he asked me to march him out just like I marched the German major out, over the same ground and back to the American lines. Our general was very popular. He was a natural born fighter and he could swear just as awful as he could fight. He could swear most awful bad.
And when I marched him back to our old lines he said to me, 'York, how did you do it?' And I answered him, 'Sir, it is not man power. A higher power than man power guided and watched over me and told me what to do.' And the general bowed his head and put his hand on my shoulder and solemnly said, 'York, you are right.'
There can be no doubt in the world of the fact of the divine power being in that. No other power under heaven could bring a man out of a place like that. Men were killed on both sides of me; and I was the biggest and the most exposed of all [Alvin was six foot tall]. Over thirty machine guns were maintaining rapid fire at me, point-blank from a range of about twenty-five yards."
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"No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper;
and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
and their righteousness is of Me, saith the LORD."
(Isaiah 54:17)
The next day found twenty-eight Germans dead; just as many shots Alvin said he had fired. Every bullet he fired had found it's target. "Practically unassisted, he [Alvin] captured 132 Germans (three of whom were officers), took about thirty-five machine guns, and killed no less than twenty-five of the enemy, later found by others on the scene of York's extraordinary exploit." (excerpt from 'the official report made by officers of the Eighty-Second Division to General Headquarters')
On November 1, "I was made a sergeant just as quick as I got back out of the lines."
On April 24, at St. Silva, Marshal Foch pinned the French Croix de Guerre on him, and called his exploit "the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all the armies of Europe." Upon talking with Alvin, Brigadier General Lindsey said, "Well, York, I hear you have captured the whole German army." Alvin replied modestly, "No, I only have 132."
Re: The Glory of God!
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:43 pm
by Gabrielman
Thanks CS, that was awsome!
Re: The Glory of God!
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:06 pm
by touchingcloth
cslewislover wrote:Here's a short thing from my son's 5th grade history text (BJU Press)! There are other war time stories that I've heard, that are really amazing, but I need to look them up (this one I already had on hand).
NEAR DUNKIRK, FRANCE, Late May to June 4, 1940
"The Germans surprised a force of about four hundred thousand British and French Soldiers in northern France, trapping them near the city of Dunkirk. It looked like certain defeat. The British leaders asked the people of Britain for help. King George VI, the ruler of England, called for a day of prayer for his nation.
The British people responded with courage and determination. Soon thousands of boats, barges, yachts, and even fishing boats started across the English Channel. Winds and waves usually make crossing the Channel difficult. But for nine days the Channel was almost smooth. Clouds and mists covered the harbor so that the German planes could not see where to drop their bombs. The British boats safely made trip after trip until most of the soldiers were rescued.
Winston Churchill, the prime minister of Great Britain, called the rescue at Dunkirk a 'miracle of deliverance.' Christians recognized it as an answer to prayer."
What have a few kind souls and their boats got to do with god?