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Everythingology for an all-inclusive church
When did astrology become astronomy and science become ‘everythingology?’
Each time adam sought to explain life separate of the glory of God and science dismissed the study of God.
Roger@TalkofJESUS.com

Let’s study it:

The SCIENCE of false premise

Last time I asked you, (my fellow ‘Christian’ with little interest in ‘theology‘):

Did God really say, Church?

Does the person asking you about “Church“ really want to know what God said?

AND

I warned that not only is it unlikely any man or woman will ask you about your church, but that their least likely question to you will be about THE LORD GOD.

IF & WHEN, however, you happen to identify someone telling you about their science and religion of atheism

AND they want to prove to you WHY GOD is not,

Recognize that the enemy of Truth cannot prove anything from every false premise.

Take any observation of mankind:

James Webb Space Telescope Science
The James Webb Space Telescope will be a giant leap forward in our quest to understand the Universe and our origins. JWST will examine every phase of cosmic history: from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets to the evolution of our own solar system. The science goals for the Webb can be grouped into four themes:

The End of the Dark Ages: First Light and Reionization – JWST will be a powerful time machine with infrared vision that will peer back over 13.5 billion years to see the first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe.

Even the atheist must confess that they do not have the answer to WHY?
i.e. WHY the Big Bang?
(It is a theory with speculative premise, right?)
(explain please in your COMMENT to this post about ‘everythingology‘)

SO WHY does the ATHEIST persist in asking the CHRISTIAN, “Why?”

THEY would bring believers down to the despair of THEIR own depths.
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Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
death shall be their shepherd,
and the upright shall rule over them in the morning.
Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.

But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol,
for he will receive me. Selah

Psalm 49:14-15 ESV
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Science-onomy & Science-ology

At best, it’s speculative entertainment of an evolved brain of an ape, calculating how train B left the primordial station at the beginning of the line without a builder of its hypersonic engine, to arrive at their earth just in time for them to teach it as ‘proven science.’

WHY so much ‘SCIENCE’ built on FALSE PREMISE?
- Is their premise a veiled dismissal of God
  - (Most likely.)
- and does their ‘SCIENCE‘ disprove God’s Word?
  - (The goal of their questions)
Certainly NOT!

There is NO CONCLUSION for the a-theist,

because they understand that their END will be ashes and dust..

But then, the JUDGEMENT!

And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
Psalm 9:8 [Lexicon :: Strong’s H1777 – dîn – to judge, contend, plead]
1. Because the A-theist stands against the Lord God, THEY must continually QUESTION GOD: i.e. “Did God really say..?”
2. THEN (like Satan) an A-theist must reconstruct TRUTH
3. into a PROOF of Another-truth, built on a FALSE PREMISE.
  1. Some claim their Alternative-truth as proven ‘science.’
  2. Others claim their Alternative-truth as speculative ‘history.’
  3. Still others claim their Alternative-truths as SCIENCE-ONOMY (with any number of familiar names).
What can we know with certainty?

WHEN SCIENCE side-steps LOGIC by tiptoeing around TRUTH, it becomes religion – the A-theist’s doctrine of the distrust of Almighty God, built on inconclusive false premises leading to NO conclusion.
Roger@TalkofJESUS.COM
- What can we know about sociology or psychology with absolute certainty?
- What can we know about ecology or cosmology with absolute certainty?
  - Was a scientist nearby to record the age of the universe?
    Could our mathematical (algebraical) calculations of the numerous variable unknowns of scientific presuppositions of geology and archeology be wrong (inconclusive)?
- How did the archeologist measure rock formed before carbon?
- Did some astronomer set out his telescope and tape to measure the light of Creation?
  - Were ‘light-years’ recorded with white light, curved light, ultraviolet light, x-ray, blacklight or with a nuclear flash?
  - Could Almighty God cause light to travel a varying speeds through some parts of space?
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
“Who is this who darkens the divine plan
By words without knowledge?
“Now tighten the belt on your waist like a man [for battle],
And I shall ask you, and you inform Me!
“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding,
“Who set its measurements? Since you know.
Or who stretched the measuring line over it?
Job 38:1-5 NASB20

Science-onomy

Origin & history
From Ancient Greek νόμος (“law, custom”).
Suffix
-nomy
a system of rules, laws, or knowledge about a body of a particular field; distribution, arrangement, management
Derived words & phrases
astronomy
Deuteronomy
“-onomy” – WordSense Online Dictionary (15th July, 2022) URL: https://www.wordsense.eu/-onomy/

Is ALL Law perfect? & do ALL Customs establish FACT?

Science-ology

ology (English)
Origin & history
From the suffix -ology in the names of many sciences
Suffix
-ology
1. Alternative form of –logy, used for phonological reasons when the preceding morpheme ends in certain consonant sounds.
2. (often, humorous) added to an ordinary English word to create a name for a (possibly non-existent) field of study.

-ology – branch of learning
“definition 2 of -ology best describes “everythingology“

Everythingology –

Everythingology – definition:
1. Endless study of everything;
2. Theoretical theology of humanity as god.
TalkofJESUS.com

History & Evolution of the SCIENCE of Everythingology
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Compare to: Ancient Aliens (source: History Channel)
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Proponents of hell’s Devils [PhD’s] esteemed by the Universities of Everythinology preach from their pulpits of MULTIPLE TRUTHS with theoretical atheistic clubs of pointed QUESTIONS seeking to validate their rejection of God. These Doctors of Blurred Science matriculated through curricular gauntlets of eminent scholars of philosophy, who grade ALL their best teaching assistants on the curve and fail any logical conspiracy purists who support a single Truth.

The indisputable EDUCATION of this great Blurred Science continues to evolve toward the perfection of self B.S. demands for our future generations. For example: the evolution of astrology evolves into astronomy — which in turn seeks to gain credibility under the cloak of astrophysics. ALL Science offers numerous examples of this progress away the ignorance of our primordial forebears who fought sabre-tooth and nail for our freedoms and survival.

ALL PhD’s of U of E speculate WHY by teaching darwinology, as professor progeny of history’s fittest primates, hoping by their unspoken premise to strike a mortal blow to the head of logical truth. Their multiple truths must include EVERY human of any theoretical variant — inclusive of all, that is, EXCEPT a man or a woman insistent on One Way, one Truth and One eternal life lived for One God.

Everything-ologists are Religious HUMANS

You will learn SCIENTIFIC teaching [in-doctrine-ation] by HUMANS, cloaked in coats of many truths taught from every scientific discipline; in order that you may apply their theories to humankind, mother earth’s environment and the cosmos for your inner-evolvement of self and the future evolution of SCIENCE into the oneness of HUMANITY.
Student Manual – Universities of Everythinology

These humans hold high reverence for philosophy, rather than tolerate a philosophical reverence of Truth.
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By now, you no doubt see through the academic robes of these Everythingologists exposing their humorous backsides by so many QUESTIONS asking WHY about GOD and Christ's Church. Perhaps if they had studied Orwellian theory [i.e. Animal Farm, 1984], they would name their church: "MINISTRY OF TRUTH." 

Perhaps in a not-so-humorous world of 2022 of 'the common era,' we have evolved into U.N. agencies of Everything-isms determined to bring the Church to Megiddo in a battle for Truth.
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REMEMBER: WHO IS ASKING?

(And WHAT are they subtly teaching?)

One ‘ology’ always absent in false teaching is “Christology,” the developed doctrine of Christ.

Christology

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Letter of Paul to the Romans 5:8 NASB

Already by the middle of the first century, the deity of Jesus was part of the faith of the universal church. It cannot and must not be compromised today.
John Stott – CHRIST the Cornerstone, p.304
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We will hear much more uncompromised Truth from John Stott, Boothe, Murray, Carson, Lloyd-Jones, Bunyan and other Christian theologians as we continue this SERIES addressing the issues of a 21st Century RECALL of the CHURCH.

Grace and peace, in our Lord Christ Jesus.
RH
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July 16, 2022
Friends, Romans, Brothers: Lend me your ears
An angel of the Lord summoned Jews from Joppa and Romans from Caesarea to hear Peter preach the Gospel for all.

Acts 10: of Peter and the Romans in Caesarea
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In case you missed it, Peter's Roman Centurion host has just bowed down to him when the Apostle approached the group of believers at his own home.
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Caesar’s Palace East welcomes PETRUS

When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and fell at his feet and worshiped him.

An angel brought Peter and a group of faithful Jews from Joppa at the invitation of their Roman occupiers. (What an odd scenario, it would seem.)

The Roman Legion of the Italian Cohort, a highly regarded army of Caesar, has invited not only Peter to his home, but also many friends and family. This scene might look somewhat like a large home church and our host, Cornelius, recounts for all as witness what has recently taken place:

So I ask, for what reason did you send for me?”

Cornelius said, “Four days ago to this hour, I was praying in my house during the ninth hour; and behold, a man stood before me in shining clothing, and he said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your charitable gifts have been remembered before God. Therefore send some men to Joppa and invite Simon, who is also called Peter, to come to you; he is staying at the house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’
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How else would a Roman Legion know where to find a Jew from Galilee traveling in Judea?
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33 So I sent men to you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come.

Now then, we are all here present before God to hear everything that you have been commanded by the Lord.”

Let’s just set this amazing scene in context: A Roman leader of men who God has drawn to the salvation that comes from the Jews invited Simon Peter to preach! WE ARE ALL HERE PRESENT BEFORE GOD… It’s an expression of worship. Tell us what the Lord has commanded you.

Peter’s previous witness of Roman faith

Gospel of Luke 7:

[Jesus in Capernaum] Now a centurion’s slave, who was highly regarded by him, was sick and about to die. When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to Him, asking Him to come and save the life of his slave..

..when He was not yet far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to Him, “Lord, do not trouble Yourself further, for I am not worthy for You to enter under my roof; for that reason I did not even consider myself worthy to come to You; but just say the word, and my servant shall be healed.

Simon Peter, a fisherman of Capernaum, certainly would have been with the Lord Jesus. And the humility of this centurion mirrors the faithful believer, Cornelius, who now bows down to Peter and then invites him to preach.
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Do YOU, my fellow 21st century believer, have trouble with Authority such as this? Listen to this and the Lord's response.
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“For I also am a man placed under authority, with soldiers under myself; and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”
Gospel of Luke 7:8 NASB20

Now when Jesus heard this, He was amazed at him, and turned and said to the crowd that was following Him,
“I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith.”
Gospel of Luke 7:9 – the Messiah Jesus to Jews on the faith of these romans

THE GOD of Every Nation

Acts 10: of Peter preaching to the Romans at Caesarea

³⁴Opening his mouth, Peter said:

“I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality, but in every nation the one who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.
Acts 10:34-35 – Proclamation of Peter of the Gospel for Gentiles

Two Acceptable Conditions to God

Peter now speaks to ‘every nation’ – ethnos – not just Romans (who now rule the land). AND now certainly (according to Peter), not exclusively Jews.

Jesus also uses this word frequently, sometimes translated, ‘gentiles,’ a very hebrew concept of unclean men separated from those circumcised by blood as holy to the Lord God.
- the man who FEARS HIM [God]
  - φοβέω – phobeō
    Do YOU FEAR GOD, my fellow follower of Christ Jesus?
[Cornelius, a centurion was] a devout man and one who feared^G5399 God with all his household, and made many charitable contributions to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually.
Acts of the Apostles 10:2 NASB20
- and does what is right..
  - ἐργάζομαι – ergazomai
  - δικαιοσύνη – dikaiosynē
    “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness G1343, for they will be satisfied.
    δικαιοσύνη dikaiosýnē, dik-ah-yos-oo’-nay; from G1342; equity (of character or act); specially (Christian) justification:—righteousness.
θεός

Peter uses a universal word from the greek for God: θεός – theos
- God: θεός – theos is written over 1300 times in the NEW Testament
- All of the Gospel writers use ‘God’ to describe the Lord God to gentiles
  - The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God^G2316 – Mark 1:1
- JESUS uses God: θεός – theos many many times.
  - “The one who believes in the Son has eternal life; but the one who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God^G2316 remains on him.” – John 3:36
- ACTS of the Apostles speaks of God: θεός more than any book of the Bible θεός – theh’-os 168x
  - “It is this Jesus whom God raised up, a fact to which we are all witnesses. – Acts 2:32 – Peter
- The Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) use several words for ‘God,’ this similar to ēl – אֵל
A Gospel History for Roman Brothers and Sisters

36 The word [logos] which He sent [apostellō] to the sons of Israel [Ἰσραήλ “he shall be a prince of God”], preaching peace through Jesus Christ (He is Lord [κύριος – From kuros (supremacy)]of all)—
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Peter points out first to these Jewish proselytes that GOD anointed Jesus as Lord of all. 
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you yourselves know the thing that happened throughout Judea, starting from Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed. You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
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The Apostle Simon Peter then confirms what many have already seen and heard in Jerusalem over these past months.
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“We are witnesses of all the things that He did both in the countryside of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They also put Him to death by hanging Him on a cross.
Acts of the Apostles 10:39 NASB20

“God raised Him up on the third day and granted that He [become visible] be revealed, not to all the people, but to witnesses who had been chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.

“And He ordered us to [proclaim] preach to the people, and to testify solemnly that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead.
Acts 10:42 NASB20 of the Apostle Peter
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Again, Peter preaches to these Romans who are jewish proselytes with some understanding of Scripture. 
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“All the prophets testify of Him, that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.”
Acts 10:43 NASB20

Romans – (gentiles) BAPTIZED! (another sign)

Atti 10:44-48 Il battesimo dei primi pagani (The baptism of the first pagans)

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were listening to the message. All the Jewish believers who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had also been poured out on the Gentiles. For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God.
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Sound familiar? 
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Pentecost – a narrative of the fifty days fulfilled

—we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty deeds of God.” – Acts 2:11b

Leadership: Responding to the Spirit of God

Then Peter responded,

47 “Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”

48 And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

Then they asked him to stay on for a few days.

What a few days it must have been in Caesarea.. as Peter led these first Romans from baptism to go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ the risen Lord!
April 27, 2022
Preparation of a New Lunch Menu in Joppa
Roman Judea

And Peter stayed in Joppa many days with a tanner named Simon.
ACTS of the Apostles 9:43 NASB20

In fact, an angel has just told a Roman centurion the day before where he can send his ambassadors to find Simon Peter.

The Gospel of an Angel to Cornelius

and after he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa. –ACTS 10:8

What’s for lunch? – a scene in Joppa
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Some quoted text from NASB20 + CLICK Below to read ALL of Acts 10 in:
1550 Stephanus New Testament; Easy-to-Read English Version; Conferenza Episcopale Italiana; Russian Synodal Version 
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ACTS 10: of Simon Peter in Joppa

.. Peter went up on the housetop about [noon] the sixth hour to pray. But he became hungry and wanted to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance..

Has that ever happened to you?

You’re hungry.. but you doze off while the sounds and aromas of lunch or dinner fill you with dreams rather than the action of coming to the table to eat.

But Simon’s trance is no ordinary dream!
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CLICK trance ABOVE for full definition of ἔκστασις [ek'-stas-is]
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an alienation of mind

He saw something coming down through the open sky. It looked like a big sheet being lowered to the ground by its four corners. In it were all kinds of animals, reptiles, and birds. 13 Then a voice said to him,

“Get up, Peter; kill anything here and eat it.”

“By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything [common or profane] unholy and unclean.”

15 But the voice said to him again,

“God has made these things pure. Don’t say they are unfit to eat.”

16 This happened three times. Then the whole thing was taken back up into heaven. Peter wondered what this vision meant.

A Roman Soldier with two men at the gate

.. behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius had asked directions to Simon’s house, and they appeared at the gate; and calling out, they were asking whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was staying there.
ACTS of the Apostles 10:17b-18 NASB20
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From the roof of the home of Simon the tanner (where the gate would be clearly visible) as the Apostle emerges from his trance he hears these men.
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19 While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him,

“Behold, three men are looking for you.

“Arise therefore, go down and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them.”
ACTS of the Apostles 10:20 NKJV

Goyim guests for lunch! גוים‎

Simon Peter, the Apostle forgiven by the risen Christ for his own doubt just beyond the gate of Jesus’ trial, must certainly wonder what the Lord has in store for him by sending these UN-jewish Roman guests to him. Yet obediently, Peter descends from his noon-time prayers and roof-top trance to meet these Romans at Simon’s door.

“Behold, I am the one you are looking for; what is the reason for which you have come?”

22 The men said, “A holy angel told Cornelius to invite you to his house. He is an army officer. He is a good man, one who worships God, and all the Jewish people respect him. The angel told him to invite you to his house so that he can listen to what you have to say.”

Roman house guests in Jewish Joppa

The Apostle Philip, of course, has already preached the Gospel in Caesarea. But these Romans from their own capital city up the coast have not come to our jewish port of Joppa from him.

https://talkofjesus.com/syria-strategic-map-into-all-of-the-world/
ACTS 8: .. the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away.. 40 But Philip found himself at Azotus and as he passed through he kept preaching the gospel to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.
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Their journey between these two coastal ports takes most of a day on foot [~10-14 hours]. The ~60 km [~40 mile] trip by Cornelius' men from the early hours of the morning by have been by chariot. 
These Romans have arrived around lunch time.
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23 Peter asked the men to come in and stay for the night.

Lunch, Evening meal, Prayer together, conversation between these Romans and Peter and Simon.

And then, no doubt, an early prayer and breakfast for all..

Now on the next day he got ready and went away with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

On the following day he entered Caesarea…

The Gospel Mission of Peter to Romans at Caesarea —

To be continued…
April 7, 2022