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New Testament book of Luke, chapter 2: 1And
it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. 2(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius
was governor of Syria.) 3And all went to be taxed, every one
into his own city. 4And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out
of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and
lineage of David:) 5To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife,
being great with child. 6And so it was, that, while they were
there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. 7And
she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no
room for them in the inn. 8And there were in the same country
shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and
they were sore afraid. 10And the angel said unto them, Fear
not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. 12And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling
clothes, lying in a manger. 13And suddenly there was with the
angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, 14Glory
to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. 15And
it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even
unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. 16And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. 17And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them
concerning this child. 18And all they that heard it wondered
at those things which were told them by the shepherds. 19But
Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. 20And
the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
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WHY DO WE NEED A SAVIOR? GOD SENT HIS BIG WARNING SHOT IN NOAH'S FLOOD! WARNING US OF HIS FINAL JUDGEMENT DAY! CHRISTMAS IS WHEN WE CELEBRATE, WITH EXUBERENCE, GOD'S SENDING OF THE SAVIOR -- THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. The
New Testament Book of Romans Chapter 1 gives the reason, and this is the correct starting point for the Gospel. 15 So, as much as in me
is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. 16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every
one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17For
therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. 18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness
of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19Because
that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; SO THAT THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE: !!! 21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became
vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing
themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23And changed
the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
things. 24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator,
who is blessed for ever. Amen. The Bible verses above demand that CREATION --
ITSELF -- PROVES -- GOD EXISTS! -- AND -- FULL DEFERENCE
-- GLORY -- HONOR -- THANKSGIVING --- ARE -- EXPECTED -- OWED
-- HIM -- BY ALL! THIS IS STEP ONE IN THE
MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL! HUMANS ARE ON DEATH ROW! BUT, THE SAVIOR COMES! CHRISTMAS
-- celebrates the coming of the Savior -- the Lord Jesus Christ -- who eternally saves all who will come to him in faith! Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible Robert
Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, and David Brown -- 1871 Commenting on Romans 1:20: 20.
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So -- Does coal really strongly evidence Noah's Flood, or is there
some other explanation for its origin, such as peat beds? One
of many sites explaining the coal swamp, or peat-bed origin view of coal is: Wyoming State Geological Survey site. And one of many holding the Noah's Flood origin
view of coal, and of other fossils is: Institute for Creation Research
( icr.org) article -- Did Modern Coal Seams Form in a Peat Swamp? Another one would be -- Coal: Memorial to the Flood. Also, one must consider the nature of fossilization as coal is a fossil,
itself. SPECIAL NOTE: WHEN
PLANTS OR ANIMALS DIE THEY ALWAYS ROT OR ARE EATEN BY SCAVENGERS – THEY DO NOT FOSSILIZE! THE FLOOD WAS UNIQUE! Web search for images of fern or leaf fossils in coal and you will find many
of these. Such as Bing.com. Also see - Are Fossils the Result of Noah's Flood? See also sites on "peat" such as Wikipedia: |
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| 80 UNIT TRAINS A DAY LEAVE SOUTHERN WYOMING! |
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| 100 - 130 - HOPPER CARS PER TRAIN - 100 TONS EACH! |
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| The Wyodak Coal bed, Powder River Basin, Wyoming |
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fThe most super strong argument from physical evidence
favoring the Flood origin of coal is the sheer massiveness and world-wide distribution of coal deposits.
The Wyodak Seam in Wyoming's Powder River Basis, pictured above, covers thousands of square miles and averages
100 feet thick. One coal bed in that system is 280 feet thick! And from China-Daily:
Huge coal deposit found in NE China: SHENYANG - China's
Liaoning Province has discovered a coal deposit of at least 1 billion tonnes, one of the largest found in the resources-rich
northeast China, the Northeast Coalfield Geological Bureau said Friday. The preliminary probe estimated the coal deposit, stretching over 400 square kilometers
underground in Liaoning's northern prefecture of Changtu, to contain over 1 billion tonnes of coal, according to Wang Shenghui,
chief engineer of the No. 101 Prospecting Team that discovered the deposit. CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE A BILLION TONNES
OF COAL! Regarding the Wyoming coal trains: And in the following UP press release: -- Wow! -- their 200,000th loaded
unit coal train! -- Union Pacific Moves Its 200,000th Loaded Coal Train From Wyoming's Southern Powder River Basin. Omaha, Neb., May 20, 2009 – Union Pacific Railroad yesterday moved its 200,000th
loaded coal train out of Wyoming's Southern Powder River Basin (SPRB) coal field since Union Pacific and the former Chicago
& North Western completed a 107-mile rail line to the region in August 1984. The Chicago & North Western merged with Union Pacific in 1995. One rail car of coal provides the energy to generate enough electricity for more than 20 homes for a year. Union
Pacific's 200,000 trains out of the SPRB have carried enough coal to power all the homes in the United States for 5 years. Approximately 50 percent of America's electricity comes from coal, one of the most affordable
and reliable energy sources. "Hitting the 200,000th train mark
during what will be our 25th anniversary of the line proves the capital investment in our coal corridor continues to pay dividends
for our customers," said Doug Glass, Union Pacific vice president and general manager – energy. It was only fitting that the 200,000th train was loaded for Entergy, the same customer
that the first Union Pacific SPRB train was loaded for in 1984. "Union
Pacific's major capacity projects on the corridor have included: - The completion of a four-year construction of a
third main line track between North Platte and Gibbon, Neb., in 1999.
- In 2000, completing a four-year project constructing
a second main line track between Gibbon, Neb., and Marysville, Kan.
- Also in 2000, Union Pacific began to construct 37
miles of second main line track on its line between South Morrill, Neb., and Shawnee, Wyo. As part of the track construction,
24 bridges were built at various locations.
- Union Pacific increased the capacity at its South Morrill rail yard and
built a new bridge at South Bayard, Neb.
- Union Pacific acquired the 107-mile rail line between Upland, Kan., and St. Joseph,
Mo., from RailTex, Inc., in August 1998 to add additional capacity between Marysville and Kansas City. The line between Upland
and Hiawatha, Kan., handles primarily westbound empty coal trains.
- In 2003, the second main line was completed on Union Pacific's
South Morrill line between South Morrill and North Platte, Neb.
- A third main line was added in North Platte in 2006.
- In 2006, the
Marysville, Kan., bypass opened to expedite the movement of loaded and empty coal trains.
Other investments in technology developments helping Union Pacific reach the 200,000th loaded coal
train benchmark: - An in-train wheel repair process started in late 2006 at Bailey Yard in North Platte, Neb., trimmed
the time in which defective coal car wheels were changed from several days to a matter of ten minutes.
- Use of new high-horsepower locomotives
and distributed power in coal trains have helped increase efficiency of trains as well as the ability to increase the train
size from 110 cars in 1984 to an average of 132 today.
INVESTIGATE
THE TWO THEORIES ON COAL FORMATION, THE FLOOD VIEW, AND THE PEAT VIEW, OR ANY OTHER VIEWS FOR THAT MATTER. ONE MUST ALSO CONSIDER THE NATURE OF FOSSILIZATION. THE FLOOD VIEW IS VERY STRONG, BUT FOR THE DECIDING FACTOR -- WE MUST BRING TO BEAR THE IMMENSE WEIGHT OF HOLY SCRIPTURE WITH ITS CORROBORATING
EVIDENCES AS HAVE BEEN SITED AT PAGES ON THIS SITE. I
HAVE GOTTEN AN AWFUL LOT OF MILEAGE OUT OF C. I. SCOFIELD'S GREAT ARGUMENT ON THE BIBLE. BUT, HERE I GO AGAIN: The ingenious design of the Bible provides a very strong argument, which teaming up with physical
evidence, is decisive in this matter! The Bible
is at ONCE, SIXTY-SIX books, and yet truly, ONE BOOK. The great scholar, C.I. Scofield said: “From
Genesis the Bible bears witness to one God. Wherever He speaks
or acts he is consistent with himself, and with the total revelation concerning Him. The Bible forms one continuous story --the story of humanity in relation to God. The Bible hazards the most unlikely predictions concerning the future, and, when the
centuries have brought round the appointed time, records their fulfillment. The Bible is a progressive unfolding of truth. Nothing
is told all at once, and once for all. The law is, “First the blade, then the ear, after that the full grain.
Without the possibility of collusion, often with centuries between,
one writer of Scripture takes up an earlier revelation, adds to it, lays down the pen, and in due time another man moved by
the Holy Spirit, and another, and another, add new details till the whole is complete. From beginning to end the Bible testifies to one redemption. The Bible has one great theme--the Person and work of Christ. Finally, these writers, some forty in number, writing through twenty centuries, have produced a
perfect harmony of doctrine in progressive unfolding. This
is, to every candid mind, the unanswerable proof of the divine inspiration of the Bible.” Only the gigantic,
world-wide Flood, of Noah, recorded in the Old Testament book of Genesis, would have the speed, power, and global reach to
explain these vast deposits. SEE
MY OTHER PAGES -- THE RAINBOW -- GOD'S SPECTACULAR HIGH-TECH HANDIWORK THEY CAME TO JESUS.
The Old Testament book of Genesis gives the
only authentic recorded history of a world-wide cataclysm that would explain the fossils, including coal. Genesis
61And it came to pass, when men began to multiply
on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2That
the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that
he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto
the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face
of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made
them. 8But Noah found grace in the eyes
of the LORD. 9These are the generations
of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. 10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh
had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13And
God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold,
I will destroy them with the earth. 14Make
thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the
ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it
above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood
of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is
in the earth shall die. 18But with thee
will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with
thee. 19And of every living thing of all
flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 20Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping
thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 21And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather
it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. 22Thus
did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Genesis 7
1And
the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2Of every
clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male
and his female. 3Of
fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to
rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face
of the earth. 5And
Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. 6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife,
and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and
of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female,
as God had commanded Noah. 10And
it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows
of heaven were opened. 12And
the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife,
and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two
and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD
shut him in. 17And
the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18And the
waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon
the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the
mountains were covered. 21And
all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth, and every man: 22All
in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon
the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed
from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 24And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and
fifty days. Genesis
81And
God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass
over the earth, and the waters assuaged; 2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven
were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3And the waters returned from off the earth
continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on
the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5And the waters decreased continually until
the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. 6And
it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7And
he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8Also
he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9But
the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of
the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 10And
he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11And the dove came in to him in the evening;
and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12And
he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13And
it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried
up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. 15And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16Go
forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 17Bring forth with thee every living thing that
is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they
may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his
wife, and his sons' wives with him: 19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their
kinds, went forth out of the ark. 20And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast,
and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the
LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil
from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold
and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. SEE MY OTHER PAGES -- THE RAINBOW -- GOD'S SPECTACULAR HIGH-TECH HANDIWORK To become
a Christian see my pages They Came to Jesus, and Jesus Gets a Visitor in the Night. Also see my page on the Resurrection.
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