The Scopes Monkey Trial - Part 3

This is Part 3 of a three part series.  The first two are from my article on the Scopes Trial from Origins Research associated with Access Research Network:

https://arn.org/

“The Scopes Trial and After,” Origins Research (later Origins & Design), Vol. 2, No. 2, Sep-Oct 1979, pp. 5,6.

 

Scopes Monkey Trial - Part 1:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-scopes-monkey-trial-part-1.html

 

Scopes Monkey Trial - Part 2:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-scopes-monkey-trial-part-2.html

 

My #1 book I plug on this topic is Monkey Business by Marvin Olasky (World Mag):

https://www.amazon.com/Monkey-Business-Story-Scopes-Trial/dp/0805431578

 

Christ taught that we live in a youthful world, so that eliminates #Darwinism right away.  Jesus' AGE verses: Mk. 10:6, Mk. 13:19-20, Lk. 11:50,51.  The Butler Act references "the story of the Divine creation of man as taught in the Bible."  At the beginning of the trial only Genesis Chapter One was read!  The Second chapter of Genesis gives the details of Man's Origin.  Furthermore, there are tons of verses throughout the Bible that relate to the "Divine creation of man."

 

What is mankind that you are mindful of them,

    human beings that you care for them?

You have made them a little lower than the angels

    and crowned them with glory and honor.

You made them rulers over the works of your hands;

    you put everything under their feet. (Ps. 8:4-6)

 

But at the beginning of creation God "made them male and female." (Mk. 10:6)

 

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them [including Man], but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. (Ex. 20:11)

 

Man is made in God's Image and has Dominion.  Adam and Eve were made at the beginning of the world, not millions of years later.  Our work week parallels Creation Week - no room for Deep Time.

In 1923, Oklahoma banned texts that contained the "Darwin Theory of Creation versus the Bible Account of Creation" (Scopes Monkey Trial - Moore & McComas, p. 11).

https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/the-scopes-monkey-trial-9781467116480

Moore & McComas fail to include George McCready Price (d. 1963) in their index.  If Price had testified at the trial, there may have been a vastly different outcome - he was away in England.  Price wrote Evolutionary Geology and the New Catastrophism, Were the Fossils Contemporary?, Report on Evolution and many other works.

As for Darrow's Questions ...

Jonah and the Whale ("big fish"):  

https://www.icr.org/content/what-really-swallowed-jonah

Joshua's long day - historical evidence:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/3224-years-later-scientists-see-first-ever-recorded-eclipse-in-joshuas-battle/

Global Flood:

https://www.amazon.com/Earths-Catastrophic-Past-Creation-2014-10-03/dp/B01FGKZJOA

Early Civilizations:

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Ancient-Man-Revelations-Ruins/dp/0890518661

Comparative Religion:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_firingline-billbuckley-williamabrfabrbuckleyjr-activity-7261866247930195969-ULS9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHbbPwBBTN3-5NHy1Ow3Aqgq-KCW2E14ew

The Tower of Babel:

https://answersingenesis.org/tower-of-babel/

The Earth's Age:

Is a Young Earth Possible? - How Science and History Point to a Youthful World and Why it Matters ★★★★½

https://www.amazon.com/Young-Earth-Possible-Science-Youthful/dp/1088860788/

YES - Young Earth Science ★★★★

https://www.amazon.com/YES-WorldView-Fallacies-Darwinism-2014-11-14/dp/B01K3RF10I

Adam's Rib:

https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/why-did-god-make-eve-from-part-of-adam

Cain's wife:

He married his sister (Gen. 5:4).

The Days of #Creation_Week

https://www.academia.edu/1561970/A_Defense_of_Literal_Days_in_the_Creation_Week

The tempting serpent:  

The Lord made Balaam's donkey talk, so why not a snake?  See Numbers 22:21-35.

 

The Transcript of the Scopes Monkey Trial, ed. by Anthony Horvath:

https://www.amazon.com/Transcript-Scopes-Monkey-Trial-Unabridged/dp/1947844415

 

Evolutionism Begets Evolutionism (Dr. Nathan Jeanson):

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_the-real-reason-why-99-of-scientists-reject-activity-7390077682115538944-QjwB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHbbPwBBTN3-5NHy1Ow3Aqgq-KCW2E14ew

 

Please check out my books:

https://totalyouth.us

 

In one article on the Scopes Trial, they confuse Creationists with Flat-Earthers:

https://home.heinonline.org/blog/2023/09/the-scopes-monkey-trial/

 

Young Earthers are not Flat Eartherz >>  

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-real-truth-about-flat-earth.html

 

How Do We Know the Bible is True? - Ham & Hodge:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Do-Know-Bible-True/dp/0890516332

 

There have been a number of Scopes Trial Centennial Events during this year:

https://www.chattanoogan.com/2024/4/11/485666/Scopes-Trial-Centennial-Set-For-2025.aspx

https://artsci.utk.edu/scopes-trial-centennial-celebration/

 

A Word from the #Loyal_Opposition

https://youtu.be/m_zjT67_1o4

 

Monkey Business - Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers & Marilyn Monroe:

https://youtu.be/gH_qxtLPM9k

 

graphic: Scopes Monkey Trial >>

https://chatgpt.com/c/6907e591-7b7c-8333-95e1-1dd3438afbd2

 

#Scopes_Monkey_Trial #Henry_Morris #Destination1925 #ScopesTrial #Origins #Genesis #Mk10_6 #Mk13_19&20 #Lk11_50&51 #Butler_Act #OK #Oklahoma #BlownAway ♪ #Go_Thunder ‼ #evo #Crevo #Destiny ↑ #controversy #YoungEarth #Young_Earth_Science #YES #trial #Dayton  #Tennessee #Year1925 #WilliamJenningsBryan #Clarence_Darrow #History #His_Story ╬

Francis Schaeffer and the Worldwide Climate Disaster

Francis Schaeffer wrote Pollution and the Death of Man which came out in 1970. 

Tim Challies gives a fair assessment:

 

Schaeffer acknowledges from the beginning of this book what our society’s secular humanists cannot - that mankind has been called by God to exercise dominion over the earth. But like everything else in this world, man’s ability to exercise such dominion has been affected by the Fall. No longer do we tend the world always in love, but instead we ravage and pillage it. Though we may not believe in all of the dire claims being made about the world today, we must at least acknowledge that we have not cared for the world as God has called us to.

https://www.challies.com/book-reviews/book-review-pollution-and-the-death-of-man/

 

Those crying "Earth Too Hot‼" do not arrive at that conclusion from a Christian Worldview (Gen. 8:22):

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_day5-agt-globalwarming-activity-7343309844658999296-ijBv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHbbPwBBTN3-5NHy1Ow3Aqgq-KCW2E14ew

 

The  Eco-Apocalyptic predictions of "Mother Earth" activists have been wrong for over half a century:

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/

 

As Schaeffer pointed out, "... many thinking men see the ecological threat as greater than that of nuclear warfare."[1]

Social commentators Richard Means & Lynn White have proposed Pantheism, Zen Buddhism and the "All is 1" philosophy as a solution to the Ecological Crisis.[2]  Will Red China go "Zen" and stop being @ the Top ↑ of the dam creator list?

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=28392#

 

Not only are darter snakes mad, huge dams often have a negative effect on Indigenous Communities.  Aldous Huxley (Island) said, "Elementary ecology leads straight to elementary Buddhism."[3] 

 

We are Stewards of Creation and should treat our brother Critters with respect:

 

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,

    the world, and all who live in it;

for he founded it on the seas

    and established it on the waters. (Ps. 24:1,2)

 

The righteous care for the needs of their animals,

    but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel. ...

The lazy do not roast any game,

    but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt. (Pr. 12:10,27)

 On the one hand, only Man is made in the Image of God (Imago Dei).  But on the other hand, we are all part of God's Creation: Man, Animal, Plant and Machine (via human invention).  Because of Creation Week, I can truly say along with St. Francis, "Brother Sun, Sister Moon."  According to Schaeffer, we should respect the tree:  

 

When you drive the axe into the tree when you need firewood, you are not cutting down a person; you are cutting down a tree.. But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize God made it and it deserves respect because He made it as a tree. Christians who do not believe in the complete evolutionary scale have reason to respect nature as the total evolutionist never can, because we believe God made these things specifically in their own areas. So if we are going to argue against the evolutionists intellectually, we should show the results of our belief in our attitudes. The Christian is a man who has a reason for dealing with each created thing with a high level of respect.[4]

 

The Eco-Fanatics have no basis for saying, "It's for the Children!"  Without God, Man has no intrinsic value.[5]  Many in that camp completely overlook the fact that God is the Creator and Sustainer of the world:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0018NFVWK

Some would say that Saint Francis (d. 1226) is the patron saint of extreme-environmentalists.[6] 

 

** The Canticle of Saint Francis ♫

Most high, all-powerful, all good, Lord

All praise is yours, all glory, all honor

And all blessing.

To you, alone, Most High, do they belong.

No mortal lips are worthy

To pronounce your name.

All praise be yours, my Lord, through all that you have made,

And first my lord Brother Sun,

Who brings the day; and light you give to us through him.

How beautiful is he, how radiant in all his splendor!

Of you, Most High, he bears the likeness.

All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Moon and Stars;

In the heavens you have made them, bright

And precious and fair. ...

All praise be yours, my Lord, through those who grant pardon

For love of you; through those who endure

Sickness and trial.

Happy those who endure in peace,

By you, Most High, they will be crowned.

All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Death,

From whose embrace no mortal can escape.

How dreadful for those who die in sin!

How lovely for those found in Your Most Holy Will.

The second death can do them no harm.

Praise and bless my Lord, and give him thanks,

And serve him with great humility.

https://www.franciscanmedia.org/st-anthony-messenger/st-francis-and-his-canticle-of-the-creatures/

 

Note the place of peace, forgiveness, Eternity and Heaven & Hell!  The Gospel is Handy:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_the-gospel-is-handy-heaven-is-a-activity-7147733644705476608-uYsk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

 

Science itself has a Christian foundation:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2011/05/michio-kaku-epic-fail.html

Saving the Whales is a good cause, but once you deny the Triune God of Christianity and take on a New Agey, Cultish Worldview, your morality is built on sand (not rock).  Evolution fails in many ways: explaining the Soul, new sources of genetic info, Origin of Life #OOL ... Signature in the Cell, Fine-Tuning, Applicability of Maths etc.  Can you defend Theism?  The Universe had a beginning - God created it (Gen. 1:1).  Design implies a Designer (Heb. 3:4).  Ethics must come from a Moral Lawgiver (see Kant).  God is the greatest, so He must exist.[7] 

Once we know that there is a God who made you, clearly He could write a book that you can understand.  Now we're ready for Truth in Religion by Mort Adler:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_firingline-billbuckley-williamabrfabrbuckleyjr-activity-7261866247930195969-ULS9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHbbPwBBTN3-5NHy1Ow3Aqgq-KCW2E14ew

 

The End of Free Speech?

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-end-of-free-speech.html

 

The Sky's on Fire - Ozone Collapse:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_eotw-rush-fun-activity-7312245485094780928-Jion?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHbbPwBBTN3-5NHy1Ow3Aqgq-KCW2E14ew

 

Climate Skeptic Vaclav Smil (How the World Really Works):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/25/magazine/vaclav-smil-interview.html

** see chapter 18, "Animals are Important" (p. 133) >>

God's Wisdom for Man - Jay Hall & Norbert Smith (topical Proverbs & James):

https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Wisdom-Norbert-Smith-Ph-D/dp/1463754345

 

Are you familiar with Calvin Beisner and the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/e-calvin-beisner-75a0b75_climate-and-energy-a-case-for-realism-activity-7217199798179762176-fUzI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHbbPwBBTN3-5NHy1Ow3Aqgq-KCW2E14ew

https://cornwallalliance.org/

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us

 

** kudos - graphic source:

https://chatgpt.com/c/689128ae-884c-8005-834a-7e451dd3c7ae

https://www.organism.earth/library/author/alan-watts

 

 

Notes:

1) The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer (Crossway, Wheaton, 1982), Vol. 5,  p. 12.

2) Ibid.,  p. 7.

3) quoted in Ibid., p. 12.

4) Ibid., 32.

5) Ibid., 34.

6) "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis" by Lynn White in The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer (Crossway, Wheaton, 1982), Vol. 5, Appendix A, p. 69.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.155.3767.1203

7) The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science ed. by Bruce Gordon & William Dembski (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Wilmingtion, DE, 2011).

https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Examining-Role-Naturalism-Science/dp/1935191284

 

#Ecology #Environment #Climate_Hysteria #Global_Warming #ICE_AGE (Post-Flood) #Too_Hot ‼ #Climate_Skeptic #Vaclav_Smil #HowtheWorldReallyWorks

#Science #Christianity #St_Francis #birds #poor #Francis_Schaeffer #Worldview  

#Nature_of_Nature #Bruce_Gordon #ID #Intelligent_Design #DISCO ♫ #Discovery_Institute #Seattle #Dembski #Math_Whiz #EXPELLED #Ben_Stein

#Genesis #GlobalFlood #Creationista #Creation #CritterZ #Fake_NewZ

#Extreme_Weather #Ozone #O3 #Gone_Natural #beatniks #hippies #bikes #NewAge #FreeSpeech #polution #DED7734 #Heaven ↑ #Gospel ╬  

#Calvin_Beisner #Cornwall_Alliance

What is a Christian Worldview?

Some would say the 7 C's of History:

Creation-Curse-Catastrophe-Confusion-Christ-Cross-Consummation.

John Stonestreet (BreakPoint) makes clear some essentials of a worldview [1] >>

According to Stonestreet, "… one who may have influenced Protestant Evangelicalism more than any other towards worldview thinking is Francis Schaeffer. Schaeffer’s most significant contribution was bringing the concept of Christian worldview out of the academy to popular Christian thought."

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2011/06/already-compromised-review.html

 

I highly recommend Schaeffer's Complete Works:

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-Francis-Schaeffer-Christian/dp/0891073310

 

Also, these two video series >>

**How Should We Then Live? - Schaeffer:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9cJRl8EYnLeVDDAdgFMc5VPGAq7FU-73

 

**Whatever Happened To The Human Race? - Francis Schaeffer & C. Everett Koop (fmr. Surgeon General):   

https://youtu.be/py02pQTyeTE?list=PL9cJRl8EYnLepEXPyjBoSPIArEPHyN-c8

 

I argue that Francis Schaeffer leaned toward strict Creationism:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2018/05/was-francis-schaeffer-creationist.html

 

Shouldn't a Christian Worldview include some basic doctrinal standards?

 

The Deity of Christ

Salvation by Grace

The Resurrection of Christ

The Gospel

Monotheism

Jesus is the only way to salvation

Jesus' virgin birth

Doctrine of the Trinity

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-heresy-of-older-planet.html

 

What about questions like "What is Marriage?" and "What is a Woman?"

Let me know your criteria for the Christian Worldview:

YoungEarthScience@yahoo.com

 

BreakPoint - John Stonestreet:

https://breakpoint.org/breakpoint-podcasts/

 

our site: https://totalyouth.us

 

** kudos - graphic source:

https://images.freeimages.com/images/large-previews/459/see-the-world-1-1359033.jpg

 

Note:

1) A Practical Guide to Culture by John Stonestreet & Brett Kunkle (David C. Cook, Colorado Springs, 2020), p. 91.

 

#Christian #Worldview #ChristianWorldview #WV #VW #TrueTruth #marriage #woman ⚤ #Destiny #EndTimes #History #OriginZ #Creation #Genesis1to11 #GIII #Stonestreet #BreakPoint #Culture #Heresy #Orthodox #Creed #Christ_or_KAOS #Virgin_Birth ╬ #Trinity #Protestant #Evangelical #ConfirmedReformationalProtestant #Francis_Schaeffer ╬ #Creation #Curse #Catastrophe #Confusion #Christ #Cross #Consummation #SecondAdvent #Deity_of_Christ #Salvation #Grace #Faith #Repentance #Resurrection #Gospel

#Monotheism ... what rhymes with #WorldView ?

Westminster Wasp - Tucker "Dancew" Starz Goes 13 Steps!

 ** Tucker "Dancew" Starz Starts 13 Step Group **

Do you like hangin' out with your buds on TUE nites and drink bucket loads of coffee?  Are you a Journalist, News Anchor, Media Mogul or #SocMed Content Creator?  Do you believe in a Higher Power?  Well, have I got a deal for YOU!  Tucker-the-TruthTeller has created a new support group to help those escaping the Fake News Cult. 

 

You too can say the #Pledge ...

 

Howdy!  My name is Irene and I am powerless to save myself and overcome my fraud addiction on my own.  I promise to send Bibles to all those I've pulled the flim-flam on.  I pledge to call and/or text my #Mentor daily to remain accountable.  I lean on my Lord Jesus Christ and the grace of God to overcome my life-dominating sin.  One day at a time, I have the victory.  Praise the Lord!  Hallelujah‼    

 

Tucker plans to start chapters in DC, NYC, LA, Portland, #SanFran and other Leftist towns.  After receiving their 5 year pin, all members get a free copy of "Uncle Bob's Big Book of Change."  What is the 13th step? ...

 

"If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." (Rom. 10:9,10)

 

#Bthe_Change #TellTheTRUTH #StayOn_theWagon #TruthMatterz       

Tucker on DWTS:

https://rumble.com/v2kb470-tucker-carlson-on-dancing-with-the-stars.html

 

 

** Climate Change & the #Death of #MAN **

Have you ever been lost in E LA?  I know I have.*  With $700 cash I rented a Ford Escort in the 1980's in Hollywood.  Armed with a map and a misdirected #SOUL I wound up in East Los Angeles in the early evening.  What was my intended destination? ... Redondo Beach!  But the question remains, why did this disaster invade my time-stream?  Climate Change, of course‼ (cf. Is. 46:10)      

 

According to the Davos Center for New Age Understanding (located in Cleveland), mankind will face utter extinction within the next ten years if the

#ClimateChange Monster is not defeated.  Attention all Super Heroes!  Now is the thyme for all good XX-women and XY-men to come to the aid of Earth.

 

Other negative results of Climate Change may include an imminent Yellowstone eruption, war with Nukes, Big Rock Hits Earth, bioweapons from Renmin Gongshe, Coronal Mass Ejections, #PlanDemix and the impending Zombie Apocalypse.  Francis Schaeffer (d. 1984) on the #DeathOfMAN >>

https://www.amazon.com/Pollution-Death-Man-Christian-Ecology/dp/0842348409

 

 

** Andrew Tate* Does the Manly Thing **

Tate spoke of his conversion to Islam with British Muslim podcaster Mohammad Hijab (10-29-22).  Tate said that elites in Western cultures promote feminism which pushes women to work outside the home while their children are brainwashed in state schools and by the #NET

https://tinyurl.com/495z8f32

 

Online influencer Tate doles out some potent aphorisms such as, "I support good and honest governments and I will obey only those laws."

https://cobratate.com/41-tenets

 

Dr. White, Tate and #Zuby (@ 14:50) >>

https://www.aomin.org/aoblog/the-dividing-line/shortened-road-trip-dl-response-to-andrew-tate-conversion/

 

* Opps ‼ this is a real story.

 

Please support us on #Patreon to see our latest videos "Mortimer Adler's Apologetic" & "Van Damme vs. Van Til" & "7 Daze" (Creation Week) >>

https://patreon.com/TrueTruthProductions

My books challenge Darwin and Deep Time:

https://totalyouth.us/

 

#FrancisSchaeffer #Creationista #TrueTruth #TotalYouth #WestminsterWasp #WestminsterWaspWED #TuckerCarlson #Irene #AndrewTate #TwelveSteps #Step13 #God #Jesus #Bible #YES #YoungEarthScience #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ICE_AGE #NWO #DancingWithStars #AOMin #Zuby #Oppz #HigherPower #FakeNews #SocMed #SanFran #St_Francis #FordEscort  #RedondoBeach #MohammadHijab

Westminster Wasp - Strange But #TRUE & #Just4U

 

Dear CBS/PBS/ELS:

The following are real stories - the names have not been changed because none of us are totally innocent (Is. 64:6).

 

>> Tucker "Dancing with the Stars✫" Carlson Reveals ALL

 

Tucker made this stunning confession in 2018:

 

People often accuse the media of having an agenda, and in some ways they're right. Most journalists are conventional liberals, and the coverage often reflects that. But outright manipulation of content? I've rarely seen it. In fact, in more than two decades of working in the news and opinion business, I can think of only a single time I've been censored outright. It was the day a network executive forbade me to interview ... [Roger Stone]. ... Like many in the upper reaches of media, business and government, this executive stood in fear and trembling before the legend of Roger Stone. And for good reason: Roger Stone is a troublemaker - indeed, not just a troublemaker, but  perhaps the premier troublemaker of our time, the Michael Jordan of electoral mischief.

 

Rules for Patriots - #StoneColdTruth >>

https://www.amazon.com/Stones-Rules-Politics-Business-Style/dp/1510740082

#NCaseU_Missedit #LetsDance !

https://youtu.be/FRTYvygTArs

Tucker - the Movie:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096316/

Oxford Union Address - Roger Stone:

https://youtu.be/TX0OHbbvmRs

 

>> From Shamblins to Shambles - The Real Low-Down on Weight Loss

Gwen Shamblin Lara (d. 2021), the pioneer of faith-based weight loss, has been called a cult leader & worse.  You may have caught this special on HBO:    

https://youtu.be/wiQSsrQCG6c

Shamblin was heretical and said, "Jesus never claimed to be God."  Check out this  thoughtful critique of Shamblin's doctrine (@ 12:50 mark):

https://youtu.be/8irQvnN5brg

Gwen Shamblin Lara was a female leader of a Southern megachurch - Remnant Fellowship Church (contra Titus 1:5-10).  Gwen demanded that parishioners separate from non-members.  She spurned fat people and threatened legal action against critics.

https://www.mylifetime.com/movies/gwen-shamblin-starving-for-salvation

Remnant's faith statement denies the Trinity:

https://www.remnantfellowship.org/about-remnant-fellowship/the-essence-of-god-christ/

Weigh Down on 20/20 in 1998 (ABC):

https://youtu.be/VAR1TT94ORM

#KFC #ColonelSanders #Gluttony #BBQ #KC #NYC_Pizza #TheView #300# #GotChoco ? #RichardBaxter

 

>> Reality Show Star Breaks Free from the "Dunger" Cult!

Former #TLC star Jinger ("Ginger") Duggar Vuolo reveals the truth about her early family life with “cult-like tendencies.”  Her parents followed the teachings of disgraced minister Bill Gothard (b. 1934).  Jinger went from AR to TX, then to Los Angeles and married pastor and former soccer player Jeremy Vuolo (#24) in 2016.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-01-19/jinger-duggar-memoir-bill-gothard-iblp-19-kids-and-counting-on

Jinger has written, Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear:

https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Free-Indeed-Story-Disentangling/dp/1400335817

Check out this interview at the 27:30 mark about the Vuolo's watching the Truman Show on their honeymoon!

https://youtu.be/tFVTQnygHNM

A solid analysis of Gothard's system:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3981356-a-matter-of-basic-principles

Francis Schaeffer (d. 1984) on legalism from True Spirituality:

 

Often, after a person is born again and asks, "What shall I do next?" he is given a list of things, usually of a limited nature, and primarily negative.  Often he is given the idea that if he does not do this series of things ... he will be spiritual.  This is not so.  The true Christian life, true spirituality, is not merely a negative not-doing of any small list of things.  Even if the list began as a very excellent list of things to beware of in that particular historic setting, we still must emphasize that the Christian life, or true spirituality, is more than refraining from a certain external list of taboos in a mechanical way (Complete Works - Francis Schaeffer, Vol. 2, Crossway, p. 201).

 

I once heard Jay Adams (d. 2020) speak at a seminar in Fort Worth where Ken Ham also gave a talk.  Here you can find 60 of his works:

https://www.logos.com/product/197366/jay-adams-collection

#RealityShowStar ... not to be confused with #RealityWinner ☺

 

>> The Nixon & Satchmo Caper of 1958

Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong (d. 1971) and His All Stars were Goodwill Ambassadors to Europe and Asia.  In 1958, upon landing at New York's Idlewild Airport, Satch was directed to go through Customs which was not required for ambassadors.  Some of the luggage contained ganja.  Richard "Muler" Nixon (d. 1994) arrived and the following scene ensued:

Nixon: "Satchmo, what are you doing here?"

Satch: "Well, Pops, I just came back from my goodwill tour of Asia and they told me I had to stand in this line for Customs."

Nixon: "Ambassadors don't have to go through Customs and the Vice President of the United States will carry your bags to the exit.  Do you have a car waiting?"

Thus, a catastrophe was circumvented.  Apparently, the Veep was oblivious to the contraband.

Moral: Encontrar milagros en la vida cotidiana.

Stone's Rules: How to Win at Politics, Business, and Style by Roger Stone (Skyhorse Publishing, NYC, 2018), pp. 10-12.

https://www.amazon.com/Stones-Rules-Politics-Business-Style/dp/1510740082

More about Satchmo:

https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/biography/

 

>> Jim "Mask" Carrey Gets #SAVED ??

While visiting Homeboy Industries in 2017, Carrey made some bold statements to the assembled crowd.  #Homeboyee began in 1988 and aids former gang members in East Los Angeles and the world.  Gregory Boyle, pastor of Dolores Mission Church, is the founder.  And now for some words of wisdom from Jim "Ace Ventura" Carrey ...

 

I believe that suffering leads to salvation. In fact, it's the only way ... We either decide to go through the gate of resentment, which leads to vengeance, which leads to self-harm, which leads to harm to others. Or, we go through the gate of forgiveness, which leads to grace. ...You've made the decision to walk through the gate of forgiveness to grace, just as Christ did on the cross. ... He suffered terribly and He was broken by it, to the point of doubt and a feeling of absolutely abandonment, which all of you have felt. Then there was a decision to be made. And the decision was to look upon the people who were causing that suffering with compassion and with forgiveness, and that's what opens the gates of heaven for all of us. I wish that for all of you. I wish that for myself. ... They talk about omnipresence in church and nobody really thinks about what that means. What it means is every cell in your body is God. Everything is God. Everything is divine. ... When you make a loaf of bread in this kitchen that is a Eucharist. You are blessing people with your work, you're serving the world...That is the body of Christ.

 

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/this.room.is.filled.with.god.jester.jim.carrey.turns.preacher.and.christians.should.listen.up/110958.htm

When Christ cried out "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mt. 27:46), he quotes Ps. 22:1 which is shorthand for referring to the whole psalm which predicts the Crucifixion.  We read this in Psalm 22:24,

 

For he has not despised or scorned

    the suffering of the afflicted one;

he has not hidden his face from him

    but has listened to his cry for help.

 

Not "doubt and a feeling of absolutely abandonment," but rather faith and hope (cf. Heb. 5:7).  We are not saved by good works, "he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit" (Titus 3:5).

Are you born again?  Here's the Gospel truth:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2015/06/goodnews-osmosis.html

Jim Carrey @ Homeboy Industries:

https://youtu.be/MzyaQ0H5D74

Yummy Yummy ...

https://homeboyindustries.org/support/shop/

#JN3_16 #GoodNewz #GOSPEL #BA_degree #BornAgain ╬

 

"Homeboyee" & "Dunger" are my own nicknames & not their official trade, Mark!

FYI: In 1988, I paid $700 cash to get a rental car - my Ford Escort almost strangled me.  In the days before cell phones with GPS, I got lost in East LA when I misread the map‼  My original destination was Redondo Beach! 

 

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FYI2: I used to work for a rich boss & got to see #JayLeno (b. 1950) at Casa Mañana in Fort Worth.  Lou Diamond Phillips (b. Subic Bay) was set to make a celebrity appearance at the banquet, but something came up.

 

The 23 Enigma >>

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-23-enigma.html

 

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