Today a few comments about what may seem to be totally disassociated topics.
I was just reading a story about a scientific breakthrough that allowed an unreadable ancient Hebrew scroll to be read. Of course the comments were replete with attacks from God haters and believer bashers. One of the comments was from some self proclaimed genius asking, “Who created God.” Of course the question was meant to produce strife and doubt by asking an unanswerable question. I am going to spend a moment answering the question with one equally as mysterious, while also giving a perspective of understanding to both. The original question was meant to insinuate that if it is true that all things are created then God himself must have been created. My question: Was time created? Time existed even before the universe was created. Do we know what existed in the time before the universe? No we do not, but it must be considered and realized that something exited in that time, even if only time itself. The point is time has always existed; our understanding of it and our ability to measure it actually makes up an undistinguishable moment, and more so our understanding of God.
The next point is something more topical and having to do with the way we measure police use of deadly force. The dilemma lies in an inability to distinguish between a numerator and a denominator. Fully understanding the use of deadly force has to be seen with the police as the common denominator, and thinking about it in these terms we must agree it is so. Those killed by peace officers would then be seen as the numerator.
For those who don’t understand this is the way it works, you divide the number of police officers by the number of those killed. Whatever the answer it is stated as being the “one in” that many officers will shoot a person in the numerator group.
Here is paragraph from a recent (July 11) Washington Post article that gives the numbers: “In 2015, The Washington Post launched a real-time database to track fatal police shootings, and the project continues this year. As of Sunday, 1,502 people have been shot and killed by on-duty police officers since Jan. 1, 2015. Of them, 732 were white, and 381 were black (and 382 were of another or unknown race).” The Post of course goes on to reverse the numerator and the denominator and thereby misrepresent the truth in the light and context of the accusation, “cops kill,” which makes the cops the common denominator.
Here are the numbers: there are between 900,000 and 1.1 million state and local police officers (depending on whose numbers you use). Let’s split the difference and use a number of 1 million in this evaluation. Using the Washington Post’s numbers, 732 whites/1,000,000 cops = one in every 1366 police officers shot and killed a white person during the time between January 1, 2015 and July 2016 — Blacks 381/1,000,000 cops = one in ever 2625 police officers shot a black person during the same time. The real numbers say that police officers are almost twice as likely to shoot a white person than a black person.
This truth dispels the lie that police are racist, and therefore based on their racism kill blacks at a higher rate than whites. This also should expose the truth that the news media and the liberal elites in this country are using propaganda and outright lies to agitate and manipulate a community into violence that only severs these liberal elites. Where is the outrage about this? The inciters of this terror are those who only seek to use it for political power, and/or for TV ratings, which equals to big money for those reporting/distorting it.
Here again is the Merriam-Webster definition of terror: violence that is committed by a person, group, or government in order to frighten people and achieve a political goal.
Seems like we have a problem understanding and this come from those we look to for our information and to lead us. It’s all basic math and understanding the time. It’s mostly about who you are listening to – there’s a serpent in the garden giving some bad advice.
Psalms 140
1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins [traps] for me. Selah.
6 I said unto the LORD, You are my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.
7 O God the LORD, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto your name: the upright shall dwell in your presence.
Romans 3
1 What advantage then has the Jew [those of the House/faith of God called believers]? or what profit is there of circumcision [keeping His Law/Commandments]?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.
5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin [error];
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things so-ever the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption [apolutron – paid the price to free us from error] that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation [reconciliation] through faith in his blood [sacrifice – his life to bring us to life], to declare his righteousness for the remission of [separated us from] sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith [to believe and declare] without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision [those keeping the law/commandment] by faith, and un-circumcision [those without the law/commandments] through [our] faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law [by (our) faith].
