The Right Way To Obey God. Part [29] 01/21/2025 (Morning thought)

1st Corinthians 1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

But who is Willard Libby? We were just curious to know, for it seems highly unlikely that God would move upon a scientist to come up with a method for determining the age of fossils that would essentially debunk the great facts of creation. Willard Frank Libby was born December 17, 1908 was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and paleontology.

During World War II he worked in the Manhattan Project's Substitute Alloy Materials Laboratories at Columbia University, developing the gaseous diffusion process for uranium enrichment. Libby was also involved in the development of the atomic bomb, and his second wife, Leona Woods Marshall was one of the original builders of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor.

But what about his religious persuasions? Libby was an Ag·nos·tic: A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena; a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God. Therefore, we must now connect the dots, because if through radio carbon dating, science arrives at the conclusion that the world is several billion years old, then, that puts science squarely at odds with what the Bible teaches on the age of the earth.

1st Corinthians 1:26 For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!

The Right Way To Obey God. Part [28] 01/21/2025 (Evening thought)

Exodus 31:12 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, 13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.

Before we get into the Sabbath issue, it is important that we understand how we got to where we are, as far as the substitute day of rest goes. Satan employs a combination of religion and science to try to make of none effect, the truth about the Sabbath. He moved upon pagan and papal Rome to introduce Sunday, as a memorial of Christ’s resurrection which God never ordained, and then he employed science to try to discredit the Scriptural records of the true age of the earth.

Thus, by this two-pronged method, God’s work of creation, and the institution of Sabbath observance has gotten distorted and cloudy in the minds of the people. The study of fossils, and the science behind radio-carbon dating have contributed greatly to the fostering of the theory of evolution. According to the “X-perts” radio-carbon dating merges chemistry and physics to develop a scientific method that could accurately determine the age of organic materials as old as approximately 60,000 years.

It is based on the science that living organisms, like trees, plants, people, and animals absorb carbon-14 into their tissue. When they die, carbon-14 starts to change into other atoms over time. Scientists can then estimate how long the organism has been dead by counting the remaining carbon-14 atoms. The technique was developed in the 1940s at the University of Chicago by chemistry professor Willard Libby, who later received the Nobel Prize for his work.

Exodus 31:14 You shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defiles it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!