Marching Forth!

Eugenics is a theme repeated in science fiction utilised with the aim to produce an ideal society.  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a good example of using scientific means to manufacture people who will conform to their role in society through indoctrination, drugs, and conditioning.  Whatever was deemed "ugly" had no place in utopia, and people were placed in pre-determined castes where they were prepared for particular roles (Alphas, Betas, Gammas, etc.).  The heart of eugenics is not life but death, the culling of any embryos deemed unsuitable.  It is a godless approach , a "self direction of human evolution."  Many atrocities have been carried out upon fellow humans guided by eugenics.  Today selective breeding is typically not mandated by government but largely sanctioned, as unwanted unborn children can be legally aborted. What if God employed this approach, to kill any creatures which fell short of His absolute standard of goodness?  T...

Australia takes border security and immigration seriously.  Our country takes full advantage of our isolated geography and natural oceanic moat to prevent undocumented immigrants from arriving at our shores.  Immigration, refugees, and asylum seekers have been big news since I moved to Australia many years ago, and how to best manage immigration had been a political talking point for decades prior to my arrival.  There have been many difference approaches utilised in managing immigration "problems" with a variety of outcomes.  Whenever flaws are exposed or it is reported people lost their lives attempting to reach Australia by boat, political parties vying for power claim to have a better plan. Though I am far from an expert on the subject, I can suggest an immigration policy which would not be popular in Australia or probably anywhere.  Let's say it was suggested an "open border" policy be adopted which included everyone from anywhere on the globe, even for...

Recently I read an article in which the author stated why he is a cessationist.  Cessationism is the doctrine certain spiritual gifts and the calling of an apostle ceased with the early church.  I suppose if labels must be used (and I try to avoid them personally) I would then be a "continuationist" - news to me.  This isn't a name I would use to classify my beliefs, but one others have made for me.  It is not surprising gifts have ceased if people do not believe they are in operation and do not ask for them according to scripture. I do not want to lump all cessationists together as if they all agree theologically, for I am convinced there is a variety of beliefs represented by them.  I know there is also a wide breadth of beliefs, convictions, and practices between so-called "continuationists," and it is troubling to be lumped in with others who support and encourage unbiblical practices.  And this is the rub:  the cessationist view is always put f...

" I say then: walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17  For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish ." Galatians 5:16-17 During the lives of Christians on earth there will be tension between the the desires of the flesh and walking as led by the Holy Spirit.  The efforts of the flesh are not sufficient to enable us to desire, think, speak or do righteously.  The Spirit of God and the sinful flesh are ever at odds, and it is only after we are born again and walk in the Spirit we are divinely enabled to do what is right.  We are born into the bondage of sin, and we are thus natural slaves of the flesh.  Praise be to God Jesus Christ has been sent to set us free and has provided the Holy Spirit to help us overcome the tyranny of the flesh. Though we realise to a degree our natural limitations, spiritua...