Go Thoughtfully, Gently and Humbly to New Year

NEW YEAR WITH GENTLENESS, HUMBLENESS AND THOUGHTFULLY

Think of our Savior, Jesus Whose birth we just celebrated. Lowly and gently He came into the world and lived His life in lowliness and humbleness. And when He left to go to His Father, His own gentle Spirit came to indwell every believer.

Many will go into the New Year with loud proclamations, with carry-over resentments from the past year. Some will go into the New Year with opinions and strong arguments, with voices of ridicule or anger. They will be heard for their repetitions and voluminous words, but the grace of our Lord Jesus will not fall on the ears of the hearer.

One of the fruits of the Spirit is gentleness, right along with self-control and the others listed in Galatians 5:26 and 27.

In instructing His disciples Jesus said,

“Learn of me, for I am gentle and humble of heart and you will find rest for your souls.” Matthew 11:28-30

Yes! We want that rest for our souls, don’t we? Why is there is so much unrest among us and within us? Our hearts are in a turmoil and we don’t know why. But we continue on in our boisterous, “in-your-face” attitudes and we wonder why there’s no peace in our hearts. We haven’t been listening to our Master when He set a pattern for us and called us to be like Him in His gentleness.

Someone is reading this and going into the New Year wondering how He/she will ever forgive the wrongs done to her this past year. If she ever sees that person again, she will give him a piece of her mind. But the Lord urges her to “Go gently” in her words and actions. Not because the offense was insignificant. No, but because that is the nature of the Father and He knows the pain we suffer. The outcome will be best if she acts like her Father God and she will then be able to say with the Psalmist

“You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your right hand has held me up. Your gentleness has made me great.” Psalm 18:35

The apostle Paul entreats us to

“walk worthy of the calling in which we were called, with all lowliness and gentleness with longsuffering,” Ephesians 4:1

This gentleness is needed when we’ve had a tough day and the pharmacist is taking too long to fill out our prescription. It is needed when your son comes home with an F on his report card. “Let your gentleness be known to all men,” we are encouraged, “For the Lord is at hand.” Philippians 4:5 The Lord sees your heart and your responses to life’s challenges do not go unnoticed by God.

Have you ever wondered what you could “give” the Lord that would be something He would consider very valuable and He would highly treasure? Well, this is it: A

“gentle and a quiet spirit,” is very precious in the sight of God.” I Peter 3:4

As you meditate on the following verses, ask yourself if the Lord is wanting you to “Go Gently Into the New Year.” For further study go to: Titus 3:1 and 2 I Timothy 6:11 and 12

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ALIVE

Have you ever consider the value of being alive?

Michael Flor (70 years), the longest-hospitlized covid-19 parient beat covid-19 after spending 62 days at the Hospital. His  Hospital bill is whopping $1.12 million (8.2 crores). To sustain, to keep him alive and for his survival several medications and treatment needs to administer cautiously. Ironically,  some commited suicide in good health. What a tragic story to know about Shushant Singh Rajput (Kai Po Che, Ms Dhoni: The Untold Story) a talented, fabulous and brilliant actor in India hanged himseld in his apartment Bandra, Mumbai due to depression.

God is the authored of our life. Use Him as a rudder of our life like a ship to reach our destination. Our emptiness, vagueness, vacuum life can be filled with God. Be strong and courageous amid darkness where uncertainties and depairs dispels by covid-19.

Our lives is worth living because we are knitted and created by God in His own Image, Imago Dei. We can find enjoyment and satisfaction in the things we have, the work we do, and the experiences we get to be involved in if we fear the Lord and see his hand in all things.

Shalom.

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June 14, 2020, 8:45 pm

Source: https://www.timesnownews.com/the-buzz/article/70-year-old-man-beats-coronavirus-then-gets-slapped-with-1-1-million-hospital-bill/606214

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Let’s go to Bethlehem and see what the Lord has told us about.

 Let’s go to Bethlehem and see what the Lord has told us about.

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The Biblical Doctrine of Creation

The Biblical Doctrine of Creation

McGrath, Alister E., Science and religion: A New introduction, 2^nd Ed. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Brown, P.William. The Seven Pillar of Creation: The Bible, Science and the Ecology of Wonder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

James Porter Moreland and John Mark Reynolds. Three views on creation and evolution. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010.

Walton, John H. Lost world of genesis one: ancient cosmology and the origins debate. Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2009.

Walton, John H. Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology. Winnona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011.

Enns, Peter. The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2012.

1. Christian Doctrine of Creation and Creation Ex Nihilo.

Creation ex nihilo is the Christian doctrine that God created the universe and everything in it out of nothing. He spoke all that exists, besides himself, into existence. For more than two millennia Christians have confessed in all their creeds that God is the “Maker of heaven and earth.” The Nicene Creed specifies that this includes “all things visible and invisible.”

At the heart of the Christian worldview is the idea that God is the creator of all other reality; there is a fundamental distinction between Creator and creation. . . .  The creedal affirmations of Christians are but reaffirmations of the first verse of the Bible, which majestically proclaims: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Thomas V. Morris points out that the biblical doctrine of creation is the key to a distinctively theistic perspective on reality. He writes, “This one statement captures the heart of a theistic world-view. We live in a created universe. For centuries, theists have held that the single most important truth about our world is that it is a created world. And it is no exaggeration to add that it is one of the most important truths about God that he is the creator of this world.”

Creation ex nihilo distinguishes theism from other worldviews that dominated the ancient world.

It was, in fact, the doctrine of creation out of nothing (ex nihilo) that most fundamentally distinguished the Judeo-Christian view of God and the world from the various religions of the ancient Near East and philosophical systems of Classical Greece—all of which assumed that the world had been formed out of eternally preexisting chaotic matter.

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Emerging Science and Technologies

Emerging Science and Technologies

Tegmark, Max. Life 3.0 being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligent. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

Ford, Martin. Rise of the Robots Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future. New York: basic books, 2015.

Frickel, Scott and Kelly Moore, eds. The New Political Sociology of Science Institutions, Networks, and Power. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1930.

Bostrom, Nick. SUPERINTELLIGENCE Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Oxford: Oxford university Press, 2014.

Lanier, Jaron. You are not a gadgets: A manifesto. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

1. An introduction to nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Synthetic Life, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience.

Nanotechnology:

nanotechnology are the study and application of extremely small things and can be used across all the other science fields, such as chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, and engineering. The ideas and concepts behind nanoscience and nanotechnology started with a talk entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) on December 29, 1959, long before the term nanotechnology was used. In his talk, Feynman described a process in which scientists would be able to manipulate and control individual atoms and molecules. Over a decade later, in his explorations of ultraprecision machining, Professor Norio Taniguchi coined the term nanotechnology. It wasn't until 1981, with the development of the scanning tunneling microscope that could "see" individual atoms, that modern nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology involve the ability to see and to control individual atoms and molecules. Everything on Earth is made up of atoms—the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the buildings and houses we live in, and our own bodies. But something as small as an atom is impossible to see with the naked eye. Today's scientists and engineers are finding a wide variety of ways to deliberately make materials at the nanoscale to take advantage of their enhanced properties such as higher strength, lighter weight, increased control of light spectrum, and greater chemical reactivity than their larger-scale counterparts.

Biotechnology:

Biotechnology is technology based on biology - biotechnology harnesses cellular and biomolecular processes to develop technologies and products that help improve our lives and the health of our planet. We have used the biological processes of microorganisms for more than 6,000 years to make useful food products, such as bread and cheese, and to preserve dairy products.

Modern biotechnology provides breakthrough products and technologies to combat debilitating and rare diseases, reduce our environmental footprint, feed the hungry, use less and cleaner energy, and have safer, cleaner and more efficient industrial manufacturing processes.

Currently, there are more than 250 biotechnology health care products and vaccines available to patients, many for previously untreatable diseases. More than 13.3 million farmers around the world use agricultural biotechnology to increase yields, prevent damage from insects and pests and reduce farming's impact on the environment.

Biotechnology are broadly designed to heal the world, to feed the world and to fuel the world.

Synthetic Life:

Synthetic Life/ biology is the attempt to reengineer living organisms as if they were machines for us to tinker with, or even to build them from scratch from the component parts—stems from a decidedly modern construct, a “reverence for life.” In the past, fears about this kind of technological hubris were reserved mostly for proposals to make humans by artificial means—or as the Greeks would have said, by techne.

The first identifiable use of the term "synthetic biology" was Stéphane Leduc a French biologist who sought to contribute to understanding of the chemical and physical mechanisms of life. Craig Venter once said “Life is basically the result of an information process, a software process. Our genetic code is our software, and our cells are dynamically, constantly reading our genetic code.”

Robotics:

Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and science that includes mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, computer science, and others. Robotics deals with the design, construction, operation, and use of robots, as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing. In 1948, Norbert Wiener formulated the principles of cybernetics, the basis of practical robotics.

There are many types of robots; they are used in many different environments and for many different purposes depending upon the potential application and its demand.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that aims to create intelligent machines. It has become an essential part of the technology industry. Research associated with artificial intelligence is highly technical and specialized. The core problems of artificial intelligence include programming computers for certain traits such as: Knowledge, Reasoning, Problem solving, Perception, Learning, Planning.

Ability to manipulate and move objects Artificial intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science that emphasizes the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans. Some of the activities computers with artificial intelligence are designed for include: Speech recognition, Learning, Planning, Problem solving.

Neuroscience:

Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary science that is concerned with the study of the structure and function of the nervous system. It encompasses the evolution, development, cellular and molecular biology, physiology, anatomy and pharmacology of the nervous system, as well as computational, behavioural and cognitive neuroscience. Neuroscience is a new and important field with implications for every aspect of how people move, think, and behave. It also contributes to a better understanding of a wide range of common conditions. A greater understanding of neurological factors can help in developing medications and other strategies to treat and prevent these and many other health issues.

2. Deterministic Chaos

Deterministic chaos, often just called "chaos", refers in the world of dynamics to the generation of random, unpredictable behavior from a simple, but nonlinear rule. The rule has no "noise", randomness, or probabilities built in. Instead, through the rule's repeated application the long-term behavior becomes quite complicated. In this sense, the unpredictability "emerges" over time.

"Deterministic Chaos," suggests a paradox because it connects two notions that are familiar and commonly regarded as incompatible. The first is that of randomness or unpredictability, as in the trajectory of a molecule in a gas or in the voting choice of a particular individual from out of a population. In conventional analyses, randomness was considered more apparent than real, arising from ignorance of the many causes at work. In other words, it was commonly believed that the world is unpredictable because it is complicated. The second notion is that of deterministic motion, as that of a pendulum or a planet, which has been accepted since the time of Isaac Newton as exemplifying the success of science in rendering predictable that which is initially complex.

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