COGwriter Valentine’s Day is observed by many in February. As in prior years, in addition to seeing store displays and tv & print ads, I noticed that the falsely labeled Christianity Today (CT) is again compromising from biblical principles in order to attempt economic gain as it is promoting some jewelry purchases on its “Valentine’s […]
Month: February 2012
9 EU Nations Pushing for Financial Transaction Tax
Crown of the “Austro-Hungarian Empire” & the “Holy Roman Empire” COGwriter Some of the nations of the EU seem determined to push for at least a limited scope financial tax to raise money for the EU: Nine EU countries form splinter group on financial tax 8 February 2012 By Valentina Pop BRUSSELS – A group […]
Syria, Turkey, Russia, and Iran
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad (Source: Agência Brasil, Wikipedia) بشار الأسد COGwriter Today’s news has the following: Syria Violence ‘Intolerable’ as Turkey Calls for Broad Coalition BusinessWeek – By Emre Peker Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) — Syria’s violence is heading toward an “intolerable point,” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, as he called for an international coalition to […]
CG7: Holy Spirit Confusion
COGwriter In the latest issue of its The Bible Advocate, CG7-Denver has the following: Is the Holy Spirit, then, a third person of the Godhead, as the Father and Son are persons? There is no simple answer nor complex formula by which the Christian Deity may be fully analyzed and finally summarized… Since the Holy […]
WSJ Suggests that Israel Should Destroy Iran; Ezekiel 38?
Jerusalem COGwriter In the Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens had the following: (How) Should Israel Bomb Iran? Wall Street Journal – February 7, 2012, p. A11… . Diplomacy has run its course, sanctions are too late, and Israel can’t cry wolf again. . Can Israel attack Iran? . Should Israel do it? If the U.S. has […]
True and False Christian Leaders in Northern Africa
COGwriter February is Black History Month in the USA and Canada (the UK uses October instead), and I thought that this would be a good time to explain that there were true and false Christian leaders in North Africa in the third century (irrespective of race). In the third century, once there were some few […]
EU’s Fragile Tower of Babel
COGwriter Page R8 of today’s Wall Street Journal had the following: The 17-nation euro zone at times has resembled a crumbling Tower of Babel… It is interesting when financial writers also notice that the EU has similarities to the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11)–from whence the term Babylon seems to derive. Speaking of the EU, […]
Israeli Cabinet Mulls Military Options for Iran
Hiroshima After the Atomic Bomb Was Detonated COGwriter Voice of America reported the following from Jerusalem: Monday, 06 February 2012 Israeli Cabinet Mulls Response to Iran Threat Robert Berger — Jerusalem Growing tensions between Israel and Iran topped the agenda at the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened the Cabinet […]
Deadly Earthquake in Philippines
(Choo photo) COGwriter CBS reported the following: MANILA, Philippines – A strong earthquake in the central Philippines killed at least 43 people Monday as it destroyed buildings and triggered landslides that buried dozens of houses, trapping residents. Dozens more people were reported missing. The 6.8-magnitude quake, in a narrow strait just off Negros Island, caused […]
GCI (WCG) Reports About Large Hadron Collider
COGwriter The current edition of Grace Communion International’s Christian Odyssey has the following about the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC): An interview with Dr. Keith Baker, professor at Yale University and an experimental particle and nuclear physicist. He is a member of the experimental team working at the CERN Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. Christian Odyssey: […]