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Let’s address the truth of God about our existence. It’s in the spirit of the teller (God/Instructor) one knows the truth. Perception is the key to understanding the story. The story states God lived in a heaven. God state in this heaven is the prime thought of the story. The truth with the facts establishes the story of God. The story is clear without confusion. The reality of perception is the facts detailed of the story in proper sequence. The thought of angel there in existence becomes the logical argument. God created the heaven and the earth there in the host of angel existence.

God is portrayed as an Instructor to the host of angel in the story. The heaven is defined by God as the cut of the waters. God made two heavens/cuts of the waters. The host of angel and adam occupy these worlds. Angel told Moses this fact of God. Angel existence is with God prior to the creation of the earth. God came unto the host of angel. God acts of formations in the world of angel created the heaven and the earth. God is not alone in nothingness. Angel existed prior to the earth formation.

God fact is in the story. Like the factor of angel telling this truth to Moses. The story holding to its statement none have heard or seen God who dwell on the earth. It’s even stranger with the thought of the angel talking to Moses as the one we came to call Jesus. Jesus as God instructing Moses of the origin of adam. Jesus fulfilling his acts accredited to him by God in the Garden of Eden. Angel heaven established the condition of the creation in this story. Angel states God coming into the fact of their world. God in his world becomes active. God outside of other personal interest, in His world, took notice of the host of angel.

What are you seeing when you read the creation? How are you defining the statements of its initial formations? Is the heaven you see the one above your head with the stars?

The angel story states a heaven not seen in the world of its host. This heaven was the world of God. God exist outside the world of others. These others are the host of angel and adam in the story about God. Here in this truth is the sequence of the story statements. [First set God the waters and the host]. Better known as, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”. The story account of God is a witness of His act by angel. As mentioned God define the heaven.

Angel as the teller of the creation account to Moses starts this story of the earth formation. The story relates the life of angel prior to the formation of the earth.The story states the earth is a thought of others by the host of angel. The host defined by the host of angel was not a fact. This host/to become created earth was without form and void.Angel tells of an imagined host.The story sequence relates the deep.This new wonder generates reactions in the world of angel. A new heaven came to be known to angel. The host called this heaven the deep. The darkness made this heaven known to angel.

The sequence of the story fact reflects the Spirit of God. The sequence comes to the one who moved on the darkness of the deep. This one among the brethren of angel had a truth. The brethren of angel denial of this one member acts took sides. The story relates this happen to this one member of angel twice. This one was rejected by the host of angel and adam. The story sequence states God spoke against those events by angel. God said, Let there be light. The act is a world with a smaller one both inside the heaven of God. Sound like three heavens to me. God act which exposed the waters and cut them into division.

God path can hold abundance or death to your existence. The angel spoke to Moses about God in the bush. The one member of the host of angel who carries the word of God to adam. The one we nailed to the cross. The story of God creation account is not a thought of simplicity. There’s so much there and missing from our realities of the existence. More there then one can comprehend about life and its existence. Good perception is lies are not in every story. The meek shall inherit the earth. Doubt cast a state in any story. The reader best bet is to rely on the teller of the event.

If, God spoken words is in behalf of the one in the host of angel? Will God speak out, after the rest of the seventh day, of this same one in the host of adam?

May we all grow in the wisdom and prosperity of God will,

Alexander Coppedge

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Poker is an incredibly popular topic nowadays, and nor where is it more popular than in the bookstore. The shelves are filled with advice and guidebooks that promise to make you into an instant millionaire if you just follow their technique. I’m going to let you in on a little secret- you can’t learn how to be a winner out of a book. There are a lot things in this world that you can perfect just by reading a good manual, but poker is not one of those things.

Guidebooks are a great place to start if you are still trying to get a handle on the basics, but you really need to practice in actual game play to make the big bucks at the poker table. I would suggest that you start off with free games online, especially if you are still using your guidebook to reference hand rankings and the like. At some point you need to put the book down and play on your own.

A word of advice, if you are set buying some form of poker book to start you off, stick to just one book. Too many poker books just end up confusing because they all have slightly different advice for beginners. Find something basic, with hand rankings and the rules, and then practice online. It’s the best way to hone your poker game.

I am a Christian-Zionist, but I am able to learn from anybody who shares the plain truth; glean principles from both secular and religious, Christian or not, and make the most of it in my spiritual life, so help me God.

Mind you, I don’t go looking around in other religions for the record, but I do subscribe to the following Jewish Bible lessons that come out in time for Sabbath eve each week and enjoy them immensely as they offer greater insight into the Hebrew wording and bring that week’s scriptural passages to life, vividly relevant, like Herbert Armstrong’s Plain Truth magazine used to look at world events in the light of Bible prophecy. Those were the days.

I also enjoy the Jewish/Israel educational email services of Root and Branch Association, based in Jerusalem, whose president, Aryeh Gallin, I’ve been blessed to know and appreciate. I used to attend many of the Root and Branch lectures he offered when I sojourned in Jerusalem before being unjustly deported. Another story, another time.

As an Israelite, descended from the tribes of Joseph and Judah, recognizing the Israelite origins of the West as taught by Brit-Am Israel, I celebrate the victory of our Jewish brethren over their sworn enemies, whether past or present, and know the victory comes from our gracious God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

May the day come soon when Joseph and Judah are reunited as “One Nation Under God,” a truly “United Kingdom,” in the Promised Land of ISRAEL, delivered from our vicious enemies and out of the bloody mouth of the brute European beast soon to devour the nations and rip apart the world as we know it.

YESHIVAT HARA’AYON HAYEHUDI (Yeshiva of the Jewish Idea)

Jerusalem, Israel

HaRav Yehuda Kroizer SHLIT”A, Rosh Yeshiva (Yeshiva dean)

PARSHAT TETZAVEH (Sabbath reading)

11 Adar, 5766/10-11 March, 2006

PURIM 5766 – AND STILL GOING STRONG!

Some weeks ago the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while denying that a Holocaust against the Jews took place during World War 2, stated that there was indeed a holocaust which took place in Iran some 2000 years ago, in which the Jews killed thousands of people, and to this day still celebrate year in and year out with singing and drinking. He was, of course, talking about the story of Purim.

Some might indeed mistakenly come to the conclusion that all killing is a bad thing. In fact, we find even among fellow liberal Jews, that the holiday of Purim can make them blush and feel uncomfortable, for here we find the Jews celebrating the downfall of their enemies after killing some 75,000 of them. Now how un-Jewish is that?

There is, then, in this world good and evil, and they are not the same – and Woe to one who mixes up the two! Take, for instance, the example during World War 2, when Germany bombed England and England bombed Germany. Both bombed, but surely, every sane person knows that one was pure evil and one was fighting for good.

Hashem has created good as well as evil in this world, and it is our job to complete creation and eliminate evil from the world. Amalek and his physical and spiritual heirs must ultimately be wiped off the face of the earth, as King David said: I hate all those who hate You (Hashem). King David himself had killed thousands, as the Book of Samuel tell us: Saul with his hundreds and David with his thousands. Still, all whom King David killed were looked upon as a sacrifice before Hashem, for David had eliminated evil from this world, thereby making it a better place.

Today we are witnessing, throughout the world and in Israel, the mercy of fools; those taking pity on the wicked – such behavior is not good, but evil. How clearer a signal could Hashem have sent us than the Hamas landslide victory? Now it is clear for all to see that there are no innocent bystanders among the Arabs living here in Israel. Clearly, the great majority of them want to see Israel destroyed, as was made clear by them in their elections. It is high time for Israel to act accordingly and stop playing around, claiming that there are innocents in the area and moderates to work with. Clearly the law must be the same for all of them.

And still, we see the nations of the world continuing to explain away the Hamas victory, even as the Arabs have learned to use the great tool of democracy to their advantage. They (the nations) too, are guilty of taking pity on the wicked, and surely this, too, will backfire on them in the end. As nation after nation invites Hamas to visit, and the European Union and the U.S. continues to pour millions of dollars in the PA, which of course will go to continuing their terror campaign.

So, it really is too bad that the beloved president Ahmadinejad of Iran does not understand the difference between one who comes to kill, and one who kills defending himself. For history repeats itself so often. And if he comes, like so many before him, against the Jewish State – he and his people will be the ones to fall. It is worth recalling the strange last words uttered by one of the leading Nazis, who was hung after Nuremberg trials: “PurimFest 1945″.

So take note, cruel and harsh world: Purim is still going strong for the Jewish people!

With love of Israel,
Levi Chazen

David Ben-Ariel is a Christian-Zionist writer in Ohio and author of Beyond Babylon: Europe’s Rise and Fall. With a focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his analytical articles help others improve their understanding of that troubled region. Check out Beyond Babylon.

When death comes to visit, the details of doctors and hospitals and hospices often take over. There is very little idea of what to do next: where s/he will be buried, what kind of coffin to choose, what will happen at the funeral, how to write the newspaper obituary, how to deal with young children and grandchildren, and other details which need taking care of. These tips will help you with those tasks.

The contents have been arranged in chronological order:

A. Before Death Occurs

B. At the Time of Death

C. Organ Donation
D. Between Death and the Funeral

A. Before Death Occurs

1. Speak to a funeral director before the imminent death of a family member or someone for whom you are responsible. You will be better able to evaluate a funeral company’s services in a less stressful situation. The funeral director will already be acquainted with you when the death occurs and be able to help you more effectively.

2. Find out what services the funeral director’s firm provides. These services can include transportation to and from the cemetery or coffin purchase. Notice if the staff is courteous and whether the company’s prices are reasonable.

3. Include the dying person in these discussions if at all possible. Having some control over one’s own final arrangements at a time when control over life and death is fleeting is crucial.

4. Create the funeral as a life-portrait and a life-celebration, Discuss who will speak at the funeral and what they should say. Consider what the dying person is most proud of, what values they stand for, and what they want their children to remember about them.

5. Purchase a burial plot. Think about whether the plot is conveniently located and the cemetery administration is responsive to your needs.

6. Determine if the cemetery is a kosher area. That means there is an area dedicated specifically for Jewish burial.

7. Notice if the grounds of the cemetery are carefully maintained and that the environment is a pleasant, restful one. This is also important for those who will be visiting the grave site.

8. Consult with a Rabbi or funeral director about available options when both partners are not Jewish who wish to be buried together. There are usually various possibilities from which to choose.

B. At the Time of Death

9. Watch over a person who is passing from this world during the final stages of life, whether in the hospital or in the home. It shows great respect.

10. Call a local Rabbi at this time, if desired, to aid the dying person in saying a final confession, known as viddui. The funeral director can help you find a Rabbi if you do not already have one in mind.

11. Follow an ancient custom prescribing that the mirrors in the house be covered if death occurs at home. This is to discourage personal vanity.

12. Contact the funeral director or your Rabbi at the time of death. This is another time to ask the funeral director to provide you with a Rabbi if you do not have one. The funeral director is usually notified first. He then contacts the Rabbi to coordinate funeral arrangements.

13. Look to the Rabbi for help with emotional and psychological issues. Questions such as “How do I deal with guilt or sorrow?” or “What do I tell the children?” are difficult and important questions to be answered. The Rabbi can assist with this.

14. Realize there are many conflicting emotions swirling around before and after a death. These feelings are normal. It helps to express them and to validate their presence. While death is not always an enemy, as when it comes to bring an end to pain and suffering, the heart hurts when death comes to visit.

15. Write an obituary for the local newspaper soon after the death of your loved one. Include not only necessary personal information (names of close family members, time and place of funeral and shiva), but also values which were important to him/her. Ask yourself: what did s/he stand for? Your answers will become the obituary. Also include mention of charities for memorial donations.

C. Organ Donation

16. Understand that the donation of vital organs which lead to the saving of a life is a mitzvah (commandment) of the highest level. To save a life by donating an organ takes precedence over any other concern.

17. Make arrangements for donating organs ahead of time whenever possible. Permission for organ donation may be given by the family at the time of death when advance arrangements have not been made.

18. Ask one of the hospital staff to put you in touch with the local organ donation organization if it is not automatically suggested. They will guide you through the process.

D. Between Death and the Funeral

19. Be aware of traditional observance requiring that from the time of death until burial the body not be left alone but be attended by a watcher (shomer). This is a sign of respect, an understanding that the body is the repository of the soul. Even though the body has no more life, it must be respected until it is buried in the ground. A relative or friend may perform this mitzvah, known as shmira, or someone else may be hired.

20. Observe the prescribed tradition of washing the body in a specific ritual manner immediately after death. This act, known as tahara (ritual purification), must be performed by members of a Hevra Kaddisha, a Jewish Burial Society. Should you wish to obtain the services of tahara and shmira the funeral director will be honored to assist you.

21. Make final decisions about the time and place of funeral services and burial, transportation, the purchase of a coffin, and other considerations. Some of these decisions have been made in advance and now only require confirmation. Other aspects must now be determined.

22. Keep in mind that the soul must be treated with great respect until it is buried in the ground. Jewish law requires burial to take place within twenty-four hours following death. Practical considerations sometimes make that time frame difficult for the family, so as soon as possible is advisable.

23. Realize some cases in which a delayed burial is permitted. These include: when civil law requires delay; when close relatives have a long way to travel to the place of burial; if the day of burial would be Shabbat, a High Holiday or a Festival; or if the services of the funeral home or the cemetery are unavailable. In any case the burial must not be delayed any longer than absolutely necessary.

24. Recognize that the name applied to the period between death and burial is aninut (ah-nee-noot). The mourner is known during this time as an onen (onayn).

25. Understand the Jewish laws governing aninut. Aninut is a time of pain and numbing disorientation for the mourner whose memory of loss is intensely fresh. Yet during aninut the onen is required to make immediate and significant decisions concerning the funeral service and interment of the deceased.

26. Consider that it is most difficult to make these significant decisions and fulfill other mitzvot (ritual commandments) at the same time. Jewish law relieves the onen of almost all religious and social obligations. This includes the formal observances of mourning, which do not begin until after the interment. The exceptions are the observance of Shabbat and the first night of Passover.

27. Consult your Rabbi or one of the sources listed in the bibliography at the end of this booklet for other laws regarding aninut. You are certain to find answers relevant to your situation.

Rabbi Mel Glazer is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist who can help you navigate these difficult waves of emotion. He has served pulpits in the United States and Canada, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Feel free to call upon him for guidance when making difficult decisions. He is also available to officiate at funerals for your loved ones anywhere in America. His phone number is 1.877. LECHAIM. (1.877.532.4246)

In the pursuit of his Christian ministry, the Apostle Paul had a keen sense of teamwork, teamwork with God and with his brothers and sisters. This awareness he expresses by using compound Greek words that begin with the prepositional prefix, sun-. With an object in the dative case, sun means “together” or “with.” This same prepositional prefix has carried over into English, occurring in such words as “symbiotic,” “symphony,” “synergy” (the Greek sun-, represented by sym- or syn-). What follows is a brief survey of the words Paul employed to express this sharing of ministry. You will discover that such sharing continues among 21st-century Christians.

Paul calls us “co-citizens” and “joint heirs” and says we will “co-reign.” Because we are bound up with Christ, we share in His city, His inheritance, and His rule. But we also share the expectation of these future blessings with each other. Because of this, we “co-rejoice.”

Meanwhile, the struggle continues, and we “suffer together.” To endure such suffering, we “co-console” each other, and we live and die together.

But through it all, we are “co-workers.” Paul says that he and his associates are “God’s coworkers,” an amazing testimony both to the condescension of God–willing to stoop so low to work with the likes of us–and the corresponding elevation of Christians.

Paul’s letters yield for us an amazing number of men and women that Paul calls his “co-workers”: Timothy, “everyone,” the Corinthian Christians, Titus, Priscilla and Aquila, Urbanus, Epaphroditus, Clement and others, Mark and Aristarchus, Jesus Justus, Philemon, Demas and Luke. One brother Paul calls “my yoke-fellow,” a term synonymous with coworker (though it could be the man’s name).

Others Paul describes as if they are team members with him in an athletic competition–contending, striving, or struggling together. Two brothers Paul calls his “co-slaves.” Two he names as his “co-soldiers.” Because Paul considers himself a worker, a slave, a soldier, and an athlete for Christ, those who share the load with him also share these descriptions. This includes those of us who are laboring in the kingdom in modern times.

As a frequent prisoner for Christ, Paul appreciated those who ministered to him in prison, even if they themselves were free to come and go. Four he describes as “co-prisoners.” It could be that at least some of these voluntarily served Paul so constantly that their imprisonment was self-imposed.

All of these first-century Christians, as well as Christians alive today, are “partakers” or “partners” in the work of the kingdom. We share, have fellowship with, participate with, and keep company with other believers. Paul uses several compound terms to describe Christian unity. He says we must be united, of one accord, literally, “co-souls.” We are “conformed together” and “fitted together.” We cooperate and assist one another. We are “built together” and made “co-members of the same body.”

All of this togetherness, we must remember, is not a natural state–far from it! If left to ourselves, we human beings split apart at every seam, whether it is race, ethnicity, gender, or class. It is only Christ that binds us together. Only in Him can it be possible to say that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, neither barbarian or Scythian, male or female; all are one in Christ Jesus (Gal. 3:28; 1 Cor. 12:13; Col. 3:11).

Paul expresses the Christian’s union with Christ using the prepositional phrase, together with Christ. He reinforces this by employing compound verbs in which sun- is added to the beginning of the verb. This occurs in several of the key passages in Paul’s writings.

In Gal. 2:20, Paul uses “co-crucified” to describe how becoming united with Christ’s death changes the believer. Compare Matt. 27:44, Mark 15:32, and John 19:32, where the same verb describes the literal crucifixion of the thieves who died with Jesus. Paul says that as a result of his union with Christ’s death, he has died to the law, in order to live to God (v. 19). In the next verse he adds that he is no longer the one living, but Christ is living in him. True, he still lives “in flesh,” but it is a life of trusting in the Son of God, who loved him and gave himself up in his behalf. Note that this happens for the individual, not just for believers as a group. Christ died, not for humanity, but for you and me and everyone else as individuals, and only as individuals can we respond to Him.

This concept of “co-crucified” recurs in Rom. 6:6. Paul says, “Having known this, that the old man was co-crucified.” Although Christ goes unmentioned, the connection is definitely between the believer and ChristHe was the one crucified.

The consequence of this death of the old man is a burial, for Paul earlier says, we were buried together with Him” through baptism into death (v. 4). As a result of this union with Christ’s crucifixion and his burial, we also share in the new life of His resurrection: “we believe that also we will live with him” (suzēsomen, v. 8). Paul uses these same verbs in the parallel passage in Colossians (co-buried and co-raised, 2:12; co-made alive, 2:13; see also 3:1).

Because we belong to Christ, we belong to each other. Our union with Him unites us with every other person who is also united with Him in a grand and eternal fellowship.

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In the distance clouds of dust and debri billow upward as a bulldozer rips into a building that was once part of the former township of Ganei Tal. In the foreground of the same picture stands an empty, abandoned, little red baby carriage.

This haunting picture was posted on the Jerusalem World Review website, August 23, 2005, along with the article, Displaced Gazan Jews Struggle To Come to Grips With Surrender, by Joel Greenberg.

The communities of Gaza and the Northern Shomron have been emptied of all Israeli families. There are no more infants in carriages, or children playing in the streets. Although there is pain and many tears, fond memories and strong determination remain in the hearts of the uprooted settlers.

But, the lonely, abandoned, red baby carriage stands as a reminder that, although now empty, Jewish families will return to Ganei Tal, and indeed to all the communities of Gaza, and the Northern Shomron.

The baby carriage is red, the color of the price of redemption. Therefore, the little baby carriage represents the generation of divine deliverance and salvation for the entire Israeli nation.

Yes, even the young children were forced out of their homes by the misguided, cruel, faithless, human Israeli government decree. But there is a greater edict of blessing already promised by the L-rd G_D of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The families, including the children of those now removed, will return in absolute victory over their enemies, to live forever in Gaza and the Shomron, and Jews will dwell securely throughout all the Land of Covenant. Israeli families will build houses and plant gardens, and no one else will live in the homes they have built, or make their communities desolate, or take over their agriculture and businesses.

Psa 128:1 Blessed is every one that feareth the L_RD; that walketh in his ways.

The human evolution timeline is found recorded in Bible quotes (Book of Genesis). Adam’s rib symbolizes the chromosome and is the key to the man ape evolution. In discussing evolution vs creation, many convergences like this one are found.

Someone who holds to the theory of evolution and denies creationism might ask why such an important matter as the creation of human beings would be in a symbolic message rather than in explicit language. And, after all, the Holy Scriptures don`t talk about chromosomes. That is a valid question, which shall be pursued below. First off, the main interest is to see the points of confluence between evolution and creation regarding the appearance of the human being.

Parallelism Between Adam’s Rib and Science

There is an amazing coincidence between the numbers in the Book of Genesis involving creationism and numbers in science regarding man’s evolution from the ape. The parallelism begins on the Bible quotes according to which God took out one of Adam’s ribs and made the woman, Eve, with it.

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

The number of ribs – Men have 24 ribs – 12 on each thoracic side. The same number is found in women. The text says that God removed one rib and not one pair of ribs. Had He indeed removed only one rib, man would have different numbers of this bone on each side of his chest. Not only that, but there would also remain a doubt about the number of ribs in a female.

These contradictions disappear if the text is examined from the standpoint of information conveyed by Jesus Christ to His disciples: To God nothing is impossible. God may have removed one of Adam’s ribs but He did it in such a way that the woman and all her descendants would have the same number of ribs. However, it is assumed that the rib’s removal is symbolic language and explained it cannot be regarded as direct language.

A look at it now from the standpoint of science. The chimpanzee, from which science now admits that man has evolved, has 24 chromosomes in its sexual cells, i. e., 24 chromosomes in each spermatozoon and 24 chromosomes in each ovulum. This is referred to gametes, those sex cells capable of reproducing the species. Therefore, the number of ribs in a man and of chromosomes in a chimpanzee are identical. The other cells in a chimp, as in a human, are diployd, that is, they have the chromosomes in pairs – therefore, they have 48 chromosomes.

Confluence of Book of Genesis and Human Evolution Timeline

Were we to admit that the rib symbolizes the chromosome, the implicit and explicit Bible numbers say that God removed a chromosome from a chimpanzee and made a woman out of it. In other words, the “man”, a chimp, lost a sex-cell chromosome and thus a woman was formed.

Indeed, the woman, just like the man, has one chromosome less than a chimp in the sex cells. The human spermatozoon has 23 chromosomes and the human ovulum also has 23 chromosomes. It makes sense. The other cells in the human being are diployd, i. e., they have 46 chromosomes. But it is needed to see what science says regarding the man ape evolution, that is, man’s evolution from the chimpanzee.

Man’s evolution from the ape – It is admitted that, in the evolution of the species, through some unknown phenomenon, two chimp chromosomes were fused and thus, primitive man, a hominid, came about. Some theories claim that the female came first, which, if true, would give further consistency to the symbolic version of Adam and Eve’s story.

In a nutshell, this is what the matter has:

• Number of ribs in the human being: 24.
• Number of chromosomes in the chimp’s gametes: 24.
• Creation: removal of one rib.
• Evolution: fusion of two chromosomes.
• Rib symbolizes chromosome.
• Removal of one rib = fusion of two chromosomes.
• Number of chromosomes resulting in the gametes: 23 – New species: man, hominid.

Without wandering too far from these basic issues, it should be asked why there are so many differences between human and chimp, given the “simple” fusion of two chromosomes. Furthermore, those in favor of creationism would argue that, since the similarity between a chimp’s DNA and that of a human being is above 98%, humans and chimpanzees ought to be more alike. These are pertinent questions which must be carefully examined.

Starting with the numbers: the difference between human and chimp DNA is less than 2%. For three reasons, this percentage can be very meaningful:

the science is just barely beginning to understand the human genome, that is, the DNA map, that of genes and each one’s role. On the other hand, we know also little about the chimp genome. Thus, it is perfectly acceptable that this percentage, though small, means much in terms of anatomical and physiological differences between the species;

the differences may be situated in fundamental parts of the DNA, enough to cause the differences between the species;

the amount of DNA in the cells is not always proportional to their complexity. Therefore, the arrangement of DNA components in humans may be more important than the quantity.

Thus, the slightly less than 2% difference between chimps and humans may become more meaningful. The “simple” fusion of one species’ two chromosomes may cause many differences in the resulting species.

Why is the Bible not explicit? – In other words, why, since the issue was raised in the beginning of this article, does the Biblical message not speak directly about chromosomes? At least two answers are possible.

The first has to do with Christian and Jewish dogma: this is a sacred text, dictated or inspired by God, and there is no questioning how God speaks. The second has to do with the Biblical writers: they would be human beings possessing a deep knowledge of evolution timeline and humans nature. They knew that it would not be possible to write what men would not understand at that time (existence of chromosomes, genes, DNA). They further knew that, in a patriarchal society such as the one they lived in, women should remain in a secondary role, in the written version, to make the acceptance of God’s word easier.

The faithful cling to the first answer, the dogma.

But those who are not faithful may properly ask how those writers, barely out of a semi-nomadic life, could possess such knowledge about the evolution of the species.

Examined as a book and without any preconceived position, the Bible is a singular book and its writers differed from common mortals. However, as intelligent as they might have been, there was no way they could have held such knowledge. Thus the answer is: this is a mystery.

Book of Genesis & Science: More convergence

In the pleasant study of Biblical numbers involving creation vs. evolution, there are other convergent points. Example: part of the sacred text reproduced at the beginning of this article and science’s version of the differences in man/ape. The Genesis expression “closed up the flesh in its place” conveys a special meaning and suggests more parallelisms between religion and science. It could be read as “closed up the frontal lobe in its place”.

In the monkeys the frontal lobe is 9% of the brain. In the man it is 30%. The frontal lobe is a tissue (“flesh”), a nervous tissue. The frontal lobe integrates most of the brain functions. Its prefrontal portion is related to the initiation of planned actions, i.e., thinking, idealizing, acting in orderly fashion, and letting out emotional expressions. In the difference is the “closed up the flesh in its place.”

Subsequent Procreation

The appearance of the human being raises the issue of procreation. In the history of creation, this problem does not exist: once created, Adam and Eve started to reproduce. However, in evolution, ONE individual, from the fusion of the two chromosomes, would not give origin to the human species.

To illustrate,suppose that the fusion of the two chromosomes took place in a female, resulting in 23 chromosomes in the gametes, living with males bearing 24 chromosomes in the gametes. Procreation would be impossible. Even if they copulated, no ovulum would be formed due to the lack of symmetry in the DNA. How, then, would the human being have procreated in evolution?

More likely the phenomenon – physical, chemical or physical-chemical – had by then reached several individual chimps, causing chromosome fusion in many of them, both males and females. In the history of evolution, there is still another peculiarity: the bonobos have more elements than the chimpanzees to be man’s ancestors.

Chimpanzees vs Bonobos

Preference for the chimpanzees over the bonobos – In the evolutionary scale, science shows preference for the chimpanzees over the bonobos, even though the latter are more similar to human beings.

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the similarity percentage between bonobos’ DNA and humans’ is greater than that of chimpanzees;

their genitals are more protuding and face forward, as with humans;

except for humans, they are the only primates who copulate from the front;

they engage in homosexual and heterosexual relations;

upon reaching adolescence, the females abandon their group and join another one. In their new group they submit themselves to the female – including sexually – and then copulate with the males;

the females keep together in groups and the male respects them because, together, they will fight him for food;

they stand on two legs more frequently than chimps do and their laughter is more expressive. They are also more cordial in the group.

Despite all this, it is believed that man has evolved from chimps, due to the fact that they are found in many African regions, in wide-open areas, which would have favored their territorial dispersion. Bonobos, on the other hand, live in closed-in woods, in some regions in Africa. However, from the genetic, anatomic, emotional and behavioral standpoints, more likely the human species has come from the bonobos. Perhaps, after their community was hard-hit by a cataclysm, they took refuge in closed-in woods.

Man’s Ancestor: Neither Chimpanzee nor Bonobos and Adam`s Rib

Another theory admits that chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutangs, gibbons, all belong to the primate family known as Pongid, just like the Hominid family, whose sole representative is man, all belonging to the Hominoids super family, and would have come from individuals known as Old World Monkeys.

It is possible that some violent environmental change hit Africa and Asia, altering the genetic structure of many Old World Monkeys (Cercopitecoids) sometime between six million and twenty-five million years ago. Different Pongids came into being.

Why would not different hominids have appeared? Present day human must have featured differences among individuals from the very beginning. For instance, there must have appeared at the same time individuals with white skin and with black skin in Africa and in Asia. Weather conditions and the fight for survival would have made easier for white-skinned individuals to disappear from Africa and for black-skinned individuals to disappear from ice-cold regions.

The theory of a common trunk for all Hominoids does not change the parallel with Adam’s rib. The whole Hominoid super family would have come from individuals with 24 chromosomes in the gametes. One family (Pongid) continued with 24 chromosomes in the gametes while another (Hominid) appeared with 23 chromosomes.

Ruy Miranda is a Brazilian Physician and a former University
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Weve had approximately 1.5m of snowfall in the last week. It was so prolonged that skiing lifts have been closed, the funicular has been terminating at the train station in Chamonix and not going up to Monroc. Some roads have been closed past our luxury chalet and weather announcements published.

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Notwithstanding think that snow like this means raised risks of avalanche.

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