Sabbath 15/2/35/120

Dear Friends

Recently the Catholic primate of Australia Cardinal George Pell appeared on the ABC’s Q & A program to debate British evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins. He did Christianity no favours and it would have been much better if he had not turned up.

He advanced some propositions that Christianity would not agree with and simply gave these evolutionists more ammunition with which to attack us.

He advanced the hypothesis that the Biblical story of Adam and Eve was a sophisticated myth used to explain evil and suffering rather than a scientific truth.  He showed no understanding of the YDNA and mtDNA structure and how that could have been used to explain the shorter time frame that is ignored by evolutionists and which explains and indeed proves the distribution of the nations.

Cardinal Pell said humans “probably” evolved from Neanderthals, but it was impossible to say when there was a first human. He said “But we have to say if there are humans, there must have been a first one.” Therefore one supposes we might throw out Genesis almost in its entirety. Adam and Eve did not really exist it seems.  However even the evolutionists admit there was an Adam and an Eve for the YDNA and the mtDNA systems. They simply place them back 80,000 and 120,000 years or so. However even the scientific paradigms are being proven inaccurate and incorrectly extended by other scientists.

He showed no evidence of any knowledge of the scientific basis of the human species.  He showed no evidence of any knowledge of the DNA structure of Neanderthals and that they had no commonality with our DNA structure at all.  There have been a number of articles over the years pointing out that the Neanderthal system is not an eighth strand system as found in modern humans and even modern primates. The evolutionist failure to release data of the pre-Adamic Humanoids because it destroys the continuity argument of evolutionists was not even advanced by him.

When journalist Tony Jones asked him if he believed in the existence of an actual Garden of Eden with an Adam and Eve, Cardinal Pell said it was not a matter of science but rather a beautiful mythological account.  He said:

"It's a very sophisticated mythology to try to explain the evil and the suffering in the world."

"It's certainly not a scientific truth. And it's a religious story told for religious purposes."

Cardinal Pell then argued that the "great atheist movements" of Hitler and Stalin were the personification of social Darwinism. He then placed the argument in terms of survival of the fittest.

"It's the struggle for survival, the strong take what they can, and the weak give what they must and there's nothing to restrain them." he said. "And we've seen that in the two great atheist movements of the last century."

Professor Dawkins, (author of The God Delusion), rejected the notion as "ridiculous" as he well might. This man does not believe in God or any interaction in the physical creation. He then went on to say that: Stalin was an atheist and Hitler was not, and they each perpetrated their acts for different reasons. Indeed there were many reasons they did what they did and both were in fact of Jewish descent which was not canvassed.

Pell was simply out of his depth: mainly because he did not accept the authenticity of Scripture and did not understand the science that advanced the OT as fact. He did not do enough homework and had insufficient faith to defend Christianity. The fact that he was hampered by being a senior cleric of a religious false paradigm that was not in fact Christian did not help him as it is reason and not the inquisition that currently holds sway.  It was reported by other observers that: Towards the end of the debate, the head of the Catholic Church in Australia appeared to lament his struggle to promote Christ.

"My life would be much easier if I didn't have to go into bat for . . . Christian principles," he said.
Cardinal Pell then mused that he sometimes wondered if he should regret his life's work, before asserting: "No, no."

What a disgrace and an abject admission of failure to defend the faith once delivered to the saints.

Do us all a favour Cardinal Pell. Stay at home in future and stop trying to defend Christianity and the science that backs it up.  You don’t know enough and first of all you have to have sufficient faith for the Holy Spirit to put the words in your mouth to defend it.

The beliefs of Trinitarianism that stemmed from the Church in Rome are not Christianity and are inadequate to defend the faith based on fact and science and the Biblical inspired truths.

Over recent years the Roman Catholic Church has admitted that Hell does not exist and simply stated it is the state of being cut off from God. Christians now it is admitted do not go to Heaven. They knew that in the Second Century in Rome as a reading of Justin Martyr in the Dialogue with Trypho (ch. LXXX) will tell them.

After telling us all a few years ago that purgatory does not exist they now go on to admit that they don’t know and that they have to teach that all Catholics go to purgatory until it is determined what is to be done or words to that effect.

Wrong again my friends. For that reason of their ignorance of the fate of men after life and the future under Messiah in the Resurrections we have gone on to deal with the First and Second Resurrections of the Dead and the Great White Throne Judgment of the Second Resurrection.

Do us all a favour and go back to the Bible and start again; and repent and be baptised and turn and be saved. Stop misleading the people who genuinely try to seek God.

Read the papers:
The Resurrection of the Dead (No. 143)
Heaven, Hell or the First Resurrection of the Dead (No. 143A) and
The Second Resurrection and the Great White Throne Judgment (No. 143B).                    

Wade Cox
Coordinator General