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Small, green with a silver stripe running down their sides, anchovies are not everyone's cup of tea when it comes to eating fish. But perhaps we should reconsider these thoughts. Many countries use anchovies in their cuisine as a delicacy and they undoubtedly provide health benefits. So, lets take a brief look at anchovies and also see how chromatography has helped demonstrate that they are a healthy option.
What are anchovies?
Anchovies are known as forage fish - this means that they are preyed on by larger fish, seabirds and marine animals for food - they are also used by fishermen as bait for sea bass and tuna. Found in seas and oceans all around the world including the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, Mediterranean Sea and even in some South American fresh waters, anchovies eat plankton and small newly hatched fish.
They belong to the family Engraulidae - and are classified as have a long snout projecting beyond the mouth, one dorsal fin and no adipose fin, no lateral line and no fin spines. There are over 140 recognised species of anchovy that are separated into 17 genera. The genus that is most significant commercially is known as Engraulis and contains nine species.
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Anchovies are eaten all over the world in many different preparations. In South East Asia, they are sold as dried fish and in fermented condiments. They are also used as flavourings in fish stocks and soups and are popular as a deep-fried snack. In Europe, anchovies have found their way onto pizzas and scrambled eggs - the traditional dish of Scotch woodcock made from scrambled eggs on toast with whole anchovies served on top. In the UK, anchovy is also the main ingredient in Gentleman's Relish - a type of anchovy paste created in 1826. Apparently only one person knows the recipe of the paste which contains anchovies, butter, herbs and spices.
Anchovies are an oily fish - and like other oily fish they can bring healthy benefits to the table. They are a good source of protein and are high in healthy omega-3 fatty acids. Reports suggest anchovies can help improve heart health by reducing the amount of LDL cholesterol. The many vitamins and minerals present in anchovies can also help build strong bones and prevent osteoporosis - a condition that can weaken bones.
A recent study has investigated the riboflavin and niacin (vitamins B2 and B3) content of anchovies. Using a newly developed high-performance liquid chromatography method (HPLC-MS/MS), a team in Italy found that the anchovy samples tested met the legal requirements of EU Regulation 432/2012. This allows the producers to claim that anchovies provide a minimum of 15% of a person's daily requirements of the vitamins. Liquid chromatography methods can be developed for many different samples by adjusting the conditions used - as discussed in the article, The Role of Methanol and Acetonitrile as Organic Modifiers in Reversed-phase Liquid Chromatography.
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Players work on their Physical Literacy in the Goals Galore activity where they are challenged to do a number of movements to develop their upper body strength in between goal scoring opportunities. After this, players then play an initial small sided game, coaches can work with the 2 outfield players to work together to score goals.
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With food insecurity growing among older adults, it's particularly important for seniors living in hurricane areas to be prepared with at least five days of non-perishable and nutritious food in their homes.
Meals on Wheels South Florida today announced a vital expansion to its Hurricane Care Pack initiative providing thousands of Medicare-eligible seniors with five days of nutritious and shelf-stable food to better prepare them for potential food interruptions that could occur during the 2017 hurricane season.
"Being prepared for catastrophic weather events with sufficient food, drinking water, prescription medications and other amenities is particularly important for seniors in Florida and in coastal communities along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts," said Jessica Chen, MD, Chief Quality Officer at ChenMed, which is helping sponsor the 2017 Hurricane Care Pack campaign.
"It can be hard for seniors to complete all needed preparations in the few hours immediately preceding a hurricane, so we're helping Meals on Wheels prepare local seniors with deliveries of Hurricane Care Packs containing five days of nutritious and shelf stable food." added Dr. Chen.
Millions of older Americans are at risk for hunger. According to the National Council on Aging, 10.2 million older Americans faced the threat of hunger in 2014, representing 15.8 percent of adults over 60 years of age in the United States. With food insecurity growing among older adults, it's particularly important for seniors living in hurricane areas to be prepared with at least five days of non-perishable and nutritious food in their homes.
On August 9, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that this should be an above-normal season with 14 to 19 named storms; with five to nine hurricanes, of which two to three could be major hurricanes.
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Chen Senior Medical Center and CBS EcoMedia are encouraging businesses, diverse community organizations, and individuals to make charitable donations to Meals on Wheels South Florida, so it can become an even stronger beacon of hope/help to tens of thousands of area seniors at risk for hunger. Financial gifts could fund more deliveries of Hurricane Care Packs, and help reduce the waiting list of more than 1,200 seniors still needing weekly home food deliveries from MOWSF.
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Stacy Kranitz for TIME An empty waiting room inside the Jackson Women's Health Organization on Oct. 29
Jackson Women's Health Organization is at the center of a Supreme Court case that could overturn Roe v. Wade
Shannon Brewer's eyes dart to a grid of grainy images on a wide, black screen above her desk at the Jackson Women's Health Organization (JWHO). Live footage shows a large truck creeping into the clinic's parking lot, its side emblazoned with a pair of blue, ghostly baby feet and the words Where are our children? Brewer doesn't recognize the driver. Her spine stiffens.
As the director and de facto head of security at the last abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi, Brewer is not easily spooked. In her two decades there, she has seen bomb scares and stalking incidents, and protesters getting in fights with her staff. She keeps the number of an FBI contact amid a sea of sticky notes beside her desk. But this year, she says, everything feels more intense. More dangerous. More consequential.
Her clinic, known as the Pink House for its bubble-gum-colored exterior walls, is at the epicenter of the fight over abortion access, in Mississippi and the country. On Dec. 1, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, about a Mississippi state law banning nearly all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. If the court allows the law to remain in effect, the decision will effectively hollow out Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to an abortion before fetal viability. "This is not gonna just affect Mississippi," Brewer says. "It's gonna affect women everywhere."
Five years ago, this moment was unthinkable. Even the Supreme Court's decision to take up a case that directly challenges Roe would have been considered outlandish, legal scholars say. But the landscape has shifted rapidly. Over the past year, GOP-controlled state legislatures have passed a record-breaking 106 abortion restrictions, including a Texas statute that bans nearly all abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. Conservative state and federal judges have allowed some of those laws to stand, while President Trump's appointment of three Justices—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett—has put Roe at risk. Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization will come before the most conservative bench in decades.
Anti-abortion activists are energized. In a normal year, the Pink House has its share of regular protesters, but ahead of the December hearing, "abortion tourists," as the clinic volunteers call them, have begun showing up on the sidewalk every day. Melissa Fowler, chief program officer at the National Abortion Federation, which tracks threats to abortion clinics, says she's heard from members "who report an escalation in anti-abortion rhetoric, criminal activities and the intensity of activities" since last year.
Stacy Kranitz for TIMENational anti-abortion groups like Live Action protest at the Jackson clinic ahead of the Supreme Court hearing
Brewer herself has become a lightning rod. "She thinks she's doing a good thing," says Barbara Beavers, who was trying to discourage patients from entering the Pink House in October. "But she's killing babies." Coleman Boyd, a local physician who regularly protests outside the clinic with his wife and children, also calls out Brewer by name. She and her staff, he says, "have a heart to kill."
It's in this context that Brewer, one eye still trained on the security footage, walks out the clinic's front door and strides over to the unfamiliar truck, idling a few yards from the building. She exchanges words with the driver, then rolls her eyes and flashes a nod of assurance to her staff. The truck is part of a national anti-abortion group's protest that evening. Nothing to worry about.
Back at her desk, in front of a sign reading Queen Warrior, Brewer considers the enormity of her role in the moment—the last director of her state's last abortion clinic, just weeks before the most momentous high-court hearing on abortion in a generation. "I'm going to appreciate the time that we have," she says. "Once we go to court, every day that we are open and see patients and get to talk to them—it's like we don't know if this is the last time."
Abortion wasn't always such a partisan subject in America. Nearly a half-century ago, when the Supreme Court decided Roe, the ruling wasn't as polarizing as it is now, says Mary Ziegler, a law professor at Florida State University and an expert on the legal history of abortion. Republicans kept the issue at arm's length, wary of anti-abortion activists who they saw as "wild children," she says; Democrats rarely discussed it at all.
That began to change in the 1980s, Ziegler explains, when a cadre of GOP strategists seized on abortion as a way to animate the religious right and win over voters who might otherwise lean left. These activists began to test the limits of Roe, working closely with state lawmakers to pass new abortion restrictions, such as mandated waiting periods or minimum measurements for clinics' rooms and corridors.
That legal strategy was supercharged by a 1992 Supreme Court decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which the Justices ruled that states could restrict abortion so long as they did not impose an "undue burden" on patients. In the three decades since, the number of laws restricting abortion multiplied. Abortion opponents framed many of these new rules as protections for women's health, but doctors often -described them as medically unnecessary.
"It's simply that the enforcement of these regulations would make it hard to keep clinics open," says Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute, a research center that supports abortion rights. The plan worked. In 1992, there were 2,380 abortion providers in the U.S., according to Guttmacher. In 2017, the most recent year for which statistics are available, there were 1,587.
Mississippi has been the tip of the spear in this strategy. In the '90s and 2000s, state lawmakers passed more than two dozen restrictions on abortion, each of which came with new costs, paperwork, or staffing rules that pushed abortion clinics out of business. By 2004, JWHO was the only clinic in the state left standing. Brewer says it's still struggling to stay afloat. "There are so many hurdles," she says.
For the patients at the Jackson clinic, navigating all of these hurdles is becoming increasingly impossible. They must take time off work, scrape together money for the procedure, which cannot be covered by Medicaid or Affordable Care Act marketplace plans in most cases in Mississippi, find money to travel to the clinic or to one out of state, pay for a hotel and potentially for childcare. A 21-year-old at the clinic on a Friday in October had driven six hours from Louisiana because she wanted the first appointment she could find. She already has two kids—a one-year-old and a three-month-old—and knew she needed to get an abortion as soon as possible because she couldn't handle a third on her own.
Stacy Kranitz for TIMEBrewer has worked nearly every job at Jackson Women's Health Organization over her 20 years at the abortion clinic. (A portion of this photograph was blurred due to security considerations)
Brewer knows this struggle firsthand. She was first hired at the Pink House in 2001 as a sterilization technician. Back then, she says, she was not attuned to the national politics of abortion. Her outlook was guided by her own experience growing up in a poor family outside Jackson, where she received no sex education in school and no one ever talked about abortion. In her mid-20s, she tried to get an abortion, but was too far along, and had a baby when she didn't feel prepared to do so. Brewer now has six kids she loves. When she talks about "reproductive justice," she describes it as letting people decide if, when and how they choose to have a family.
In 2010, when Brewer was promoted to clinic director, the national politics of abortion found her. Brewer credits Diane Derzis, majority owner of the Pink House, for helping to guide her. "She taught me how to speak up and how to fight," Brewer says. "In the South, we're limited on who's speaking out. This is not the time to be quiet."
Derzis, who became an outspoken advocate after getting an abortion in 1975, eventually bought clinics in four Southern states. (In addition to the Pink House, she now owns two more clinics, in Virginia and Georgia.) She has been on the front lines of the battle for decades. In 1993, an anti-abortion activist in Florida killed a doctor whom Derzis had known for years. Five years later, her Birmingham, Ala., clinic was bombed, killing a guard and permanently maiming a nurse. In 2012, a new Mississippi law nearly forced the Pink House to close, but a federal court blocked it the day it was set to take effect, setting off a legal battle that lasted until 2017.
So for Derzis, this strange moment—in which her clinic is the plaintiff in a Supreme Court case that could result in overturning Roe—doesn't feel strange at all. It feels inevitable. From her vantage, the anti-abortion movement's long-term objective was always to capture politics at every level, from local city councils to state legislatures to Congress and the presidency, in order to reshape the court and relitigate Roe. Under Trump, who campaigned on the promise to appoint judges who would overturn Roe, Republican state legislators turned to passing a raft of laws designed to get the justices to finish the job. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List, recognized the work that state lawmakers have done in passing anti-abortion bills to get the Mississippi case before the Supreme Court. "This is a landmark opportunity" for the anti-abortion movement, she said last spring.
"This has been a campaign they have waged over 45 years," Derzis says. With Trump, "they got their Supreme Court Justices." It was game time.
Over nearly 50 years, the Supreme Court has heard more than two dozen cases touching on abortion. (Earlier this month, it considered an enforcement mechanism embedded in the Texas abortion law.) But the Mississippi case that will come before the court on Dec. 1 is different by an order of magnitude. This one is not "biting around the edges" of abortion access, says Ziegler. It's "going for the jugular." Mississippi has explicitly asked the court to overturn Roe.
Stacy Kranitz for TIMEState laws have added new costs, paperwork and requirements over the years, driving many abortion clinics out of business
It is, of course, impossible to predict how the court will rule. With six conservatives on the bench, a majority could well choose to overturn the nearly 50-year-old precedent. Such a decision would be audacious, but not unheard of. The court has reversed precedent dozens of times in the nation's history. If it happens again, the fallout for people seeking abortions would be immediate. Twelve states, including Mississippi, have what are known as "trigger laws" that ban nearly all abortions immediately or shortly following such a court decision. Another nine states have already written strict restrictions that they could move quickly to implement.
But legal scholars say it's much more likely that the court would rule in a way that stops short of technically overturning Roe—while weakening the constitutional right to abortion so substantially that it's largely hollow. For example, the Justices could hold that the "viability standard"—the idea, embedded in Roe, that states cannot restrict abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb—is no longer central to the precedent. Such a decision, while formally leaving Roe in place, would render it nearly unrecognizable. If the court allows states to ban abortion before viability, there are dozens of other abortion restrictions currently blocked or being challenged in lower courts that could be reconsidered too.
The Supreme Court could also decide that Mississippi's law is constitutional because it allows people to access abortion prior to 15 weeks, and therefore does not present an "undue burden," as defined by Casey. A decision like that would undermine the viability standard and redefine the court's previous definition of "undue burden." Whatever the court decides, legal experts say the justices may be likely to remand the case back to lower courts, asking federal judges to reconsider the law under a newly modified interpretation of Roe.
Abortion-rights advocates say any ruling that does not explicitly find the Mississippi law unconstitutional amounts to a distinction without a difference. "The law has been absolutely clear for 50 years that bans on abortion before viability are unconstitutional," says Julie Rikelman, the litigation director at the Center for Reproductive Rights, who will represent JWHO before the Supreme Court. And any decision that creates more legal uncertainty is bad for abortion access, as it leaves clinics—most of which are already operating on a shoestring—to fight costly legal battles or temporarily shut down while judges deliberate.
In recent weeks, as the Supreme Court hearing has drawn nearer, Brewer and Derzis have huddled to discuss contingency plans. Although only 10 to 15 of the roughly 300 patients at JWHO each month request an abortion after the 15-week mark, Brewer says that if the high court allows this law to stand, she fears what laws Mississippi will pass next.
In the meantime, Brewer is focused on the fight. The day after we spoke was a Saturday, but she planned to be at the clinic bright and early—as she always is. She's doing it for the next generation, she says, in hopes they take up the mantle for the ones who come next. "That's kind of how it goes," she says, turning her eyes briefly away from the security screen. "You have to have people to continue to fight."
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Q: Can Hilbert spaces generalize non-Euclidean geometry by having the sum of the angles of a triangle not be equal to pi? I am an amateur mathematician learning new things.
Let A and B be vectors in a Hilbert space.  The three vectors A, B and A-B form a triangle.  The idea of the angle between two vectors can be captured using the inner product: the arc cosine of the inner product of A and B divided by the product of the norms of A and B is the angle between A and B.  Likewise, the angles between A and B-A and B and B-A can be so defined.  If the Hilbert space is an n dimensional Euclidean space and the inner product is the dot product, then the sum of the three angles of the triangle will be pi.  Is it possible to define an inner product so that the sum of the three angles will not be pi for an n dimensional Euclidean space or for an infinite dimensional function space?  Can Hilbert spaces generalize non-Euclidean geometries or just Euclidean geometry?

A: No. $A$ and $B$ span a $2$ dimensional subspace in $H$, the whole triangle will be in it. Restriction of inner product on $H$ to a $2$-dimensional subspace is very much Euclidean, and so are all triangles in it, with angle sum $180^\circ$.
If one could get non-Euclidean geometry by restricting to a plane in a Hilbert space one could get it just as well by doing it in a $3$-space. Non-Euclidean geometry does not arise from constant positive definite inner products on vector spaces, either finite or infinite dimensional, by restricting to planes. You need either restrictions to non-linear surfaces or "inner products" that depend on a point (Riemannian metrics) to go non-Euclidean.

A: There is a notion of infinite-dimensional hyperbolic geometry.  But there is no reason to think of it first as a vector space ... "Euclidean" is required so that composition of translations should be commutative, and thus a candidate for an "addition".

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Don't feel bad for them in the least. My guess is Louisville isn't going to be the only team vacating victories once this scandal goes full bloom. There's a lot of unethical and probably illegal stuff that goes on behind the scenes in college sports. Time to clean it up as much as possible.
The whole "vacate" thing has always kinda made me laugh. Regardless, those events happened. Stripping schools of titles or wins doesn't really erase the experience of that moment.
I still think of the Marcus Camby UMass team as a Final 4 team. I'm still amazed the John Calipari - who followed the Slick Rick game plan probably better than Pitino - actually got enough talent to U.Mass to make a Final 4. And they easily could have won it all that year.
I also hate it when they vacate games. If you are telling fans games didn't happen and taking money back from teams then you owe the fans back the money they spent on tickets and you owe the media back money from a game that didn't happen.
well he got Camby there. no one else on that team made the pros. Basketball, especially college, you only need 1 player.
No respect for Lou Roe!
This is what I was trying to remember. I was going to the URI games those years and remembered him being on Umass. However, he actually was not on their final 4 according to Wikipedia and left after the 94-95 season. I was very confused when I looked into this.
I made a lot of money on Louisville in that tournament vs Michigan and Duke, especially, and in the Big East tournament that year and in a couple of brackets pools.
Padilla, Travieso, and Roe were legit college players. Camby was the best player in the country.
I think we're naive to think that the top programs are not pushing the envelope in regards to legal recruiting.
I personally am not a fan of Pitino, as I think he's a jerk that won't take responsibility for his actions. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if similar actions were/are rampant throughout college athletics.
Yeah, Roe was gone. He was a senior. His last game was when UMass lost to Bryant Reeves in the Elite 8 in '95. (Which, might've actually what kept Camby in school one more year). That was a tough loss. That Umass team was no slouch, either. People just kinda forget them because they made the Final Four the next year.
Still waiting on north Carolina get some punishment..waiting..waiting..waiting.


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Unravelling the issues
Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/1742
Submitted by AWL on 24 February, 2004 - 2:26
Why a Palestinian Arab state?
The Palestinian Arabs are a defeated people, the main victims of the Jewish-Arab war of 1948.
The root problem of the Palestinian Arabs is their dispossession by the Israeli Jews. However, their condition today is not just Israel's responsibility, and it cannot be mended by seeking revenge on Israel.
The fact that many Palestinians continue today as refugees is also to be explained by intra-Arab politics, and by the desire of various Arab states to have them as a living indictment of Israel. The remnant of Palestine allotted to the Arabs by the UN in 1947 was not unilaterally taken over by Israel, but divided by agreement between Israel and Jordan, most of it going to Jordan. Palestinians have suffered discrimination in the Arab states where they live, and massacres at the hands of Jordan, Syria, and Christian Arabs in Lebanon.
The Palestinians desperately need to establish their own state. The PLO wants a fully independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, territories occupied by Israel.
Israel will not easily agree to this. The large number of Israeli settlements built in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967 - in a deliberate political effort to establish claims to permanent Israeli control - stand as an obstacle. But while merging the Palestinian and Israeli-Jewish nations by decree in a "secular democratic state" is impossible, an independent Palestinian state can be won by struggle on the basis of justice for both Jews and Arabs. Those who want to help the Palestinians should argue for it.
Is a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza viable?
No small state is viable on its own in the modern world economy. In fact, not even large states are viable as sealed-off units, except on a much lower economic level than capitalism has so far achieved.
But small nations can and should have the right to political independence. If the Irish, why not the Palestinians?
An independent Palestinian state would be much weaker and poorer economically than Israel. Socialists and consistent democrats are in favour of reparations and aid to an independent Palestinian state from Israel, from the US, from Europe, and from the wealthy Arab states.
But there is no way, under capitalism, to equalise all nations economically. Even the best democratic settlement will not end inequality, exploitation and misery. Socialists argue for a democratic settlement, not as a self-sufficient "stage" which must be completed before any struggle for socialism starts, but as part of a programme for uniting Arab and Jewish workers to fight simultaneously for democracy and for socialism.
The Middle East's huge oil wealth should be used rationally, to enable a good life for all rather than to bloat some and to tantalise others. That can be done only through a socialist federation of the Middle East, with full rights to self-determination for all national minorities.
Support for the oppressed
Socialists must side with the oppressed against their oppressors.
For that reason, in general, we side with the Palestinian Arabs against Israeli oppression. However, to side with an oppressed people should not mean that we adopt all the views of their majority, which may well be one-sided or even chauvinist.
The Jews were oppressed in the 20th century more than any other people. Yet socialists could not subscribe to the chauvinist attitudes towards the Palestinian Arabs which the majority of Jews in Israel/Palestine developed in their search to escape from and build guarantees against oppression.
Nor can we support the views of Palestinian Arabs who argue for the destruction of Israel. As Lenin put it: "We fight against the privileges and violence of the oppressor nation, and do not in any way condone strivings for privilege on the part of the oppressed nation".
Many good left-wing slogans and concepts are abused and turned back-to-front and inside-out when used in discussions about Israel.
"Self-determination" is one of those. For Marxists, it means that every nation, or fragment of a nation, should have the democratic right of determining what state it should adhere to - its own, or some other one. It is one practical application of the basic Marxist idea which Lenin called "consistent democracy".
"Self-determination" can be a way of demanding that the Palestinian Arabs have a right to their own state, side by side with Israel. But it has also been used (and still is) by those who deny the right of the Israeli Jews to have a state at all.
It thus becomes a way of advocating, not the democratic rights of all nations to self-determination, but that the Palestinian Arabs should have the sole right to determine what happens in all of pre-1948 Palestine - including what happens to the Jews. It is turned into its opposite - from a profoundly democratic demand, to a claim that one nation should determine what happens to another, and an assertion that one of the two nations in conflict has no rights at all.
A secular democratic state?
In 1969 the Palestine Liberation Organisation proposed the scheme of reuniting Palestine in a "secular democratic state" where the Arabs who were expelled or fled Israeli territory in the war of 1948 would exercise their collective "right of return", but Jews would have the rights of a religious minority.
In 1988 the PLO dropped that policy in favour of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. But some people on the left still continue to advocate the old PLO programme. What is wrong with it?
Socialists want every state to be secular and democratic. What is special about the "secular, democratic state" slogan for Israel-Palestine is the proposal to merge the two nations in one state, and the idea that religious-minority rights should be sufficient to satisfy the Israeli Jews' desire for collective guarantees.
We are for a free socialist federation of the Middle East. We are for the maximum unity between nations.
But the idea that you could integrate, say, France and Germany, on the territory occupied by one of them, just by promising that the united state would be "secular and democratic", is self-evidently ludicrous. In Palestine the proposal for a joint "secular democratic state" amounts to a scheme for immediately merging two nations who have related to each other through repeated bitter war for more than half a century. It is an utopian absurdity. National identities and conflicts will not be overcome or superseded by decree. A joint "secular democratic state" could be established only after - long after - the conflict between the two nations had been resolved and allowed to fade by some other settlement.
More than that. It is inconceivable that the Israeli Jews would agree to dismantle their state in return for a promise of equal citizenship within an Arab state, let alone mere "religious minority rights". So the road to a "secular democratic state" would have to lie through war and full-scale conquest of the Jews.
And then what? Then the victorious armies (of Iraq, Syria, Iran?) will gallantly establish and protect the rights of the Jews as individuals in an Arab state?
In reality such a conquest would be resisted to the death by the Jews. It could not happen without driving the Jews out or massacring them.
The "secular democratic state" slogan was much more attractive and internationally "saleable" than the programme of "driving the Jews into the sea" that Yasser Arafat's predecessor Ahmed Shukhairy used to advocate in the 1960s. For many people, the "secular democratic state" slogan seemed also to represent a different intention and aspiration.
But it cannot be taken at face value. Its only practical political meaning is as an ultimatum behind which is posed a fearsome "or else".
Immediately it is refused by Israel and "the Zionists", it translates into a moralistic-political denunciation of those who refuse. They are "exposed". That "exposure" then becomes a warrant for the military destruction of the Israeli state, the subjugation of the citizens of Israel, and the forcible removal from those who survive conquest of all national rights - and, most likely, in order to sustain that removal of national rights, the removal of civil liberties too.
Socialist internationalism means that the working class has no fatherland, and that workers in every country have more in common with each other than with their own capitalists and landlords. It is the opposite of chauvinism and national exclusiveness. Yet this idea, too, is misused.
Some people, rightly condemning Israeli Jewish chauvinism, wrongly draw the conclusion that the Israeli Jewish nation has no right to exist. Marxists should indeed condemn all chauvinism, Jewish and Arab alike. The problem here is that Arab chauvinism is dealt with on the left very differently. It is merely condemned as a bad set of ideas, not taken as a proof that no Arab state should exist.
Thus internationalism is used as a weapon in support of one of the competing nationalisms or chauvinisms against the other - for the Arabs, and against the Jewish nation.
The very idea of the Israeli Jews wanting their own nation-state is hypocritically condemned on the grounds that we should not be concerned with national identities. Yet the Palestinian Arabs' desire for a state is applauded on the grounds of the right of nations to self-determination.
Internationalism is turned into the servant of an Arab-nationalist or Islamicist programme of revenge and conquest. It is used to justify the project of destroying the existing Israeli Jewish state and subjugating the Israeli Jewish nation. Internationalism is turned upside down, into a justification for chauvinism.
The Arab workers
Some socialists say that they are for the destruction of Israel, but by the Arab workers, in the course of a socialist revolution, and not by the existing Arab states.
But how will the workers in the Arab states unite, without a democratic programme that recognises the rights of the minorities in their region? If they did unite, and seized ownership and control of the vast wealth in the Arab world, notably the oil industry, what reason other than Islamist or Arab chauvinism could they have to want to conquer the small part of the region, relatively poor in resources, which is occupied by the Israeli Jews? What reason do these socialists have for preaching hostility to Israel now (as they do) when there is no united, revolutionary, and socialist Arab working class confronting it?
Socialism is the answer?
Yes, socialism is the answer. But this phrase is sometimes used to evade the issues.
Socialism can only be made by the working class. And the working class can make socialism only if the workers of different nations can find a common answer to national conflicts. Socialism will not automatically dissolve national conflicts.
The Russian Marxists in 1917 did not suppose that once they had made a socialist revolution they no longer needed to say anything about national conflicts. They argued for workers of different nationalities to adopt a common formula to resolve the national conflicts that rent the old Russian Empire. A central part of that formula was the right of nations to self-determination.
Wherever a people, or a fragment of a people, was oppressed or feared oppression, the socialist policy was for the workers of all nations concerned to unite on the basis of the right of that community to join whatever neighbouring state they wished, or to have their own state.
Such a policy is needed, as well as the direct socialist programme, in the Middle East. We propose a free socialist federation of the Middle East with full rights for all national minorities, including the Jews.
The Israeli workers
Implicit in the argument that "the answer" in the Middle East is a socialist revolution made by the Arab workers is the idea that the Israeli workers can play no positive role.
A quarter of a million Israelis demonstrated - the comparable figure, proportional to population, in Britain would be six million - in 1982 to protest at the massacre carried out by Lebanese Christians in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Chatila, in an area under Israeli army control. Within Israel, there is a peace movement pushing for compromise with the Arabs. It wins more support at some times and less at others. Some sections of it are more consistent than others. Right now it is marginalised by the failure of the peace negotiations in 2000. But nevertheless it is always vocal.
Not all the peace activists are workers, by any means, but some are. Israel has an independent trade union movement and Israeli workers have organised large strikes. The trade unions organise Israeli Arab workers too.
Despite all this, many on the left refuse to see any good in any Israeli Jew except perhaps the very exceptional one who will agree that Israel should dissolve itself - who, in other words, is prepared to become an honorary Arab, or to emigrate.
At the root of the inability to see any good in any Israeli is the refusal to recognise the right of the Israeli Jewish nation to exist. If you do not recognise the right of the nation to exist, then you can hardly see any role for its working class.
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The One Thing You Need To Know If You're Afraid Of Breastfeeding
by Chrissy Bobic
When I was pregnant with my now two-year-old son, all I would hear from the more experienced moms around me was how much the hospital would promote (read: push) breastfeeding as the automatic best option for feeding my baby, and that I had better be ready to wholly defend any decision not to do so. And from the even more seasoned moms (read: my mother-in-law), I would hear how important it as to strictly breastfeed no matter what, even if I was afraid of breastfeeding.
And then (because those powerful influences weren't enough), there were the friends who had never even been pregnant, and yet somehow had all of this "knowledge" on the topic and were plenty generous with the comments about how, if I were to formula feed, my baby wouldn't be nearly as healthy as a breastfed one and would definitely develop asthma and obesity and any other minor childhood ailment.
So I guess I was programmed to feel guilt from the beginning, even before making any definite decisions about my son. (But that's part of parenting, right? Maybe? I hope it's normal.) Anyway, even though it was being pressed on me, ingrained into me, and almost bullied into me, breastfeeding wasn't something that I felt connected with yet. I was loving being pregnant and tracking my baby's growth, and feeling him inside of me. The whole pregnancy felt like one big, miraculous experience that bonded me to my son in just a different sort of special way than my husband would be bonded to him. But even still, I was afraid of breastfeeding.
Courtesy of Chrissy Bobic
Being pregnant, I seemed to constantly seek out answers from the Internet (as you do), which probably just made things worse in every instance. Worried about those early contractions? Oh, that's just your baby growing an extra head inside of you. Some light spotting? Well, look at this one lady in this random pregnancy forum, annnnd now we're having a panic attack. I knew diving into the Opinion Pit that is the Internet was a terrible idea, but what is a pregnant lady supposed to do at 2 a.m. while scarfing down a salami sandwich, having already gone through seven pages of Reddit?
So I went in: I read all about what some women described as "ground beef nipples," the result of babies nibbling and sucking too hard for milk. I also learned about public leaking horror stories, with awesome photos to match. And the stories of some women not producing enough milk for their baby and stressing out themselves and their baby in the process. If I had been worried before, I was pretty much done after reading all of that. I was scared and totally just done with every dirty aspect of motherhood.
Here's what I wish: I wish I had been able to calm down all the noise — both forced on me by other people and self-inflicted through over-research — and dealt with my fear another way.
Because the one thing you need to know if you're afraid of breastfeeding is that it's OK to be afraid. It's OK to be afraid of such an unknown thing to you. It's OK to choose to breastfeed anyway, even if you're afraid of it. And it's OK to decide to formula feed. Not many people told me that at the time, so I was left feeling guilty and selfish for choosing formula, while hoping I was doing the right thing and second guessing myself the entire first few days of my baby's life.
Despite my OB advising me at every hospital visit to consider breastfeeding when it came down to it, I stood my ground and held my stance up until I had to be induced three weeks before my original due date. And when I came out of recovery from my last-minute c-section and held my son for the first time, I fed him with a formula bottle and our closeness still felt so real. When all the noise was calmed down, and I just focused on myself and my baby, the answer to dealing with my fear of breastfeeding was simple: I wasn't going to be so determined to prove something to everyone, or to make everyone happy, that I would waste these incredible early days worried and fearful. Not when I could make one choice, and suddenly get to spend them happy and in love. It was a no-brainer.
I look at other moms who breastfeed as if it is the easiest thing in the world, and of course, sometimes I do wish I had at least tried to go that route with my son. It's such a beautiful and natural thing. But at the time, I could never get past my worries of not doing it well enough or being enough for my son and creating too stressful of an atmosphere for the both of us. And that is OK. Flash forward to now, more than two years later, and my son is a healthy, spunky, and sometimes crazy toddler who doesn't have weight problems and has shown no signs of asthma or delayed learning. Shocking! In fact, I like to think my kid is actually pretty smart for his young age, even with a mom who was afraid of breastfeeding. Go figure, right?
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One of the greatest triumphs of endurance is held by Benoit Lecomte who swam across the Atlantic Ocean. On the 16th of July 1998, he set out from Cape Cod with 8 wet suits, a snorkel, and some flippers.
One of the greatest triumphs of endurance is held by Benoit Lecomte who swam across the Atlantic Ocean. On the 16th of July 1998, he set out from Cape Cod with 8 wet suits, a snorkel, and some flippers. He was guided across the ocean by two friend sailors on a 40-foot sailboat. The boat also suspended a large cage with an electronic force field over Benoit to protect him from sharks. He did, however, still encounter sea turtles, dolphins, and jellyfish. Lecomte swam 6 to 8 hours a day through 3,736 nautical miles of relentless waves. He stopped to rest for one week in the Azores islands. 72 days after beginning his epic trip, he swam ashore exhausted but heroic in France. Lecomte is now considering swimming across the Pacific Ocean to the Philippines. What would ever make a man swim across an ocean? Basically, love. You see, when Benoit's father died of colon cancer in 1992, it spurred him to do something extraordinary to raise awareness and money for cancer research.
The Bible says someone else crossed an ocean of space for the same reason. Stay with us friends! We're going to learn more as Amazing Facts brings you this edition of Bible Answers Live.
Pastor Jëan Ross: Welcome to Bible Answers Live brought to by Amazing Facts Ministries. Are you looking for a clear, concise answer to your most challenging Bible questions? Maybe you're struggling to understand difficult passage of Scripture. If so, you've come to the right place. Join us now as we open God's Word to discover His will and find honest, practical answers to your Bible-related questions. This broadcast is pre-recorded. If you have a Bible question, call us Sundays from 7 to 8 P.M. Pacific Standard Time at 800-GOD-SAYS; that's 800-463-7297. Now, let's join our host, author, speaker, and evangelist, Pastor Doug Batchelor.
Pastor Doug: This is Bible Answers Live and it's a perfect program if you've got a Bible question. Is there some biblical conundrum, enigma, mystery that troubles you and you'd like to find out, "What does the Bible mean?" and "What does the Bible say?" We don't have all the answers but here, we do have the Word of God and we'll search together. If you've got a question, call right now. We've got lines open. And the number to call to get here in the studio is 800-GOD-SAYS; 800 463-7297. Right now is a good time to pick up your telephone and make that call with your question. You have a good chance of getting that question on tonight's broadcast. As you can tell from the name, Bible Answers Live, this is a live, international, interactive Bible study. And of course, you can participate by calling in your question, by listening, by praying as we do our best to find and deliver the answers from the Word of God, and also you can even go to the Internet and you'll find a lot of the resources there at the Amazing Facts website; that's simply amazingfacts.org.
And once again, my name is Doug Batchelor. Pastor Jëan Ross is out of town still with a speaking appointment and he'll be with us again next week. But we're going to begin our broadcast, as we always do, with a word of prayer.
Loving Father in heaven, we're very grateful for this opportunity and privilege to come before you and to just study to better understand what is truth and what does Your word say about truth. Lord, I pray that each person listening will be blessed and edified as a result of our program tonight. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen.
Well, I was thinking about this amazing fact—Benoit Lecomte who swam across the Atlantic Ocean—that's just almost inconceivable. And it made me think about a story in the Bible in Mark chapter 5 where Jesus crossed an ocean through a storm and He came to the Eastern Coast of Galilee and He saved one man and then returned; crossed this ocean, went through the storm to save one man. It also reminds me of the love of God that he would cross the trackless expanse of limitless space to come from heaven to this world to save us. That's a lot love, friends! And the Bible says that if we love Him, we want to obey His command because we want to follow Him when we see how much God loved us and that He laid down His life to save us.
You know, we have a free offer for anybody who asks tonight. It's a book that we don't offer very often. Perhaps, you're struggling with some of the basics of living the Christian life; it's a book called, "Tips for Resisting Temptation." This is very interesting reading and practical tips regarding, "How can I get the victory?" Maybe there's some area in your life where you're struggling and it's affecting your witness for the Lord. Because you love the Lord, you want to be a better example. And if you'd like this free book, "Tips for Resisting Temptation," we'll be happy to send that to you. All you have to do is call the resource number and that number is 800-835-6747. And tell them you're listening to Amazing Facts and they'll make arrangements to send that to you.
And so, there are two resurrections. The Bible speaks, "The dead in Christ," 1 Thessalonians 4, those are the ones who've done good. The second resurrection is the resurrection of damnation spoken of in Revelation chapter 20. It says, "Blessed and holy are those that have part in the first resurrection, the dead and Christ." The rest of the dead don't live until a thousand years are finished—that's the resurrection of the wicked. Everybody is going be resurrected. And all will be rewarded according to their works, the Bible tells us. So, hopefully that will help you a little bit regarding that one. Also… and we got a lot of other Bible questions and archives at the amazingfacts.org website. But we're going to get right to the phones here. I'm going to talk with… let's see, Max is calling on… from Brooklyn, New York, listening on WMCA. Welcome, Max, you're on the air!
Max: Yes. Hi. Good evening, Pastor Doug.
Max: Yes. I have a question. I was wondering, where do we find an explanation or how can we explain how did the stoning of Stephen fit into the 2,300-year prophecy?
Pastor Doug: Well, the stoning of Stephen fits more specifically into the 490-year prophecy. The 2,300-year prophecy, and for our friends listening, Max is referring to prophecies from Daniel chapter 8 and 9. In Daniel 9, it talks about the 490-year prophecy. It comes to an end with the stoning of Stephen. And so, it begins at 457 B.C. and it reaches to the stoning of Stephen. That was the time—3 ½ years after Christ ascended to heaven when the 1st martyr has died. He makes a wonderful, powerful spirit-filled gospel presentation to the Supreme Court of the Jewish nation and they respond by plugging their ears. They dragged him out of the city and they execute him—very much like what they did to Jesus.
Of course, then a great persecution arises. The apostles and disciples go everywhere. They fan out from Jerusalem preaching and they go largely to the Gentiles. A matter of fact, Paul was converted in the next chapter and becomes a disciple or apostle to the Gentiles. But that is not related specifically to the 2,300-year prophecy.
Pastor Doug: That's… the stoning of Stephen really marks the end of the 490-year prophecy. Now, both of those—the 2,300 and the 490-year prophecy—have the same starting point. That's the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem.
Max: Okay, got you. Okay.
Pastor Doug: If you don't have that, just call our resource number and we'll send that to you. That number is 800, Max, 835-6747. And I appreciate your question. I hope that helps fill in the blanks. Talking next to James who is calling us from Lauderdale, Florida. Welcome to the program, James!
James: Hello, Pastor Batchelor. How are you?
Pastor Doug: Good. I grew up not too far away from you.
James: Oh, awesome! Great. Hey, listen, my question comes from 1 Timothy 3:8 where it says, "Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy or filthy or lucre." Now, I know in the Greek, the word the wine is "oenos" and it can either represent the drug alcohol or grape juice. But also in Titus chapter 2 and 3, it says that "each women, likewise that they be in behavior as becoming holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things." In the Hebrew-Greek concordance, in Titus chapter 2 and 3 that makes reference to the drug alcohol. Now, since chapter 3:8 in Timothy, it's pretty much the same Scripture. I'm assuming wouldn't that be making reference to the drug alcohol and not grape juice?
Pastor Doug: You know, I believe that the references of Paul to wine, he's principally thinking of grape juice. Now, let me explain something that will help put you in the mindset of where he's writing from. Now, if we go to a convenience store, they will often sell grape juice and they will sell wine. If they got an alcohol license, or at least a supermarket will, and you can look on the wine bottle—I used to drink wine. I haven't had wine in 25 or something years, I forget; it's been a long time—it'll say what the alcohol content is—10 proof, 12 proof, whatever, 15 proof. It will say that on a grape juice.
Pastor Doug: Well, anyway, go ahead. You were going to say?
Pastor Doug: Are you wondering… let me just zero in on the real issue, I think. Are you wondering if it's okay for Christians to drink a little wine?
James: No, no. Not at all. I'm completely convicted that no one should drink the alcohol. No one, I mean, the drug alcohol. But I just really… well, really the question come from you wrote a book about Christians and alcohol.
James: And when I was studying it, you made reference to it being grape juice. But then, when I was looking at it in the Hebrew-Greek concordance, it kind of seem to kind of disagree.
James: So that's when I… sorry, go ahead.
Pastor Doug: Yeah. Titus… what you just quoted there in Titus and Timothy, they're both Greek.
Pastor Doug: And I believe the word there is interchangeable.
Pastor Doug: Between the wine is… could be fermented. It could be the unfermented, the new wine.
James: Correct. Correct. I agree.
James: Strong drink is raging. Right.
Pastor Doug: And then, you know, the bottom line is just… well, you've read the book, you know. Look what it does to our society. It's the most destructive drug more than all the other drugs combined. Alcohol does more damage.
Pastor Doug: And so, Christians should not engage in that in any part. Results are the most addictive. I mean, you know, a lot more people are alcoholics or addicted to cracks or speed or anything else.
Pastor Doug: Well, I hope that helps, James. We're going to try and get a couple more callers and if… I was going to offer you the book but it sounds like you got the book. Appreciate your call. Talking next to Chris who's calling from Salinas, California, listening on KARM. Welcome, Chris!
Chris: I was wondering, how do I appropriate the healing of God? Because I have a stomach problem and like I have Strep Throat and a cold. I was wondering how you can best appropriate the healing of God. What kind of prayer, whatever that's appropriate biblically the healing of God?
Pastor Doug: …a good diet, drinking water, or getting rest. There's nothing wrong with going to a doctor. But at the same time, you know, pray to God He'll heal you. Also, when you're praying for healing, say, "Lord, if there's anything in my life that is out of harmony with Your will, please show that to me." And then you've got the example there in James chapter 5 where it says, "If someone's sick, let them call for the elders of the church to pray over them, anointing them with oil. And the prayer of faith will save the sick. And so, the sick can be healed. I believe in divine healing. I also believe we need to use the practical means that God has given us. Sometimes, healing comes just with things run their course. And you know, I've had a few colds in my life and I prayed God would heal me. And sometimes He'd accelerate the healing, but oftentimes, it's just nature taking its course and your body putting up its own natural defenses.
So, all of those things together, pray that you can do what you can do and that God will work miracles and facilitate healing, Chris.
Chris: Yeah. I… it's hard to get your station on. I'm from Salinas.
Pastor Doug: Yeah. I'm glad that you are able to tune in.
Chris: Well, I'm tuning in through the phone but it's hard to get on the radio.
Chris: I had to go home so I have numbers on my radio at home. But here, I have dialed to numbers. It shows numbers in… one in Santa Cruz where I used to live. I'm just here to see my mom.
Pastor Doug: Well, we're glad that you tuned in and that must mean that you're listening on other times in other places. We appreciate that. Thanks for your call, Chris. And hopefully, that will help you a little bit. We pray that you do get healed. Talking next to Mark who's listening on WMCA from New York, New York. Welcome, Mark. You're on the air with Bible Answers Live.
Mark: Thank you, Pastor Doug. My question is I think I have a problem trying to reconcile divine foreknowledge with human free will. It seems that one precludes the other. What's your take on that?
Pastor Doug: Well, the question is, do we have a free will? And you know, do we have a choice? I believe the Bible's very clear that because God knows what's going to happen doesn't mean that we don't have a choice. He just knows what our choice is going to be. God knows everything from eternity in the future to eternity in the past—nothing hidden from Him. He's all-knowing.
Pastor Doug: But that doesn't mean we don't have a choice.
Mark: I'd say, next week, God knows what I'm going to have for breakfast next Monday.
Mark: Say, He knows I'm going to have bacon and eggs. That means I have to have bacon and eggs. I can't choose to have anything else because God knows ahead of time that I'm going to have that for breakfast.
Mark: But God knew they were going to repent.
Pastor Doug: Exactly. But do they have a choice?
Mark: I don't know, it seems to me that they didn't. Maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way.
Pastor Doug: If you think about it… well, think about it. Does God give us the ability to choose?
Mark: That's what I'm trying to figure out.
Pastor Doug: Well, just look at the verses in the Bible. When God said, "Choose ye this day who you will serve." Doesn't that mean you have a choice? When Christ says, "Whoever will," that means you get to use your will. "Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life. So, when the Lord invites people to do something, He's asking them to use their brains and make decisions and to choose because He knows what their choice is. It doesn't mean they don't have it.
Mark: Yeah, I can't seem to reconcile… reconcile that in my own mind.
Pastor Doug: Well, there's a difference between God making something happen and knowing what's going to happen. I use this illustration sometimes. You get a helicopter or somebody's up there in a satellite, Google Earth. They're looking down at earth and they're seeing in real-time, a traffic accident about to happen. They can see that when this Volkswagen comes up the hill into a tunnel on one side of a mountain and this truck is in the wrong lane going on the other side of the mountain, they know there's going to be a crash in the tunnel. It's the people in the cars that make crash happen. But the fella in the satellite or the helicopter, he can see it before it happens. He knows what's going to happen. He's not making it happen. He just knows it in advance.
Pastor Doug: Well, but that's the difference. It's God's knowledge is perfect but it still doesn't mean that we don't have a choice.
Pastor Doug: Otherwise, my bottom line is, why does God invite us to choose if we don't have a choice?
Mark: Right, right. That's what Scripture says, I guess.
Pastor Doug: You know, all through the Bible, appeals are made for people to choose.
Mark: Yeah, I read something by, I guess, a discourse between Erasmus and Martin Luther.
Pastor Doug: Of talking about free will and predestination.
Pastor Doug: Oh yeah. That'll really make your brain explode. Those guys had pretty good minds.
Pastor Doug: And Erasmus believes in… that we have free choice.
Mark: That was Erasmus' argument.
Pastor Doug: Yeah. Well, hey I'm in good company then. [Laughing] I appreciate your question very much, Mark. And you know, we do have a book. I'll send you a copy. I'm trusting you're still listening there. It's called, "Can a Saved Man Choose to be Lost?" "Can a Saved Man Choose to be Lost?" And that's a classic. If you'd like a free copy, just call 800-835-6747. We'll send one to you for, not only free, but 50% off free. And I appreciate your question, Mark.
Talking to Joanna who's calling from the Internet, Newton, Tennessee. Welcome, Joanna, you're on the air! Did I say your name right?
Pastor Doug: Okay, and your question?
Johanna: My question is in Genesis where Joseph talks to his brothers and says to them like, "You are spies," and over there where it says that they took two silver cups and everything.
Johanna: Was that lying? Because the Bible tells us not to lie. How did God justify that?
Pastor Doug: Well, keep in mind, everything that you see in the Bible doesn't mean God justifies it. The Bible reports that David took a man's wife and then had the man killed. That doesn't mean God endorsed that or that He wanted that. Joseph was also human. Nowhere in the Bible does it say Joseph was perfect or sinless. Joseph did use deception. And the reason he was doing that—and I'm not saying it was right—I'm just saying the reason he did it, he wanted to see if his brothers had changed. He wanted to see if they were treating Benjamin the way that they had treated him because Benjamin was his little brother. So he puts them through a series of tests to see if they were different. He knew that in order to test them, he would have to cloak who he was.
Now, you know, Jesus, in a sense, did that when He came to earth. God became a man. God hid who He was in the veil of humanity. It's not that He was deceiving us. It's the only way we could handle looking at God and learning about God was when God became a man.
Pastor Doug: So, there's some symbolism there in what Joseph did. It's very powerful. But you're right. He did use some deception there and mislead his brothers in order to test them.
Johanna: And does that mean that it's okay for us to lie or?
Pastor Doug: No, you'll find in the Bible where King David pretended he was crazy one time because he was afraid and where Joshua pretended they were retreating from the city of Ai and they weren't really retreating. They were just pretending so they could draw the army out. Many times, God's people, you know, they did things that were deceptive or dishonest or misleading. And God records it but it doesn't mean He approved of it.
Pastor Doug: So, the Bible's a history book as well as everything else.
Pastor Doug: Alright! Good question, I appreciate that. How much time do we got before our break here? Assuming I can maybe do one more question here. By the way that opened up a bunch of lions, friends. We've been just plowing through the questions. If you had a Bible question tonight, pick up the phone now. Maybe something you've heard or read stirred your mind. 800-GOD-SAYS brings you to the studio; that's 800-463-7297. Talking next to Anita who's calling from Fort Myers, Florida. Welcome, Anita, you're on the air!
Pastor Doug: Hi. We got about 2 minutes before the break so I want to try and squeeze your question in.
Anita: Okay, I'll be fast. How could pride enter Lucifer's heart in a perfect heaven?
Pastor Doug: You know, that is what they call the mystery of iniquity in the Bible. Someone called a few moments ago, I don't know if you were listening, and they asked about free will. Some of the greatest evidence that God's intelligent creatures—and the angels are intelligent creatures—that they have free will is Lucifer. God cannot make us love Him. If He forces us to love Him, it's not love. A person must choose to love. And Lucifer began to be jealous. He stared loving himself more. He chose to love himself more. And he began to be jealous of Christ and His position with the Father and His power. And he wanted to be God. And that's, of course, in Isaiah chapter 14, Isaiah… I'm sorry, Ezekiel 28 talks about that.
Anita: Could that mystery of iniquity happen again when the same soul get to heaven?
So, you know, Anita, before the music chases us away, I wanted to let you know that there is a lesson that we'll be happy to send you that deals with this. It's called, "Did God Create a Devil?" If you call the resource number and ask for "Did God Create the Devil?" we'll send you a free copy. Appreciate your call.
Listening friends, we're not going away. We're just taking a break. Coming back, we've got a number of questions that are lined up. Lisa and others that are waiting, just standby. We'll get to your questions. Also, I want to remind you that we have a new website… oh, I just looked in my computer and there it is! It's called amazingfacts.tv. Right now, I'm staring at a program that's on right now. If you go to simply amazingfacts.tv; amazingfacts.tv—24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can watch a broad spectrum of Amazing Facts DVDs and radio programs. And you can also donate… or donate [laughing]. You can download some of your favorites. We'll be right back, friends!
Pastor Doug: We are back and we are live. If you have a Bible question, that number to get your question on the air is 800-463-7297. And without further ado, we're going to go right back to the phones and going to see if we can get in as many questions as possible. Talking now with Melissa who is listening on the Internet from Phoenix, Arizona. Welcome, Melissa, you're on the air!
Melissa: Hi, Pastor Doug. Thanks for taking my call.
Pastor Doug: Now, before we go to your question, you know, I'm going to be in Phoenix in two weeks.
Melissa: I know. I'm very excited.
Doug: Oh, okay. You're going to try and make it to that Christian camp meeting.
Pastor Doug: Wonderful! And your question?
Melissa: Well, basically, as I told you're staying there as screen caller, my son, we recently… I'm very upset about this. I apologize that they can't get to fallout without crying but we recently found out that he's still making out some inappropriate websites and he's homeschooled. We do our very best to keep him sheltered from, you know, specific types of movies and things to that nature. And my question is, you know, how does the Bible or what does the Bible say about trying to help a child to get back to understanding a pure way of looking at a relationship between a man and a woman or just not not even thinking about those things at such an early age?
Pastor Doug: How old is this young person?
Pastor Doug: …it would be good for mom and… is there a dad in the home?
Pastor Doug: To sit down with them, it might be less intimidating of just dad sits down with him and have a preliminary conversation about the birds and the bees, and that… you know, the devil takes every beautiful thing that God makes and he perverts it. And the devil can take beautiful things and wonderful things and that are okay within, you know, God's blessing and he twists them and he makes them ugly and abuses them. And, you know, just trying to encourage the young man not to have his idea about those things defined by the devil but by mom and dad. So, you know, dad's going to have to probably try to counteract that influence by telling them, you know, what is going on and what it's for and, you know what I'm saying? And then another thing, just yesterday, it's interesting you would call.
Pastor Doug: "Blessed are the pure in heart. They will see God," Matthew chapter 5. You know, Jesus says He wants us to be pure in heart and that means pure in mind and He won't be happy by going after the impure things. "Blessed" means happy. He'll be happy by focusing on the pure things. There's quite a few, you know, if you've got a computer program or the Bible, just type in the word "purity" and you're going to see a whole plethora of Scriptures pop up on that. I did a whole sermon on purity. A matter of fact, if… when it seem too opportunistic, if you go to the Amazing Facts website, I've got an article I wrote called, "Power and Purity," and a number of promises right there. It's, you know, of course, amazingfacts.org and if you search the word "purity," there's an article I've written on that.
Pastor Doug: Are you there Melissa?
Melissa: Yes. Thank you very much.
Pastor Doug: Alright. And we'll be praying for you. I know that's extremely troubling to have that kind of revelation of what's going on. Bless your heart. I appreciate your question. Going to talk next with Tamm who's calling from Bridgeport, Connecticut on WMCA. Welcome, Tammy, you're on the air!
Tammy: Thank you so much for taking my call, Doug. How are you?
Tammy: Good. My question for you tonight is I read in the Bible that it says that, you know, if you're Christian, then you know, you're saved from sin and you're no longer a sinner although you sin. So, my question for you is, if a saved person commits suicide that obviously is a sin, but is that person condemned to hell because of that sin?
Pastor Doug: There are people who are Christians and because of some, you know, chemical imbalance that, you know, only God or maybe the doctor knows about or you know, some people are just overwhelmed with depression because of maybe a terminal disease. They may make a decision that is totally out of character. But in most situations—and I'm being careful because there are exceptions—in most situations, if a person's last act of their life is self-murder, you know, the Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill," and that really translates "Thou shalt not murder," and that would certainly include don't murder yourself. And so, you know, I would think that their future would be… I'd be troubled about the future if the last act of a person's life is self-murder.
Pastor Doug: Well, if you think about it, Tammy, in most cases, I heard someone explain to me one time that suicide is actually a very selfish act because almost always, there's family and friends left behind that are devastated trying to unravel what happed. And their collective pain is usually a lot greater than the pain of the person. Now, you know, sometimes a person, like you said, has got unbearable physical suffering from some terminal illness or something like that. Sometimes a person is about to die—like Samson was a suicide—you ever thought about that?
Tammy: No, I haven't, actually.
Pastor Doug: Well, Samson, you know, he was probably about to be executed. We can only speculate but we're guessing the Philistines brought him into the temple of Dagon to make sport of him and then execute him.
Pastor Doug: To please their gods. And Samson, knowing that was coming, he thought, "Well, I'm going to beat them to it." And he brought the house down, so to speak, on his enemies. But he laid his life down. It was a sacrifice but he really killed himself.
Pastor Doug: In a sense, Jesus—now be careful—but Jesus said, "I lay My life down." Nobody could have killed God if He didn't allow it to happen.
Pastor Doug: So, you know, there are exceptions where a person will sacrifice themselves. You know, sometimes soldiers, during the war, someone throws a hand grenade into a group of soldiers and one of them jumps on it. Well, you could argue that's a suicide. He knew he'd die.
Pastor Doug: He could've run away from it but he laid his life down to save others. But in most cases, suicides—people say, "You know, I'm very discouraged about my circumstances. I'm just getting out of here." And they're really thinking about themselves. Sometimes they leave kids behind and family. They're just devastated for life.
Pastor Doug: So, I would… you know, I think it's highly suspected if someone who's a professed Christian does that. And I would say to anybody who's listening—Christian or otherwise—if the last act of your life is committing suicide because you're thinking you're going to improve your circumstances, if a person dies lost, their next conscious thought is not an improvement of their circumstances. See what I'm saying?
Tammy: I do. I do.
Pastor Doug: So, I would just say anybody who's tampering with the idea of suicide, put it out of your mind. It's never a solution.
Pastor Doug: Yeah, appreciate your question very much, Tammy. And you know, you'd find I think a lot of comfort in just information also in the Amazing Facts Bible study course. If you'd like to get a free enrollment in that, just go to the Amazing Facts website. That's amazingfacts.org and click there and sign up for it—the Amazing Facts Bible study course. Talking next with Bernard from Brooklyn, New York. Let me make sure I press the right button. Bernard, you're on the air with Pastor Doug!
Bernard: Hi. I'm going to lower my radio, okay?
Pastor Doug: Okay, that's a good idea. Sometimes that can be confusing. Hopefully your radio is not far away?
Pastor Doug: Oh yeah. Okay. Yes!
Pastor Doug: No, I don't think so. You know, in the Bible typically, when a believer died, they were buried.
Pastor Doug: …God has new bodies.
Pastor Doug: So, if a person's buried, their body decomposes and turns back to dust and ashes, right?
Pastor Doug: If they're cremated, it just sort of accelerates the same process.
Pastor Doug: So the idea that God has to find the old pieces to resurrect them is really a myth. There's nothing that says, you know, God can't resurrect you unless He gets enough of the old parts together.
Bernard: Okay. Now, that's very comforting to hear from you because I have a loved one—my mother actually—who's very ill and eventually, I know that she will be with the Lord and I would know she would want a burial service but not necessarily she would be… how would you say, lain in the ground?
Pastor Doug: So she wants to be cremated?
Pastor Doug: Well, if that's the decision, you know… and more and more people are doing that today because it just… it's so expensive. I heard that to bury someone in Forest Lawn cemetery, you could pay $800,000 for one plot—there's an amazing fact for you. So it does get expensive and a lot of people are turning to cremation. I'll probably be buried if that day comes before the Lord comes.
Pastor Doug: …so they're often scattered ashes or, you know, I don't want to go into detail but when a person's buried at sea, their bodies are pretty much disintegrated by the elements and the fish.
Pastor Doug: None of the Titanic victims were found.
Pastor Doug: They found the Titanic and they found some of the leftovers but no people.
Bernard: Right. And people who die and say, terrorist attacks or anything.
Pastor Doug: Oh, yeah. All kinds of things.
Pastor Doug: So that… you know, those things don't prevent God from resurrecting because He makes a new body, even the people who are alive when Jesus comes. It says, "They're transformed in the twinkling of an eye. This corruptible puts on incorruption." That's in 1 Corinthians 15.
Bernard: Thank you very much.
Pastor Doug: Alright. You take care, Bernard. Alright, going to talk next with James who's calling from KPRZ in San Diego. Welcome, James, you're on the air!
James: Yes, Pastors. Thank you for taking my call. My question is that I struggle with trusting and I've been through a very tough childhood and so forth. And I'm having a tough time trusting my fiancée and I feel that she could be cheating on me. And I know there's a Scripture stating with prayer and supplication, let your request be known to God.
Bernard: She agreed to get a lie detector test to prove to me that I have nothing to worry about, that she is not seeing anyone else and I'm just wondering if, is that wrong for me or… to do that? Is that taking it out of God's hands? Am I being… am I out of His will?
Pastor Doug: Well, you know, I would think… now, you know, what I'm not good at is the marriage counseling part of the program here. But I do want to just diverge a little bit from just giving you a list of Scriptures to talking about another issue which is trust. You're better off, I would think, trusting and being wrong than having your… is this your wife or fiancée?
Pastor Doug: Than asking her to take a lie detector test. Now, if you know, if your relationship is such now that you're doubtful about her loyalty, you're probably out to be dating someone else. If you're dating someone's that got to take a lie detector test, my first reaction would be you're either dating the wrong person or she's dating the wrong person. Depends on whether you're just hyper-jealous or weather there's real evidence. I don't know that answer. But I know, as a Pastor, if I knew a couple that were not married but they're thinking about it and they're having to get one to take a lie detector test, I'd say they're not matched well.
Pastor Doug: Yeah, if you're being too sensitive. Well, you know, as far as the Bible goes, you want to be able to trust somebody and you did go to Scripture there in Philippians—to be anxious for nothing but in everything with prayer and supplication, let your request be made known to God—and so just, you know, lay this out before Lord. And I'd lay the whole, you know, dating issue about this person and everything before the Lord. But you've got to have trust in relationship. You know, there's a lesson that I'd like to recommend for you, James, and it's "Keys to a Happy Marriage." I think it would be perfect for you. If you… and you know, if your fiancée would like to read it, too. But it's got great Bible principles on the marriage relationship and if you just go to your telephone, call 800-835-6747. Ask for a copy of the study guide called, "Keys to a Happy Marriage." We'll send that to you for free and hopefully that will help you a little bit.
Okay. We're going to talk to someone in Honolulu, Hawaii. Christian is calling, listening on the Internet. Welcome, Christian, you're on the air!
Christian: Hi! This is… Cristiano is my name. Cristiano.
Pastor Doug: Oh, I'm sorry. Cristiano, welcome!
Cristiano: No problem. Yes sir. Thank you for having me. I was looking through the Bible and I was looking at the 7 deadly sins. And my question is about the wrath of God thinking thedeadly sins for us who are mortal sinners, living souls—temporary living souls—now, I know that God is a Spirit and He calls the shots. But isn't it contradictory to His loving nature for Him to have wrath and for us not to have wrath?
Cristiano: …in the creation of love, it have a creation of love?
Pastor Doug: Well, let me just finish this off real quick.
Pastor Doug: When a parent has to punish their children, from the child's perspective, it might look like wrath. If it's a loving parent, the parent is really doing what they're doing because they want to save their children. And so, that punishment, that fierceness might be to save them. When our children were little, if they wandered off the sidewalk into the street, we told them never go into the street. There might be what they thought was wrath But it's done in love. You see what I'm saying?
Pastor Doug: …all of the wrath of God is coming from love. But not all human wrath is loving. Sometimes it's very selfish. It's almost demon possession. So it's the same word but they're different motives.
Cristiano: I see. I see your point now. Now, if I can just elaborate on this. So well, we know according to the Bible, Lord Jesus Christ talk more about the hearing the gospel than about heaven. It's… did the Lord Jesus Christ conquered hell as well among with death and the sting of death, which it seems the sting of death, I assume, is sin. Did also Lord Jesus Christ conquered hell as well?
Pastor Doug: Yes, He did! You read that Revelation that He has the keys of death and hell. And if you read in Revelation chapter 20, it tells us that death and hell is revelation—this is Revelation 20:14—death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.
Chistiano: This Lake of Fire is separate thing from the hell?
Pastor Doug: Well, no. The Lake of Fire is typically what you think of as hell. But when you also read in Revelation 21, it tells us, "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and earth were pass away. There's no more sea." And it goes on to say that "There's no more death," this is verse 4, "neither sorrow nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain." Now, what typically happens in hell?
Pastor Doug: Yeah. So, here itsays that Godis even going to defeat that. No more pain!
Cristiano: It's out of love. Again, it's out of love?
Cristiano: Is Gehenna the same thing, sir? Gehenna is the same thing or the bottomless pit or, how would you elaborate on that?
Pastor Doug: Yeah. Well, Gehenna is the same thing as what Jesus calls "hell." These 4 words that Jesus used for hell—one is Gehenna; one is Tartarus; one is dealing with Hades; and then there is a Sheol which is an Old Testament word actually—and they… typically, they mean the grave but Hades is sometimes translated to talk about the place where the wicked are punished. You know what I'd like to do in order to give some other people a chance for a question tonight, Christian… Cristiano, I want to recommend that you read our lesson of "Is the Devil In Charge of Hell?" We will send you a free copy, "Is the Devil In Charge of Hell?" And all the things you're asking are right there.
Anybody who has questions about the love of God and the justice of God, go to… you can call 800-835-6747, and ask for "Is the Devil In Charge of Hell?" or go to the Amazing Facts website; amazingfacts.org. And I'm going to be talking next to… let's see, I'm just double-checking with the studio. Okay, talking to Claude who's calling from Miami, Florida. Welcome to the program, Claude!
Claude: Hey. Hi, how are you doing?
Claude: Yes. My question is as I'm looking in the events that's going on in the world right now, can you possibly say that we are living at the tip… at the end of time, right now?
Pastor Doug: …which leads a lot of people to think that we are nearing the final labor pains of this planet and when we're going to be delivered is when Jesus comes.
Claude: And you think if someone is like 30 years old by the time these things… it comes by the time of Christ's come, are you… some people would be alive at that time?
Pastor Doug: Well, I think in my heart, I believe that Jesus is going to come in this next generation. I'm not setting the day or the hour—nobody knows—but just from what I see happening in the world, I don't know how it can last much longer.
Pastor Doug: Well, let's put it this way. I think most of the people in the world today are not going to die of old age.
Pastor Doug: If you understand.
Chris: Yes. How are you doing tonight, Pastor Doug?
Pastor Doug: Very well! Thanks for waiting.
Chris: I have a… I've been suffering from anxiety.
Pastor Doug: Well, we've got about 2 minutes. Summarize it in a question and maybe I can help.
Chris: Where in the Bible can I find peace with that?
Pastor Doug: Well, first thing I'd ask is, is there anything in your life that is out of harmony with God's will?
Pastor Doug: Alright. The Bible tells us, "Perfect peace have they that love Thy law and nothing will offend them. Great peace have they that love Thy law," and so, for one thing is a willingness to the will of God and obey God brings peace. There's also peace that comes from knowing that your sins are forgiven. "If you confess your sins," and God's promises that "He is faithful and just to forgive" you and to "cleanse you from all unrighteousness," then you know that you have your sins forgiven. Your name is in the Book of Life. What would you be anxious about if Jesus says, "I'm with you always." If the Lord is always with you and if you know that God loves you more than you love yourself, then there's really nothing to be afraid of, is there?
Pastor Doug: That's probably a good place for us to stop with that, Chris. And I sure appreciate that question. There are a lot of people out there struggling with anxiety. Even Christians. And they don't need to be anxious for nothing. The Lord want us to have peace. Jesus said, "Let not your heart be troubled," John chapter 14. And so, friends, don't be troubled. Trust in the Lord. He's always with you.
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