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Some say everyday miracles(奇迹) are predestined(注定的)----the right time for the appointed meeting. And it can happen anywhere.
In 2001, 11-year-old Kevin Stephan was a bat boy for his younger brother's Little League team in Lancaster, New York. It was an early evening in late July. Kevin was standing on the grass away from the plate, where another youngster was warming up for the next game. Swinging his bat back and forth, giving it all the power an elementary school kid could give. The boy brought the bat back hard and hit Kevin in the chest. His heart stopped.
When Kevin fell to the ground, the mother of one of the players rushed out of the stands to his aid. Penny Brown hadn't planned to be there that day, but at the last minute, her shift(换班)at the hospital had been changed to see her son’s performance. She was given the night off. Penny bent over the senseless boy, his face already starting to turn blue, and giving CPR, breathing into his mouth and giving chest compressions. And he revived in the end.
After his recovery, he became a volunteer junior firefighter, learning some of the emergency first-aid techniques that had saved his life. He studied hard in school and was saving money for college by working as a dishwasher in a local restaurant in his spare time.
Kevin, now 18, was working in the kitchen when he heard people screaming, customers in confusion, employees rushing toward a table. He hurried into the main room and saw a woman there, her face turning blue, her hands at her throat. She was choking.
Quickly Kevin stepped behind her, wrapped his arms around her and clasped his hands. Then, using skills he'd first learned in Scouts. The food that was trapped in the woman's throat was freed. The color began to return to her face.
&The food was stuck. I couldn't breathe,& she said. She thought she was dying. &I was very frightened.&
Who was the woman?
Penny Brown.
The author wrote the passage to show us that_______.
A. miracles are predestined and they can happen anywhere
B. whoever helps you in trouble will get a reward one day
C. God will help those who give others a helping hand
D. miracles won’t come without any difficulty sometimes
Which of the following statements is True of Kevin Stephan?
A. He was hit on the face by a boy and almost lost his life
B. He was a volunteer junior firefighter, teaching the players first-aid skills
C. He worked part-time in a local restaurant to save money for college
D. He saved Penny Brown though he didn’t really know how to deal with food choke
Why did Penny Brown change her shift and was given the night off that night?
A. She was invited to give the players directions
B. She volunteered to give medical services
C. She was a little worried about his son’s safety
D. She came to watch her son’s game and cheered him
When Kevin knew the woman was Penny Brown, probably he first felt _____.
A. happy& &&&&&&B. surprised&&&&&&&& C. sad&&&&&& D. worried
【小题1】A
【小题2】C
【小题3】D acooco.n< cooco因你而专业#
【小题4】B
【小题1】主旨大意题。文章第一段点明了本文的写作目的：奇迹是注定的，无处不在。下文具体讲述了两个人的互救经历来证明这一观点。
【小题2】 正误判断题。由第四段中He studied hard in school and was saving money for college by working as a dishwasher in a local restaurant in his spare time.可知C项表述正确，符合题意。
【小题3】 细节推理题。由第三段中…, but at the last minute, her shift(换班)at the hospital had been changed to see her son’s performance.可以推出Penny Brown是为了看她儿子的比赛,为他加油。
【小题4】推理判断题。当Kevin知道Penny Brown正是七年前挽救他生命的那个人时， 他的第一感觉应该是惊讶，意想不到；再结合本文的写作目的：奇迹无处不在，可以推出B项为正确答案。
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PREDESTINATION
&The Earth is
the Lord's and the fulness thereof&
(Psalm 89:11)
PREDESTINED Pencil
See Isaiah's Doctrine of Predestination || [Return to text]
We can plant trees, and maybe be of some help in assisting
the growth of a tree in a place where God does not normally do so (i.e., in a place where
we might say &it might not grow by itself&); we can observe some of the ways in
which trees grow, and in a biology textbook describe in as much detail as we can the
growth of that tree. But we cannot create a tree. Only God creates in this way. || [Return to text]
I explain the use of the phrase &Spirit-Cloud& in another paper. If you can't wait, see Ps. 91:4,11;
Ezekiel 10:4-5; Deut. 32:11 + Gen. 1:2. ||
Human beings were created to have dominion over the trees.
Sometimes we can help trees become more fruitful. But if we have unfruitful hearts
(Matthew 7) we can also destroy the trees God has created. ||
We can observe some of the ways in which pencils are produced, and
in an economics textbook describe in as much detail as we can the growth of that pencil.
But a pencil is much more than any economics text. It is an example of God's handiwork, as
much as a beautiful tree. ||
Even those who work in a &pencil factory& are not
working to create millions of pencils which they will use, put in their shirt-pockets, or
save in hund they don't actually want the pencils they are creating,
but are going to exchange them for other things they do want. ||
Here is the irony undergirding the whole point of this
paper. The people we will encounter in this essay are acting freely and uncoerced. Just
because God predestined them to have a hand in the creation of my pencil does not mean
that they are not humans. God created human beings in His own image to work and
create my pencil. And at this point we can only speculate on what effect your reading of
this paper will have o God knows (&Who hath wrought and done it,
calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the First, and with the L I am
He.& [Isaiah 41:4]). But if the Bible is wrong, these human beings are created in the
image of a random-chance collision of molecules in the &primordial soup.& We can
laugh at their thinking that their lives &#151; body and &soul& &#151; are
anything but an inevitable chemical product of their environment. They don't even need or
directly benefit from making pencils, but they spend their life at it. However, their
labor has purpose in the personalistic universe created by an Infinite-Personal God.
Either this planet-wide interaction of human beings has meaning according to God's eternal
decree (plan), or billions of humans are randomly and foolishly acting in a play which
signifies nothing. ||
But the Rule of God's Law also speaks of God's vengeance. The New
World Order understands the concept of vengeance, and its Generals, scientists, and
politicians seek to &be as God& (Genesis 3:5). Vengeance is an inescapable
concept in every religion, every world-and- vengeance always belongs to the God
of that religion, and the only question is, &Who is God?& In the modern world,
man is the self-proclaimed god. In the footnotes I will try to discuss how God's vengeance
operates to bring peace, and how man's vengeance brings conflict. ||
And He will judge whether I used the pencil in an
ethically proper way. ||
) Of course, my pencil is a great blessing from God, whether I use
it correctly or not. ||
) But maybe he had a life-long love of trees, and knew how
valuable they were, and how humanity could be helped by the production of more of them. ||
) &For God giveth to a man that is good in His
sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and
to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God& (Ecclesiastes
) Perhaps one of the loggers did not believe in predestination,
and used to work for a Calvinist who did. Perhaps the logger left that job because he
didn't want to help any Calvinists. Well, he helped me get a pencil! (&There are many
devices in a man' nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand&
([Proverbs 19:21]). ||
INTRODUCTION
My purpose in this paper is to explain why I worship the God described in Part One of
this series, a God described as &violent and vengeful.&
I want to do this first by showing the love of God as I see it in the world around me,
focusing especially on God's control (predestination). In
I will describe how I am affected by God's predestinating love in my own life
more personally.
A WORLD OF MIRACLES
A tree is a miracle. It is evidence of
the predestinating sovereignty of God. No one on the face of the earth knows how to create
a tree. Each of the trillions of molecules in a tree are
sustained by God and animated by His Spirit-Cloud to work
in unique ways, creating &systems& with their own special functions, with none
of these molecules self-consciously desiring to be a tree or to produce a tree, but
functioning as God has predestined them. I am then left in awe by the tree God has
created. It is an amazing display of natural harmony in an environment uncoerced by man.[4]
A pencil is a miracle. It is evidence of
the predestinating sovereignty of God. There is not a single human being on the face of
the earth who could from scratch create a pencil like the one I can buy at a store for a
couple of pennies. This sounds incredible, especially since
there are billions of pencils produced every year. But no pencil is produced by one single
person, from start to finish. Nor is the production of a pencil overseen and dictated by a
government bureaucracy called the Ministry of Pencils, nor is there a Pencil Czar. Each of
the millions of human beings who are a part of the pencil-creating process work in unique
ways, creating &systems& with their own special functions, with none of these
people or systems self-consciously desiring to be a pencil or to produce a pencil,[6] but functioning as God has predestined them.
THE RULE OF LAW
There are many people today who speak of the &.& They aren't the &man on the street& (you might have guessed)
but rather the politicians in the capitols and the professors in the ivory towers.
I like to speak of &The Rule of Law& too. For me it means a world created by
God, governed by His Law, in which all creation follows God's purposes (Law) for them.
For others, especially those who worship Man rather than God, it means the rule of the
law of man, the totalitarian sway of statist planners and their rational designs over all
creation. For them, &law& represents their acts of planning, coercion, and force
which bring &order out of chaos& as it is imposed on those
&underdeveloped& people who resist their New World Order.
Micah's &Vine
& Fig Tree& Prophecy
As an anarchist, I find predestination by a Personal God to be of great comfort. The
pencil &#151; a product of God's predestination, a visible example of goodness created not
by an earthly &archist,& nor directed by a human &Pencil Czar,& but by
the Triune God of Scripture &#151; gives me hope. The pencil
helps me imagine the day prophesied by Micah, in which archists have given up their
competitive machinations and begin to be God's servants.
The phrase &Vine & Fig Tree,&
comes from the Old Testament Prophet Micah.
the prophecy,
from the 4th chapter. Click on the word or phrase that interests you, but be sure to come
back to learn about the predestined pencil.
in the last days
of the House of the LORD
as the chief of the
And it will be raised above the
will stream to it.
will come and say,
&Come, let us go up to the
And to the
of the God of Jacob,
That He may teach us about His
And that we may walk in His &
will go forth the Law
of the LORD from Jerusalem.
many peoples
And render decisions for mighty, distant nations.
Then they will hammer their
And their spear
Nation will not lift up
against nation
And never again will they
And each of them will sit under
and under his fig tree,
With no one to make them
For the LORD of hosts has spoken.
the peoples walk
Each in the name of his god,
As for us,
of the LORD our God
In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble ,
and I will gather her that ,
And I will make her that halted ,
and her that was cast far off :
and the LORD shall reign over them in
from henceforth, .
Micah speaks of the Rule of God's Law in the hearts of all people, and the subsequent shalom-blessing of God upon our lives. The pencil is an
illustration of this blessing.
PREDESTINED PENCIL
I was predestined to jot a few notes for this essay with
a &Trusty 916 No.2& pencil, &Made in U.S.A.& by the &Empire
Pencil Co.& Not a single one of the millions of people
involved in the creation of this pencil were aware that I would use it in this way, nor
did they so intend.
But God knew. And if this
paper helps you worship God, then I will count my pencil as a great blessing from God.[11] It would take me a lifetime to create a pencil without
the aid of those whom God has predestined to create it for me. I am able to buy a lifetime
of labor for pennies. My pencil is a gift from God of inestimable value. How is it I came
to possess the wealth of millions?
Then again, it may have been a &Mongol
482,& assembled, fabricated, and finished by Eberhard Faber Pencil Company,
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. This was the pencil Leonard Read described in his classic 1958
essay, &.& I'm glad
that Mr. Read was predestined to write that article so that I could use my free will to
plagiarize it so extensively here and now. I searched for a &Mongol 482& among
my vast pencil collections so that my plagiarism could more precisely parallel Mr. Read's
essay, but it appears that after a merger, all that remains of Eberhard Faber is
&Faber-Castell& Co., and all the pencils I have of theirs are called
&American.& For purposes of this anarchist discussion of predestination,
&Empire Pencil Co.& was rhetorically more powerful than a pencil called
&American,& although the latter would have served admirably. (Please check out
: BIRTH OF A
Not one of the laborers who were planting cedar sprouts back in 1951 knew that their
labor was going to produce a pencil which I would use to describe the Providence of God.
Even the entrepreneur who purchased thousands of acres of unused land and planted hundreds
of thousands of tiny trees did not know what would happen to those trees. All he knew was
that in 40 or so years, he could harvest his crop and sell it for more than it had cost
him to grow it. Maybe all he cared about was money. His
foresight, combined with the risks he took in acquiring the cedar sprouts and hiring the
planters, ultimately led to the gift of my pencil.
Then in 1991, saws and trucks and rope and countless other gear were used
to harvest the trees and cart the cedar to the railroad siding. I know too little about
the making of saw blades to describe God's Predestination of their manufacturing. I can
only vaguely imagine the numberless skills that went into their fabrication: the mining of
ore, the making of steel and its metamorphosis into saws, axes, motors, chains.
I've met loggers in Oregon and can imagine the logging camps, the beds,
mess halls, the food they consumed while harvesting the trees. Each cup of coffee the
loggers drank could tell a story every bit as miraculous as the one my pencil can tell.[14]
I know that rope is made from hemp, which had to be grown like the cedar
trees, shipped, turned into strong rope, sold to the rope distributor, who had a printer
print up his catalog of all the different kinds of rope he had collected for sale to those
who needed them, which was read by our cedar entrepreneur, who purchased what he needed to
tie the logs onto the trucks that carried them to the next stop in God's plan for my
SAN LEANDRO: THE FORMATIVE YEARS
The logs are shipped to a mill in San Leandro, along with all kinds of other products
which depended on the rails, the flat cars, and the powerful engines, whose ancestry I
cannot trace. The tracks were laid by thousands of dedicated laborers, and the schedules
each train must follow to avoid collisions were carefully planned by hundreds of skilled
specialists and communicated over electronic systems of communication. God made sure they
were all in place, knowing that they were helping to bring me my pencil.
Here the cedar logs are cut into small, pencil-length slats less than one-fourth of an
inch in thickness. These are kiln-dried in ovens too complicated for me to describe,
operated by people who know much more about drying wood than I, having been born, raised,
educated, and given just the right opportunities by God to ensure that they would be in
San Leandro drying the wood for my pencil.
Because people over the years have bought far more cedar wood when it was tinted than
when it is a pallid white, the laborers in San Leandro, knowing they will increase their
sales, tint the wood, then wax it, then dry it in the kiln again. I don't know where the
tints and the wax comes from, all I know is that God made sure the raw materials were
gathered, the finished product shipped to a distributor known by the mill operator so that
they could be purchased and used to fabricate a pencil I would need in order to write this
) Tesla was an inventor who lived at the turn
of the century. He is best known for developing Alternating Current. The difference
between electrical power before Tesla and after him is the difference between battery
power and the power in the electrical outlet in the wall. Yet this was the first and
perhaps least important of Tesla's inventions, although it completely revolutionized
Western Industrialism. The entire planet is surrounded by energy. Scientists speak of the
&Van Allen Belt.& Energy rotates the needle in your compass. Tesla figured out
how to use this energy to power turbines. He developed the technology to transmit this
power without wires (which would have eliminated the unsightly wires strewn across our
skies). He developed energy which traveled faster than the speed of light (&Beam me
up, Scotty&). He developed a force field which would have rendered all nations
invulnerable to attack. He offered this technology to all nations to bring peace. The
United States State Department forbad him to do so, and hours after his death his papers
were confiscated. ||
I wish I could say that the electricity used to supply the
mill's power came from a generator like the kind envisioned and developed by Nicola Tesla.[15] But I'm afraid that the power came from a dam built for a
hydroplant which required many people to design (to
support millions of pounds of water pressure), build (pouring millions of pounds of
concrete) and maintain. God may have hidden Tesla's
secrets from a nation that would have used them to destroy, advancing its &Manifest
Destiny& rather than building and serving others. An environment scarred by a dam may
be a small price to pay for the preservation of life on a larger scale. I can give thanks
to God even for the dam He predestined to be built.
) &The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the
rivers of water: He turneth it whithersoever He will& (Proverbs 21:1). || [Return to text]
) Government involvement in this project necessitated the theft of
land (&eminent domain&) and property (&taxation&), and radical
alteration of the environment. Many people were thus &victimized& by these
sinful acts. But we question the morality of God's predestination only by supposing
ourselves to be more omniscient and moral than God. ||
&Behold, I have created the smith that
bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an ins and I
have created the waster to destroy. {17} No weapon that is formed against thee shall
and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith
the LORD& (Isaiah 54:16-17). ||
Question 1 of the very Calvinist &Larger Catechism& (1648) asks, &What is
the chief and highest end of man?& and answers, &Man's chief and highest end is
to glorify God, and fully to enjoy Him forever.& ||
It actually contains no true lead at all. || [Return to text]
in his book The Three Princes of Serendip, the
heroes of which make &serendipitous& discoveries. ||
Read: &debtors.& ||
Meek and humble submission to slave-holders is anarchistic,
because it affirms the Law of Christ, Who defeated the archists (Col. 2:15) and told us
not to be like them (Mark 10:42-45). &Resistance& is the violence and conflict
of two archists fighting for domination. ||
Incredibly powerful forces in our society want to keep me from
being able to accept gifts, either from God or from another human being. Being grateful
and expressing my appreciation for gifts does not come easy for me. The Biblical Doctrine
of Predestination makes it easier for me. Jesus says these gifts come from God. How can I
be ungrateful? ||
Revelation 17:17 For God hath put in their
hearts to fulfil His will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the
words of God shall be fulfilled.
Genesis 50:20 But as for you, ye tho but God meant
it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. || [Return to text]
Daniel 11:27 And both these kings' hearts shall
be to do mischief, and they shall spe but it shall not prosper: for
yet the end shall be at the time appointed.& ||
Novus Ordo Seclorum, &New Order of the Ages,&
the motto on &The Great Seal& of America (see under the pyramid [?!] on the one
dollar Federal Reserve Note). ||
Exodus 14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart,
that he sha and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his
that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him:
for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might
deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. ||
Genesis 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil
but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much
people alive.
Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his
enemies to be at peace with him.
God often makes masters out of the slaves:
Psalm 105:17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who
was sold for a servant:
Acts 7:9-10 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into
Egypt: but God was with him, {10} And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave
him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of E and he made him governor over
Egypt and all his house. ||
&Thus saith the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of
I For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and
the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships& (Isaiah 43:14). ||
I mention the &colonial& names because the
colonization is critical to the development of the production of the resource. Without the
intervention of European power, the natives would not have developed the production, and
even if they did, they might not be interested in selling to the U.S. today. || [Return to text]
I admit that virtually every step in the life of an American is
directly or indirectly &regulated& by an army of government bureaucrats. But
it's not like when a child is born the State hands his mother a birth certificate and a
document which says that the child will work in a pencil factory. And if any of the
laborers in Third World countries were forced to labor, we all recognize the moral evil
which this represents.
Total Predestination
The Predestined Pencil
Random Chance vs. Personalism
GO EAST, YOUNG PENCIL
The wood for a &Mongol 482& would then have to be shipped to Wilkes-Barre,
PA. Railroads have had a tremendous impact on the last few generations in America, with
millions of people having their lives moved by the Hand of God in just the right way such
that railroads could be built across the continent so that in late 1991 wood could be sent
from California to Pennsylvania to be made into my pencil.
Once in the pencil factory each slat is given eight grooves by a complex machine, after
which another machine lays leads in every other slat, applies glue, and places another
slat atop &#151; a lead sandwich, so to speak. Eight pencils are mechanically carved from
this wood-clinched sandwich.
The factory itself represents capital worth millions of dollars. It is probable, unfortunately, that not all of this money was saved
up by those who, for the sake of building up capital for future service projects, consumed
less than they earned. Some of this money may have been stolen from others through a
process called &.&
Those who built the factory may have been more interested in monetary profit than in
serving others in obedience to God's Law. As Jesus might say of them, &Truly I say
unto you, they have their reward.&
But as the Bible says, &The borrower is the slave to
the lender& (Proverbs 22:7). Sometimes slavery is voluntary, as well
as difficult. In their quest for money, they may not have seen the wonderful ways God's
predestination works in our world, and may not have been able to enjoy life to its
fullest, the way God intended for us to live. They may
have had to work overtime, u they may have lost much sleep over
whether they could make the pay developed ulcers when they saw how
much inter and they may have led very unhappy lives, working day in,
day out, to keep their indebted factory in business. &There
is no rest for the wicked& (Isaiah 57:20-21).
Our culture does not want us to believe that &whatsoever
cometh to pass& has been ordained by God. If things &just happen& and the
universe is not completely controlled by God, then the door is open for man to declare
himself king of the universe and begin to implement his own decree, his own
predestination. &Serendipity& is such a romantic, light-hearted word, until one
recognizes that the philosophy of unpredestined serendipity leads to raw archism, as man incarnates himself in the
Divine State in order to predestine others in a lawless, unpredestined world. The
universe has meaning only because God has given it meaning by predestinating all things.
All things happen by virtue of the personal, loving Plan of our sovereign God.
Huxley, grandson of &,& Sir Thomas Huxley, has openly admitted,
I had motives for not wanting the world to have
consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to
find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the
world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics, he is also
concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he
wants to do, or why his friends should not seize political power and govern in the way
that they find most advantageous to themselves. . . . For myself, the philosophy of
meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation, sexual and political.
How ironic, then (to return to my pencil), to find that the
&lead& for my pencil was predestined to be
found, mined, and shipped from the island of &Serendipity.& Actually,
&Serendib& was the name of the island when Horace Walpole coined the term
&serendipity& back in 1754. Later called
&Ceylon,& and now &Sri Lanka,& it has been a major source of graphite,
which makes my pencil write.
But sometimes slavery is less voluntary than the slavery of American
&capitalists.& Strong men, calling themselves
&the government,& conscript human beings into involuntary service.
We are commanded to follow the model of Jesus, should we be taken captive (1 Peter
2:18-25), but this command to &submit& does
not mean that the act of conscription is morally legitimate.
If an unBiblical slave-holder offered to sell me the product of slave labor, I would
shop elsewhere, even at higher prices. Sometimes it is impossible for me to extricate my
purchases from those industries which have used unGodly means to produce their product,
oppressing many along the way.
At other times, I realize that when men are slaves to sin, their covetousness drives
them to become the slaves of men. When faced with this tragedy, I remember the proverb,
&The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just&
(Proverbs 13:22). I know that God creates Pharaohs and
other &vessels of dishonor& whose sole purpose is to bring glory to God and
blessings to the &vessels of mercy.&
I think about the conditions in which the miners in Serendib, laboring close to the
equator, must work. I might consider the they might be happy to have
a job at all. God will deal with their employer (James 5:4); and while his life may be
cursed, I am blessed, for &He that by usury and unjust
gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor&
(Proverbs 28:8).
GOD ORDAINS THE STATE
Throughout this essay I am writing rather idealistically of a &laissez-faire&
world in which people are free to act in ways which produce the pencil I need to write
about them as predestined actors in God's cosmic drama. Alas, the world is poisoned by
slavery and statism. There is no such thing as a &free market.& I have explored the Biblical doctrine of the State in other
papers. Let's review some of the concepts as they pertain to my pencil.
First, God is sovereign over the S He predestined it.
Second, for every person enslaved by the State, there are three people who participate
in the enslaving: the slave-driver, the government politician who sanctions the activity
of the slave-driver, and the &constituent& (voter) who benefits from slave labor
and elects the politician and his cronies to baptize the slave-system with words like
&rule of law.& Enslavement of the innocent by
the State lasts only as long as the LORD has predestined it,
although the organs of propaganda for the New World Order say their system is eternal.[28]
Third, those who think they can satisfy their covetous lusts through impersonalist
statism are at war with God's Law. They are eventually destroyed by the State they
construct. Thus God predestines His vengeance upon them by the State which they so
&freely& desired.
Fourth, after destroying its &enemies,& the State thinks it's the &king
of the hill.& It is only the king of a hill of dung, however, and it dies the death
its destruction (which some would say is a &natural& result of
its violation of &economic& law) was predestined by God.
Finally, in the end, the Godly benefit from this whole panorama of human action and
BACK TO MY PENCIL
After benefiting from the labor of shipbuilders, dockworkers, ship captains, lighthouse
keepers and harbor pilots, the graphite from Serendib is
mixed with clay from Mississippi, in which aluminum hydroxide is used in the refining
process. Then wetting agents are added such as sulfonated tallow &#151; animal fats
chemically reacted with sulfuric acid. After passing through numerous machines, the
mixture finally appears as endless extrusions &#151; like from a sausage grinder &#151;
cut to size, dried, and baked for several hours at 1,850 degrees Fahrenheit. To increase
their strength and smoothness, the &leads& are then treated with a hot mixture
which includes candelilla wax from Mexico, paraffin wax, and hydrogenated natural fats.
Paraffin wax is a petroleum product. General Schwarzkopf recently admitted that the murder of 200,000 Iraqis and the whole
Mideast war was &over oil.& In another paper I wrote about how God predestines war, but I didn't mention that my pencil was one
of the by-products of that war.
The Oregon Cedar receives six coats of lacquer. Do you know all the ingredients of
lacquer? If I were to tell you, would you know where to buy them all? How to mix them?
Would you have thought that the growers of castor beans and the refiners of castor oil
played a part in the creation of my pencil? God predestined them all.
The ferrule is brass. The black rings are black nickel. And the crowning glory of my
pencil is rather inelegantly referred to in the trade as &the plug.& After my
free will makes embarrassing mistakes with my &lead,& God predestines me to
erase them. An ingredient called &factice& is what actually does the erasing. It
is a rubber-like product made by reacting rape seed oil from Indonesia (once called the
Dutch East Indies) with sulfur chloride. Rubber,
contrary to popular perception, is used only for binding purposes. I could also trace the
lineage of the various vulcanizing and accelerating agents. The pumice comes from Italy,
the pigment which gives &the plug& its color is cadmium sulfide.
&THE INVISIBLE HAND&
It is a source of great delight to me that neither the logger, nor the chemist, nor the
digger of graphite or clay nor any who mans or builds the ships or trains or trucks nor
the one who runs the machine that does the knurling on my pencil's bit of metal nor the
president of the pencil company performs his singular task because he was ordered to by
the Pencil Czar, nor any other archist who dictates the production of pencils.[34] The entire miraculous process took place freely under the
guidance of an &invisible Hand.&
Only God can make a tree. Only God can sow the seeds of zinc, copper, graphite, under
tons of hills and mountains. But to each of these miracles which we find in nature an even
more extraordinary miracle has been added: the configuration of creative human energies
&#151; millions of tiny know-hows coming together naturally and spontaneously in response
to human necessity and desire &#151; and all in the absence of any human master-minding.
Since only God can make a tree, I insist that only God could make a pencil. Man can no
more direct these millions of know-hows to bring my pencil into being than he can put
molecules together to create a tree.
But if these millions of know-hows were not created by a personal, loving God, as
described in the Bible, then the scientists, generals, dictator-Presidents &#151; all
following the lead of the Nazis and the materialists &#151; are correct. They are
&#151; we are &#151; nothing but the random and meaningless confluence of chemicals and
water, which over time has developed the idea &#151; the delusion &#151; that we can make
rational, moral, choices. In the cold, purposeless universe of the evolutionist, morality
is an illusion, and meaning is vanity. All is chance.
In future essays in this series, I will argue that I am not the being imagined by the
defenders of &free will.& I am not a lump of randomly-concocted molecules
floating meaninglessly in a cold impersonal space-time continuum, in which some god may or
may not have known that I would come into being and definitely does not know what my next
move is. I will argue that I am a creature of the God of the Bible, predestined for glory,
created in God's Image, and sustained by the angels who also worship a predestinating
Acts 3:17-18 And now, brethren, I know
that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. {18} But those things, which
God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath
so fulfilled.
1 Samuel 2:6-7 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to
the grave, and bringeth up. {7} The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low,
and lifteth up.
1 Kings 12:15 Wherefore the king hearkened for the
cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah
the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
2 Chronicles 36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that
the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD
stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all
his kingdom, and put it also in writing,
Ezra 6:22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for
the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to
strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of
wrath shalt thou restrain.
Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his
enemies to be at peace with him.
Proverbs 16:33 The lot
but the whole disposing
thereof is of the LORD.
Isaiah 45:13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all
his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor
reward, saith the LORD of hosts ||
Ezekiel 29:19-20 Therefore thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of B
and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and it shall be
the wages for his army. {20} I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith
he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.
1 Chronicles 5:26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king
of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away,
even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them
unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
2 Samuel 17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of
Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to
defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon
Judges 9:23-24 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men
of S and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: {24} That the
cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be
laid upon Abimelech their brother, and upon the men of Shechem, which
aided him in the killing of his brethren. See my essay, &.& ||
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