Systematic Political Science
 
 

The Trigonometric Function(s) of the Khalal[1]/Zman[2] Algorithm:
Theological Forensic Psychology of the Contiguous Relationship of Eras

by
Dallas F. Bell, Jr.

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.”[3]

--Publius Terentius Afer

On a line in a one-dimensional plane, we may consider that there are two distinct points.  The beginning point is the initial point and it extends to the next point of the line segment and is called a ray.  An angle is created when a ray is rotated from the initial point to a terminal position, the angle is considered positive if the rotation is counterclockwise and negative if the rotation is clockwise.  The magnitude of the angle is in degrees.  The three points where the three sides of a triangle join are vertices.  Those three vertices and the three angles formed (totaling 180 degrees) are the six parts of the triangle.  When these points are applied to a coordinate system (x, y axis graph of quadrants) they form ratios.  Those ratios are sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant.  Those are the six trigonometric functions of angle.  Of course, trigonometry is the study of the relations among those six trigonometric functions and their application to other fields.  The magen David (shield of David) or Star of David is two triangles superimposed over each other. Sheynit Masada lo tipul.[4]

Each triangle side has a contiguous relationship with the next side.  Human finite intellect epistemologically understands science (side A) and philosophy (side B) as determined by the dynamics of their theology (side C).  This is often wrongly described as circular reasoning, where the first line of a syllogism (side A) presents the same conclusion as the third line (side C) without separation of entities.  A circle is one line without a beginning or end where every point on the line in its plane is equidistant from the center.  Reasoning is triangularly formed along the linear points of a line with side lengths and angles to determine if the outcome is proved true or proved false.  Whatever the result, understanding is potentially advanced linearly toward the next triangular process of the unknown.  If the results are denied, the same triangle may be formed again and again until it is accepted and a new triangle is linearly structured.  That is a recurring series which is not circular.[5]

Visible light is a linear spectrum beginning after infrared with red and ending with violet before ultraviolet.  Green and blue are within the spectrum.  Red, green, and blue are colors that can be mixed to produce white making them primary colors.  Colors that produce white when added with a primary color are secondary colors.  The secondary colors for red, green, and blue are cyan, magenta, and yellow.  When they are combined they produce black.  The three primary colors create a triangle of points with the sides of secondary colors; red and green with the side of yellow, green and blue with the side of cyan, and blue and red with the side of magenta so the sides of magenta and yellow meet at the point of red, the sides of yellow and cyan meet at the point of green, and the sides of cyan and magenta meet at the point of blue.  Those connections form a linear plane of points are triangular and not circular, such as a means between two finite extremes.

David Hume warned of the lack of human understanding for all causes of all effects.  Homo religiosus can witness wisdom in the efficiency of the purposeful creation, the Creator’s reflected beauty from His beautiful creation, and the gentle love of the Creator which may cause desire to reciprocate His love.[6]  However, finite man can never witness the complete infiniteness of the first Causer of all effects.

The Scriptures give the effects of some distal and proximate causes.  That revelation of the past and future has a mathematical structure presented as trigonometric functions.  An infinite line has three points.  The space on the line between point one and point two is side A to a triangle.  The space between point two and point three is side B.  Side A and side B join to form side C.

The finite humanly understood triangle is infinitely equilateral and composed of a shapeless, omnipresent, and self-existent God (Matt. 28:19; II Cor. 13:14) the Father (A), Son Jesus (B), and the Holy Spirit (C).  The doctrine of divine incomprehensibility in systematic theology for the Trinity is known as perichoresis (from Greek: περιχώρησις perikhōrēsis, rotation).  Not used in the Greek New Testament text, the theological term describes the binding of the Trinity, the two natures of Jesus Christ (the reciprocal inherence of the human and divine natures of Christ in each other), and God's omnipresence.[7]  Baruch Spinoza wrote that he thought Jesus’ divine and human nature was like a circle taking on itself the nature of a square.[8]  Of course, a circle and square are the same things.  They are shapes making Spinoza’s credulous statement incongruent.  The divine and human natures of Jesus are not paradigms of the same category.

The Trinity created an algorithm with trigonometric functions for space and time within nine understandable triangles.

111: “unity” of sinless creation (one, Deut. 6:4; Matt. 19:6); (A) nonlife material, (B) nonhuman life, (C) human life.[9]

222: “division” from sin (two, Eccl. 4:9-12; I Kings 18:21; Matt. 7:13-14); (A) Satan, (B) Adam, (C) Eve.

333: “testing” causing the judgment for sin by a world flood[10] (three, Judg. 7:16); (A) Shem, (B) Japheth, (C) Ham.

444: “completion” of God’s nation-state of Israel[11] and His capital in Jerusalem (four, Matt. 13:4-8, 25:2; John 4:35; Rev. 7:1); (A) Abraham, (B) Isaac, (C) Jacob renamed Israel.

555: “incompletion” of world governance for sinful empires (five, Lev. 14:14-16; Matt. 25:15-20); (A) Babylonian, (B) Greek, (C) Roman.[12]

666: “failed testing” will cause the judgment for sin by a last world war called Armageddon (six, Gen. 1: 27, 31; Rev. 13:18); (A) Antichrist, (B) false prophet, (C) whore.

777: “perfection” of world leadership by Jesus’ reign from Jerusalem in the Messianic dispensation (seven, Josh. 6:4; Rev. 1:4); (A) Jesus, (B) saints, (C) church.

888: “new beginning” (eight, Eze. 43:27; I Peter 3:20); (A) new heaven, (B) new earth, (C) new Jerusalem (Rev. 21:1-2).[13]

999: “end” with the eternal judgment for sin (nine, the final number of months for human pregnancy; the last of the numerical digits before starting over; the earth’s solar system is thought to have only nine large bodies, Greek amhn [amen] numerically 99, ends prayers [Hebrew, Deut.  27:15-26] [Matt. 28:20], and is last word to end the Bible in Rev. 22:21; Greek th orgh mou" [tee orgee mou], my wrath, is numerically 999 [Heb. 3:11]); (A) Jesus’ word will not pass away because they are living and active (Ps. 102:24-27; Is. 40:8; Matt. 24:35; Luke 21:33; Heb. 4:12),[14] (B) eternal reward in heaven (Matt. 23:34-37; Heb. 12:22-23), (C) eternal punishment in hell (Matt. 25:46; Rev. 21:8).[15]

Understanding the auxiliary meaning of tangential numbers is essential for humans to understand the algorithm of their intellect programed by the Creator, as well as other behavioral algorithms.  The divine numeric code of numbers 1-9 make up the fractions of the base ten whole of space/time algorithm completion.  The nine triangles compose the whole of three contiguous eras; 1 is side A the flood judgment era,[16] 2 is side B the Armageddon era, and 3 is side C the eternal judgment era.

111, 222, 333 = A

444, 555, 666 = B

777, 888, 999 = C

Those physical eras’ sides are determined by non-physical angles of the Old Testament (OT) redemptive covenant, the New Testament (NT) redemptive covenant, and the central angle of God’s law, θThe central angle at side A and B is God’s law (θ of AB = law), the angle at side A and C is Old Testament redemptive covenant (angle of AC = OT), and the angle at side B and C is the New Testament redemptive covenant (angle of BC = NT).

Individuals are born to see God’s hand in nature’s beauty, efficiency, and innate just law to not want to be lied to or stolen from or murdered (side A).  They desire to know this God of love and justice (side B).  They want to be accepted by Him (side C).  Life is lived with the options to recognize or not recognize the physical and spiritual reality of God (side A).  This requires the option to recognize or not recognize God’s Scripture determined by its exclusive truth and fulfilled prophesy (side B).  The option to be redeemed or not be redeemed is chosen (side C).  Lastly, death indicates the choice of having accepted or rejected God (side A).  It reflects the choice of having abided or not abided in Scriptures (side B).  The anguish of not having accepted God’s redemption[17] or the peace of having been redeemed[18] is demonstrated (side C).

The side A of individual birth, side B of a lived life, and side C the eventual death make up societal institutions, like protons, neutrons, and electrons make up an atom.[19]  A male (XY chromosomes), side A, marries a woman (XX chromosomes), side B, and they have offspring, side C, which forms a family.  A minister, side A, the administration, side B, and the redeemed members with their individual spiritual gifts, side C, form a church.  The chief, side A, his workers, side B, and their customers, side C, form a business.  Those three institutions need a complex government for order and protection from the lawless.  The elected legislature makes the laws within a lawful constitution, side A, the judiciary insures the laws are lawful, side B, and the chief executive executes the laws, side C.  

The traditional structure of a haiku has three lines.  The first line has five syllables, the second line has seven syllables, and the last line has five syllables.  The 2013 winner of the USA Today newspaper haiku contest was Luke Bell.  His poem is as follows.

More school tragedies,
Teachers are undervalued,
Future in their hands.

If a right triangle is made of the haiku sides, the Pythagorean Theorem may be applied, side A is 5, side B is 5, and side C is 7; 5 squared is 25 + 5 squared is 25 = 7.07 squared = 49.98 (round down to 7).  Five is a number for man and seven is a number for God.  Line one is five (an understood thing by man is portrayed), line two is seven (an interaction allowed by God is portrayed), and line three is five (and observation by man is made).  A simple and obvious set of three haikus can poetically represent the nine trigonometric eras as follows, with an uncharacteristic title. 

[20]The Triangle Water[21] Clock

Meadows of flowers,[22]
Black clouds shower the petals,[23]
Rainbow colored sky.[24]

A green olive[25] Branch,[26]
Flood waters lower gently,[27]
The promise of Peace.[28]

The Stone[29] of Zion,
A prophetic River[30] flows,
Treasures[31] from heaven.

Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Ph.D. of biomedical science, editor of the Shamrock Haiku Journal and chair of the Irish Haiku Society, points out that Japanese speaking writers of haiku use the traditional 5-7-5 structure, whereas English-language poets predominately write free-form haiku.[32]   

The past can not be operated in physically, but it is more than memory[33] and can not be changed.  Its effects can be poetically learned from and measured[34] for physical operation in the present time.[35]  The path of good works are pre-ordained by God for His followers that are created by Jesus the Christ (Eph. 2:10), the prophesied Shiloh (Gen. 49:10).

The reality of entropy indicates that there is an appointed time on earth for mankind (Job 7:1).  Only God understands all dimensions beyond finite one-dimensional understanding (I Kings 8:27).  The length of triangle sides and angles for time spans and effects form possible equilateral, right-angled, isosceles, scalene, and obtuse shapes.  Those shapes could only be perfectly known and perfectly comprehended by God (Job 11:5-7).  The complete phenomenon can not be understood by finite minds nor can be the associated noumenon or das ding an sich.[36]

Those trigonometric functions[37] can be compared to other structures, such as Nostradamus’ quatrains.[38]  They are not contiguous in relationships, nor symmetrical.  Therefore, in reality they are not a prophetic view of the future.  At best they are ramblings that are intentionally vague so as to elicit interpretation at some point in the future as having foretold an event by people that reject actual prophesy.

The atheist, André Malraux wrote the 1933 book “Man’s Fate” (La condition humaine, French for The Human Condition).  Malraux is quoted as saying, “man has no urge to govern--he has an urge to compel... To be more than a man, in a world of men. To escape man's fate… Not powerful--all-powerful. The visionary disease, of which the will to power is only the intellectual justification, is the will to god-head--every man dreams of being god.”  Atheists must hope and have faith that their lives have no purpose and there is nothing after death.  Even an ox knows his owner and an ass knows his master’s crib (Is. 1:3).

 

Eugene Soltes, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, wrote a book on white collar crime.  He thinks the core religious beliefs, especially of white collar criminals, should be included in forensic psychological analysis.  His discussions with colleagues indicate the usefulness of this emphasis, but acknowledges less people are identifying with religious values.  The final chapter of his book provides a speech from the 1920’s that addresses this issue.[39]  It should be noted that a lack of religious identity is in itself a value of self-authority over an extra-human immutable authority, which is practical atheism.

Shintō beliefs that all things have souls would explain why Japanese adherents demonstrate their view of robots as more than just mechanical parts, which are theologically co-morbid.[40]  The professional golfer, Tiger Woods was the only golfer at a tournament that refused to participate in a memorial service for a fellow golfer, Payne Stewart, who had passed away during a plane crash in 1999.  As a self-proclaimed Buddhist, as was his mother, he would not see any reason to memorialize the transference of one set of molecules of a fellow golfer to dust.  Woods’ beliefs also explain why he rejected fidelity to his wife and was widely known as a serial adulterer.  We know that in World War II the Nazi puppet Croatian Ustaše,[41] Catholics joined by Muslims, identified Serbians with Eastern Orthodox Christian beliefs as the enemy.  It is estimated that as many as 500,000 Serbs were murdered, 250,000 expelled, and 200,000 forced to convert to Catholicism.[42]

Being out of synchronization with the material brevity of time, human consciousness requires a transcendent understanding of its non-material existence projected into eternity, with all the knowable implications that entails (Ps. 89:47, 90:9-10; Jam. 4:14).  Scriptures record the past and prophesy the future intersection of human behavior and motives with God’s law in time and space—theological forensic psychology.  Individual behavior combines to create the behaviors of the institutions of family, church, business, and government.  According to behavioral boundaries of Divine law (Matt. 24:4-12; Rom. 1:21-32; I Cor. 6:9-12; Gal. 5:19-21; I Tim. 1:9-10; II Peter 3:2-5; Rev.), human behavior can be graphed as presently reaching an exponential peak of chosen unrighteousness in human history where survival is threatened by the consequences of those evil acts.

Scientific and philosophical forensic psychology is the discipline that studies the intersection of the practice of psychology and societal law.[43]  Trial consultants work with legal professionals, such as trial attorneys, to assist in case preparation.  They coach witnesses to create a favorable testimony and help select the jury to create a more likely probability of being sympathetic toward the client(s).  A New York criminal attorney and forensic psychologist, Howard Greenberg said in a 2016 interview aired on the Viceland channel[44] that his long list of preventing his guilty clients from justice was due to his manipulating the jury.  He boasted that he won the case in the first 10 minutes of his opening argument.  He addressed the sympathetic jury he helped select by first creating a few moments of silence before he made his opening remarks, then moved slowly creating a hand gesture that resembles a steeple, alluded many times to his client’s criminal activity as mainstream, and enlarged his hand gestures to symbolize the encompassing of everyone.

Trial consultants categorize their clients and what categories of people have a probability of being sympathetic to their client and what categories have a probability of not being sympathetic to their client.  The categories include gender, age, race and ethnicity, estimated innate problem-solving capability, vocation and hobbies, political affiliation, economic status, behavioral history and education, marital status and family, compatible or incompatible appearance, and religious identity and values.

The famous United States trial of O.J. Simpson, in California, was decided not guilty before its opening statements were given by the prosecutors and defense attorneys.  The eight black female jurors full of envy and hate for pretty white women that attract successful black males were never going to find the black male defendant, Simpson, guilty of murder of a white female and Jewish male due to any case the Asian male judge, white female and mixed race black male prosecutors presented.  At great expense to tax payers, the state brought irrefutable scientific evidence and had highly professional white male law enforcement investigators testify over many weeks.  The final verdict of that jury was not guilty.

Another high profile case was Casey Anthony who murdered her child in Florida.  The jury selected had members that had low problem-solving ability, some of which could not distinguish between the biblical doctrine of not judging a man’s soul and the necessity of judging biblically criminal behavior.  They had young single white women that identified with abortion and night club activity participated in by the defendant, Anthony.  When the obvious verdict of not guilty by the jury was finally read, the prosecutors could not believe the outcome.  They had lost before their opening statements were delivered and justice was prevented.

If each of the two trials mentioned above had juries selected that had biblical standards for behavior and innate problem-solving abilities to discern between true evidence and untrue evidence presented the outcome would had been guilty and justice served.  The standard United States government position is that all religious beliefs are the same and will continue to have evidence that this is not the case and waste time and money until reality is accepted.

A trial in Washington D.C. selected jurors that were middle-aged blacks which had a high respect for military men and had disdain for government politics.  The white defendant was a decorated marine, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North.  There was almost no probability that the jury was going to find the war hero guilty for activities that were obviously only criminalized for political reasons.

Game theory looks at the cui bono (Latin, for whose benefit) cause and effect for predictive behavioral outcomes.  Within the overall trigonometric functions of space (khalal) and time (zman) algorithms and their contiguous relationship of eras that have passed and are to come, sub-game algorithms of individuals and institutions can also be analyzed and understood.  Le jeu est terminé![45]  Maranatha.[46]   


[1] Hebrew for space; (revach or revakh is an interval of space, Gen. 32:16).

[2] Aramaic/Chaldean/Hebrew for set time (Neh. 2:6; Est. 9:27) or season (Eccl.3:1; Dan. 7:12).  Judea Pearl is a pioneer in artificial intelligence.  He has been awarded the Rumelhart Prize (2011), the Harvey Prize (2012), the Turing Award (2012), and the Dickson Prize (2015).  In an email exchange with Dallas F. Bell Jr. during February, 2017, he said he was not aware of the development of a predictive algorithm of khalal (space) of zman (time), especially from the contiguous relationship of past human eras.  He is the father of the journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, Wall Street Journal South Asia Bureau Chief, kidnapped and murdered by Muslims in 2002.

[3] "I am human, and nothing of that which is human is alien to me."  Publius Terentius Afer (c. 195/185–c. 159-158 B.C.), more commonly referred to as Terence, was a Phoenician comedy playwright.  The titles of Terence’s six separate plays are: Andria, Hecyra, Heauton timoroumenos, Eunuchus, Phormio, and Adelphi.

[4] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StarofDavidTheorem.html

Masada shall not fall again” is the loyalty oath of Israeli Defense Force officers made atop Masada during their graduation morning ceremony.

[5] An example of circular reasoning is the common atheist reasoning that science shows there is no evidence for God, philosophy says there are no Divine rules, so theologically there can be no ruling God (Yahweh/Elohim).  All new information just enlarges this circle where the conclusion was reached at the initial line of thought and no progress is possible.  The size of the circle is finite (discrete) and proportional to the subject much like the diameter of a circle’s ratio, π, to its circumference (3.14159265).  They have foolishly rejected scientific, philosophical, and theological epistemological tools.  Finite man must follow God or will follow Satan by default (Gen. 3:1-13; Matt. 4:1-11).  Unfortunately, charismatic atheist leaders develop a cadre of simple minded followers while the more astute may become skeptical toward those fallacies.  Unredeemed religious leaders commonly offer a similar path.  They may argue that science proves God created morality, philosophy shows there is good and bad, and theology must show that people can move closer to God by doing good.  That circle can not progress epistemologically.  Unredeemed charismatic religious leaders also often develop a group(s) of simple minded followers while the more astute become skeptical to that fallacy.  In contrast to those examples of circular reasoning, unbiased triangular reasoning of individuals is often developed.  For example, science shows all effects have a cause (side A), philosophy says the first cause of all effects was efficient and has purpose (side B), and theologically the First Causer’s decisions came from an intellect (side C).  That encased triangle can lead to other triangles, such as science indicates the reality of infinity (side A), philosophy says infinite numbers have equivalence and nonequivalence (side B), and theology may conclude that equivalence requires an infinite Judge for which redemptive grace is needed etc. (side C).  (See endnote 17 for more information and for the common path for reprobates.)      

[6] Paul said there is faith (A), hope (B), and agápē love (C).  The greatest of the three is agápē love.  Judeo Christian doctrine is to love (A) God with all one’s heart (C1), soul (C2), and mind (C3) and (B) one’s neighbor as (C) one’s self (Deut. 6:5; Matt. 22:37).  The first triangle for love is composed of God, neighbor, and self.  The second triangle that composes self is heart, soul, and mind.  Jesus said one’s neighbor is he that shows mercy (Luke 10:29-37, eleos for compassion).  The command to love one’s neighbor (Lev. 19:18) was added to, against God’s command to not add to or subtract from His Scripture (Deut. 4:2; Prov. 30:5-6; Rev. 22:18-19), that you are to hate one’s enemies.  Jesus said to hate enemies is wrong and enemies are to be loved (Matt. 5:43:44).  In the late 5th to early 4th century B.C., Mozi (Mo-tzu) wrote in his Mozi text that jian-ai (impartial concern) does not make distinctions between self (A), associates (B), and strangers (C) which created his doctrine of universal love, which leaves out God.  Recently, Cornell university professor Robert Sternberg completed a triangular theory of love composed of intimacy (A), passion (B), and commitment (C) indicating a lack of understanding of (A) eros (physical love appetite), (B) philos (affection or friend love), and (C) agápē  (Christian selfless love) etc.  The Christian lawyer, minister, and poet John Donne demonstrated an understanding of love in his poems, such as the one below.  As he often did, he used a triangle structure of three sections (sides) with seven equal lines each.

Confined Love

Some man unworthy to be possessor
Of old or new love, himself being false or weak,
Thought his pain and shame would be lesser
If on womankind he might his anger wreak,
And thence a law did grow,
One might but one man know;
But are other creatures so?


Are Sun, Moon, or Stars by law forbidden
To smile where they list, or lend away their light?
Are birds divorced, or are they chidden
If they leave their mate, or lie abroad a-night?
Beasts do no jointures lose
Though they new lovers choose,
But we are made worse than those.

Who e'er rigged fair ship to lie in harbours
And not to seek new lands, or not to deal withal?
Or built fair houses, set trees, and arbors,
Only to lock up, or else to let them fall?
Good is not good unless
A thousand it possess,
But dost waste with greediness.  

[7] From a Reformed theological perspective, the problems of Divine incomprehensibility are discussed at the point where Christian theology (the study of Elohim) and apologetics (telling other people about Elohim especially regarding redemption) overlap.    http://www.reformed.org/apologetics/frame-vtt.html

[8] Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg, November (1675).

[9] The behemoth had a tail that moved like a cedar tree and he drank up a river (Job 40:15-24).  God said He made behemoth with the man.  Leviathan was a wreathed sea animal described by witnesses in Scripture (Job 41:1-10; Ps. 74:14, 104:26: Is. 27:1).

[10] Fossilized sea life are on the tops of mountains across the world, e.g. Mount Everest, far above sea level and any body of water.  Clam shells are closed indicating their rapid response to trauma.  If the mountains rose slowly from a sea floor that rapidly engulfed sea life with fossilizing material over many years the erosion from freeze-thaw periods and wind and rain erosion would have also eroded the fossilized material.  A worldwide flood would have the force and energy to rapidly cause the reality that atheist geologists often ignore.

[11] Israel is Hebrew for one who rules or prevails with God or as God does.  Deut. 28:13 says the Lord will make Israel the head of all nations.  God will curse those that try to divide the God given land of Israel (Joel 3:1-2).  He will judge the nations that divided God’s land.  In December, 2016, the United States president promoted and did not veto United Nations Security Council resolution 2334 that sanctioned the taking of Israel’s Judea, Samaria, and the temple mount in Jerusalem (the only city God gave His name to [II Chron. 6:5-6] and where Jesus will rule from [Rev. 14:1]) and giving it to murdering Muslims.  (Islam is Arabic for “submission” to enforcement of interpretation of Sharia law by individual Muslims.  To submit at the point of a knife the Arabic phrase sha’ha’da must be spoken “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.)  Obviously, this was a Satanic plan acted on by the U.S. president to cause God to justly curse America.  That just indictment is added to America’s deadly national sins (I Kings 14:22) of killing the innocent in abortion (II Kings 17:17), sodomy (I Kings 14:24), and worshiping false gods (I Kings 14:23).  In May 2016, the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board used attorneys, paid for from funds by United States Baptist churches for the purpose of bringing the gospel of Christ to the world, to sign an amicus brief to support the building of a Muslim mosque in New Jersey.  The mission board’s leadership decided to finance the worship of the Muslim god, a false god.  David Platt, president of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board is recorded on February 15, 2017, (Baptist & Reflector, Feb. 22, 2017, pp. 2) as having made a non-apology apology.  He said he was grieved that his decision was divisive and distracting.  Meaning, he was seemingly sorry that the contributors were not smart enough to understand his decision.  He did not clearly apologize for misusing funds, deceiving the trustees, and promoting a false god.  This is Satan’s plan to use their demonic act to disrupt the mission work from losing future funds and losing God’s blessings of promoting the gospel of Jesus to the world.  In the past, Satan argued for the bones of Moses for the apparent purpose of using them to incite future idolatrous behavior of the Israelites (Jude 9).     

[12] Societies, such as Egypt and Assyria etc., were regional sinful empires.

[13] There will be no more tears, death, sorrow, crying, or pain (Rev. 21:4).  Biblical Christianity is the only theology that expresses eternal security for redemption.  Paul knew he was going to heaven after death (II Cor. 5:8; Phil. 1:23).  John knew he was going to heaven after death (I John 5:13).  Peter knew he was going to heaven after death (I Peter 1:3-5).  Jude records the same confidence (Jude 24).

[14] During December, 2016, Cardinal Raymond Burke and four other Cardinals wrote a formal request to Pope Francis to clarify his doctrine that it is no longer considered a sin by him to commit adultery as the Bible says or does one no longer have to have repented of known and willing unconfessed sin before participating in communion as the Bible commands.  The Pope’s assistant replied to the dubia that the Pope does not answer binary questions and only addresses serious queries of church pastors, which is a binary statement.  In the last days some will depart from the faith and speak lies in hypocrisy (I Tim. 4:1-2).  Pope Francis later said publically, from his self-appointed magisterium, that people that hold rigidly to beliefs in Scriptures are behaving compulsively, meaning such Bible believers are mentally ill.  Jesus and all of Scriptures are binary—do this or do not do this, etc.  The redeemed hold to God’s word because it will never pass away.  The Scriptures say if a person takes communion (The Lord’s Supper) unworthily eats and drinks damnation to themselves.  For this reason many people are weak, sick, and have died.  This is Satan’s plan acted on by the Pope to cause God’s damnation to the unrepentant that leads to weakness, sickness, and death of church members.  Thereby, creating a powerless and ineffective church.  The devil condemns and accuses individuals (Job 1:9-11; I Tim. 3:6; Rev. 12:10).

[15] If there is no hell nothing is important.  If there is a hell everything is important.  Everyone must give an account of their life choices (Rom. 14:12).  All works are recorded (Rev. 20:12).  Ever idle word is recorded (Matt. 12:36).  God has declared the end from the beginning and He has told all from ancient times the things not yet done (Is. 46:10).

[16] The following prophesy is coming to pass today, where in the last days scoffers will deny the world flood (II Peter 3:3-6).

[17] At their deaths, it has been recounted the many atheists have demonstrated great anxiety.  Rene Pomeau, dismissed most of the rumors that circulated about Voltaire on his deathbed - the idea that he'd utter blasphemies. The text is La Religion de Voltaire.  The view of Dominic Erdozain, department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College in London and visiting scholar at the Chandler School of Theology at Emory University, is that Voltaire neither returned to the church's orthodoxy nor scorned Christ on his deathbed. There is documentary evidence that Voltaire was very worried that he would be deprived of a proper church burial. He also went to confession and celebrated Mass with his in-house priest, Father Adam, well into his old age. When Father Adam was banned from serving him, he enlisted some Franciscan monks to celebrate the Eucharist. All of this indicates to Erdozain a degree of spiritual sincerity. He writes about it in chapter 4 of his book The Soul of Doubt published by the Oxford University Press.  The racier modern biographies of Voltaire tend to exaggerate his infidelity. Erdozain never claims that he was orthodox, but his spirituality is much more potent than most have understood.  Erdozain recommends Owen Chadwick’s book the Secularization of the European Mind on this subject.  (Erdozain made his comments to Dallas F. Bell Jr. in an email exchange during January, 2017.  Dallas F. Bell Jr. would like to thank Timothy Larsen and Jennifer McNutt, professors at Wheaton College, for their assistance on this issue in an email exchange during January, 2017.)  Additionally, the deaths of other atheists have had great speculation and many varied comments made, such as Thomas Paine and Nietzsche, etc.  Eric Foner says the last words of Thomas Paine are disputed and there is not a definitive account that he knows of, but recommends recent biographies, such as the one by John Keane.  David Hoffman agrees that there were a number of not so credible accounts of Paine’s “deathbed conversion.”  (Foner, DeWitt Clinton professor of history at Columbia University and 2011 Bancroff Prize winner and 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner for history, made his remarks to Dallas F. Bell Jr. in an email exchange in January, 2017.  Hoffman, professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College City University of New York, made his comments to Dallas F. Bell Jr. during and email exchange in February, 2017.  Dallas F. Bell Jr. would like to thank Jay Smith, professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, for his assistance in an email exchange in January, 2017, regarding Thomas Paine.)  Douglas Blount says Nietzsche died in 1900. His last works were published in 1888. Among the books published that year are two of his most vitriolic attacks on Christianity -- Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ. He also published his autobiography that year; it's entitled Ecce Homo. He died after having gone insane; his insanity resulted from syphilis, which Blount says Nietzsche contracted from infected blood while working in a field hospital during the Franco-Prussian War.  (Appreciation is extended to Douglas Blount, professor of Christian Apologetics at the Billy Graham School of Missions at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, for his email exchange with Dallas F. Bell Jr. in January, 2017, concerning Nietzsche as well as Ivan Spencer, professor of history and philosophy at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.)  There are many unsubstantiated “deathbed” quotes for atheists having admitted their opposition to the existence of the infinite Creator.  Beyond whether they are factual or not, the reason for the longevity of such statements is that atheists and non-atheists alike recognize the enormous faith it takes to ignore the overwhelming evidence and necessity of the reality of God.  No rational person opposes the known absence of anything.  Speculation is reasonable to expect in death atheists behave honestly and actually admit aloud their acknowledgment of God and their opposition to Him.  While losing his battle with esophageal cancer, the atheist Christopher Hitchens told Charlie Rose in a televised interview that he planned to stick to his opposition to God in his last hours of life.  Hitchens was indirectly admitting that he was having to make a concerted effort to not lose his atheist faith in death.  Atheism requires expending energy to go against the natural state of belief in God and is subject to entropy of circular reasoning (See endnote 5).  It would not be rational for atheists to have that as their self-identity and vigorously oppose things they know to be fantasy, as it would not be rational for Christians to have that as their self-identity and vigorously support and be martyred for things they know to be fantasy.  The road to becoming reprobates (II Cor. 13:3-5; II Tim. 3:8) is to first reject the authority of God (side A), next find found fault with Scripture (side B), and last reject God’s redemption (side C) until having reached death beds where there is no longer the mental capacity to repent, while even seemingly making a last effort.  A 2017 example of attempting to usurp Scripture was made by Israeli scientists at Ben Gurion University in Beersheba.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/eclipse-stopped-the-sun-for-biblical-joshua-israeli-scientists-say/

They concluded that they discovered from NASA data that Joshua’s record of the sun and moon stopping during a battle in Gibeon was actually a solar eclipse at 4:28 P.M. 30 October 1207 B.C.  The Scriptures said the sun and moon stood still in the midst of heaven and did not go down for about a day and there was no day like that before or after (Josh. 10:12-14). There have been solar eclipses before and after that day.  Joshua is dated as having fought the battle of Jericho where the walls fell down in 1234 B.C. (Josh. 6) and Joshua divided the Israeli lands around 1228 B.C. (Josh. 14-21).  He died in 1211 B.C. (Josh 24:29).  Their attempt to explain away Scriptural records has many irreconcilable problems.  Aristotle is quoted as having observed that “what it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power to not do.”  The choice of love over hate, good over evil, and God over no-God will ultimately triumph proving their natural superiority.  Contrary to Nietzsche’s theme of master-slave morality seen in many of his writings, especially On the Genealogy of Morality.  He said… “the "over-man" is not subject to the morality of the lower-type of meek and common people who speak of good and evil in terms of equality.  Since the noble type of man is of the higher-type, he is not subject to the morality of the herd. Morality favors mediocrity; standing beyond good and evil is rising above the herd. The two primary types of morality are master morality and slave morality; in higher civilizations and in people, they are mixed. Master morality is a "yea-saying" attitude where "good" and "bad" are equivalent to "noble" and "despicable" respectively. The master creates value.  Slave morality is a "nay-saying" attitude or herd morality which holds to the standard of that which is useful or beneficial to the weak or powerless.  The virtues are sympathy, kindness, and humility.  Strong and independent individuals are evil.  The history of morals is the conflict of these two moral outlooks.  The higher type creates his own values out of strength; the meek and powerless begin with resentment.  Coexistence is impossible because the herd seeks to impose its values universally.”  Augustine said, in his Enchiridion (Chapter 11), that evil is the absence or privation of good, privatio boni.  Nietzsche was correct in his last thought that universal good (Christianity) can not coexist with universal evil (atheists), which requires an eternal heaven for the redeemed good and an eternal hell for the unredeemed evil.  The worm of (unredeemed) transgressors against God will not die nor the fire (of judgment) be quenched (Is. 66:24 worm in Heb. is towla’; Mark 9:44 worm in Gr. is skóléx).

[18] At their deaths, it has been recorded that the redeemed Stephen, being stoned to death, said he saw the heavens open and Jesus standing at God’s right hand and asked God to not lay the sin of his murder at the hands of his murderers (Acts 7:54-60), Polycarp was to be burned alive for professing himself to be a Christian and was burned to death as he had seen in a vision.  He said O Father, I bless thee that thou has counted me worthy to receive my portion among the number of martyrs (Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, 1998, Baker Publishing Group, pp.23-24), and John Wickliff said he would live and declare the works of the Lord until he died peacefully and many years later his persecutors dug up his bones and burned them (Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, 1998, Baker Publishing Group, pp. 63-69).  Their roads to redemption was first to accept God (side A), His Scripture (side B), and last to accept His redemption (side C) (John 3:16).

[19] Named for Amedeo Avogadro, Avogadro’s constant is the number (6.022140857 × 1023) to convert moles of a substance to atoms.

[20] Another version of the three haiku content is as follows.

  Triangular Water Clocks

The fields bloom on plains
Butterflies drink, black skies loom
Drip drops and tick tocks.

Dove brings olive Branch
Flood waters sink, bullet sings
Tick tocks in snap shots.

Zion river mines the Stone
Prophet’s eye wink, midnight chimes
Snap shots of hip hops.

[21] Jere. 2:13; Eze. 47:1-12; John 4:10-15.

[22] Gen. 2:5.

[23] Gen. 7:4.

[24] Gen. 9:13-16.

[25] Gen. 8:11.

[26] Jere. 23:5, 33:15; Zech. 3:8.

[27] Gen. 8:3.

[28] Is. 9:6.

[29] Dan. 2:45; Luke 20:17; Rom. 9:32-33.

[30] Is. 32:1-2, 33:21; John 7:38-39.

[31] Matt. 6:19-20.

[32] Kudryavitsky’s comments were made to Dallas F. Bell Jr. during an email exchange in January, 2017.  He adds that he is not aware of any research on the mathematics of haiku writing.

[33] Known for coining the term “cyberspace” in his 1982 short story Burning Chrome, William Gibson, novelist, has written that “time moves in one direction, memories in another.”  An experienced event neurologically records various degrees of input from the senses based on innate ability: light reflection of sight (extreme case of photographic memory), sound waves heard (extreme case perfect pitch recall), smells, tastes, and touch.  Those senses elicit specific emotional reactions: love, hate, joy, sadness, etc.  Muscle memory records associated physical movement (cerebellum attached to the brain stem at the pons).

See the 2007 book by Mark Bear et al. titled Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (3d Ed.).

In 1927 Philosophy (New York, W. W. Norton. Chapter XIII Physical and Perceptual Space. pp. 137-143), Bertrand Russell is noted as saying that physical space and perceptual space have relations, but are not identical.  He added that there is no direct spatial relation between what one person sees and what another person sees, because no two people see exactly the same object.

A sensitive hypnotic subject may be both made to see and not see the same object at the same moment, such as if he is told to not see a chair in his path he may not recognize that he sees it yet he does see it because he will not be made to walk into it.  This demonstrates knowledge is in the mind because without possession of knowledge a subject cannot have performed accordingly.  For more on hypnosis see the following.

https://nccih.nih.gov/health/hypnosis

http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/hypnosis/basics/why-its-done/PRC-20019177 

[34] The annual growth rings of a growing tree can be reasonably examined to determine climate circumstances conducive to faster growth, wider rings equal a growth spurt, or lesser growth, narrow growth ring.  The present witnessed erosion rate of Niagara indicates less than 10,000 years of flow.  See the following link for more on measurement.

http://SystematicPoliticalScience.com/math.html   

[35] A necessary vector(s) of logic follows the definition of time as movement within space.  The movement is the relationship between things toward a future of a greater entropy.  Time is somewhat like a linear motion picture made of a secession of snapshots or points along a timeline.  Snapshots or points are each an exact moment called now, which is recognized and recorded by intellect (Gen 3:22, 4:11 now in Heb. is ‘attah; Matt. 3:15 and Rev. 12:10 present now in Gr. is arti and II Cor. 6:2 now in present time in Gr. is nun).  The exact speed of now is the maximum speed of movement, the speed of light (186,000 miles per second).  Finite minds have a consciousness of now, but can not process the witnessed interaction of things at the speed of light.  This means the maximum speed of thing X is comprehended by humans as < X.  Then we can see that the intellect and view of the observer determines the extent of now.  That ability can use the past and now to project an arc or vector to predict the future movement of something.  If a golfer putts a golf ball toward the hole, the fellow golfers can project from a now the closeness of the ball going into the hole.  As the ball nears the hole, a duck drops down from above the golfer’s heads and grabs the ball and waddles away.  The golfers did not have the information to factor the duck’s action into their prediction.  It was not a closed deterministic differential equation (Physical laws that are described by differential equations represent deterministic equations—a philosophical deterministic system.  Deterministic equations govern the motion of a dynamic system and do not contain terms corresponding to unknown forces.)  Much further away, the viewers at the clubhouse overlooking the golfers saw the duck focus on the ball below and drop down to get the ball.  The clubhouse viewers had more information and could have been more accurate in predicting the outcome of the event.  It could also be said that the event was not simultaneously witnessed by both the golfers and the clubhouse viewers.  The amount of time it took for the clubhouse viewers to witness the event was longer than it was for the golfers nearby.  The now for the golfers when the duck got the ball was several of their nows before the clubhouse viewers’ now of the duck getting the ball.  For those two groups, time was different in their order of nows.  The golfers’ nows were ahead of the clubhouse viewers.  For this period, time was different to each of their consciousness.  In 1971, J.C. Hafele and R.E. Keating demonstrated time dilation with a clock on a plane high above the earth running differently than an identical clock on the earth, given gravitational waves etc.  The clock on the plane had a faster time than the clock on the ground by about 0.15 microseconds.  The eternal clock in God’s intellect would always have second-per-second equivalence values, as the number 2 would always equal 2 etc.  God has already witnessed all events in time, which can be understood as His omniscient now.  This why God, who has the ability of knowing everything, gives humans freewill yet can predict what they will do and what the effects of that cause will be as humans finite ability perceives only the now between a limited understanding of the past and a prediction of their future. Prayer for God’s will to be done (Matt. 6:9-10; Acts 21:14) was predestinated before the world existed (Eph. 1:4-5; II Tim. 1:9) because it is in the human now of God’s eternal now.  Professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley, Richard Muller’s 2016 book, Now: the Physics of Time, provides an example of an incorrect viewpoint of man’s ability to comprehend all of the past, a closed deterministic differential equation/system, to reach the biblically incorrect logic vector of an old earth.  Scriptural understanding of passages that are directly contradictory, e.g. Jesus is theanthropos and Jesus is not theanthropos, requires one statement, at least, to be objectively false.              

[36] German for “thing-in-itself” is a phrase Immanuel Kant discussed in his Critique of Reason.  Kant wrongly postulated that there is a (permanent) gulf between (all) noumenon and (all) phenomenon.  Because something can not be seen does not mean it can not be analyzed for effect and accepted as a reality.  For example, love is commonly expressed in human behavior and freewill is necessary for love.  See the following website    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/

[37] http://www.biology.arizona.edu/biomath/BioMath.html

[38] Michel de Nostradame completed over 940 quatrains that remain today, which he organized into Centuries of proposed prophecies.  For the text of his quatrains see the site at   http://www.sacred-texts.com/nos/

An example of his vagueness follows.

Century 1

1
Sitting alone at night in secret study;
it is placed on the brass tripod.
A slight flame comes out of the emptiness and
makes successful that which should not be believed in vain.

2
The wand in the hand is placed in the middle of the tripod's legs.
With water he sprinkles both the hem of his garment and his foot.
A voice, fear: he trembles in his robes.
Divine splendor; the God sits nearby.

3
When the litters are overturned by the whirlwind 
and faces are covered by cloaks,
the new republic will be troubled by its people.
At this time the reds and the whites will rule wrongly.

4
In the world there will be made a king
who will have little peace and a short life.
At this time the ship of the Papacy will be lost,
governed to its greatest detriment.

[39] Soltes made his comments in an email exchange with Dallas F. Bell Jr. in December, 2016.

[40] In the absence of a religious text, adherents to the Shinto religion believe that inanimate and animate objects have souls or spirits (tama).  Kami or god(s) resides in all things, which can be worshipped and prayed to, and thus their incorrect emphasis on the goodness of mankind.  A correct understanding of the self-existent Creator and first cause of all things, would conclude that this is the only God and that infinite Being must be separate from finite inanimate creation and finite animate beings.  Humans demonstrate freewill in decision-making by choosing opposite courses of action, such as to choose to love or not choose to love.  Anti-nihilist non-contradiction laws of reason and science require opposite courses of action to have one good possibility and its opposite possibility be evil.  There are many more problems with Shinto beliefs that can easily be proven false.  That does not negate having to accept how Shinto followers wrongly see and treat inanimate objects, such as robots.        

[41] Ustaše is plural of Ustaša.

[42] The statistics vary from Yad Vashem, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Federal Institute for Statistics in Belgrade, the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, and the Simon-Wiesenthal center.

[43] Tilburg University psychologists, Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammers, published a 2012 survey of around eight hundred social psychologists which reflected more than ninety percent self-identified as liberal and less than four percent conservative.  Political Action Committee donations by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America to the liberal Democrat party was ninety three percent.  http://www.triallawyersinc.com/healthcare/hc07.html

Note: liberal is defined as rejecting historical proven truth and conservative is defined as accepting historical proven truth.

[44] An American cable television channel dedicated to airing programs that promote extreme drug use, perversion and other forms of behavior that are historically and biblically considered to be evil due to their innate harm to their participants.

[45] French for the game is over/ended.

[46] Aramaic for until Jesus comes (I Cor. 16:22).

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