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 Exodus 30:23-25 “Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, and of cassia five hundred...

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1 Chronicles 25:7 “So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.”  I once heard the legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson on a BBC TV progr...

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Psalm 8:4-5 “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.” There are constant changes to the dates given for h...

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Acts 17:26 “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;”  There seems little doubt in my mind that Charles Darwin was a r...

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Genesis 43:11 “And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:” New ...

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Ecclesiastes 12:12 “And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”  People often forget that the theory of evolution is really an entire mythological system. It is impo...

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Ephesians 5:15-16 “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” Growing up in England in the 1970s, I remember the BBC launching a children’s TV show during Summer vacation mornings ...

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Genesis 11:8-9            “So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all th...

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Psalm 119:160 “Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.”  I always find it a little depressing when I read about Christians who claim that they started by believing the truth of the Bible and th...

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Ecclesiastes 4:4 “Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit..” In 1637 Rene Descartes published a ground-breaking treatise on optics. His breakthro...

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