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Terracotta Army






A couple of nights’ ago I watched a programme on T.V. about the terracotta army discovered some time ago in China.  Each soldier is amazing and individually crafted.  One man was measuring their ears to see how unique each one is, just as if they were portraits of different people, and I guess that is so.  They were buried with weapons which proved to be excellent and accurate.  The commentator said they were, “well ahead of their time.” Often when speaking of “primitive” peoples there is amazement at their technology.  We do not know how Stonehenge could possibly have been positioned as it is.  We marvel at the precision of the pyramids.  Why is it that we are amazed at these things?  If we read our Bibles we see that Adam and Eve were created perfect and this would have included their intellect.  They were far more clever than anyone on earth today and it was only after the fall when they rebelled against God that everything about them began gradually to decline.  Evolutionists tell us that we are becoming more and more clever, having come from nothing.  The truth is, from the beginning man was more intelligent than we are and everything is now going downhill as we race toward eternity. What pride we have in our achievements and yet there has been no solution to war, crime, poverty or famine.  We can flood the Earth with gadgets and fill papers with so called science which is mostly just the product of imagination.  We are failures.  There is a certain solution, to turn back to God whom Adam and Eve rebelled against, and find His salvation in Jesus Christ.




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