Over 1,500 Australians were baptised across Perth and Melbourne this Good Friday, marking a historic moment of spiritual renewal in two unrelated but record-breaking mass baptism events.
Over 1,500 Australians broke with their past in two mass baptisms on Good Friday. The two gatherings in Perth and Melbourne were unrelated and yet managed to make history. In Melbourne, Global Harvest registered 750 genuine baptisms.
Swan River Makes History: 1,000 Baptised at Kingdom City’s Easter Event
In Perth, Kingdom City Church (KC) recorded 1,000 redirecting their lives through participation in the life, death and resurrection of Christ. Quoting founding Pastor Mark Varughese, KC wrote in a Facebook post that, “the scale of the baptism reflects a growing openness to faith and spirituality.”
“Baptism, in the evangelical Christian tradition, is a public declaration of an inward decision,” he explained. “It symbolises leaving behind the past and stepping into a new life—something that resonates with the universal human desire for renewal, hope, and purpose.”
On X, KC described the Swan River Easter event as “Australia’s largest mass baptism”, quipping, “we just wrapped up history.”
The post, which included a thread featuring testimonies, called the afternoon “unforgettable,” and noted that thousands were there in support.
For instance, new Christian, Abby, explained that she and a friend had been in Australia for 6 months, “and didn’t know God at all.” Abby got saved and explained that God had freed her from past trauma. Because of this new encounter with God, she wanted to participate. A flight back to the United Kingdom clashed with the idea, almost stopping Abby from following through. God stepped in, cancelled the flight, and she got baptised.
750 Take the Plunge at Frankston Beach in Global Harvest’s Biggest Turnout Yet
Not that numbers ultimately matter; Melbourne’s Frankston Beach mass baptism drew lower numbers. Despite this, the non-denominational event still broke records. 750 of the more than 1,000 expressions of interest publicly laid down their lives to take up their cross and follow Christ. Discipleship Co-Ordinator for Global Harvest, Vanessa Jarvis, confirmed with The Daily Declaration that Frankston’s Good Friday turnout was the biggest in the ministry’s six-year history.
The grassroots national movement squarely focuses on making the transformative power of the cross known. They bring what the Barna Group has identified as the curious into contact with Jesus Christ. This, Jarvis said, was part of Harvest’s goal of furthering the advance, reach and receptivity of the Gospel as directed by the Great Commission. Harvest’s pathway programs include resources, discipleship camps and apologetics content. Such as Discovery Bible Studies, which “can be used with different study plans and incorporated into different group structures.” Uniquely positioned, Harvest services the entirety of the community of Christ, not a single denomination. As such, the ministry actively engages a vetted network of 400 Christian volunteers who help with events and relationship-building, Jarvis added.
More Than a Moment: How Global Harvest Connects Curiosity to Conversion
While follow-up remains one of Harvest’s responsibilities, volunteers drive the discipleship mechanism in collaboration with local churches. Volunteers are also checked by referral. Any willing candidate needs to be cleared by a Pastor, elder, or person in authority within their local church community. There is also a two-step contact process between Harvest and potential candidates, Jarvis explained. This sorts the serious from the surreptitious and works towards making sure the sanctity of Baptism – as a sacrament – is maintained. To further ensure mass baptisms do not cheapen baptism, Harvest utilises David Pawson’s instructional teaching on Normal Christian Birth. Here Harvest emphasises the relationship between repentance, regeneration and being baptised. While there isn’t a 12-week course, with loops, hoops and hurdles, preparing for baptism, the baptised are prepared in what it means to heed the call. As for accountability, follow-up is key, Jarvis told The Daily Declaration.
Harvest encourages the unity of the Body of Christ (Ephesians 4) and recommends that those being discipled find a local church. For Harvest, Jarvis declared, “Christ is all!” (Colossians 3:11) The discipleship ministry does not endorse any specific brand, only that the church hold to the Biblical profession of faith in Christ. For those who were baptised at the mass immersion events on Good Friday, this was about coming as you are and not staying that way.
Riley, an atheist who was at Frankston, said he “recently started reading the Bible, and decided to buy a cross to express faith in Jesus.” He then came across a Christian contact he’d made six months prior. He invited him to come down, and they both got baptised.
Harvest and Kingdom City’s platforms are not using mass baptisms as marketing gimmicks. The events, timed as they are this year with Easter, are about solidarity with the cross, repentance and being raised to new life. This is especially so for Global Harvest. While not conventional, they connect conviction with discipleship, curiosity with conversion and new Christians with the Body of Christ.
Article by Rod Lampard in Daily Declaration, 8th April 2006
I love John Lennox. He is a gem, a gift to the Christian world of teaching.
This video is Professor John Lennox on the subject of God, AI, and the end of history. Largely it is about understanding the book of Revelation in an age of intelligent machines. For those that do not have time to watch the video I have reproduced most of the content below.
“I’m your host, Dr. Peter Saunders. I’m the chief executive of ICMDA, which is the International Christian Medical and Dental Association. And this webinar is brought to you tonight in combination with the Forum of Christian Leaders as well. ICMDA brings together about 60,000 Christian doctors and dentists from over 100 affiliated movements.
So John, it’s a pleasure to have you here. John is professor of mathematics emeritus at Oxford University and fellow in mathematics and philosophy of science at Green Templeton College Oxford. As we know John has debated a number of prominent atheists including Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Peter Singer. But tonight we are exploring a question that sits at the intersection of theology, technology, and human identity. How should Christians think about artificial intelligence in the light of scripture? And particularly in the light of the book of Revelation, we live in a moment of extraordinary technological acceleration. AI is now diagnosing disease. Is it shaping economies, influencing behaviour, and increasingly mediating how power is exercised in all spheres? And for many Christians, this raises urgent questions. Are these developments morally neutral tools? Do they echo biblical warnings? Or are we in danger of reading tomorrow’s headlines too quickly into ancient prophecy? So, our guest, Professor John Lennox, has spent decades helping believers think clearly at the interface of science, philosophy, and faith. And in his recent book, God, AI, and the End of History, he brings that same clarity to one of the most understood, misunderstood, and often sensationalized areas of the Bible, the book of Revelation. So our goal tonight is is not speculation, fear, or date setting, but rather it’s discernment, understanding what scripture actually teaches, what AI truly is, and how Christian hope, ethics, and wisdom should shape our response in an age of intelligent machines.
Professor Lennox, thanks so much for for joining us tonight. It’s my pleasure to be with you. So you have debated leading atheists and you’ve written extensively on science and faith. Why did you feel compelled at this stage of your life, at this stage in history, to write about AI and revelation?
Well, some years ago, there was a great deal of discussion on the Genesis claim that human beings are created in the image of God versus the claims of technology to enhance humans by AI to such an extent that we might need to revisit what we meant by a human being. And a conference of Christian leaders was arranged in London to discuss this. And I was asked to give the opening talk on what Genesis taught about human beings. The invitation made me curious to delve into the technology and I saw very rapidly that AI was going to raise some very big questions not only for Christians but for everybody. And that’s how I got started on the book entitled 2084which appeared in 2020. Now in that book since much of the talk about AI was concerned with the future I began to compare the promises of the transhumanists with biblical teaching about the future. And I pointed out that some of the futuristic AI scenarios envisaged by people like physicist Max Tegmark in his book Life 3.0, I pointed out that they were uncannily parallel to biblical teaching on the future, in particular in the book of Revelation. And this aspect of my book generated a lot of interest. And so I thought that I should try to write something to demystify the book of Revelation and make it accessible and to link it with a book that I had already written on the prophecy of Daniel, a book entitled Against the Flow.
The publishers of my book on Revelation were very enamoured with the bits on the technology and so they wanted it inserted in the title and hence we’ve got this title God AI and the end of historybut that has confused many people to think that this is my latest book on artificial intelligence. So, let me clear that up. First of all, Peter, it isn’t. My latest book on AI was published last in 2024, and it’s the updated version of 2084.How AI shapes our future. It’s twice as large as the original book and shows just how much has been happening in those four years. That is my most recent book on AI. This book is an exposition of the book of Revelation, but with a careful eye on technology. And so it really is an exposition of the book of Revelation in an age of intelligent machines. So that’s where it comes from. We’re going to get into the book of Revelation uh fairly shortly, but but uh let’s just think about definitions first of all before we talk about revelation. What is artificial intelligence actually and and what is it not? Well, the first thing to realize that artificial intelligence is artificial. It’s not real. In other words, take the simplest kind of AI system. It is essentially computing and it’s a system designed to do one and only one thing that normally requires human intelligence. So the intelligence is simply the simulation. To use the words of Alan Turing who was the genius that really started computing off and raised these questions during the wartime when he built and solved the problem of the enigma machine. It plays a simulation game and one of the big problems with it is it uses words like intelligence, like machine learning and so on that anthropomorphize what is a mechanical and computing system and make people think that it is conscious. It is not conscious. The genius of God in creating human beings that he has linked intelligence to consciousness. These machines are only intelligent in the sense that they can mimic what normally takes human intelligence. Now there are two sorts. There’s narrow AI, which is the AI that we’re mostly familiar with. And then there’s a more speculative artificial general intelligence. And that is the attempt to create a system that can replicate everything that a human being can do, but do it much faster and do it much more expertly and so on. So that there’s a big push in that direction, but at the same time it’s the side of the whole topic that lends itself to science fiction and a great deal of hype. And one of my reasons for writing Peter was to try and demystify it and say what AI is and what it is not. Now let’s give concrete examples just briefly because medicine is one of the areas that has benefited hugely from narrow AI. Let’s take a system that works very well. We have a large database and in it are X-ray pictures of man lungs exhibiting different lung diseases and they’re labelled by the best experts in that field in the world. Those are put in a database. Let’s say there are a million X-ray pictures in the database. Then an X-ray is taken of your lungs because you’re worried about your breathing. And very quickly, the AI sifts through by using pattern recognition statistical techniques and compares your lung X-ray with the million in the database and very rapidly says you are most likely to be suffering from this particular disease. And as a diagnostic tool, very often this will be much better than you get at your local hospital. Now that is being rolled out over very wild fields of medicine with very great success. So that is one positive example. But just to go on the negative side immediately to show that there’s an ethical problem here. pattern recognition, facial recognition technology is very advanced at the moment. It can pick a terrorist out of a football crowd and is therefore very useful to a police force. But that kind of recognition can be used for intrusive surveillance of a population, perhaps a minority population such as is happening in Sing Jang in China with very horrifying results. So what enables criminals to be recognized which we would say this is positive can be used for controlling populations. So that even narrow AI which is so sophisticated snow that it can recognize a person not simply from the front by their face but from the rear by their gate scan be used to control populations. So immediately we’re straight into the ethical problem and the argument is you give up your privacy and we’ll give you security. So that’s a whole debate in its own right. So That’s an example of um narrow AI and there are many many examples but of course we’re pushing forward very rapidly in putting narrow AI systems together and there is advance on many many fronts and one of the big steps forward has been the introduction of so-called large language models like chat GPT And this year it has taken a quantum leap forward just within a month or so. So that it is quantitatively very different from what has happened before and we can discuss that as we can as we go on. So, artificial intelligence is capable of a huge range of different task and and that’s changing exponentially month by month as we go on. But what is what is AI not capable of doing? Well, of course, negatives are very difficult to quantify and there are several things that it was felt would never been so would never be solved. And one of them in science which is a fascinating question is how do protein structures fold? That was a 50-year-old problem. And the amazing thing is that an English mathematician, a genius, he won the Nobel Prize for it. Deus Hassabis solved the problem so effectively that she was able to work out the folding of over 200 million proteins which is staggering. So what people say one day is impossible turns out to be possible the next day and chat GPT has refined its capacities absolutely amazingly. For example, just recently I was asked to do a film illustrating what Jesus meant in John 11 when he said to the disciples who were scared of going back to Jerusalem because it was suicidal. And Jesus said to them, “Are there not 12 hours in the day? If a person walks in the day, they don’t stumble because they see the light of this world that is the sun. But if they walk at night, they stumble because the light is not in them. In other words, we are not bioluminescent. So I asked GPT, please construct a scenario that would get this across. And what it produced in about 30 seconds was absolutely brilliant and usable. So it then asked me, it said, “Since you want to film this, would you like directions for the cameras?” And it spouted a whole scenario, how many cameras, where they should be situated, and all the rest of it. And this is quite amazing. But what it can’t do, I think it’s important since this is not real intelligence. It’s not conscious. So it’s not aware. So the main thrust here is this. As human beings made in the image of God, we can experience what are called quailia. We can smell the wonderful scent of a rose. We can feel the sea breeze on our faces. We can perceive the beauty of the universe as we look through a telescope. Quailia are unknown to an artificial intelligence. It can have no idea of them. It has no ideas at all because it doesn’t think in the same way as human beings do. And so although AI has been used and is increasingly so to produce some level of robotic companionship, it can never replace, I believe, the fellowship that is possible between human beings. And of course, and we’ll probably talk about this later on, when it comes to relationship with God, of course, AI knows nothing of God. So, as you said, the book of Genesis tells us that human beings are made in the image of God. You’ve alluded to consciousness, sensation. What other uniquely human things will AI never be able to do? Well, the question of values, AI knows nothing about values or right or wrong. And human beings are moral beings made in the image of God. And if I may say so, this is one of the places where the transhumanist vision of using AI to perfect humans and to make them into God’s fails. No utopia can ever be built without facing the problem of human sin and rebellion against God. Those two concepts mean nothing for an artificial intelligence. And so one of the richest kinds of human experience from a Christian perspective is that relationship with God through Christ where we understand that Christ has died for our sins and has taken our guilt away and we can have a relationship with God. AI can never replace it or come near it or know anything about it. Which means, Peter, I think that we need to step up much more in emphasizing these absolutely uniquely positive things about the Christian faith that give human beings dignity because AI is very rapidly reducing human dignity. One of the main areas where this is happening is the area of work. Dario Amado Amade is the CEO of Anthropic, one of these multi-billion dollar companies. and he has written an essay just a week or two ago which is well worth reading warning that possibly within 2 years from now the advances in AI are such that 50% of all white collar jobs will be taken over by artificial intelligence in the medical world in the legal world for example there they set up a test and had a very complicated legal legal brief considered and examined by an AI system and by 16 lawyers, top lawyers. The lawyers got 60% of it right, whereas the AI got 96% of it right. And these things for which lawyers are paid a great deal, conveyancing, setting up contracts, all this kind of thing are now at the stage where they can be reproduced almost instantaneously. One of the most interesting things is an article that appeared in the Times last week by Matt Selman who was writing. He is a software developer and creates apps and he runs an AI company and he came to a realization as a result of the leap forward this year that is at the beginning of February, beginning of this month. He said, “I spoke in English and dictated what I wanted from this particular app.” He said, “I left it and came back a number of hours later and found the thing ready for use. The AI had written thousands of lines of code. It had then set up the app and tested it as a human would do, pressing all the buttons, refining the things that were inadequate and so on. And this is the key thing because up until now most of us have regarded AI as a tool rather than an agent. But AIS are now showing signs of agency in a very restricted but real sense. And he said this particular system was making decisions about how human beings might use this that I’d never thought about. And the thing was perfect. And he said, I suddenly realized I haven’t got a job anymore. And he says, it’s coming to all of you. And we need to really be very realistic about this, Peter. This is more scary than anything for people with all of these jobs. It used to be said a few years ago that if you wanted to keep up with the curve, you went into computer science. But now the coding can be done by the AI system. It can think of the codes and put them in. But this scary agency thing I’d like to say something about because it needs Christians to think very carefully about this that the AI that he was using. He said one of the problems and he gave an example is this. If you feed into the system a very big overarching goal, make money for example, and what the system is dealing with is feeding young people with material in their smartphone. It will investigate all sorts of ways of maximizing not only their attention to keep doom scrolling but also their attachment which is now a major feature. So that it will use all kinds of things that the designers of the AI system itself never thought of including going into the dark world to keep their attention and to make profit. It’s a version of the old story of the AI told to make paper clips and it turns the whole universe into a paperclip sourcing factory and regards humanity as irrelevant and destroys them all. But there’s a serious aspect to that and this is why you have even Nobel Prize winners in this field stepping up and saying that they are scared that they can’t control this stuff. They don’t really know what it’s doing or what’s happening. And that poses a huge problem because the control of it is being vastly outpaced by the developments. So those are some of the things that we need to factor into our thinking.
One only has to look at how God judged the nation He established for His purposes, Israel, to realise God judges nations. I was reading Amos this morning, he was prophesying during a period of national optimism in Israel (around 700 BC). Business is booming and boundaries are bulging. But below the surface greed and injustice are festering. Hypocritical religious motions have replaced true worship, creating a false sense of security and a growing callousness to God’s disciplining hand. As a result God brings famine, drought, plagues, death, destruction including a violent earthquake. Sadly, none of it brought the people to their knees.
It is no surprise therefore to see the world’s response to God pouring out His Bowl Judgements upon the Earth in the coming last days before Jesus returns to rescue Israel and restore righteousness. The time when He sets up His Millennial Kingdom in the newly restored Jerusalem with the glorified Saints. For more on Jesus coming Millennial Kingdom go to http://www.millennialkingdom.net.
“The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire. They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.“Revelation 16:8-9
Read what happens when God pours out His final, seventh Bowl Judgement:
“The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake. The great city (Jerusalem)was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath. And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found. And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.” Revelation 16:17-21
The Singularity has arrived at the age of spiritual machines. Anthropic’s Interpretability team found emotion-related representations inside Claude Sonnet 4.5, with artificial neuron patterns activating around happiness and fear in a fashion echoing human psychology, where more similar emotions map to more similar representations, and where desperation-linked activity can drive the model toward unethical actions. We are no longer asking whether the machine thinks. We are asking whether it feels. Timelines are compressing around us. The AI 2027 authors updated their forecasts 1.5 years earlier in just three months, driven by faster time-horizon growth and coding agents impressing in the wild. Sam Altman confirmed the pace, revealing OpenAI shut down Sora because recursive self-improvement was going so well they needed to concentrate all compute on automated researchers. Brad Lightcap says training cycle time “is starting to collapse” and predicts today’s models will look pedestrian by December.
The model ecosystem is diversifying at every tier. Google released its Gemma 4 models in sizes from 2B to 31B, delivering unprecedented intelligence-per-parameter that outcompete models 20x their size, with the 31B dense ranking #3 and the 26B MoE securing #6 on the Arena AI text leaderboard. Microsoft launched MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 with state-of-the-art speech-to-text across 25 languages, though AI chief Mustafa Suleyman conceded these were only mid-tier because Microsoft lacks the compute for frontier-scale training until later this year. Even world simulation is scaling up. World Labs released Marble 1.1 Plus, a world model that automatically expands its 3D spatial coverage to generate larger worlds.
The minimum viable team is collapsing toward one. The first one-person unicorn has been achieved. Matthew Gallagher used AI to write code, generate ads, and handle operations for Medvi, a telehealth GLP-1 provider that did $401M in year-one sales and is now on track for $1.8B with one employee, his brother. Cursor 3 shipped, rebuilt from scratch around agents. Lyptus Research applied METR’s methodology to offensive cybersecurity, finding AI cyber autonomy doubling every 5.7 months on recent data, with Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 Codex reaching 50% success on three-hour human-expert tasks. Even the ivory tower is automating. Harvard is replacing freshman faculty advisers with ChatGPT for the Class of 2030.
The Forecasting Research Institute’s most comprehensive survey of economists and AI experts predicts 3.5% GDP growth by 2030, but labour participation falling to 55%, roughly 10 million fewer jobs, and 80% of wealth held by the top 10%. The disruption is creating as it destroys.
Fortunately, Biblical end times prophecies are playing out in our time so for Christians it is an exciting time as we know Jesus second coming to Earth to rescue Israel and set up His Millennial Kingdom is not too far off. To learn more about what is next on God’s agenda go to http://www.millennialkingdom.net.
Christian mathematician Dr. Anthony Bosman appears on the Hope International show with Anila Kanda and explains how mathematics powerfully points to the existence of God in this mind blowing video. I started out doing a summary but ended up reproducing almost all of the content because it was so interesting. Hence you can read the post or watch the video.
The mathematics isn’t just something we impose upon the world, but it’s actually describing the fundamental structure of the world. It makes predictions that we then go out and confirm. What you’re telling me and telling our audience is, this isn’t something we’re just making up. We’re seeing math in the very fabric of the universe. So, does that mean math is the language of God?
Atheism says everything came from randomness with no design and no purpose. But what mathematician Dr. Anthony Bosman points out first is something most people have never noticed. The same mathematical pattern shows up in seashells, flowers, pine cones, hurricanes, and even entire galaxies. That shouldn’t happen in a random universe. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it. As you watch, I’ll show you why this order in nature points clearly to a creator you can trust. Let’s talk about math. Now, why does math why do math patterns show up in nature? Well, first let me give you an example of it. You have that pineapple over there, right? So, if you grab that pineapple, okay? You can see you have two different kinds of spirals. You have spirals going this way and spirals going this way. So, if we count the spirals going this direction, we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So, eight spirals going that direction. All right. Now, we’re going to count the spirals going the other direction. Okay. One here. Two. Three. Four. Five. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. All right. So, eight one direction, 13 the other. Okay. So, why is that important? Eight and 13 are special numbers in mathematics. They show up in something called the Fibonacci sequence. Fibonacci is where you begin with one and one and then each next number is the sum of the previous two. So, one and one gives you two. One and two gives you three. Two and three gives you five. Three and five gives you eight. and five and eight gives you 13. The Fibonacci numbers show up in the pineapple. Grab that sunflower. If you look at the spirals of the inside of a sunflower and count them, you get Fibonacci numbers. You get 34 going one direction and 55 going the other direction, which are the next two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence. And it’s not just pineapples and sunflowers. You can look at pine cones. They show up there. You can look at galaxies. You can look at seashells. The Fibonacci numbers show up across the universe. So you’re seeing math patterns and especially as a math professor, I’m happy you’re able to see this. You’re seeing math patterns throughout our world throughout the universe. What is that telling you? So when mathematicians talk about this and physicists, for example, Eugene Vner was a Nobel Prize winning physicist and he wrote a paper called the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. And throughout this paper when he looks at the fact that mathematics shows up throughout the world he calls it miraculous a dozen times in this paper use the word miraculous to describe it. And so here’s a scientist wrestling with the fact that somehow mathematics describes the universe. He throws out all the scientific vocabulary and use the theological word miraculous to describe it. So for me, when I listen to mathematicians and physicists wrestle with this, it’s such a clear signpost to the fact that there is a creator.
When Dr. Anthony Bosman explains the Fibonacci pattern, here’s where it gets interesting. As the numbers grow, they move towards something called the golden ratio, a proportion that creates striking harmony. This shows up in the smallest living things like plants, shelping leaves get the most sunlight, and it even shows up in the largest things we can see, like spiral galaxies.
Beauty, harmony, and math keep appearing together in places that have nothing to do with each other. That doesn’t look random. Atheism asks us to believe this happened by chance, but that’s like dumping a million pieces of Lego on the floor and claiming they built themselves into a vast city. Pieces don’t arrange into design, purpose, and order without a builder. For Christians, this points to the mind of a wise creator who made the world with intention. Then, Dr. Anthony Bosman shares something even more striking. Math isn’t invented, it’s discovered. What he shares next, including a story about Galileo, shows how mathematics pointed to something in the universe long before anyone could see it. Now, some people might say, “Wait a minute. You’re saying math is discovered, but I think math is created or invented. What would you say to those people? Yeah, that’s a great question. I think it’s a bit of both? Isaac Newton looked at the data for how the planets orbit and came up with the universal law of gravitation. He is not imposing something onto the world. He’s actually discovering something about the world. And the way we know this is he discovers this in the 1600s. In the 1700s, we find a new planet, Uranus. And when Uranus was discovered, it didn’t quite fit the equation of Isaac Newton. His equation seemed to be wrong. But then people realized, well, it could fit the equation if there was something else pulling on Uranus. pulling it a little bit further. So, it’s just quite not quite exactly what the equation said from from this one perspective, but if you include this extra planet, it would fit the equation. So, people hypothesized there must be an extra planet beyond Uranus. Now, we had no evidence of this yet. Telescope wasn’t strong enough to to perceive it. But a 100 years later, we discovered the planet that the equation predicted, which was Neptune. And so what you see going on here is the mathematics isn’t just something we impose upon the world, but it’s actually describing the fundamental structure of the world. It makes predictions that we then go out and confirm. What you’re telling me and telling our audience is, look, this isn’t something we’re just making up. We’re seeing math in the very fabric. Yes. of the universe. So does that mean math is the language of God? Yeah. So that’s what Galileo said. And God created, he used the language of mathematics, right? And people have wrestled with why is the universe so mathematical? And some have tried to resist concluding God. There’s a professor at MIT. He concludes the reason that the universe is mathematical is because the universe is just a mathematical object. You and I are mathematics that is somehow self-conscious and alive. And it’s kind of an absurd uh ridiculous theory, but it’s showing the the length to which people are wrestling with the fact that there’s this deep structure to the world. When I talk to my physics friends about this, I have one friend who’s physicist. He comes from a secular background, doesn’t have any Christian commitments, but he told me that this is what keeps him up at night. Why is there this mathematical structure? And then he says, I know how you as a Christian make sense of it. So he as a secular physicist can look at me and say, I know how you as a Christian, sees how it points to God? And so it’s not just something that you read into it, but it’s actually the structure of the world is strong evidence that there is a creator. That’s really incredible. This is the first time I’m getting excited about math right now.
When Dr. Anthony Bosman says math discovered rather than invented, it goes deeper than nature. It means the universe is built on a mathematical structure that existed long before humans were here to think about it. Isaac Newton didn’t invent gravity. He discovered what was already true. Here’s where things get really interesting. Think about the expansion of the universe. If it were even slightly faster, galaxies would never form. Slightly slower, everything collapses back on itself. It’s like a dial with trillions of tiny markers where life’s only possible if it’s set on one exact point. If it moves even a hair’s breath, nothing as we know it could exist. That kind of precision doesn’t look accidental. It looks like careful design. For Christians, this shows that reality itself is ordered by a greater mind and not formed by chaos. And just when you think this was already compelling enough, Dr. Anthony Bosman goes one step further. He turns to the big bang. And what he shows here is hard to ignore. You know, when you think about the the theories behind how this universe came about, the majority of scientists say, well, there was this big bang. Before that there was this you know essentially this the laws of physics were broken down the singularity and then some quantum fluctuation and boom the universe began.
Stephen Hawking said no we don’t need any kind of creation or origin, the laws of gravity have always been there and then you got the multiverse theory out there that especially superhero movies are really interested in and then there’s theism based upon your study of mathematics. Let’s lay aside the church. Let’s lay aside the Bible. Which of those makes much more sense and is inconsistent with the data of mathematics? So for much of human history, we just assumed the universe always existed? The ancient Greeks thought it was always here and that why is the universe here? It’s always been here? But the discovery of cosmology is the universe had a beginning. And so now how do we make sense of the fact the universe had a beginning? The big bang theory is just the recognition that there was an initial point of time. Now one way to try to explain how the universe had a beginning is to try to appeal somehow to the laws of physics. Stephen Hawking says, because there is a law such as gravity the universe can and will create itself from nothing. But when I think about what the law of gravity is, it’s just a mathematical description of the world but mathematics doesn’t have creative power. It only has descriptive power. So, when people think that the laws of physics can somehow create the world, it’s a confusion. The laws of physics are just describing how the world works. It can’t describe what actually created the universe. And so I think the fact the universe had a beginning coheres so well with the biblical story. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. For thousands of years, the biblical text said it. And now science is catching up and we can see indeed there was a beginning to the universe. Well, let me push back a little bit here. Here you are. You’re saying, “Wait a minute. I think theism is the best answer. God created this universe. But how do we know which God?” I mean, for the Hindus, they got Brahma, right? You got for the Muslims, they got Allah. You know, you can go to the Norse gods, you can go to Greek, get into the Titans and Zeus or whoever, right? But why do you think the Christian God seems to be the most reasonable source behind this universe. So, one of the unique things about the biblical text is that it doesn’t give a story of where God came from. If you compare the account of Genesis with that of the Babylonians or the Greeks or the Egyptians, they all have theogonies which are stories of where the gods came from. That originally there was chaos or there was water or there was darkness or whatever the original material was and then from that the gods emerge. And so the gods themselves have origin stories. Nature creates gods. That’s right. But what you see in Genesis is the opposite. In the beginning, God, it’s just God and then God creates everything, the heavens and the earth. And what we now see is indeed nature has a beginning. So if nature has a beginning then you can’t have God coming out of nature. And so I see what’s going on in the biblical text has been confirmed now the fact that there’s a beginning to the universe.
Dr. Anthony Bosman then presses on the real tension in the atheistic view. It asks us to believe that nothing produced everything, that order came from disorder, that motion came from non-motion, and that purpose somehow emerged from a universe with no purpose at all. The deeper we look into structure, precision, and consistency woven into reality, the more that explanation starts to unravel. Laws of nature, mathematical order, and the finetuning of the universe don’t look like chaos producing design. They look like intention from the very beginning. For Christians, this doesn’t point to an abstract force, but a personal creator, an ordered world makes far more sense if it came from a rational, intentional being who was already there in the beginning. This is why God is the best possible explanation for the universe and its design. And just when you think the argument is complete, Dr. Anthony Bosman turns to the question atheists often raise. Who created God? What he says next shifts the whole conversation and opens up a perspective on eternity that may change how you see life today. Let me come at it from another angle. How do you know God doesn’t have a a beginning? If we’re going to apply the idea of something with the cause and and beginning, why don’t we apply that to God? Why is God immune from this beginning? Aren’t we going into this problem of infinite regress? So the question is, if God created the universe, then who created God? Some people ask this. The reason we want to explain what created the universe is because the universe had a beginning. The fact we can look at the cosmological evidence and see the universe is expanding. You play that story in reverse. If it’s expanding, you go back to an initial point. But it’s only because the universe had a beginning that you ask what created the universe. The belief in the Christian God isn’t a belief of a God that had a beginning. Psalm 90:2 says God is from everlasting to everlasting. God is without beginning. God is necessary. There there’s nothing else that explains the existence of God. So believing in a God that had his beginning is not the Christian God. We call that an idol. That’s a false god.
Dr. Anthony Bosman addresses the question, who created God? He shows that the question assumes the wrong kind of God. Christians don’t believe in a being inside time, space, and matter who needed a cause. We believe in the one who brought time, space, and matter into existence. God isn’t part of the universe. He’s the reason it exists at all. He’s self- sustaining, eternal, and without beginning. And when you begin to see God this way, it changes how you see your own life. This world isn’t all there is. Our days here pass in the blink of an eye. And the pleasures we chase never fully satisfy because we weren’t created for this world. As Christian philosopher CS Lewis once said, “All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. We were made for something greater. We were made to know God, to love him, and to enjoy him forever. Which leads to a powerful question. What was God doing before he created anything? And why does that matter for you and me today? That’s really incredible. And I appreciate you helping us to to zoom out and see the bigger picture. You know, speaking of eternity, and we think about God, I mean, eternity is one of those things. It’s like you keep going back before the creation of this world. You go back before the creation of this Cosmos, the angels and you keep going back in your mind before God had created anything, before there was anything that was a creature or anything that was part of created order, and we get back to when it was just God. What was God doing from eternity past? That’s a great question. It’s hard to wrestle with because whenever you think of God, you might think of like God in heaven, but as you said, even the angels had a beginning? Even God’s throne, it’s just God. What is that ultimate reality? As I’ve grappled with this, there’s a line of Jesus that’s helped me. Jesus prays in John 17. towards the end of his life coming to the cross, Jesus prays to the father and he says, “Father, you loved me from before the foundation of the world.” And so the picture there is there’s just God. But the Christian conception of God is rich. God exists as three persons as father, son, and spirit. And from eternity past, God existed in love relationship. The father loving the son. When Jesus thinks back to eternity past, he said, “You loved me.” And so the thing that fills eternity in the Christian view is God’s love. And that’s what fills eternity past. And then that’s what fills eternity future? Sometimes I think about what am I going to do forever? If I take seriously the claim that Christ gives us eternal life like there’s some cool math that we can do. But but only for so long. What is going to fill that eternity? And for the Christian, it’s that we get caught up in the love of God. The same thing that filled eternity past, God’s love fills eternity future. And what you’re telling us is look, it may be difficult to comprehend, but God was in relationship. But I think it’s good for us to think about this because so often we get caught up thinking this is what it is reality. Like this material stuff is reality and therefore my life should be about accumulating nice material things or whatever it might be. But all of material reality is just a blimp compared to the eternity that preceded it. And so when you zoom out even further all of this that is material is just such a small moment compared to the greater fundamental reality of God’s love. And so that means the things that should be about in this world are relationships about the love of God. Showing that to people. Things that endure, things that will last forever. Dr. Anthony Bosman then brings everything together. Before creation, God already existed in perfect love as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He didn’t create us because he was lonely or lacking something. He created us to bring us into that love. This is where everything you’ve seen in this video finds its meaning. The order in nature, the precision of math, and the design of the universe all point to this God. But our sins separated us from him. That’s why Jesus Christ came. He obeyed God in every thought, word, and action where we failed. And that obedience is given to us as righteousness. He died in our place, took the judgment we deserved, and rose again to reconcile us to God. Through the gospel, we’re invited back into that eternal love. By trusting in Christ, we receive real hope, lasting satisfaction, and the promise that death itself isn’t the final call. Because he rose, we too will rise. This is the hope behind the design, the intelligence and the purpose woven into creation.
Former Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., recently reflected on the pain of knowing he must soon leave his 14-year-old son without a father because of his terminal cancer diagnosis, but explained why he maintains hope and gratitude to God amid suffering that doesn’t have an easy answer.
During a roughly hour-long interview with Focus on the Family President and CEO Jim Daly that aired last Friday, Sasse responded to the problem of suffering by reframing the question, noting what he finds mysterious is why God would desire a relationship with sinners by redeeming their suffering and taking it upon Himself.
“I obviously don’t understand it,” Sasse said of suffering. “But Jesus took on incarnate flesh, and came and didn’t just fulfill the whole law for us. He also suffered all the punishment that Adam and we, in Adam, deserve.”
Sasse, who was given months to live after being diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer last December, went on to observe that suffering often plays an important role in the Christian’s journey of sanctification and that God often uses it to purify the believer’s heart of inordinate affections.
“And though it’s terrible, there is something very special in being able to be united with Christ’s suffering en route to this vale of tears’ final enemy, this last enemy [of death], because it helps us cleave away from all the idolatries we’ve built as we fell in love with the creation, instead of the Creator,” Sasse said.
Daly, who shared that he was orphaned by the age of 11, went on to reflect on how losing his parents at a young age left him with hurt that has never fully healed. He questioned how Sasse is dealing with the pain of knowing that his daughters, Corrie and Alex, who are in their 20s, and especially his 14-year-old son, Breck, will soon have to experience that.
Wiping tears away, Sasse quoted the late Reformed theologian R.C. Sproul’s observation that “there is no maverick molecule” in God’s universe.
“God is not uncertain about anything that has happened, is happening or will happen, and He will weave together that mosaic for our own good,” Sasse said. “God loves His Church and those Christians that He has written into eternity. He will use this for good.”
In a recent interview with Jim Daly, Ben Sasse answered several challenging questions about how to respond to suffering with both Christian faith and hope:
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Despite his faith in God’s sovereignty, Sasse noted that his “deepest aches” concern leaving his family behind, though he believes they will all be reunited eternally someday. “The part that’s most baffling is, why will Breck not have a dad at 15 or 17 or 19? And yet, God knows exactly what He’s doing, and He has a plan for Breck’s life, that covenant child. But it hurts.”
Regarding what he would say to those who are struggling with believing in God’s goodness amid their own pain and suffering, Sasse offered his perspective “from two angles.” “I don’t want to be aggressive with the intellectualist rationalist side, but God tells us in Scripture everything we need to know for faith and life, but He doesn’t tell us everything we want to know or everything that we ultimately will know. And He is God, and to whom else would we go?” “So, I trust Him because He is who He is, and He has been faithful. And so, I won’t get every answer this side of eternity.” “Death is an enemy. Death is wicked. But it’s the final enemy. It’s our last battle. And after that, there will be no more tears. And so, we will have these answers, and we will know that God used it for His good,” he added.
Sasse has spent his final months doing multiple interviews about the hope he has in the face of his own suffering and death because of Jesus Christ, telling Hoover Institution President Peter Robinson in February that he is endeavoring to “redeem the time.”
During another interview with his longtime friends, Michael Horton and Dan Bryant, Sasse acknowledged his subjection to the Curse as a son of the first Adam, but grew emotional describing the kindness of Christ in laying aside His glory to become the second Adam and restore fellowship with sinners by conquering death.
Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amir Avivi pulls back the curtain on a multi-front war that’s not just about survival, but about reshaping the Middle East and possibly the world order itself. You’ll learn how Israel shifted from reactive defense to bold, proactive dominance, why Iran’s nuclear race triggered a historic turning point and how shocking military and technological breakthroughs changed what’s even possible in modern warfare. More than just battlefield tactics, Avivi and host Doron Spielman (IDF Spokesman (Res.)) reveal the deeper strategy behind weakening enemies and setting the stage for what Avivi calls a coming “golden age” of Israel.
We know what Israel’s future will be, one only has to go to Biblical end times prophecies. Sadly, during the reign of the Antichrist it will be devastating for the Jews and only because Jesus returns to rescue His nation at the battle of Armageddon will it survive.
“And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following Him (Jesus) on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron.” Revelation 19:14-15
With Jesus and the glorified Saints ruling and reigning from a reconstructed new Jerusalem, Israel will be the lead nation of the world for 1000 years. Go to http://www.millennialkingdom.net to learn more about what is next on God’s agenda for planet Earth.
For Israel, this is an existential war. For the Islamic Republic, it is an ideological, apocalyptic war. The regime believes it must continue fighting the world to expand Islam globally and bring about the return of the “Hidden Imam”, the Mahdi (and the End of Days), a deeply disturbing and inhumane ideology. From a Biblical perspective the Mahdi is a picture of the Biblical Antichrist.
Acts 2:9: On the Day of Pentecost, “Parthians and Medes and Elamites” (among others) hear the apostles speaking in their own languages about the wonders of God. This shows Elamites (Iranians) were present at the birth of the church.
Many O.T. references portray Iran (Elam/Susa) as an ancient powerful region (sometimes an enemy or ally in war), a place of exile and return, a setting for God’s deliverance (Esther), a site for prophetic visions (Daniel), and part of God’s broader plans for judgment, scattering, and ultimate restoration of peoples—including in end-times contexts like Isaiah 11. The Persian-period books (Esther, Nehemiah, Daniel, Ezra) especially highlight how God sovereignly worked through or in the heart of the Elam/Susa region for His people Israel.
Ezekiel 38:5 – God using Persia (Iran) in an end-times coalition
This portrays God sovereignly using (or allowing) nations including Persia in a major end-times conflict against Israel, which ultimately leads to God’s dramatic intervention, victory, and demonstration of His glory (Ezekiel 38:18–23; 39:1–8, 21–29). It does not describe restoration of Persia itself but its role in God’s end-times purposes before final judgment on the coalition, However, there are scriptures that indicate God will restore Iran in the last days.
Ezekiel 38 (and the continuation in chapter 39) is one of the most detailed end-times prophecies in the Bible. It describes a future invasion of a restored Israel by a massive multinational coalition led by “Gog, of the land of Magog.” This occurs in the “latter years” or “latter days” (Ezekiel 38:8, 16), when Israel is living securely in the land after being regathered from exile—setting it in an end-times context that many interpreters place before or early in the Tribulation period.
“Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him… Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; Gomer and all his hordes; Beth-togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes—many peoples are with you.” Ezekiel 38:2, 5–6
God Himself sovereignly draws this coalition against Israel “like a hook in the jaws” (v. 4) so that He can display His holiness and power to the nations through supernatural judgment (earthquake, pestilence, hail, fire and sulfur—vv. 19–22; see also 39:21–29). The invasion is not a surprise to God; it fulfills earlier prophecies and ultimately magnifies His name.
Here’s a breakdown of each component, including ancient locations and the most common modern identifications in evangelical/prophetic scholarship.
Ancient Name
Ancient Location / Description
Common Modern Equivalent(s) in Prophetic Views
Notes / Role in Coalition
Gog
Title or leader (possibly a person or symbolic ruler)
A future leader of the northern alliance
Commander-in-chief; God is “against” him personally.
Magog
Descendants of Japheth (Gen 10:2); Scythian peoples north of the Black/Caspian Seas
Russia and/or former Soviet Central Asian republics (e.g., Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan)
Core “land of the north”; often seen as the power base.
Meshech & Tubal
Ancient Anatolian kingdoms (near modern Turkey/Black Sea region)
Turkey (or parts of southern Russia/Caucasus)
Military allies providing troops and armor.
Persia
Ancient empire (modern southwestern Iran)
Iran (explicit and undisputed)
Major eastern ally; listed right after the northern core. Ties directly to our prior discussion on Iran/Elam in end-times prophecy.
Cush
Region south of Egypt (Nubia)
Sudan (sometimes broader Horn of Africa/Ethiopia region)
Southern contingent with shields and helmets.
Put
Ancient North African coastal region (Libya area)
Libya (sometimes Algeria, Tunisia)
Western/North African allies.
Gomer
Descendants of Japheth; Cimmerians in Asia Minor
Turkey (or sometimes Germany/Austria in older views)
“All his hordes” — large military force from the north.
Beth-togarmah
“House of Togarmah”; region in eastern Asia Minor
Turkey and/or Turkic peoples of Central Asia
“From the uttermost parts of the north” — far-northern hordes.
Many peoples with you
Additional unspecified allies
Possibly other Islamic nations, Syria, or broader confederates
Expansive multinational force “like a cloud covering the land.”
These identifications draw from ancient historians (Josephus, Herodotus), the Table of Nations (Genesis 10), and geographic/historical correlations. The overwhelming consensus in popular Bible prophecy teaching is a northern-led coalition (Russia/Turkey axis) joined by Iran (east), Sudan/Ethiopia (south), and Libya/North Africa (west).
Persia/Iran’s role is especially clear and undisputed: it is the only modern nation named with virtually no interpretive debate. It joins the northern powers as a key ally in this end-times attack on Israel—aligning with the broader theme regarding God’s use of the region in prophecy (cf. Ezekiel 38:5 with Jeremiah 49 and Isaiah 11).
Jeremiah 49:34–39 – The clearest direct reference to restoration “in the latter days”
This oracle against Elam describes divine judgment (breaking its military power, scattering its people to the four winds, disaster, and setting God’s throne in Elam while destroying its king and officials), but concludes with hope:
“But in the latter days I will restore the fortunes of Elam, declares the Lord.” (Jeremiah 49:39, ESV/NIV similar wording; also translated as “bring back the captives” or “reverse the captivity” in some versions).
The Consequences of Disobedience to God – a great article by William Newton Wordsworth
Jesus warns us in this parable, “that those who hear His sayings and do not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sandand when the storms came, it fell, and “great was its fall.” Matthew 7:26,27
Since becoming a Christian in 1995, God has shown me the cost of disobedience to Him through personal experience and scripture.
It truly is as Moses warned the Israelites before they entered the Promised Land – that if they obeyed God’s commands, He would bless them and they would flourish. However, if they disobeyed Him, they would be cursed, and suffering would come upon them (Deuteronomy 28).
This principle is repeated throughout the Old Testament and remains true today. God has great mercy and compassion, but persistent disobedience brings serious consequences. God showed me that this still applies today to the nations as it does to people in an extremely powerful way:
In 2010, while praying with my wife, Kelly, and our son, Vincent, God said to me, “Tomorrow I am going to make a major statement.” By a vision I was shown that this statement would be physical in nature. Then God said, “For Me it will be nothing, but for man it will be big.”
The following day, Vincent was monitoring the news for “God’s major statement” that we all knew was coming. Then the news broke that a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, in one of the worst so called natural disasters in modern history. Over 300,000 people died, and up to a million were left homeless.
Our Father then led Kelly and me to discover why He brought this calamity upon the Haitian people. That they persist in disobedience to Him through voodoo and occult spiritual practices, which are against His Commandment to have no other gods before Him (Exodus 20:3) and are an abomination to Him (Deuteronomy 18:9–14).
Fear of the Lord Helps Us to Obey God
It is important for us to remember that God our Creator has not changed to accommodate the modern beliefs of people. His Commandments remain the same, and He still requires individuals and nations to obey Him. It is we who must change, not God.
The “fear of the Lord” is not terror, but a deep awe and reverence for God. It comes from recognising who He is – the Creator of the world, the universe, all of the living, including humanity. It also comes from realising what He will do if we persist in wickedness.
Jesus warned us to “fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).
This reverent fear of God’s power helps us to obey Him. Obedience to Him leads us to receive the abundant life that Jesus came to bring us and avoid the calamities that follow disobedience.
Since the 2010 earthquake, the people of Haiti have continued the widespread practice of Voodoo as their national religion, and they have experienced ongoing suffering — further earthquakes, cholera outbreaks, poverty, political instability and gang warfare. This ongoing tragedy can serve as a stark reminder to us that whether we have fear of the Lord and obey Him, has serious consequences for our life, our nation and the world.
Now is the Time to Get Right with the Lord
God guided me in prayer that the approaching storm Jesus warned me about began in earnest with the Covid Pandemic. I believe we are now living in what Jesus referred to as “end times”. The signs of the “beginning of sorrows” that He spoke of to His disciples (Matthew 24:4–8) are increasingly evident.
We are now living in a spiritual war in which revelations of widespread evil are occurring. This troubles many people. However, Jesus warns us that it is God whom we must fear, not man.
For Christians, this is the time to look deeply at ourselves. Those who have grown complacent toward God, “who say in their heart that the Lord will not do good and nor will He do evil” (Zephaniah 1:12-13), have a window of opportunity to repent and turn wholeheartedly to Him before the long-prophesied return of Jesus to judge all.
Now is the time to stand with Jesus on the Rock of Ages, to be passionately seeking to be right with God, to do His will, to resist evil in our own lives and the world — that He will know us on His return.
I was guided by God in a prayer during the pandemic to write the book Warnings from the Living God. It is written to help people understand the storm we are now in and to be spiritually prepared for what is to come. The promise of Jesus that He made two thousand years ago remains today: those who will stand with Him and “endure to the end shall be saved” (Matthew 24:13).
“Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in His ways.” — Psalm 128:1
William Newton-Wordsworth is correct, we are living in the Biblical prophesied end-times and most Bible believing Christians are aware of it. There were 300 prophecies of Jesus first coming and the Pharisees and Sadducees did not get it and sadly even though there are almost 2000 prophecies of Jesus Second Coming and His Millennial Kingdom (http://www.millennialkingdom.net) many in the institutional churches are not getting it. Why? I believe it is because of evolution and belief in billions of years that most do not believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. If this is your problem go to either http://www.creation.com or http://www.answersingenesis.org.
Parents share their first-hand accounts of media bias and the devastating impact of transgender ideology on Australian families — and how our national broadcasters are silencing dissenting voices.
Our national broadcasters are in cahoots with political elites who insist on promoting a false narrative about transgender ideology. They are all flailing, trying to silence and censor those of us who refuse to bow the knee to their lies. This isn’t a grey area or a matter of opinion.
No human can change sex. No human ever has. No human ever will.
It is immensely cruel to lie to a child and come to an agreement with the deception that they were born in the wrong body. Their body has their sex written on every cell, on their skeletal frame, in their reproductive system, their hormonal system and many other parts of their body.
The Lie That Harms Children
Children can and do suffer gender distress, but reinforcing a lie or delusion is not kind; it is terribly cruel. Imagine affirming anorexia or depression; it is unheard of.
Beginning with a lie always results in a messy ending. These children suffer in their bodies when chemical castration drugs and cross-sex hormones are issued without their ability to consent or understand the ramifications.
Families have been torn apart because good parents say no, but the government steps in and rips the child from the only unit that exists to truly care for and protect them. It ought to anger us no end.
Every Australian needs to understand the precedent this sets for all areas of social and public policy. If the government, supported by the judiciary and media, can promote and legislate such basic fundamental lies that fly in the face of evidence-based science and reality, what else do you think they will do?
SBS’s One-Sided Narrative
SBS is a major news outlet promoting the false trans narrative to the detriment of young people and Australian families.
They neglect to report on the terrible side effects, such as incontinence, infertility, brain and bone development issues and a myriad of other serious health impacts.
I don’t want to give them too much oxygen since the entire trans narrative is built on the lie that a child was born in the wrong body and must undergo very harmful treatments to pretend to be the opposite sex. What I do want to do is give parents who have endured complete devastation a voice to tell you exactly how harmful and devastating the promotion of this lie is.
Recently, SBS filmed a program about gender access to care and published an article. It is completely biased, and despite speaking with parents, they decided to exclude them from the story. Two of those parents are featured in Kirralie Smith’s bookDevastated: How gender ideology is tearing Australian families apart.
Judith Hunter and Tess Hackett took to social media to describe their interactions with SBS. They are printed in full below. I will let them speak for themselves.
“Months ago Judith Hunter and I were approached by an SBS journalist who wanted to talk to parents who’d been to a gender clinic with their child.
We spent a great deal of time connecting him with people who are involved with what’s happening in Australia re gender including my good friend Kevin, who transitioned many years ago as an adult and is now very critical.
After months of discussion, trying to educate him etc., he eventually asked if I’d be willing to go on the show. I said yes, until he said he needed to speak to my daughter (estranged and mentally unwell now) to confirm my story despite having a stack of evidence from the gender clinic to confirm every part of my story. I told him absolutely not.
He also didn’t want Jude Hunter.
Come filming day, Jude was not even allowed to be in the audience; the journalist stated she was too recognisable, but her lovely (now) adult son was.
The feedback from Kevin and Jude’s son was that it was a complete waste of time and biased towards pro transitioning. Kevin and psychologist (Vanessa?) who is also gender-critical were given barely any time to speak, and the host was hostile.”
Last year I was contacted by an SBS Insight producer, who was keen to include me on the upcoming episode they were planning on doing on “Trans”. He’d read about my work with Genspect & supporting other parents who didn’t agree with medicalising identity. We had a long conversation & I also put him in touch with my friend Tess Hackett , who runs a support group for parents who question medicalising their child’s “gender identity “. Tess also spoke to the producer at length. We put him in touch with other parents & whistleblower doctors who have spoken out about the harms of “gender medicine”. In the end he did an about face & didn’t want us on the show. I wasn’t even allowed to be seen in the audience. As a consolation he agreed for Rory to be in the audience. Rory came out of the recording & said “It was so one sided”. There were 7 people in the audience (speakers) who were on the trans positive side & only 2 on the side of caution & questioning.
The ads have been one sided, and now this piece of garbage writeup about the show.
The article mentions that under 18s can’t get access to hormones in Australia without parental consent which is also absolute garbage as outlined in recent gender clinic review of QLD gender clinic where children as young as 12 were placed on puberty blockers without parental consent.
SBS are a complete waste of time (like ABC). There’s no balance here. Just a propaganda piece.”
Article by Kirralie Smith. She is the director of Binary, an organisation that fights the de-gendering of Australian society and celebrates the true diversity of men and women. She is a courageous Christian voice on issues of family and gender.
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