They doubted King David was a real figure until the Tel Dan Stele named the “House of David.”
They doubted Moses parted the Red Sea until they found legions of remains and chariots at the bottom of it.
They doubted Noah & the flood until they found the Ark exactly where the Bible says it came to rest.
They doubted Pontius Pilate until his official inscription turned up in Caesarea.
They doubted the Pool of Siloam until it was excavated exactly where the Gospel of John places it.
They doubted Belshazzar until Babylonian records showed he was co-regent with his father.
They doubted Hezekiah’s water tunnel until the tunnel and its inscription were found under Jerusalem.
They doubted the existence of Israel as a people in Canaan until the Merneptah Stele mentioned them in the 13th century BC.
The Bible tells us why:
2 Corinthians 4:4 says that the "god of this world" (Satan) has blinded the minds of unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel.
My prayer is that God will continue to use me for His glory. It is not my will, but His.
Whatever His will for my life is, I want to follow it.
No matter what, I will always praise His name. He is good always.
@Riflemanscreed2 You can please some of the people some of the time. You can please most of the people most of the time. But, you cant please all of the people all of the time.
We need Jesus now more than ever.
This world feels heavy. So much sadness, so much anger, so much division and people are letting it consume their hearts.
But we were not called to be consumed by darkness. We were called to be filled with God’s goodness.
Pray over your family. Pray over your city. Pray over this country.
Let faith be louder than fear.
Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
forever and ever. Amen.
@swapnakpanda@stats_feed They changed how temperature is measured. Instead of six feet above the ground, the measurements are now taken at ground level. This results in a higher temp
Babies make their own vitamin k at 8 days post birth. Babies (and all animals for that matter) have lower levels of vitamin K at birth for a beneficial, protective, reason.
First, in order to absorb vitamin K we have to have a functioning biliary and pancreas system. Your infant’s digestive system isn’t fully developed at birth which is why we give babies breast milk (and delay solids) until they are at least 6-months-old, and why breast milk only contains a small amount of highly absorbable vitamin K. Too much vitamin K could tax the liver and cause brain damage (among other things). As baby ages and the digestive tract, mucosal lining, gut flora, and enzyme functions develop, baby can process more vitamin K. Low levels of vitamin K at birth just makes sense.
Secondly, cord blood contains stem cells, which protect a baby against bleeding and perform all sorts of needed repairs inside an infant’s body. Here’s the kicker, in order for a baby to get this protective boost of stem cells, cord-cutting needs to be delayed and the blood needs to remain thin so stem cells can easily travel and perform their functions. Imagine that, baby has his/her own protective mechanism to prevent bleeding and repair organs. That wasn’t discovered until after we started routinely giving infants vitamin K injections.
Third, a newborn might have low levels of vitamin K because it’s intestines are not yet colonized with bacteria needed to synthesize it and the “vitamin K cycle” isn’t fully functional in newborns. It makes sense then to bypass the gut and inject vitamin K right into the muscle right? Except baby’s kidneys aren’t fully functional either.
Fourth, babies are born with low levels of vitamin K compared to adults, but this level is still sufficient to prevent problems; vitamin K prophylaxis isn’t necessarily needed.
Finally, several clinical observations support the hypothesis that children have natural protective mechanisms that justify their low vitamin K levels at birth . I don’t know about you, but we should probably figure out why that is before we “inject now and worry about it later. Do you know why vitamin K is pushed on parents and their children? Because pharmaceutical companies don’t like to lose money, doctors don’t like to be questioned, the American Academy of Pediatrics dare not change its recommendations.
Since 1985, the medical profession has known that oral vitamin K raises blood levels 300 – 9,000 times higher. The injectable vitamin K, results in vitamin K levels 9,000 times thicker than adults blood.
Baby’s blood thickened with vitamin K, causes a situation where stem cells have to move through sludge, not nicely greased blood vessels full of blood which can allow stem cells easy acess to anywhere. Maybe one day it will dawn on the medical profession that not only are cord blood stem cells important and useful to the newborn baby, but that stem cells need to thin blood for a reason.
Any fetus which gets being wrung out like a wet towel while traveling down a narrow drain pipe, can incur damage in any part of the body, including in the brain, and needs an in-built fix-it. And stem cells cross the brain blood barrier. In fact, stem cells can go anywhere! Amazing don’t you think? God’s design has solutions for situational problems. Three solutions, actually. The second is the fact that naturally, in the first few days, a baby’s blood clotting factors are lower than normal.
But, pediatricians consider this a “defect” so want to give vitamin K which results in blood nearly 100 times thicker than an adult’s. This vitamin K injection, so they say, (like they say immediate cord clamping is safe, and normal, and delayed cord clamping is an unproven intervention) is because the baby wasn’t designed right, and if you don’t give a vitamin K injection, the baby “could bleed to death.” It’s not for nothing that the vitamin K syringe, sits right alongside that cord clamp and the scissors!