greg smith

Christ-follower, husband, father, leader developer, recovering idiot.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Babies are born with LOW vitamin K on purpose — it’s not a flaw. It’s God’s perfect design.

Cord blood is packed with stem cells specifically meant to repair the physical stress and micro-trauma of birth.

Low vitamin K keeps the blood naturally thin so those stem cells can flow freely and travel exactly where they’re needed — to heal tissues, support organ repair, and jumpstart the newborn’s developing systems without premature clotting getting in the way.

God made it this way so the baby’s own cord blood stem cells can circulate optimally in those critical first moments and hours.

Thin blood = maximum mobility for healing. High clotting factors right at birth would slow or trap those precious stem cells, interfering with their God-given job.

Benefits of lower vitamin K at birth (by design):
• Stem cells & cord blood: Allows unrestricted travel of hematopoietic stem cells throughout the body to repair birth trauma, reduce inflammation, and support tissue regeneration.
• Immune system: Cord blood stem cells help establish and strengthen the newborn’s naive immune system. Low vitamin K ensures they reach the bone marrow, thymus, and other sites without clotting interference.
• Neurological & organ protection: Stem cells can migrate to the brain and vital organs to protect against the oxidative stress of labor and delivery.
• Natural timing: Colostrum (that first “liquid gold”) is rich in natural vitamin K — delivered orally, slowly, and gently through breastfeeding exactly when the baby needs it. God’s perfect dose at the perfect moment.

Instead, we cut the cord early (stealing up to 30-40% of the baby’s blood volume and those vital stem cells), then inject synthetic vitamin K loaded with polysorbate 80, propylene glycol, benzyl alcohol, and sometimes aluminum — straight into an immune system that’s barely online.

Why are we “fixing” what God already designed perfectly?

Think about it before you consent.
Nature doesn’t make mistakes. God doesn’t either.
Delay cord clamping. Keep the cord blood. Trust colostrum. Respect the design.

Your baby’s body was fearfully and wonderfully made. ❤️

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

Seriously?😳

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

@joeroganhq For all the people claiming I’m lying….

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

Steven Bartlett, host of the podcast, The Diary of a CEO, released an interview with Christian apologist, John Lennox, this week, and his closing comments to him were fascinating:

"One of the most compelling arguments for God that you've presented (and your way of seeing the world and being) is not actually necessarily anything you've written in your books or not not necessarily anything you've said. It is actually you.

You have a certain peace and contentment that I rarely see in people that I interview, but I often see, and I've almost always seen, in the Christians that I've interviewed, and this is a interesting phenomenon for me...it seems to be a trend that a lot of the Christian apologists that I've interviewed have that anchoring that so many of us are looking for."

What a great witness.

Link to interview below

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

@didem5654 110

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

@TrumpDailyPosts Islam

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

Wow. This is so sad.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

The feathers of a Bald Eagle have more protection and sacredness than the organs of a human in the womb.

Bald Eagle eggs have more rights than pre-born humans.

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

Is this true? If so, why hasn't DMSO been given to ALS patients? Seriously, there is no other treatment other than waiting. Why not offer some hope?

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

Todd had terminal ALS and just ordered a wheelchair—then DMSO gave him his life back

His brain fog vanished. Breathing crises stopped in 3 days. He dragged 340-lb beams across a road. His reflexes healed.

His recovery shocked his doctors—but ALS is far from the only thing DMSO helps.

James Miller MD found roughly 80% of neurological issues people see neurologists for simply go away once he gives them DMSO.

Approximately 2500 studies support its use for conditions ranging from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s to strokes, MS, paralysis, chronic pain, spinal injuries, depression, epilepsy, and Down syndrome.

Here, I will show how DMSO can cure many "incurable" neurological disorders.🧵

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

Is this true?

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

DR. PAUL THOMAS: “You are MORE likely to die from the VACCINE than from the DISEASE, this is true for EVERY single vaccine on the childhood schedule.”

DR. SUZANNE HUMPHRIES: “If mandates were to STOP, these companies would CRASH. And that’s not going to be allowed to happen...”

The statistical analysis of each vaccine...

The risk of death from Polio is 1 in 1 trillion
The risk of death from the Polio vaccine is 1 in 215K

The risk of death from Diphtheria is 1 in 42.5 million
The risk of death from the Diphtheria vaccine 1 in 76K

The risk of death from Tetanus is 1 in 1.5 million
The risk of death from the Tetanus Vaccine is 1 in 76K

The risk of death from Pertussis is 1 in 2.3 million
The risk of death from the Pertussis vaccine is 1 in 76K

The risk of death from Measles is 1 in 106.5 million
The risk of death from the Measles vaccine is 1 in 108K

The risk of death from Mumps is 1 in 40.3 million
The risk of death from the Mumps vaccine is 1 in 108K

The risk of death from Rubella is 1 in 0/negligible
The risk of death from the Rubella vaccine is 1 in 108K

The risk of death from Chickenpox is 1 in 32.3 million
The risk of death from Chickenpox vaccine is 1 in 202K

The risk of death from Hepatitis-A is 1 in 1.6 million
The risk of death from the Hep-A vaccine is 1 in 73K

The risk of death from Hepatitis-B is 1 in 305K
The risk of death from the Hep-B vaccine is 1 in 96K

The risk of death from HIB is 1 in 1.5 million
The risk of death from the HIB vaccine is 1 in 46K

The risk of death from Pneumonia is 1 in 236K
The risk of death from Pneumonia vaccine is 1 in 50K

The risk of death from Meningitis is 1 in 822K
The risk of death from Meningitis vaccine is 1 in 141K

The risk of death from Influenza is 1 in 136K
The risk of death from the Influenza Vaccine is 1 in 15K

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

Amen

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I used to ask Christians:

“If Jesus was really God, why did He eat, sleep, and bleed like us?”

And honestly, I used to ask it with pride like it was some unbeatable argument.

But later I realized something:

That question was not exposing Christianity.

It was exposing my misunderstanding of what kind of God Jesus claimed to be.

Because the real question is not:

“Why would God become weak?”

The real question is:

“What kind of God would willingly step into human suffering at all?”

Islam taught me about a God who was distant and untouchable.

But Christianity introduced me to a God who stepped into hunger, exhaustion, grief, pain, betrayal, blood, and suffering with us.

And suddenly His humanity stopped feeling like weakness to me.

It became proof of love.

If Jesus ate, it means He came close enough to experience hunger beside us.

If He slept, it means He embraced the exhaustion we carry.

If He bled, it means He did not stand above suffering watching us from a distance.

He entered it Himself.

Philippians 2 says Christ emptied Himself and took on flesh.

Not because He stopped being God, but because He wanted humanity to finally see what God is actually like.

And it turns out God is willing to suffer for the people He loves.

That changed everything for me.

Because every other religion demanded sacrifice from humanity.

Jesus became the sacrifice Himself.

And no prophet in history ever claimed that.

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

In 1696, the British government decided to tax sunlight. Under the Window Tax, households were charged according to the number of windows in their homes. To avoid paying, many people simply bricked up or boarded over their windows, choosing to live in darkness rather than hand money to the state for daylight.
The tax was presented as a fair way of taxing wealth, since larger houses tended to have more windows. In practice, it proved crude and damaging. Tax inspectors were given the power to enter homes and count the windows, which was widely resented as an invasion of privacy.
The consequences were severe. Poorer families, in particular, bricked up windows to reduce their liability, leaving homes darker, damper and poorly ventilated. This contributed to higher rates of disease, including tuberculosis and rickets. Architects began designing houses with fewer windows to minimise the tax, resulting in buildings that were less healthy and less pleasant to live in.
Far from being an efficient revenue raiser, the Window Tax distorted behaviour, harmed public health and became increasingly unpopular over time. Yet it remained in place for 155 years until it was finally abolished in 1851. The Window Tax required invasive enforcement and created more resentment, hardship and economic distortion than revenue. It is a classic example of the unintended consequences of taxation.

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

@ScottRoberts My God is so big, so strong, and so mighty,
There's nothing my God cannot do.

There is no pocket big enough for God (Jesus) to fit in.

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

@rabbriansamuel My God is so big, so strong, and so mighty,
There's nothing my God cannot do.

There is no pocket big enough for God (Jesus) to fit in.

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

@SavedPersianE2 @noneya_____ @WWUTTcom This is true, to a point. Each reference to poimen, except for Eph. 4:11, refers to an actual shepherd. Having a singular "Pastor" did not come til later in church history.

Back to the question: when it comes to women in ministry, elder, overseer/bishop, pastor, or deacon?

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

@SavedPersianE2 @noneya_____ @WWUTTcom All that to say, there are elders, overseers/bishops, deacons, and pastors. In the modern church, we conflate elder with pastor, but the Scriptures do not.

According to 1 Tim. 3, can a woman be an overseer/bishop? A deacon?

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

@SavedPersianE2 @noneya_____ @WWUTTcom Aren't we conflating the two descriptions? In 1 Peter 5:1, he calls them elders, presbuteros, not pastors. Then, in the next verse, although some versions read, "shepherd the flock", the word for shepherd is actually "feed".

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

Theologically liberal organizations like the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights argue that the Bible does not forbid abortion. And it is true that there are no explicit verses against it.

That’s because during the biblical era, the Jews did not think abortion was acceptable and therefore there was no need to outlaw it. They regarded abortion as a form of murder; thus laws against murder were sufficient.

By the time of the early church, however, Christians did have to take a stand. In Greco-Roman culture both abortion and infanticide were widely accepted and practiced. Thus it is remarkable how strongly and uniformly the church fathers stood against both practices.

The Didache, an early Christian text (AD 50–120) says, “Do not murder a child by abortion, nor kill it at birth.”

The second-century Epistle of Barnabas says, “You shall not slay a child by abortion.”

Justin Martyr wrote, “We have been taught that it is wicked to expose even newly born children . . . [for] we would then be murderers.”

Athenagoras wrote, “We say that women who use drugs to bring on an abortion commit murder . . . [for we] regard the very foetus in the womb as a created being, and therefore an object of God’s care.”

In the early third century, Tertullian wrote, “It does not matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. In both instances, destruction is murder.”

In the fourth century, Basil of Caesarea wrote, “A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder.”

John Chrysostom asked, “Why do you abuse the gift of God . . . and make the chamber of procreation a chamber for murder?”

Jerome called abortion “the murder of an unborn child.”

Augustine warned against the terrible crime of “the murder of an unborn child.”

The historical record of Christianity is impressive for its uniform opposition to abortion. The early Christians were not being “conservative” in the sense of following the lead of their culture. Instead they were radical, even countercultural."

(from Love Thy Body)

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

@SavedPersianE2 @WWUTTcom Rather than having a singular pastor as we do now, the church was elder-led (or overseer/bishop-led) and deacon-served. Is your point that women cannot be elders or deacons? Or both?

[greg smith @gsmithcog]

@SavedPersianE2 @WWUTTcom For the title "pastor", there's but one reference in the NT Scriptures. Ephesians 4:11 references a "pastor", but the word can be translated shepherd.

The point in my question: regarding women in ministry, is it about being a pastor, elder, or deacon, or any leadership role?