[From a Morning Watch Calender in the 1930s when Pastor E. L. Minchin was a patient in the San.], By E.E. Shelhamer

1. Be absolutely sincere.

2. Let one - and only one - thought actuate you: the glory of God.

3. Be as willing to have your request denied as granted.

4. Do not become agitated.  If you have honestly missed God's first plan. He is considerate and glad to give you another opportunity.

Are the body and soul two separate entities?
In the first book of the Bible we read 'the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.' (Gen 2:7) That is, 'dust of the ground' + 'breath of life' = living soul. But what word is used here for 'soul' in the original Hebrew? The word used is nephesh (said neh'-fesh) meaning 'breath'. Therefore, biblically a 'soul' is a person with breath. If you don't have breath, you are no longer a living soul. You are dead. The body and soul are not two separate entities. So to 'die' means to no longer have breath. The nephesh returns to God.

&gThis is an article written by Sean D. Pitman, MD (http://www.detectingdesign.com/DesmondFord.html)

Ford:

Sedimentary rocks become metamorphic rock only under the combination of tremendous heat and pressure - temperatures of about 600 degrees centigrade and pressures of 30 tons per square inch, for long ages of time. . .

Pitman:

The creation of metamorphic rock does require great heat and pressure, but not great periods of time. Given sufficient heat and pressure, metamorphic changes can be realized in very short order. For example, fairly recent studies on Norwegian metamorphic rocks have shown that their metamorphic condition must have been produced in "ten years or less" - and this is according to mainstream thinking (see Link; and references below).

This is an article written by Sean D. Pitman, MD (http://www.detectingdesign.com/DesmondFord.html)

Ford:

The oilfields of the Great Lakes area, Texas, and Alberta were originally beneath the sea and the thousands of feet of sedimentary rock that piled up contain multitudes of marine fossils. On top of these sedimentary deposits coral reefs grew which ultimately because fossilized into limestone. Some of these are many miles long and about a thousand feet thick and required many thousands of years to develop. On top of these reefs are more layers of sediment upon beds of mud - only after the sediments became rocks did coral edifices begin.

The Bahamas Banks are underwater mountains of sedimentary rock enormous in size and containing what has been described as "one tremendous stack of fossil material". These banks have steeply sloping sides, evidence that the fossils grew in place and were not deposited from elsewhere. Millions of years were required for these massive banks to grow.

Pitman:

The coral reefs of the Bahamian Banks are tertiary reefs. Even according to mainstream thinking these reefs are no older than 120,000 years old. No older in situ fossil corals, or other subtidal deposits, have been found subaerially exposed anywhere in the Bahamas (Link). Millions of years where not required for these in situ formations to grow - even by mainstream thinking.