THE F.B.I. REPORT

F.B.I. STAFF ASSIGNMENTS K.P. Duty —————————–———————————–————————–— 11/12 Sharp/Baines/Ogden 11/19 Ballou/Jett/Wilkerson 11/26 Fowler/Faubion/?? This Week’s Prayer Requests and Praises —————————————

 Sandie Loder – for balance issues to be corrected; healing of back.  Gary Brown – finished radiation; strength for other cancer treatments.  Mary Esther Deitrick – severe back spasms; pray for complete healing.  Peggy Burke – knee surgery Wed, 11/15. Successful surgery & recovery.  Rose Stock – safety while in Israel; traveling safety home.  DeWayne Craig – large kidney stone; heart problems complicating treatment.  Debbie Ellis – complete healing of torn meniscus in knee.

WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE BRIEF Faith Bible Investigators Faith Baptist Church, Avon, Indiana 12 Nov 2017, 0930 hours NOT AUTHORIZED BY DONALD TRUMP Editor: Jay Faubion View online at: tinyurl.com/thefbireports Email: jay@jayfaub ion.com Better: b ethfaub io [email protected] m Twitter: jayfaubion and johnjfaubion “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see.” Luke 10:23

Amazing Prenatal Surgery

Field Operations and Team Building ———————————–—–——

Game Night --this Saturday, 11/18, in the Fellowship Hall from 5:30-9:30

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. -- Psalm 139:13

pm. Bring your favorite snacks, drinks and games.

The Craters of the Moon

The New York Times recently reported on a prenatal surgery to repair a defect called spina bifida (the spinal column doesn't close properly).

“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” Psalm 8:3-4

Doctors had urged the parents, Lexi and Joshua Royer, to abort the baby, citing the likelihood of a "decreased quality of life." Instead, they opted for prenatal surgery. During the three-hour procedure, the doctor opened Mrs. Royer's abdomen, eased the uterus out of her body, inserted a fetoscope and surgical tools through slits, and operated on the 24-week-old. The amniotic fluid was drained and carbon dioxide inserted to keep the uterus expanded, allowing the surgeon to see better and cauterize tissue. There are many lessons that can be drawn from this event.

The Solar System has seen many impacts. On so many bodies of the Solar System, these impacts have produced craters. It is well known that the surface of the Moon contains many craters, which are thought to have been formed when a meteorite hit the Lunar surface. However, the Moon is not alone. I have often shown my audiences a photograph of the surface of Mercury, and asked them what it is, because I know that most people will think it is the Moon, because of its cratered surface. In recent years unmanned missions to bodies in the further reaches of the Solar System have revealed surfaces pockmarked with craters.

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The Bible teaches that God is the author of conception (Genesis 29:31; 30:22; Ruth 4:13) and He forms the baby in the womb (Psalm 139).

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The mother's willingness to risk her life for the baby's well-being, an act of selfless love, reminds us that we are made in God's image and retain a semblance of that image, though fallen. One of the doctors assisting with the surgery observed that "fetal surgery is one of the few operations with a 200 percent risk of mortality."

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Modern medical technology itself is evidence that man is made in God's image and is not part of the animal kingdom.

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Belief in God gives people a different and better perspective on life. Mrs. Royer's mother said that even though they know that the baby will probably have some degree of disability, "We're strong believers in God and we're at peace; this baby is going to be so loved; we just don't care"

We cannot give a definitive answer for how or when the craters were formed. Some creationists believe that this cratering was actually a part of God’s creative process, so that the cratering took place within the Creation Week. Others believe that the cratering was part of the process that initiated the Flood. One researcher has suggested that a massive Flood-time bombardment of other planets and moons would have led to massive impacts on the Earth. Some of these impacts would have been of sufficient energy to cause large vertical faulting, and to help split the Earth’s crust into the Tectonic Plates we see today. Whatever cratering mechanism turns out to be the best one, we can be sure that these impacts were not random accidents, not merely freaks of nature. They had a purpose in God’s plan, whether they were at the formation of the Solar System, or at the initiation of the Flood.

[from “Reporting from the Operating Room as Doctors Perform Fetal Surgery” The New York Times, Oct. 24, 2017]

Gender-Inclusive Pregnant Women

Middle-Aged Dinosaurs

The phrase 'pregnant woman' needs to be more inclusive and termed 'pregnant people' in a U.N. treaty, the British government announced on Monday.

Yes, Virginia, Dinosaurs Lived at the Same Time as Men

The British government's suggestion on proposed amendments to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights claim the wording excludes pregnant transgender people. The treaty says 'pregnant women' are protected and not subject to the death penalty, reported The Times. The current terminology excludes transgender people who have given birth, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) If the idea of transclaims. 'We requested that the U.N. human rights gender “men” giving committee made it clear that the same right extends birth bothers you, you’re to pregnant transgender people,' FCO officials told obviously a homophobic The Times. There are two transgender men on record Christian bigot. in the U.K. who have given birth after having a sex change. The biological women kept their womb and ovaries during the change, according to the Sunday report. ... The British government is also considering to remove a census question asking citizens to identify gender and biological sex for the 2021 census.

Dead But Not Buried Octavio Nevis calls himself both an Apostle and a Prophet. He is the pastor of Hume Memorial Congregational Church in Mumbai, India. He declared 2017 to be “The Year of Abundance,” but for him, it wasn’t a year of abundance. It was a year of tragedy. His son, Meshach, died on October 27. His son’s corpse has not been buried, and is still decaying in glass-covered coffin, in open sight in the church, based upon the belief of Nevis that he will raise his son from the dead. Nevis’ son suffered from blood cancer, and passed away at the age, 17. After passing away, he remained in a coffin for seven days, as his father insisted he’d be raised from the dead. Finally, police received a tip and confronted the “Apostle,” insisting that he was desecrating a corpse by not disposing of his son’s body. The same church spokesman, named More, claimed that his father brought his son back to life two years ago, and he would do it again.

The Gipper President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."

Two depictions of dinosaurs from the Middle Ages can be found at a Buddhist temple at Angkor in Cambodia and on the tomb of Bishop Richard Bell at Carlisle Cathedral in England. The depiction at the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor, dating to about AD 1200, is of a creature that looks exactly like a stegosaur, though other theories of what the carving depicts have been proposed. "The simplest explanation is that the carving at Ta Prohm is a stylized representation of a dinosaur of the Stegosauridae family. In other words it is an artist's version of what the creature looked like, not a scientist's version. However, the main elements for a stegosaurian dinosaur are clearly depicted: namely the strongly arched back and dinosaurian body, and, crucially, the plates along the back of the animal. No other creature known, fossil or living, has a row of such characteristic plates along its back" ("Did Angkor Really See a Dinosaur?" Creation Magazine, April 2013). The brass decorations of Richard Bell's tomb, dating to AD 1496, contain a depiction of what appear to be two dinosaurs. "On one engraving the creatures have an unmistakable resemblance to certain dinosaurs. Yet how could that be, since the bishop's tomb was sealed and decorated over three centuries before the fossil bones of such creatures were systematically dug up, described and named? Although dinosaurs appear to be extinct today, it would not be very surprising if some kinds had survived until quite recently. ... The engraving shows two dinosaurs engaged in a struggle (or perhaps courtship). One is like recent reconstructions of sauropod dinosaurs, e.g. Apatosaurus. It is portrayed with its neck positioned horizontally, instead of raised aloft as palaeontologists (scientists who study fossils) believed until quite recently. Similarly, its tail is suspended, rather than lying on the ground as all but the most recent sauropod reconstructions incorrectly show" ("Bishop Bell's Brass Behemoths," Creation Magazine, September 2003). For those who don’t believe that dinosaurs only recently became extinct, you have to explain reliefs like this one. Many creationists argue that the reason we have no dinosaurs today (that we know about) is simply that they were hunted to extinction. Just like passenger pigeons in the last century. It’s not a new, or novel, concept in the least. And in case you’re wondering… where did our modern depictions of dragons come from? Maybe people saw such creatures? Hmmm.