Derek Eckels

@6downunder Praise the Lord!!

Great 17th anniversary on Sunday for WBC. 125 in attendance, 3 from doorknocking last week and one of them was saved from doorknocking last Saturday.

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815. Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did. Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

What if science keeps circling the truth but refuses to say one word? God. Every few years, the simulation question resurfaces. Not because it’s trendy but because reality keeps behaving like an information system. Physics tells us the universe has a data limit That’s the Bekenstein Bound a maximum amount of information per region of space. A cosmos with a memory cap doesn’t look accidental. It looks engineered. Zoom into quantum mechanics. Particles don’t resolve into reality until they’re observed. The universe doesn’t calculate details until they’re needed. That’s not mystical language. That’s how optimized rendering systems work. Entanglement? Instant synchronization across any distance. Physics calls it non-local. Engineers call it linked registers. And spacetime itself? At the Planck scale, it isn’t smooth it’s pixelated. Reality runs on resolution. So science calls this a simulation hypothesis. But here’s the part it can’t explain: Consciousness. If awareness is just a survival tool, why are humans the only species burdened with self-reflection, morality, creativity, and existential dread? Animals survive perfectly without questioning reality. Humans question everything. And more strangely we override survival instincts constantly. We self-sabotage. We chase meaning over safety. We destroy ourselves in the pursuit of truth. That’s not a survival upgrade. That’s something else entirely. Ancient texts noticed this first. Before Eden’s fall, humans weren’t self-aware. No shame. No existential fear. No moral struggle. Then something activated. Eyes opened. Choice emerged. Consequences became real. Consciousness wasn’t evolved. It was awakened. And maybe that’s the connection science keeps missing. What if reality is engineered not by machines but by a mind What if consciousness isn’t an accidental glitch in the system but the interface Christians already believe this. A designed cosmos. Fine-tuned laws. A Creator outside time seeing beginning and end at once. Call it a simulation. Call it a construct. Call it a divine framework. But the truth doesn’t change: Reality behaves like it was designed because it was. And consciousness isn’t here to help us survive it’s here to help us see. Science doesn’t reject God because the evidence isn’t there. It hesitates because accepting Him means something deeper: Responsibility. Meaning. Purpose. If reality is programmable then someone wrote the code. And if consciousness can interact with that code then maybe faith isn’t ignorance. Maybe it’s recognition.

@elonmusk This reminds me of the superstring theory. Similarly both theories end at a Creator. And when science is left with the inevitable, they abandon it. Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

I had dinner once with a top physicist and a top computer scientist and asked what they thought the probability was that we were in a simulation. They answered simultaneously at 0% and 100% respectively. It was like a double-slit experiment, but with humans.

@PastorMFurse You mention Anderson on your site, as well as endorse his documentary...it was a natural connection. But your third person was about your own actions and beliefs, not some academic research. Anyway, there are some helpful things on there...

@DerekEckels Ah yes— tag Anderson’s name to mine… very low and dishonest — and a way to mentally excuse whatever you’re not wanting to see & understand Actually— writing in “third person” is the professional way of writing— FYI Anyway, thanks for visiting the website

@PastorMFurse Yes 😅 Just wondering why most everything is written in third person. Seemed a little different since it seems like you write most everything on there. Anderson did that on his to make the site seem bigger than just one guy promoting his own stuff.

@DerekEckels I guess I am a little hesitant to answer that… are you fishing for something? I AM the editor of the website

“FAITH ALONE” in the Calvinist construct is like saying “CHOICE ALONE” at a wedding in Somalia with an 8 year old bride.

@genxbaptist @Breaking911 Haha! I caught that too!😂

@Breaking911 They have a Calvinist hotel in Baghdad?

🚨 WATCH: An Iranian drone slamming into the Royal Tulip 5-star hotel in Baghdad.

@ProvisionistP @DeChristianLife @grok You should listen to his side of the story and the reason for his arrest.

@DeChristianLife hey @grok is the man featured in this video (Kent Hovind) a convicted felon?

When evolution can not evolve to catch up

It was a blessing to present our ministry to Philly and preach at Crimson Avenue Baptist Church in Nixa, Missouri, this evening where Derek Eckels is the pastor. The Holy Ghost of God met with us; they voted to take us for monthly support. #reachingthenortheastforChrist #churchplanterstoPhilly #deputationjourney #homemissions #churchplanting #AllNationsBaptistChurch #onestepclosertoPhilly

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Which of these commentary covers do you prefer? Not the commentator or publisher, but simply choosing on appearance alone.

@chrislanier2mex 😂 Tautology is when the modifier has the same meaning as the noun or verb I.e. wet water Hot fire

@DerekEckels Dunno what tautology is but the rest is 🔥 🙌🏻

To the Calvinist: If regeneration precedes salvation, how does God save a regenerated person? In a sense, isn’t this just tautology?

@makeefe @TonyG_in_LV How was there a bag of money Jusdas was responsible for if there was no giving?

@DerekEckels @TonyG_in_LV Are we to become more and more like Abraham or like Jesus? Did Jesus tithe as a part of his ministry?

Abraham tithed without God telling him, and now people won’t tithe because they say in the NT God didn’t tell them. Maybe this is one reason why Abraham was called a friend of God.

@TonyG_in_LV My point was there are those who justify not giving (call it a tithe or whatever) because “Jesus didn’t demand a tithe.” The problem of giving has always been a heart problem. Abraham’s heart was to give - without God commanding it.

@DerekEckels The tithe did not become a widespread Christian practice until the 8th century. The tithe was taken from the 10 percent rent charge used in the Roman Empire and later justified using the Old Testament.

@TonyG_in_LV @PlumblineFaith Sorry, I don’t have any car payments 🤣

@PlumblineFaith @DerekEckels Sounds like Mr. Eckels is about to miss a car payment.

@realnaholmes Who was the King of righteousness and the King of Salem (Hebrews 7)? But the bigger point is that Abraham didn’t have to be told to give a portion of his wealth to a priest of God. Should we have to be told to give a portion of our wealth to our Great High Priest.

@DerekEckels Where did Abraham tithe to God? I’m all for giving but this isn’t what the text says at all.

How the times have truly changed