Any serious student of the Bible knows those chosen by God, His prophets, His disciples, His Apostles, His chosen, His faithful, ALWAYS suffer persecution from the world.
Whenever Christians are blessed materially, it is in order that we may further the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and bless others, by being obedient to God.
It is never intended that Christians should so entangle themselves into the world, they are indistinguishable from those who are lost and dying from lack of knowledge of God's Word.
Which Country Has the Highest Average IQ?
According to a 2019 study by researchers Richard Lynn and David Becker at the Ulster Institute*, the highest average IQ scores in the world belong to the Japanese, with the citizens of Taiwan and Singapore close behind. The top 10 list appears below:
1. Japan - 106.49
2. Taiwan - 106.47
3. Singapore - 105.89
4. Hong Kong (China) - 105.37
5. China - 104.10
6. South Korea - 102.35
7. Belarus - 101.60
8. Finland - 101.20
9. Liechtenstein - 101.07
10. Netherlands & Germany (tie) - 100.74
The United States has an average IQ of 98.
*Lynn's studies, while comprehensive, sparked considerable debate because he was an unabashed eugenicist, and was supportive of white supremacy,and yet, the caucasians/white race countries, do not top these tests, the oriental countries do. The early settlers of this country, the pioneers, "endured" the same conditions as the indigenous "native" Americans, and at times much worse.
Until challenged by necessity, few people realize of what they are, through God's grace, capable.
Man's greatest inventions have been found throughout the earth:
1.Wheel - The oldest known wheel is from Mesopotamia (Iran/Iraq), around 3500 B.C. By that time, humans were already casting metal alloys, constructing canals and sailboats, and even designing complex musical instruments such as harps.
2. Compass - The earliest compasses were invented by the Chinese, around 200 BC. Some were made of lodestone, a naturally-occurring form of the mineral magnetite.
3. Automobile - The birth of the modern car occurred in 1886, when German inventor Karl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen, and had been in the works since 1769, when Nicolas-Joseph Cugno, a French military engineer, developed the steam-powered automobile.
4. Steam Engine - A Spanish mining administrator named Jerónimo de Ayanz develop a steam engine to propel water from mines. Englishman Thomas Savery, an engineer, and inventor, developed the first practical steam engine, in 1698, used to draw water from flooded mines using steam pressure. Savery used principles set forth by Denis Papin, a French-born British physicist who invented the pressure cooker.
5. Cement/Concrete - Middle eastern builders coated the outside of their clay fortresses with a thin, and moist layer of burned limestone, which chemically reacted with gasses in the air to form a hard, protective surface. Around 6500 BC, the first concrete-like structures were built by the Nabataea traders or Bedouins in the southern Syria and northern Jordan regions. 3000 BC, the Egyptians were using concrete as a mortar in their building.
By 700 BC, hydraulic lime was known, which led to the development of mortar supply kilns to construct rubble-wall houses, concrete floors, and underground waterproof cisterns. A key ingredient of concrete, - foundation of cement was laid in 1300 BC. In 1824, Portland cement was invented by Joseph Aspdin of England. George Bartholomew laid first concrete street in the US during 1891, which still exists - a composite material of broken stone or gravel, sand, Portland cement, and water, which forms a mass resembling stone on hardening. By the end of the 19th century, the use of steel-reinforced concrete was developed.
6. Petrol - Gasoline is a fuel derivative of petroleum. It is called “gas” in the United States and “petrol” in other places around the world. Petrol is a transparent, petroleum-derived liquid used as a fuel in internal combustion engines. The first oil well in the US, in 1859, in Pennsylvania, refined the oil to produce kerosene. Although the distillation process also produced gasoline, the method of distillation refining only produced about 20 percent gasoline. After discovering the internal combustion engine ran best on gasoline, the refining process was well refined in 1913, to produce gasoline more easily using chemical catalysts and pressure. The new thermal cracking process doubled the efficiency of refining and made refining gasoline more practical.
7. While tracks, or rails, had been in use for carrying wagons since the sixteenth century, the history of modern train travel is just over 200 years old. Railways can carry a large number of passengers while hauling heavy loads long distances. The first full-scale working railway steam locomotive was built in the United Kingdom in 1804 by Richard Trevithick, a British engineer. It used high-pressure steam to drive the engine. On 21 February 1804, the world's first steam-powered railway journey took place along the tramway in Wales. The commercial appearance of train networks came in the 1820s. George Stephenson, an engineer for the Stockton and Darlington Railway in northeast England, ran the first public steam-powered railway in 1825. In 1829, he built his famous steam engine, Rocket, and the age of railways had begun.
8. Airplane - December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight. Beginning with their work on gliders, the duo's success laid the foundation for modern aeronautical engineering by demonstrating what was possible.
9. Fire - Though a natural phenomenon, its discovery as a useful tool marked a revolution in the pages of history.
From the past to the present, fire has been used in rituals, agriculture, cooking, generating heat and light, signaling, industrial processes, and as a means of destruction. It can easily be considered to be one of the leading inventions that changed the world.
10. Nails - Bronze nails dating from around 3400 BC, have been found in Egypt. Sophisticated human life would not have been possible without the invention of the humble nail. They provide one of the best clues in determining the age of historic buildings. Prior to the invention of nails, wood structures were built using rope, they were used to interlock adjacent boards. The invention of nails goes back several thousand years and was possible only after the development of techniques to caste and shape metal.
The use of hand-wrought nails was the norm until the 1790s and early 1800s. By 1913, 90 percent of nails produced in the U.S. were steel wire nails.
11. Tools - Anthropologists recognize the necessity of tools from wood, stone, and metal, as an earliest step in the progress of mankind.
American Jewish Inventors
https://www.aish.com/j/f/Jewish-Firsts.html?s=rabFlashlight - The son of Russian-Jewish wine distillers, (born Akiba Horowitz, 1855–1928) arrived in New York in 1891. In the 1890s, he developed the flashlight (patent (No. 617,592), and turned his American Electrical Novelty and Manufacturing Company, into the Ever Ready Battery Company.
African-American Inventors
https://www.famousinventors.org/10-most-famous-black-inventors-and-their-inventionsGinny_Dandy wrote:
The white race has a higher IQ, and they are blessed by God.
Practically every invention has been designed and created by a white man.
I grant you that it probably would've been better if the white man hadn't pioneered this country, and kept it in the pristine condition like the Native Americans had kept it in. But not many of us could've survived the conditions in those days.