Monday, May 06, 2019

John E. Fetzer and Constance Cumbey - - Fighting either for or against the “New Age”

Personal Update:  My husband has been hospitalized since Saturday night.  His blood sugar had dropped to a dangerous level.  Please pray for our family!  Barry has been a rock to me during the 38 years of my labor and research!  Thank you!

UPDATE:  Barry was discharged from the hospital after 4 nights there.  He came home late Wednesday night.  He is doing much better and thanks you for your prayers!

Constance

Constance

John E. Fetzer and Constance Cumbey - - Fighting either for or against the “New Age”:  Two former Seventh Day Adventists originally from the Fort Wayne, Indiana area – very, very different paths!



The immense ironies have not escaped me.  One of the greatest perpetrators of the New Age Movement came from the same corner of Indiana where I was born and raised, although he arrived much earlier than myself (1909 vs. 1944).  That was John E. Fetzer.   One sounding the major warnings against the New Age Movement, myself, also came from that same corner of Indiana.  John Fetzer was born in Decatur, Indiana.  I was born in very nearby Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Ironically,  for formative years of our respective lives, we were both once Seventh Day Adventists.  Out of curiosity, I searched online for mentions of our respective selves in SDA archives.  The following is from the James White Library of Andrews University, the flagship Seventh Day Adventist university located in Berrien Springs, Michigan.  Mr. Fetzer (1909-1991 and myself (1944 - present) took very, very different paths.  Ironically, I only learned of Fetzer’s Seventh Day Adventist background after reading a by now well publicized book by Brian C. Wilson, a professor of Comparative Religions at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  Kalamazoo, Michigan is where John E. Fetzer was headquartered for many years and where he built his business empire worth hundreds of millions of dollars.  Kalamazoo
is the home of the Fetzer Institute recipient of the huge fortune left by Mr. Fetzer on his death in Hawaii in 1991.   Mr. Fetzer left his immensely large fortune to propagate and propagandize the New Age Movement.




Ironically, all I knew of Fetzer until 1988, the year Marilyn Ferguson called me to brag that she was enroute to his very large New Age conference was that he (Fetzer) was a long time Detroit Tigers baseball team owner.  Marilyn Ferguson called  me with a nearly bragging, "ha ha" voice to say she was enroute there and so were many others.  This was his "Healing the Whole World" Conference John Fetzer held in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  Prominent figures from around the globe -- New Age and globalist elites were to be in attendance.  Indeed they were.  They included such New Age luinaries as Marilyn Ferguson, Maurice Strong, Robert Muller (the UN Muller, not the famous Special Prosecutor),

Marilyn Ferguson and I were rivals -- literally competing for souls.  She for the New Age Movement, myself against same.  I met her personally on a few occasions and was even in her home on 3 different occasions at her her invitation and urging .  The New Agers were anxious to check me out, but considered me a very real threat.   I know Marilyn Ferguson was a dedicated New Ager for most of her adult life.  I personally overheard her very worried mother who happened to be in her house one of the two different days I was there plead with her daughter Marilyn to go back to Jesus.  Over the years I had several encounters with Marilyn Ferguson, including but not limited to a live television debate against her on an Marilyn Ferguson and I met on several occasions.  She sent my publisher, Huntington House a threatening letter.  When that moved neither them nor myself, she next sent me a letter somewhat more conciliatory.  We had breakfast in a Windsor Ontario Restaurant in 1982.  In 1984 I was surprised to be called by her secretary and invited to come to her home in Los Angeles, California for the first New Age “World War IV” party.

I said I would let them know.  I called Bill Keith, president of Huntington House,  my publisher and told him of the sudden invitation for an event only two days away.  Richard Trosclair, his partner, called they called me back saying it was very important I be there.  They would make the arrangements for the flight.  I called a fellow researcher, Sylvia Beadleston McKevey in San Jose who agreed to fly up to Los Angeles and join us.  We both stayed with another researcher friend Betty Irwin in the Los Angeles Palos Verdes area.  On Sunday afternoon we three made our way to Marilyn Ferguson’s home at the top of Mt. Washington in L.A   The New Agers were obviously curious to look me over.  It was quite a disparate collection of backyard with name-tag attendees.  Indeed, Timothy Leary was one of those present in her backyard party.



I was at her home on two future occasions -- one was in early October 1987, right after a major earthquake in the LA area.  There I met her mother, justifiably worried about Marilyn being involved in a movement denying Jesus, and I met her husband and children along with the family parrot.  The next time I had a live encounter with Marilyn Ferguson was in the early Spring months of 1988.  An Indianapolis TV station producer called to ask me to debate her on a live television program.  Apart from that, we had many long telephone conversations from time to time over the years.  All calls were initiated and placed by her.  Motives are some times difficult to gauge, but I suspect she respected me.  I also assume she was calling to try to find out how much I knew.  Certainly, she learned that I knew plenty.  Most certainly she could never say she was not fully and politely warned.  Marilyn Ferguson could be a very likeable and personable individual.  I’ve prayed that when she died on October 8, 2008 in Banning, California at only age 70, that maybe she better late than never had accepted her worried mother’s warning -- one that I personally heard her give in October 1987.

As to John E. Fetzer, I learned from Dr. Wilson’s book that he graduated as valedictorian from Emmanuel Missionary College in Berrien Springs, Michigan.  While in attendance there he organized and ran its first radio station.  That station he later purchased and relocated it to Kalamazoo, Michigan changing it from its religious format to a more secular one.

I am suspecting that John Fetzer may have known much more about me than I did about him, most likely starting in the year 1982, the year my work detailing the hidden dangers of the New Age Movement went very public.  Now that I've delved into online historical documents of the Fetzer Institute, the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust, and the Franklin Fetzer Fund, I'm even more convinced of that.  I'm further suspecting that John Fetzer may have been a major contributor to the travel and advertising costs of Tara Center, including funding the worldwide Newspaper ads that ran on April 25, 1982.



I faced tremendous challenges and foes in outlining the horrifying plans that New Age activists were not afraid to put in print.  They were riding high in 1982.  Between 1975 and 1982 and for many years thereafter, another personality, Benjamin Creme, an Englishman of what he claimed was Jewish and Scottish descent toured the world in style proclaiming first that a new “Christ” was coming and after July 19, 1977, he was here. 

I am now suspecting that John Fetzer was a major contributor to what had to be the enormous travel bills for Benjamin Creme and his claimed messianic cause.  I now know from books publicly placed on the market and documents available online from the Fetzer Institute of Kalamazoo, Michigan, that former Seventh Day Adventist long since turned to New Age spiritualism and beyond studied and read Creme along with his nephew, Bruce Fetzer, also from a Christian heritage.

John Fetzer was one of America’s wealthiest men.  Childless from his marriage to another Seventh Day Adventist, Rhea, he left his entire vast fortune to be used for propagating New Age beliefs and their goals of a New World Order, a New World Religion, and to secure acceptance for a new “messiah” they freely admitted was not Jesus.

The irony also has not escaped me that Fetzer also might have been a large factor in the treatment I received from those in the Evangelical community trying so hard to persuade the Christian world first that there was no New Age Movement.  When that effort failed, there were major attempts to redefine it -- denying both its obvious Luciferic and political aspects.  The effort was to tell Christians that it was not a threat to Christianity and the other monotheistic religions of the world, Jews and Moslems included.

If you have not already read my now several years old articles on the internet about “The Hijacking of Evangelicalism”, you might want to now retrieve and read them.  If you have already read them, you will want to review them.   I am about to update them with information I have gained on Fetzer’s possible role in that process -- in his close personal relationship with Paul N. Temple and Temple’s Institute of Noetic Sciences.

It is now my growing suspicion that Fetzer may have even paid a substantial portion of the cost of producing the world-wide newspaper ads ran in a half million dollar campaign.  I am also suspecting he had helped to pay Benjamin Creme's obviously heavy travel expenses.  Those ads ran in upwards of 20 major papers on April 25, 1982.  They proclaimed that their new “Christ” would be introduced to the world within two months.  They firmly believed they would do so. 

It is my belief that with the help of God, we took them and that campaign by surprise and they have been delayed for upwards of 37 ears -- between 1982 and 2019. 

It is further my belief that they are now on the march and sanctifying the New Age belief system complete with Alice Bailey (Lucifer Publishing Company, Lucis Trust) via attempting to confer public sainthood on John E. Fetzer and his “spiritual” work.

Where have the Seventh Day Adventists been on this?

I did a little digging on the internet tonight.  I also found this quote from a Kalamazoo site:

Fetzer Institute

But most of the money went to the John E. Fetzer Foundation, which he established in 1962. Called the Fetzer Institute today, it sponsors research into what Fetzer called the connections between body, mind and spirit - another interest of his from his youth. In August of 1987, Fetzer moved his foundation and its staff of nearly 30 to new headquarters overlooking Dustin Lake on West KL Avenue in Oshtemo Township. The structure is an equilateral triangle shape representing the three connections he believed in. His interest in parapsychology and spirituality began at an early age, and he claimed to have had several spiritual experiences that influenced his later life. While spending a year bedridden with complications of influenza, he made this commitment, "If I am permitted to live, I will devote my life to the spiritual work of the Creator." For the next 73 years he did. . . .[1]
Well, as I read the texts that John Fetzer and I were both raised with, he was doing mirror image opposite work to that of the Creator.  More accurately, he was following every biblically forbidden spiritual practice as well as the “Thou Shalt have no other gods before me” from the 10 Commandments.  What led him that way?  Was it an excuse to him that his mother once confessed to having visited a fortune teller?  Ironically, my own mother once confessed that to me.  There was a time in her post Seventh Day Adventist years that I was dismayed to find her with a Ouija board.  These were religious practices condemned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church.  They were also clearly condemned by Scriptures. 
Is there Seventh Day Adventist fault in these deviations from the faith?  Maybe.  I’m reading into the Fetzer experience as outlined by biographer Brian C. Wilson that Fetzer equated some of his own “spiritualism” to Ellen G. White, the prophetess of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Maybe there was far too much emphasis in the Seventh Day Adventist Church on the writings and “visions” of Ellen G. White and too little on the plain wording of Scripture.  I am thinking that I remember little emphasis on Deuteronomy 18 that contained an explicit list of spiritual practices forbidden to the Israelites as they entered the land that the Lord took from others for pursuing those practices.  Here is the express language taken from the King James version of the bible.  It reads just about the same way in every other version:
When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.  There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord : and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners : but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
The Seventh Day Adventists also, following the teachings of Ellen G. White, characterized many of the Gnostics as the true Christians -- the “true church” that went underground for a period of 1,260 years.  I heard this teaching many, many times during my youthful years in the Fort Wayne, Indiana Seventh Day Adventist Church.  Thankfully, we also sang “give me the Bible, holy message shining.”  Fortunately for me, that part stuck.  There were others, like David Koresh, John Fetzer, and others now deeply ensconced in the occult who interpreted things very differently or in the characterizing the Roman Catholic Church as the Beast of Revelation, missed other scriptural indicators of what the real beast would eventually bring forth -- as foretold in Revelation Chapter 9, the rise of the occult.  Another sad indicator of that was a site for a former Seventh Day Adventist I found on the internet.  She had formed her own church devoted to radical feminism, goddess(es) and all.  She calls herself “Katia” and is now openly into all forms of the occult, radical feminism, Eckart Tolle.  Here is something she wrote:
I went to Seventh Day Adventist schools and boarding schools during all my childhood and teen years. They teach a love for the Cathars big time. Our elementary school teachers made us read stories and color pictures of Waldensian and Albigensian children walking perilous mountain cliffs, hiding from the Inquisition on pain of death, carefully writing out copies of the Bible.
I left the Adventist church as a young adult because they don’t acknowledge the Divine Feminine, but I still have a friendly attitude toward some of their doctrine. I have been studying the Gnostic Cathars more in depth than usual lately and found some old notes I made last year. I realized the Adventists have a lot in common with the Cathars — who were called Waldensians and Albigensians in their day, only the Roman Catholic Church called them Cathars, originally a derogatory term meaning “purists” or “pure ones.”
Here is what I jotted down last year when I realized the uncanny similarity between the SDA’s and Cathars / Waldensians / Albigensians. The SDA founder, Ellen G. White, visited the Cathar / Waldensian valleys area in Europe (Italy and France border area) twice in 1885 to 1887 while she was in Europe. Chapter 4 of her famous book, The Great Controversy, is about these cool heretics. Adventists really really honor heretics!, good for them.[2]
Here’s what she is doing today, per her blogspot/website:

Author: Katia

Katia is a consecrated independent sacramental bishop. She directs the online Esoteric Mystery School and Interfaith Theological Seminary. Check it out at NorthernWay.org.
 TO BE CONTINUED.  Paul Walter has copies of Hidden Dangers available on his website.  Alternatively, you may download a free electronic .pdf version from Archives.org.

                       




[1] http://www.kpl.gov/local-history/biographies/john-fetzer.aspx.  This is the website for the Kalamazoo Public Library.
[2] https://www.northernway.org/weblog/?p=45 or tinyurl https://tinyurl.com/y5gnuff9.  The blogger calls herself “Katia” and she is obviously well-versed in SDA theology and teachings as well as her unfortunate and obvious involvement in the occult, sanctified in her mind by its equation to her own belief set.  Her article goes on to discuss other parallels.  I looked up Ellen G. White’s own comments in my copy of “The Great Controversy” and did note that she had indicated that those fleeing had been subject to some degree to pagan influences.

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Anonymous said...

Quite defensive aren't you, RayB?
How about you post something kind and truthful about the Jewish people, and God's plans for them..for once.
That will dispel the thought of how against them you have repeatedly been.

RayB said...


Quite lacking in ANY evidence so support your FALSE claim that I am an "anti-Semite," aren't you Anon?

I knew you wouldn't "copy & paste" anything that I've EVER stated that was even the slightest "anti-Semitic," .... BECAUSE NOTHING EXISTS!

I've repeatedly stated that I am not a Dispensationalist ... if you want to interpret that as being "anti-Semitic," be my guest.

You might want to do a topical Bible study regarding false accusers ... a practice that is thoroughly condemned in the Scriptures.
If you need some help with that, let me know. I'd be happy to supply you with multiple verses to aid you in your study.

Anonymous said...

Oh no. You have repeatedly done that here already, RayB.

What?
No positive thing whatsoever to post from you about the Jewish people and God's plans that include them, too?

Defensive much???

Anonymous said...

By the way, I'm not Dispensationalist either.

RayB said...


Here's a little help for you to aid you in your study:

Proverbs 14:5 "A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies."

Proverbs 19:5 "A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape."

Proverbs 19:9 "A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish."

Matthew 15:19 "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;"

Exodus 20:16 "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour."

2 Timothy 3:3 "Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,"

Revelation 21:8 "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

RayB said...

You have made the accusation that I am an "anti-Semite."

It is not up to me to prove that you are wrong. YOU made the accusation and it is up to YOU to provide your evidence by "copying and pasting" YOUR proof that I am an "anti-Semite."

If you can't do that, you are obviously a false witness, false accuser, etc. and the scriptures above apply to YOU.

Anonymous said...

"What?
No positive thing whatsoever to post from you about the Jewish people and God's plans that include them, too?"


RayB, you could win the argument if you could at least be gracious enough do that.
Just sayin' ...


RayB said...


I'm not playing your silly little juvenile game.

Put up or shut up.

Copy and paste the posts that you claim proves me to be an "anti-Semite."

I already won "the argument" because you can't produce any proof to back up your lying claims. Just sayin'...

Anonymous said...

Not a game, sir.
You should prove you are gracious, RayB.
Is a simple request.
Then it can be said that you are not anti-Israel, anti-Jew.

While you are at it, try being nice to Catholic believers, too.
Can't be nice about the papacy (is rotten as rotten gets), but you can be gracious for the regular Catholic person of the pew, can't you?

Anonymous said...

5:36 PM (Etc.)

Regardless of anything else that he may or may not have said or implied...

Just FYI: I thought about it and one post of his came immediately to mind...

Here (in part) is a RayB comment from earlier in this thread @ 9:57 AM:

RayB said...

"There seems to be a ray of hope shining in the Middle East as Israel's warmongering criminal thug Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form a parliamentary coalition government, forcing an unprecedented new election.

"https://news.yahoo.com/israel-hold-elections-netanyahu-apos-213023687.html

"If you think my description of him is too harsh, think again. Better yet, do some serious research. Netanyahu is the driving force, along with his Neo Conservative American shills, to get the USA into another major war ... this time with Iran. By all accounts, a war with Iran would be an absolute disaster that could conceivably lead to World War III.

"If the truth were to be acknowledged, Israel is the catalyst for virtually all of the problems in the Middle East. Prior to the SECULAR Zionists' migration to Palestine at the beginning of the 20th. Century,

[Here we go, emphases mine except for 'INTENSE']

"that region had experienced PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE for hundreds of years, with a small minority of Orthodox JEWS living side by side with their majority (95%) Muslim neighbors. 

"The true history of Palestine is that the Orthodox JEWS strongly opposed the Zionist migration (many still do), BECAUSE they knew that the secular Zionists had as a firm doctrine and policy of INTENSE racism against the Muslim (as well as Christian) inhabitants."

[So there it is, some really POSITIVE things that he said about Jews!]

RayB said...


20,000 Orthodox Jews Gather in New York City to Protest AGAINST Zionist Israel and Its Military !

I guess they must be "Anti-Semitic!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDER83rW4oE

PS: There is also a large contingent living in Israel that are also against the Zionist State. Why? Because Zionism is NOT Orthodox Judaism, it is a SECULAR POLITICAL movement that was begun in the 19th. Century. It is THAT movement that "settled" in Palestine, that stole the land from its legal, rightful owners ... and it was done with incredible violence. In fact, it was the secular Zionists that introduced terrorism into the region.

RayB said...


"In time such as these, declaring the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

Anonymous said...

???

If this is the "true" history:

"The true history of Palestine is that the Orthodox Jews strongly opposed the Zionist migration (many still do), because they knew that the secular Zionists had as a firm doctrine and policy of INTENSE racism against the Muslim (as well as Christian) inhabitants."

How can THIS be?

"Orthodox Jews routinely persecute Christians within the State of Israel. Jews that convert to Christianity are particularly singled out."

Anonymous said...

But politics aside, RayB, can you say and quote anything from Scripture that is in favor of the Jewish people? I was hoping you would be gracious in that to do so. Guess not.

Because has the Lord promises for a remnant of them that are still in the making.
God uses secular things in the very midst of spiritual things. Look at our own nation as only one example. History is history no matter how people want to rewrite it, but God knows end from beginning with all of it. His Word is the ultimate history book as well as our instructions of who He is, what He has done, and is yet to do.
He has engineered it, directly and allows for things indirectly, so that all things are at His disposal--He uses anything, anyone, and everything, everybody, for His good and righteous purpose. And has mercy on whom He will, and curses on whom He will also.

The ancient hatred the Bible is very clear about, coming from Israel's enemies (immediate neighbors and regionally), is still going on and ready for a final manifest. Isaiah and Jeremiah both, (and not only them where woven throughout the Bible) have several chapters that speak of future events for those who come against Israel and it is not pretty. What has gone around is coming around again, and much bigger now with the help of those who want to put Israel down no matter what with most of the whole globe on board for that now. The biggest problems come when Israel stakes claim in that piece of real estate that God gave them. Spiritual and physical blessings are yet to come to them. This too, the Bible is clear about. You should go back and read the word afresh to grasp just what is really happening throughout all the timelines. With your complete opposition to them no matter what, you heartily cheer her enemies on.

You are against the very spirit of what Apostle Paul wrote in pertaining verses from Romans 9, and in Romans 11, also. Notice what his heart and his words of the Lord to Israel, and future Israel, are saying. But no, you cling to something else, and a shame you don't recognize it, since you claim to study and know the Bible. (you have a penchant for doing the same with anyone who disagrees with you as people can plainly see at this blog because you do not disagree graciously).
So be it. And you proved my point.
Because you find nowhere, no how, to be for them, you are indeed very much against them.
If you did, you would have stated such already.




Anonymous said...

'Because has the Lord promises for a remnant of them that are still in the making'

(excuse me, should be) Because Israel has the Lord's promises for a remnant of them that are still in the making

RayB said...

Anon @ 10:01 AM said (in part):

"I was hoping you would be gracious in that to do so. Guess not."

Anon,

You want me to "be gracious" like you? You have been so "gracious" as to attack me for being an "Anti-Semite," without any proof whatsoever to substantiate your claim.

First you make unfounded attacks against me personally. Then you have the chutzpah to claim that I am lacking in grace. Amazing stuff.

"Heal yourself Physician."

RayB said...

LOL !!!

There is a "remnant" to be found among ALL NATIONS and PEOPLES, including Jews and Gentiles.

Do you actually think you are posting some deep, hidden revelation from Scripture??

By the way, "remnant" does not include ALL Jewish people, it is a small segment of believers that will "come out from among them."

Your argument that I am referring to "politics" is also laughable. Do you actually think the 20,000 Orthodox Jews that protested the secular Zionist State of Israel in New York was based entirely upon "politics?"

Anonymous said...

???

If this is the "true" history:

"The true history of Palestine is that the Orthodox Jews strongly opposed the Zionist migration (many still do), because they knew that the secular Zionists had as a firm doctrine and policy of INTENSE racism against the Muslim (as well as Christian) inhabitants."

How can THIS be?

"Orthodox Jews routinely persecute Christians within the State of Israel. Jews that convert to Christianity are particularly singled out."

RayB said...

Anon to RayB:

"With your complete opposition to them no matter what, you heartily cheer her enemies on."

Another, complete, idiotic, evil LIE ... with absolutely NOTHING to base this claim on. AS IN ZERO.

You are a reckless liar .... I AM COMPLETELY DONE WITH YOU.

Proverbs 26:4 "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him."

Dear Constance,

This is precisely why I am opposed to the use of the screen name "Anonymous." These people can come in here, without any, even remote, tagline for personal identification and make the most baseless, lying claims imaginable ... and get away with it.
At least if they had a personal screen name, we would be able to identify the source and the stands that they consistently take.


Craig said...

You may have read/heard that the Project Veritas video exposing Google/Youtube's bia has been removed from YouTube and even Vimeo; however, it is still available on PV's site:

www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/24/insider-blows-whistle-exec-reveals-google-plan-to-prevent-trump-situation-in-2020-on-hidden-cam/

Senator Ted Cruz grilled a Google employee using PV's expose yesterday:

Sen. Cruz Grills Google on Allegations of Politically Biased Censorship:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1YENAvOveE

Anonymous said...

"Good thing God has a plan to take care of His unfinished business with the Jewish people. A remnant of them will be saved also, just as God has planned for the remnants coming to Him out of of every other tongue, and tribe, and nation."

That is from my post above. RayB.

You are missing much in your apparently jaundiced view of the world.
God is no respecter of persons. (as you prove yourself to be)

Just because you post your name (I assume is your name but really don't care since who you are is not the point of what I am posting) doesn't keep you from selectively cherry picking to make your points. Your opinion is your opinion name or not.


A little graciousness from you would have gone a long way to say you can find something kind to say about the Jewish people and God's continued care and interest for them, but guess you are fresh out....

Romans 11:11-24
Rom 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Rom 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Rom 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Rom 11:14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are
my flesh, and might save some of them.
Rom 11:15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Rom 11:16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Rom 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Rom 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Rom 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
Rom 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Rom 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Rom 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Rom 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Rom 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?


Your attitude in particular fits verses 18-20 as Paul us admonished not to be.


Anonymous said...

RayB,
You can have a cow about this all you want to.
Heck, have a whole herd for all I care.

You, all by your lonesome, proved my point very well.

Anonymous said...

You two folks can fight it out amongst yourselves BUT I would STILL like an answer to my twice now thrice asked question:

If this is the "true" history:

"The true history of Palestine is that the Orthodox Jews strongly opposed the Zionist migration (many still do), because they knew that the secular Zionists had as a firm doctrine and policy of INTENSE racism against the Muslim (as well as Christian) inhabitants."

How can THIS be?

"Orthodox Jews routinely persecute Christians within the State of Israel. Jews that convert to Christianity are particularly singled out."

If STILL no reply it will be assumed that that was NOT a "true" history and that Christians being persecuted was NOT a concern of theirs.

Anonymous said...

Not addressing your concern in this moment of time, 12:26 PM.
That is another topic for another day to me.

Craig said...

A fantastic video of the the first project of We Build The Wall, by Fisher Industries, the outfit that provided the turn-key job.

Fisher Border Wall El Paso, TX Extended Cut Version
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaihuiT24Vg

Anonymous said...

Anonymous 12:32 PM,

Thank you but the addressee was to be understood as RayB, the AUTHOR of the comments in question.

Anonymous said...

Yet one more indication that the attempts at the planned destruction of America continue apace...

Here's what happens when prisons are 'inadvertantly' poorly designed (as well as poorly run):

What Happened When This Prison Didn't Hire Enough Guards?

It Put GANGS In Charge...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/06/25/report-mississippi-prison-guards-gangs/1552783001/

HOW should prisons be built?

Here's a starting point hint:

ONE person per cell.

(But INSTEAD if doing such things RIGHT, let's KEEP taking all the money that could and should be used on such things and feed the military industrial complex instead. PERPETUAL WAR! And coming soon: MORE war? "BOMB BOMB BOMB, BOMB BOMB IRAN?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg)

Anonymous said...

Clint Eastwood To Film New Movie In Georgia DESPITE Hollywood Boycott Over 'Heartbeat Bill'!

Despite the boycott launched by Hollywood liberals angry over the state's new pro-life "Heartbeat" law, legendary actor/director Clint Eastwood will be making his latest movie, "The Battle of Richard Jewell," in Atlanta this summer, reported NBC Charlotte and other media.

"Clint Eastwood will perform new film in Georgia despite abortion bill boycott," tweeted NBC Charlotte on June 25. The movie is about Richard Jewell, a police officer and security guard who discovered a bomb at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Ga., and saved countless lives. Jewell was initially hailed as a hero and then was viewed as a suspect.

The liberal media criticized Jewell 
relentlessly and essentially practiced "trial by media." Eventually, however, Jewell was COMPLETELY EXONERATED and the real bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured.

Jewell sued NBC, CNN, and the New York Postfor libel and won large settlements. His lawyer, L. Lin Wood, is the same lawyer now representing the Covington Catholic kid Nicholas Sandmann in defamation lawsuits against CNN and the Washington Post. 

The heartbeat bill in Georgia prohibits abortion once a baby's heartbeat starts, which is usually six weeks into pregnancy. The bill, signed into law in May, allows exceptions in the cases of rape, incest, or if the mother's life is at serious risk. 

One of the lead Hollywood activists to protest the new law is Alyssa Milano, and she helped organize the boycott of the Peach State. 

In a letter to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Milano -- joined by 40-plus other actors and Hollywood activists -- wrote, "As actors, our work often brings us to Georgia. We've always found your state to be populated with friendly and caring people. We've found the hotels in which we stay and restaurants in which we dine while filming there to be comfortable and of a high quality. We've been glad to bring billions of dollars in revenue to support Georgia's schools, parks, and communities.

"But we cannot in good conscience continue to recommend our industry remain in Georgia if H.B. 481 [heartbeat bill] becomes law.... [W]e will do everything in our power to move our industry to a safer state for women if H.B. 481 becomes law. You have a choice, gentlemen. We pray[?!?] you make the right one."

The letter was signed by many Hollywood 'personalities' including Alec Baldwin, Billy Baldwin, David Arquette, Don Cheadle, Jon Cryer, Laura Dern, Lena Dunham, Mia Farrow, Ashley Judd, Zoe Kravitz, Brie Larson, Eva Longoria, Mandy Moore, Rosie O'Donnell, Patton Oswalt, Sean Penn, Natalie Portman, Emma Roberts, Mark Ruffalo, Amy Schumer, Ben Stiller, and Naomi Watts. 

Some of the actors slated to work on the Eastwood film include Kathy Bates, Olivia Wilde, Jon Hamm and Sam Rockwell. 

Clint Eastwood, 89, has worked in television and movies since the mid-1950s. He has won 13 Academy Awards (nominated 40 times) and won 8 Golden Globe awards (nominated 32 times).
...
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/clint-eastwood-film-new-movie-georgia-despite-hollywood-boycott-over

Anonymous said...

Hi Constance. Just wondering how you and Barry are doing.

RayB said...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has announced that he is running for PM, in order to replace the "corrupt leadership" of Benjamin Netanyahu.

From the Reuter's news article:

“This is not time to be on the fence... Netanyahu’s regime, with its radical messianic zealots and its corrupt leadership must be toppled,” Barak said, in a reference to the prime minister’s far-right religious allies.

Note: When Barak was Israel's PM, he made serious attempts to arrive at a peaceful settlement with the Palestinians and Syria and is known to be a moderate. Netanyahu is the leader of the Lakud Party, which is a notorious warmongering extremist group that has employed strong arm polices against the Palestinians, and has lobbied heavily for the expansion of the US wars in the Middle East.

Barak as PM of Israel would be a huge step towards peace in the region.

Anonymous said...

"Barak as PM of Israel would be a huge step towards peace in the region."

If you want false peace.

Anonymous said...

LOL

https://grrrgraphics.com/cartoons/

Anonymous said...

https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/06/26/google-chrome-is-tracking-your-every-move-and-storing-it-this-is-how-to-stop-it/

Anonymous said...

@10:19,

I like Biden's hood ornament.

RayB said...


Fake "conservative" Chief Justice John Roberts, sides AGAIN with the Liberals on the USSC. This is the same Jesuit trained Chief Justice that gave the nation the abomination known as Obamacare.

Why is it only professing conservative Presidents nominate these fakes that turn out to be liberals? It NEVER happens the other way around with the Democrats. They ALWAYS turn out liberal!

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/450641-supreme-court-rules-against-trump-administration-over-census

Anonymous said...

{Aside from Neocons / Rinos little doubt VERY strongly urging THEIR supposedly "conservative" choices on sitting Republican presidents...}

Why are Republicans so awful at picking Supreme Court justices?

By Marc A. Thiessen
July 2, 2012

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s decision to side with the court’s liberal bloc and uphold Obamacare raises an important question for conservatives: Why are Republicans so awful at picking Supreme Court justices? Democrats have been virtually flawless in appointing reliable liberals to the court. Yet Republicans, more often than not, appoint justices who vote with the other side on critical decisions.

Compare the records over the past three decades. Democrats have appointed four justices — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. All have been consistent liberals on the bench. Republicans, by contrast, have picked seven justices. Of Ronald Reagan’s three appointees (Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia and Anthony M. Kennedy), only Scalia has been a consistent conservative. George H.W. Bush appointed one solid conservative (Clarence Thomas) and one disastrous liberal (David Souter). With George W. Bush’s appointments of Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Roberts, conservatives thought they finally had broken the mold and put two rock-ribbed conservatives on the bench — until last week, that is, when Roberts broke with the conservatives and cast the deciding vote to uphold the largest expansion of federal power in decades.  

So Democrats are four-for-four — a perfect record. Republicans are not even batting .500.

Why is the Democratic record so consistent while the Republican record is so mixed? For one thing, the whole legal and political culture pushes the court to the left. Conservatives are pariahs if they vote against the left on certain issues. But if they cross over to vote with the left, they are hailed as statesmen. There is no penalty for voting left, but there is for voting right.

Another factor is that liberal Supreme Court nominees can tell you precisely how they stand on key issues and still get confirmed. In her 1993 confirmation hearings, you Ginsburg declared the right to abortion “central to a woman’s life, to her dignity” and was confirmed 96 to 3. Breyer declared abortion a “basic right” and was confirmed 87 to 9. Imagine if a conservative nominee said the opposite? His or her confirmation battle would be a nuclear war.

Liberal nominees can simply affirm liberal positions, while conservatives must speak cryptically in terms of their judicial philosophy. And as we have just seen, those philosophical statements do not necessarily indicate how they will vote on the bench. During his confirmation hearings, Roberts famously compared the role of a judge to that of a baseball umpire whose job “is to call balls and strikes.” This was taken as a promise that, as Bush put it, “he’s not going to legislate from the bench.”

Anonymous said...

But legislate from the bench is exactly what Roberts did: The law’s proponents consistently rejected the notion that the individual mandate was a tax. But Roberts effectively redrafted the statute, making the mandate a tax in order to declare it constitutional. As Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito wrote in their dissent, “To say that the Individual Mandate merely imposes a tax is not to interpret the statute but to rewrite it.” This, they said, “carries verbal wizardry too far, deep into the forbidden land of the sophists.”

That is the kind of sophistry we expect from liberals. The left sees the law as a tool of social justice — so they start with the desired outcome and then come up with legal reasoning to justify it. That is what Roberts did: He decided he wanted to uphold Obamacare and rewrote the statute to fit that outcome. 

There is speculation in conservative legal circles that Roberts had intended to strike down Obamacare but flipped his position at the last minute. We don’t know if he was suddenly convinced by his liberal colleagues or simply had a failure of nerve. But the challenge for conservatives is clear: We need jurists who have not only a philosophy of judicial restraint but the intestinal fortitude not to be swayed by pressure from the New York Times, the Georgetown cocktail circuit and the legal academy. 

Roberts’s defenders point to his many other conservative decisions and argue that he is not another Souter or even another Anthony Kennedy.

That may be true.

But is that REALLY the standard we want for a Supreme Court justice — they are not another Souter or Kennedy?

Shouldn’t conservatives expect Republican presidents to do BETTER and appoint another Scalia, Thomas or Alito?

That SHOULDN'T be too much to ask!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-a-thiessen-why-are-republicans-so-awful-at-picking-supreme-court-justices/2012/07/02/gJQAHFJAIW_story.html

Anonymous said...

Nigel Farrage on George Soros

https://youtu.be/9Wf8ItFIsTI

Anonymous said...

Some Of The Latest NatNews Stories...

http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-06-27-leftists-will-start-harvesting-organs-from-christians-executions.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-06-27-vimeo-bans-project-veritas-natural-news-on-the-same-day-as-criminal-tech-giants-accelerate-the-silencing-of-independent-journalism.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-06-27-teen-vogue-promotes-the-legacy-of-karl-marx-to-its-3-3-million-twitter-followers.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-06-26-democrats-withholding-supplies-for-illegal-minors-at-border-to-blame-trump.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-06-26-google-doubles-down-on-deceiving-customers-about-its-political-manipulation.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-06-26-google-buries-mercola-search-results-in-escalating-attack-on-all-independent-health-nutrition-vaccine-information.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-06-25-project-veritas-report-ignored-by-mainstream-media.html

http://censored.news/naturalnews.com.htm

http://censored.news/

Craig said...

Hong Kong protesters block entrance to Department of Justice, nearby roads
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl-SxHjRY_o

In Hong Kong, hundreds of protesters blocked the entrance to the Department of Justice and nearby roads on Jun 27. Meanwhile, the government announced it is scaling back the size of its annual flag-raising ceremony on Jul 1, amid the protests. The ceremony marks the 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China.

Anonymous said...

PRAY FOR BELIEVERS IN CHINA...

https://www.chinaaid.org/2019/06/officials-raid-church-detain-all.html

Early Rain Church members were TORTURED while in custody...

https://www.persecution.org/2019/06/26/members-chinese-church-tortured/

Coalition drafts letter asking President Trump to make religious freedom a top priority in U.S./China relations...

https://www.chinaaid.org/2019/06/chinaaid-signs-letter-asking-president.html

Anonymous said...

Groundwork for a Mark Of The Beast-like system now expanding internationally!

Historically, China and Japan have not been... well, let's say that they have not been the best of friends.

But when a Communist Chinese-style totalitarianist idea came calling, that didn't seem to matter...

Japanese Network Launches Surprise Orwellian 'Social Credit' System To Score Users...

It appears other countries besides China are heading toward a bleak dystopian future where a human being is scored by their online activities. Only this time, it’s a tech company and not a government implementing the social credit score. While [CURRENTLY] not as bleak as China’s social credit system, today Line, Japan’s dominant social media company, introduced a slew of new products—the most alarming among them, Line Score, reports the Verge.

Line Score will use AI to give a social credit score to Line users. The strength of their social credit score will allow them to get access to better special deals and offers that Line users with lower social credit scores WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS TO.

While the new product is unnerving, it’s not completely out of character for Line. Recently the company has been positioning itself as a fintech provider, and its Line Pay digital wallet system is wildly popular in Japan. Line Pay also allows users to shop for insurance and allows them to invest in personal portfolios. Line Score builds on top of Line Pay by offering those with higher scores better perks.
...
[But don't worry, they practiced safe sex and did NOT forget to use a {velvet covered} condom to assuage any misapprehensions:]

Line stresses Line Score is opt-in only and that the company will never share a user’s Line Score with third parties without the user’s permission and it will not read a user’s online chats to determine their Line Score. [There, that made you feel better about the whole procedure, didn't it? Now {surrender your virtue}.]
...
It’s unnerving that tech companies seem to think that social credit ratings are the next big thing
...
https://www.fastcompany.com/90370203/line-just-went-orwellian-on-japanese-users-with-its-social-credit-scoring-system

Anonymous said...

Kamala Harris disappoints some of her followers with her t-shirt . . .

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/06/28/kamala-harris-disappoints-some-followers-with-t-shirt/23759240/

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/people-arent-thrilled-about-kamala-harris-selling-that-little-girl-was-me-tshirts-hollow-and-calculated-174408165.html


Fact: Just to be clear... "Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964 to a Tamil Indian mother and a Jamaican father."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris


A little fact checking shows she lied. The Berkeley School District, always had a desegregated High School Under the Ramsay Plan the Junior High Schools were desegregated in 1964, the year Kamala Harris was born. In 1966, an experimental Elementary Desegregation Plan was implemented and 238 black students were bused to an all white school. On January 15, 1968, the School Board voted unanimously to desegregate all 14 of the District’s elementary schools the following September. At the time, Kamala was 4 years old.


Other reactions / comments...

Just how long ago did Kamala have all of those t-shirts manufactured and ready to go @ $29.99 each... BEFORE she decided to do that 'hit and run' attack on former Vice President Joe Biden... with her disingenuous 'off the cuff' remark, "That little girl was me."???

I guess she forgot that WHITE kids were bused to schools too. It was to level the playing field for blacks and was a bad idea all the way around. I rode a bus 22 miles one way for 5 years!

Hey, Kamala: I walked 12 blocks to school; there was no bus available for me... and I'm WHITE and lived in a middle class neighborhood!!!

Craig said...

More censorship of right leaning/conservative/Trump supporters:

Reddit Has Censored The Largest Donald Trump Forum 2 Days After Carlos Maza Called For It
www.youtube.com/watch?v=50nPHVTXuZY

Anonymous said...

I would like to buy a Biden "My Time Is Up" shirt.


I think that I will order t-shirts with a picture of my sad face on them complaining about how there was no bus to pick me up... and I had to walk 9 blocks to St. Teresa's school (each way morning and afternoon)... often in blizzards where I couldn't see my hand in front of my face." Boo hoo...

Anonymous said...

Woman who escaped Muslim country warns about Muslim men dressing in traditional women's clothes to gain access to women-only areas:

Islamic Cross Dressing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dXxGhzCEdg

Anonymous said...

This term for Planned Parenthood, etc., locations that Censored.news used for a linked story's headline is a good one because it's a brutally accurate wake up call also!

This phrasing should therefore be very heavily promoted to be used as THE most frequently used term of 'choice' by the Pro-Life Community when referring to such places...

Missouri's Last Abortion Slaughterhouse Could Close as Early as August 1

https://www.libertyheadlines.com/missouri-abortion-planned-parenthood-close/

Christine Erikson (aka Justina) said...

"Anonymous said...
What is the real meaning of Colossians 2:14-17?" And an article that attempts to show these are about pagan plus mosaic syncretism. (and the usual failure to distinguish between the eternal moral law incl. its nuances, and the ritual and mosaic specific indicator laws).

The real meaning of these verses is shown by the context. Verse 16 begins, "so [as in "therefore"] let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths."

Why? because what precedes is about the completeness of us in Christ, "In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, Who raised Him from the dead."

Galatians is written against circumcision, and by implication the rest of the mosaic specific requirements.

The argument that Jesus and the Apostles kept the mosaic law BEFORE the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Jesus said He came not to destroy but fulfill the law, Matt. 5:17, regularly cited by legalists, who fail to add the next verse, where Jesus said that nothing would pass from it UNTIL ALL WAS FULFILLED, WHICH HE CAME TO DO. Matt, 5:18. Being fulfilled by Jesus, the mosaic issues passed.

Jer. 31:31,32 "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
"NOT ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT THAT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:"

Acts 15: 13 James gave the decision and the letter sent to all was that "since we have heard that some who went out from among us have troubled you....saying "You must be circumcised and keep the law" TO WHOM WE GAVE NO SUCH COMMANDMENT ... it seemed good to The Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood [i.e., murder] from things strangled [i.e., no exsanguination whatsoever such as chicken neck wrung instead of head cut off], and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well." vss. 24-29.

that should settle this whole matter. And I Tim. 4:1-3 specifies that doctrines of demons incl. abstaining from meats.

1000 scientists worldwide skeptical of darwinism.

In Genesis, Abraham when called on the lie that Sarah was his sister, said that in fact she WAS his sister, only by his father but not from his mother. So here we see a half sibling called a sibling.

Mary when told by Gabriel she would have a son Mary acts like the condition of not knowing (not having sex with) a man was a permanent situation. This was something then that she had decided on and was known by others.

The opinion of those speaking of Jesus' brothers and sisters is irrelevant, they would have assumed ALL were by Joseph. Mary calls Joseph Jesus' father when asking why He let them worry when He stayed at the Temple but Joseph she knew was not His literal father, but an adoptive or putative father was called a father, still is unless you get real technical.

" The Septuagint translators sometimes used the Greek word for brother (adelphos) in Old Testament passages in which a near relative or kinsman, who was not technically a physical brother,... The Hebrew term for brother (‘ach) occasionally was used to refer to a more remote descendant from a common father who was not technically a brother ... For example, Laban, Jacob’s uncle, was referred to as Jacob’s “brother” (Genesis 29:12,15). Likewise, Abram’s nephew Lot was said to be Abram’s “brother” (Genesis 14:14,16)." http://www.apologeticspress.org/APContent.aspx?category=11&article=1271

Craig said...

Christine,

You assert: Mary when told by Gabriel she would have a son Mary acts like the condition of not knowing (not having sex with) a man was a permanent situation. This was something then that she had decided on and was known by others.

Known by whom? What evidence do you have for this assertion? This is an argument from silence and one the author of the very work you cite challenges:

“A second assertion maintains that the brothers and sisters of Jesus were the children of Joseph by a previous marriage. Of course, this alleged prior marriage is without any biblical support whatsoever. The New Testament is completely silent on the matter. To postulate its occurrence, at best, is to introduce a question regarding Joseph’s own marital eligibility in his relationship with Mary. [ED. I’ll concede the possibility that Joseph was a widower, but, once again, this is an argument from silence—which is never a good basis upon which to begin an argument.]

“In addition to the verses that allude to the brothers and sisters of Jesus, a corroborative verse is seen in Matthew 1:25. When Joseph awoke from a dream, wherein an angel of the Lord explained the circumstances of his wife’s pregnant condition, Matthew wrote that Joseph ‘knew her not until she had borne a son.’ Use of the word ‘knew,’ a common euphemism for sexual intercourse, means that Joseph and Mary abstained from sexual relations prior to the birth of Jesus. While it is true that the Greek construction heos hou (until) does not necessarily imply that they engaged in sexual relations after the birth of Jesus, the rest of the New Testament bears out the fact that where this phrase followed by a negative occurs, it ‘always implies that the negated action did take place later’ (Lewis, 1976, 1:42, emp. added). Bruce observed: ‘Subsequent intercourse was the natural, if not the necessary, course of things. If the evangelist had felt as the Catholics [ED. and EOs] do, he would have taken pains to prevent misunderstanding’ (Nicoll, n.d., 1:69). Alford agreed: ‘On the whole it seems to me, that no one would ever have thought of interpreting the verse any otherwise than in its prima facie meaning, except to force it into accordance with a preconceived notion of the perpetual virginity of Mary’ (1980, 1:9).”

As regards the use of adelphoi, “brothers”, for “cousins” in the LXX as a translation of the Hebrew ’ach, this is a weak argument for the NT, as this same author notes:

“Lewis stated even more decisively: ‘”Brothers” (adelphoi) never means “cousins” in New Testament Greek’ (1976, 1:181, emp. added). Indeed, the Greek language had a separate and distinct word for ‘cousins’—anepsioia (e.g., Colossians 4:10). When a nephew was meant, the relationship was clearly specified (e.g., Acts 23:16). To summarize: ‘There is therefore no adequate warrant in the language alone to take “brethren” as meaning “relatives,” and therefore the a priori presumption is in favor of a literal acceptation of the term’ (McClintock and Strong, 1:895).”

Anonymous said...

In my reply to Christine's 11:05 PM post I put...

What is the real meaning of Colossians 2:14-17?

http://triumphpro.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/col-2.pdf
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9:06 AM Christine replied with the claim...

"the usual failure to distinguish between the eternal moral law incl. its nuances, and the ritual and mosaic specific indicator laws"
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[She somehow managed to 'overlook' my subsequent post @ 9:00 AM which happened to be ESPECIALLY FOCUSED on that exact aspect of the topic...]

What should Christians learn from the various types of biblical law?

https://lifehopeandtruth.com/bible/biblical-laws/the-law-of-god/

Biblical Laws: More Than Just The 10 Commandments?

https://lifehopeandtruth.com/bible/biblical-laws

Anonymous said...

Putin Responds To Elton John: Respect Majority! Liberals Invented 5 or 6 Genders: Transformers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rAU62JkPzs

Anonymous said...

How IRONIC that CNN has spent the past 2 1/2 years verbally 'slicing and dicing' President Trump... as their ratings have sunk further and further into the toilet. Yet, in the wee hours of Sunday morning... as President Trump became the first President EVER to take those HISTORIC steps to cross the DMZ into North Korea... only then was CNN suddenly enjoying high ratings again!!!




Anonymous said...

Putin: Trump Is A Talented Man! He Saw Changes In American Society And Took Advantage Of This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7A8BCtjnuc

RayB said...

I think Beto is an exciting candidate.

So far, we've had Beto eats dirt (I think to connect to the earth? I'm not sure, but it's exciting).

Beto gets his teeth cleaned. Every single person that ever got their teeth cleaned can relate now to Beto.

Beto gets a hair cut ... and ... hold your breath ... Beto gets his ear hairs clipped, which is a "sign of aging" says Beto.

I won't mention that Beto uniquely served his wife used baby diapers to eat for lunch .... without telling her, which is nice, because he probably didn't want to offend her ... or his baby?

NOW ... Beto campaigns in Mexico! Talk about a breath of fresh air.

https://apnews.com/f0e50bbcfe7f4c65b5a711d42ccefc0a

RayB said...


Police estimates that 800-1,000 "teens" and "young adults" showed up for a "free party" and "BBQ" in North Philadelphia last night.

The "teens" and "young adults" had a little, harmless fun and wrecked 4 police cars, which showed up in force. None of the "teens" or "young adults" were arrested or hurt.

Try to imagine what it's going to be like when this artificially created bubble economy finally bursts, after seeing what "teens" and "young adults" act like when they gather in large numbers?

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/07/01/several-philadelphia-police-cars-damaged-after-hundreds-of-teens-gather-in-north-philadelphia/

Anonymous said...

Will Israel Strike Iran?
US ON ALERT FOR IMMINENT WAR

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1147520/Iran-news-US-war-Israel-Tehran-Iran-uranium-nuclear-war

Anonymous said...

Is anyone watching to whom the top EU jobs are going to?

I'm watching and it is getting very interesting..

Anonymous said...

Hong Kong Protests Show Dangers of a Cashless Society

Many digital payments can be tracked, potentially assisting an authoritarian crackdown.

ANDREA O'SULLIVAN
REASON.com
7.2.2019

It can be easy to take cash for granted, especially in a wealthy, developed economy. Those fortunate enough to live in a stable society usually suffer no lack of payment options. They are getting more advanced all the time, with financial technology (fintech) companies constantly developing new ways to quickly and cheaply make purchases and send money. It sometimes seems the days of old-fashioned cash, with its dormant physicality, are numbered.

Allowing cash to die would be a grave mistake. A cashless society is a surveillance society. The recent round of protests in Hong Kong highlights exactly what we have to lose.

The current unrest concerns a proposed change to Hong Kong's extradition laws that would allow island fugitives to be transferred to Taiwan, Macau, and mainland China. The proposal sparked mass outrage, as many Hongkongers saw it as little more but a new way for the People's Republic of China to erode the legal sovereignty of Hong Kong.

This week, anti-extradition protests reached another crescendo, as Hongkongers took to the streets again to commemorate the anniversary of Hong Kong's handoff to China, highlighting the deep political dynamics at play.

Specifically, protestors fear that the Chinese judicial system, with all its attendant human rights baggage, would come to supplant Hong Kong's. This would be no small problem. China isn't shy about cracking down on political dissidents, even those from other states under their control. For example, in 2017, a Taiwanese pro-democracy activist was detained in China and sentenced to five years in prison for "subverting [Chinese] state power" in his home country.

So tens of thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets to protest what they saw as creeping tyranny from a powerful threat. But they did it in a very particular way.

In Hong Kong, most people use a contactless smart card called an "Octopus card" to pay for everything from transit, to parking, and even retail purchases. It's pretty handy: Just wave your tentacular card over the sensor and make your way to the platform.

But no one used their Octopus card to get around Hong Kong during the protests. The risk was that a government could view the central database of Octopus transactions to unmask these democratic ne'er-do-wells.
Traveling downtown during the height of the protests?
You could get put on a list, EVEN if you just happened to be in the AREA!

Anonymous said...

So the savvy subversives turned to cash instead. Normally, the lines for the single-ticket machines that accept cash are populated only by a few confused tourists, while locals whiz through the turnstiles with their fintech wizardry.

But on protest days, the queues teemed with young activists clutching old school paper notes. As one protestor told Quartz: "We're afraid of having our data tracked."

Using cash to purchase single tickets meant that governments couldn't connect activists' activities with their Octopus accounts. It was instant anonymity. Sure, it was less convenient. And one-off physical tickets cost a little more than the Octopus equivalent. But the trade-off of avoiding persecution and jail time was well worth it.

What could protestors do in a CASHLESS world?

Maybe they would have to {just} grit their teeth and hope for the best.

But relying on the benevolence or incompetence of a motivated entity like China is NOT a great plan.

Or perhaps public transit would be off-limits ALTOGETHER.

This could limit the protests to fit people within walking or biking distance, or people who have access to a private car—a rarity in expensive dense cities.

If some of our eggheads had their way, the protestors would have had NO CHOICE.

A chorus of commentators call for an end to cash, whether because it frustrates[?!?] central bank schemes, fuels black and grey markets, or is simply inefficient. We have plenty of newfangled payment options, they say. Why should modern first world economies hew to such primordial human institutions?

The answer is that there is simply no substitute for the privacy that cash, including digitized versions like cryptocurrencies, provide. Even if all of the alleged downsides that critics bemoan were true, cash would still be worth defending and celebrating for its core privacy-preserving functions. As Jerry Brito of Coin Center points out, cash protects our autonomy and indeed our human dignity.

We don't even need to contemplate hypotheticals of what a digital financial surveillance system would look like. China's ubiquitous social media and messaging service WeChat doubles as a primary payment method for millions of mainland Chinese. It's easy, it's effective, and it's integrated into every facet of Chinese digital life.

But Coin Center's Peter Van Valkenburgh calls apps like WeChat Pay "tools for totalitarianism" for good reason: Each transaction is linked to your identity for possible viewing by Communist Party zealots. No wonder less than 8 percent of Hongkongers bother with hyper-palatable WeChat Pay.

Of course, Western offerings like Apple Pay and Venmo also maintain user databases that can be mined. Users may feel protected by the legal limits that countries like the United States place on what consumer data the government can extract from private business. But as research by Van Valkenburgh points out, US anti-money laundering laws afford less Fourth Amendment protection than you might expect. Besides, we still need to trust government and businesses to do the right thing. As the Edward Snowden revelations PROVED, this trust can be MISPLACED.

Hong Kong is about as first world as you can get. Yet even in such a developed economy, power's jealous hold is but an ill-worded reform away. We should NOT ALLOW today's relative freedom to obscure the threat that a cashless world poses to our sovereignty.

Not only CAN "it happen here," for some of your fellow citizens...

it might already HAVE!

https://reason.com/2019/07/02/hong-kong-protests-show-dangers-of-a-cashless-society/

Anonymous said...

Correction:

A chorus of commentators call for an end to cash, whether because it frustrates central bank schemes, fuels black and grey markets, or is simply inefficient.

Anonymous said...

[Concerned about 'Drag Queen Story Hour?' being interjected in children's events in Public Libraries all over the US?

WHY?

What could POSSIBLY be the harm?]

Demonic energy now seemingly channeling out of drag queens as humans figuratively morph into creatures from hell, right in front of children!

[Oh.]

Tuesday, July 02, 2019 by: Ethan Huff
Natural News

Renton Public Library in Renton, Washington, recently held a so-called “teen pride” event that featured a deranged, gender-dysphoric young man dressed as a woman who actually got down on all fours and started roaring incoherently like a demon from hell, this being the latest installment of satanic LGBTQ propaganda aimed at America’s impressionable youth.

This bizarre drag show was part of a “pride celebration designed by teens for teens” which, according to an advertisement that appeared on the Renton Public Library website, also featured “Safer sex presentations! A drag show! Free swag! (and a) Free binder raffle!”

In case you’re unfamiliar with what a “binder” is, it’s a device that a transgender “man,” meaning a woman pretending to be a man, can use to flatten “his” breasts in order to look more “masculine.” At the Renton Public Library “teen pride” event, chest binders were handed out “to help eight self-hating girls mutilate their bodies,” according to activist Kaeley Triller Harms, who spoke out against the horrors that she witnessed.

On her Twitter page, Harms posted a video clipof the drag portion of the event, which depicts the young man in drag quite literally morphing into what would appear to be some kind of creature from hell. One can only imagine the demonic energy that was released into the room during this stunt.

“This is what demonic possession looks like,” Harms commented below the clip she shared, encouraging viewers to watch it all the way to the end. “I know a lot of y’all don’t believe in the spiritual realm, but thanks for bearing with me anyway. In my opinion, this is it. On all fours. Growling. At the teen pride event at the public library.”

Anonymous said...

In addition to handing out chest binders and exposing young and innocent children to this demonic drag queen demon, the teen pride event organizers also handed out flyers about pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PreEP, a pharmaceutical that, when taken daily, is supposed to reduce one’s risk of getting AIDS when having sex with HIV-positive people.

Activists from the so-called “Lifelong Alliance for AIDS” were on-site to push PreEP on young children – the Lifelong Alliance raking in about $22 million annually from “government grants and fees” in order to do so.

Representatives from abortion giant Planned Parenthood were also in attendance at Renton Public Library’s teen pride event, during which they handed out personal lubrication and flavored condoms to children.

Meanwhile, adults who were not accompanying teenagers were reportedly told by library personnel that they had to leave the premises before the teen pride event began. One woman by the name of Lynn Meagher says she was “physically removed” by police after refusing to leave.

“Welcome to 2019, when protecting kids from being prematurely sexualized can get you potentially arrested,” Harms commented about how Meagher was treated. “Maybe she should have claimed to identify as 14,” Harms further joked.

To help support efforts nationwide to stop this LGBTQ indoctrination of society’s most vulnerable, be sure to sign the LifeSiteNews Life Petition to end all “Drag Queen Story Hour” and “teen pride” events at America’s public libraries.

“Believe it or not, there is a well-orchestrated, subversive plan being promoted by the American Library Association, to promote a phenomenon known as ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ (DQSH) to small-town American libraries, in order to ‘capture the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and give kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models,'” the petition explains.

Sign the petition to STOP drag queen story hour at American public libraries:

https://lifepetitions.com/petition/tell-the-american-library-association-to-promote-literacy-not-homosexuality

For related news, be sure to check out Gender.news and Evil.news

Read more reports of demonic possession at DemonicTimes.com

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-drag-queen-on-all-fours-roars-growls-incoherently-at-library-pride-event-for-teens

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-07-02-demonic-energy-channeling-out-of-drag-queens-morphing-into-hell-creatures.html

Anonymous said...

EXCLUSIVE: Google to BLOCK ALL anti-cancer, “anti-vax” and anti-GMO websites at the BROWSER LEVEL!

Tuesday, July 02, 2019
By: Mike Adams
Natural News

By late 2020, Google’s Chrome browser will automatically block all so-called anti-cancer, “anti-vax” and anti-GMO websites as part of Google’s collapse into a Monsanto/Pharma criminal cartel. Users who want to visit websites that expose the scientifically-validated risks and potential harm of vaccines, chemotherapy, glyphosate or GMOs will have to switch to alternative browsers and search engines, since the Google.com search engine is already in the process of eliminating all such websites from its search results.

Within a year or so, the Google Chrome browser won’t even allow a user to visit sites like NaturalNews.com without changing the browser’s default settings. The only websites accessible through Chrome will be those which are “approved” to promote mass medication, chemotherapy, pesticides, vaccines, fluoride, 5G cell towers and other poisons that enrich powerful, globalist corporations while dumbing down the population.
...
https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-07-02-google-to-block-all-anti-cancer-anti-vax-and-anti-gmo-websites-at-the-browser-level.html

paul said...

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key to the bottomless pit.
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. ( Revelations 9:1,2)

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