What is happening? Everything!
1. Trumpism continues its strange evil spell over too many Evangelicals and Right-to-Life Catholics: "only Trump can save us."
2. The Hamas October 7 surprise attack on Israel.
3. Trump receives indictments for his Georgia and related Election interference activities.
4. Trump - FOR NOW - flatters and praises Evangelicals while hurling insults at just about everybody else (and those Evangelicals not under his spell.)
5. Curiously, pro-Maga and Qanon people along with substantial parts of the Republican Party who communicate with Trump and take his advice favor abandoning Ukraine.
6. Reportedly, Putin hangs on in the Ukraine wars in hopes that Trump will return to the Presidency and remove all USA resistance to his mass-murdering invasion of that country.
7. Trump promises to OBLITERATE his opposition.
8. Trump believes he can override this portion of the Constitution (14th Amendment) with an "Executive Order":
Amendment XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Donald Trump has declared in his recent ranting speeches that if he is elected to the 47th Presidency of the United States that he will end the citizenship of children born in the United States to undocumented aliens!
I am becoming increasingly wary of Trump for whom I once supported and voted for in two elections. He has no compunction about lying, he has an almost hypnotic, perhaps even demonic hold over naive Christians who think he will continue to be their friend once he has achieved his obvious dictatorial aspirations. One thing you should think about is the nickname he has attached to Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida of "SANCTIMONIOUS". "Sanctimonious" is a term usually applied to people considered "churchy" or "pious".
I am horrified at Biden's stance on abortion, same-sex marriage, trans-genderism, and the like. However, I ask you to please remember that of "'transgender' BRUCE JENNER, now known as "Caitlyn Jenner," Trump during his first Presidential campaign said "she may use any restroom she wants in my buildings." Trump has spoken out of both sides of his mouth on these issues.
Donald Trump pursues his political base with little regard for truth. One of his top advisors, self-proclaimed "Dirty Trickster" Roger Stone is courting the New Apostolic Reformation crowd, including Elijah List with prolamations that he is now a born again Christian attending Coral Gables Presbyterian Church and that he and Donald Trump often "pray together." I believe given his reputation and the obvious tactics employed that what he and Trump are really up to is "PREYING TOGETHER."
If Trump returns, I pray I am wrong, but I strongly suspect I am not.
Constance
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You are just being dogmatic. You do not get to judge me for choosing Jesus over Paul.
I believe you do the same, but you kid yourself about it.
I don't kid myself about it, nor do I feel compelled any longer to be gaslighted by either dogma or mental acrobatics.
You are free to ignore whatever you want. I'm sure it's easier that way.
Myself, I need to understand everything. If it's that important to obey God's will, I need to clearly understand what God's will is. You have no right to judge me for this.
I don't think you and I need to fight, and I won't be pushy if you want to ignore, but don't you judge me for needing to understand. You don't get to do that.
Craig 10:57 PM,
I think we both know about the existence of the victim hierarchy and how it functions at times.
Craig 10:57 PM,
P.S. Feminists get very dogmatic and gloss right over contradictions and do mental acrobatics to avoid plain facts and just simply gaslight about it and kid themselves about it. Nobody else does that the way they do...right?
Jesus Christ is the way, the life and the truth. He spoke clearly and face to face in a non-threatening way to real people who existed historically, twelve of whom became his messengers, with the Holy Spirit gift given to them, so that they would be able to recall the words He told them. Every time an apostle was martyred, the others did not replace him. They only replaced Judas. They knew there would only be twelve into eternity and that they would judge the twelve tribes of Israel.
Jesus Christ never behaved with the people to whom He spoke as "Irresistable Grace." There are only two exceptions: the dead who were resurrected, and the demon possessed who were delivered from their demons.
Jesus Christ inspired his true apostle Peter to write to husbands, in the context of expecting the upcoming tribulation, that their wives were heirs with them equally of the promise of life. This is the most important equality there could ever be, between men and women.
Striving for the rights to be equally sinful and equally materialistic can't lead anywhere good. All the while feminists have been liberating themselves from Christianity they've been going into bondage to Satan and to the lusts of the flesh to a greater and greater extent.
The first wave feminists were not all anti-Christian, although some of them were already planting the seeds of the later anti-Christian turn that feminism took.
Feminists need to be delivered from their bondage to Satan and from their lusts of the flesh, but Jesus will not force Irresistable Grace upon them. The only thing that might give them a chance of conversion would be to tell them the words that Jesus spoke without making Paul's words a stumbling block for them.
If they never accept salvation that is to their own destruction, just as the Hamas terrorists rape women and slaughter men, women and children to their own destruction.
Those Israeli women who were raped and killed, if any of them were obedient to the Law of Moses, may possibly go to the Father through the Son, because He will judge them during His Great White Throne Judgement.
I said possibly, because I don't know. Nobody goes to the Father except through the Son, but the Son comes right out and says that He judges everybody according to their works. Who am I to restrict the meaning to the frequently taught evangelical formula that everybody who doesn't put "once saved always saved" faith in the name and a collection of facts about Jesus Christ in this life will be damned for all eternity? Won't everybody know who Jesus is when they are being judged by Him? Who is anybody to put words into His mouth to say that He will have no choice but to damn them if they did not put faith in his name during their earthly life? In fact, He said that people who called Him Lord, Lord but whose hearts were far from them would suffer weeping and gnashing of teeth because they had no mercy during their earthly lives.
Why are we always talking about politics? Both the feminists and the Hamas terrorists are headed to their own destruction.
8:03 AM
That's your business. It is personal for you and should be.
But I don't understand why you need a public place to air it all.
You seem to want to push a cram course of your own conundrum here, and to me, sorry, but it's falling flat.
I figure you are a nice enough person but maybe you should consider that this is blog not your classroom.
Craig, plenty of guilt and retaliation coming from both sides.
The Untold Story of the Abuse of Palestinian Women in Hebron
https://www.jordantimes.com/opinion/ramzy-baroud/untold-story-abuse-palestinian-women-hebron
8:49 AM,
You seem like a nice person, too. It's not a conundrum for me to choose Jesus over Paul.
I wanted to see if I would get any response--any--from anybody--anybody--who would really, truly engage with any contradictions or problems I pointed out.
I'll leave it there. But I can't make any guarantees that if somebody responds in the near future that I will not reply to them.
9:02 AM,
Jesus told his disciples and told the crowds that they were to love their enemies. To this day, the modern nation state of Israel does not think that loving their neighbor is equally applicable to all peoples. They do hold to loving other Israeli citizens in that way. This is exactly the way the Pharisees took it. Loving your enemy expands this meaning to include other tribes, other peoples, other nations.
The words to love your enemy come from the Sermon on the Mount People have a hard time with the Sermon on the Mount. Liberal talking points! That's what some pastors are reporting they are told when they quote from the Sermon on the Mount.
What does that mean, loving your enemy? If it is love as Paul wrote of love, then it means that with Hamas terrorists, we are patient, kind, endure all things, etc. After all, it means heaping hot coals on them (quoting Proverbs), and the world is soon to end. Paul really thought the end of the world was at hand. This is the only way he could make sense of the teachings of Jesus.
What have you got to lose? Be nice, very nice, and they will soon be in hell. You will soon be in heaven.
Is that what Jesus meant, though?
Oops, there I go again. I was just admonished not to do this. Everybody else gets to opine away and rail away, but I don't get to spread the actual teachings of Jesus in the comments section. I forgot.
Paul wrote eloquently about love. He had a silver tongue and a silver pen. He wrote edifying and inspiring words.
Jesus summed up love in the ten commandments. The rich young man was not obeying the very first one to love his God and put his God first, because he wasn't willing to give up his wealth to follow Jesus. That's the significance. It's still about the ten commandments. He loved the world and the things of the world more than he loved Jesus. This disobeyed the first commandment to love God.
Jesus also said people aren't worthy of Him if they don't choose Him over their own family members. Obviously we're not all supposed to dissolve our families to follow Him, but in the event of a conflict, He is to be chosen first. In the same way, in the event of a conflict between following Him and storing up treasure on earth, He is to be put first.
How would you apply the ten commandments to Hamas terrorists? Well, first, you wouldn't become a terrorist in response to kill the, but it doesn't mean the legitimate and lawful ways of warfare on the part of the military have no time and no place. Second, you wouldn't rape their women or the women you associated with their tribe. Would you need to be patient, kind, endure all things, hope for all things with them? I guess if they were a family member of yours, you would get bonus points for that, maybe? I don't know. I'm not sure. I think you can avoid stealing from people, lying to them, killing them, having sex with them, etc. even if you don't feel always patient and kind and enduring and may even want to go no contact with them, in fact.
P.S. But Jesus says blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy. He almost never used the word grace. He used the word mercy.
It's hard to believe He would condone bombing hospitals. I know that in at least one instance, the bomb that fell on the civilians misfired from Hamas. And I know Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields and may even have built a tunnel under a hospital. It is so diabolical what Hamas does.
9.02 AM
I'm catching wind of some pretty weird stuff coming from the Muslim side. Some Muslims are saying (and many thinking) Yahweh, the God of Zionism and Judeo-Christians, is a evil spirit.
This is not to hard to believe after twenty+ years of the relentless bombing of Muslims.
Myself, personally, I side with the Palestinian Catholics, (which will undoubtedly disappear as did all the other Catholics in the ME since the Neo-Con Global War on Terror started).
PS: avoid crowds
How far has Constance's blog site slipped?
It's gone from the obnoxious X controlling the site, to a heretic nutcase that is obsessed with the Apostle Paul, and Constance sits idly by, as usual, and does absolutely nothing.
I wouldn't doubt it for a moment that this site has fewer than 25 readers per day, and for good reason. Who needs to spend time reading anti-biblical garbage?
Pope Francis Embraces Global Islam And Mother Earth
Posted on November 20, 2023 by TMH
By: Cliff Kincaid
The FBI was caught with a memo authorizing surveillance of traditional Catholics but FBI Director Christopher Wray disavowed the memo. We now understand that the assignment was subcontracted to Pope Francis, who just sacked a conservative Bishop in Texas. This does far more damage to the Catholic Church than anything the FBI could do.
On Sunday, November 12, as Catholics were reading the Gospel message about the need to avoid falling asleep “for you know neither the day nor the hour” of Christ’s return, many were waking up to learn that Texas Bishop Joseph E. Strickland was fired from his post. Strickland, an advocate of traditional Catholic teachings, was removed from his duties in the diocese of Tyler, Texas.
Strickland was NOT caught in a sex scandal, and his Tyler, Texas, diocese did not have to go bankrupt because of sex scandal payouts to victims. Instead, he was accused of criticizing the pope.
“The only answer I have to that,” referring to his removal, “is because forces in the Church right now don’t want the truth of the Gospel,” he said.
If this is the case, then what explains the direction of the Vatican under Francis? What is his agenda if not the Gospel of Christ?
One answer may lie in the report by conservative Bill Donohue of the Catholic League that, on October 17, Francis “welcomed Catholic dissidents who have previously been condemned by U.S. cardinals and bishops. He met for almost an hour with Sister Jeannine Gramick, who, along with Fr. Robert Nugent, founded New Ways Ministry (NWM) in 1977; it is a radical pro-homosexual group.”
What is more, says Donohue, Gramick “was best friends with the most notorious serial child rapist priest in American history, Fr. Paul Shanley.”
https://noisyroom.net/blog/2023/11/20/pope-francis-embraces-global-islam-and-mother-earth/
11:51 AM,
"It's gone from the obnoxious X controlling the site, to a heretic nutcase that is obsessed with the Apostle Paul, and Constance sits idly by, as usual, and does absolutely nothing."
It's interesting to me that you find it heretical and nutty for me to be obedient to the command of Jesus Christ to have only one master and one teacher, Himself.
It's my very great privilege and honor to be mocked by you for such a thing.
Click-bait title. . .
(Is Eastern vs Western Catholic - Hetero vs Homosexual? Or, Are The Irish Lite In Their Loafers?)
How The US Catholic Bishops Drove 100,000 Catholics From The Church
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QcA1Aj8tQ0
Thumbs-up AJ
Philippians 3 ►
Douay-Rheims Bible
Righteousness through Faith
1 As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not wearisome, but to you is necessary.
2 Beware of dogs: beware of evil workers: beware of the concision. 3 For we are the circumcision, who in spirit serve God and glory in Christ Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh. 4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, I more: 5 Being circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews. According to the law, a Pharisee: 6 According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.
Knowing Christ is Above All
7 But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ. 9 And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: justice in faith. 10 That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings: being made conformable to his death, 11 If by any means I may attain to the resurrection which is from the dead.
J
I need to clarify what I was saying, summing up love as the ten commandments, and applying it to the war between Israel and Hamas.
Jesus said that His kingdom is not of this world. His Sermon on the Mount contained hard sayings that went beyond the ten commandments. These sayings are for His kingdom, not for the world. They go beyond even Israel. The only way they could be kept is if your heart is set on His kingdom, not on this world. And you would have to have the law written on your heart and to be given a heart to obey it.
As a citizen who votes I still see the ten commandments as a valid way to determine what to support and what not to support. The Sermon on the Mount is for the individual and for the church. The ten commandments are for Christendom, in my opinion, in those times and places where it exists. America is no longer Christendom because a majority of citizens are no longer Christian. But as a voter I still may use the ten commandments as a voting guide for myself. As a citizen I may still speak from their influence when I'm expressing political opinions.
Moses was called God's servant. He spoke with God intermittently. Jesus was God's Son. He never said a word during his ministry that was not given Him by the Father. It's different to be the servant than to be the child.
We all can be the Prodigal Son (or the Prodigal Daughter) returning to the Father, shame faced, with filthy and tattered clothing, being forgiven immediately after having left behind the pleasures of the world, hitting on "poverty" even if it is poverty of the soul and spirit, and being greeted with nothing but love by God!
If and when any of us come to God as the Prodigal Son, there will be great joy in Heaven! Ask yourself, why will there be great joy if it is all predestined? I would agree that God can predict what people will do to a very great extent, but if He did not choose to limit His control over His created beings, why would He feel great joy when they come to Him?
The ten commandments are at a servant level, while the Sermon on the Mount is at the level of a child. The ten commandments are for this world. The Sermon on the Mount is for the kingdom of God, which is not of this world. It is for the individual and for the church.
I'm not going to keep on treating the blog as my classroom. I just needed to clarify what I said earlier because I realized I was only partially correct and I didn't want to leave it sitting there in that partially correct form. It seems to my reading now to be at least slightly misleading.
J 1:01 PM
Douay-Rheims Bible? Preferred over modern translations?
More background/truth re J6 en route to his larger speech on the FBI:
The Corruption of the FBI | Robert Barnes
Hillsdale College
“The Corruption of the FBI”
Robert Barnes
Barnes Law, LLP
This speech was given on April 25, 2023, during a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar, “America’s Uncertain Future.”
8:57 AM
Yes, the Douay-Rheims Bible came BEFORE those Protestant rebels (e.g. Martin Luther, King Henry VIII, etc.).
You Protestants 'watered down' the Bible... took out what you didn't like or agree with (cafeteria selection).
So much for the 'word' of God.
When did Constance's blog become X's blog?
Did money change hands?
Maybe it's time for Susan Sarandon to be 'cancelled'?
'Go, live like a Muslim woman in a Muslim country, Susan, you'll come back to U.S. and kiss the land': Muslim American woman leads furious backlash against Sarandon after her latest anti-Semitic outburst
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12775207/Susan-Sarandon-schooled-Muslim-Americans-saying-frightened-Jews-getting-taste-feels-live-like-Muslim-woman-Muslim-country.html
Craig,
Hillsdale College has somehow become an ecumenical centerstage for Opus Dei, the NAR and the proliferation of dominionist & authoritarian ideas throughout the country as they seek to dismantle democratic & Protestant institutions & values throughout America.
It's not surprising one bit to me they would speak negatively about our leading national police investigation and police organizations.
Government isn't ideal (there is no ideal arbiter among men)...but at least we have a vote. Consider this...if and when the dominionists/roman catholics take over, speeches like Robert Barne's made wouldn't even be allowed to happen.
I know you'd never bend your knee to Rome and/or some NAR "Apostle"...so why do you continue to carry water for them and spread their propaganda.
x
Dominionism believes that the United States is and should be a Christian nation, without tolerance for other religions or faiths; that biblical law based on the Ten Commandments is the singular foundation for all law; and that the Constitution should be interpreted solely on that basis. Of importance, supporters believe that the United States should be a theocracy guided moreover by religious leaders rather than popularly elected leaders. ...
...One area that Dominionism has been highly visible is in education. The explosion of home schooling and private Christian schools is evident. Hillsdale College has gained influence via the creation of Christian curricula being used as the basis for teaching in conservative states, while churning out teachers to indoctrinate students to Christian Nationalism on campuses throughout the Country.
Source: America doesn't need a Christian ayatollah
https://www.thetelegraph.com/opinion/article/America-doesn-t-need-a-Christian-ayatollah-17323119.php
X,
I reject your premises and so reject your conclusions.
Craig,
Reject all you want but you saw NAR for what it is...this is just the logical extension of that... conservatism led by heresy run amok.
...Christian Nationalism is currently a quickly evolving mindset that has its sights set on the creation of a “Christian Nation” in accordance with modern thinkers and proponents of its efforts, philosophies, practices, and overall goals. The following linked to article Claiming Christian Nationalism is an apologetic written by one of its thought leaders as a feature article hosted by The Claremont Institute, an organization that has audaciously and boldly claimed the title of being “True MAGAs”:
“When commentators try to label us, they usually just say “Claremont conservatives.” “True MAGAs” is another label”18
In the meantime there is another organization that is operating on much the same premise as the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 that may be considered a friendly competitor that is almost strictly geared to installing Trump back into office19; The America First Policy Institute (AFPI); this organization is a who's who of former Trump White House Administration officials, as can be seen at the following link: https://americafirstpolicy.com/team
Many of the staff at AFPI can be found as board advisors, members, consultants, or any number of significant positions at numerous project 2025 Advisory Board organizations, for instance Brooke Rollins who “serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of AFPI.” and was “formerly Director of the Domestic Policy Council and Chief Strategist in the White House under President Donald Trump,” where she also “previously served as Director of the Office of American Innovation.” is also listed as a “Senior Advisor” to the board of directors of the Texas Public Policy Foundation *(TPPF) which is one of the original 21 Project 2025 Advisory Board members. The President of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin D. Roberts Ph.D.** is also listed as a member of the TPPF’s board of directors20 where he “previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Texas Public Policy Foundation” (TPPF)21.
As noted at the start of this report Project 2025 and Christian nationalists (Dominionists) are not two separate movements, but rather are in reality two sides of the same coin. This coin most aptly may be termed and known as MAGA. What has been presented here is barely a scratching of the surface of the complex, covert/overt, intricate, network of what movement conservatism has matured into during the past two decades. With dark and legitimate money funding efforts across the nation from the local to the state and all the way to the federal levels of government, with MAGA enablers, fanatics, proponents, supporters, and zealots, (think Leonard Leo222324, the master funding organizer and funnel serving all the above discussed activities and organizations, and architect of the conservative takeover of the Supreme Court) this is a political era and situation that rivals and even may be said to exceed the efforts and machinations of historic Nazism.
Never has there been a truly more important time period in American history wherein liberal American democratic concepts, ideals, governing principles, and free citizen participation and constitutionally mandated Rights been so endangered.
I have now been deep diving into this rabbit hole filled with its deceitful spiderwebs of so-called nonprofit organizations, and anonymous wealthy benefactors for several months now, Prior to this focused effort I had been keeping a weather eye on the Dominionist movement as time and opportunity permitted since 1993 when I first encountered Dominionist theology and recognized then that this conflation of politics and religion was soon going to be the next battle front for control of all things American and by extension into the future the entire world....
https://robertjrei.substack.com/p/maga-mike-and-the-heritage-foundation
x
Craig,
You don't get more "new age" than this...notice the part about it all piggy-backing upon (via NAR) and high-jacking Pentecostalism.
None of this patriotic nor Godly.
The Rise of Spirit Warriors on the Christian Right
How an extreme transformation in American religion poses an existential threat to our democracy
https://newrepublic.com/article/170027/rise-spirit-warriors-christian-right-politics
A small excerpt including words from Jan 6 insurrectionists:
... A final point on the politics of Spirit Warrior Christianity: It is an easy fit for those who wish to dismantle democracy and entrench minority rule. Election denialism and other conspiracies find a comfortable home in the paranoid mindset of spiritual warfare in a demon-haunted world. An organizer of the Jericho March that preceded the attack on the Capitol of January 6, Robert Weaver, stated that God wanted Americans to march around “the spiritual walls of this country.” The Reverend Kevin Jessup, who spoke at the event, said, “This battle cry is a Christian call to all Christian men … as we prepare for a strategic gathering of men in this hour to dispel the Kingdom of Darkness.” Father Greg Bramlage, who conducted an exorcism on stage, told the crowd, “We are in a spiritual battle, this cannot be solved by human means” and prayed that “no demonic bondage, door, entity, portal, astral projection, or disembodied spirit may enter this space.” Bishop Leon Benjamin, senior pastor of Richmond, Virginia’s New Life Harvest Church, said, “The demons we kill now, our children will not have to fight these devils. These are our devils, and we will kill them now.” NAR leadership networks served as key mobilizers....
x
X,
You're wasting your time. I don't really care what one pundit (or more) asserts. It's all a bunch of tenuous connections (sometimes not even real connections) to try to paint a particular picture. I'm not buying what this Robert Rei is selling. But he sure confirms your biases.
X @ 2:32 PM,
There's no doubt the NAR is unbiblical and etc. But to state that the group is an "existential threat to our democracy" (um, republic) is laughable. Sure there were some bad apples in J6, but the large majority were not there to 'threaten democracy'; they sincerely thought something was amiss with the election and were there to peacefully protest. The recently released footage circulating now further supports this.
Why can't you get the whole two-sides-against-the-middle thing? These sorts of writings are a distraction.
Whatever. You aren't going to change your opinion; I won't change mine.
Again, you're wasting your time.
X is not wasting his time: He is on the clock!
They're Coming For Us
youtube.com/watch?v=SGNPBh410-M
There would be no "dominion," X. There would be religious wars. Haven't you noticed how many denominations there are, particularly in America?
8:56 AM said: "America is no longer Christendom because a majority of citizens are no longer Christian"
I think there is still a majority Christian it's just they don't go to church. For instance: after the Kennedy assassination church attendance swelled then dramatically dropped. Same thing after The Events of September 11th, 2001.
Someday Old Scratch will get his comeuppance. In the meantime may God (continue to) Bless America
Jesus was given all authority on heaven and on earth, X.
His Apostles were not. They were made judges of the twelve tribes of Israel. Whatever they bound would be bound in heaven and on earth. Whatever they loosed would be loosed in heaven and on earth. This is Jewish courtroom language. People were bound and loosed in the courtrooms of the time and place. Being Jewish men, who knew Jesus had told them that not one jot or tittle of the law would pass away until all was fulfilled, it would never have occurred to them to go outside of the bounds what they already knew of Jewish law and courts and judgements. It wouldn't have occurred to them to have new inspirations come upon them making them bosses over the whole world, even though they knew that Jesus became boss over the whole world after his resurrection.
There is no evidence that any of the apostles let this language go to their heads. Peter didn't even call himself an apostle in his letter. He called himself a bondservant of God and of Jesus Christ. John didn't call himself anything. He allowed us to make inferences about who he was, as the author, when he wrote something.
They probably recalled that Jesus had told them that whoever would be first must serve he who is least in the kingdom. Perhaps they also recalled the Parable of the Guests. The point of the Parable of the Guests was to give yourselves the humblest seats, then you could be given the honor of called to a better seat. Otherwise you might sit down and suffer the embarrassment of being asked to move so somebody else could take one of the best seats.
They were very, very humble men. He called them babies. They were young and unschooled. Peter was a fisherman. He told him that he would become a fisher of men. He didn't want to deal with people needing to unlearn things before they could listen to him.
Quote -
"Fellow Catholics,
Church Militant/St. Michael's Media was founded as a bastion of Catholic truth and a light to the faithful in hard times. This is why we are being fully transparent with you all.
Michael Voris has been asked to resign for breaching the Church Militant morality clause. The board has accepted his resignation.
We understand this is a shock to you all, but our founder and former CEO is stepping aside and focusing on his personal health.
The Board of Directors has chosen not to disclose Michael's private matters to the public. The apostolate will be praying for him, and we kindly ask you to do the same."
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/official-statement-regarding-michael-voris
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The Truth About Protestant Christians' Faith | The Vortex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y7tI2v4gbQ
Big Mike was alright just had funny hair ( - : Godspeed Michael Voris
8:57 AM in answer to your interrogation. . .
I like the Douay-Rheims Bible, (especially the history of how it came about.), I also love the Shakespearean language of the KJV 1611, is there a Bible version censor here?
1 Finally, my brethren, reioyce in the Lorde. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grieuous: but for you it is safe.
2 Beware of dogs, beware of euill workers: beware of the concision.
3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and reioyce in Christ Iesus, and haue no confidence in the flesh.
4 Though I might also haue confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that hee hath whereof hee might trust in the flesh, I more:
5 Circumcised the eight day, of the stocke of Israel, of the tribe of Beniamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrewes, as touching the Law, a Pharise:
6 Concerning zeale, persecuting the Church: touching the righteousnesse which is in the Law, blamelesse.
7 But what things were gaine to me, those I counted losse for Christ.
8 Yea doubtlesse, and I count all things but losse, for the excellencie of the knowledge of Christ Iesus my Lord: for whom I haue suffered the losse of all things, and doe count them but doung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not hauing mine owne righteousnesse, which is of the Law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousnesse which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable vnto his death,
11 If by any meanes I might attaine vnto the resurrection of the dead.
4:53 pm
Thanks for sharing that. He's been a mary heretic for a long while now so I can't say I'm shocked. Probably went back to his homosexual ways. Hopefully it was with a consenting adult and not a boy like so many other latin-mass orthodox roman catholic leaders.
5:29 PM
People will always assume the worst but I think Voris' problem may have stemmed from a on-going internet-flame-war with another internet 'celebrity'. Fame is so fleeting.
Same old. Different day.
x desperately needs his hypothesis to be correct so he can feel proud of his one size fits all condemning, judging ways.
It's not easy being mean.
It takes a lot of energy, exhausting even, to dissect and scorn other people all the time. It takes a jaundiced heart and mind, to sustain that.
And more to the point, he keeps forgetting he's not God.
lol...8:30 pm...is that YOUR judgment?
You crack me up...trying to "dissect & scorn" me "all the time" absent any substantive input of your own. What a jaundiced heart you must have, right?
Maybe you think yourself a god...a very new age maga qanon god at that.
Godspeed...I pray for you every Sunday. The righteous path is a narrow one. Time is of the essence. Repent and be saved.
x
OUTRAGEOUS! 75-Year-Old Pro-Life Activist with ‘Significant Health Issues’ Convicted For Peacefully Protesting Abortion Clinic – Faces Up to 11 Years in Prison
The extremely corrupt and shameful Biden regime’s Justice Department came under fire for being a two-tiered justice system.
The Biden DOJ convicted Paula Harlow last week of federal conspiracy against rights and FACE offenses for peacefully protesting an abortion clinic in DC back in 2020.
Paulette Harlow, who is 75 years old, participated in a peaceful protest at an abortion clinic in 2020 and didn’t hurt anyone. She can potentially get 11 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines.
Harlow is the ninth defendant convicted by the Biden Regime related to the peaceful abortion protest.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/outrageous-75-year-old-pro-life-activist-significant/
What situation?
10:44 PM,
Harlow is a saint. Biden is an American beast. Whoever imprisons her puts Jesus in prison, since she belongs to His body. Biden will answer for it on Judgement Day. Everybody who visits Harlow in prison will be blessed.
People rarely confront this head on. X the self-avowed Calvinist (and thus the self-avowed Paulist) uses it to mock you intermittently. You never have answers except to sputter in dogmatism and name calling.
Romans Chapter 13 - Saul/Paul Teaches That We Must Obey The Laws of Men, ie Government - Laying a Trap for YHWH's People To Obey Anti-Christ Beast System Unto Their Destruction
https://false-apostle-paul-archive.blogspot.com/2014/11/romans-chapter-13-saulpaul-teaches-that.html
Saul of Tarsus not only taught his followers to not follow the Law of the Heavenly Father. He went further. He said you must obey the Governments of this world -- the same worldly powers and governments which Satan is now in control of.
First of all, we must establish the fact that Satan is temporarily the "god" of this world, and controlling the kingdoms and governments of this world. The visions given to Daniel and the Apostle John in the book of Revelation illustrated that Satan (the "seven-headed beast" and "Dragon") was the power behind various world empires down through history -- often interpreted as including Babylon, Greece, and Rome.
This Satanic control of the kingdoms of the earth is further confirmed in Matthew Chapter 4, where Satan tempts the Messiah on a high mountain, telling him that he will give him the kingdoms of the earth if he will fall down and worship Satan. Satan could offer this to the Messiah because he did, in fact, control the kingdoms of the earth. Psalm 2:2 supports this fact as well: "The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us."
Paul says in Romans 13:1-13:
"Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority?"
When you really think about this passage by Paul, it is astonishing. So I guess according to Saul/Paul, the early followers of the Messiah in the Roman Empire should have just bowed down and worshiped Caesar as a "god"? And what should we today do if an"anti-Christ" government command us to take the Mark of the Beast? According to Paul we should take the mark of the Beast, because we "must" obey the government.
Should Daniel have complied with King Darius of Persia's law forbidding him to pray to the Heavenly Father, in order to avoid being thrown into the lion's den? As recorded in the Old Testament, the Israelites Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to worship an image of Nebuchadnezzar (king of Babylon), and were thrown into a fiery furnace.
The entire history of the Bible is one of the Father's chosen people having to stand up against governments and other powers of this world, which are temporarily under the control of Satan. Yahushua of Nazareth the Messiah was murdered by the ruling "authorities" and government of his day. Most of his true 12 Apostles were also murdered by governments. And the followers of the Messiah in early Rome were then murdered for not complying with decrees which violated the Law of the Most High.
P.S. I disagree with the author of the blog article that Satan is now in control of the governments if that means Satan has any authority. All authority in heaven and earth was given to Jesus upon His Ascension.
The Bible has described Satan being bound and loosed several times and has prophesied he will be loosed again in the future. For all we know, it could happen at any time, between now and Judgement Day.
This means that at any time, you could be obedient to a government official who is serving Satan during a time when Satan has been loosed. You wouldn't know.
How can you very clearly choose to obey God instead if you don't even understand God's will and if you don't even think you are under God's law but instead you think you are under grace, not under the law?
Isn't that the same thing as saying peace and security when there is no peace? What does peace mean in God's eyes? It means peace with Him by obeying His law, which is never separate from loving Him. It's one and the same thing. If you don't love Him, you are against Him.
You can't love Him if you see Him as the Calvinist deity. This concept of Him makes love wax cold.
Why obsess all the time with the upcoming tribulation if you don't even think you need to choose to obey God instead of the government, since you think you are under grace, not under the law?
But you still think every word Paul wrote is inerrant, so you must need to obey the government?
What is all of that, except being double minded and unstable in all of your ways, just as Paul was?
What happens if we listen to Jesus instead of Paul? What did Jesus say? He asked whose image was on the coin. The answer was Caesar. He said to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's. Whose image is on people? God's image. We do not belong to Caesar. Jesus said it plainly and clearly. He said what he meant, and He meant what He said. Listen to Him, as His Father asked you to do when He stood on the mountain talking to Moses and Elijah. "Listen to Him." Are you doing it? Or are you torn between two masters?
Paul chose to appeal to Nero Caesar. He sailed on a ship to Nero Caesar. Acts describes it. Pay special attention to these two scriptures from Acts. Paul fans say Paul was being clever here. Was he?
Acts 25:12
King James Version
12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
Acts 26:32
King James Version
32 Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
After appealing to Nero Caesar, Luke wrote in Acts:
Acts 28:30-31
King James Version
30 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
31 Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Been thinking about Jews. . .
Why did King Cyrus allowed Israel to be rebuilt? Just a nice guy or did he a ulterior motive like getting the Jews out of his Kingdom? Same with Harry Truman. Makes me wonder.
PS: the other Harry Truman (of Spirit Lake, Washington) blew up on top of Mt St. Hellens. What's up with these Trumans and big blasts?
Ezra 1:1-10
New American Standard Bible
Cyrus’ Proclamation
1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying:
2 “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and He has appointed me to rebuild for Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Whoever there is among you of all His people, may his God be with him! [a]Go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem. 4 And every survivor, at whatever place he may [b]live, the people of [c]that place are to support him with silver and gold, with equipment and cattle, together with a [d]voluntary offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.’”
Holy Vessels Restored
5 Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites rose up, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. 6 And all of those around them [e]encouraged them with articles of silver, with gold, with equipment, cattle, and with valuables, aside from everything that was given as a [f]voluntary offering. 7 Also King Cyrus brought out the articles of the house of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods; 8 and Cyrus, king of Persia, had them brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and he counted them out to Sheshbazzar, the leader of Judah. 9 Now this was their number: thirty gold dishes, a thousand silver dishes, twenty nine [g]duplicates; 10 thirty gold bowls, 410 silver bowls of a second kind, and a thousand other articles.
10:06 AM
Thanks for that. God stirred in his heart. That makes sense. But one must wonder, what was stirring in Truman's heart?
Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
And unto the child her months were added: and the child became two years old. And Ioacim said: Let
us bring her up to the temple of the Lord that we may pay the promise which we promised; lest the Lord
require it of us, and our gift become unacceptable. And Anna said: Let us wait until the third year, that
the child may not long after her father or mother. And Ioacim said: Let us wait.
And the child became three years old, and Ioacim said: Call for the daughters of the Hebrews that are
undefiled, and let them take every one a lamp, and let them be burning, that the child turn not
backward and her heart be taken captive away from the temple of the Lord. And they did so until they
were gone up into the temple of the Lord.
And the priest received her and kissed her and blessed her and said: The Lord hath magnified thy name
among all generations: in thee in the latter days shall the Lord make manifest his redemption unto the
children of Israel. And he made her to sit upon the third step of the altar. And the Lord put grace upon
her and she danced with her feet and all the house of Israel loved her.
https://www.fisheaters.com/presentationoftheblessedvirginmary.html
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Can't you picture it?
X and his 10000th farcical "last word" ;)
LOL! Since when did this bitter dude pray and it got above the ceiling?
One side of the Coin. . .
November 22, 1963 - November 22, 2023 - 60 Years After
https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2023/11/november-22-1963-november-22-2023-60.html?m=1
Excerpt. . ."In 1992, at the urging of Jim Lesar, director of the AARC, I obtained a $3,000 grant from the Fund For Constitutional Government Investigative Journalism Project, that I used to buy a round trip ticket from Atlantic City to California and back, via Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Dallas, San Diego, Los Angeles and points in between, visiting other researchers, JFK witnesses and suspects. "
The Other. . .
https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message563791/pg1?c1=1&c2=1&disclaimer=Continue®p=bm9fMTcwMDY4MDIwNQ==
Except. . ."Those who know history know that November 22nd is a notorious date to the Freemasons, because it was on that day back in 1307 that Pope Clement issued a papal bull, Pastoralis Praeeminentiae, ordering the arrests of all known Templars in Europe. Of course,the Scottish Rite of Freemasons is an organization began by the exiled Templars."
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Requiescat in Pace John Fitzgerald Kennedy
TURBO CANCER DATA - Pfizer & Moderna COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Cause Turbo Cancer - The data is finally coming out! UK Cancer deaths (Ed Dowd)
DR. WILLIAM MAKIS MD
11/22/2023
Statisticians lie, but factual statistics don't
Check this out ... the graphs are alarming to say the least.
https://makismd.substack.com/p/turbo-cancer-data-pfizer-and-moderna
Let me get this one straight ...
We should reject the Apostle Paul, but we shouldn't reject the fictional apparitions of the heretical Roman Catholic church's 'Mary.'
Got it!
This is all true. . .
Mary and the Passion of Christ
In recognizing these sins I desire that thou imitate me (Mary) in what I did during the Passion and during my whole life, namely practice the virtues opposed to these vices. As a recompense for their blasphemies, I blessed God; for their oaths, I praised Him; for their unbelief, I excited acts of faith, and so for all the rest of the sins committed. This is what I desire thee to do while living in this world. Fly also from the dangerous intercourse with creatures, taught by the example of Peter, for thou art not stronger than he, the Apostle of Christ; and if thou fall in thy weakness, weep over thy fault and immediately seek my intercession. Make up for thy ordinary faults and weaknesses by thy patience in adversities, accept them with a joyous mien and without disturbance, no matter what they may be, whether they be sickness or the molestations coming from creatures, or whether they arise from the opposition of the flesh to the spirit, or from the conflicts with visible or invisible enemies.
In all these things canst thou suffer and must thou bear up in faith, hope and magnanimous sentiment. I remind thee, that there is no exercise more profitable and useful for the soul than to suffer: for suffering gives light, undeceives, detaches the heart from visible things and raises it up to the Lord. He will come to meet those in suffering, because He is with the afflicted and sends to them his protection and help (Ps. 40, 15). –Mystical City of God by Sister Mary of Agreda.
7:27 pm
Below is a complete debunk of "turbo cancer" (which is not a thing) and "Dr." Makis (who "misrepresents himself as an oncologist" and who "lost his medical license").
Makis is currently a grifter with Peter McCollough selling vaccine detox snake oil and other fake "natural" (and untested) "experimental" remedies. These recycled "turbo cancer" claims are just another in a list of bogus anti-vax claims made by Makis after he got fired for cause as a radiologist and then sued his way out of ever being employed by a hospital again back prior to the pandemic.
Dr. William Makis: Promoting the nonsense that is “turbo cancer”
https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2023/10/09/dr-william-makis-promoting-the-nonsense-that-is-turbo-cancer/
x
It's Thanksgiving Day in the USA. Let's be thankful. First and foremost, let's give our thanks to the One Who makes it even possible to be thankful: For Whom the Bells Toll.
It seems that we have lost the ability to actually discuss and debate ideas based on their substance. No one wants to take the time to actually comprehend the other side, to talk to people who hold a different perspective and make the effort to understand how they reached their conclusions. Everyone is looking for the hot take that will provoke the most reaction and gather more likes, followers, and retweets. Why bother with reading primary sources, reflecting thoughtfully, and making a cogent, reasoned argument about the topic at hand? Ain't nobody got time for that.
Let me get this one straight ...
We should reject the Apostle Paul, but we shouldn't reject the fictional apparitions of the heretical Roman Catholic church's 'Mary.'
Got it!
You're conflating two different commenters. (I'm the Paul skeptic.) You are free to love Paul if you like. The other commenter is free to love Mary if he likes. I believe I can't go wrong by putting Jesus' Words first. His first followers didn't have Paul's letters. Are they okay, do you suppose? Those first followers? Do you think they're okay with Mary or Paul? Mary won't be there on Judgement Day. Neither will Paul. Jesus will. I'll argue no more about this today.
May all have a blessed Thanksgiving today.
St. Paul and the Blessed Virgin
By Father David Nix
https://padreperegrino.org/2016/10/paul-and-mary-one/
The Spanish couldn't figure out why the people of Northern new Mexico were already christianized, (but that another chapter).
The Next Big Thing?
BREAKING: New Mystery Pneumonia in China OVERWHELMING Hospitals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjuSaigKJFI
Hospitals in the News again'? My conspiracy senses are tingling
10:55 PM,
You are free to believe that it is all true, what you quoted about Mary, from Mystical City of God by Sister Mary of Agreda.
I am free to believe that God spoke most clearly through His servant Moses in the Old Testament and then perfectly clearly through His Son Jesus in the New Testament.
John, the beloved disciple, wrote, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."
Sister Mary of Agreda did not know Jesus personally. John did. Sister Mary of Agreda was not one of the twelve apostles (messengers who witnessed the words and deeds of Jesus). John was.
Our faith is a historic faith. It's not a disembodied mystically delivered faith that is a free-for-all of self-proclaimed inspired writers and willy-nilly spirit visitations.
The true faith is not the historic faith of Constantine. It's the lost faith of the original Jerusalem Messianic Jewish church of the twelve apostles (Judaizers according to Paul the double-minded, unstable, envious, boasting, self-contradicting non-apostle). Our historic faith has been lost to history.
In God's goodness, mercy and love, He still has wheat growing among the tares that are sown by every denomination. He told us so through the Parable of the Tares.
Maybe Sister Mary was a tare. Maybe she was a wheat. Maybe she was a struggling soul with both tare seeds and wheat seeds sown into her heart. Regardless, when she faces Jesus on Judgement Day, Mary the mother of Jesus will not be there. Jesus will be the judge. He will judge her with perfect mercy and perfect justice, in a way that I do not know. And neither do you.
P.S. It was forbidden for the children of Israel to drink blood. In the gospels, the part where Jesus tells them to eat of the bread as his flesh and drink of the wine as his blood, as a remembrance of Him, was a later interpolation onto the gospels.
The last supper of the apostles, where Paul was not present, was a more optimistic gathering. Why, because the apostles looked forward to gathering with Jesus again in His kingdom. That's why it was not somber, and it was definitely not all about cannibalizing Jesus as a human sacrifice for sin that would be intended to allow people to freely sin and not to listen to Jesus.
You are under grace, not under the law, Paul said. Then he put fear into his congregations not to disobey his own fine print that he arbitarily imposed upon them.
He actually told the Corinthians that some of them were sick and some of them died because when the drank the blood and ate the flesh of Jesus, their hearts were not right while they did so!
He rambled so much that people overlook many of the highly disturbing things he told his congregations. People bend over backwards to make excuses to continue viewing him as inerrant, even though he almost never quoted Jesus and all of his Old Testament quotes are twisted and garbled!
All of you Protestants who have ever criticized the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, you need to realize, this came from Paul, the man you put on a pedestal above the "Judaizers," John and Peter (called Cephas by Paul).
For those of you that suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome ... there's help!
Kathy Griffin Says She Meows Like a Cat, Moos Like a Cow to Deal With Her Trump-Induced PTSD
WARNING: the article quotes directly from the evil, deranged, mentally ill Griffin, who uses (surprise, surprise) lots of vulgarity.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/11/24/kathy-griffin-says-she-meows-like-a-cat-moos-like-a-cow-to-deal-with-her-trump-induced-ptsd/
It has been estimated by New Testament scholars that the book of Romans would have taken ten hours to dictate to a scribe. From the book of Romans comes the saying, "The Roman Road to Salvation." From Paul comes theology. Theology is Pauline. Theologians can't agree with each other. Why? Because Paul contradicted himself, contradicted the Old Testament, contradicted Jesus and contradicted the real apostles. If 2,000 more years were to pass, theologians would still not agree about Paul. Denominations would still not become united in doctrine.
Sects would always have been inevitable. They could have arisen even from claimed new revelations, as they did with the Mormons and the Seventh Day Adventists. But the thirteen books that have been attributed to Paul in the New Testament, have made continuing sectarianism inevitable.
Are you a Protestant who criticizes the Papacy? Do you think that Catholic priests who are called "father" disobey Jesus? Good for you, but did you know that Paul made it possible by setting the example, insinuating that he, Paul, was the perfect imitator and role model of a follower of Jesus Whom he never met in person and who knows what or who gave him his spirit visitations--did you know Paul told his congregation in a letter that he had begotten them, and what else could that mean but that they were to regard him as their father?
Protestants made it possible to take Pauline doctrines even farther than the Catholics and the Orthodox ever did, in that he uncoupled love from the law and uncoupled faith from faithfulness. He rendered mercy and atonement and ransom payment into human sacrifice, cheap grace and license to be disobedient, following his example and crying out in false humility and laziness, "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Really? Do most of you find your spirit is willing not to murder but your flesh is too weak so you still murder anyway? Do you find your spirit is willing not to lie but your flesh is too weak so you lie anyway? Is resting from work on the Sabbath day too hard to do? Is flesh too weak to rest from work on the Sabbath?
Paul was met on the Damascus road by Jesus. It is clear that Jesus introduced himself to Paul.
Go back and read slowly and see the big picture in Acts 9.
Paul at times spoke figuratively and what you referred to was him speaking of his sphere of influence, not of he himself in actual place of the Lord to the believer.
And he made it clear to imitate him only as he imitated Christ. This is plain as can be.
You've lost the plot.
You've neglected to keep proper context. No surprise you are confused.
I thought you said you just follow Jesus?
You seem to be greatly influenced by human input.
10:03 AM
Is that why x brays like a donkey?
And squeals like a stuck pig when somebody disagrees with his globalist apologetics?
12:02 PM,
I have read it, all three contradictory accounts of it, with no other witnesses besides Paul. Read the three contradictory accounts as recorded by Luke.
Jesus said that He taught nothing in secret. Paul was taught in secret. Read what Jesus said.
What do you suppose Jesus meant when He said the servant is not better than the master? What do you suppose He meant when He said that the apostles have only one teacher, Himself?
It's you who has lost track of Jesus' very clear words as well as Paul's very self-contradictory words.
12:02 PM,
Suppose you attended a church with a pastor who stood up and told all of you sitting in the pews, that he had been given a "thorn in his flesh," and explained it was harassment by a demon. That he prayed to Jesus Christ and was told, in answer, "My grace is sufficient for you, for in your weakness, my power is perfected." Then your pastor proceeded to explain to you that he had been given so many spiritual gifts, that he had to be humbled by a demon harassing him, so that he wouldn't grow too proud. Wouldn't you run from such a pastor?
Organized religion has persuaded you to suspend your discernment when it comes to Paul. What choice do the Catholic, the Orthodox, or the Protestant churches have? Do you think anybody who has a vested interest in any of those organized religions is could ever be willing to pull the rug out from under himself? What would happen to the Magisterium? What would happen to Apostolic Succession? What would happen to Sola scriptura, Sola fide, Sola gratia?
If you read you'll see that theologians and learned religious scholars have intermittently through the ages admitted the problems with Paul in their writings. Luther said you could put a dunce cap on him if you could reconcile James with Paul. Yet you gaslight me to tell me that I've lost the plot and lost the big picture. Tertullian said that Paul contradicts Jesus and therefore can't be taken as inspired but only edifying. Whenever he contradicts Jesus we must choose Jesus and ignore Paul. Yet you gaslight me or maybe you are just parroting the gaslighting of yourself by your own favored teachers and pastors.
P.S. A Hebrew copy of the Gospel of Matthew was found with the Dead Sea Scrolls. It makes it older than all of Paul's epistles. And older than the Greek copy of Matthew.
The Dead Sea Scrolls were mistakenly believed to be nothing but the scrolls of an Essene sect. Now it is realized they were a collection of scrolls taken from the Jerusalem Temple Library before it was burned in the Roman Jewish War.
Opened the chicken coop door this morning and was surprised to see a Guinea Fowl backing the rooster right up into a corner. Rooster looked a little surprised too.
1:07 PM
You are like X, the energizer bunny of many, too many words, to have the last word, to push your side of things.
I think you're the one who needs convincing, that's why you can't let this go.
But whatever.
1:57 PM,
Paul was the energizer bunny of many, too many words, to have the last word, to push his side of things.
Paul thought his congregations were the ones who needed convincing that he was really an apostle and he didn't lie. That's why he couldn't let it go.
Jesus, on the other hand. Jesus spoke in a way such that you either got it or you didn't get it. You either accepted it or you didn't.
You can hear the calls of the Good Shepherd more clearly and consistently if and when you are not distracted by the Stranger who didn't come in by the doorway.
And with that I will let it go.
2:07n PM "And with that will let it go."
Finally. Thank you for that. and Good Night!
Buried Study: Nearly TWO-THIRDS of Covid-19 “Vaccine” Recipients Suffer From Health Complications a Year Later
A recent study published in ScienceDirect revealed that nearly two-thirds of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine recipients suffer from health complications one year after getting vaccinated.
The study, funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research in New Delhi and conducted between September 2021 and May 2023, focused on potential post-COVID-19 vaccination syndrome (PCVS) and its impact on the quality of life (QoL) among Indian adults aged 18 and above who received either Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN or the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.
More here: https://thelibertydaily.com/buried-study-nearly-two-thirds-covid-19-vaccine/
Just in time for Christmas. . .
Our Lady of Fatima! Graphic novel trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEsL-Myg1rY
12:33 AM,
I don't doubt that Mary is honored in the kingdom of God, and her humility and self-effacement on earth only makes that all the more likely, based on the words of Jesus, who certainly did not make it sound like the proud and boastful will be able to count on being greatly honored in His kingdom.
Like John the Baptist, she did not get in the way of the ministry of Jesus. John the Baptist, the greatest of the line of Old Testament prophets, said that he must decrease so Jesus can increase. His mother Mary was there to witness his crucifixion after every apostle but John had abandoned Him. Jesus even in His agony saw to her future well being, honoring His mother by ensuring she would be taken care of in old age, by telling John to behold his mother. John took her into his home that very hour. This showed the love and honor Jesus displayed to His mother even while He suffered by not only physical pain and social humiliation but also the feeling of being temporarily forsaken by the Father.
But do you think Mary, after the Ascension of Jesus, would want to decrease Him and increase herself? Or do you think she would continue to want Him to increase, secure in being loved and honored within His kingdom? What kind of a mother would steal her son's credit and attention from him? Even the majority of earth mothers who are far more sinful than Mary was, wouldn't do such a thing.
John 10:1-5
American Standard Version
10 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But he that entereth in by the door is [a]the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4 When he hath put forth all his own, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
https://www.gotquestions.org/verily-verily.html
So, when Jesus leads off with the words verily, verily in verses such as Matthew 18:3, Mark 3:28, Luke 23:43, and John 8:51, He is not merely saying, “Believe me, this is true.” He is actually saying, “I know this is true firsthand.” Since many of these comments are on heavenly, spiritual, or godly issues, Jesus’ use of verily, verily is part of His consistent claim of divinity. Jesus is not merely aware of these truths: He is the One who originated them!
The disciples and others listening to Jesus’ words would have understood His use of these phrases in exactly that way. So, when we read Jesus’ words and see statements beginning with “verily,” “truly,” or some variation, we should recall the deeper meaning. Those claims are not only Jesus’ opinion on the truth. Those are ideas about which He has intimate, personal, firsthand knowledge.
Deuteronomy 8:6 language of loving God would be more consistent with how Jesus spoke and behaved.
"Dead Sea Scrolls" yield "major" questions in Old Testament understanding
https://news.nd.edu/news/dead-sea-scrolls-yield-major-questions-in-old-testament-understanding/
In all Bibles, Deuteronomy 8:6 speaks of ’’fearing’’ or ’’revering’’ God, but a Dead Sea scroll says ’’loving’’ instead. Should scholars consider this change?p. To those for whom each word of the Bible was inspired by God, even such small alterations are significant.p. Still, as Cross puts it, ‘’There is no 11th commandment.’’ The rewording prompted by the scrolls does not challenge basic beliefs.
7:29 AM
Thank for not denigrating the Blessed Virgin but your aw-shucks approach made me LOL.
BTW - The Apostles weren't some milquetoast fraidy cats for a reason. Jesus picked them like the Army picks Special Forces. Judea was ran by psychopaths, i.e. Herod.
PS: Mary is all our Mother as Jesus is all our Brother.
10:51 AM,
"Milquetoast fraidy cats" are your words, not mine.
Jesus told Peter ahead of time that he would deny Him three times before the cock crowed. He told him that His Father would give Peter back to Him.
The apostles went through transformation as a result of the transformative leadership of Jesus. Jesus spent 40 days instructing them after His resurrection, starting with the road to Emmaus. Then He told them to stay in Jerusalem to wait for Pentecost. They were greatly magnified and empowered by Pentecost.
They were closer to being Jesus' Holy super heroes than to special forces picked by the army. Every super hero has an origin story and didn't start out always being powerful from the very beginning.
Ok, you win ( - :
The George Floyd incident and the aftermath. What really happened:
The Fall of Minneapolis
https://rumble.com/v3vyvzv-the-fall-of-minneapolis.html
Vaccines, Abortion, Birth Control, all are only part of what is on the agenda for population control by Globalist Gates and his billionaire pals.
A most unChristian agenda that Progressives (Socialists) like x love and defend religiously!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/25/exposed-bill-gatess-relationship-with-convicted-pedophile-jeffrey-epstein-revolved-around-a-global-health-investment-fund/
So what! They're all a bunch of old men that aren't going to live forever. Time to start praying for the next generation now. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
In the Words of Jesus, by Tyndale
https://books.google.com/books?id=8CstBAAAQBAJ
The greatest words ever spoken : everything Jesus said about you, your life, and everything else
https://archive.org/details/greatestwordseve0000scot
"Over 1,900 statements of Jesus organized under more than 200 topics"
Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebraic Perspective
https://books.google.com/books/about/Understanding_the_Difficult_Words_of_Jes.html?id=_EFUEAAAQBAJ
“Generations of New Testament scholars trained only in the Classical world have not always been able to perceive and interpret the Jewish background of the Gospels. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus serves to introduce ministers and laypersons to this very important subject.”
William Sanford La Sor, Emeritus Professor of Old Testament, Fuller Theological Seminar
From the Introduction to Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebraic Perspective
It is indeed unfortunate that of all the New Testament ment writings, the words and sayings of Jesus himself are the most difficult to understand. Most Christians are unconsciously devoting the majority of their time in Bible study to the Epistles-almost completely ignoring the historical and Hebraic Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke). Without really understanding why, they tend to just "read over" the Synoptic Gospels. Phrases such as "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:3) sound so beautiful and poetic, but for the English speaker, do they convey any real depth of meaning?
Why are the words of Jesus that we find in the Synoptic Gospels so difficult to understand? The answer is that the original gospel that formed the basis for the Synoptic Gospels was first communicated, not in Greek, but in the Hebrew language. This means that we are reading English translations of a text which is itself a translation. Since the Synoptic Gospels are derived from an original Hebrew text, we are constantly "bumping into" Hebrew expressions or idioms which are often meaningless in Greek or in translations from the Greek. The more Hebraic the saying or teaching of Jesus, the more difficult it is for us to understand. But it is just these Hebraic teachings that are often the strongest or most important. The difficulty arises because many of the sayings of Jesus are actually Hebrew idioms.
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I was heartened to learn that Tyndale did not follow the pattern of Luther and Calvin. He was more Jesus-oriented and less Paul-oriented than they were.
Tyndale was British, Luther was German, Calvin was Swiss. Tyndale was executed by strangulation and then burned at the stake. He didn't kill people! Luther's words bore bitter fruit for Jews. Calvin had Servetus burned at the stake!
I plan to read Tyndale's book that I linked to above! (In the Words of Jesus, by Tyndale) The commentary of a man like him could certainly be worth reading.
You’ve probably seen the bumper sticker: “If you can read, thank a teacher.” Another bumper sticker—or Bible sticker, perhaps—would be every bit as appropriate: “If you can read the Bible in English, thank William Tyndale.”
Church History: How William Tyndale Changed the World
https://www.timothypauljones.com/church-history-how-william-tyndale-changed-the-world/
On October 6, 1536, William Tyndale was burned at the stake. He was only forty-two years old or so at the time, but the work he had already accomplished in those four decades of life would change the world. You’ve probably seen the bumper sticker: “If you can read, thank a teacher.” Another bumper sticker—or Bible sticker, perhaps—would be every bit as appropriate: “If you can read the Bible in English, thank William Tyndale.”
After graduating from Oxford University and studying at Cambridge University, William Tyndale became a chaplain and tutor for a wealthy family. One evening, a visiting priest challenged Tyndale’s interpretation of a difficult text. During the debate, the priest declared his perspective on the value of Scripture.
“We had better be without God’s law than the pope’s,” the priest said—in other words, “It would be better to be without God’s law than to be without the pope’s law.”
“If God spares my life,” William Tyndale retorted, “I will cause a boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scripture than you do.”
This goal—to make Scripture accessible to everyone in England—became William Tyndale’s driving passion. He requested permission to translate the Greek New Testament into English, but his bishop rejected his request. Tyndale fled to the German provinces and began translating the Scriptures anyway.
Anon 9:54 AM,
You are, of course, correct that one can add the 'red letter' feature to Bible Gateway. I discovered this earlier this year and put the process in a blog post: Red Letter Bible Tip.
For fun, compare some of these versions at Revelation 1:8. Are the words in red or not? Some are, some are not. Which is correct? I don't think these are Jesus' words. And here's why:
Staying Within Proper Theological Boundaries: Important Words
For those who just want to 'cut to the chase', scroll down to the Who is ‘Almighty’? section.
The following do not use 'red letters' here: Christian Standard Bible, Common English Bible, English Standard Version, English Standard Version UK, Holman Christian Standard Bible, The Living Bible, New International Version, New International Version UK, and New Living Translation.
Jim Breuer Roasts the Victims of Trump Derangement Syndrome
https://www.reddit.com/r/Trumpgret/comments/1830hoe/jim_breuer_roasts_the_victims_of_trump/
Judging from the comments it looks like the Left is scared. And when the Left gets scared expect violence) - :
Ann Coulter predicts Trump will be the last Republican president
"My prediction is his support will evaporate and Trump will very likely not finish his term and definitely not be elected to a second term," she said, also forecasting that "no Republican will ever be elected president again."
https://theweek.com/speedreads/813647/ann-coulter-predicts-trump-last-republican-president
Flip flopping is not a good look Ann
PS: resume Virtue Signaling
10:50 PM
The current anti-Christian Ruling Powers will record these type of men as heroes in their history books(?). But it does make one wonder what these guys think will happen when they all will inevitably die.
Craig 12:14 PM,
Revelation 22:12-13
American Standard Version
12 Behold, I come quickly; and my [a]reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
Craig 12:14 PM,
Are you saying that Jesus is not the Alpha and the Omega? Or are you just saying He is not the Almighty?
If Jesus has seven horns, and horns signify power, and seven signifies completion, doesn't that mean Jesus is omnipotent? Does Almighty mean something different than omnipotent?
Are you saying it's a unique attribute of God the Father, a unique title of God the Father, or both?
Anon 12:59/1:46 PM,
Perhaps your questions would be answered if you actually looked at the hyperlink I provided...
I think they believe they can conquer death and live forever. Most of them do seem to live long lives.
What a waste of time. If anybody should be scared, it should be you Nothing humorous here.
Craig 5:53 PM,
Gotcha. (Or rather, you got in a gotcha.)
Leave it to The British to break things down.
Justin Bronk on the Fate of the West if Russia Wins in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmMclP8dlI0
Certainly rearranged my thinking a bit. I guess the US is in it for the long haul or Europe falls.
PS: oh, so that's why Israel is using JDAMs (over 2,500 so far) all the 155 artillery shells are being sent to Ukraine (and Twain) - :
Please, sir, place the remote on the coffee table and back away from the TV
To the Sola scriptura nix St Paul guy(s)
https://davidjamesboston.com/an-investigation-into-the-apostle-pauls-gospel/
This is really a thing. Everyday's a school-day ( - :
PS: SMH
They think they are going to save the planet. Pope Francis too. Sad
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And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the ancients and by the high priests, and the scribes, and be killed: and after three days rise again. 32 And he spoke the word openly. And Peter taking him, began to rebuke him. 33 Who turning about and seeing his disciples, threatened Peter, saying: Go behind me, Satan, because thou savorest not the things that are of God, but that are of men. 34 And calling the multitude together with his disciples, he said to them: If any man will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 35 For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel, shall save it.
36 For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? 37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 38 For he that shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation: the Son of man also will be ashamed of him, when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. 39 And he said to them: Amen I say to you, that there are some of them that stand here, who shall not taste death, till they see the kingdom of God coming in power.
9:03 PM,
The link you shared is a good example of why caution is needed when researching non-conformist beliefs. People who are non-conformist about some may be non-conformist about others that don't go together Biblically.
A good example is keeping the Sabbath. Keeping the Sabbath rather than worshiping on Sunday was the practice of the early church until Constantine. It is in the Ten Commandments. But today Sabbath keepers include sects like the Seventh Day Adventists, who include Ellen G. White's self-proclaimed new revelations in their holy books.
I have come across a few Paul skeptical web sites, but this British Israel type web site is the first of its kind that I've seen. I've found Muslim sites and Messianic Jewish sites, non-orthodox Christian sites that believe all kinds of weird things, and atheist sites.
The Messianic Jewish sites are not all the same. They differ.
But about one half to one third of the sites are made by devout Bible believing Christians who are orthodox in every way save for regarding Paul's epistles as quite errant.
Your link is the first example I've seen of a Paul skeptic being a British Israel type.
It just goes to show the Adversary can adulterate absolutely every doctrine, practice or belief.
I don't visit this site very often, but when I do, I always say to myself: 'what a waste of time.'
What happened to this site? It is now a jangled, nonsensical mess. Constance sits back and does nothing as the inspired word of God found in the epistles of Paul are attacked as being 'anti-christ.'
The question I have is this; why does she even bother having this site if she isn't going to take a stand against these heretical lies?
Thomas Jefferson published his "Jefferson Bible," which removed everything in the New Testament except for the words of Jesus.
Why? Because he didn't agree with the New Testament teachings outside of the gospels.
The Jerusalem temple has not been rebuilt in 2,000 years...on earth. The Old Testament said David would never lack for a king on his throne. Jesus sits on a throne in the kingdom of God, which He said is not of this world. Otherwise the Old Testament lied. I don't believe it did.
Mary's ancestry went back to both King David and Aaron! Mary was related to Elizabeth, her cousin, who was a daughter of Aaron! Jesus' seed from the woman contained the DNA of both King David's line and Aaron's line. This is the reason why Jesus was qualified to be both King and Priest in one.
The priesthood was established for eternity. It hasn't existed in 2,000 years. Did the Old Testament lie? No, the High Priest is in the kingdom of God, which is not of this world.
Revelation says that at some time in the future the New Jerusalem will come to earth, and God will dwell with mankind. The words are brief, just as every prophecy that was far in the future at the time it was originally made was very brief.
The prophecy to Eve about the woman's seed (Jesus eventually) was very brief. The prophecy to the children of Israel during the time of Moses about the Prophet whose every word would come from God the Father (Jesus eventually) was very brief.
Nobody knows the day or the hour. It can't be that we'll be alerted, otherwise five of the ten virgins would not have grown sleepy.
We have been told clearly by Jesus how to live while we are waiting for His return.
If He had wanted us to know everything He would have told us everything, but it was never about total knowledge. It was always about knowing how to follow Jesus into resurrection to eternal life.
It's not what you know. It's what you do, along with the motive for what you do. It's not even the quantity of what you do. If you're like the widow who gave a tiny bit to the temple, all she had, with her heart right, Jesus said she would be more rewarded than the rich men of the temple, who probably used some of their (partially ill-gotten) riches to put all the gold onto the temple over the years.
Jesus knows if you are doing all you can do, and it doesn't matter how glorious it is. What matters is that you made the effort. You like to see your children's art work even if it is just a sloppy coloring. You may treasure it more than a print of the Mona Lisa. Why, because it was a part of the development of your child, whom you love.
It was never supposed to be about sitting back, coasting, being lazy and resting assured that one is a favorite child no matter what. Grace means favor. Jesus seldom used the word "grace" and much more frequently used the word "mercy."
Even grace implies that a favor entails a reciprocal obligation. That was contained in the ancient Greek concept of grace.
http://www.karaite-korner.org/
Karaism is the original form of Judaism as prescribed by God in the Torah. Karaite Judaism rejects later additions to the Tanach (Jewish Bible) such as the Rabbinic Oral Law and places the ultimate responsibility of interpreting the Bible on each individual. Karaism does not reject Biblical interpretation but rather holds every interpretation up to the same objective scrutiny regardless of its source.
9:03 AM
You sure cherry pick whatever you want.
The Jefferson Bible is full of heresy. Jefferson denied the miracles and the resurrection of Jesus.
It's foolhardy to come alongside Jefferson who was not a believer in the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
Do you even have faith yourself, are you deceived, to stand by such error?
He's 'being directed by Obama', Georgia lawmaker warns
youtube.com/watch?v=q9SBBEV4c3k
White House Surveillance Program Lets Law Enforcement Snoop on *Trillions* of American Phone Records
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/11/27/white-house-surveillance-program-lets-law-enforcement-snoop-on-trillions-of-american-phone-records/
9:00 AM "What happened to this site?"
Trump
What about the Epistles of Peter? Are they in conflict with the teachings of Jesus? Are they in conflict with Catholic doctrine & dogma on Mary? Does Peter talk about Mary in his epistles? Does he mention the Mass? Does he mention Purgatory?
TRIGGERRRRRED!
Tommy Sotomayor:
When You're a Black Trump Supporter in a Restaurant...
According to Vin
“Alternative medicine” is not merely a set of unsupported or pseudoscientific practices, but rather an entire new age ideology with a rich history, replete with its own propaganda tactics and tropes that are designed to sow distrust in mainstream medicine and dupe patients by selling pseudoscience.
It's not just all the unvaxxed Covid patients that died unnecessarily that fell/fall victim to it. This new age crap has been going on for years.
For example, in a study of 1,901,815 cancer patients, those who chose alternative medicine had a 2-fold greater risk of death compared with patients who had no alternative medicine use.
And it’s probably because they refused conventional care.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2687972
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If that Left shoe fits...
Comedian Jim Breuer ROASTS Leftists with Trump Derangement Syndrome
The Officer Tatum
Look up Matthew 15:22-28 and compare it to any of the English translations from the Greek manuscript.
Then look up Matthew 28:19-20 and compare likewise.
Please tell me if any of you take this challenge and let me know what you discover.
Discover the
HEBREW GOSPELS
from Sepharad (Shem Tob)
(You can read it both in Hebrew and in an English translation)
https://www.hebrewgospels.com/matthew
This English translation is from the Shem Tob Hebrew book of Matthew. The Library of Biblical Archaeology says that it resembles many of the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments and gives the appearance of belonging to the same time frame.
Scholars no longer maintain a consensus that the New Testament gospels were all originally written in Greek.
You can read more fully about the Shem Tob Hebrew book of Matthew here:
https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/was-the-gospel-of-matthew-originally-written-in-hebrew/
10:37 PM,
Yes! We need to get rid of the epistles of Peter because they are anti-Catholic.
Another "conspiracy theory" proven true...
tierneyrealnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/another-conspiracy-theory-proven
10:48 PM (X)
Nag on, harpy.
You have proof of what you say!
No proof! None X @ 11:42 AM
11:42/11:44
Ummmm...
Did you even read the scientific study I linked?
Unlike most here I very often do share peer-reviewed evidence for the things I say.
Not always. This is an opinion discussion regarding new age conspiracies...like "alternative medicine". It's not really a scientific forum.
x
X,
Short answer and long answer too--nope.
Just like you don't read the peer reviewed studies I send here from many reputable sources and even your heroes the CDC and WHO, the whole lot of them have had to eat a good deal of their words, the hypocrites!
So your bias is rooted in the globalist camp. So be it.
There is tons of information to counter what you say and believe.
So we are at a stalemate.
But nag on harpy.
It's all ya got.
Your nagging (and virtue signaling) is the universal sign nobody has to listen to you.
So we don't.
It's evident you're here for attention.
2:51 pm
Huh???
What peer-reviewed studies did you post that caused anyone to have to eat their words?
There are tons of lies and misinformation to counter what I've said and shared here but not peer-reviewed studies.
U might be the one with the unevidenced nagging & virtue-signaling problem, not me.
Pretend I'm from Missouri...show me you're not a liar.
x
Pretend you're a Christian, X.
Oh wait, you tried that.
It didn't work.
I've posted over the course of time to refute your disinfo.
But I could not care less if you believe me, or not.
You aren't worth the effort to repeat it. The blog has record of what I linked to for the benefit of actual discussion and relaying current information.
You don't read the graphs and studies and peer reviewed information I have posted many times before, but trolls have lots of time on their hands to do the homework, even earlier this year, and many in 2022, that are here so you can see what you've missed while too busy licking government boots and trolling for big gov.
Carry on harpy and nag this blog with your Marxist tripe.
Just copy and paste like the good government agent you are.
You know you love the attention.
Hebrew for Christians
https://hebrew4christians.com
Great idea!
The assumption that the entire New Testament was originally communicated in Greek has led to a considerable able amount of misunderstanding on the part of scholars and laypersons alike. Today, as a result of recent research, we know that the key to our understanding of this material is Hebrew. To this present day there has been in New Testament studies a disproportionate stress placed on the study of Greek and Hellenism. If any additional advances are to be made, especially in better understanding the words of Jesus, the concentration must shift to the study of Hebrew history and culture, and above all, the Hebrew language.
David Bivin; Roy Blizzard Jr. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective
Many Gospel expressions are not just poor Greek, but actually meaningless in Greek. One brief example will suffice to illustrate this fact. The text of Matthew 6:22-23 literally reads: "The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is good, your whole body is full of light; but if your eye is bad your whole body is full of darkness..." The expressions "good eye" and "bad eye" are common Hebrew idioms for "generous" and "miserly." Greek has no such idioms, and in Greek this statement of Jesus is meaningless, just as it is in English.
David Bivin; Roy Blizzard Jr. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective
Why is the Greek of the Gospels such poor Greek? Very simply, because the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are not really Greek, but Hebrew words in Greek dress, or, we might say, "translation" Greek. Are we claiming that the Synoptic Gospels were not originally written in Greek? To this we must answer "yes" and "no." The Synoptic Gospels as we have them today were originally written in Greek; however, the text from which they descended was originally translated from a Hebrew archetype.
David Bivin; Roy Blizzard Jr. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective
Hebrew as the Spoken and Written Language in the Last Days of the Second Temple
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/sblpress/jbl/article-abstract/79/1/32/187039/Hebrew-as-the-Spoken-and-Written-Language-in-the
Matthew 15:22-28
King James Version
22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
https://www.hebrewgospels.com/matthew
Matthew 15:22-28
22 And behold, there came a Kena’anit
woman, who came from those regions – she was walking after
Yeshua, crying out, and saying, “Have mercy on me without fear,
Son of Dawid! Ha-Satan is troubling my daughter.” 23 But he did not
answer her a word. Then the talmidim came and entreated him if he
could not let her go away, “for she is crying after us.” 24 But he
answered, “I am not sent, except to the sheep that are lost – the house
of Yisrael.” 25 And she came and worshipped him, saying, “Adon,
help me.” 26 But he answered and said, “It is not good that a man
should take bread away from the sons, and that he should give it to
the dogs to eat.” 27 So she said, “It is true, however it is true that the
puppies eat crumbs that fall from the table of their master.” 28 Then
Yeshua answered and said, “Woman, great is your faith – that which
you desire will be done to you.” And her daughter was healed in that
hour.
The note in the margin says: Lit. “faithfulness.” Hebrew faith is both believing and doing (being faithful).
After reading Matthew 15:22-28, next read Matthew 22:1-14 (The Parable of the Wedding Feast) and Matthew 21:33-46 (The Parable of the Tenants).
Or you can skip to the end of the Parable of the Tenants, to the famous saying, "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."
Acts 10 describes
But don't assume the gathering in of gentiles is all Paul's doing just because Paul tells you so. Peter was a good speaker. Paul himself said he was not a good speaker but that he was a good writer. Most people were not literate in the ancient world.
But let the scriptures speak:
Acts 15:7
King James Version
7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
Acts 10:1-5
King James Version
10 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:
Matthew 16:18
King James Version
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Visiting Ein Gedi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2aT7mOnNT4
I always got Mosad and Masada mixed up.
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Skip to the last paragraph. . .
"One is that Israel is a besieged fortress whose defenders must fight to the end against an implacable enemy. The other, upheld by Professor Ben-Yehuda, is that today, as in the past, the refusal to compromise of such extremists as the Sicarii at Masada and the leaders of the doomed revolt against Rome bring only death and destruction to the Jewish people."
Ancient battle divides Israel as Masada 'myth' unravels
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/ancient-battle-divides-israel-as-masada-myth-unravels-1275878.html
Peter, the first pope (or so the Catholic church claims) wrote 1 Peter & 2 Peter. In this two epistles, Peter never mentions the following:
Peter never even once mentioned Mary. Not even once.
Obviously, Peter didn't mention the so called Immaculate Conception, the doctrine that Mary was born without original sin.
Peter never mentions the Catholic doctrine of the Assumption of Mary bodily into heaven.
Peter never mentions the hallmark doctrine of Catholicism; the Sacrifice of the Mass.
Peter never mentions infant Baptism, which Catholicism claims to 'wash away original sin.'
Peter never mentions Auricular Confession, whereby the sinner must confess to, and seek forgiveness of, sin.
Peter never mentions Purgatory, whereby Catholics go after they die in order to pay for their unconfessed Venial sins.
Peter never mentions Mortal sin and Venial sin.
Peter never mentions the office of the pope. Never refers to himself as the blasphemous tile of "Holy Father," the One that holds the keys to heaven and hell.
Peter never mentions priests, nuns or cardinals.
In short, there is not one single peculiar doctrine or dogma of the Catholic church mentioned in either 1 Peter or 2 Peter. Not a one!
There's a reason why the Catholic church ignores Peter's epistles, because the epistles are diametrically opposed to Catholic doctrine and dogma! If you don't believe that to be true, READ THOSE 2 EPISTLES FOR YOURSELF and prove what I say to be false. You won't be able to, because everything that I posted is true!
When I was a Baptist as a boy I learned Bible verses and stuff about in the Old Testament like the Tabernacle and all it's furnishings. What I've learned from the Catholics is prayer and that the Blessed Virgin is the New Ark of the Covenant for in Her womb she held the Bread of Life the Staff of Jesse & the Law.
Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with You - Luke 1:28
Blessed are Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus - Luke 1:42
Holy Mary Mother of God part for us sinner, now and that the hour of our death - Later on, the second half of the prayer was added and prayer was incorporated into the Roman Breviary of 1568.
Amen
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I admit I'm more of a pray-er now then a Bible reader but truthfully I am far less confused now then when I was a protestant, for Mary is the greatest teacher (and before you jump down my throat, for it goes without saying, the greatest teacher other then God)
Holy Mary Mother of God *pray for us sinners
And as of November 30th (St Andrews Day) I'll be starting a novena for Gemma O'Dotherty
Hail and Blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most Pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold.
In that hour, vouchsafe, O my God! to hear my desires, through the merits of Our Saviour Jesus Christ and His Blessed Holy Mother.
Amen
I will go out to the piercing cold motorhome and repeat this prayer 15 times for 9 nights to vochsafe the O'Dotherty family doesn't loose their home.
Gemma O'Doherty is an Irish conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer, racist, and moron. She's been banned from YouTube for hate speech. After her ban, she protested outside Google in Dublin trying to get her channel reinstated. Google took no notice, but she did piss off the residents in the area.[2] She now thinks that the coronavirus is a cover for people getting sick from 5G, and she goes around Dublin filming what she calls 5G masts, and staging protests against high-speed internet access.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gemma_O%27Doherty
John Fahey - Poor Boys Long Way From Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReW9uUYm-DA
6:30 pm said: You don't read the graphs and studies and peer reviewed information I have posted many times before, but trolls have lots of time on their hands to do the homework, even earlier this year, and many in 2022, that are here so you can see what you've missed while too busy licking government boots and trolling for big gov.
Liar -- you haven't done this credibly (peer reviewed - not retracted or misinterpreted Front Line Doctor nonsense) even ONE TIME.
You haven't even tried as far as I recall (probably because such refutations don't exist anywhere outside your qanon mind)
But you are funny RayB...I'll give you that.
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10:54 PM,
What I've learned from the Catholics is prayer and that the Blessed Virgin is the New Ark of the Covenant for in Her womb she held the Bread of Life the Staff of Jesse & the Law.
This is allegorical but so far it doesn't change plain meanings that I can see. It just enriches them. It's very beautiful. Catholics are good with the poetry of their faith.
Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with You - Luke 1:28
This is beautiful. I love all the of the angelic greetings with birth announcements to all the women of the Bible, and the greeting to Mary is far and away my favorite.
Blessed are Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus - Luke 1:42
I'm still with you.
Holy Mary Mother of God part for us sinner, now and that the hour of our death - Later on, the second half of the prayer was added and prayer was incorporated into the Roman Breviary of 1568.
Now you've lost me.
Amen
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I admit I'm more of a pray-er now then a Bible reader but truthfully I am far less confused now then when I was a protestant, for Mary is the greatest teacher (and before you jump down my throat, for it goes without saying, the greatest teacher other then God)
Jesus told His apostles they have just one teacher, Himself.
9:33 PM,
Peter, the first pope (or so the Catholic church claims) wrote 1 Peter & 2 Peter. In this two epistles, Peter never mentions the following:
Authorship of 1 Peter and 2 Peter is questionable because of the mastery of Greek on the part of the writer.
Two of the gospels were written by apostles: Matthew and John. There is no reason to believe Peter would have handled the words of Jesus differently than Matthew or John. The meaning of the word apostle in Greek is messenger. There is no evidence whatsoever that any of the apostles treated their role as anything resembling "papal infallibility."
Peter never even once mentioned Mary. Not even once.
Luke did, but he wasn't an apostle. Matthew did.
Obviously, Peter didn't mention the so called Immaculate Conception, the doctrine that Mary was born without original sin.
Nobody mentioned this in the pages of the New Testament. Mary was called "full of grace." The word "grace" in Greek means "favor."
Peter never mentions the Catholic doctrine of the Assumption of Mary bodily into heaven.
None of the apostles did.
Peter never mentions the hallmark doctrine of Catholicism; the Sacrifice of the Mass.
Paul did.
Peter never mentions infant Baptism, which Catholicism claims to 'wash away original sin.'
The idea of original sin came from Paul.
Peter never mentions Auricular Confession, whereby the sinner must confess to, and seek forgiveness of, sin.
James recommended confessing sin.
Peter never mentions Purgatory, whereby Catholics go after they die in order to pay for their unconfessed Venial sins.
The Orthodox church rejects purgatory as error. The idea of purgatory comes from Augustine and then more fully from Dante.
Peter never mentions Mortal sin and Venial sin.
1 John 5:16-17 is thought by some to support the concept of distinguishing between mortal sin and venial sin.
Peter never mentions the office of the pope. Never refers to himself as the blasphemous tile of "Holy Father," the One that holds the keys to heaven and hell."
Paul said those in his congregation were begotten by him.
Of course none of the apostles said anything of the kind. Jesus had told them not to call any man father, and He had told them that they were all brothers.
Peter never mentions priests, nuns or cardinals.
In short, there is not one single peculiar doctrine or dogma of the Catholic church mentioned in either 1 Peter or 2 Peter. Not a one!
Agreed
There's a reason why the Catholic church ignores Peter's epistles, because the epistles are diametrically opposed to Catholic doctrine and dogma! If you don't believe that to be true, READ THOSE 2 EPISTLES FOR YOURSELF and prove what I say to be false. You won't be able to, because everything that I posted is true!
The gospels don't support most Catholic doctrine and dogma. Paul lends much more support. Luke lends the most support for Marian doctrines and dogmas, but Luke's gospel doesn't lend support for how far the popes took Marian doctrines. Marian apparitions gave some popes some doctrines about Mary.
I think you're making a mistake here to focus on the words written in the letters that were attributed to Peter, perhaps as pseudepigragha. (Or perhaps dictated by Peter to a scribe fluent in Greek?)
It is not Peter's words that are of the utmost importance. It is Jesus' words. It is true that Peter did receive new communications through the Holy Spirit, going beyond the words of Jesus in the gospels. But he never received new words from Jesus that are recorded anywhere. He received new instruction to spread the same words to new peoples: gentiles.
Jesus' words quite emphatically can never support popery, any more than they can support the institution of the Pharisees in the state He found it during His ministry on earth.
Jesus' words are about as strong and clear as can be, and I'm sure you're familiar with them. He commanded the apostles to call no man master, no man teacher, and no man father. He told them they were all brothers, and He was their only master and teacher.
You are good at confronting Catholics but you won't confront Paul. From Paul we are able to find some support for popery for a celibate priesthood. From Paul we are able to even find some support for the NAR. Paul is the one who started freely calling people apostles, including a woman named Junia. Woman be silent, woman be an apostle. Typical self-contradictory writing.
Don't put Jesus' mother on a pedestal. Just put on a pedestal a man who never knew Jesus. He baptized people in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. He told them that Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected and that it was for the imputation of His own righteousness to any who believe that He died for their sins.
What did he tell them of Jesus' words or Jesus' deeds? Did it just not matter what Jesus said in His Sermon on the Mount? Did only Paul's rambling words matter? These were gentiles who never learned the Ten Commandments. Did the Ten Commandments just not matter? Was it just a waste of time for the children of Israel to wander in the desert for forty years? Was it just a waste of time for God to write the commandments in stone? Was it just a waste of time for Jesus to give His Sermon on the Mount? Is it much more important to put every word of Paul under the microscope, in original Greek? And ignore most of the Bible, the Old Testament, which is mostly what people were reading at the time, even the Christian believers? They didn't have the New Testament yet. The Jerusalem church was reading the Old Testament and the book of Matthew. They weren't reading Paul's letters.
Take those beams out of your eyes so you can see clearly.
Paul sowed the seeds for the Inquisition. He rambled so much in the thirteen letters attributed to him, eight of which are thought to be actually his letters, although he had scribes collaborate in every case. Because of his sheer volume of verbosity, most people do not carefully examine his every word.
Most Christians are familiar with just a few favorite passages. I'm sure everybody knows about the famous passage about love in 1 Corinthians 133, which is often quoted. Every Protestant became accustomed to Paul's language of "grace" instead of Jesus' language of "mercy" and "forgiveness." Christians know about "wives submit." They know about Paul getting bitten by a serpent in Acts. Most know just a few things, really.
Most don't know that Paul sowed the seeds of the Inquisition, right there in the pages of his epistles in the New Testament. How could that be, seeds of the Inquisition, among all of those flowery words of love and grace? Yes, indeed. It's easy to pass right over Paul's sinister words that have been hiding in plain sight for 2,000 years.
Paul spoke of delivering somebody to the devil. Timothy apparently was taught to behave in the same way. Scholars agree this means that, on the authority of Paul and Timothy, with no witnesses and no trial, members of the churches were put to death by mobs for their sins.
Jesus did not behave in this way. Jesus famously said that he who is without sin may cast the first stone.
Paul did behave in an Inquisitional way. Timothy did behave in an Inquisitional way.
Paul had networks of spies. He mentioned "Chloe's people" reporting things back to him.
He said they could be "accursed" if they heard any other gospel (like from Peter or John, the Judaizers). Later, the popes would curse the kings and make the kings tremble.
Open up your eyes. The snake has been hanging out in the garden, hiding in plain sight, for 2,000 years.
Marian apparitions have every bit as much evidence to support them as Paul's visions. Actually, they have more evidence to support them, in the form of many, many more witnesses.
And I don't believe in Marian apparitions, because Jesus gave no hint that His mother would re-appear in visions to teach anybody anything.
I just find it blind and hypocritical for Protestants to attack Catholics so much. Some of the Catholic doctrines that Protestants object to came straight from Paul (original sin, Eucharist). Yet Protestants sidelined Jesus' words more than Catholics, in terms of their basic salvation doctrine.
Historically they tried to figure out how to do mental acrobatics to figure out how both grace and works would play a part in salvation and justification and sanctification.
But now, with Dispensationalism, Jesus is said to only apply to the Jews who were under the law during the dispensation of the law! Gentiles are said to be under the dispensation of grace and to have no need to pay attention to Jesus' words! It's all Paul! It's the Paul channel! All Paul, all the time.
This is salvation doctrine we're talking about. Catholic salvation doctrine is not that bad. Dispensationalism salvation doctrine is terrible. Historic Protestants figured out mental acrobatics to not completely sideline Jesus in favor of Paul. Dispensationalists and Evangelicals figured out how to not have to listen to either Moses or Jesus, at all!
But you know, after all, it's so much more important for wives to listen to husbands, slaves to listen to masters, and citizens to listen to government officials. Listening to know-it-alls in this life. That's what really matters. That's where it's really at. But then we all get to be raptured or resurrected after that, so it's okay, whatever damage gets done along the way. It was pre-ordained to happen, anyway! Why, it's just like those shows with time travel and alternate timelines! Whatever sins you commit in one timeline don't matter, because you can just start right over in another timeline!
You can learn alot from David
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Old version
The Iewes in captiuitie of Babylon, Christians in persecution, or other great tribulation, pray with confidence to be deliuered from danger, and sclander of wicked tongues, lamenting their long indurance.
1 A gradual Canticle. VVHEN I was in tribulation I cried to our Lord: and he heard me.
2 O Lord deliuer my soule from vniust lippes, and from a deceiptful tongue.
3 What may be geuen thee, or what may be added vnto thee to a deceiptful tongue?
4 The sharpe arrowes of the mightie, with coales of desolation.
5 Woe is to me, that my seiourning is prolonged: I haue dwelte with the inhabitantes of Cedar:
6 My soule hath bene long a seiourner.
7 With them, that hated peace, I was peaceable: when I spake to them, they impugned me without cause.
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New version
Ad Dominum. A prayer in tribulation. A gradual canticle. The following psalms, in number fifteen, are called gradual psalms, or canticles, from the word gradus, signifying steps, ascensions, or degrees: either because they were appointed to be sung on the fifteen steps, by which the people ascended to the temple: or, that in the singing of them the voice was to be raised by certain steps or ascensions: or, that they were to be sung by the people returning from their captivity and ascending to Jerusalem, which was seated amongst mountains. The holy fathers, in a mystical sense, understand these steps, or ascensions, of the degrees by which Christians spiritually ascend to virtue and perfection; and to the true temple of God in the heavenly Jerusalem.
1 In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me. 2 O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue? 4 The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste. 5 Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar:
6 My soul hath been long a sojourner. 7 With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.
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Back when Monks were Monks they would to pray the entire 150 Psalms daily. Now we say the 15 decades of the Rosary. Sure, we're not as tough as the monks of old but Grace sill abounds.
If you care to pray along,
https://youtube.com/@thirdeaglebooks?si=h2v2X5akdHYZv6da
PS: William Tapley started the first live daily Rosary on YouTube ( - :
10:06 AM,
Thank you, that is beautiful.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/us-department-of-health-official-who-conspired-with-anthony-fauci-to-downplay-covid-lableak-theory-reveals-agonising-over-his-actions/news-story/f568f544d4b5eb05fb26dc3e198f50ae
US Department of Health official who conspired with Anthony Fauci to downplay COVID lab-leak theory reveals 'agonising' over his actions
Dr Kadlec points to the risky vaccine research on live animals conducted by Chinese military scientist, Zhou Yusen, who was creating a vaccine for Covid-19 in October 2019.
Zhou Yusen died around May 2020, three months after he lodged his patent for the Covid vaccine on February 24th, 2020, as Sky News first revealed two years ago in a world exclusive.
“It looked like he was censored as a consequence of whatever happened. Our evidence would suggest that something happened while he was doing his work, which we believe was when the virus first emerged. And whether he was held accountable either through some formal proceeding or not, he was certainly dead by July (2020),” Dr Kadlec said.
Thank you 11:55 AM. It doesn't get much harder to dismiss than the first hand testimony of Dr. Kadlec, the man who created Operation Warp Speed. Good for him for attempting to correct the record for the sake of people being able to have a chance to learn a lesson from recent history.
Here’s Why You Can Be Absolutely Sure That Paul Believed in the Eucharist
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/heres-why-you-can-be-absolutely-sure-that-paul-believed-in-the-eucharist
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade2798
https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/hyperprogressive-cancers-due-to-covid
"SUMMARY: mRNA COVID vaccines, previously not used outside of small laboratory animal studies, were given to billions of people after perfunctory and rushed clinical trials. As scientists learned in 2022, mRNA vaccines cause a ‘class switch’ to IgG4 antibodies. Another study found that this specific antibody subclass is associated with more aggressive cancer growth and causes hyperprogressive cancer disease in mice and humans.
The authors conclude:
Conclusion There appears to be a previously unrecognized immune evasion mechanism with IgG4 playing an essential role in cancer microenvironment with implications in cancer diagnosis and immunotherapy.
> We are only beginning to understand the effects of IgG4 antibodies on cancer
> Only about half of vaccinated people produce IgG4 antibodies in quantity
> Even though experiments showed increases in IgG4 over time, these antibodies may wane over the long run
> No evidence to date suggests that IgG4 antibodies cause cancer - the evidence only points to them enhancing and speeding up existing cancers.
What the evidence shows is that some cancers, possibly treatable before mRNA injections, may become aggressive and difficult to treat, a condition that the BMJ study authors call ‘hyperprogressive disease.’"
The experimental vaccine shows it leaves possibility for bad outcomes in those experimented on.
Too many people left with need of a cure from the 'cure'..
Must see this fascinating interview with economist and former World Bank employee Peter Koenig - WATER and energy resources in Gaza, Palestine, Israel and more
https://www.brighteon.com/27a9ee4a-aed1-43ff-8e8d-d6e6634242ea
4:18 PM,
This is very bad news for cancer patients, especially because their chemotherapy leaves them with immunodeficiency. What a dilemma for them. I'm glad this information is coming out. They deserve to be able to make informed choices based on rigorously and thoroughly tested medical products and treatments, knowing the risks and benefits, the pros and cons, of all their options.
Henry Kissinger, world-shaping diplomat who was revered and reviled, dies at 100
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-world-shaping-diplomat-dies-100-rcna127314
he thought he would live forever.
4:40 pm
They haven't concluded any actual injuries. They just combined some analysis from several studies to posit a question for further research. Such question plays into disinformation that there exists some made up thing called "turbo cancers" and whatnot which have been debunked now several times the last few years as not a thing.
Even though experiments showed increases in IgG4 over time, these antibodies may wane over the long run
These IG4 increases also wane over time suggesting maybe continued and repeated covid vaccinations of the same type won't provide the same protections and, maybe, for a short time, feed EXISTENT cancer cells.
There is not a lick of evidence anyone who just got round 1 and 2 at the height of covid or even 3 rounds by the end of 2021 still has elevated IG4. Considering how many lives were saved (approximately 20 million worldwide) this is hardly suggestive that the mRNA vaccines weren't a huge public health success in 2021 and 2022.
Now that covid is endemic...consider such small risks as you may and as they get studied more in contrast with the increasing risks of repeated wild covid infections. But it 2021, when friends and family were dropping dead...remaining unvaxxed was still foolhardly, selfish, and dumb for anyone in the general population not severly immunocompromised already.
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Alex Jones 2007
"U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World must be Extermination" - Henry Kissinger, 1974 pt 1
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gye6JDph4Ro
They had me going right up till the end of part 2 (FEMA camps). Nether the less well worth a watch.
This is a Hebrew language perspective on the authority given to Peter to "bind" and "loose."
The Hebrew words for "bind" and "loose" each appear pear with more than one meaning in the Old Testament. "Bind," for instance, can mean "tie up" (Judges 15:12, 16:11), "imprison" (II Kings 17:4), "hitch" a cart, wagon, chariot (Genesis 46:29), or "tether" an animal (Genesis 49:11); and by the time of Jesus the word "bind" had acquired an additional meaning-"bind" in the sense of "forbid." Similarly, "loose" had acquired the opposite meaning-"permit." These last meanings of "bind" and "loose" are the ones we most often meet in Rabbinic Literature. The sages were constantly called upon by their community to interpret scriptural commands. Was such-and-such an action permitted? Was such-and-such a thing or person ritually clean? The Bible, for example, forbids working on Saturday. But it does not define "work." As a result, the sages were called upon to declare what an individual was and was not permitted to do on the Sabbath. They "bound" (prohibited) certain activities, and "loosed" (allowed) other activities.
David Bivin;Roy Blizzard Jr.. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective (Kindle Locations 837-841). Kindle Edition.
Jesus is giving Peter the authority to make decisions regulating the life of the Church. He confers upon Peter symbols of authority, the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Decisions or rulings Peter makes will have the authority of Heaven behind them. His decisions will be upheld by God. ("Heaven" is an evasive synonym for "God.") What Peter forbade, Heaven would forbid. What Peter permitted, Heaven would permit. The movement Jesus created (the Church) was a new phenomenon in Jewish history. Situations would soon arise which none of the Jews in this movement had ever had to face, situations about which the Bible gave no instructions, situations with which even the sages, contemporaries of Jesus, had not had to deal. Decisions would have to be made, solutions found. Even more frightening, Jesus, their teacher, would no longer be there to make the decisions, to say what was permitted and what was forbidden. Peter and the other leaders of the Church would now take his place. They were not, however, to be indecisive for fear they would make wrong decisions. They had the authority to make decisions. God would be with them. He would endorse their decisions. The Apostles, like the sages, were called upon by their community, the Church, to interpret Scripture, settle disputes, and find answers in times of crisis. Sometimes times they were compelled to deal with petty complaints: the complaints, for instance, of the Greek-speaking Jews that their widows were not being treated as well as the Hebrew-speaking widows in the daily distribution of food (Acts 6:1-6). At other times, the Apostles were required to settle raging controversies, controversies which had the potential of causing irreparable reparable division in the Church. One such controversy is described in Acts 15-the controversy over whether to admit Gentiles into the Church without first circumcising them and without commanding them to keep the Law of Moses. The decision that was reached is a classic example of how the leaders of the early Church exercised their authority to "bind" and "loose."
David Bivin;Roy Blizzard Jr.. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective (Kindle Locations 856-868). Kindle Edition.
A note about the above copy-paste. The author seems not to realize it, but the decision that was reached in Acts 15 was consistent with the law of Moses regarding sojourners and foreigners in Israel. Peter was not acting like an activist judge legislating from the bench. He did not take upon himself anything like papal infallibility. He remained within the Old Testament law for sojourners and foreigners in Israel. He and James prayed and said it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to them not to burden the gentile converts with any more requirements. Yet the option was left open that the gentiles were welcome to learn more about the Law and the Prophets, because James ended by mentioning that local synagogues were available to the gentile converts in all of their known locations at the time.
Here's a strange question that I just thought of. Would gaining the Holy Spirit gift of speaking in tongues enable somebody to write in tongues? In other words, could Peter write in Greek, because of having the Holy Spirit gift of being able to speak in Greek?
It was never called writing in tongues. It was only ever called speaking in tongues. But even if Peter couldn't write in tongues, he would have been able to speak in Greek to a scribe would write the Greek, right?
Did Jesus ever claim to be the Messiah? Yes! Frequently! In Hebraic ways.
The women were weeping for Jesus. If they had only known what was coming, they would have been weeping for themselves. "Don't weep for me," Jesus says, "weep for yourselves. If they do this to me, what will they do to you?" In other words, if this is done to the "Green Tree" of Ezekiel 20:47 (i.e., to Jesus), what will happen to the "dry trees" (i.e., to the less than perfectly righteous)? The "dry trees" would face the same fate at the hands of the Romans, and worse. The Greek text reads, literally "If they do these things in a green tree...." To "do in (someone)" is a Hebrew idiom which means to "do to (someone)," and it is this idiom that has confused our translators. Some translations, the Revised Standard Version, for instance, attempt to make sense out of this verse by translating: "For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?" The same idiom appears in Matthew thew 17:12, referring to John the Baptist: "They did to [literally, "in"] him whatever they pleased." There, because cause the context is so clear, the idiom "do in" has not seemed to cause most translators any trouble. But in Luke 23:31 there exists one additional difficulty: in order to understand, and then translate correctly, the translator must also know something about rabbinic methods of scriptural interpretation. In a very rabbinic way, Jesus is hinting in Luke 23:31 at a passage of Scripture in the Old Testament. Our translators are not aware of this, many even translating "green wood" instead of "green tree." In 1901 William Wrede, a German scholar, proposed what he called "Das Messiasgeheimnis" ("The Messianic Secret"), a theory still widely accepted. Wrede suggested that Mark's Gospel was to a large extent an apology. In order to explain why almost a generation after the death of Jesus the Jewish nation as a whole had still not accepted Jesus as Messiah, Mark inserted in his Gospel the notion that Jesus deliberately kept his messiahship a secret. Wrede personally did not believe the historical Jesus thought of himself as the Messiah, or ever claimed to be the Messiah. He believed that was an idea invented by the Church after Jesus' death.
Nothing could be farther from the truth! Had Wrede known more about rabbinic argumentation and methods of scriptural interpretation, he would never have erred so completely. The truth is that Jesus seems hardly ever to have spoken without somehow or in some way making a messianic claim. Jesus does not come right out and say, "I am the Messiah," as we moderns might expect; but in a very rabbinic way he hints at Old Testament Scriptures which were understood to be references to the coming Messiah. In this passage, for instance, Jesus refers to himself as "the Green Tree" of Ezekiel 20:47-a clear messianic claim.
David Bivin;Roy Blizzard Jr.. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective (Kindle Locations 642-658). Kindle Edition.
The Gospels are rife with mistranslations, "But does it really make any difference?" the reader asks. "Even if there are mistranslation here and there, does one really have any difficulty in understanding the words of Jesus? Are there any passages that have been misinterpreted interpreted to such an extent that they are potentially damaging to us spiritually?" Unfortunately, the answer is "yes." In fact, had the Church been provided with a proper Hebraic understanding standing of the words of Jesus, most theological controversies would never have arisen in the first place. In the preceding chapters we have given examples of numerous mistranslations in the Gospels. Many, we have seen, go beyond simple mistranslation and adversely versely affect our theology. We noted, for instance (pages 62-65), that "the Kingdom of Heaven" is not futuristic, but rather a present reality wherever God is ruling. One easily gets the impression from the Greek text that although the Kingdom is near, it has not yet arrived. However, when one is able to put passages dealing with the Kingdom of Heaven back into Hebrew, it is immediately obvious that the Kingdom has already arrived, is in fact already here-almost the exact opposite of the Greek meaning.
The additional examples of mistranslation presented in the Appendix will show, among other things, that a proper Hebraic understanding of the Gospels does away with the notion, suggested by more than one scholar, that Jesus never believed he was the Messiah and never openly declared himself to be the Messiah. We will see, for instance, that Jesus applied to himself the title "Green Tree." This was a rabbinic way of saying "I am the Messiah." It was a reference to an Old Testament passage which mentions "green tree," an expression interpreted by the sages in Jesus' day as a messianic title. Again and again, Jesus claimed to be the Messiah by applying to himself such messianic titles as "Green Tree." He did not come right out and say, "I am the Messiah," because in Hebrew there are far more powerful ways of making that claim.
It is our hope to treat other mistranslations in a sequel to this book. Some of these appear to be important only as further proof that the original life story of Jesus was written in Hebrew. Others, however, have contributed to confusion, error, wrong behavior, and even spiritual bondage. In this chapter we discuss three more theological errors that are also due to mistranslation in the Gospel text.
PACIFISM
It is widely accepted that Jesus taught a higher ethic epitomized in his statement, "Turn the other cheek." This has led to the belief that when attacked, one should not injure or kill in order to defend self, family, or country. The idea that pacifism was a part of the teaching of Jesus was popularized in the writings of Tolstoy. Pacifism, however, is not today, nor was it ever, a part of Jewish belief. The Jewish position is summed up in the Talmudic dictum, "If someone comes to kill you, anticipate him and kill him first" (Sanhedrin 72a). In other words, it is permissible to kill in order to defend oneself. Can it be, then, that Jesus was the first and only Jew to teach pacifism? It is very unlikely. We know that at least some of Jesus' disciples were armed (Luke 22:38; 22:50). Add to this the fact that, at one point, Jesus even suggested to his disciples that they purchase swords (Luke 22:35-37), and we begin to ask ourselves, Did Jesus really believe or teach pacifism?
In reality, pacifism is a theological misunderstanding based on several mistranslations of the sayings of Jesus. The first of these mistranslations is Matthew 5:21, where most English versions of the Bible read, "You shall not kill." This is a quotation of Exodus 20:13. The Hebrew word used there is "murder" (ratzach), and not kill (harag). In Hebrew there is a clear distinction between tween these two words. The first (ratzach) means premeditated murder, while the second (harag) encompasses everything from justifiable homicide, manslaughter and accidental killing, to taking the life of an enemy soldier in war. The commandment very precisely prohibits murder, but not the taking of a life in defense of oneself or others.
It is difficult to explain how English translators made this mistake since the Greek language also has separate words for "murder" and "kill," and it is the Greek word for "murder" (not "kill") which is used in Matthew 5:21. Even with no knowledge of Hebrew, the English translators of the New Testament should here have correctly translated "murder," and not "kill."
A second saying of Jesus on which pacifism is based is Matthew 5:39a, usually translated, "Do not resist evil," or "Do not resist one who is evil." Could Jesus possibly have said this to his disciples? If he did, his statement contradicts other scriptures such as, "Hate what is evil" (Romans 12:9), and "Resist the devil" (James 4:7).
Again, Hebrew provides the answer. When we translate this verse back into Hebrew, we see that Jesus was not creating a new saying, but quoting a well-known known Old Testament proverb. This proverb appears, with slight variations, in Psalm 37:1,8, and Proverbs 24:19. In modern English we would translate this maxim: "Don't compete with evildoers." In other words, do not try to rival or vie with a neighbor who has wronged you.
Jesus is not teaching that one should lie down in the face of evil or submit to evil; rather, he is teaching that we should forego trying to "get back at," or take revenge on a quarrelsome neighbor. As Proverbs 24:29 says: "Do not say, 'I will do to him as he has done to me. I will pay the man back for what he has done.'"
Jesus is expressing an important principle which applies to our relationships with friends and neighbors. It does not apply when we are confronted with a murderer, rapist, or like person of violence; nor when we are facing the enemy on the field of battle. Jesus is not talking about how to deal with violence. He is talking about the fundamentals of brotherly relationships, about how to relate to our neighbor.
David Bivin;Roy Blizzard Jr.. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective (Kindle Locations 511-547). Kindle Edition.
The books of the Bible were written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Period. Moses, Peter, Paul, whomever, the Bible was authored by God. Why waste time with these vain arguments?
By the time of the Second Temple, Jews had developed an aversion to using the name of God for fear of violating the Third Commandment. They substituted evasive synonyms for "God" such as "the Name," (an abbreviation of "the Name of the Lord"), "the Place," "the Power," and "Heaven." In the phrase "Kingdom of Heaven," this substitution is clearly seen.
David Bivin;Roy Blizzard Jr.. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective. Kindle Edition.
"Wisdom" always has a positive connotation in English, but in Hebrew it can connote shrewdness, craftiness, or even stupidity.
David Bivin;Roy Blizzard Jr.. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective. Kindle Edition.
In Hebrew, "to come near" means "to be at."
David Bivin;Roy Blizzard Jr.. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective. Kindle Edition.
The Greek engiken, or the English "near," mean: "It's not here yet." The implication is that the Kingdom of God is futuristic, not yet here. The Hebrew karav means the exact opposite: "It's here! It has arrived!"
David Bivin;Roy Blizzard Jr.. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective. Kindle Edition.
The concept of "kingdom" is perhaps the most important spiritual concept in the New Testament. In English or Greek, "kingdom" is never verbal. It is something static, something to do with territory. But in Hebrew, "kingdom" is active, it is action. It is God ruling in the lives of men. Those who are ruled by God are the Kingdom of God.
"Kingdom" is also the demonstration of God's rule through miracles, signs, and wonders. Wherever the power of God is demonstrated, there is His "Kingdom."
David Bivin;Roy Blizzard Jr.. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective. Kindle Edition.
10:34 PM
Turbo cancers and young people dying suddenly.
There's plenty of evidence, dude.
If you didn't contract yourself out to the government, you'd know that.
But you eat their shite and post it too.
Further confusion arises in connection with the tense of the verb "come." Should we translate, "I came to cast fire upon the earth," or, "I have come to cast fire upon the earth"?
Hebrew does not have a sophisticated tense system like English or Greek. In English we can distinguish between simple past (he wrote), present perfect (he has written), past perfect (he had written), past continuous (he was writing), and past perfect continuous action (he had been writing). In Hebrew there is only one form of the verb in the past. All five of the above past forms of the English verb "write" would be translated in Hebrew by the same word--katav.
Surprisingly, the Greek verb "come" (elthon) of verse 49 is in the aorist tense. The Greek aorist tense, like the simple past tense in English, conveys simple action in the past: for instance, "I hit the ball" (a one-time occurrence at some past time). To express continuous action in the past or present, the Greek language has other tenses. Elthon, therefore, can be translated only in one way--"I came." It has no other meaning in Greek; consequently, to be faithful to the Greek, we are obliged to understand that Jesus is saying he came once at some particular time in the past. He is speaking about the present.
The context forces us to translate, "I have come." In spite of this some translators, like those of the Revised Standard Version, translate, "I came." They do not suppose that the Greek text is a translation of a Hebrew original, thus they transfer into their English translations a Hebraism which had earlier crept into the Greek text. When, however, an English translator of the Gospels realizes that he is translating a translation, and that Greek translators in translating Hebrew texts to Greek traditionally used the Greek aorist tense to translate the Hebrew past tense, he no longer is bound to always translate elthon as, "I came."
David Bivin;Roy Blizzard Jr.. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective. Kindle Edition.
More important than the correct tense of the verb "come," is how to define "come" in this context. When Jesus says "I have come," the English reader immediately pictures Jesus leaving his heavenly throne and, as the Servant of the Lord, coming to earth. But "I have come" may often be a Hebrew idiom denoting intention or purpose. In Luke 12:49 Jesus almost certainly does not mean "I have come" in a literal sense. He is using "come" in its idiomatic sense: "I intend to cast fire upon the earth"; "My purpose [or better, 'My task'] is to cast fire upon the earth."
David Bivin;Roy Blizzard Jr.. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective. Kindle Edition.
Federal Judge Orders FBI To Finally Release Seth Rich's Laptop
The FBI has spent 6 years trying to suppress this...
zerohedge.com/political/federal-judge-orders-fbi-finally-release-seth-rich-laptop
"Destroy" and "fulfil" are technical terms used in rabbinic argumentation. When a sage felt that a colleague had misinterpreted a passage of Scripture, he would say, "You are destroying the Law!" Needless to say, in most cases his colleague strongly disagreed. What was "destroying the Law" for one sage was "fulfilling the Law" (correctly interpreting Scripture) for another.
What we see in Matthew 5:17 is a rabbinic discussion. Someone has accused Jesus of "destroying" the Law. Of course, neither Jesus nor his accuser would ever think of literally destroying the Law. Furthermore, it would never enter the accuser's mind to charge Jesus with intent to abolish part or all of the Mosaic Law. What is being called into question is Jesus' system of interpretation, the way he interprets Scripture.
When accused, Jesus strongly denies that his method of interpreting Scripture "destroys" or weakens its meaning. He claims, on the contrary, to be more orthodox than his accuser. For Jesus a "light" commandment ("Do not bear hatred in your heart") is as important as a "heavy" commandment ("Do not murder"). And a disciple who breaks even a "light" commandment will be considered "light" (have an inferior position) in Jesus' movement (Matthew 5:19).
David Bivin;Roy Blizzard Jr.. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective. Kindle Edition.
This has morphed from a site that was dominated by x to one that is now dominated by a fanatical, heretical Catholic that doesn't believe in the Holy Spirit inspired writings of the Apostle Paul.
And Constance just sits back and lets it all happen without uttering a single word. Perhaps she is in complete agreement? How can we know when we don't hear a peep out of her?
Those evil, evil Russians are at it again. Just imagine designating the perverted International LGBT movement and extremist organization? Quick ... more money and arms to Zelensky in order to stop this madness!!!
BREAKING: Russia’s Supreme Court Designates The “International LGBT Movement” As An Extremist Organization – Here’s What’s Next For The LGBT Movement In Russia
https://defiantamerica.com/breaking-russias-supreme-court-designates-the-international-lgbt-movement-as-an-extremist-organization-heres-whats-next-for-the-lgbt-movement-in-russia/
Totally off topic (DJT) but this guy keeps popping up in my dreams
Prince William, Prince Harry & The Prince of Wales interview with Ant and Dec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBvix8cJ_zc
I certainly hope he (Prince Harry) doesn't put his children through what his father did ) - :
Jerusalem Perspective
https://www.jerusalemperspective.com/welcome-to-our-site/
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JP is a valuable resource for scholars, pastors, students, teachers, Bible study leaders and everyone who has an inquisitive mind. We have a lot to offer, and this page is intended to help you get started!
O.C. Smith - Little Green Apples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68dkNSKu0s
2:00 PM,
This has morphed from a site that was dominated by x to one that is now dominated by a fanatical, heretical Catholic that doesn't believe in the Holy Spirit inspired writings of the Apostle Paul.
And Constance just sits back and lets it all happen without uttering a single word. Perhaps she is in complete agreement? How can we know when we don't hear a peep out of her?
I'm not Catholic, if I'm heretical the original church was heretical, and by your logic Constance must agree with almost every single comment posted here.
Here is a post from someone who Dear Death Cult Leader dislikes. So I highly recommend it!
Tucker, Roseanne, Bannon, George Floyd and the CIA
tierneyrealnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/tucker-roseanne-bannon-george-floyd
Attention Craig.
The key word in the Gospel of John is “believe” (pisteuō), which occurs 98 times. The Greek noun “faith” (pistis) does not occur. (A few times, however, the NIV translates the Gr. verb with the Eng. “put … faith in.”) The Greek verb pisteuō is frequently used in the present tense and in participial forms. Apparently John wanted to stress an active, continuous, and vital trust in Jesus.
Blum, E. A. (1985). John. In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.), The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol. 2, p. 270). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3190321M/The_Bible_knowledge_commentary
To the anon who continues to post the David Bivin;Roy Blizzard Jr. material:
Please cease from spreading mis- and disinformation. From what you wrote at 11:20 AM, they seem to know English verbs; and, I’m assuming they know about Hebrew (I don’t know Hebrew). BUT, they’re far afield on the Greek—so far as to be in a different ballpark. I will illustrate by quoting two portions and providing some explanation as to why.
Surprisingly, the Greek verb "come" (elthon [sic]) of verse 49 is in the aorist tense. The Greek aorist tense, like the simple past tense in English, conveys simple action in the past: for instance, "I hit the ball" (a one-time occurrence at some past time). To express continuous action in the past or present, the Greek language has other tenses. Elthon [sic], therefore, can be translated only in one way--"I came." It has no other meaning in Greek; consequently, to be faithful to the Greek, we are obliged to understand that Jesus is saying he came once at some particular time in the past. He is speaking about the present.
First of all, the transliteration is wrong. The first letter is an eta (η, ē), NOT an epsilon (ε, e). It is indeed an aorist tense-form; however, it does not ‘convey simple action in the past’. Greek is an aspect prominent language, with temporal reference secondary. The aspect of the aorist is perfective, which views the action as if from a helicopter, as a whole. This is as opposed to imperfective aspect, which views the action in progress (or as a process).
Though mostly used to denote past temporal reference—partly because it’s ideally suited for narrative—the aorist can be found indicating present or future. Moreover, it DOES NOT convey “simple action”. In Romans 5:17, “death reigned [aorist] from Adam to Moses.” This is a LONG TIME! And it implies many deaths. In Mark 1:11 and Luke 3:22 (identical verbiage), the Father says to His beloved Son, “In you I…was…well-pleased”? No, of course not. The aorist here merely provides a wholistic, perfective statement that the Father has been and is well-pleased with His Son, and there’s no reason to delimit the time-frame to simply that point in time.
When, however, an English translator of the Gospels realizes that he is translating a translation, and that Greek translators in translating Hebrew texts to Greek traditionally used the Greek aorist tense to translate the Hebrew past tense, he no longer is bound to always translate elthon [sic] as, "I came."
This statement by Bivin/Blizzard is completely false, a figment of their own wild imaginings. When translators chose “I have come” or “I came” they are choosing from the well-known options available to them for translating the aorist. The main issue for translation is that Greek is aspect-prominent, while English is “tense” (time) prominent.
Craig 7:50 PM,
I don't understand the hostility and false accusations. I'll take some time to assess your claims, and if they turn out to be accurate, I'll point it out to the authors. I'm sure they would welcome an opportunity to learn and correct their understanding of the Greek. They may even issue a correction in the next edition of their book. Any academic worth his salt would behave this way. I think you need some time to cool down and I need some time to fully assess your claims.
Do you have any response to the 7:21 PM comment? I'd like to know if you deem this disinformation and wild imaginings, too. If so maybe another email to another author is in order.
Anon 6:47 AM,
On what basis do you accuse me of being hostile and making false accusations? I merely truthfully responded to your post. So, please explain: (a) where I was hostile, and (b) what the false accusations are.
Regarding your 7:21 PM:
It’s interesting that John chose the verb form over the noun, when the Synoptic Gospels use both noun and verb. It’s apparently part of John’s idiolect, the manner in which he chooses to write.
Apparently you and Bivin/Blizzard whom you continue to cite (to the point of ad nauseum) are unaware that John transliterates words from the Aramaic, NOT the Hebrew into his Greek. For example, in 1:41 and 4:25 the word in English Bibles translated Messiah is a Greek transliteration of the ARAMAIC word Messias (in 1:41 as an accusative; in 4:25 as the nominative). Certainly, if this was initially translated from the Hebrew John would have used Moshiach instead.
And in 1:42 the word Cephas in reference to Peter is from the Greek transliteration of the Aramaic, NOT the Hebrew.
Might these facts induce you to rethink your position?
Craig 8:11 AM,
Biven/Blizzard did not provide the 7:21 PM citation.
I'll copy and paste from 7:21 PM.
The key word in the Gospel of John is “believe” (pisteuō), which occurs 98 times. The Greek noun “faith” (pistis) does not occur. (A few times, however, the NIV translates the Gr. verb with the Eng. “put … faith in.”) The Greek verb pisteuō is frequently used in the present tense and in participial forms. Apparently John wanted to stress an active, continuous, and vital trust in Jesus.
Blum, E. A. (1985). John. In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.), The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol. 2, p. 270). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3190321M/The_Bible_knowledge_commentary
Please cease from spreading mis- and disinformation.
This clearly implies malicious, deliberate falsehood rather than honest error or difference of belief/opinion. Were you not intending to accuse of malicious, deliberate falsehood, Craig?
Anon 8:21 AM,
Nice attempt at dodging the ball and then attempting to throw it back to me.
It's mis- or disinformation for Bivin/Blizzard to make the explicit claim that English Bible translators adhered to their theory of Hebrew originality in translating the aorist as I have come based upon their faulty understanding of the aorist.
On what Basis does Bivin/Blizzard make this assertion that English translators adhered to their theory--besides their own circularity and wishful thinking? Did they ask the translators?
So, again I restate my challenge to you:
On what basis do you accuse me of being hostile and making false accusations? I merely truthfully responded to your post. So, please explain: (a) where I was hostile, and (b) what the false accusations are.
@ 8:18 AM,
Of course I saw the citation. I never once stated the source for that citation was Bivin/Blizzard. I merely said it's interesting.
It was in the next paragraphs that I used this fact of John's idiolect as a jumping off point to show how John uses Aramaic rather than Hebrew transliterations, thereby poking a hole in the whole theory.
Do you think this English is the best translation, Craig? Or could it be improved? If the problem is not the Greek aorist tense, what is it? Or is there no problem at all in your eyes? Even if you don't completely agree with this citation, don't you think "has come" would be better English than "came?" If not, why not?
Over and over the RSV translators make this same mistake in translating Greek verbs; for example, in their translation of Luke 19:10: "For the Son of Man [i.e., Jesus] came to seek and to save the lost." Here also the context forces us to translate "has come" rather than "came." It is clear Jesus came, but it is equally clear that when he spoke those words he was still there, still on earth. He had come.
This confusion of the tenses has come about because the Greek translator of the original Hebrew biography often used the Greek aorist tense to translate the Hebrew past tense, a standard practice since the days of the translators of the Septaguint (circa 200 B.C.). The moment, however, one puts the Greek text back into the Hebrew, the confusion is eliminated. As usual, one must be careful not to translate the Greek, but rather the Hebrew behind it.
Biven and Blizzard did not claim John was originally written in Hebrew. They claim the Synoptic Gospels were translated into Greek from an original Hebrew source. In their book they document why. Biven is a scholar at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. You are free not to read his book, of course, but you seem very quick to brush it off without taking the time to check out his documentation therein. The first few chapters spend a lot of time laying the foundation in newer scholarship. Believe it or not. Check out the evidence or not. It's your free choice.
Personally I found my comprehension of Jesus' words increased from reading their book. I was very excited to gain increased reading comprehension.
Maybe everybody else didn't need to know any darn Hebrew. Maybe everybody else already knew what this meant in plain old English, reading Matthew 6:22:
The Sound Eye
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; (RSV)
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. (KJV)
Maybe you never needed to know the Hebrew idiom behind it. I'm sure it's perfectly clear, both in Greek and in English, right? You don't need to know that the Hebrew audience would have understood the idiom of a bad eye signifying miserly spirit, just as it does in the book of Proverbs, too.
Anon 8:42, 8:50 PM and etc:
It’s clear to me you don’t really want a discussion on this issue. You want a soapbox upon which to make your soliloquy. And you want others to join you on your soapbox. Count me out.
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I don't know how much clearer I can be. I completely disagree with Bivin/Blizzard (and your) premise, for it has no solid basis upon which to even have a reasonable discussion.
You again quote: The moment, however, one puts the Greek text back into the Hebrew, the confusion is eliminated. As usual, one must be careful not to translate the Greek, but rather the Hebrew behind it.
No, when one understands how to translate the aorist tense-form there is no confusion. It becomes a question of the best way to translate in its context.
Now, quit deflecting and show me and others here how I was 'hostile' and 'making false accusations'. You’ve made a serious charge against me, and it’s on you to substantiate or retract it.
Copy and paste from above:
I don't understand the hostility and false accusations. I'll take some time to assess your claims, and if they turn out to be accurate, I'll point it out to the authors. I'm sure they would welcome an opportunity to learn and correct their understanding of the Greek. They may even issue a correction in the next edition of their book. Any academic worth his salt would behave this way. I think you need some time to cool down and I need some time to fully assess your claims.
Do you have any response to the 7:21 PM comment? I'd like to know if you deem this disinformation and wild imaginings, too. If so maybe another email to another author is in order.
Until I have anything further to substantively engage with I will leave this discussion here.
https://www.jerusalemperspective.com/author/david-bivin/
His scholarly background.
https://www.jerusalemperspective.com/6607/
What he says about his knowledge of Greek.
I think he'd be amenable to an email. He doesn't seem too egotistical in the page where he says a little bit about his knowledge of Greek.
I'm not going to waste his time until I'm sure I precisely understand your claim, Craig. I'll be sure to credit you, and give him a link to your blog and this blog, so that I don't plagiarize your words.
Since you have taken a "my way or the highway" approach with our discussion, it will be necessary for me to spend some time doing my own research. I would have, anyway, but more discussion with you, in a more scholarly and friendly spirit, would have been helpful. Oh, well.
Anon 9:37 AM,
What part of "count me out" do you not understand?
In other news;
Constance Cumby continues to be under the spell of wokism and Trump Derangment Syndrome, despite the fact that he is the target of hatred to the entire mainstream media, the entire Democrat Uniparty Left, and 99% of all college and university atheist professors. Far from being anything resembling a Hitler, Donald Trump is embattered and slandered on a continual daily basis from
the entire Hegalian/Voltairian/Marxist power bloc of his own country. Of course all these factors are the exact opposite of the Germany of the 1930's and Mt Hitler, who gained complete power over the entire News and State Media of his day. Ms Cumby seems to have lost her mooring, which she seemed to have in years past. She has become Woke, can't stop snarling about Mr Trump, who was the best President to ever sit in the Oval Office in her lifetime.
Pfizer Sued by Texas AG Paxton Over COVID Vaccine Claims
Pfizer has been sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who on Thursday accused the drugmaker of misrepresenting the efficacy of its widely-used COVID-19 vaccine.
In a complaint filed in a Lubbock County state court, Paxton said it was misleading for Pfizer to claim its vaccine was 95% effective because it offered a "relative risk reduction" for people to who took it.
Paxton said the claim was based on only two months of clinical trial data, and vaccine recipients' "absolute risk reduction" showed that the vaccine was just 0.85% effective.
He also said the pandemic got worse even after people started taking the vaccine, developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.
"Pfizer intentionally misrepresented the efficacy of its COVID-19 vaccine and censored persons who threatened to disseminate the truth in order to facilitate fast adoption of the product and expand its commercial opportunity," the complaint said.
The lawsuit seeks to stop New York-based Pfizer from making alleged false claims and silencing "truthful speech" about its vaccine, and more than $10 million in fines for violating a Texas law protecting consumers from deceptive marketing.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/texas-ag-pfizer/2023/11/30/id/1144324/?
Craig What exactly is your formal educational background, and did that include formal studies in Greek and Hebrew? Please enumerate.
Anon 12:29 PM,
I've stated here numerous times that I have no formal background in Koine Greek. It's all been self-study. And, as I've noted above, I know NO Hebrew.
If you want to call into question my knowledge of Koine Greek, or the aorist specifically, then by all means, show me where I'm wrong. You could begin, say, by reading this particular article:
ERRANT AORIST INTERPRETERS
Charles R. Smith
Then you could read Stagg's "The Abused Aorist".
Then, if you'd like you could read through my blog article on Koine Greek verbal aspect and provide critique:
A Somewhat Brief Explanation of Verbal Aspect Theory as it Pertains to Koine (NT) Greek, with Focus on Temporal Reference (pt 1)
My discussion on the aorist tense-form is in part 2 here:
A Somewhat Brief Explanation of Verbal Aspect Theory as it Pertains to Koine (NT) Greek, with Focus on Temporal Reference (pt 2)
Some really, really smart people talked Donny into giving away the farm
TRUMP HANDS OVER THE UNITED STATES TO F E M A !!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=edJcNxx0jW8
The great populous president ceded power to those who want to destroy the Populous IOW you exterminate the Third World by exterminating the First
PS: apologies to Alex Jones
10:35 AM
Nail. On. Head. Discernment.
Thank you.
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