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*Chris, I truly appreciate your professionalism, journalistic input on so many subjects the media at large won't even touch. I also son of a reverential spiritual father, share your call to a higher authority that resides deep in the soul. In form of expression, the gift's are well planted and that makes me a follower, of all people of conscience, you're no exception. If a Lollard follower or devotee, certainly you reform from the status of broken opinions. Also your guest deserve the same respect, as they disown the self as in selfishness, and give a bird eye view on varied topics not suitable for immature audience. What come together at the table is a refreshing banquet of fact finding and truth telling...couldn't ask for more.
God Almighty bless, and guide the senses.
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Saturday, August 20, 2022
Ordain
I have stopped agreeing the day true light stepped into my soul, this has been the guiding and sobering experience with its many uncharted courses, and mind bending expose. I have disowned the self as in selfishness in order to remain that friction to the opposing tents. The task has been no easy journey, but there is no price for the freedom is has bestowed. No tunnel vision has ever ruled, and my words of action... a testimony to countless witnesses of such ordination.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2022
America's Icon
Explosion damages ‘American Stonehenge’
The mysterious and controversial granite monument in rural Georgia was a tourist attraction
A mystery-shrouded monument in the US state of Georgia was severely damaged in an explosion early on Wednesday. It was later demolished entirely, for safety reasons.
State and local authorities are investigating the incident as a bombing. The granite Georgia Guidestones were built in 1980 and featured messages for humanity in eight languages with a dedication to the “Age of Reason.”
“The preliminary information indicates that unknown individuals detonated an explosive device at around 4:00 a.m. on Wednesday, July 6th,” the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement, adding that authorities in Elbert County asked for its assistance with the investigation. The site is currently cordoned off until bomb disposal technicians can examine it.
One of the wings of the monument has been “completely destroyed” and the capstone damaged, according to Christopher Kubas, executive vice president of the Elberton Granite Association.
Helicopter
footage taken by the Greenville, South Carolina-based WYFF-TV shows one
of the four vertical pillars in pieces on the ground, with two major
chunks missing from the horizontal slab on top of the monument.
“I am sad for the US and for the world,” said Kubas, pointing out that the monument was a major tourist attraction, with up to 20,000 people coming to visit every year.
While the messages inscribed on the monument were considered controversial by some, Kubas said they may have been meant for some future generations, “after maybe a cataclysmic event,” to avoid making the same mistakes as their ancestors.
Video
released by the GBI on Wednesday evening show a silver sedan
approaching the monument, and the moment of the explosion. No suspects
have been identified yet.
"For safety reasons, the structure has been completely demolished," the GBI said on Wednesday evening.
Envisioned as the US version of the famous Stonehenge megalith in England, the Georgia Guidestones were carved out of local granite in 1979 and unveiled in 1980. The mystery man who commissioned the monument, who used the pseudonym Robert C. Christian, said he represented “a small group of loyal Americans,” and paid top dollar for the makers to follow his very specific plans.
The structure is located about 90 miles (140 km) east of the city of Atlanta, at an elevation of 750 feet (230m) above sea level. It was exactly 19 feet 3 inches (5.87m) tall and incorporated 107 metric tons of granite.
“Let these be guidestones to an Age of Reason,”
said a smaller plaque erected off to the side. On the pillars
themselves, ten messages were carved in eight languages – English,
Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. It was
not clear which languages were on the pillar that was destroyed.
The messages themselves have attracted controversy over the years. The pillars posited that the human population should not exceed 500 million for “perpetual balance with nature” and urged reproduction to be guided “wisely — improving fitness and diversity.” One new living language should unite all humanity, while all things should be ruled “with tempered reason” and personal rights should be balanced with “social duties,” among other exhortations.
Critics have accused the monument of promoting “satanism” and anti-Christian values. One of the Republican candidates in the Georgia gubernatorial primaries in May advocated for its demolition as part of her platform. She ended up with less than 4% of the vote.
The
Guidestones have been defaced with graffiti and paint twice before, in
2008 and 2014. After the 2014 incident, the Granite Association put up
surveillance cameras around the site.
A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles was engraved on the Georgia Guidestones[20] in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages were: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, and Russian.
- Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
- Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
- Unite humanity with a living new language.
- Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
- Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
- Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
- Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
- Balance personal rights with social duties.
- Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
- Be not a cancer on the Earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
Friday, June 10, 2022
Pure Energy fine tuned
The
universal/universe is constantly expanding, always
renewing,incredibility awesome, fear inspiring, as for the Holy spirit,
the life source is never stagnant, if a tiny faith can move mountains,
image what it can accomplish at it's best ? You devout seeker's praise
Him in his majestic and grandeur, exploit out his intimacy, make it
personal, in all revelations. From a stand still and deep freeze, all
these commotions, mind bending schemes, invokes inspiration at the core,
center nerve of acute feelings.
"The black hole and the womb, are certainly identical." The gravitational pulls massive amount of stars and space matter. The womb in the same identical function pulls life giving energy, in turn a continuous renewal of life. These physical feats of phenomenal intrigues can only excite greater emotion to the poet, and enhance the wisdom to the philosopher. I pen these words, not yet spoken and if so I have not come against them in any academic literature. "The miracle of life in the womb, The miracle of light (infinite energy) in the celestial cosmos"."The black hole and the womb, are certainly identical."
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JOB
38 Then God/YHWH answered Job out of the windstorm:
2 “Who is this who is obscuring my counsel
And speaking without knowledge?
3 Brace yourself, please, like a man;
I will question you, and you inform me.
4 Where were you when I founded the earth?
Tell me, if you think you understand.
5 Who set its measurements, in case you know,
Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 Into what were its pedestals sunk,
Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 When the morning stars joyfully cried out together,
And all the sons of God* began shouting in applause?
8 And who barricaded the sea behind doors
When it burst out from the womb,
9 When I clothed it with clouds
And wrapped* it in thick gloom,
10 When I established my limit for it
And put its bars and doors in place,
11 And I said, ‘You may come this far, and no farther;
Here is where your proud waves will stop’?
12 Have you ever* commanded the morning
Or made the dawn know its place,
13 To take hold of the ends of the earth
And to shake the wicked out of it?
14 It is transformed like clay under a seal,
And its features stand out like those of a garment.
15 But the light of the wicked is held back from them,
And their uplifted arm is broken.
16 Have you gone down to the sources of the sea
Or explored the deep waters?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?*
18 Have you understood the vast expanse of the earth?
Tell me, if you know all of this
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Love of wisdom
If I embrace wisdom and stupidity, at the end both will merge/greet, but I prefer the highest wisdom, that which man have little access, and few are called. Through love and conscience I summons the highest authority in heavens, that which is personal.
I pity the lesser for their devotional absences, lacking desire, countless excuses and detachment from a spirit of sacrifice.
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expressing the self freely is not an easy task, but being free is !
when there are options there are ways, when there are ways one defeats both, the excuses and the attachments to the cause.
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Poetry is the science of feelings, without the feelings there is no science.
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Never make a lady jealous even by error,
her zeal will burn,
some are pure fire,
some are purely devotional,
some benevolent as mothers,
some painful as thorns,
others possessive as caretakers.
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I
believe more in a resurrection, more then I belief I'm still alive
(material)...a martyr's wish...a martyr's call. This energy is yours,
there is nothing called self, that resides here in this contraption of
flesh and bones, I yearn for your presence. Design a scheme for us, and
I will blindly follow.
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Apostolic Succession
Apostolic Succession
Many links have been removed and information suppressed.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Impotent world police (UN) charter
The Impotent World police(UN) Charter
The
bronze sculpture is
a reduced version of Vuchetich’s most famous work which was given
by Krushchev to the United Nations in 1959 as a gesture of peace.
It remains there today in the North Garden at the UN headquarters in
New York overlooking the East River. Along the statue reads, this
prophetic scripture from the book of Isaiah 2:4 ---"He will settle
disputes among the nations and provide arbitration for
many peoples. They will turn their swords into plows and their spears
into pruning knives. Nations will not take up the sword against other
nations, and they will never again train for war." (Holman Christian
Standard Bible)
"Why it (NATO) still exists in modern times, is just not clear. It is to a significant extent a throwback to the times of the Cold War," Putin said.
"I
have always believed that NATO is a Cold War atavism. It was set up at a
time, when there was a bipolar system in international relations.
Today, that situation has changed therefore, it is hard to understand or
justify why an organization such as NATO should be existing today,” the
president added.
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| UN Relic Symbol
World Government—Is the United Nations the Answer?
IN
RECENT years the United Nations has won renewed confidence and
admiration in the world. To millions the abbreviation “UN” evokes heroic
images: troops in blue berets bravely rushing to the world’s trouble
spots to establish peace, relief workers bringing food to the starving
refugees of Africa, and dedicated men and women working unselfishly to
establish a new world order.
According
to a nine-month investigation undertaken by The Washington Post, as
reported in the International Herald Tribune, the reality behind the
image is “an enormous, largely uncontrolled bureaucracy, subject to
abuses and deficiencies that impair its effectiveness.” The study, based
on thousands of pages of documents and interviews with current and
former UN officials, revealed the following picture.
Aid
to Africa: The UN has poured billions of dollars of badly needed aid
into Africa, a continent wracked by war, famine, poverty, and disease.
Countless lives have been saved.
Yet,
thousands of lives and millions of dollars have also been lost because
of mismanagement, negligence, and, at times, corruption. The UN has
pumped relief aid into famine-stricken Somalia, where many people have
been dying each day. But Aryeh Neier, executive director of the Human
Rights Watch, is quoted in the Tribune as saying: “The United Nations
and its various organizations have been so monstrously negligent and
incompetent that they have played almost no role at all in alleviating
Somalia’s misery.”
The
report also charged that some UN officials have been implicated in
diversions of food aid, embezzlement of humanitarian assistance,
fraudulent procurement, black-marketing, and currency-exchange
manipulation. UN investigators found evidence of such fraud in no fewer
than seven African countries.
#Worldpeace
The chief in peace leads the procession claiming 2018...the year of peace. It's not the Pope this time making such bold statement, it's the Chief of the UN. As you can see both heads are confused of who is the symbolic deity of globe peace. The symbolic gesture is an ongoing symbiotic psychosis, in which neither one can separate from the events.
Peacekeeping:
Keeping the peace is a primary goal of the UN, though in the years
since its founding in 1945, there have been over a hundred major
conflicts, and 20 million people have been killed in war. Since 1987,
however, the UN has embarked upon 13 peacekeeping operations, as many as
in its entire history before then.
Prominent former head of State gives frightening details of possible act III scenerio. While some might argue that the cost of these operations is preferable to the terrible price of war, many complain that things have gone too far. For example, peacekeeping operations drag on for decades, eating up hundreds of millions of dollars while negotiations remain deadlocked. The UN peacekeeping mission in Cambodia allocates more than $1 million for TV sets and VCRs for the troops and another $600,000 for magazine and newspaper subscriptions. Reform: There are widespread cries for reform within the UN, but opinions vary as to what needs to be reformed. Developing countries are calling for a greater voice in the decision-making process and would like to expand economic and social programs. Industrialized nations want to cut back on these programs and end corruption, mismanagement, and waste.
Said a senior UN official: “To really reform, you have to do something that is absolutely undo-able in
a bureaucracy: You have to clean the place out. To do something
meaningful, you have to scrape away 45 years of barnacles, and that’s a
lot of barnacles.”
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Stauro/Crux simplex/cross
Let's together investigate the real history of this occult symbol...and why is still being used.
DID JESUS REALLY DIE ON A CROSS?
+Kimberly Shoemaker
“THE cross,” says one encyclopedia, “is the most familiar symbol of Christianity.” Many religious paintings and works of art depict Jesus nailed to a cross. Why is this symbol so widespread in Christendom? Did Jesus really die on a cross?
Many would point to the Bible for the answer. For example, according to the King James Version, at the time of Jesus’ execution, onlookers made fun of Jesus and challenged him to “come down from the cross.” (Matthew 27:40, 42) Many other Bible translations read similarly. Today’s English Version says of Simon from Cyrene: “The soldiers forced him to carry Jesus’ cross.” (Mark 15:21) In these verses, the word “cross” is translated from the Greek word stauros′. Is there a solid basis for such a translation? What is the meaning of that original word? Was It a Cross?
DID JESUS REALLY DIE ON A CROSS?
“THE cross,” says one encyclopedia, “is the most familiar symbol of Christianity.” Many religious paintings and works of art depict Jesus nailed to a cross. Why is this symbol so widespread in Christendom? Did Jesus really die on a cross?
Many would point to the Bible for the answer. For example, according to the King James Version, at the time of Jesus’ execution, onlookers made fun of Jesus and challenged him to “come down from the cross.” (Matthew 27:40, 42) Many other Bible translations read similarly. Today’s English Version says of Simon from Cyrene: “The soldiers forced him to carry Jesus’ cross.” (Mark 15:21) In these verses, the word “cross” is translated from the Greek word stauros′. Is there a solid basis for such a translation? What is the meaning of that original word? Was It a Cross?
According
to Greek scholar W. E. Vine, stauros′ “denotes, primarily, an upright
pale or stake. On such malefactors were nailed for execution. Both the
noun and the verb stauroō, to fasten to a stake or pale, are originally
to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two beamed cross.”
+Gunnar Samuelsson
The Imperial Bible-Dictionary says that the word stauros′ “properly signified a stake, an upright pole, or piece of paling, on which anything might be hung, or which might be used in impaling a piece of ground.” The dictionary continues: “Even amongst the Romans the crux (Latin, from which our cross is derived) appears to have been originally an upright pole.” Thus, it is not surprising that The Catholic Encyclopedia states: “Certain it is, at any rate, that the cross originally consisted of a simple vertical pole, sharpened at its upper end.”
There is another Greek word, xy′lon, that Bible writers used to describe the instrument of Jesus’ execution. A Critical Lexicon and Concordance to the English and Greek New Testament defines xy′lon as “a piece of timber, a wooden stake.” It goes on to say that like stauros′, xy′lon “was simply an upright pale or stake to which the Romans nailed those who were thus said to be crucified.”
In line with this, we note that the King James Version reads at Acts 5:30: “The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree [xy′lon].” Other versions, though rendering stauros′ as “cross,” also translate xy′lon as “tree.” At Acts 13:29, The Jerusalem Bible says of Jesus: “When they had carried out everything that scripture foretells about him they took him down from the tree [xy′lon] and buried him.”
In view of the basic meaning of the Greek words stauros′ and xy′lon, the Critical Lexicon and Concordance, quoted above, observes: “Both words disagree with the modern idea of a cross, with which we have become familiarised by pictures.” In other words, what the Gospel writers described using the word stauros′ was nothing like what people today call a cross. Appropriately, therefore, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures uses the expression “torture stake” at Matthew 27:40-42 and in other places where the word stauros′ appears. Similarly, the Complete Jewish Bible uses the expression “execution stake.”
Origin of the Cross
If the Bible does not really say that Jesus was executed on a cross, then why do all the churches that claim to teach and follow the Bible—Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox—adorn their buildings with the cross and use it as a symbol of their faith? How did the cross come to be such a popular symbol?
The answer is that the cross is venerated not only by churchgoers who claim to follow the Bible but also by people far removed from the Bible and whose worship far pre-dates that of “Christian” churches. Numerous religious reference works acknowledge that the use of crosses in various shapes and forms goes back to remote periods of human civilization. For example, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and depictions of their gods and goddesses often show a cross in the shape of a T with a circle at the top. It is called the ansate, or handle-shaped, cross and is thought to be a symbol of life. In time, this form of the cross was adopted and used extensively by the Coptic Church and others.
According to The Catholic Encyclopedia, “the primitive form of the cross seems to have been that of the so-called ‘gamma’ cross (crux gammata), better known to Orientalists and students of prehistoric archæology by its Sanskrit name, swastika.” This sign was widely used among Hindus in India and Buddhists throughout Asia and is still seen in decorations and ornaments in those areas.
It is not known exactly when the cross was adopted as a “Christian” symbol. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words states: “By the middle of the 3rd cent. A.D. the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrines of the Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system pagans were received into the churches apart from regeneration by faith, and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols,” including the cross.
Some writers point to the claim by the sun-god worshipper Constantine that in 312 C.E., while on one of his military campaigns, he had a vision of a cross superimposed on the sun along with the motto in Latin “in hoc vince” (by this conquer). Some time later, a “Christian” sign was emblazoned on the standards, shields, and armor of his army. (Pictured at left.) Constantine purportedly converted to Christianity, though he was not baptized until 25 years later on his deathbed. His motive was questioned by some. “He acted rather as if he were converting Christianity into what he thought most likely to be accepted by his subjects as a catholic [universal] religion, than as if he had been converted to the teachings of Jesus the Nazarene,” says the book The
Non-Christian Cross.
Since then, crosses of many forms and shapes have come into use. For example, The Illustrated Bible Dictionary tells us that what is called St. Anthony’s cross “was shaped like a capital T, thought by some to be derived from the symbol of the [Babylonian] god Tammuz, the letter tau.” There was also the St. Andrew’s cross, which is in the shape of the letter X, and the familiar two-beamed cross with the crossbar lowered. This latter type, called the Latin cross, is erroneously “held by tradition to be the shape of the cross on which our Lord died.”
What First-Century Christians Believed
The Bible shows that in the first century, many who heard Jesus became believers and accepted the redeeming value of his sacrificial death. After the apostle Paul preached to the Jews in Corinth, proving that Jesus is the Christ, says the Bible, “Crispus the presiding officer of the synagogue became a believer in the Lord, and so did all his household. And many of the Corinthians that heard began to believe and be baptized.” (Acts 18:5-8) Instead of introducing some religious symbol or image into their worship, Paul instructed his fellow Christians to “flee from idolatry” and from any other practice drawn from pagan worship.—1 Corinthians 10:14.
Historians and researchers have found no evidence to validate the use of the cross among the early Christians. Interestingly, the book History of the Cross quotes one late 17th-century writer who asked: “Can it be pleasing to the blessed Jesus to behold His disciples glorying in the image of that instrument of capital punishment on which He [supposedly] patiently and innocently suffered, despising the shame?” How would you answer?
Worship acceptable to God does not require objects or images. “What agreement does God’s temple have with idols?” Paul asked. (2 Corinthians 6:14-16) Nowhere do the Scriptures suggest that a Christian’s worship should include the use of a likeness of the instrument used to impale Jesus.—Compare Matthew 15:3; Mark 7:13.
What, then, is the identifying mark of true Christians? Not the cross or any other symbol, but love. Jesus told his followers: “I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.”—John 13:34, 35.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
+Gunnar Samuelsson
The Imperial Bible-Dictionary says that the word stauros′ “properly signified a stake, an upright pole, or piece of paling, on which anything might be hung, or which might be used in impaling a piece of ground.” The dictionary continues: “Even amongst the Romans the crux (Latin, from which our cross is derived) appears to have been originally an upright pole.” Thus, it is not surprising that The Catholic Encyclopedia states: “Certain it is, at any rate, that the cross originally consisted of a simple vertical pole, sharpened at its upper end.”
There is another Greek word, xy′lon, that Bible writers used to describe the instrument of Jesus’ execution. A Critical Lexicon and Concordance to the English and Greek New Testament defines xy′lon as “a piece of timber, a wooden stake.” It goes on to say that like stauros′, xy′lon “was simply an upright pale or stake to which the Romans nailed those who were thus said to be crucified.”
In line with this, we note that the King James Version reads at Acts 5:30: “The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree [xy′lon].” Other versions, though rendering stauros′ as “cross,” also translate xy′lon as “tree.” At Acts 13:29, The Jerusalem Bible says of Jesus: “When they had carried out everything that scripture foretells about him they took him down from the tree [xy′lon] and buried him.”
In view of the basic meaning of the Greek words stauros′ and xy′lon, the Critical Lexicon and Concordance, quoted above, observes: “Both words disagree with the modern idea of a cross, with which we have become familiarised by pictures.” In other words, what the Gospel writers described using the word stauros′ was nothing like what people today call a cross. Appropriately, therefore, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures uses the expression “torture stake” at Matthew 27:40-42 and in other places where the word stauros′ appears. Similarly, the Complete Jewish Bible uses the expression “execution stake.”
Origin of the Cross
If the Bible does not really say that Jesus was executed on a cross, then why do all the churches that claim to teach and follow the Bible—Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox—adorn their buildings with the cross and use it as a symbol of their faith? How did the cross come to be such a popular symbol?
The answer is that the cross is venerated not only by churchgoers who claim to follow the Bible but also by people far removed from the Bible and whose worship far pre-dates that of “Christian” churches. Numerous religious reference works acknowledge that the use of crosses in various shapes and forms goes back to remote periods of human civilization. For example, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and depictions of their gods and goddesses often show a cross in the shape of a T with a circle at the top. It is called the ansate, or handle-shaped, cross and is thought to be a symbol of life. In time, this form of the cross was adopted and used extensively by the Coptic Church and others.
According to The Catholic Encyclopedia, “the primitive form of the cross seems to have been that of the so-called ‘gamma’ cross (crux gammata), better known to Orientalists and students of prehistoric archæology by its Sanskrit name, swastika.” This sign was widely used among Hindus in India and Buddhists throughout Asia and is still seen in decorations and ornaments in those areas.
It is not known exactly when the cross was adopted as a “Christian” symbol. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words states: “By the middle of the 3rd cent. A.D. the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrines of the Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system pagans were received into the churches apart from regeneration by faith, and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols,” including the cross.
Some writers point to the claim by the sun-god worshipper Constantine that in 312 C.E., while on one of his military campaigns, he had a vision of a cross superimposed on the sun along with the motto in Latin “in hoc vince” (by this conquer). Some time later, a “Christian” sign was emblazoned on the standards, shields, and armor of his army. (Pictured at left.) Constantine purportedly converted to Christianity, though he was not baptized until 25 years later on his deathbed. His motive was questioned by some. “He acted rather as if he were converting Christianity into what he thought most likely to be accepted by his subjects as a catholic [universal] religion, than as if he had been converted to the teachings of Jesus the Nazarene,” says the book The
Non-Christian Cross.
Since then, crosses of many forms and shapes have come into use. For example, The Illustrated Bible Dictionary tells us that what is called St. Anthony’s cross “was shaped like a capital T, thought by some to be derived from the symbol of the [Babylonian] god Tammuz, the letter tau.” There was also the St. Andrew’s cross, which is in the shape of the letter X, and the familiar two-beamed cross with the crossbar lowered. This latter type, called the Latin cross, is erroneously “held by tradition to be the shape of the cross on which our Lord died.”
What First-Century Christians Believed
The Bible shows that in the first century, many who heard Jesus became believers and accepted the redeeming value of his sacrificial death. After the apostle Paul preached to the Jews in Corinth, proving that Jesus is the Christ, says the Bible, “Crispus the presiding officer of the synagogue became a believer in the Lord, and so did all his household. And many of the Corinthians that heard began to believe and be baptized.” (Acts 18:5-8) Instead of introducing some religious symbol or image into their worship, Paul instructed his fellow Christians to “flee from idolatry” and from any other practice drawn from pagan worship.—1 Corinthians 10:14.
Historians and researchers have found no evidence to validate the use of the cross among the early Christians. Interestingly, the book History of the Cross quotes one late 17th-century writer who asked: “Can it be pleasing to the blessed Jesus to behold His disciples glorying in the image of that instrument of capital punishment on which He [supposedly] patiently and innocently suffered, despising the shame?” How would you answer?
Worship acceptable to God does not require objects or images. “What agreement does God’s temple have with idols?” Paul asked. (2 Corinthians 6:14-16) Nowhere do the Scriptures suggest that a Christian’s worship should include the use of a likeness of the instrument used to impale Jesus.—Compare Matthew 15:3; Mark 7:13.
What, then, is the identifying mark of true Christians? Not the cross or any other symbol, but love. Jesus told his followers: “I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.”—John 13:34, 35.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Monday, May 16, 2022
Clipped wings
The bird's wings have been clipped and made to walk grass, from the North to the East two binary creatures have taken center stage...it won't be long before a great tribulation ensues the whole humanity, this much I know. I'm under great expectation, that this maybe what the global family needs a new world coming into view and its not man-made.
If the Almighty God see's it fit, let your millennial reign usher forth it's glad tidings's. Let your Divine will restore the lost paradise, and the King Jesus Christ, the battle of Armageddon. We gladly pray your Kingdom come, today...tomorrow...or when it's proper in times corridor.
The bird's nest has been molested and comfort zone (exceptionalism) challenged...
The flightless bird dilemma are felt in multiples fronts at home and abroad, it has become greater and more pronounced, the shifting of the axis-the others (creatures of prey) swiftly rebounded and is now worth more than it was even prior to the self-impose conflict. It can no longer shelter it's offspring under its wings, and space, time, the portals corridor closing in on that high privileged. It's offspring's in dire need of scraps, while it's reserves disappears in the black hole of change and challenges.
The flightless bird dilemma are felt in multiples fronts at home and abroad, it has become greater and more pronounced, the shifting of the axis-the others (creatures of prey) swiftly rebounded and is now worth more than it was even prior to the self-impose conflict. It can no longer shelter it's offspring under its wings, and space, time, the portals corridor closing in on that high privileged. It's offspring's in dire need of scraps, while it's reserves disappears in the black hole of change and challenges.
From this day forth, one may infer that a great world conflict has started, how far it will prolong, I have the slightest clue. I only hope and wish humanity, the global family can wake and join the chorus of one world Government (Kingdom) through Jesus Christ.
keep your eyes on prize and stay on mission...
For
the first time in modern history the East can be on equal terms with
the West, as the global dominance of the US and its allies comes to an
end, "former British prime minister Tony Blair" has said.
What
he is really saying is that the "New World Order" headed by the
Anglo-system and it's sister nations is no longer achievable. He is not
the only former head of state to make this statement...back in 1979
another head of state at the UN head quarters. spoke about a New World
Order, speculation, making jokes about its concepts.
Now
as the wheel in the sky turns brace yourself, (Nations) of the World
and its people, for greater moments are about to unleash and it never
looked promising.
"Keep your eyes on the prize and stay on mission!
Guided Energies
Whether one realize it or not, being pick out of the masses, from the vast numbers of the global population is an exceptional wake-up call. The Almighty Divine is pure energy...we in turn are also energy. From a finger nail to a single strand of hair follicle. With that said, the selection is not by chance, the higher power to which we were created seeks out what belongs to it. Is like frequencies in the stock pile missing within itself, in order to remain fine-tuned what it attracts is in harmony with superlative Divine guidance.
In other words you are the missing link, I'm speaking about a heavenly father, an eternal spiritual being, an ancient King...with attributes similar to the potter's vessel. The attributes are very well defined in form of expression...LOVE, COMPASSION,KINDNESS,PATIENCE,JOY,PEACE,JUSTICE and a host of others which I fall short.
Yet your frequencies, vibrations and fine tuning create bridges, channel's to which their consistency correlate with those calls. Now through a selection, their is an invitation...I won't go into scriptures, my audience are above average, if not they would have abandon me long ago.
His hand is stretched open, his desire well manifested, this power is yearning to reunited with those outer bands of his own energy (Core) power plant. The King shall not be denied, the Holy spirit shall not be made contrite, and if some or many stumble crossing the bridge, remember your call !
Let your fight not be in vain, be self evident that together you will overcome, the greatest battles yet to come, at the end the outer bands shall be draft back to their original place and we shall join those superlative energies.
RGB
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Concept
How I loved the girl of my concept,
How she vanishes in thin air,
The countless bridges, inroad, markers, I misplaced,
The concept all suitor’s hold so dear,
The concept foments ideals in a alienated chase of never ending want,
Alienated and far from truth,
The ideals that burn the foreign chase,
The suitor’s last wish,
She weaves and mends a host of broken dreams,
If dreaming means counterfeiting reality I, have done so to perfection,
My guest a stalking shadow, tossed in four directions,
If there is such thing, I shall find it.
RGB
Sunday, April 24, 2022
My gratitude
- At times, our own light goes out and it is rekindled by a spark from another person...
- Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ...
- Gratitude turns what we have into enough. ...
- Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness.
There are times expressing my deepest affections consumes me, thanks to all who have visited and share this blog. It has received a charitable amount of attention, but I just wish those inquisitive minds would exchange a few words and comments. The social web has some very great talents, and thou my writings share a common trend, I shrink not in expressing freely...and it should not be taken on a personal basis. It is me to you and vise verse, if I could only engage that audience.
My gratitude to all the nations/countries who made this blog a place to reflect,reason and carrying on.
USA: Much love to you !
Israel: Much love to you !
Ukraine: Much love to you !
Russia: Certainly much love to you !
Brazil: Much love to you !
United Kingdom: Much love to you !
France: Much love to you !
China: Much love to you !
Canada: Much love to you !
Germany : Much love to you !
Indonesia : Much love to you ! You have been very Generous ! Thank you, the people are to kind for the better.
Sweden: Much love to you !
Japan: Much love to you !
Norway: Much love to you !
Ireland: Much love to you !
Philippines: Much love to you !
Netherlands: Much love to you !
Puerto Rico: Much love to you !
Just to mention a few, but the list is very charitable, I encourage all to continue sharing and dialogue and if for any reason one hits the right notes, do message me...we can work something out. I read them at public gatherings, looking forward to do some more gigs in New York, the poets cafe, and here in Memphis, Nashville, TN.
Rafael G Gonzalez
Friday, April 22, 2022
Jeff Foster
Very powerful thoughts, few can reach such grandeur and invite, to superlative events only the heart can weave.
RGB
I GIVE MYSELF TO THE SILENCE
I sink so deeply into my own Being.
I luxuriate in it.
I bathe in my own Vastness.
I taste my own taste. I look through my own eyes, am amazed at what I see and cannot see. I inhale through my nostrils the living day, its sweet and surprising scents and new aromas.
I watch in astonishment as feelings move through my body, filling my sweet and vulnerable nervous system. Joy, sorrow, clarity and confusion, they are all beloved to me. Waves of the most profound doubt, and such certainties too! Anger and fear, shame and pride, I watch them all and bless them all and laugh and cry as they move through.
As I walk through the city I rest here in myself, I rest in my own heart, I fall ever more deeply into my own Being. I am profoundly alone and profoundly connected to all of life.
I sense death all around me, sense the rotting and disintegration of things, sense the constant falling-away of form and the passing of dreams. The loss, the disappointments, the shattered hopes and the smashed futures! I celebrate the darkness and soften into it. I let the night touch me at my very core. I take the night as my lover.
I weep with the broken hearted ones, I cry to the heavens with those who have been violated, shamed, neglected, battered by the world. I celebrate the successes of men and women, and I am here by their side when they fall.
I am alone and I cannot separate myself from humanity.
I am nothing and I penetrate all things with love and curiosity.
I breathe in the paradox of my existence, I exhale contradiction and dissonance, my entire Being vibrates with infinite mystery, and I am happy in myself.
Yes, my own Being is the source of my very deepest happiness.
If this is my last day, if this is my final walk through these streets, let me pass with only gratitude on my lips, and only love in my heart, and only child-like wonder saturating my vulnerable self.
I give myself to the silence.
- Jeff Foster
Sunday, April 3, 2022
IQ Test
Just wanted to tell the audience a little about myself...besides my little bio...Special thanks to all whom have frequent this blog...Indonesia much love, you are exceptional.
In a separate post I tell it like it is..Called "gratitude" thou the silence stimulates me :}
What is an exceptionally high IQ?
A Breakdown of IQ Scores...
The average score on an IQ test is 100
115 to 129: Above average or bright.
130 to 144: Moderately gifted.
145 to 159: Highly gifted.
160 to 179: Exceptionally gifted or bright
And then those who are Genius....
I have taken three IQ test in three different states, In Jersey : Above Average...that was after being discharged from the armed forces.
In Florida For Job screening, The same.
And lastly in Tennessee: That score was exceptional gifted or bright...that score is the highest.
Thou I have bumped my head more then the average :} Physically
I don't like boasting, as most gifted child...but the score tells how one master's information and process it. Not how one uses it...if that means nothing to you !
Hong Kong – Average IQ of 107...Is that why my blog gets so many hits ? :}
Hong Kong – Average IQ of 107...Is that why my blog gets so many hits ? :}
China
has the spirit of innovation, none have ever contribute so much and
thou Indonesia is not in the above category, they have shown lot of love
in our blog and Germany.
I
was under the impress that the USA would place highest...but when a
population is being genetically modified through tinted foods, I was
wrong.
Puerto Rico with a very small population and not the list above...look how many work for NASA....https://en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_Puerto_Ricans_in_the...
WOW :}>}
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