I think this was previously published.
You notice how Trump seems to be turning from his original; people and ideas and now is heading in a new direction. Could be, that someone on the inside has got very close to him, closer than Musk was, and is now bending Trumps ear and steering him in this new, probably toxic, direction.
When this sort of thing happens, nothing you can say to Trump will change Trumps mind, because when people seduce us and groom us, they are so convincingly we follow them with full trust and late on shocked at how gullible we were, we finally see that persons true colours.
Remember this?
Watching: That Thing You Do!
Get on over to Orphans Aid and make a donation – I just donated for children healthcare.
Childhood abuse and trauma makes us procrastinate and put things off, over and over again we should act but we are too scared to do even what we know that we must do. As we grow we have a distinct process that we take to mature, become courageous, and be confident – if there is an interruption to this growth we don’t get the correct Life Education that we need, thus as an adult we lack confidence, we lack courage, we lack faith in ourselves, and we struggle to interpret or to understand our own instincts or gut feelings.
If we struggle as an adult an abuser/Narcissist can become a “friend”, say all the right things and spend years and years abusing us, and we suffer all over again as an adult.
This is why everyone says depart from the abusers, shake the dust off your feet walking out their doorway
and never go back.
The reason why we procrastinate and others don’t is because we were taught to be weak, cowards, to stumble over everything, gaslighting does that to us, it destroys ny chance of us becomeing the poerson who God made us to be. We can only become new, better, couragious and find love when we folow God’s guidance.
What i been doing with the Kitchen floor is steam cleaning it, then getting an old towel and rubbing the floor with it, just standing on the towel and sliding, and the floor dries much faster.
I used the carpet cleaner to clean the hall floor, and also two kitchen chairs.
I am currently doing an electrical refresher course. This video is not from the course.
I am trying to figure out if I can use the bus service to get to town, because tomorrow morning it is supposed to rain and probably next Monday. But on the page I found on the Internet it shows where the bus stops on Tainui Street, but no times, so I don’t know when it will stop. Also how is it paid these days? I have not been in a bus for many years, about a decade or so.
I have always disliked going by bus, all the people with colds, and me standing in the rain waiting for the bus especially if it is late, and then getting on the bus with all the people sneezing and stuff. Do we still have to use masks on buses?
I might work through the weekend, as it does not affect me half as much inside when I am outside, the only thing that gets on my nerves is the flashes of lightening, it can be very distracting, but it only happens like once every two hours or so.
Last weekend I was supposed to get the smashed up car again (PSL775) but Brett decided with the Insurance company to write it off, and he gave Anna the new car. I had to use the old car LCN90. What this all means is that the car that I was driving 2 weekends ago was a write-off and probably too dangerous or too damaged to drive – but it went well for me.
I remember handing over a Ute to Brett’s wife years ago when she was running the company Forest & General Security, and I got the white security car to drive back to Tokoroa, and she drove the Ute with her daughter back to Taupo. Colin told me afterwards that as soon as she drove off in the car the engine temperature went up very high and the Ute was misbehaving, and she tried to accuse me of mistreating the vehicle etc, but when I was driving it there was no issue at all.
I like to believe that since I am following God, God looked after the car, but once a bad person like her drove the car God stepped back and it became the wreck it really was.
Tony O’Connor’s Silent Night is beautiful.
2025-6-5 Acts 9:19 9:31
See how they persecuted him the same as Jesus and John.
9:19 And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.
9:20 And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.
9:21 But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?
9:22 But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
9:23 And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
9:24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
9:25 Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
9:26 And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
9:27 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
9:28 And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.
9:29 And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.
9:30 Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
9:31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
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I have not been to the doctors yet, I have been waiting for the rain to stop. Today its supposed to stop but everytime I go outside its raining. My bike does not have mudguards so I get soaked at the front and back when the road is wet.
Susan Law, Chief Executive (Council) wants me to partake in a survey on how the Council is doing.
Whats Uber Eats?
get food and groceries all on one app. But if the food or groceries costs such and such and uber (What does uber mean anyways?) gotta make money too, pay for gas, doesn’t that mean that its going to cost much more?
I was at a company about a week ago, and a car turned up and a young woman and young male gave food to the people living there. The people living there took the food but looked bewildered. As I was leaving a male turned up, and he asked if food was delivered there and I said yes, and told hi what room to go to and he said that the company (I forgot the name) that delivers it always gets his order wrong and they send it elsewhere. He said that they were Indian deliverers and probably didn’t understand English or the town, but I told him that they were two young white people.
This guy managed to get his order back, but he left some food for the people because he felt bad about taking the food off them that they had been given mistakenly.
When you got o the locl Dairies and as far as I know 4 Square, a fair amount of their products actually come from local supermarkets, and they buy the food as we do, take it back to the dairy and add a few dollars on each item to make a profit.
They do this, as one shop owner told me, because they cannot buy the huge bulk products that the supermarkets can and also get big discounts for buying so much at once. Buying off the supermarkets is a good price and they just add to that price, and this is why when you buy stuff at the dairies and small shops are so expensive.
My ex wife used to go to Tainui Dairy when I was working at Kinlieth, and they had shopping trolleys in the early 1990’s and she would get the weeks shopping (Unknown to me) there and basically clear our bank out buying super expensive food items. The owners loved her, and probably thought of her as a total idiot. I realised with time that I was doing long hours and overtime just so she could be lazy and waste the money, and also gamble away at her parents house. Sigh.
I have an old readers Digest true story about a family that had the biggest type of owls as pets. These owls would walk the little boy to school. One day one of the cats decided to kill one of the owls, and they found the owl the next morning perched on the dead cat. The owls would walk to the shop with the family, they would be dressed up by the children and so on, and there would be no prowlers around their house as the owls kept watch all night and attacked anyone who came near. Owls are remarkable creatures.
People who live by their heart help people, animals and are Empathy – People who are not this, they leave people to suffer, animals to die, and walk away when they are needed, they tell people that they care and love, but they really don’t.
Complete Faith is knowing that everything is going to be right regardless of how it looks, because God is not going to destroy His own plans for you and your life. Its no point God putting us through many years of changing, becoming a new Soul, changing our habits, character and so on, and then deserting us.
Its like I said about Jesus, God will not let the people who He has worked so hard for, and changed, die, because then God loses His best people.
And while you may doubt that you are one of God’s best people, if you have gone through many years suffering with God, for God, for your own improvement, and to be a better Soul, then you are one of God’s children here on Earth.
God holds you in His best interests and close to His heart because yu have lasted this long, and while you may doubt that you are strong, you are obviously strong because all the people around you failed, they fell, they became weak, they didn’t last like you have – and this means that you are very special and loved by God. It also means that God has something very wonderful and special in the future for you, because you have proven that you can be relied on, you have been tested and come through.
Your Faith should be in Yourself because you have come so far through all this suffering, and this means that you have proven yourself to yourself and to God. Have faith, because God has faith in you.
If you try to figure it out what God is going to do, you will use your limited human logic, common sense, and limited human knowledge, and by doing this all you will do is try to talk yourself out of following God and taking the risks.
This is because your limited human mind is limited by experiences and in wisdom and knowledge, thus you have no chance of coming up with God’s perfect plan to save the day.
God already knows how this plan will work, that is why God has gone to so much trouble inspiring you to follow Him. God knows ways that you don’t know and you don’t understand.
Assume that God will get you through this, Trust God, Follow God, God has this all under control, all will be well and all will work in your favour. Please stay faithful.
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Now that you now know, you can’t tell God that when you turned down His gift that you never knew.
And because you were not one of the first to expose the criminal activities you cannot expect God to help or protect you, when also with this you also knew.
When you have broken the law in a big way it is always easy to think that you got away with it because for years you did get away with it, but the thing is, is that if you are not the one to go to the Police about what you and others did that was wrong, then you will get convicted with all the others when it does get reported to the Police.
Its first in first served, and the rest get the hard punishments. The Police, as I understand it, will help those who break the news first, but after a few have sided with the Police and the first to go to the Police, the others can make claims of being victims or abused, but the Law is interested in convicting and setting an example, especially if the locals get very upset.
So, to avoid Prison I would think that you would either have to be the first to report the crime or very close behind the person who first reported the crime, because the rest will be examples and sent to Prison to satisfy the people that the Police worked quickly, efficiently, and did all necessary to remove a danger group of people from society.
Those at the top of the Police in that area will want to be seen as good at their job to the wider nation on national TV, radio and YouTube, and in order to do that they will be very efficient at what they do to keep the people, and especially children safe.
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Materialistic thinking confuses people as to what they think, feel and know.
Thus, it is hard to understand our own desires, body messages, emotional feelings and such when you have not been taught how to trust your emotions, heartfelt feelings, desires and such.
Females and males in the materialistic world like to think that they are sexually attracted to someone because of that persons looks, or even their materialistic belongings, titles and fame, these things “turn people on” but are not real turn-ons.
How do you know who you really want in your life and sexually?
Materialistic Carnal Thinking has it that if we desire what we see, or we are in the mood and need to be satisfied, or whatever, as long as we physically rub up on each other we will get aroused and finally both in the mood, physically we have sexual intercourse. The problem with this is that huge amounts of people end up scratching-the-itch with people who they don’t really know that they don’t really like, or are not genuinely sexually attracted to, until the sex is over and then its, “Ew, I’ll never do that will you again.”
Carnal Thinking is a desire to be satisfied with the tool that can satisfy us, thus she has the sexual organs etc, so all I need is a female body that is alive of course to satisfy myself, and then after the fire has gone out one realises that they made a big mistake. I have known of people who practically threw up afterwards, or ran out of the room disgusted in themself and ashamed of the having sex with such a person, ashamed for the rest of their lives.
If the person has to do sexual foreplay or manipulation, or that person has to have you play with them (A common thing guys do is expose themself to the female and after she plays with him for a while it gets her in the mood for the sex, but otherwise she would not have done it with him) to get you in to the mood, or have you watch porn or movies with sex in them and this all prove that you are not naturally sexually attracted to that person, and even though the desire to scratch the itch may be fierce, its wrong and you will forever regret having done the deed. It is better for your mental health and self respect to quickly remove yourself from such a situation.
What we need to do is to understand our body and heart, and together they tell us who we need, desire and actually want for life.
Universal Laws of Wisdom
If we consider that we may not have a clear understanding of the Universal Laws of Life that are Wisdom, formed by God, then we can look for an answer to the questions that are being asked in this era where the human race is lost basically without foundation, and is not forming foundations of practical common sense life under the Human Children. Children are growing up lost, unaware of all the possibilities for them in the future.
There is Darkness/Evil and there is Light/Godly.
Every human has Free Will but is not taught all the Options of Life under the Guidance of Materialistic Thinking, Scientific Thought, etc.
Every Male and Female has a right to choose for themselves how they would like to live.
Marriage is Sacred, Spiritual and Anchors a Soul to a Life.
Put bluntly we marry in to the Dark or Light according to our choices.
One Law is that it is not what you say that defines you, but what you do or don’t do.
A young adult brought up with a knowledge of these Universal Laws of Wisdom would choose a marriage partner according to his or her likes, beliefs, values and understanding of all things.
In a Materialistic Thinking Society the young do not have the options, because the focus is on money earned, working, and basically living in a way that the people ignore their spiritual side and the Universal Laws, often with scorn, as they fumble, bumble, and struggle through life, but ever so proudly.
Universal Laws of Wisdom state that the Proud are not easy to reach and often the Rich as Jesus taught us.
If both Female and Male are brought up with a foundation of belief that is formed under the guidance of Materialism, Commerce and such like things, the Male and Female have no understanding of the other Options of Life that were prepared for them and are their to freely take, enjoy and live. This is the case of the world today.
The Universal Laws of Wisdom are a system of Laws put in to place a long time ago and are what all things are based on.
Laws such as what you do to others will come back to you, be nice and nice will come back to you, be nasty then you will receive the very same in the future.
What people today have done is formed wording, thought, answers, ideas and beliefs to explain what they cannot explain, like good and bad luck, Murphy’s Laws and such.
A friend said to me, “Every time I mention a flat tire to someone I get a flat tire, its Murphy’s law, thats what it is, just bad luck.“
The Wisdom of the Universe explains it this way. As we are all Spiritual Beings we are connected spiritually with all things, sense, feel spiritually and so on. The flat tire was about to happen, and the mans senses sensed this, so to warn the man he thought of it, and then it happened as it was supposed to happen. The idea is to prepare him, help him. This sort of help is especially useful when the spare tire is flat in the boot of the car, and so if the man thinks of a flat tire, checks the spare, gets it pumped up or a hole fixed, then when he gets the flat tire he is not left stranded with two flat tires.
Ever hear yourself or someone else say this or something like this, “Thankfully I fixed the spare tire just one day before one of my other car tires when flat, what good luck that was. Because of this fortunate event I was not stuck in the snow at 3am in the morning.”
When we don’t understand what is happening around us we look for other answers to come up with to explain the events, and what we can’t explain or what we refuse to see, we call luck and so on. We humans tend to “explain things away”, or justify what happened in a way that materialistic-thought can comprehend it even though it is one hundred percent wrong. For most humans it does not matter if we are right or wrong, it just matters that we can find an explanation of some sort to satisfy the mind at that time.
If we call the event luck then we don’t need to think about it and go on our day. Trouble is, is that more events, red flags and warnings are available to us all the time, and if we refuse to see them we stumble from one bad relationship/situation to the next totally disregarding what is obvious.
How many times has something happened to you that was not good, and you should or could have done something about it that morning or the day before to avoid the trouble that you are now in, and you said after the event, “Oh no, I was just thinking about getting that seen to yesterday and I put it off, and now look what happened, what bad luck!”
Instead of when something comes to mind seeing to it immediately or writing it down and seeing to it as soon as practical.
Materialism causes Insecurity in people, thus people do foolish things even if they know that they are foolish, just to fit in, because they don’t like the lonely feelings if they don’t feel wanted, desired, needed and so on.
Marriage is in a Materialistic Society formed by a Materialistic Ceremony.
What the young were told in the past but not now is that Marriage is for Life, that Marriage should be taken very seriously, and that once married we look no further for another partner.
The modern marriage ceremony is seen as a special occasion where much money is spent, the newly weds are put up on display, admired, adored, and then off they go, and 2 years or so later are divorced.
Under the Universal Laws of Wisdom Marriage is a Spiritual Connection formed in “Spirit” where the two male and female are attracted very strongly to one another in often what seems to them both unexplainable ways or as God putting them together, and the Spiritual Marriage is Confirmed/Made-Legal by the physical sexual act.
With proper upbringing both the would-lovers to be are virgins.
But in the case where society is very Materialistic and Carnal, non-virgins can become basically virgins through the Born gain Process, of many years of complete mental change and an inactive sex life. Thus the non-virgin forgets what sex was like physically and then when married under the Laws of the Universe formed by God, he or she can marry a virgin and be personally classified as a virgin and thus he Marriage is sacred and the forming of the two Physically becomes the Confirmation between the two of being as one for Life.
The first sexual act by both is the confirmation of accepting each other as God’s gift to each other. Both desired and agreed to the sexual act, and both agreed to having sexual intercourse only with their husband or wife for the rest of their life.
Materialism puts forth a lot of Materialistic views of Marriage where what is sacred becomes cheap, easy, and not an act of true love or empathy.
Because of the give or take, easy replacement laws of Materialism, people discard one another carelessly causing both themselves and any childrne involved a lot of stress, suffering and crates negative baggage that they carry in to the next relationship causing that too to fail, and on and on it goes.The two to be married have free will, to follow God or whatever and whoever Satan puts before them, male, female, or whatever.
Because God truly loves us God allows us to be Born Again to come back in to His Guidance and ways if we are willing to go through the very hard Born Again Process.What Satan messes up, God can repair, but in order to be worthy we need to depart from all the ways that Materialism taught us, and become new, all things becomes new within us, and therefore no temptation from Satan will tempt us again, and we will never stray from God ever again.
Free Will is what you choose after God has educated you as to what He has to offer. You are more than free to turn what God offers down, the same as you are more than free to become a part of God’s Loving family. The choice is yours.
Immature people attack without thought, they think that numbers mean success, but they don’t take in to account what the person who they are attacking has, is and what hat person can do to them.
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What you heal in your self you heal in your family line, how you disrespect yourself you teach your children to do the same, for they turn out much like you.
You want worthy children, then wisdom states and you need to be a worthy patents/adult.
Don’t Expect Toxic People to Admit Their Mistakes. https://optimalpositivity.com/dont-expect-toxic-people-admit-mistakes/?fbclid=IwAR1AxF6r3neLuDSDZiPYY9rlcB36lFYEqXZid8FloCxJR40v_XUze9qWiF4
Sexual Aversion Disorder:
The patient associates intercourse with a painful experience or memory, possibly one that he or she is trying to forget. Sexual aversion disorder may also be caused by religious or cultural teachings that associate sexual activity with excessive feelings of guilt. – Mind Disorders.
The reason why Biden let 10 million immigrants in to the USA is hoping that they will be so grateful for him bringing them in to the country of opportunity that they will vote for him at the next election. The Republicans are trying to put in a law to stop then voting, because 10 millions votes is a lot against them. Whoopi Goldberg make some horrific comments about her, and Biden, pooing their pants and that she walks in her own poop often and that she does not care if he poops his pants she supports him????
What I dislike a lot about liberals is that they are indecent while calling themselves decent, immoral while being immoral, and their easy use of toilet humour or disgusting talk.
Instead of helping them prepare you and your children to become their slaves, treat them with the respect that they treat you with, none!Would it surprise you to know that everytime your relationships went bad God warned you that it was about to happen, but denial and pride are fierce weapons within us humans that Satan uses to destroy our lives. Best to read God’s warnings, omens, red flags and wake up calls, instead of dealing with the results of ignoring God.
The Saturday Evening Post’s Cover for December 16,1961 Illustration by Richard ‘Dick’ Sargent (1911-1979)[/caption]
All written below was written in the year by me in 2006.
Woman:
I had to write something of woman due to the large amount of changes that have come into woman’s lives over this last 100 years. We need to look at woman’s role in society as God intended woman to be and as nature intended woman to be. Yes there is the natural side to all of this to be considered as well.
What is obvious by nature and truth:Woman are created to be the true mate of males.
Woman are by nature to be mothers of all small humans called children.
Woman are meant to be the “carriers” of these small humans until the day they are born.
Woman are the natural teachers of children while those children are young.
Woman ar the first teachers in the family to show and teach love to each individual child.
Woman are the first source of food for her children.
Woman are the home creators and stability of the home and of the minds of the children.
What Are Devils?
As far as I can make it out Devils are bad spirits who possess peoples bodies to do evil things. Jesus and his disciples cast out devils. These are the parasites of this world. They pray on the weak and innocent, and they use them for their own evil devices. They use people who have low courage and give those people a false form of courage to get on with in life. Some of them may even find ways to convince themselves that they are doing the person (the host) good by helping them get through life but the person (the host) never gains any self growth or courage so there is no real gain for the person, just a life gone by.Are devils in the power of Satan and do as he wants them to? I suppose so. These devils are definitely in this for their own satisfaction though. Selfishness and greed are a part of evil beings so it can be said reasonably safely that each evil being may put his or her own selfish wants ahead of deeds that they may be asked to do. But this is mere speculation and I have no facts to (currently) support these comments.
I have read many books about Christian people and non-Christian people.
I believe that basically there are two types of Christian people.
Type 1
One type is the people who after becoming Christians they accept that they have sinned, and are willing to believe in God and the teachings of Jesus. And then they believe that after only a few changes they are accepted as full Christian people to God. Many believe that they need do no more because Jesus did it all for them. Often these people become stubborn in their beliefs and they feel very righteous in their ways, but they are not living righteous lives so they cannot be called righteous.
Some of these people will even “allow” sin because they believe that we humans are much to weak to control ourselves mentally and physically.These people may question religious issues. They may ask questions, but they tend to accept the common truth of their chosen church (faith, denomination), and will defend this chosen church truth (doctrine) with much belief (and stubbiness). Even if the facts look really confusing these people will still fight (even forcefully) for these beliefs.It is as if they are frightened and fear that they may actually be wrong. And when they have doubts they cover this up with quoting of scripture (the Bible). If you question their beliefs then they will take you through the Bible showing you verse after verse which proves that they are right in their beliefs. The truth is that anyone (even woman’s liberation people) can rearrange the verses in the Bible to mean whatever they wish it to mean.Type 2
The other type are the people like Martin Luther and John Bunyan. Both were caught up in worry after they accepted God. They suffered with many mental struggles as they tried to find out what it exactly was to be a Christian, a sinner, to have faith etc. People like this, I believe are the true in depth Christians. These people fight a long internal fight for success over evil. These people only want good for the world and this shows in their lives.These people are the fighters, the workers, who will toil even after religious acceptance, they will toil onward for the truth that is mentioned in the Bible. These people thirst for the truth and cannot go on through their lives untill the truth is there before them. Often fellow Christions will go out against these people because they cannot understand them, or maybe they are even frightened of them, maybe they even wish that they were like them. They also believe that the only way to find the truth is to forge onwards through the struggles. They also know that “freedom” will come to them when they succeed. It is also these people who will free the world from its ties with evil and its weaknesses with sin.Type 1 and Type 2 are clearly on different levels of learning and acceptance. When they have “finished” their individual Christian studfies (walks) they will be totally different Christian people.Type 2 will go through much suffering in order to understand the truth.I’m out of work, I’m out of my head
Out of self respect, I’m out of bread
I’m underloved, I’m underfed, I wanna go home
It never rains in California, but girl, don’t they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours
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Trials:
The trials of the Christian are well written about. But just what are these trials that we have to go through during our Christian walk?I liken this to a story that I made up. It goes like this. First you are out at sea swimming happily then you get the cramps. You find that you cannot swim properly and if you don’t get help soon you will drown. You call for help. you see Jesus at the shore, you know that he has been through what you have been through before, so you believe in him. You call to Jesus to be saved. Jesus hears you and swims out to “save” you.When he gets to you he takes a hold of you and then gently guides you to shore. Then as you get a certain distance from the shore he starts telling you things that you didn’t know about the sea currents, and the wind, rips, surf and tides. You happily try to understand what he is saying because it will help you the next time you go swimming in the sea. Next Jesus explains the different ways to swim and what way to swim in different weather. All this advice is to help you survive in the water in the future, even if you get cramp. For example Jesus talks of you wearing floats, swimming with other peoples, wearing a life jacket, having diving gear on etc.Now when you start to get close to shore Jesus gently lets you go. At first you are started, and are not sure if you remembered everything that he told you. You say that you are unsure that you have remembered everything that he told you, but he reassures you that you will be alright. You find that you enjoyed being helped and you were getting used to it. Now you start to struggle a bit even though you have swam before and done reasonably well at it. You do understand though that if you want to be a good swimmer and also learn from all the good information that Jesus gave you then you must learn to swim again and be better than before.Finally you swim to sure, confident and well aware that you made it with the valuable help from Jesus, but the last part of the way you did it by yourself. Yes, you did it yourself. You are now a strong and able swimmer.Wouldn’t the word “saved” seem just that much better if you were stronger as a results of being ‘saved’.This word ‘save’ is taken from a Greek word, meaning, “to take immediate, decisive and continuous action.”
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The Truth With Common Sense:
People today want to know a God who they can understand. Currently people are being taught of a godless world and a godless existence which actually in many ways makes more sense to understand because it seems reasonable and the way that it is explained to the public. Common sense and understanding are needed here.The book, the Bible, does not make sense in many ways. But what is worse is that the people who teach the Bible don’t make much sense either. One could possibly say that the Bible could make sense except that the Christian teachers who attempt to teach us (the people) how to understand the Bible don’t make sense.So people turn away from the churches because these people try to and want to understand the Bible and Christianity and they want to believe in God but they cannot (even though they try hard) understand what they are being told, and even if they do understand what they are being taught they cannot believe the teacher or possibly even the Bible simply because it all does not make any real believable sense.
The Ten Commandments:
One thing that has confused me about the text of the Bible is how the Ten Commandments are shown. First we are told that we are not to kill, but many times in the Bible God is said to order many to be killed, in fact it is written that Bible God gets people to kill.Adultery is forbidden. Then why do so many of the Gods people have many wives, it doesn’t fit. Unless those stories are just that, stories or myths. Or maybe those stories have been doctored or.. The point here is that God does not contradict Himself. He may change the rules, but we do hope to know something of this, especially in the Bible.
The New Christian:
When a new Christian goes to a church he is told how to be a Christian, he is shown many things. The preacher (Pastor, Priest etc) teaches this new Christian that Adam and Eve were the first people and that we all came from those two sinners. This new Christian, we will call him Joe, is surprised at this teaching. He does not understand. This Adam and Eve story seems more than just a little far fetched, but more important it doesn’t seem to hold water. And this business about a loving God holding him responsable for the sins of Adam and Eve is unfair and a clear case of victimization. He doesn’t believe that he should be labeled in this manner and especially by the God that Joe really wants to believe in.Still the preacher will push this point and Joe knows in order to try to be a good Christian he must give in to these doubts or he cannot reach God. Joe does this because he thinks that the preacher is Gods messenger, and also a reliable source of information about God and about all dealings with God. Sure Joe is having some doubts about Christianity and his preacher but he will keep trying. Many other come to the church and leave. At first Joe has doubts and thinks of leaving with these people, but eventually Joe decided to stay on, after all he gets on reasonably well with most of the congregation at his church and they all seem to like him. In fact a few of the guys and Joe are fast becoming good friends. Joe has had a lonely life and having good friends is something that Joe finds new and exciting.So Joe carries on with the church. After a while he looks at the people who leave the church as “Lost”, Joe feels at one with his congregation because they also feel the same way about those who leave the church.Joe now takes-on knew Christians and teaches them all about Adam and Eve. Sure Joe still has some deep doubts but that’s way in the back of his mind now. Joe is important to other people now, even if the congregation isn’t large, Joe still feels good to be part of this important group of people who are “doing Gods work” amongst those people who need to be lead to “Christ”.
The Holy Trinity:
I have read about the Holy Trinity and the common sense behind it avoids me, if there is any common sense behind its theory. Some verses of the Bible are quoted as proof of the Holy Trinity. The first suggestions that a Holy Trinity existed came about around the year 360 A.D. This was hundreds of year after Jesus died. I think that it is important that since the Holy Trinity didn’t come into existant theoretically until a long time after Jesus died and the words Holy Trinity don’t actually exist within the pages of the Bible that is a reasonable reason to deeply doubt its existence.I have grave doubts about there really being a Holy Trinity. I do think that this is one of the main areas that humankind has gone a long way off the track in Christianity. I have never heard or read a convincing theory about The Holy Trinity. Many have tried though, and I believe that they try because they want to prove what they believe and many seem to convince themselves. But The Holy Trinity is like Adam and Eve to the general public, it really holds no water.
The Crowns In Heaven:
I have never, and will never, do anything for God, or mankind, or anything to help the world in an effort to gain a crown in Heaven. The last thought on my mind is that I would be rewarded by God for the things that I have done. To actually “want” a crown is to want to be “paid” for doing good.It always shocks me to hear a preacher claim that he is humble or that we as a congregation are humble (or as Christians are humble) but that we should still be kind to others and try to “save” them to get our reward in Heaven or from God, or to get that castle in Heaven. To be humble is to not want anything for your efforts which you should do in quite and not care about “how many” that you save, just as long as you do well, and keep being a good solid helper of people.I am not stating that there are no crowns in Heaven and that God will not give them out, I am merely saying that we are not supposed to work for them.
The Bible:
The “gist” of the Bible is true, but not all of it. You see God is not on this world. God can affect things of this world to the degree that you (we) let Him. But if we chose to change the text of the Bible then it can and will be done if we want to change it. All it takes is a person to lift a pencil and do it.I read years ago that there were many, many different versions of the New Testament in Greek. Each different version had to have a different text or layout for it to be different from all the others. This can only have happened if people had changed the text of that scripture. It is simple logic that brings us to this knowledge.So the conclusion to this is that the Bible itself tells of the history of the Jewish people, has some myths added to it, and the text has been doctored by humans over time. The main theory of the Bible is true and the rules of the Bible should be followed with true dedication. God himself is very loving and forgiving and we should do what we can to be the same as God and do the things that He wants us to do for the good of humankind.There are many statements in the Bible as a whole that don’t make sense. Many statements contradict other statements which causes much confusion.In the times of Jesus he couldn’t make the claims that I am making today because there would have been a serious hunt for him by the religious people of his day. Today things are different and we can make statements like this and live without the fear that we will be killed (at least in the progressed western countries of the world) for our views, or beliefs.
The Spiritual Side Of Things:
Is it mere coincidence that the three largest Christian churches in the world are believers in spirits or ghosts and spiritual possession. The Catholics remove spirits from people (possession) and the Anglicans believe in the spirits and (I believe) work much the way that the Catholics do. The Mormons, I was told from a member many years ago that they have séances and talk to spirits.There “is” a light. When a person dies he will leave his body after 3 days and go to the light (hopefully). Until then he is attached to his body but not “in” his body. This does not mean that he cannot go anywhere else because he can, even across the world to visit and see loved ones before he departs through the light to that different world beyond.There is a gap between our physical world and the “Light”. The Light is a channel, tunnel, doorway an entrance to the “other place”. What that is I cannot say, but I do know that God is in control of it and created it. We “must” cross this spiritual area to get to the light.Sometimes spirits (people who have died and lost their physical bodies) refuse to “go to the light”, instead (for their own reasons, selfish or not) they stay there in this spiritual domain and travel around. Some can do harm to living physical humans in many ways, some by full possession, some by “affecting” the human who is in the physical flesh (by autosuggestion). Some have had traumatic lives here on Earth and are not ready to go to the light, but intend to someday. Some souls are so attached to loved ones or earthly loves (physical things such as alcohol, gambling, drugs, physical lusts etc) that they want to stay and carry on these physical things (lusts, addictions) by possessing people or even “borrowing” a persons body for a short time, normally when the person is out-of-his-mind such as drugged and drunk.
The Sons Of God:
I think that Jesus was trying to tell us that we could all become Sons Of God as he was a Son Of God. I cannot say whether this means that only males will be sons of God because I do not know enough about the translations.2006
Sin, And What Is It:
The word “sin” has become a very disliked word in these liberated modern times. But what is this word that is said to separate us from God? Some would see this word to mean to violate a divine law. Some would see this word to mean to offense in general.To sin is to do an unrighteous act. This would be an unjust, dishonest act. In simple terms a sin is to do an ungood act. Ungood would mean not good to somebody, or not good to yourself, or not good to a living things, or not good to the world in general, or not good because Gods laws were put aside or ignored deliberately. Clearly it is not good to do an unrighteous act of any kind.A genuine mistake is not a sin.
Some people may try to tell you the opposite, but with a loving honest just God you know that any mistake (an unintentional act) that you do you cannot be judged for. You can only be judged for those intentional deliberate acts that you in some way planned or did on the spur of the moment with some form of intent.Unholy acts are sins. To do something (or to even deliberately think of something) that is “unholy” is a sin.
Unholy is something that is frowned upon by God. Most of the time we people can think clearly enough to realise or figure out what an unholy thing is. To “think” of something unholy or selfish and to enjoy those thoughts is clearly a sin, and normally the next step after thinking such thoughts is to go out and physically do those thoughts. Constant thinking of bad thoughts will eventually “drive” a person to put those bad thoughts into action, especially if the person is eager to think those bad thoughts and the results thereof.At this current time in the world most people are not believing in God and those who do believe in God don’t understand Gods rules clearly.
The word “sin” has become a word that represents ‘the loss of a persons fun’. Today people think that if they are sinless then they are boring and funless. The word sin is now associated with the word fun. These two words are very different in meaning.Many people today believe that to not sin is to not have fun. People need to be taught the truth again. People need salvation from the troublesome lives that they currently live.Can we become a servant of sin.
Clearly we can. This can easily be proved by looking at all the people of the world who are addicted to an act or a “thing” such as alcohol or drugs. Addictions are hard to break away from. Most sins have some special attraction which will enhance a persons life for a short time, or a sin will have some attraction to a person which will ‘tempt’ that person to step over the line of decency or goodness to take a tidbit of sin in an effort to get a taste of this particular sin. But often the result of a tidbit of sin is many days, months and years of unhappiness.
If a person clearly keeps in mind what a sin really is then that person can see that one doesn’t need to be a Christian to not sin, but being a Christian helps keep a persons mind in focus on what it is he is supposed to do during his life and once the person knows about God in the real sense (a true loving forgiving teaching God)Our Pastor at church often said while preaching that sins were enjoyable and that is why we sinned. I don’t believe this and frown whenever I hear such words.
To me sins were like tortures that tore at my mind and stabbed pain into my heart ass I had to battle it. Like most Christians I had issues (sins, mental problems, bad habits [not all bad habits are sins] and as I worked at becoming a better person I had to deal with many sins. Most of them were small, but that made them no less powerful. I had to (like all new Christians) wage a war against those old habits and sins. I found no pleasure in them, only sadness, heartache at my failures, and unhappiness that I was still trapped by a sin big or small. What a great relief it was to recognise a sin, learn how to beat it and then do so, finally freeing my mind and body from that sin – then onto the next one to beat it as well.
2006.
Saints, Who Are They:
I was once told by a fellow Christian that I was a saint because I was a Christian, and that he was a saint as well. I stared at this man in total and complete disbelief. To this day I believe that a saint is a special person, a holy person who God calls to be a saint or chooses to be a saint. “God” is the keyword here. Since Jesus came we people have been naming the worlds saints. But I do believe that you will find that God knows who the real saints are and they are not known or chosen by any human church.
Paul Letters:
If Paul’s Letters were from about 19 years of writing to people then why are the few in the Bible stated as so special and why should we bless these letters and see them in such Holy light when Paul could have written them one year and changed his opinion the next week, or the next month or the next year. 19 years of letters are a lot of letters for a man who was trying to contact so many people and help so many people.To see just these few letters as special religious letters is a strange thing to do.
Myths:
I believe that many additions to the Old Testament are in fact old myths of the Israelite people. These stories were probably carried and stored with the other contents of the Bible and somewhere in time they were taught or read as one. From then to know they are considered one.It isn’t really hard to figure out how these Myth Books and Stories were added to the Bible and managed to stay there.
Today you will find that most people who believe in the Bible fully and truly believe in all the text of the Bible and all of the stories even though the stories seem to be written exactly how a myth would have been written. But people cling onto the hope that all these hard to understand stories are actually true. It is one of the reasons that non-Christians have so much trouble believing in the Bible.When you talk to these people who believe in these myths you will soon find out about their very stubborn and furious belief in these myths.
This is why these myths are still considered to be the “truth” of God even today in a time of history that we are intelligent enough to know the difference between a myth and reality. This is also one of the reasons that scientist would refuse to consider the Bible as a true source of information because many of the stories seem to be myths.The truth is if Christians want to be taken seriously and not hide in their churches trying vainly to defend stories that make them look silly then a change of thought is needed.Book and stories that I would include as myth:
Adam and Eve.
Cain and Able.
The Tower Of Babel.
Sodom and Gomorrah.
The Walls Of Jericho.
Jonah and The Whale.
Many of the stories were included or were used to teach those of their time lessons. If you read each story you can see that it teaches a lesson.
The Tower Of Babel teaches those of that time not to try to build a manmade object to try to reach Gods dwelling place because it will be a waste of time. But those of those simple times also wrote it to scare those people into doing the right thing. Look at the mythological stories of all the races on Earth and you will find many stories that are used in this way.
Adam and Eve is a story of a man and woman who live in a place created by the all ruling God, the creator of all. There are many theories from religious people who try desperately to make this story look as if it were real and true and try to convince us that it actually happened.
This story alone must have turned many millions of people away from the Bible and teachings of God due to its unbelievable nature, and the fact that the all-knowing preacher looks silly as he tries to get the public to believe the story. Not only does he try to get you to believe the story he wants you to think that it holds great bearing on your own personal existence here on Earth.
He wants you to think that you are a sinner from birth due to this story. This story is a source of personal shame for all humans who believe it. Think of it this way, the preacher wants you to believe that a fair loving God would condemn you due to the actions millions of years ago by Adam and Eve. This story would have you believe that God would judge you for what somebody else did a long, long time before you were ever born. It is no wonder that this story is not believed by most of the worlds public.If some of the books or stories in the Bible are myths then this also explains the many different versions of how God is named in the Bible. Is this really our God or the God of some myth? I am speaking of the words Lord, LORD, God, GOD, Lord God etc. Many myths mention a god. This is the god of the myth and if that myth was written in the same language as the Bible and was added to the books of the Bible (for whatever reason) then it can easily be seen that the god of the myth is not the real true God.
But sadly many people are confused by this and refuse stubbornly to believe that these so called texts are not the true books of the Bible.Also it could be noted that God has many characters in the Bible. Often one minute He is loving, the next not so loving, sometimes He is portrayed as a hard God dishing out harsh punishments if He feels that those punishments are needed.Also this business about the word ‘Lord’ has some problems as well since this word has many different areas were it can be and is or was used.
An example was in the days of old when the husband or father of the home was called My Lord. The Lord of the manor etc. The lord is the master of the home, there were noble lords, it is an honourable title.(Most modern/font translations in keeping with traditional prohibitions against pronouncing the name of God have adopted a complicated and confusing system of translating the names and designations for Deity in the Hebrew Bible.
The Tetragrammaton (Yahweh) is thus translated LORD in all capital letters. The problem with this practice is that it then creates confusion with the Hebrew term Adonai which does mean Lord. Accordingly most modern translations distinguish this without the capital letters. This is fine until you have the terms used together: YHVH Adonai which would then become the nonsensical LORD Lord.
To address this redundancy the translators in such cases opt for GOD (all caps) for YHVH. But here another problem is created the normal terms for God (El Eloah and Elohim) are also rendered God throughout with no distinction so that you can end up with GOD being redundant with God if Adonai is also used.
The simple solution is to reflect in every case the Hebrew terms actually used without attempting translations that only further confuse.YHVH (Yahweh or Yehovah)brYAH (shortened form of YHVH)
ADON (Master or Lord)brADONAI (plural of ADON)
EL ELOAH and its plural ELOHIM (the terms for God)
ELYON (Most High)
SHADDAI (Breasts or Protector/Destroyer)
Gifts/Ordained:
Do some people get gifts from God and how are people ordained? People can be given gifts from God after they become followers of God, it sure seems to be like this anyway, and some Christians certainly believe this to be so. People can be given gifts before they are born, this is so that this person can get through life to do the deeds that God wishes him to do.But a person must be aware that when a person becomes a new person and follows Gods teachings then he will be mentally changing many of his old opinions, hates, moments of greed and selfishness etc.
By doing this then this person will change somewhat, he will become more spiritual, he will be at peace with himself and old habits and feelings will no longer hold him back from the things that he always wanted to do which are good. He will find that he can do many things that he could not do before. He will be more confident, more able to deal with life. Many of these new feelings and growth in confidence could also be considered by many as “gifts” from God.
This is another way of looking at the question “Do some people get gifts from God?”People can also be ordained before they are born. I assume that people can also be ordained as is done in the current system. Preachers or leaders of a church ordain other preachers to the service of God or to serve the people, congregation. 2006.
Doctoring:
The text in the Old and New Testament have been “doctored” over time. I am not guessing here, I am making a statement. Yes, I do believe that people have, for some reason or another, have changed the text here and there. One of the reasons would be because that person needed to teach people some thing and changed the text to suit what he was teaching.There is simple proof of this in the New Testament if you look at the Gospels you will see that these books were written with the same stories told not only in a different manner but with a different meaning or ending. Many preachers try to get us to believe that each Gospel is the entire truth, but common sense clearly tells us that each Gospel cannot be the truth exactly as it happened if each is different in such a way. If three of the Gospels have the same story but Jesus says different things in each story then only one can be the truth (in actual fact maybe none of them for who could tell which one was true or false?). The point that I am making here is that “all” of them can’t be correct and this fact is obvious. 2006.
Clothing:
This is a big issue with the churches today, well at least some of them, and if it is some form of issue it at least seems like they care about this issue. This is also a big issue with the general public who are happy to wear and watch their children wear the most amazing clothing which has even young children, mostly girls, wearing clothes that does not cover much and is designed to show off the curves of the body.The answer to this problem is simple and clear-cut. People should wear modest clothing that is comfortable, but it is up to the person as to what he or she feels is acceptable to wear. But w should always be aware that some clothing gives off a view that we should not wear it unless we want a bad reputation. 2006
Christianity Today:
Christians today are members of an interesting group of churches with independent “faiths” and yet they are all part of the groups called Christians. The people in this large group called Christians are from the intense Fundamentalists to the more liberal Christians. All make many claims. All seem to declare to the general public that they are all so confused with “the truth” that they cannot get on with each other (proof that they don’t know how to Love Thy Neighbour) and they cannot agree with each other on nearly everything. But there are some issues that they do agree with. And in these times it is noticeable that these “churches” that some of them have joined or at least will “get on” with other denominations to some degree because the numbers of members seems to be getting smaller and smaller as the years go by.
These churches may get very upset at my comments but all the general public need to do is look at all the churches available and look at the teachings and attitudes of the congregations and preachers and that is all that is needed to show that I have stated the truth.The churches today are confused. They have “all” lost touch with the real reason for their existence. How can Christianity be brought “back to Earth”? By us all looking at the Bible with new eyes. I believe that one certain rules are put in place or at least seen through “new eyes” we can then follow the “truth” with common sense guiding us while we ignore all 2006
Baggage:
It has been around 2000 years since Jesus died. That is a long time. Let us be reasonable and consider that over this large period of time that a lot of baggage has been attached to the man Jesus. I would imagine that many myths have been added to the mystery that we know today as Jesus Christ. It makes it so much harder to figure out who he is when we read so many stories in the Bible about Jesus, many of them seem like myths, some seem like strange stories with no real meaning, or it seems at least that you must be a part of a group of Christians so that one of them can explain the story to you, but of course everytime it is explained by a different person the story changes somewhat.There is no mention of the name Christ in the Old Testament, but it is said that the word “Christ” means the Messiah. But does it, or at least did it mean that back when Jesus was alive. The Romans had a system of using first names and last names. Even the Jews had a system like that as well. 2006.
Angels
Could angels be souls of those that have died on earth. As devils are possession spirits. Are they opposites like fire and water, yin and yang? 2006
The past writings of the Old Testament seem to be a great mixture of truth and myth.
All races of the world created some sort of myths to explain why things happen. Especially to explain things that happened that these people couldn’t understand.Such as Moses striking the rock and then water coming out of it. This could have been their leader Moses leading the people and they desperately needed some water, he accidentally (or maybe even in anger or frustration) hits a rock with his and the rock splits or something like that and water comes out. The people of the time couldn’t explain this so they created the story that is now in the Bible and this was passed down from generation to generation, probably first by word of mouth and then by the written word.Most of the Bible in those early times appears to be written this way. The world was back then as it is now. Probably at no time in human history have those mystical things really happened except probably some isolated instances that God needed to deal with a person or people – but it wasn’t a constant habit to have big miracles happen.This explains why the Old Testament is so hard to believe and confusing – this book is the history of the Hebrew people mixed in with some very dramatic and over imaginative myths which were used to explain the unexplainable (at least unexplainable in those times).2006
