Articles

Sex

Abortion

Catholic
beware

Witches
etc.

Horrorscope

Bible
History

Doubt

Jesus the
Word

Flood

(These articles came about due to the differing opinions on the bible on the internet.)
(I found what the bible said and what I thought it said didn't always match up.)
(So here are the articles on what the bible says on certain matters.)

SEX

The sole purpose of sex is to produce children and any other purpose deviates from what God has intended it for. I do not believe I am distorting scripture, and I do believe for all mankind it is a unattainable goal but the scripture point to the fact that it is due to our weakness and lack of self control that non reproductive sex is used at the best in a useless manner, at the worst in a truly abominable manner.

Consider these points if you thing I am wrong:

1) If the only time people could have sexual intercourse was in marriage to produce children then would there be any abortions including this pill popping to kill fertilized eggs- the very beginning of human life?

2) Would there be any sexually transmitted diseases?

3) Would male and female couples practice homosexual sex with each other and other deviant sexual practices?

Better to practise self control even if you are married then no control.

Colossians 3:5-6 (NRSV)
5 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: fornication,
impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry). 6 On
account of these the wrath of God is coming on those who are
disobedient.

Matthew 22:29-30 (NRSV)
29 Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the
scriptures nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they
neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in
heaven.

Humm!!
In the resurrection their will be no sex. The purpose of sex is solely for the intent of producing children in the here and now. Sex will be past history in God's eternal kingdom because we will have something far more superior and emotionally fulfilling- God.

Is sex an earthly thing-yes, will there be sex in heaven-no because we will be like the angels.

Leviticus 15:16-18 (NRSV)
16 If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in
water, and be unclean until the evening. 17 Everything made of cloth
or of skin on which the semen falls shall be washed with water, and be
unclean until the evening. 18 If a man lies with a woman and has an
emission of semen, both of them shall bathe in water, and be unclean
until the evening.

Leviticus 15:31-33 (NRSV)
31 Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their
uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness by defiling
my tabernacle that is in their midst.32 This is the ritual for those who
have a discharge: for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean
thereby, 33 for her who is in the infirmity of her period, for anyone,
male or female, who has a discharge, and for the man who lies with a woman
who is unclean.

Humm!!
Sex is considered an unclean act in itself according to the bible and those that enter God's holy presence would die if they didn't wait till they became clean .

1 Timothy 2:13-15 (NRSV)
¹³For Adam was formed first, then Eve; ¹⁴and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. ¹⁵Yet she will be saved through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.

Humm!!
Before mankind was corrupted in the garden of Eden they were created by God afterwards humans were created by sex . Through childbearing, womankind brought about our Saviour.

1 Timothy 5:11-15 (NRSV)
11 But refuse to put younger widows on the list; for when their
sensual desires alienate them from Christ, they want to marry, 12 and
so they incur condemnation for having violated their first pledge. 13
Besides that, they learn to be idle, gadding about from house to
house; and they are not merely idle, but also gossips and busybodies,
saying what they should not say. 14 So I would have younger widows
marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the
adversary no occasion to revile us. 15 For some have already turned
away to follow Satan.

Humm!!
Sensual desires alienates people from Christ.

1 Corinthians 7:39-40 (NRSV)
39 A wife is bound as long as her husband lives. But if the husband
dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, only in the Lord. 40 But
in my judgment she is more blessed if she remains as she is. And I
think that I too have the Spirit of God.

1 Corinthians 7:1-4 (NRSV)
Directions concerning Marriage

7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: "It is well for a
man not to touch a woman." 2 But because of cases of sexual
immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own
husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights,
and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not have
authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the
husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Humm!!
If at all possible it is better to remain celibate and dedicated to God but because of cases of sexual immorality it is better to be married.

1 Corinthians 7:29-30 (NRSV)

I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short;
from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,
30 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who
rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though
they had no possessions,

Humm!!
And even if you are married you should try practising celibacy if your partner agrees.

Genesis 5:32 (NRSV)
32 After Noah was five hundred years old, Noah became the father of
Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 7:13-14 (NRSV)

13 On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth,
and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons entered the ark,

Humm!!
A good example of celibacy is that of Noah, 500yrs and only 3 sons. His
wife wouldn't of being using the pill that actually stops a fertile egg (human life) from attaching itself in the womb because it would of been murder.

Matthew 5:27-30 (NRSV)
Concerning Adultery
27 "You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.'
28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has
already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye
causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you
to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into
hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and
throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than
for your whole body to go into hell.

Humm!!
Says a lot about our so called modern world which pollutes us constantly with sexual images and thoughts. As far as God is concerned
the more sex we indulge in, the more unclean we become which is the opposite view to what the world teaches.

Revelation 14:4-5 (NRSV)
4 It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are
virgins; these follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been
redeemed from humankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb, 5 and in
their mouth no lie was found; they are blameless.

Humm!!
From the above verse it can be determine who are the closest to the Lamb.

Concluding remarks:
Man is a sinful creature and needs the forgiveness of God in Jesus, who died on the cross for our sins, and even though sinful man can never reach perfection through his own efforts he can try his best because God loves all those that try to please Him.

Think of a child and that child's parents, even though what that child has made or tried to do for his parents is very simple, the parents are proud and happy that that child showed their love for them in what that child has tried to do for them even though it is far from perfect.

Sex is specifically for the creation of children, not this if it feels good do it attitude that the world teaches: hands were not created to kill yet they can be used in an evil manner and the same goes for sex.

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ABORTION

Exodus 20:13 (NRSV)
13 You shall not murder

Humm!!
Obviously that statement wasn't clear enough for some because suddenly they came to the conclusion that the developing human being was somehow not human and they could do what ever they liked to it even though that developing human being had its own UNIQUE DNA and fulfilled the definition of what a life is.

Revelation 13:7-9 (NRSV)
7 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them.
It was given authority over every tribe and people and language and
nation, 8 and all the inhabitants of the earth will worship it,
everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the
world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered.

9 Let anyone who has an ear listen:

Humm!!
"everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world" does that sound like each individual human life starts from before he comes out or after? The whole process is human from fertilized egg to the adult as it has been planned from the beginning.

Isaiah 41:4 (NRSV)
4 Who has performed and done this,
calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord , am first, and will be with the last.

Humm!!
Calling the generations "BEFORE" they even existed because God knew them.

Isaiah 49:5 (NRSV)
5 And now the Lord says,
who formed me in the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might be gathered to him,
for I am honoured in the sight of the Lord ,
and my God has become my strength—

Humm!!
God knew Isaiah as he was forming in the womb, that's from the very beginning.

Exodus 21:22-23 (NLT)
22 “Now suppose two people are fighting, and in the process,
they hurt a pregnant woman so her child is born prematurely.
If no further harm results, then the person responsible must
pay damages in the amount the woman’s husband demands and the
judges approve. 23 But if any harm results, then the offender
must be punished according to the injury.

If the result is death, the offender must be executed.

Humm!!
To kill the unborn on purpose was a death penality!

Isaiah 44:28 (NRSV)
28 who says of Cyrus, "He is my shepherd,
and he shall carry out all my purpose";
and who says of Jerusalem, "It shall be rebuilt,"
and of the temple, "Your foundation shall be laid."

Humm!!
Cyrus like Jesus was predicted to come into the world before they were even born. Whose life did you kill murder, you who kills the developing human being?

Isaiah 65:19-20 (NLT)
I will rejoice in Jerusalem and delight in my people. And the sound of
weeping and crying will be heard no more.

20 " No longer will babies die when only a few days old. No longer
will adults die before they have lived a full life. No longer will
people be considered old at one hundred! Only sinners will die that
young!

Humm!!
A life can be cut short but when Christ rule's every human being will live out their whole lives without the murders cutting it short.

Isaiah 57:4-5 (NRSV)
4 Whom are you mocking?
Against whom do you open your mouth wide
and stick out your tongue?

Are you not children of transgression,
the offspring of deceit—
5 you that burn with lust among the oaks,
under every green tree;
you that slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?

Humm!!
People that mock others are under the delusion that somehow they are better than others and yet they don't repent of the evil they do because it is acceptable to their society. What is acceptable to God is another matter!

Isaiah 66:23-24 (NLT)
" All humanity will come to worship me from week to week and from
month to month. 24 And as they go out, they will see the dead bodies
of those who have rebelled against me. For the worms that devour them
will never die, and the fire that burns them will never go out. All
who pass by will view them with utter horror. "

You shall not murder

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CATHOLICS BEWARE

Luke 14:25-27 (NCV)
25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and said to them,
26 “If anyone comes to me but loves his father, mother, wife, children, brothers,
or sisters—or even life—more than me, he cannot be my follower.
27 Whoever is not willing to carry the cross and follow me cannot be my follower.

Humm!!
Love for Jesus is first and foremost, above everything else because the path to God is in Jesus. If you love someone you talk directly to that person so why should it be any different with God.

1 Timothy 2:5 (NRSV)
5 For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind,
Christ Jesus, himself human,

Humm!!
Between God and humankind there is only ONE mediator, Jesus! We don't have to pray to Mary or the saints because Jesus deals directly with ALL humankind.

John 14:9-14 (NRSV)
9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and
you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How
can you say, ‘Show us the Father'? 10 Do you not believe that I am in
the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do
not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if
you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves. 12 Very
truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works
that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am
going to the Father. 13 I will do whatever you

****ask in my name,****

so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If in my name you
ask me for anything, I will do it.

Humm!!
No matter how you cut it worshipping or praying to the saints is pagan, God tells us that our prays are added to the prays of all His people and somehow this message has been twisted that you have to pray to this saint for that miracle or that saint for that miracle which is pagan in nature and dishonours those saints that dedicated their lives to God. Jesus specifically says ask in Jesus' name.

Acts 10:25-27 (NRSV)
25 On Peter's arrival Cornelius met him, and falling at his feet,
worshiped him. 26 But Peter made him get up, saying, "Stand up; I am
only a mortal." 27 And as he talked with him, he went in and found
that many had assembled;

(Act 14:14-18 CEV)
When the two apostles found out about this, they tore their clothes in
horror and ran to the crowd, shouting: Why are you doing this? We are
humans just like you. Please give up all this foolishness. Turn to the
living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and everything in
them. In times past, God let each nation go its own way. But he showed
that he was there by the good things he did. God sends rain from
heaven and makes your crops grow. He gives food to you and makes your
hearts glad. Even after Paul and Barnabas had said all this, they
could hardly keep the people from offering a sacrifice to them.

Humm!!
Even those saints would tell you to pray to God as commanded by Jesus himself.

(Mat 12:47-50 CEV)
Someone told Jesus, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside and
want to talk with you." Jesus answered, "Who is my mother and who are
my brothers?" Then he pointed to his disciples and said, "These are my
mother and my brothers! Anyone who obeys my Father in heaven is my
brother or sister or mother."

Humm!!
Jesus clearly states that those who do the will of God are His brother or sister or mother. Mary is blessed of all women in that God chose her, that through her God would come in human form into this world but all God's people are special to God.

The reasons why His family wanted to see Him was for the not too Holy purpose of restraining Him because in their human wisdom they thought Jesus was mad.(Mark 3:20-21)

Deuteronomy 5:8-10 (NRSV)
8 You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of
anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or
that is in the water under the earth. 9 You shall not bow down to them
or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing
children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and fourth
generation of those who reject me, 10 but showing steadfast love to
the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my
commandments.

Psalm 97:6-7 (NRSV)
6 The heavens proclaim his righteousness;
and all the peoples behold his glory.
7 All worshipers of images are put to shame,
those who make their boast in worthless idols;
all gods bow down before him.

Humm!!
If God says not to make idols of anything, including people, and then these idols/statues start displaying supernatural events then it is probably demonic in nature and worse still are these manifestations in spirit form telling God's people that they must worship the Virgin to worship the Son. It is a sneaky way of getting God's people to worship a demon because if they have to pray to this demon to pray to Jesus then sure as anything this demon has become their god.

Revelation 19:9-10 (NRSV)
9 And the angel said to me, "Write this: Blessed are those who are
invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb." And he said to me, "These
are true words of God." 10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship
him, but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant
with you and your comrades who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship
God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

Humm!!
God's angels will tell you to worship God, the fallen angels/demonic will want to be worshipped or will try and turn a believer in Christ away from God.

So who should we worship and pray to?

(1Ti 2:5 CEV)
There is only one God, and Christ Jesus is the only one who can bring
us to God. Jesus was truly human, and he gave himself to rescue all of us.

The only queen of heaven mentioned in the whole bible is this one:

Jeremiah 7:18-19 (NRSV)
18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women
knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out
drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. 19 Is it I whom
they provoke? says the Lord. Is it not themselves, to their own hurt?

So how should we pray?

Matthew 6:5-13 (ASV)
5And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to
stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets,
that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have
received their reward. 6But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine
inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in
secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee. 7And
in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they
think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8Be not
therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have
need of, before ye ask him.

9After this manner therefore pray ye. Our Father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name. 10Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in
heaven, so on earth. 11Give us this day our daily bread. 12And forgive
us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13And bring us not
into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

P.s. Top marks for the Catholic churches stand on abortion, including it's stand against the pill that stops the developing human from attaching itself to the womb.

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WITCHES AND THEIR LIKE

Cackle now, cry later in despair for their is no salvation in Hell.

THOSE WHO PRACTISE WITCHCRAFT ANGER GOD

2 Chronicles 33:5-7 (NRSV)
⁵He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord . ⁶He made his son pass through fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, practiced soothsaying and augury and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord , provoking him to anger.

WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Galatians 5:19
19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20Idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelling, and such like: of the
which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that
they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769.

GET THEIR POWER FROM THE DEMONS

Acts 16:16
16 One day as we were going down to the place of prayer, we met a
demon-possessed slave girl. She was a fortune-teller who earned a lot
of money for her masters. 17 She followed along behind us shouting, These
men are servants of the Most High God, and they have come to tell you how
to be saved.18 This went on day after day until Paul got so exasperated that
he turned and spoke to the demon within her. I command you in the name of
Jesus Christ to come out of her, he said. And instantly it left her.19 Her masters
hopes of wealth were now shattered, so they grabbed Paul and Silas and
dragged them before the authorities at the marketplace

ARE THE DEVIL'S PERVERTING CHILDREN

Acts 13:6
8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed
them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith. 9 Then Saul, who
was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at
Elymas and said, 10 ;You are a child of the devil and an enemy
of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and
trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

GOD OR THE DEVIL: NO MIDDLE GROUND, YOUR CHOICE!!

1 Corinthians 10:
20But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they
sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should
have fellowship with devils. 21Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord,
and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's
table, and of the table of devils. 22Do we provoke the Lord to
jealousy? are we stronger than he?

ULTIMATE FATE OF THOSE THAT PRACTICE
WITCHCRAFT/OCCULT-
LAKE OF FIRE

Revelation 21
8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the
sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all
liars-their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulphur. This is
the second death."

Matthew 25
41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me,
ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

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BIBLE HISTORY

p101 Cross formulated the theory that there were 3 families of the same Hebrew bible including the variations in each family.

1 Palestinian form: Qumran and the Samaritan Pentateuch.

2 Egyptian form: Vorlage from which the LXX is based on. Distinct from the Qumran text but closer to these than the Massoretic text.

3 Babylon form: Massoretic text.

p96 These different families of the same Hebrew bible have come about due to the theological views of the different parties at that time to detract from the others position and enhance their own.

p98 No copies of the Vorlage form of the Hebrew bible exists from which the LXX. was translated from but the LXX remains an important translation to the witness of that Hebrew bible at that time.

p161 Septuagint (LXX) derives it's name from the 70-72 Jewish elders who translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek. (6 elders per tribe according to tradition)

p162 LXX. was translated 3rd Century b.c.e., Isaiah middle of second century b.c.e.

p163 Jewish non believers in Christ stopped using the Septuagint during the 1 century c.e. because it was then considered a Christian translation (before Christ, the non believing Jews had no problems with the LXX.) The New Testament quotes LXX (Septuagint) frequently. (e.g. Mathew 1:23 states "virgin" referring to Isaiah 7:14: Lxx states "virgin" but many Old Testaments use the Massoretic text which state "young woman"-virgin or otherwise.)

p164 285-247 B.C.E King Ptolemy of Alexandria commissioned the Jewish elders to do the translation of the LXX and obviously it is based on a much earlier Hebrew bible.

p182 The Jewish non believers felt the need to remove the Christian element from the LXX.

p184 Aquila made a special effort to replace renditions in the LXX. which had become Christian terms to the delight of the non believing Jews, even though, as a whole, his version was reject by the Christian community.

p101 During the rebuilding of a synagogue in Cairo in 1890 manuscripts were found which were dated before the 9 century. Of the Massoretic texts found, some showed considerable textual divergences from the present Massoretic texts.

In Conclusion
Hebrew words of the Old Testament books were originally written without vowels but they were later added. With a dot or dash extra or omitted the meaning of those words could change and even certain consonants were very similar in shape with only a slight difference between them making errors possible. Point being that the Greek alphabet characters are a whole lot more distinguishable then the Hebrew alphabet making the Greek alphabet less prone to error due to copying. When translating from Hebrew to Greek some loss of meaning does occur and then translating Greek to English more obviously occurs so a direct translation from Hebrew to English would cut down on those losses.

The Vorlage has been lost in the centuries and no longer exist so the next best Hebrew manuscript to translate from is the Massoretic text. The most accurate Massoretic text was reached after researching the many and reaching a final form which was stabilized with the invention of the printing press, no longer copied by hand by the many individuals. How true this Massoretic text of the Old Testament is to the original Hebrew books is uncertain but it is as true as the people who worked on it could make it even though they may have been influenced by their own theological ideas.

As Jesus and his disciples quoted from the Greek version (LXX) of the Old Testament some passages may be obscure in the Massoretic texts and an English translation of the Septuagint is needed to fully reveal those passage. The LXX version shows a clearer light on the passages that refer to Christ while the Massoretic text seems to dulls it's text on those matters which is probably why the non believing Jews rejected the LXX at that time and switched to the Massoretic text. As long as the passages in the Old Testament don't deal with the Son of God coming into the world then the Massoretic text is probably the more accurate of the two when dealing with translating the words into their English equivalent meanings.

As it was then and as it is now, nothing the sinful world would like more than make the Son of God and everything to do with Him disappear so that the Satanic kingdom can flourish without opposition or conscience till the time of it's damnation.

Matthew 28:11-15 (NRSV)
The Report of the Guard 11 While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened. 12 After the priests had assembled with the elders, they devised a plan to give a large sum of money to the soldiers, 13 telling them, "You must say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.' 14 If this comes to the governor's ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble." 15 So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story is still told among the Jews to this day.

John 9:13-34 (NRSV)
The Pharisees Investigate the Healing 13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. 14 Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15 Then the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I see." 16 Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not observe the sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?" And they were divided. 17 So they said again to the blind man, "What do you say about him? It was your eyes he opened."

He said, "He is a prophet." 18 The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight 19 and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?" 20 His parents answered, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 21 but we do not know how it is that now he sees, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself." 22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. 23 Therefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."24 So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and they said to him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner."

25 He answered, "I do not know whether he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see." 26 They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" 27 He answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?" 28 Then they reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from." 30 The man answered, "Here is an astonishing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but he does listen to one who worships him and obeys his will. 32 Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." 34 They answered him, "You were born entirely in sins, and are you trying to teach us?" And they drove him out.

DOUBTS

Matthew 13:1-9 (NRSV)
13 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. ²Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. ³And he told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow. ⁴And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. ⁵Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. ⁶But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. ⁷Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. ⁸Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. ⁹Let anyone with ears listen!”

Matthew 13:18-23 (NRSV)
The Parable of the Sower Explained¹⁸“Hear then the parable of the sower. ¹⁹When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path. ²⁰As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; ²¹yet such a person has no root, but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away. ²²As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing. ²³But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”

Faith in God requires a person to keep digging into the Word of God to understand God better so that they can fend off the devil when he tries to destroy that God spark that was created in them by the Word of God.

Doubts, persecutions, the love of the world and its riches are ploys the Devil uses to destroy a persons faith but the thing that I wish to focus on is doubts, as it is the least obvious but by far the most destructive in extinguishing people's faith.

The faithless theologians who study Christianity, which from this point will be referred to as atheist historians, are motivated by everything else but God. With their degrees and the backing of those that oppose God they produce destructive one sided programs and materials which either cast doubt on Jesus or the books of the bible. People are influenced into doubt by these theological degree holding atheist historians to their own destruction. To illustrate my points I will play the part of an atheist historian in analysing the 9-11 tragedy.

A.H. (atheist historian) : The 9-11 incident did not occur because the reporter was no where in that vicinity and he does not know the lay out of the city so the whole story was a fabrication.

C (commentary): Just because the A.H. thinks the reporter was not at the incident and made an error in a particular landmark does not mean that the story was a fabrication as their were a whole lot of eye witness that saw the incident.

C: When something important has happened the first thing is to get the news out, more details are added later to fill in the gaps in the original report.

C: The details and the additions might not be 100% correct between each witness who told their story of what happened to the reporter who finally wrote down the detailed report but you can bet your life that all will remember the life changing unbelievable event of two jumbos running into two skyscrapers causing them to collapse to the ground.

It is the unbelievable, out of the ordinary, supernatural events that people remember in great detail and not so much the lesser events surrounding them.

Let the Word of God sink deep within your hearts and nourish it with the continuous study and application of the Word in your lives so that your knowledge and faith will touch others to begin their quest into devoting their lives to the Creator of all things and not to the destroyer who perverts all good things.

In this way the children of God bear fruit by helping others in their search to find God.

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Jesus the Word

When a person speaks words they are verbal expressions of the thoughts of that person and those verbal expressions have the full backing of the man that spoke them even though the words have left the person that spoke them.

Genesis 15:1 (NRSV)
15 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram,
I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”

Humm!!
So many time in the Old Testament/Tanack when God speaks to His people it is worded as above. The single "Word" of God conveys a message of words, to Abram in this case. Why isn't it the "words" of the Lord came to Abram unless all the words of God are contained in the singular Word of God. Two characteristic of this Hebrew word that has been translated into English is that this word is a noun and masculine.

The Hebrew word for the "Spirit" of God is noun and feminine which expresses the idea that God's thoughts are conveyed by God's Word which is then given birth by the power of the Spirit of God.

God's: Thought- "Let there be light", Word-"The thought is verbalised and goes out", Spirit-"Gives birth to that verbalised idea"

Deuteronomy 5:23-27 (NRSV)
23 When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you approached me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders; 24 and you said, “Look, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that God may speak to someone and the person may still live. 25 So now why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, we shall die. 26 For who is there of all flesh that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and remained alive? 27 Go near, you yourself, and hear all that the Lord our God will say. Then tell us everything that the Lord our God tells you, and we will listen and do it.”

Humm!!
Nearly all the people were afraid to death of the Word of God when the voice came out of nowhere so Moses was asked to be a go between, to mediate between God and His people.

Deuteronomy 18:15-18 (NRSV)
15 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet. 16 This is what you requested of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said: “If I hear the voice of the Lord my God any more, or ever again see this great fire, I will die.” 17 Then the Lord replied to me: “They are right in what they have said. 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.

Humm!!
God told Moses that God would raise up another prophet like Moses who spoke the mind of God but the major difference is that this time God's Word would come directly out of His mouth i.e. this prophet was the direct mouthpiece of God. Instead of God's Word coming to us from a mountain or a bush the Word is housed in a Human being, which people are a whole lot more comfortable with.

John 1:1-18 (NRSV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. 9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. 15 (John testified to him and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’ ”) 16 From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.

Humm!!
God is all seeing, all knowing and in every atom of creation while people and angels are created and housed in their bodies giving them individualities, apart from God. The action of these individualities are free to follow God's perfect will or rebel against God's will causing destruction to God's harmony.

God created family for God but if the members of that family turn their backs on God then they will in time, forever be cast out of God to the hell's of their creation. Jesus is the focal point of God's Word creating the harmony between the individuals and God, being of one mind with God the Father and God's Spirit.

There is only one God and yet God is shown as plural form in some bible verses which others take as meaning that their are more gods than the one God so they make gods out of angels or even mankind themselves which is not true. God the Father(the Source) of God's Word/Jesus carried out by God's Spirit are of one mind and purpose.

Are not the spoken words of a man, now separate from that man that spoke them, have a power and a life of their own to cause change directly according to the thoughts of that man that spoke them with the full force of the man behind those words. How much more so with God's Word that was formed into a man called Jesus who is the focal point of the omnipresent God for all the created individuals.

John 8:58 (NKJV)
58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”

Humm!!
What Jesus is saying that He is the same "I Am" that was revealed to Moses years before He came in human form.

Exodus 3:13-14 (NRSV)
13 But Moses said to God, “If I come to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I Am Who I Am.” He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I Am has sent me to you.’ ”

Humm!!
Who is the I Am but God as it is clearly revealed in the above scripture. Although the Word/Jesus came out from God, Jesus still is one mind with God. Jesus is the human part of God who interacts with humankind and those that cut themselves from Jesus cut themselves off from God.

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The world wide flood!

Concluding remarks: It doesn't take a brain surgeon to realise that the universe is going from a state of high energy to a state of low energy (stars' fuel will eventually burn out) bring one to the conclusion that due to the intelligent design of the universe, both macro and micro, there was and still is an intelligence behind it. Those who reject God and argue that there is no Creator build there foundations on the flimsiest of evidence, stringing it all together into one enormous bundle of impossibilities. The rational person on the other hand can see that bundle and realise that it is simply impossible for creation to exist without God.

Wouldn't God show Himself to those that are made in the image of God and God did, in Jesus. Jesus defied the natural process of things by coming to life again as non living objects stay as such, non living. The worldwide flood evidence is just another event that the straw people are trying to disprove in there never ending quest to deceive and be deceived into believing that there is no God. The world is filling up with just too many of these modern day experts who are thousands of years removed from the actual events recorded in the bible.