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Politics & Religion & Life! - From A Christian Worldview! Not Trying To Upset Anyone - But Probably Doing A Good Job Of It. - Some Claim I Occasionally Exaggerate A Bit To Make A Point But They Are 110% Wrong!!! - Disclaimer: I Don't Know - I'm Just saying + I Was Just Thinking This In My Head!
There is an organization named "Man Will Never Fly"! I have never protested that organization because for one thing - My Dad was a Pilot for a Major Airline! Secondly, I personally have 2 million Frequent Flyer Miles with Delta Air Lines!
So why do these people who don't believe in God feel a need to meet on Sundays? The answer is quite simple! God created a hole in our hearts that must be filled with something! The best thing that we can add to our hearts is the One True God of the Bible who loves us so much that He sent His Son to die for us! Others choose false religions but most prefer to just fill that void with themselves & their own idols - whatever they might be.
Usually people create idols out of good things such as personal achievements, social status or even family!
My guess is that these people enjoy their own personal sins to much & refuse to accept the Savior's offer for forgiveness & must simply fabricate their own way!
By the way - these atheist meetings don't even come close to a real Mega-Church where thousands meet. Check out the video below & note the size crowds at a BG Meeting: Here's a much better avenue for filling the void in our hearts that only Jesus Christ can fill: Excitement, Love & True Happiness!
1) Some scientist say that the universe is 150 billion light years in size. What's beyond that? (If you say nothing, what's a billion light years further out? Beyond that?) Tell me if you can...
2) Going back several generations in your family, what would have happened if your "great-great- great" had never met your "great-great-great"? (Where would you be right now?)
3) Agnostics & Atheists question or deny the afterlife - however, question how one of them, yourself or a Christian would think, feel, be comforted by the existence of the afterlife 15 minutes before pending death?
4) The Bible states that God has always existed & created the Universe & our World in the past. What did He do before this?
5) The Bible teaches that God is 3 in 1 as well as 1 in 3. If the Bible is not true, explain the origin of this doctrine?
6) Answer any of the questions in Job 38-42 if you can...
7) How does the Bible teach that anyone can become a Christian & learn the answers to questions 1-6 above when they reach Heaven?
There are certain words that when they turn into events in our lives, we are changed forever! They can NOT be reversed - ever! Graduation Marriage Hospitalization
Sex Lying Stealing Divorce Birth Death
Murder Suicide Engagement Kiss Date Honeymoon Moving Terminal Crash
When one or more words turn into an event in our lives - or someone near to us or a family member, our lives are changed forever! Perhaps you can name many other live changing events: Birthday, Slap, Smile, Flirt, Adultery, etc,
The event can NOT ever be undone! We can Marry & we can Divorce but both are events that forever shape our lives. We can NOT undo - for instance - having sex with someone! Whether it happens to be normal Sex between a man & a woman or perversions such as homo - sexuality, the event can never be undone. The dead (usually) do NOT become alive again in this life.
For example: Hollywood, the Media & Politically Correct thinking say that Sex can be a casual thing with no lasting consequences however our Creator God of the Bible states otherwise! Whom shall we believe. At the end of our lives, whom shall we be happy that we listened to?
Fortunately, there are more life changing words such as: Forgiveness Repentance Regeneration
Salvation Fellowship Happiness Details on ways to bring these new words into our lives: 1) For ALL (Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhist, Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist, Brazilians, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) have sinned & fall short of the glory of God.
2) For the wages of above (see #1) are DEATH (Hell, eternal separation from God, & damnation) but the Gift (free & at no charge to you) of God (Creator, Jehovah, & Trinity) is Eternal Life (Heaven) through (in union with) Jesus Christ (God, Lord, 2nd Person of the Trinity, Messiah, Prince of Peace & Savior of the World).
3) For God so greatly loved & dearly prized the world (Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhist, Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist, Brazilians, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) that He even gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, that whosoever (anyone, anywhere, anytime - while still living) believes (trust in, relies on, clings to, depends completely on) Him shall have eternal (everlasting) life (heaven).
4) Jesus said: "I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH, & THE LIFE. No one (male/female - American, Muslim, Jew, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist, Asian, Presbyterian, European, Baptist, Brazilian, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc. ) comes (arrives) to the Father (with GOD in Heaven) EXCEPT BY (through) ME (no other name).
This wonderful loving GOD gives you the choice - (Rev. 3:20)
{Please note that church membership, baptism, doing good things, etc. are not requirements for becoming a Christian - however they are great afterwards!!!}
Jesus said, "Wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction (Hell, damnation, eternal punishment), and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life (Heaven, eternal happiness, forever with God), and only a few find it.
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Wist u dat de God van u houdt? Avez-vous su que Dieu vous aime? Wußten Sie, daß Gott Sie liebt? Avete saputo che il dio li ama? Você soube que o deus o ama? ¿Usted sabía que el dios le ama?
If the Son of God was put to death in a decidedly torturous and cruel way, why do Christians call the day Good?
If Jesus' Father loved Him so much, why did He insist upon His death as so many critics of Christianity lament?
The answer is really quite simple and boils down to just two words: love and justice!
First off, God is the Judge of all the Universe and unlike many judges (and juries and attorneys), He is neither partial or unfair. Who can bribe Him and with what would they bribe Him with?
Let's create a little hypothetical scenario - Maybe a billion years ago or perhaps a trillion, there was One God and Three Persons just as there is now. None of us can understand this concept which for one means that man didn't create this doctrine of the Holy Trinity and it explains perfectly where love originated!
Now in our scenario, one Member of the Trinity suggest that the Universe (along with our tiny planet will be created and that this planet will be populated with humans that will be different from all animals because these persons will have a soul that lives on forever and with freedom of choice to serve or not to serve their Creator.
Since the One True God, the Trinity, knows the future and what it holds, it was known that all of us would choose to go our own way and ignore our Creator and would have to be judged by our Creator. The Judge of all the Universe knew that these future beings - mankind - would have to be punished unless a way of escape could be made. So, the 2nd Member said that He would be willing to go down to this tiny little planet because He loved you, me and everybody else so much that He would take our punishment upon Himself and this would meet all the legal requirements for everyone who accepted this pardon and believed in Him. All three Members of the Holy Trinity thought this was a very good idea and so it was put into place at the appointed time (this is the end of our scenario because in actuality God is both omniscient and eternal and has always known what would happen in the future and nothing ever catches Him by surprise or off guard).
Therefore, Good Friday is Good because it demonstrates His love for us while we were still law breakers and His offer is open to all who ever lived, alive now or yet to be born and this offer meets all the legal requirements of a God who never winks at sin. In fact, heaven would be hell if He did.
Just a word of warning, He only provided ONE WAY of escape and to try and substitute any other way is to totally reject the pardon that He so willingly offers to all mankind.
Just think about it! What love He has for us. Thank you God for Good Friday so that all who accept Your only way (Your pardon) might spend forever with You in total complete happiness, joy and perfection where never can even the smallest sin enter!!!
Personal Factoid: Accepted Creator's special offer at age 8.
Very often a movie or TV show offers some symbolism (even thought flawed because of our "fallen natures"). One show that clearly demonstrates - at least partially - the Trinity from the One True God of the Bible is the CBS New Mega-Hit show in it's first season: Person of Interest!
Consider that the mysterious computer system represents the 3rd Member of the Holy Trinity that seeks out those who are in trouble and in need of help.
Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), the reclusive billionaire represents God - The Father who desires to help (save) many & has great concern for any & all in dire straits!
John Reese (Jim Caviezel) represents (though imperfectly) the Second Member of the Trinity in the way that he puts his life on the line just as Jesus did on the Cross to save each of us!
Every TV show, movie, novel, commercial has a worldview - it's impossible not to - because we are creatures (fallen) of a perfect Creator & made in His image. Next time you watch any of these, see if you can figure out the Worldview - whether it is Biblical, anti-family, anti-American, pagan, humanistic, etc.
Another example of this is C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series where Aslan also represents the 2nd Member of the Trinity.
Show Details According To Wikipedia:
Person of Interest is an American television crime drama broadcasting on CBS. It is based on a screenplay developed by J. J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan. The series revolves around a former CIA agent (Jim Caviezel) recruited by a mysterious billionaire (Michael Emerson) to prevent violent crimes in New York City. On March 14, 2012, CBS announced that the series had been renewed for a second season.
John Reese (Jim Caviezel), a former Green Beret and CIA field officer, is living as a derelict in New York City after an unspecified incident which left him presumed dead. He is approached by Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), a reclusive billionaire who is also presumed dead and living under an assumed identity. Finch explains that after 9/11, he built a computer system for the government which uses information gleaned from omnipresent surveillance to predict future terrorist attacks. Finch discovered that the computer was predicting ordinary crimes as well. While the government was not interested in these results, Finch became interested in making sure that the crimes which were predicted were stopped. He hires Reese to act as the muscle and conduct surveillance. Through a back door which Finch had built into the system, the two receive a social security number for someone who will be involved in an imminent crime. Without knowing what the crime will be, when it will occur, or even if the person they're after is a victim or perpetrator, Reese and Finch must try to stop the crime from occurring.
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Aslan, the Great Lion, is the central character of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series. He is the eponymous lion of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and his role in Narnia is developed throughout the remaining books. He is also the only character to appear in all seven books of the series.
He is depicted as a talking lion, the King of Beasts, son of the Emperor-Over-the-Sea; a wise, compassionate, magical authority (both temporal and spiritual); mysterious and benevolent guide to the human children who visit; guardian and saviour of Narnia. The author, C. S. Lewis, described Aslan as an alternative version of Christ, that is, as the form in which Christ might have appeared in a fantasy world.
Aslan is Turkish for "lion" and was also used as a title by Seljuq and Ottoman rulers.
Throughout the series, it is stated that Aslan is "not a tame lion," since, despite his gentle and loving nature, he is powerful and can be dangerous. He has many followers, which include vast numbers of Talking Beasts, Centaurs, Fauns, Dryads, Dwarfs, Satyrs, Naiads, Hamadryads, Mermaids, Silvans, Unicorns, and Winged Horses. Lewis often capitalises the word lion, since, at least partially, he represents Jesus. - Wikipedia
Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The film was made by Samuel Goldwyn Productions and distributed by MGM. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the 1950 Broadway musical by composer and lyricist Frank Loesser, with a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows based on "The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon.
Variety ranked it as the #1 moneymaking film of 1956, netting a profit of $9,000,000. Guys and Dolls went on to gross $1.1 million in the UK, $1 million in Japan, and over $20 million dollars globally. - Wikipedia
In the first clip above, the beautiful Jean Simmons tells us what her Knight in Shining Armour will be like & that he will be nothing like Marlon Brando!
In the second & third clips - our couple have taken a one day trip to Romantic (in those days) Cuba and Jean Simmons mistakenly becomes intoxicated. She offers to miss the last plane home & thus lose her virginity to Brando but he refuses! He knows that (unlike today's Movies) sex before marriage is a bad thing & he is falling in love with this girl as they both declare in the fourth clip below upon their return from a day trip together after using their airline tickets to romantic places!
As a bonus below - Frank Sinatra sings the song that Marlin Brando sang to Jean Simmons in the hit 1956 movie:
Plot:
Although there are detail differences between the stage and movie versions, the plot is essentially based on the activities of New York petty criminals and professional gamblers in the late 1940s.
Gambler Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) is under pressure from all sides: He has to organize an unlicensed crap game but the police, led by Lieutenant Brannigan (Robert Keith), are "putting on the heat". All the places where Nathan usually holds his games refuse him entry due to Brannigan's intimidating pressure. The owner of the Biltmore garage does agree to host the game provided Nathan pays him $1000 in cash in advance. The garage owner will not even accept a "marker" or IOU, he insists on having the money itself. Adding to Nathan's problems, his fiancée, Miss Adelaide (Vivian Blaine), a nightclub singer, wants to bring an end to their 14-year engagement and actually tie the knot. She also wants him to go straight, but organizing illegal gambling is the only thing he's good at.
Trying to obtain the money for the garage, Nathan meets an old acquaintance, Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a gambler willing to bet on virtually anything and for high amounts. Nathan proposes a $1000 bet by which Sky must take a girl of Nathan's choosing to dinner in Havana, Cuba. The bet seems impossible for Sky to win when Nathan nominates Sergeant Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons), a straight-walking sister at the Save a Soul Mission (based on the Salvation Army) which opposes gambling.
Sarah herself has problems. She has been in charge of the Broadway branch of the Mission for some time now and no drunks or gamblers have come in to confess or reform. To approach Sarah, Sky pretends that he is a gambler who wants to change. Sarah sees how expensively dressed he is and she is suspicious: "It's just so unusual for a successful sinner to be unhappy about sin."
Seeing that the Mission is and has been empty and unsuccessful, "a store full of repentance and no customers", Sky suggests a bargain: He will get a dozen sinners into the Mission for her Thursday night meeting in return for her having dinner with him in Havana. With General Matilda Cartwright (Kathryn Givney) threatening to close the Broadway branch for lack of participation, Sarah has little choice left, and agrees to the date.
Confident that he will win his bet with Sky, Nathan has gathered together all the gamblers, including a visitor that tough-guy Harry the Horse (Sheldon Leonard) has invited: Big Jule (B.S. Pully), a Chicago mobster. When Lieutenant Brannigan appears and notices this gathering of "senior delinquents", Nathan's sidekick, Benny Southstreet (Johnny Silver) covers it up by claiming that they are celebrating the fact that Nathan is getting married to Adelaide. Nathan is shocked by this, but is forced to play along. Later, when he notices the Save a Soul Mission band passing by and sees that Sarah is not among them, he collapses on the realization that he has lost his bet with Sky. He has no money and nowhere to house the crap game, and, since Adelaide was present at the "wedding announcement" Benny Southstreet dreamed up, he is now apparently committed to actually marrying Adelaide. He does love Adelaide, but is uneasy about going straight, either maritally or lawfully.
Over the course of their short stay in Cuba, Sky manages to break down Sarah's social inhibitions, partly through disguised alcoholic drinks, and they begin to fall in love with one another. He even confesses that the whole date was part of a bet, but she forgives him as she realizes that his love for her is sincere.
They return to Broadway at dawn and meet the Save a Soul Mission band which, on Sky's advice, has been parading all night. At that moment police sirens can be heard, and before they know it the gamblers led by Nathan Detroit are hurrying out of a back room of the Mission, where they took advantage of the empty premises to hold the crap game.
The police arrive too late to make any arrests, but Lieutenant Brannigan finds the absence of Sarah and the other Save a Soul members too convenient to have been a coincidence. He implies that it was all Sky's doing: "Masterson, I had you in my big-time book. Now I suppose I'll have to reclassify you — under shills and decoys". His suspicions are passed on to Sarah, who dumps Sky there and then, refusing to accept his denials.
In the meantime Sky has to make good his arrangement with Sarah to provide sinners to the Mission. Sarah would rather forget the whole thing, but Uncle Arvide Abernathy (Regis Toomey), who acts as a kind of father figure to her, warns Sky that "If you don't make that marker good, I'm going to buzz it all over town you're a welcher."
Nathan has continued the crap game in a sewer. With his revolver visible in its shoulder holster, Big Jule, who has lost all his money, forces Nathan to play against him while he cheats, cleaning Nathan out. Sky enters and knocks Big Jule down and removes his pistol. Sky, who has been stung and devastated by Sarah's rejection, lies to Nathan about succeeding in the bet to take her to Havana, and pays Nathan the $1000. Nathan tells Big Jule he now has money to play him again, but Harry the Horse says that Big Jule can't play without cheating because "he cannot make a pass to save his soul". Sky overhears this, and the phrasing inspires him to make a bold bet: He will roll the dice, and if he loses he will give all the other gamblers $1000 each; if he wins they are all to attend a prayer meeting at the Mission.
The Mission is near to closing when suddenly the gamblers come parading in, taking up most of the room. Sky won the roll. They grudgingly confess their sins, though they show little sign of repentance: "Well ... I was always a bad guy. I was even a bad gambler. I would like to be a good guy and a good gambler. I thank you." Even Big Jule declares: "I used to be bad when I was a kid. But ever since then I've gone straight, as I can prove by my record — 33 arrests and no convictions." Nicely-Nicely Johnson (Stubby Kaye) however, recalling a dream he had the night before, seems to have an authentic connection to the Mission's aim, and this satisfies everyone.
When Nathan tells Sarah that Sky denied winning the Cuba bet, which she knows he won, she hurries off in order to make up with him.
It all ends with a double wedding in the middle of Times Square, with Sky marrying Sarah, and Nathan marrying Adelaide, who is given away by Lieutenant Brannigan. Arvide Abernathy performs the dual ceremony. Nicely-Nicely has joined the Save a Soul Mission, and he and General Matilda Cartwright are sweet on each other. As the film closes, the two newlywed couples are escorted from the wedding to their respective love nests inside police cars, with lights festively flashing and sirens blaring. - Wikipedia
"But the tax collector stood at a distance and dared not even lift his eyes to heaven as he prayed. Instead, he beat his chest in sorrow, saying, 'O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner.' I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God. For the proud will be humbled, but the humble will be honored." - Luke 18:13-15
Ron Paul didn’t win any of the first three nominating contests, and he plans to largely ignore Florida’s winner-take-all primary on Tuesday in favor of focusing on states that hold caucuses, like Nevada, Maine and Minnesota. By picking up delegates in nearly every state, Paul and his supporters could potentially wreak havoc at the Republican nominating convention this August. - Rachel Rose Hartman
Then watch him align with Romney (for a price) - a vote for Paul is a vote for Romney & against the two conservatives still in the race! Then we're back to a McCain-Obama Type Presidential Race with unexcited supporters which will lead to a 2nd Term for the Regime that has literally destroyed the Great American Economy. All thanks - in part - to those Ron Paul supporters! One might just wonder if they will might feel just a wee bit used!
One has to be amazed at the Spiritual Darkness that looms over our once great country & holds us with the chains of deepest aphotic darkness! Jesus said: "The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God."
The Roman emperor Diocletian, following an edict in 303 A.D., failed to stamp the Bible out. The French Revolution could not crush it with secular philosophy (Rousseau, one of its heroes, converted to Christianity). The Communists failed to stamp it out with atheism and political ideology. One might well ask why this book has been banned, burned, and bludgeoned with such animosity and scorn. The great Reformation hero John Calvin responds in this way: "Whenever people slander God's word. they show they feel within its power, however unwillingly or reluctantly." - Joe Boot
If you stop believing what your professor told you had to be true and if you start thinking for yourself you may come to some conclusions you hadn't expected. You may find the Bible makes more sense than you thought or were told to think. Allow yourself to be ruined, ruined with regard to what you always thought could be true. Can you believe what you don't understand? You and I believe everyday what we don't understand unless it comes to the issue of salvation. - - - Dr. Woodrow Kroll
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men and women live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter and with their hand on the door latch they die outside. - GK Chesterton
M.L. King more important than these guys in our great country's history? Only one American has his own holiday & it's Martin Luther King! Great American - yes - but certainly not the greatest.
We used to have a holiday for Lincoln & Washington but no more in politically correct America. In fact, just bringing up this subject makes one a racist in any liberal citizen's eyes. It's o.k. to mock, hoke, satirize, imitate, lampoon, mime, parody, satirize & feign any other holiday in the latitudinarian & humanistic liberal mindset (except maybe Labor Day) but never never say a critical word about today. No never!
Well, I guess I just did but folks! I'm just saying & was only thinking this in my head (today's way of saying something controversial but don't want to face the criticism - so you get a pass:O)
Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own country another way.
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him."
Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men. - Matthew 2
Just as in those days long ago, evil men seek to harm Jesus & kill babies. You may ask who these evil people are today? They - as their spiritual forefather Herod - kill far more babies than Herod did or even could have through abortion. These same people take every opportunity to harm the Christ Child by:
1) Removing Prayer & Bible reading from our schools (and oh, how the schools have suffered & become academically inferior since).
3) Attempting to change our nation from a somewhat Biblical Worldview to a Worldview of Paganism & Materialism.
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day--with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods--so they are doing to you also. - 1 Samuel 8:8
"He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. - Matthew 10:40
