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Casual Evangelical Blasphemy

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  An Anonymous evangelical friend shared this. It is emblematic of the truncation of Christian understanding that exists in evangelical confusion. I'm sure that she "means well" and has a Zeal for what is right. Yet, I'm sure that she doesn't have a clue how false, demeaning, and insulting this meme is. Why? I'm guessing it is ignorant Christology, that she is Arian without knowing it, or at the very least solidly Nestorian.    Can you tell me the demonic lie in this meme?    Do you understand the blasphemy here?    Let me give you a hint. Jesus' conception by the Blessed Virgin and the Holy Spirit was known to the Father before time began, it was prophesied and promised to the proto-woman, Eve, and became the central theme of all the History of the Old Testament. Before there was Moses and the Ten Commandments, before there was a Jewish people, the righteous gentile Job, proclaimed the plan, saying, " Job 19:23ff Oh that my words were now writt

To Stand and Fight or Wallow in Poverty

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I did not begin to heal until I learned the lesson that my healing had to be the healing of my entire life, that as cruel and brutal as some of the early lessons were, and some were very cruel and very difficult, they were in my life to save me from worse.   Past pain, the lingering shock of past trauma, must be turned over to God. The lessons learned, but we, ourselves not controlled by the shock or the emotion they caused - renewing our NOUS "heart-mind" by the presence of the Holy Spirit, making us loving warriors and never the victim of lingering fear.   My pastor said to me, well over 60 years ago, after I was attacked, abused, and sliced for fun by a gang of teenage thugs. "Fear hath torment, and I know who the tormentor is. You must conquer the tormenting thoughts, or they will ever attack you." I did, and they became frightened of me, and unless someone else mentioned being abused, I never thought about it. Fear has torment, and I know who the tormentor is.

Liberty

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  June 26, 2016 Jesus Christ has set us at liberty to do what love demands. There is no other liberty. That is the sole purview of liberty, that is, doing what love demands.    I had a conversation with a bitter Libertarian today. A rabid Trump hater. The Libertarians in America have constructed a mythology of the Golden Age of American Liberty, the age of the founders, and they trumpet the broken and flawed document of the American Constitution, a document that said some men were only 3/5th human as if God inspired that document. Some conservatives deluded by the Christian Dominionist Movement actually make the claim that the U.S. Constitution was inspired by God. But let us be clear, If it was, that god was Moloch because 80 years later, it took the sacrifice of more than Seven Hundred Thousand men to redact the document and change that 3/5th of a man to a whole human being.    Before you curse me for the sake of your own mythology, let me share with you that Christianity is the cure

Saint John Maximovitch on The Feast of All Saints of Russia.

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ST JOHN OF SHANGHAI ON THE SUNDAY OF ALL SAINTS OF RUSSIA The feast of All Saints of Russia is not a feast of just righteous ones, but of saints. God is filled with holiness; "Holy is the Lord our God." But man is created in the "image and likeness" of God, and the Lord at creation breathed into him the power to partake of the Divine essence, and thereby come closer to God. And the closer a man is to God, the holier he is. Saints are those who have partaken of the Divine essence and made it their own; to God, they become "His own." The saints enjoy blessedness, for God is blessed. From them there is light for men. Through them the power of God is revealed   Celebrating the saints, we desire to be together with them and to acquire the power of God through their holiness. They know us, our nature, our characteristics and spirits, and they know our souls, too--what is necessary for us. We are close to them as children are close to their parents. The Apostle P

Roe V Wade Overturned but Abortion will continue in many states.

People are angry with me for stating the truth about the overturn of Roe. People are celebrating as if the scourge of abortion has been removed from our nation, and it has not been removed. Only a very few states have banned abortion. Including those states, twenty-two have "limited it" somewhat, at least to the level of the abortion laws in Europe. A few states have passed laws, like California, that are really Luciferian and condone all abortions for any reason, any time, including infanticide.  Placing the best spin on the present situation, we can't say that the Federal Courts won't wade into the debate again. The struggle to remove the scourge from our nation continues, just with different rules. Bob Lawton is typical of the people who apply fantasy to the Roe ruling. He see "a dark cloud having been removed from over America" and that somehow a single Supreme Court belated decision for Liberty portends salvation for America. Bob Lawton This fight will