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Hunting and Fishing

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I am NOT a hunter and I never went hunting. I am NOT a fisherman and never go fishing. Yet I do NOT agree with Vegans, who equate it with murder. I believe that for most of human history it was necessary to hunt or fish in order to survive. Also, Jesus Christ Himself had shown approval of killing animals for food. See the Gospel of John's chapter 21, verses 5-13. However, todays' hunting and fishing is often a far different matter. That is because modern grocery stores and food markets eliminate the need for hunting and fishing for the overwhelming majority of people. Perhaps many can eliminate meat eating altogether, due to the potential nutrition in such wide varieties of food available today, plus modern vitamin pills. But instead, worse things. Namely, sport hunting and fishing: killing animals, putting them in distress, and giving them pain for no reason whatsoever. And the perverted pride of having conquered another living thing, which unlike combat sports between humans,...

Accusing Devils

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                                                              Am I  hateful, linked to hate groups per Internet claims, or promote hate? Again, NO. 1) Any manifestation of hate ALWAYS includes severely mistreating others OR advocating for severe abuse of others. One can be secretly hateful without such indications. But you cannot know that without being a mind reader.  Without such evidence, shut up and quit judging.   See my 6-minute video on hate for more information.   It has been said that my content is widely regarded as hateful. But here's why: The political spectrum can be divided into extra-liberal, standard liberal, moderate, standard conservative, and extra-conservative or Alt-Right. And the dominant pattern is that the more liberal one is, the more people they accuse of hate. And generally, the...

Christian Divorce/Remarriage: An Intro

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                                                                    My parents are not religious.  But they were only married once, to the same person for 63 years!  Yet I have encountered churchgoers who were on their fourth marriage! Today's believers bring SHAME and discredit the cause of Christ. Jesus allowed divorce and remarriage for ONLY ONE reason (Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 19:9, Mark 10:11-12, Luke 16:18, Romans 7:2-3 KJV). Early Church father Origen stated that even one spouse poisoning the other or killing their child would not be grounds for divorce. The two become one flesh as Jesus said.  Paul's 1st Corint hians 7:15 is no addition. Rather, desertion affords the strongest presumption of Jesus's exception: adultery. That is because it is human nature that those who were married do not remain ...

Multiculturalism

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                                                                  I'm unconcerned with differences between interculturalism, multiculturalism, poly-culturalism, or trans-culturalism. They all view the mixing of cultures, ethnicities, and races as good. Rather, it's that verses the conservative historical value of separation.  As far as multiculturalism in the early Church, Internet sources are *extremely dishonest*. They essentially say the Church was fully multicult.  But here is what is behind that:   In the Bible's pre-Mosaic and Jewish ages, Yahweh's people were commanded to be fully separate from all others, culturally, ethnically, geographically, and racially.  Any mixing resulted in war, the Israelites being captured or capturing others, or their falling away from the LORD.  But the adven...

The Holocaust

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The word holocaust comes from the Greek word holokaustos, meaning a whole burnt offering. This term appears in the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Old Testament circa 250 BC which Jesus and His disciples quoted from.  In over 250 places most Bibles use the words burnt offering or offerings. For example, Genesis 8:20, Leviticus chapter 1, Psalm 50:8, and Hebrews 10:8. Some Bibles used the words holocaust, holocausts, holocausto, holocaustos, or holocaustum. This includes the Latin Vulgate circa AD 390, the Douay-Rheims of 1610 and its 18th century revisions, 1970's  New American Bible , and Portuguese and Spanish versions as late as the year 2000. And it only meant burning by fire.  Along came the book titled Night, all of which I listened to on audio. It was written by Elie Wiesel, who was held in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Monowitz concentration camps. In it he made the following claims: In the Gleason Forest infants were tossed into the air and used as targets f...

Am I a Deist?

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                                                                Ayo.  Am I a deist? NO.  Deism is belief in the existence of a supreme creator who has  never intervened in the universe after having created it. In other words, they would say that God, after creating Earth and the laws governing her  never interfered with the operation of those laws.  That is, rejecting any supernatural intervention in human affairs.  Also, most Deists reject any revelation as a source of divine knowledge and that God never interacted with humanity. That is, God's existence is revealed through nature  only . I do believe that God is primarily revealed through Nature, but NOT nature only. I believe that God's major revelation came through Him taking on human flesh in the person of Jesus Christ. I believe that on e...

Hebrew

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                                                                  Robert Lee,  Since truths draw us closer to Christ and misinformation pulls us away, I say:  Biblical Hebrew is NOT precise. 1) Besides lacking vowels, the original vowel markings and thus original pronunciations are lost to history. 2) The original full Hebrew text body is lost to history. There are huge differences between our Masoretic text and every other early witness of the text (such as 2,600 differences in the Great Isaiah Scroll alone). 3) Biblical Hebrew is highly polysemous: that is, single words often having very different meanings, depending on context, fostering inaccurate translation. Then some words are hapax legomena (unique words that lack clues to interpretation).   4) Quoting the Jewish Encyclopedia (whose scholarship R...

Am I a Pantheist?

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                                                                                        Ayo.  Am I a pantheist? NO.  And I was NEVER a pantheist. Pantheism is the belief that the universe envisioned as a whole is God, and that there is no God besides the combined forces, laws, and substance contained in our existing universe. I believe in an Almighty God who created the entire universe, who sits or stands above everything else, and who will personally judge us.  You will never find a pantheist among those who prefer mainstream church groups like I do. You may, however, find some pantheists among some Buddhist or Hindu groups, and many pantheists among neopagan and Unitarian Universalist groups. I am monotheist but reject common monotheism. That's because p...

Most Evil People?

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                                                                       As  you probably know, every list of the most evil or worst people in history features Adolf Hitler. Often number one worst. Sometimes a couple leaders of Hitler's NSDAP party, such as Heinrich Himmler and Herman Goering are also included.  Yes, the majority on such lists had nothing to do with Hitler or so-called Nazis. HOWEVER, a thousand different people can qualify as most evil or worst. Yet we never hear about most of them. In stark contrast, in just one day, if you surf the web, read the city newspaper, or watch television long enough, you'll probably come across a mention of Hitler, Nazis, or what most call the Holocaust. And that's 365 days a year.  And for Mr. Hitler to have done what they say he did, he would have n...

True Equality

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                                                                                Real talk. There is TRUE equality, aaaaaannd....... FALSE equality. That is, forcing the idea of equalness upon ways we are very unequal.   Now I believe  that every human possesses a spirit of equal value inside them. This includes black, brown, red, white, and yellow. Female and male. Speaking Arabic, Chinese, English, Hindi, Russian, Spanish, or unable to speak.  Rich and famous movie stars and poor people nobody knows.  Very short, very tall, and numerous other differences.  Also, that this ubiquitous equality never changes.  My  belief can be compared to the imago Dei or image of God concept. But I ignore all other conclusions one can draw from that notion. I ONLY...

Real Texas Chainsaw Massacres

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                                                                      The movie  Texas Chainsaw Massacre first came out in 1974.  As of this post, it was followed by eight other films, the last in 2022.  In them, a patriotic White American family kidnaps, tortures, terrorizes, mutilates, murders, and cannibalizes unsuspecting passers through. Texas Chainsaw was originally marketed as based on a true story. But due to our computer information age, Internet research can quickly refute such falsehood. People still try to stupidly compare their main character Leatherface with Ed Gein, though there is almost no resemblance.  P lease prevent children from watching such movies. And if you are underage, please don't watch them. For mature adults, t his film series  properly teaches how degenerate h...

The Early Church & Spiritual Gifts

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                                      "These signs shall  [future tense] follow them that believe; In My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Mark 16:17-18 KJV.   These follow-ing signs were to confirm the Gospel word (Mark 16:20). Again, all future tense. Then the tremendous outpouring of the Holy Spirit, with His gifts, in Acts Chapter 2. Peter explained that this is that prophes-ied by Joel in Joel 2:28-30.    That is,   it was needed. Otherwise, the Way of Christ would likely be totally rejected as it was brand new and appeared to contradict the status quo.  There was another outpouring, on the Gentiles (Acts 10:44-48) to show that they too were accepted, and to expand the Kingdo...

Truth About World Religions

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                                                                      1) Commonly Accepted Data:  Here's a rough estimate of common statistics on Earth's people who do or do not adhere to various religions:    Christianity 32%,  Islam 25%, Hinduism 15%, Buddhism 5%, Nonreligious 19%, and Other 4%.  I see myself in the other category.  Some break it down further between Protestants and Catholics, Shia and Sunni Muslims, Judaism, Chinese folk religions, Zen, tribal, liberals and conservatives, and so forth. Regardless, it only indicates what TRADITION one does or does not likely adhere to, NOT the full person or their convictions.   2) Definitions:  A  religion does NOT require  belief in or worship of a God or gods. It does not even require belief in the superna...

Unique Take on Stars

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I consider the mind or a mind-like aspect to be ubiquitous (ever-pervading) throughout reality. This includes entities like stars being intelligent beings with a modicum of free will. That is, panpsychism. It comes from the Greek words pan (everything) and psych (soul or mind). See my video titled Could the Sun be Alive? OR Ancient Notion of Panpsychism. This view is not unique.   For instance, Gregory L. Matloff from New York's College of Technology's physics department concluded that panpsychism might emerge from philosophy to become a subdivision of observational astrophysics. That is, become an observational science.  And o utside of the dubious spacetime theory,  I subscribe wholesale to the established principles of electromagnetic, gravitational, and nuclear forces, and all principles of chemical reactions and particular behaviors of various elements, heat, motion, and kinetic energy, and their impact on star formation and so-called stellar evolution.   ...

Church & State: Point & Counterpoint

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                                        Yo. 1) Most Christ-believers in the U.S. cry for separation of Church and State, including a video maker who recently called Church/State unification idiotic and bad.  2) I sympathize with his concern that such systematic religion might crush individual personalities. 3) Also, his concern about the danger of it leading to a One World Government or New World Order.  4) Many worry that integration could allow governments to prohibit certain religions or 5) coerce everyone to believe and practice certain things. So, separation is allegedly crucial for religious freedom.  6) It's said that separation of Church and State is a fundamental principle of modern democracy.   Now this is not just a black and white issue. There are various grey areas.  That is, degrees of separation and integration instead of all or nothing. Respon...

United We Stand?

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Super-Sovereignty VS. Free Will

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                                                          I want as many to be saved as possible. So, I try to eliminate any unnecessary barriers that block one  from God.   Consider former Christian and now Atheist Vel who calls herself " Club Schadenfreude".  Besides her video with TV evangelist Ray Comfort, she and I bantered on WordPress. Her complaint was "The bible teaches Calvinist predestination. That is, this god already chose who it will save, then damns the rest through no fault of their own."  And "Your god has no interest in free will per your own bible, that states that this god has already chosen who it will allow to be a Christian."     First, some explain that the words predestinate and predestinated as used in the Bible simply mean that whatever path we chose, we would naturally arrive at the...

Gender & Deception

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Dear Preacher, I hear tell that you are teaching on male and female personhood with some good info.  And  I'm sure yo...

LOGIC: Help or Hinderance?

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                                                                I shall start with discussing the use of logic in our everyday material world, then the use of logic for religion.  Now is trying to apply logic a bad idea? Is it always a good idea? Or does applying it strongly depend on specific circumstances of everyday life?  First, a simple definition of logic is, the science of correct reasoning. Also, a logical conclusion is one seen by rational analysis as inevitable or necessary due to an interrelation, connection, or sequence of facts. Therefore, some things do not require logical reasoning, because they are immediately obvious. For example, someone did not look where they were walking, so their head became acquainted with a metal pole. For some other things you cannot apply logic because you have zero information...