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For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all. (Romans 11:32)
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes (Proverbs 21:2; see also Proverbs 12:15; 16:2).
the last part is not TRUE! God loves people, because they are His creation, but He hates the SIN they are commiting. When Jesus is telling His disciple to go into the world and preach the Gospel, that doesnot mean that His disciples should tell the people that Jesus hates them. How can you fall in love with a God Who is hating you, while in 1 John it is written: HE first loved us? If we meet people who don't know God, and tell them Jesus hates them in stead of telling that Jesus hates SIN, they will never fall in love with Him. YES, we tell them God is hating SIN, but NOT the people themselves.
Subject: Re: lesbians?
Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated. (Romans 9:13)
The LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. (Psalm 5:6)
All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them from My house; I will love them no more. (Hosea 9:15)
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you. (Leviticus 26:30)
The LORD tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates. (Psalm 11:5)
The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity. (Psalm 5:5)
and YES, we tell many many people who call themselves 'christians', but don't live according to the Word of God that they are NOT true believers!
4 He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. (1 John 2:4-5)?
15 To the pure [in heart and conscience] all things are pure, but to the defiled and corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are defiled and polluted.
if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery. (Mark 10:12)whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery. (Luke 16:18)
we tell many many people who call themselves 'christians', but don't live according to the Word of God that they are NOT true believers!
You “are NOT true believers!”
he who is spiritual judges all things (1 Corinthians 2:15).
This is no response to Adam. I thought it only right for him to see what I have written to you who are reading these emails. If he doesn’t want to see it, he doesn’t have to read it.
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. (Proverbs 23:9)
You take a verse and place it out of the context, . . . .
Surely God will not listen to empty talk, nor will the Almighty regard it. (Job 35:13)No one calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; they conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. (Isaiah 59:4; see also Isaiah 29:21 “and turn aside the just by empty words.”)Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. (Ephesians 5:6).
we tell many many people who call themselves 'christians', but don't live according to the Word of God that they are NOT true believers!
You “are NOT true believers!”
don't Judge, unless you will be judged, brother! you are not God . . . .
you make the same mistake as satan did to think you are better than me, and anyone else, . . . .
Please don't respond anymore.
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. (John 3:19-20)
Any feminine side of God is for Jane Fonda and women's lib, it isn't wanted in this household.
Say to wisdom, You are my sister, and call understanding your kinswoman (Proverbs 7:4 AKJV).
God does not cause people to sin.
For God has committed them all to disobedience [sin], that He might have mercy on all. (Romans 11:32)For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things [all things includes sin, context “disobedience”], to whom be glory forever. Amen. (Romans 11:36)
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. (Isaiah 45:7 KJV)
11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. (2 Samuel 12:11-12 KJV)Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? (Amos 3:6 KJV)37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? (Lamentations 3:37-38 KJV)And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. (Ezekiel 14:9 KJV)
O LORD, why have You made us stray from Your ways, and hardened our heart from Your fear? (Isaiah 63:17)
Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens. (Romans 9:18)
Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men who work iniquity; . . . (Psalm 141:4).
Neither did Christ die for every man, woman and child.
He is “The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29)He “gave Himself a ransom for all” (1 Timothy 2:6).He “is the Savior of all men” (1 Timothy 4:10).He “was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.” (Hebrews 2:10)He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. (1 John 2:2)We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one. (1 John 5:19)
If He had then He did in vain and His shed blood was ineffectual.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,6 if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame. (Hebrews 6:4-6)For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, (Hebrews 10:26).Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died. (Romans 14:15)And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? (1 Corinthians 8:11)
Dear Darwin,
A friend sent me this video link recently, and when I watched this man’s (his name is Alan Horvath) teachings on the Sacred Name of God, I became troubled. I am not certain that he is accurately handling (“rightly dividing”) the Word of Truth. Among other things, he asserts that every time we say "God," "Jesus," "holy," or "church" we are calling upon pagan gods. He asserts that our English word "church," for example, is derived from the Greek goddess "Circe," whereas according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the correct derivation of the English word "church" is ‘cir(i)ce, cyr(i)ce,’ related to Dutch ‘kerk’ and German ‘Kirche,’ based on medieval Greek ‘kurikon,’ from the Greek ‘kuriakon (dōma),’ Lord's (house), from’ kurios 'master or lord'.
Next, Mr. Horvath touts a Hebraicized version of the Scriptures called the HalleluYah Scriptures. I have never heard of this translation and am not sure it is accurate or trustworthy.
For the benefit of your readers, could you share your assessment of this man’s teachings, at least in regard to this one subject, and if you could, on the whole “Hebrew Roots Movement” from which this teaching seems to spring? Thank you very, very much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJVlv6_IOcE
Most sincerely,
Kaye Victor
Chicago, IL
`(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous [Qanna’], is a jealous God), (Exo 34:14)Sing to God, sing praises to His name; Extol Him who rides on the clouds, By His name YAH, And rejoice before Him. (Psa 68:4)But I am the Yahweh your God, Who divided the sea whose waves roared-- Yahweh of hosts [Yahweh Tseva’ot] is His name. (Isa 51:15)In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: YAHWEH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS (Jer 23:6)Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus," Says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts [Elohay Tseva’ot] (Amo 5:27)He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. (Rev 19:13)
His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. (Rev 19:12)
There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the sons of Israel. (NKJV)
There shall be no ritual holy one [qedashah] from the daughters of Israel, and there shall be no ritual holy one [qadash] from the sons of Israel.
The question comes up on occasion: When did the new covenant take effect? Hebrews 9:16 says,
For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Christ died in time and space once for the sins of mankind (Hebrews 9:26). And indeed, Hebrews 9:16 stands true. Nonetheless, notice the verse just before it.
And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. (Hebrews 9:15)
The death of the Mediator of the new covenant redeemed those under the old covenant. Thus, we see the effects of His death were retroactive, and the new covenant Mediator is the Savior of all mankind of all ages (past, present, and future). Moreover, Christ was “slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8). In a sense, “the death of the testator” (Hebrews 9:16) has always been. In eternity He has always been “the Lamb slain” (Rev. 13:8). John the Baptist declared about Christ before Christ died,
Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29)
Jesus has always been "The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8).
So He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?" (Mark 7:18-19)
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. (Genesis 9:3)
For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.
I probably should have mentioned the Greek word for “to marry” is used later in the chapter in verse 9, gamêsai (γαμῆσαι), which is the same Greek word used in Matthew 19:10 where the disciples say,
If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.
But this concept (Matthew 19:10) is not what Paul is addressing, specifically, in 1 Corinthians 7:1. It is corollary, as the rest of the chapter reveals. But, it is not the specific subject at hand, when he says, “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.” That is literally true, as Scripture bears witness.
For example, when the Israelites were about to meet God at Mt. Sinai, note what Moses said to the people.
Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives. (Exodus 19:15)
Why would he make this command? This was part of being “sanctified” (holy) in preparation to meet the Lord, as the verse just before it says,
So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. And he said to the people, "Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives." (Exodus 19:14-15)
In this case of Exodus 19 it is speaking of married men not touching their wives.
Likewise, note the discourse between David and Ahimelech when David was fleeing from Saul and was hungry. Remember, David was married at this point.
And the priest answered David and said, "There is no common bread on hand; but there is holy bread, if the young men have at least kept themselves from women."5 Then David answered the priest, and said to him, "Truly, women have been kept from us about three days since I came out. And the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in effect common, even though it was sanctified in the vessel this day." (1 Samuel 21:4-5)
Notice the time (three days) is the same amount of time given in Exodus 19 (vs. 11, 15-16), and in both cases it was a matter of holiness before God. I don’t claim to understand all this, except to say; it is clear Scripture portrays,
It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
It should be clear all of these contexts dictate the touching to be in a sexual way, as Paul wrote immediately after 1 Corinthians 7:1,
Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. (1 Corinthians 7:2)
In other words, nevertheless, go ahead and touch (obviously, sexually), but even after this, he gives a time in which they ought not.
Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. (1 Corinthians 7:5)
So, the “good for a man not to touch a woman” is found again here in time of fasting and prayer as the couple seeks God, which parallels the holiness before God mentioned above in Exodus 19 and 1 Samuel 21.
1 Corinthians 7:1 (“good for a man not to touch a woman”) was really key for me years ago in my single days. That truth kept me from sin as I realized the wisdom in it for a single man. God has made the male / female attraction quite strong and driven toward greater strength via simple touching of the opposite sex. Having fallen sexually in the past, later in my single years I committed myself to that truth (“good for a man not to touch a woman”) and determined not to touch a woman in a sexual way (hold hands, kiss, etc.) until I was married to her. I was so thankful for that truth, and once I found it, I never sinned again in that way. My wife and I’s first kiss was after the preacher pronounced us husband and wife. And with this start, our physical relationship has been special ever since.
Finally, the NIV doesn’t do well in 1 Corinthians 7 also later in the chapter. You may have seen this before, but this is what I wrote about that in an old blog post:
2-05-07
Someone wrote and asked about the NIV translation of 1 Corinthians 7:36-38. So, here is a note on that:
The NIV translation of 1 Corinthians 7:36-38 is terribly. The NIV translates gamizôn (or ekgamizôn) in verse 38 twice as "marry," but the word for marry here would be gamôn (as e.g. in Luke 16:18), if it were truly the word for marry. The word gamizôn (or ekgamizôn) is the word for being given in marriage, as in Matthew 24:38 and Mark 12:25. In fact, both of these passages have both words (to marry and be given in marriage), so the difference between the two words can be seen in Matthew 24:38 & in Mark 12:25.
Also, the NIV takes great liberty (Proverbs 30:5-6) in verse 36 by adding "he is engaged to." Those words are not there in the Greek, and that is why you don't find them in the KJV, NKJV, or NAS (three far better translations than the NIV).
Likewise, in verse 36 "he ought to marry" is not there either. Likewise, in verse 37 "not to marry" is not there either, but what is there is "keep his virgin." The Greek word for "keep" (têrein) is used. It is not the word for marry, as the NIV indicates.
Therefore, in 1 Corinthians 7:36-38 the NIV teaches it is better to defraud (1 Thessalonians 4:3-8). To give the promise of marriage (betrothal) and then not to consummate (i.e. not get married) is a serious case of defrauding (anticipation of sex, but then there is none) and breaking one's word (Psalm 15:4).
An exception to this would be if someone came to faith while engaged, and their fiance continued to be an unbeliever. In this case, 2 Corinthians 6:14 would have to be applied, and the betrothal dissolved. (www.atruechurch.info/archivedblog6.html)
24 `Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.25 `For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.26 `You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you27 `(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled),28 `lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.29 `For whoever commits any of these abominations, the persons who commit them shall be cut off from among their people.30 `Therefore you shall keep My ordinance, so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.'" (Leviticus 18:24-30)
But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
According to scholars, Jesus was most likely born in September or October - as shepherds would not have been out in the field this late in the year.
The Sumerian Tablets are 4,500 years old
The Torah is 3313 years old which is the Old Testiment in the bible.
This makes the Sumerian tablets 1187 years older than the Torah. If we take the 2 and compare them we can see how the Priests with their agenda changed the Torah from what really happened by looking at the Sumerian Tablets.
Coincidence?
Comparison: The Bible versus the Anunnaki stories
In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth and all life on Earth, man and woman, in 7 days resting on the 7th day. The garden of Eden where 4 rivers meet Pishon, Gihon, Tigress, Euphrates.
In the Anunnaki version the Anunnaki Enki lands on Earth with 50 Anunnaki Hero's and established Eridu in the Edin in 7 days making the 7th day a rest day. the Edin where 4 rivers meet. ( Mesopotamia, Iraq )
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And God said let us make man in our image and in our likeness. God made Man from the dust of the Earth, and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life and the man came to be a living soul. He called the man Adam
The Birth From The Anunnaki Of (Adamu and TiAmat).First Generation Earth humans. The Anunnaki toiled the Gold mines for 80 shars, over 300,000 years before creating worker helpers in thier image and thier likeness. Ningishzidda ( Enki's son ) engineers Anunnaki male human essence DNA with the oval egg of Homoerectus female in a vesel made from the clay of the Earth (like test tube baby) and inserts it into the womb of Ninmah(Ninharsag). Ninmah gives birth to Adamu. Same thing but for a girl, Enki inserts it into Damkina (Enki's spouse,Alalu's Daughter). Damkina gives birth to Tiamat. ADAMU & TIAMAT the models created in the Anunnaki's image.
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There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come by those who will come after. (Ecclesiastes 1:11; 2:16)
The Sumerian Tablets are 4,500 years old
The Torah is 3313 years old which is the Old Testiment in the bible.
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