christians attention

The Father is Lord of All.
The rest is "BS ON YOUR PART."
The time for tyrants and Kings is over.
Those are the words of Christ.

I'm not Catholic, we "confess" in silence
to the Father and follow the Son.
No priest, rabbi or other middlemen needed.

I've been healed by Christ from the
disease of mysticism, fear and guilt.
I don't celebrate His torture with
His blood on my hands. That's your gig.
Good luck with all that.

“All those desiring to live with godly devotion in association with Christ Jesus will also be persecuted.”—2 TIM. 3:12.


1. Why do we need to prepare for persecution?

ON THE night before our Lord Jesus was put to death, he said that all who choose to be his disciples will be hated. (John 17:14) Up until now, faithful Christian Witnesses of Jehovah have been persecuted by those who oppose true worship. (2 Tim. 3:12) As the end of this system of things draws closer, we expect our enemies to oppose us even more.—Matt. 24:9.Prepare now for persecutation.

We've more than established that that ^^^^ is pure crap from a false, new-age, channeled garbage source.

It’s worse today than Weimar Germany.
Jevs didn’t teach children sodomy back then.
You wanna talk about CRAP, Ba'abs?

Magnus Hirschfeld, who was Jevish and gay, was a pioneer
for rights and liberation in Berlin’s thriving LGBTQ community.

Hirschfeld’s early publications laid the groundwork for his profile to rise
until he became one of the most prominent LGBTQ activists in the world.
He even co-wrote one of the first ghey characters to appear in a film,
for 1919’s Different From the Others.

In 1919 he saw a long-cherished dream come true: on July 6,
he opened the “Institute for Sexual Science” in Berlin-Tiergarten,
the first of its kind in the world.

In 1933 the Hister Youth burned it to the ground.

you are taking that verse out of context and twisting it to fit your agenda, its your attempt to "justify" the false crap you push.

The book of ephesians was written by Paul, the apostle that hillbilly hatemongers against constantly as seen throughout this thread.

Ephesians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

He was speaking/advising the people of the church of Ephesus. He was speaking directly to the people in Ephesians 4:6, ministering to them that they are all of GOD because of their faith in Christ.

Ephesians 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Ephesians 4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Ephesians 4:6 is not a blanket, all encompassing statment, nor is it a stand alone verse, but rather part of a whole message from Paul to the Church.

GOD is about truth, false things such as urantia/phony journals, new-age crap, chrislam, transhumanism, etc... is not truth and not of him.

using ephesians 4:6 to try to deceive people into thinking that it is is, is just one of the many things that GOD warns us about in his word.

Don't be deceived, be a berean and read the entire book of Ephesians for yourself.

ENJOY THE HELL OUT OF IT

When heaven comes to Earth? Chapter/verse?
What, on Earth, will there be to do? ENJOY!
Did somebody mention context?
John 3 (KJV)
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither
cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds
may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Time for "Learning with hillbilly."
Context is important when one is talking about Nicodemus. [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] (less than fiddy)

Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin
mentioned in three places in the Gospel of John:

He first visits Jesus one night to discuss Jesus' teachings (John 3:1–21).
(John 3:2) "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God.
For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him."

The second time Nicodemus is mentioned, he reminds his colleagues in the Sanhedrin
that the law requires that a person be heard before being judged (John 7:50–51).

Finally, Nicodemus appears after the Crucifixion of Jesus to provide
the customary embalming spices, and assists Joseph of Arimathea
in preparing the body of Jesus for burial (John 19:39–42).

An apocryphal work under his name, the Gospel of Nicodemus,
was produced in the mid-4th century, and is mostly a
reworking of the earlier Acts of Pilate, which recounts
the Harrowing of Hell.

Although there is no clear source of information about Nicodemus outside the Gospel of John,
Ochser and Kohler (in an article in the Jewish Encyclopedia) and some historians
have speculated that he could be identical to Nicodemus ben Gurion,
mentioned in the Talmud as a wealthy and popular
holy man reputed to have had miraculous powers.

Others point out that the biblical Nicodemus is likely an older man
at the time of his conversation with Jesus, while
Nicodemus ben Gurion was on the scene 40 years later
at the time of the Jewish War.

Any Harrowites (pillage, plunder) out there tonight?

I'm so lonely here.
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"Judged according to what they had done."
Should I have put that in all caps? See that Ba'abs?
Harrowed be thy name?

Cohencidentally, I've been accident free
for many hours now. Stepped on a stinkbug earlier.

Didn't Harry Potter deal with deadly harrows?

Any Harrowites (pillage, plunder) out there tonight?

I'm so lonely here.
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ETA: Oh looky there, it finally found the Caps Lock button.

After all, confusion = profit as they say. More Wiki:
In Chapter 7, Nicodemus advises his colleagues among
"the chief priests and the Pharisees" to hear and
investigate before making a judgment concerning Jesus.
Their mocking response argues that no prophet comes from Galilee.
Nonetheless, it is probable that he wielded a certain influence in the Sanhedrin.

John 7:1 (KJV)
After these things Jesus walked in Galilee:
for he would not walk in Jevvry
because the Jevs sought to kill him.

This "Harrowing of Hell" is not exactly
explained in my Bible, Coldcut. Shall I?
Or do you wanna have a go at it first?
I see no mention in the Journals about it
so it's probably not too important in
the overall scheme of things.

I know better than to ask your ALL CAPS BOT.

As-Salaam-Alaikum and pass the baloney bong.
Me tel u, they live. They are watching, smile.

IN SPIME THERE IS NO WHERE OR WHEN
NO UP OR DOWN
NO RULES AS RULES
NO BLOOD NO FOUL

[link to www.cslewis.com]
What happened to human souls prior to Jesus is debatable
and it’s easier to land in a place of reflection and
imagination then in anything sharpened by dogma alone.
Nevertheless, as Lewis says, the absence of a heaven made for
human beings does explain Jesus’ desire to preach to the imprisoned spirits.

Ah, that's narnia bizniss.

:defectivelogic: Jmmanuel is a Nazarene.