Biblical Evidence That Republicans Are Not The Party Of Christ Part One
I first heard of Janet Parshall during the 2008 presidential election. She is a republican, and was very vocal on WTBN in her support of McCain/Palin, and went so far as to say that not voting for them was disobedient to the Bible. I did a little snooping, and when I learned of her great esteem for George Bush, the oil guzzling, warmongering, economy wrecking, lying, antichrist whore of the rich; and that she thinks the rabble rousing, nazi consorting liar Michele Malkkkin is blessed by God with clear insight, I pretty much lost all respect for her views, and rather than letting her rile me up, I simply move up the dial whenever she comes on. (Does anyone at WTBN find it odd that some Christians are tuning OUT specific blocks of 'Christian' programming? I do.)
However, on occasion I am otherwise occupied when she takes to the airwaves, and need a minute or two to reach my radio. So it was yesterday, and I endured a couple minutes of her continued shrill railing against health care reform.
Are you sure you're Christian, Janet? Have you actually read the gospels? You do know that compassion is one of the traits that enters your heart when you invite Christ in, and your stance is not very compassionate at all. Would you choose the emergency room for your primary care physician? You think it's perfectly acceptable for millions of less fortunate than yourself.
You scream at Washington to listen to America, that we do not want health care reform. You're either misinformed--the last poll I saw said that SIXTY FIVE percent of Americans want a government provided public option--or propagating lies, which is a very BIG NO NO according to the Bible. If you like, I can point you to specific scriptures where God elucidates His contempt for liars.
Everything is a-ok in Christian America when the CEOs of the 23 major health insurers pay themselves a whopping FIFTEEN billion dollars over five years? That is roughly FIFTY dollars from every man, woman and child in America.
Do the 123 people who die every day from lack of health care think the system is working just fine? Are they speaking out against health care reform as they slip into the grave?
Janet then went on to scream that government provided health care would turn us into a--GASP--socialist nation! Oh the horror! You mean, everyone would have food, shelter and medical attention as needed? Not in WTBN's America, and certainly not in the name of Christ!
So I got to thinking, and opened my Bible to the Acts of the Apostles, where it is written that after Christ ascended: "...many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. And all that believed were together, and had all things in common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need." Acts 2: 43-45.
That sounds like a socialist collective to me. So who am I to believe--Janet Parshall when she says 'socialism' is evil, or the apostles who actually walked with Christ? Sorry Janet, but I think I'll roll the dice with Simon Peter, Andrew, James son of Zebedee, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddeus, Simon the Canaanite and Matthias on this one.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Of Bishops and Lofty Titles
Bishop Tobin's recent publicly denying Congressman Kennedy from taking the sacrament of the eucharist in any catholic church resonated poignantly with me. Drifting With Jesus was inspired in part by one of the more profound experiences of my life. When I lived in New Orleans I was homeless for a short time, and was passing one night in a bar on Decatur Street when I met Arthur. He bought me a couple of beers and we had been chatting for a while when he invited me to join him in visiting some friends. Having nothing better to do in New Orleans at four thirty in the morning, I tagged along. We walked to a convenience store where Arthur bought three or four bags of sandwiches, snacks, beer and cigarettes, then we wandered down to the bank of the Mississippi, where he shared his bounty with some homeless people there.
Around daybreak we wandered back toward the French Quarter and into Jackson Square. It was a Sunday morning, and upon seeing the Saint Louis Cathedral I immediately told Arthur that I needed to go in and pray. He followed me, and we came upon a service in progress. In a city of close to half a million, the congregation consisted of about fifteen people. Shortly before the benediction, one of the priests administered communion. I got in line while Arthur remained in the pew. When my turn came up, the priest detected that I was not catholic by my ignorance of the partaker's role in the rite--namely saying 'Amen' when the priest says 'body of Christ.' He asked me directly if I was catholic, and I answered directly that I was not. He pulled the wafer back, made the sign of the cross, and told me that he could not give me the body and blood. I protested that I was a brother in Christ, and he said that it mattered not, and hastened me along. Writing this fifteen years later still makes me say: 'Wow.'
The Catholic Encyclopedia states that the pope, cardinals and bishops are to be formally addressed respectively: His Holiness, His Eminence, and His Excellency. In Matthew 19:16-17, it is written: 'And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.'
In Luke 14:11 it is written: 'For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.'
Knowing these biblical truths, how will it go for men who insist on being called holy, eminent and excellent? And who did well in God's eyes that surreal night in my life: Arthur, who fed the hungry, or the priest who withheld Christ from a Christian?
Around daybreak we wandered back toward the French Quarter and into Jackson Square. It was a Sunday morning, and upon seeing the Saint Louis Cathedral I immediately told Arthur that I needed to go in and pray. He followed me, and we came upon a service in progress. In a city of close to half a million, the congregation consisted of about fifteen people. Shortly before the benediction, one of the priests administered communion. I got in line while Arthur remained in the pew. When my turn came up, the priest detected that I was not catholic by my ignorance of the partaker's role in the rite--namely saying 'Amen' when the priest says 'body of Christ.' He asked me directly if I was catholic, and I answered directly that I was not. He pulled the wafer back, made the sign of the cross, and told me that he could not give me the body and blood. I protested that I was a brother in Christ, and he said that it mattered not, and hastened me along. Writing this fifteen years later still makes me say: 'Wow.'
The Catholic Encyclopedia states that the pope, cardinals and bishops are to be formally addressed respectively: His Holiness, His Eminence, and His Excellency. In Matthew 19:16-17, it is written: 'And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.'
In Luke 14:11 it is written: 'For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.'
Knowing these biblical truths, how will it go for men who insist on being called holy, eminent and excellent? And who did well in God's eyes that surreal night in my life: Arthur, who fed the hungry, or the priest who withheld Christ from a Christian?
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Publican Again
The dingaling knuckleheads over at wedontcarewhatGodthinks.com have trotted out their latest scripture du jour designed to be taken out of context and hatefully applied to President Obama. This time it’s Psalm 109:8, "Let his days be few; and let another take his office."
Odd, just six verses earlier in the same psalm one can imagine President Obama crying out to God against his decriers. Psalm 108:2: “For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.”
If splitting and splicing Scripture is the game, two can play.
The Bible clearly and specifically describes Republicans. Really. In great and gory detail, actually.
In the days of Christ the publicans performed the functions of tax collection and supplying the Roman legions. Because they took money and used it to provide for the enemy, they were generally detested. To publican the people was bad enough; but to re-publican, to do it again, meant that you really enjoyed taking all the money and cared not that you were despised of men.
Now let us turn to Luke 18:2-10 and employ the yada yada magic of ellipses and you will see it clearly written: “There…publican.” Following an elliptical collision we apply a monosyllabic division, so that it reads: “The republican.” From there we can combine it with any number of scriptures and reveal Biblical truth.
Dovetail Luke 18:2-10 with Psalm 73:8-9 and it reads: “The republican are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression; they speak loftily. They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.”
Luke 18:2-10 together with Psalm 107:27 and 1 Samuel 25:22. "The republican reeled and staggered like drunken men; he that pisseth against the wall.”
We really to need rise up and mash Luke 18:2-10 into Revelation 20:2 and pray that it proves prophetic: “He seized the republican, the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.”
Odd, just six verses earlier in the same psalm one can imagine President Obama crying out to God against his decriers. Psalm 108:2: “For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.”
If splitting and splicing Scripture is the game, two can play.
The Bible clearly and specifically describes Republicans. Really. In great and gory detail, actually.
In the days of Christ the publicans performed the functions of tax collection and supplying the Roman legions. Because they took money and used it to provide for the enemy, they were generally detested. To publican the people was bad enough; but to re-publican, to do it again, meant that you really enjoyed taking all the money and cared not that you were despised of men.
Now let us turn to Luke 18:2-10 and employ the yada yada magic of ellipses and you will see it clearly written: “There…publican.” Following an elliptical collision we apply a monosyllabic division, so that it reads: “The republican.” From there we can combine it with any number of scriptures and reveal Biblical truth.
Dovetail Luke 18:2-10 with Psalm 73:8-9 and it reads: “The republican are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression; they speak loftily. They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.”
Luke 18:2-10 together with Psalm 107:27 and 1 Samuel 25:22. "The republican reeled and staggered like drunken men; he that pisseth against the wall.”
We really to need rise up and mash Luke 18:2-10 into Revelation 20:2 and pray that it proves prophetic: “He seized the republican, the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.”
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Blood Money
Biblical Proof That True Christians Support Health Care Reform Part Four
Jesus famously taught: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” The 23 CEO’s of Health Insurance America made 559.8 million dollars in 2005 alone, projected to almost 15 billion over five years. Would a true Christian oppose the reforms that would save these souls from the earthly wealth that locks them out of the kingdom of God, and condemns them? Wouldn’t Jesus spread a few crumbs and rags to the hungry and the homeless? Make no mistake, this is blood money, every drop excruciatingly extracted from an economy already starved for oxygen.
So I read tonight that Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut has stepped up to join Olympia Snowe as the face of the opposition to a public option, promising to filibuster any bill containing such language in the legislature. How is the continued inaction of a filibuster enacting the legislation that 68 percent of Connecticut wants? And how is that going to work anyway? Are you and Olympia going to slowly count to 15 billion on the floor of the Senate? You say we’re moving too quickly, but the procrastination causes another 123 people to die every day. Their blood drips from your hands and cries out from the earth....
I am a Democrat from Connecticut, and Lieberman is an absolute EMBARRASSMENT to our great little state. Jesus warned us against wolves who would come dressed in sheep skin, and Lieberman is a Republican hypocrite who smuggled himself into the Senate in the guise of a Democrat. I was deceived into voting for him in 2000, but not again in 06, when he falsely promised on the campaign trail: “what I’m saying to the people of Connecticut, I can do more for you and your families to get something done to make health care affordable, to get universal health insurance.” You shamelessly lied to your constituents, Joe, and are a traitor to the party that gave you the little power you now feebly wield against it.
Judas Iscariot was the most famous traitor in history. His price to kiss Christ was thirty pieces of silver, which was used to buy the potter’s field wherein he fell headlong, and burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. That place is called Aceldama, which means ‘the field of blood.’ Acts 1:18-19.
What is your cut of the blood money, Judas Lieberman? Or do you prefer Joe Iscariot? And how are you going to spend your pieces of silver? Is your Aceldama going to be a nice headstone in the Hamptons?
Jesus famously taught: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” The 23 CEO’s of Health Insurance America made 559.8 million dollars in 2005 alone, projected to almost 15 billion over five years. Would a true Christian oppose the reforms that would save these souls from the earthly wealth that locks them out of the kingdom of God, and condemns them? Wouldn’t Jesus spread a few crumbs and rags to the hungry and the homeless? Make no mistake, this is blood money, every drop excruciatingly extracted from an economy already starved for oxygen.
So I read tonight that Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut has stepped up to join Olympia Snowe as the face of the opposition to a public option, promising to filibuster any bill containing such language in the legislature. How is the continued inaction of a filibuster enacting the legislation that 68 percent of Connecticut wants? And how is that going to work anyway? Are you and Olympia going to slowly count to 15 billion on the floor of the Senate? You say we’re moving too quickly, but the procrastination causes another 123 people to die every day. Their blood drips from your hands and cries out from the earth....
I am a Democrat from Connecticut, and Lieberman is an absolute EMBARRASSMENT to our great little state. Jesus warned us against wolves who would come dressed in sheep skin, and Lieberman is a Republican hypocrite who smuggled himself into the Senate in the guise of a Democrat. I was deceived into voting for him in 2000, but not again in 06, when he falsely promised on the campaign trail: “what I’m saying to the people of Connecticut, I can do more for you and your families to get something done to make health care affordable, to get universal health insurance.” You shamelessly lied to your constituents, Joe, and are a traitor to the party that gave you the little power you now feebly wield against it.
Judas Iscariot was the most famous traitor in history. His price to kiss Christ was thirty pieces of silver, which was used to buy the potter’s field wherein he fell headlong, and burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. That place is called Aceldama, which means ‘the field of blood.’ Acts 1:18-19.
What is your cut of the blood money, Judas Lieberman? Or do you prefer Joe Iscariot? And how are you going to spend your pieces of silver? Is your Aceldama going to be a nice headstone in the Hamptons?
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
The L Word
The Conservative Bible Project deems the Bible too liberal, and has undertaken to revise it.
Among the passages they take exception with is Luke 23:34: ‘Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.’ Some of the most famous final words ever, uttered by the dying flesh of Christ, and CBP wants to expurgate them.
Clearly these fools have not actually read the Bible, or they would dearly heed its final verses, wherein it is written: ‘For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.’ Revelation 22:18-19.
Since Jesus also said, ‘I and my Father are one,’ denying God his own words should go well with the CBP and its adherents….
Before The CBP rips the passage from its pages, here is what the Bible says about liberals. Isaiah 32:5-6: 'The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.'
Thereby is the liberal justified, and what is vile--the opposite of liberal--defined and decried.
Here are some definitions of liberal taken from the dictionary: ‘Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. Tending to give freely; generous.'
Why is that bad?
Jesus Christ is liberal.
To quote your ‘Christian’ leader, antichrist Bush, “If you’re not with us, you’re against us.” The enemy of Christ is Satan, and it is the devil’s work that you do, saying that good is bad, right is wrong, and demonizing liberal as a four letter word. You can skewer scripture to your own warped social and political ends, but you can’t change truth.
There are a couple of four letter L words that do pertain here.
Anyone who alters the spirit of the word of God is a LIAR.
Another one is LOVE, which is the heart of Christ and his ministry, whether preaching the greatest commandment--above all love God, and thy neighbor as thyself--or demonstrating the greatest love, that a man lay down his life for his friends. In all its variations—from lovely to lovingkindness—the word appears 558 times in the King James Bible. Since love is a very liberal trait, I wonder how many of those references will remain after the Consortium for Biblical Perversion is done with its mangle of a revision.
Among the passages they take exception with is Luke 23:34: ‘Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.’ Some of the most famous final words ever, uttered by the dying flesh of Christ, and CBP wants to expurgate them.
Clearly these fools have not actually read the Bible, or they would dearly heed its final verses, wherein it is written: ‘For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.’ Revelation 22:18-19.
Since Jesus also said, ‘I and my Father are one,’ denying God his own words should go well with the CBP and its adherents….
Before The CBP rips the passage from its pages, here is what the Bible says about liberals. Isaiah 32:5-6: 'The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.'
Thereby is the liberal justified, and what is vile--the opposite of liberal--defined and decried.
Here are some definitions of liberal taken from the dictionary: ‘Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. Tending to give freely; generous.'
Why is that bad?
Jesus Christ is liberal.
To quote your ‘Christian’ leader, antichrist Bush, “If you’re not with us, you’re against us.” The enemy of Christ is Satan, and it is the devil’s work that you do, saying that good is bad, right is wrong, and demonizing liberal as a four letter word. You can skewer scripture to your own warped social and political ends, but you can’t change truth.
There are a couple of four letter L words that do pertain here.
Anyone who alters the spirit of the word of God is a LIAR.
Another one is LOVE, which is the heart of Christ and his ministry, whether preaching the greatest commandment--above all love God, and thy neighbor as thyself--or demonstrating the greatest love, that a man lay down his life for his friends. In all its variations—from lovely to lovingkindness—the word appears 558 times in the King James Bible. Since love is a very liberal trait, I wonder how many of those references will remain after the Consortium for Biblical Perversion is done with its mangle of a revision.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Godliness in the Government
“The devil lurks behind the cross.” --The Curate in Don Quixote (et al)
I saw an anti-Obama ad from Pennsylvania using the Communist Party hammer and sickle. Lately I’ve been thinking a good emblem for the Republican Party would be horns and cloven hooves, because the way they hijacked the title of the party of Christian and Family values is one of the devil’s great deceits.
I listen to Steve Kreloff of Verse By Verse Radio quite a bit, and mostly enjoy his expositions on scripture, but occasionally I hear things I find curious. He recently preached a series entitled Living Godly in an Ungodly Society that inspired some thoughts in me.
Kreloff said: “Today’s evangelical church is really blowing their testimony when it comes to this area. The image of the evangelical church today is that of political protestors, arrogant right wingers, who blast and insult and criticize every politician who opposes our views, when we ought to be perceived as model citizens, we are perceived as intolerant, and rude, and we want oust every politician and every organization who disagrees to us, and that’s foreign to the new testament.”
The Democrats have their Spitzer, Edwards and Clinton to be sure, but the Republicans have a roll call that reads like a Who’s Who of pedophiles, perverts and profiteering panderers. From Swaggart’s sobbing to Haggard’s bobbing, now it’s Mark Sanford pathetically alluding to King David when busted hiking an Appalachian trail in Argentina. Then there’s Senator Ensign, brother in Christ, who got biblically familiar with his campaign manager’s Douglas Hampton's wife Cynthia, thereby damaging two marriages with one downstroke. Ensign's parents gave Cynthia a 96,000 dollar gift, then is suspected of violating government law in trying to secure Douglas a lobbying job. He’s also opposed to health care reform, and was one of thirty Republicans who voted against the Franken amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill that would withhold defense contracts from companies like KBR “if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court,” Franken said.
Was it all that communing with Christ that told you adultery was fine for yourself and gang rape for government contractors, Senator Ensign?
Kreloff said: “I know a few Christians today who are not opposed to our government, and to the present administration in Washington. I know a few, I’m sure there a few, there are some. I know a few Christians who would say yes, we endorse the government, yes we endorse the present administration because we like their values. Most Christians recognize that the values coming out of Washington DC are opposed to biblical values.”
Surely this position is based in the Christian opposition to abortion and gay marriage. Abortion is abomination, but there are a million premature deaths every year. God surely does something with these souls, and maybe the advanced medical techniques are evolution’s way of adjusting the premature deaths man eliminated with vaccines. Let he who is without sin etch the first law in stone and judge another. You scream that every life possible must come into the world, then hate the laws that feed them. As to gay marriage, if you give heed words God does not, you look the fool.
Kreloff said: “God is interested in saving people, not making the world a better place to live. What if we could change every law in America, and Christianize our nation. What if we could make every law based on the bible. Things would go a lot smoother, and life would be a little bit better for all of us. But then people would die who didn’t know Christ and they’d go to hell. And all you’ve had is more comfortle existence on earth and then they’d die and go to hell anyway. That’s not what God is interested in. God’s not out to give creature comforts in your life on earth. What He is out to do is to save men and women. God’s heart beats for the salvation of the world not external comformity to moral and biblical codes in America.
True, but it is easier to lead people to the Lord when they are living well than in poverty, and the Republican ideal of creating a few billionaires at the expense of millions of people is nowhere in the philosophy of Christ. It does in fact mislead people in what it means to be Christian, as it is written in Matthew 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kindgom of heaven against men; for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffering them that are entering to go in.”
Kreloff said: “Our government is anti Christian and getting moreso.”
It is also, as Christ predicted, a pack of wolves in sheep’s skin.
I saw an anti-Obama ad from Pennsylvania using the Communist Party hammer and sickle. Lately I’ve been thinking a good emblem for the Republican Party would be horns and cloven hooves, because the way they hijacked the title of the party of Christian and Family values is one of the devil’s great deceits.
I listen to Steve Kreloff of Verse By Verse Radio quite a bit, and mostly enjoy his expositions on scripture, but occasionally I hear things I find curious. He recently preached a series entitled Living Godly in an Ungodly Society that inspired some thoughts in me.
Kreloff said: “Today’s evangelical church is really blowing their testimony when it comes to this area. The image of the evangelical church today is that of political protestors, arrogant right wingers, who blast and insult and criticize every politician who opposes our views, when we ought to be perceived as model citizens, we are perceived as intolerant, and rude, and we want oust every politician and every organization who disagrees to us, and that’s foreign to the new testament.”
The Democrats have their Spitzer, Edwards and Clinton to be sure, but the Republicans have a roll call that reads like a Who’s Who of pedophiles, perverts and profiteering panderers. From Swaggart’s sobbing to Haggard’s bobbing, now it’s Mark Sanford pathetically alluding to King David when busted hiking an Appalachian trail in Argentina. Then there’s Senator Ensign, brother in Christ, who got biblically familiar with his campaign manager’s Douglas Hampton's wife Cynthia, thereby damaging two marriages with one downstroke. Ensign's parents gave Cynthia a 96,000 dollar gift, then is suspected of violating government law in trying to secure Douglas a lobbying job. He’s also opposed to health care reform, and was one of thirty Republicans who voted against the Franken amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill that would withhold defense contracts from companies like KBR “if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court,” Franken said.
Was it all that communing with Christ that told you adultery was fine for yourself and gang rape for government contractors, Senator Ensign?
Kreloff said: “I know a few Christians today who are not opposed to our government, and to the present administration in Washington. I know a few, I’m sure there a few, there are some. I know a few Christians who would say yes, we endorse the government, yes we endorse the present administration because we like their values. Most Christians recognize that the values coming out of Washington DC are opposed to biblical values.”
Surely this position is based in the Christian opposition to abortion and gay marriage. Abortion is abomination, but there are a million premature deaths every year. God surely does something with these souls, and maybe the advanced medical techniques are evolution’s way of adjusting the premature deaths man eliminated with vaccines. Let he who is without sin etch the first law in stone and judge another. You scream that every life possible must come into the world, then hate the laws that feed them. As to gay marriage, if you give heed words God does not, you look the fool.
Kreloff said: “God is interested in saving people, not making the world a better place to live. What if we could change every law in America, and Christianize our nation. What if we could make every law based on the bible. Things would go a lot smoother, and life would be a little bit better for all of us. But then people would die who didn’t know Christ and they’d go to hell. And all you’ve had is more comfortle existence on earth and then they’d die and go to hell anyway. That’s not what God is interested in. God’s not out to give creature comforts in your life on earth. What He is out to do is to save men and women. God’s heart beats for the salvation of the world not external comformity to moral and biblical codes in America.
True, but it is easier to lead people to the Lord when they are living well than in poverty, and the Republican ideal of creating a few billionaires at the expense of millions of people is nowhere in the philosophy of Christ. It does in fact mislead people in what it means to be Christian, as it is written in Matthew 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kindgom of heaven against men; for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffering them that are entering to go in.”
Kreloff said: “Our government is anti Christian and getting moreso.”
It is also, as Christ predicted, a pack of wolves in sheep’s skin.
Monday, September 28, 2009
The Ankle Bone's Connected By The...Compassion Muscle
Biblical Proof That Real Christians Support Health Care Reform Part Three
Instead of using the Bible as the devil often wields it, to whap and thump and bonk people on the head, let’s put it to the purpose wherefore God created it: to be read.
After Christ’s ascension, when the apostles and disciples were in Jerusalem gathering to be dispersed, it is written: ‘And all that believed were together, and had all things in common; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.’ Acts 2: 44-45.
And a few verses later: ‘Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms…Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.’ Acts 3:1-8.
On September 23, 2009, Kimberly Young of Oxford, Ohio died of swine flu. She was 22. Young had been ill for about two weeks, but “didn’t seek medical treatment because she didn’t have health insurance and was worried about the cost,” according to Brent Mowery, her friend and former roommate.
Since most Christians believe that Christ is the only way to heaven, and reckon delivering souls as adding to their own reward therein, for the sake of discussion here, let us suppose that Miss Young died before coming to the glory of Christ (for if not her, there have been and will be many other such who pass away at a tender age); wouldn’t a truly pro life Christian save her in this present physical world, that she might also be saved, leaping and praising, into God’s kingdom hereafter?
Why then is it, that if Peter and John were to open a hospital today, so many who call themselves Christian--as exemplified and espoused by the personalities on my local Christian radio station, WTBN--would resort to wicked politicking to bar the doors until they could figure out how to charge admission? What if God is using your stand on health care reform as a litmus test for your heart—would you pass, or fail?
Instead of using the Bible as the devil often wields it, to whap and thump and bonk people on the head, let’s put it to the purpose wherefore God created it: to be read.
After Christ’s ascension, when the apostles and disciples were in Jerusalem gathering to be dispersed, it is written: ‘And all that believed were together, and had all things in common; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.’ Acts 2: 44-45.
And a few verses later: ‘Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms…Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.’ Acts 3:1-8.
On September 23, 2009, Kimberly Young of Oxford, Ohio died of swine flu. She was 22. Young had been ill for about two weeks, but “didn’t seek medical treatment because she didn’t have health insurance and was worried about the cost,” according to Brent Mowery, her friend and former roommate.
Since most Christians believe that Christ is the only way to heaven, and reckon delivering souls as adding to their own reward therein, for the sake of discussion here, let us suppose that Miss Young died before coming to the glory of Christ (for if not her, there have been and will be many other such who pass away at a tender age); wouldn’t a truly pro life Christian save her in this present physical world, that she might also be saved, leaping and praising, into God’s kingdom hereafter?
Why then is it, that if Peter and John were to open a hospital today, so many who call themselves Christian--as exemplified and espoused by the personalities on my local Christian radio station, WTBN--would resort to wicked politicking to bar the doors until they could figure out how to charge admission? What if God is using your stand on health care reform as a litmus test for your heart—would you pass, or fail?
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