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Post by jimmie on Oct 31, 2019 9:12:12 GMT -8
Since God doesn’t issue commands to Himself, He has no moral duties to fulfill. He is certainly not subject to the same moral obligations and prohibitions that we are. For example, I have no right to take an innocent life. For me to do so would be murder. But God has no such prohibition. He can give and take life as He chooses. We all recognize this when we accuse some authority who presumes to take life as “playing God.” Human authorities arrogate to themselves rights which belong only to God. God is under no obligation whatsoever to extend my life for another second. If He wanted to strike me dead right now, that’s His prerogative. 1 Peter 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. I believe with this statement God places himself under obligation to fulfill every commandment that he has place upon humanity. If I have no right to take an innocent life in order to be holy then God doesn't have the right to take an innocent life because he is holy. |
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Post by jimmie on Oct 31, 2019 8:47:11 GMT -8
The only restriction on abortion by the courts is the child must at least be partially inside the mother when it is murdered.
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Post by jimmie on Oct 28, 2019 12:42:25 GMT -8
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Who is God talking to?
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Two entities contributed to the creation of man: the ground and God. God was speaking to the earth not a triune of gods.
Principle: Let scripture speak for itself. Don’t believe the church over scripture.
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Post by jimmie on Oct 28, 2019 10:31:18 GMT -8
In Gen 1:2-3 on the first day, God creates Darkness & Light. In Gen 1:14-19 on the fourth day, God creates the moon and stars to put in the darkness and the sun to put in the Light.
In Gen 1:4-8 on the second day, God creates the Heavens above the waters. In Gen 1:20-23 on the fifth day, God creates the fish to fill the waters and fowl to fill the Heavens.
In Gen 1:9-13 God creates the earth with grass and trees. In Gen 1:24-31 on the sixth day, God creates the animals to fill the earth and interact with the grass and trees and creates humans to rule over the creation.
Not sure I would say this is a law but it is certainly instruction. Never acquire/create something unless you have first prepared a place for it.
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Post by jimmie on Sept 10, 2019 15:01:11 GMT -8
A few scriptures regarding arguing/disputing.
Acts 9:29
And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.
Acts 15:2
When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
Acts 15:7
And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
Acts 17:17
Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
Acts 19:8
And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
Philippians 2:14
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Arguing/disputing can be productive or counter productive depending upon the rules of engagement. Arguing/disputing has basically two meanings. 1 to debate or discuss a subject or 2 to question the truth of validity of something.
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Post by jimmie on Aug 20, 2019 14:08:15 GMT -8
Deuteronomy 14:23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
Deuteronomy 26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
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Post by jimmie on Aug 16, 2019 10:55:38 GMT -8
One of the "proofs" christians use for Gob being a trinity is that the term "Elohim", which is generally render God, is a plural in Hebrew. But what they will not tell you is that the term "God" is never coupled with a plural pronoun at least in the KJV. Example:
Psalms 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
In Elizibethean English the terms "thee", "thy", "thou", and "thine" are used when referring to a single person whereas "you" and "your' are use when referring to groups of people. So why use a singular pronoun to refer to the plural noun God/Elohim. Further why not just use Gods. My thoughts are the translator tried to stay true to the concept of one God when translating scripture. As to the fact that Elohim is plural, consider this: A more literal translation of Elohim would be powers. God a single entity possesses all powers. So to name that entity that possess all powers "powers" would be most acceptable. Another example would be Ephraim a plural word meaning "fruits" or "fruitful". Ephraim was only one person.
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Post by jimmie on Aug 15, 2019 12:04:31 GMT -8
I am a father, a son, and an husband. Does that make me a trinity?
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Post by jimmie on Aug 6, 2019 15:53:07 GMT -8
I agree.
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Post by jimmie on Aug 2, 2019 9:17:51 GMT -8
[/div] Here's another thing, no place in scripture is festival called "Jewish". YHVH states that they are His feasts. [/quote] How readest thou these: Isaiah 1: 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. Isaiah 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands. Malachi 2:3 | Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it. Ezekiel 36:38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD. Nahum 1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Jeremiah 51:39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD. Numbers 15:3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock: Ezekiel 45:17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. YHVH states that the feasts are Isreal's as well. |
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Post by jimmie on Jul 18, 2019 12:13:58 GMT -8
Elizabeth,
I was very young, so my older brothers and sisters caught most of the abuse. That chapter of my life came to swift end when my dad, who was gone a lot working and tending to his other wife and children, came home and discovered what was going on by a chance meeting with one mom’s customers. My dad broke one of the man’s arms to get the information he wanted then went and shot the pimp (not mortally). I wonder if those dogs dipped their tongues in the pimp’s blood. Never even considered that possibility until now. Dad was tried but acquitted of any wrong doing. He divorced my mom and got custody of us children. I saw my mother six times after that, if you count her funeral. Ps 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
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Dogs
Jul 17, 2019 14:14:22 GMT -8
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Post by jimmie on Jul 17, 2019 14:14:22 GMT -8
Psalm 68 the righteous is delivering an insult to the ungodly.
Job used dogs to tend his flocks and preferred them over some men:
Job 30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
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Dogs
Jul 17, 2019 11:54:25 GMT -8
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Post by jimmie on Jul 17, 2019 11:54:25 GMT -8
I have a deep seated hatred/fear for/of dogs rooted in childhood abuse suffered at the hands of my mother’s pimp. Even so I can see positive mentions of dog’s in scripture:
Judges 7:5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
Psalms 68:23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
Ecclesiastes 9:4 |For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Matthew 15:27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Mark 7:28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
Luke 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Then there is Caleb, the Hebrew work for dog and also carries the meaning of loyalty. Caleb was a mighty warrior and very loyal to his God. Something worthy of admiration.
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Post by jimmie on Jul 10, 2019 13:28:23 GMT -8
Sycomore is a type of fig tree so you can add the following:
1 Kings 10:27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
1 Chronicles 27:28 And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:
2 Chronicles 1:15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.
2 Chronicles 9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
Psalms 78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
Isaiah 9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Amos 7:1 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
Luke 19: And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
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Post by jimmie on Jul 9, 2019 14:18:49 GMT -8
It took me a few minutes to make the connection between carrots-eyes and citris fruit-breast. You have to cut the fruit to see it.
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