GLOBAL WARMING AND THE BIBLE
Yes boys and girls, it IS in there. But not in the approved Al Gore format. Mankind is not the cause at all but the judgment of God. Isaiah 30:26 describes the moon giving off light as the sun and the light of the sun being sevenfold. Then in Revelation 16:8 one of the angels of judgment pours his vial on the sun and is given the power to scorch men with fire. Two things to note; 1. the source that is quoted is SOLAR. 2. These judgments don't come into play until the time of the GREAT tribulation (in otherwords you ain't seen REAL global warming yet.)
So what are we to make of this global warming swindle? It may well be the manufactured crisis that the coming world leader uses to help push himself into power. In Revelation 6 when the first rider rides out, he conquers without raising a sword. In fact his hands hold a bow with no arrows. What better way to get control of the world than to convince everyone that we are literally going to burn?
In the manual that I once had my hands on by Senator Imhof former French prime minister Jaques Chirac lets the cat out of the bag. He says that the whole global warming thing is brought about to envoke a global government.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Sunday, August 05, 2007
WEIGH DOWN IS WAY OUT!
http://www.carm.org/features/weighdown.htm
Ok so it LOOKS okay on the surface, but like picking mushrooms you gotta' know which ones are safe. It appears as if Gwen Shamblin has LEFT biblical doctrine (IE., that of the Trinity and the Blood Atonement) for something more like Jehovah's Witness. Gotta' applaud the approach for weight loss but certainly NOT the theology that is coming with the package.
So here I am fat, but theologically "sound"... Rather go into heaven with some extra adipose tissue than fall fatally in this area. There are many warnings about what will happen to false teachers. But the one that should bring the heaviest penalty is spoken by Jesus himself:
Mr 9:42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Let's pray that she will see the errors of the path she has chosen.
http://www.carm.org/features/weighdown.htm
Ok so it LOOKS okay on the surface, but like picking mushrooms you gotta' know which ones are safe. It appears as if Gwen Shamblin has LEFT biblical doctrine (IE., that of the Trinity and the Blood Atonement) for something more like Jehovah's Witness. Gotta' applaud the approach for weight loss but certainly NOT the theology that is coming with the package.
So here I am fat, but theologically "sound"... Rather go into heaven with some extra adipose tissue than fall fatally in this area. There are many warnings about what will happen to false teachers. But the one that should bring the heaviest penalty is spoken by Jesus himself:
Mr 9:42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Let's pray that she will see the errors of the path she has chosen.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Numbers, Codes and Mysteries-
OK, I fell for it and looked into the "Bible Code". There is a very GOOD book by Jeffrey Satinover about it "Cracking the Bible Code". He doesn't even bother to mention Michael Drosnin (the one who made all the money off the "Code"). It gave a very good history of cryptography, kabbalah and so on and showed how the Bible Code was an outgrowth of these things. So here's my problem, its based on the Masoretic text which is very DIFFERENT than the ancient Hebrew. Major portions of the bible are actually written in Chaldean or Aramaic. I know it was based on the Torah but you just got to wonder (the Torah was the first five books of the Bible).
So I downloaded the "code software". It let me run some ELS (Equidistant Letter Spacing) for about 8 times. I naturally looked up my name "MartyBee" (all run together). I showed up 4 times most of the references were to FALSE prophets like Balaam. Heh, heh, gotta make you WONDER!
They have found OTHER references that say Jehovah is evil in the Torah using this ELS system. So I don't feel TOO worried...
Is there a problem with all this jazz? My first reaction is that it IS traditionally OCCULT. That is it is all about hidden wisdom, secrets if you will. GNOSTICISM then is what this all about whether you want it to be or not. Its all about secret wisdom that is only accessible to a few initiates.
As for me it reminds me of the whole "backwards masking mania" that was in vogue in evangelical circles years ago. The idea was that if you played "Stairway to Heaven" (Led Zeppelin for you younguns) backwards you got someone saying "I love you Satan..." (I NEVER heard it and I played it back on a reel to reel). In the meantime they ignored what it was saying FRONTWARDS. It was literally a hymn to the White Goddess of European Witchcraft/Paganism! In the same sense, people are looking for mysteries in the bible and trying to find secret codes when just read straight up, its message is powerful enough.
OK, I fell for it and looked into the "Bible Code". There is a very GOOD book by Jeffrey Satinover about it "Cracking the Bible Code". He doesn't even bother to mention Michael Drosnin (the one who made all the money off the "Code"). It gave a very good history of cryptography, kabbalah and so on and showed how the Bible Code was an outgrowth of these things. So here's my problem, its based on the Masoretic text which is very DIFFERENT than the ancient Hebrew. Major portions of the bible are actually written in Chaldean or Aramaic. I know it was based on the Torah but you just got to wonder (the Torah was the first five books of the Bible).
So I downloaded the "code software". It let me run some ELS (Equidistant Letter Spacing) for about 8 times. I naturally looked up my name "MartyBee" (all run together). I showed up 4 times most of the references were to FALSE prophets like Balaam. Heh, heh, gotta make you WONDER!
They have found OTHER references that say Jehovah is evil in the Torah using this ELS system. So I don't feel TOO worried...
Is there a problem with all this jazz? My first reaction is that it IS traditionally OCCULT. That is it is all about hidden wisdom, secrets if you will. GNOSTICISM then is what this all about whether you want it to be or not. Its all about secret wisdom that is only accessible to a few initiates.
As for me it reminds me of the whole "backwards masking mania" that was in vogue in evangelical circles years ago. The idea was that if you played "Stairway to Heaven" (Led Zeppelin for you younguns) backwards you got someone saying "I love you Satan..." (I NEVER heard it and I played it back on a reel to reel). In the meantime they ignored what it was saying FRONTWARDS. It was literally a hymn to the White Goddess of European Witchcraft/Paganism! In the same sense, people are looking for mysteries in the bible and trying to find secret codes when just read straight up, its message is powerful enough.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Fast Note on Nag Hammadi (DaVinci and so on)
The big idea behind the Da Vinci Code book is that the scriptures were edited by Constantine in 325 A.D. Other gospels could have been included and weren't for chauvinist reasons. This is the main motif behind all of Elaine Pagels work on the Gnostic Gospels. There are some very good reasons that the Nag Hammadi gospels were NOT included in the canon of scripture (or what we know now as the New Testament):
1. The canon of scripture (what books would be included) was FIXED by as early as 150 A.D. In other words the books we know as the New Testament were pretty much fixed in place much, much earlier than 325. Most of the Gnostic Gospels can be dated as 3rd or late 2nd century. Far to late to be part of the legitimate record of Jesus.
2. The nature of the Nag Hammadi gospels is distinctly NOT historical. They consist of sayings and proverbs. There is NO historical information such as when Mary and Joseph went to be counted in the census of Tiberias at Bethlehem. The book of Acts can be considered an accurate diary of the early church. Places, people and dates can be fixed accurately for the most part. You have no such ability with a book of proverbs.
3. History IS dictated by consensus. It is not something that can be affirmed or denied 100%. It isn't like a hard science that you can measure. What I mean by that is suppose you had 1000 reports of a helicopter flying over a neighborhood at night and 3 that say it was a UFO. Which side would you believe? You COULD say that the UFO reports were suppressed by the government. But a little common sense would say it was most likely a helicopter. We find the same case with the Gnostic "Gospels". There are THOUSANDS of copies of all the portions of the New Testament as we know it, dated early enough to be valid, and only FEW copies of the Gnostic Gospels (with references to them by Iraneus) that are dated LATER. You can make the call that a suppressive, authoritarian, chauvinist Roman church DESTROYED all the copies to make their point, and you can believe every light that passes over your house at night is a UFO.
What does all this point out? Are all evangelicals like me just in denial? Or is it that Academics are victims of their own "Political Correctness"? Feminism, the Mother Goddess religion, new thought in spirituality are all in vogue in this culture. But it is intellectually unsound to impose our views of the world on another time and culture. If the gnostic literature is examined closely enough it is far more misogynist than our current day.
You be the judge! (As for me, I ain't believing in any UFO's till they land and show me their registration and proof of insurance.)
The big idea behind the Da Vinci Code book is that the scriptures were edited by Constantine in 325 A.D. Other gospels could have been included and weren't for chauvinist reasons. This is the main motif behind all of Elaine Pagels work on the Gnostic Gospels. There are some very good reasons that the Nag Hammadi gospels were NOT included in the canon of scripture (or what we know now as the New Testament):
1. The canon of scripture (what books would be included) was FIXED by as early as 150 A.D. In other words the books we know as the New Testament were pretty much fixed in place much, much earlier than 325. Most of the Gnostic Gospels can be dated as 3rd or late 2nd century. Far to late to be part of the legitimate record of Jesus.
2. The nature of the Nag Hammadi gospels is distinctly NOT historical. They consist of sayings and proverbs. There is NO historical information such as when Mary and Joseph went to be counted in the census of Tiberias at Bethlehem. The book of Acts can be considered an accurate diary of the early church. Places, people and dates can be fixed accurately for the most part. You have no such ability with a book of proverbs.
3. History IS dictated by consensus. It is not something that can be affirmed or denied 100%. It isn't like a hard science that you can measure. What I mean by that is suppose you had 1000 reports of a helicopter flying over a neighborhood at night and 3 that say it was a UFO. Which side would you believe? You COULD say that the UFO reports were suppressed by the government. But a little common sense would say it was most likely a helicopter. We find the same case with the Gnostic "Gospels". There are THOUSANDS of copies of all the portions of the New Testament as we know it, dated early enough to be valid, and only FEW copies of the Gnostic Gospels (with references to them by Iraneus) that are dated LATER. You can make the call that a suppressive, authoritarian, chauvinist Roman church DESTROYED all the copies to make their point, and you can believe every light that passes over your house at night is a UFO.
What does all this point out? Are all evangelicals like me just in denial? Or is it that Academics are victims of their own "Political Correctness"? Feminism, the Mother Goddess religion, new thought in spirituality are all in vogue in this culture. But it is intellectually unsound to impose our views of the world on another time and culture. If the gnostic literature is examined closely enough it is far more misogynist than our current day.
You be the judge! (As for me, I ain't believing in any UFO's till they land and show me their registration and proof of insurance.)
On the Golden Compass-
This is only a first reaction to what the author of the original books was up to. He apparently has a decidely anti-christian agenda. The church is portrayed as a sort of "sacred gestapo" that is experimenting on children. God is really a shriveled old man that lives in a crystal. The two protagonists in the book series meet and have sex and save the world (at the end of the third book apparently). The heirarchy of heaven and creation have a very GNOSTIC viewpoint (that is the earth and creation were made by that shriveled up creator "god" and the rest of it is under a sort of warfare mentality between different "angels", or demi-urges.)
That aside, New Line cinema is touting it as "from the same people that brought you Middle Earth". It turns out Phillip Pullman has little regard for Tolkien and even LESS regard for C. S. Lewis and Narnia. He considers the Narnia series "racist" and wrote the "His Dark Materials" series to counter it (this is the series that the "Golden Compass" movie was drawn from). The heroine even starts the adventure in a "wardrobe" closet!
Let me finish with what I read on one blog last night, "we had people worried about Harry Potter when J. K. Rowling was just out to make an engaging fantasy, this is the real one to worry about..." (paraphrased as best I remember it).
Its time for some serious fantasy writers (of the Christian sort) to take up their pens and start writing I think.
This is only a first reaction to what the author of the original books was up to. He apparently has a decidely anti-christian agenda. The church is portrayed as a sort of "sacred gestapo" that is experimenting on children. God is really a shriveled old man that lives in a crystal. The two protagonists in the book series meet and have sex and save the world (at the end of the third book apparently). The heirarchy of heaven and creation have a very GNOSTIC viewpoint (that is the earth and creation were made by that shriveled up creator "god" and the rest of it is under a sort of warfare mentality between different "angels", or demi-urges.)
That aside, New Line cinema is touting it as "from the same people that brought you Middle Earth". It turns out Phillip Pullman has little regard for Tolkien and even LESS regard for C. S. Lewis and Narnia. He considers the Narnia series "racist" and wrote the "His Dark Materials" series to counter it (this is the series that the "Golden Compass" movie was drawn from). The heroine even starts the adventure in a "wardrobe" closet!
Let me finish with what I read on one blog last night, "we had people worried about Harry Potter when J. K. Rowling was just out to make an engaging fantasy, this is the real one to worry about..." (paraphrased as best I remember it).
Its time for some serious fantasy writers (of the Christian sort) to take up their pens and start writing I think.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
DON'T CANCEL EASTER JUST YET...
James Cameron says he found the tomb of Jesus and his wife and kid... oops! turns out its a meaningless find since the tomb cave may have held up to 200 others at the same time and there were a lot of Jesus's running around in first century Palestine. Not to mention the fact that Jesus was a rural kid from Galilee (doesn't ANYBODY ever read the Bible anymore) and would never have the money or prestige to be buried in Jerusalem. Even the ISRAELI archaeologists (who have no horse running in this being true) say its a bogus claim and bad science...
so crack out the PEEPS and the marshmallow bunnies, resurrection Sunday is still on... 500 plus people saw him the first go around as being raised from the dead... (1 Corinthians 5:6)
I got this sinking feeling about this "Tomb of Jesus" show... (heh, heh...)
James Cameron says he found the tomb of Jesus and his wife and kid... oops! turns out its a meaningless find since the tomb cave may have held up to 200 others at the same time and there were a lot of Jesus's running around in first century Palestine. Not to mention the fact that Jesus was a rural kid from Galilee (doesn't ANYBODY ever read the Bible anymore) and would never have the money or prestige to be buried in Jerusalem. Even the ISRAELI archaeologists (who have no horse running in this being true) say its a bogus claim and bad science...
so crack out the PEEPS and the marshmallow bunnies, resurrection Sunday is still on... 500 plus people saw him the first go around as being raised from the dead... (1 Corinthians 5:6)
I got this sinking feeling about this "Tomb of Jesus" show... (heh, heh...)
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
OF CARTOONS AND URINE
Zech 11:13 Here we see the offering of 30 shekels (the price Judas waspayedd for betraying Christ), this is a slim wage, it is the price of a slave. So it is that Christ is esteemed in the world and the faith is considered of no worth. In comparison, the Islamic faith is held to very high esteem and fear, one looks at the furor over 12 cartoons of the Prophet! Yet there is no hue and cry over a picture of a crucifix in a jar of urine. One could protest, but it seems that the reaction of the world was foreseen. The price was then thrown to the potter, that is it was considered of no worth.
Zech 11:13 Here we see the offering of 30 shekels (the price Judas waspayedd for betraying Christ), this is a slim wage, it is the price of a slave. So it is that Christ is esteemed in the world and the faith is considered of no worth. In comparison, the Islamic faith is held to very high esteem and fear, one looks at the furor over 12 cartoons of the Prophet! Yet there is no hue and cry over a picture of a crucifix in a jar of urine. One could protest, but it seems that the reaction of the world was foreseen. The price was then thrown to the potter, that is it was considered of no worth.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
ON THE DA VINCI CODE and THE BROTHERS GRIMM...
Ok, there has been a literal FLOOD of stuff coming out countering the Da Vinci Code book and movie from Christian circles. None of them to this date has countered the central argument of the book, that Christ really extended his kingly line through Mary Magdalene and fostered a line of French kings known as the Merovingians.
This is answered quite simply and succinctly from scripture; In Genesis 49 Jacob tells his sons that the sceptre (read kingly line) will not depart from Judah till Shiloh comes. What he is saying is that after Christ comes there is no more need to keep the extensive records that the Jews did to establish the line of the Messiah. Therefore the argument that Christ was to extend his kingdom (Holy Blood, Holy Grail) is wrongheaded from the start! The Templars never found the records of the lineages of the Jews because in 70 A. D. the temple and all that was destroyed! It just wasn't needed anymore.
*****
Next up to bat; "The Brother's Grimm" starring Heath Ledger and Matt Damon...
I am BIG fan of Terry Gilliam so I was looking forward to this with a lot of anticipation. But it is one of the most thoroughly anti-christian movies I have seen in a long time. It begins with a "pagan myth" that is quite ingrained in our society, that the Christians persecuted and ruined the old ways and religion, therefore the forest rebelled, etc., we all need to return to the "Old Religion" and "earth friendly" ways (where's Al Gore in this movie?) Problem is that the way most of our European ancestors "made friends" with the earth was to sacrifice someone or a child to guarantee a good harvest. Katherine Briggs chronicles this in her book "The Vanishing People", a study of fairy lore.
So when the early missionaries came to pagan Europe, they found people willing and ready to be FREED from enslavement to the "Old Ways". Do the modern Wiccans REALLY want the "Old Religion" back?
Gal 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Ok, there has been a literal FLOOD of stuff coming out countering the Da Vinci Code book and movie from Christian circles. None of them to this date has countered the central argument of the book, that Christ really extended his kingly line through Mary Magdalene and fostered a line of French kings known as the Merovingians.
This is answered quite simply and succinctly from scripture; In Genesis 49 Jacob tells his sons that the sceptre (read kingly line) will not depart from Judah till Shiloh comes. What he is saying is that after Christ comes there is no more need to keep the extensive records that the Jews did to establish the line of the Messiah. Therefore the argument that Christ was to extend his kingdom (Holy Blood, Holy Grail) is wrongheaded from the start! The Templars never found the records of the lineages of the Jews because in 70 A. D. the temple and all that was destroyed! It just wasn't needed anymore.
*****
Next up to bat; "The Brother's Grimm" starring Heath Ledger and Matt Damon...
I am BIG fan of Terry Gilliam so I was looking forward to this with a lot of anticipation. But it is one of the most thoroughly anti-christian movies I have seen in a long time. It begins with a "pagan myth" that is quite ingrained in our society, that the Christians persecuted and ruined the old ways and religion, therefore the forest rebelled, etc., we all need to return to the "Old Religion" and "earth friendly" ways (where's Al Gore in this movie?) Problem is that the way most of our European ancestors "made friends" with the earth was to sacrifice someone or a child to guarantee a good harvest. Katherine Briggs chronicles this in her book "The Vanishing People", a study of fairy lore.
So when the early missionaries came to pagan Europe, they found people willing and ready to be FREED from enslavement to the "Old Ways". Do the modern Wiccans REALLY want the "Old Religion" back?
Gal 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
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