tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374518172024-02-13T13:23:57.298-05:00SpirituallySmart.Com's BlogIn 1997 I was forgiven by God through the gift of faith in His Son, Jesus the Christ (Anointed One). I was then baptized in God's holy Spirit (born again). I've learned a lot since then. Most importantly, I've learned that keeping the greatest commandments are still in effect (Matt 22:36-40).tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-69463802912244420532023-09-28T10:08:00.001-04:002023-09-28T10:08:23.890-04:00Robert Golub, murderer, connected to the Jesuits is up for parole<p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0eHWlbANRHcwFZdhnYJZ2920jG1q3lxIHWaiTNaz357AdrbCz4-q2fAyBaXsRhm7INScBQNunLfWDF1pCzoJfW8spTcpsEGX0Cw2mb99OA0MEFKVGdaxLFnaQJj7p0dYaPH8NeOAiRkkfYvaxIOYxvzDg4EXqDqhOUxnkWIcJhkgnQ3OwWIM/s1727/hggghgg.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="1727" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0eHWlbANRHcwFZdhnYJZ2920jG1q3lxIHWaiTNaz357AdrbCz4-q2fAyBaXsRhm7INScBQNunLfWDF1pCzoJfW8spTcpsEGX0Cw2mb99OA0MEFKVGdaxLFnaQJj7p0dYaPH8NeOAiRkkfYvaxIOYxvzDg4EXqDqhOUxnkWIcJhkgnQ3OwWIM/w400-h259/hggghgg.JPG" title="Robert Golub - Brutally Murdered his 13 year old neighbor Kelly Ann Tinyes" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><br />This
monster Robert Golub needs to be put to sleep. He doesn't deserve to
live. He was 21 years old and brutally murdered our precious neighbor Kelly Tinyes
and traumatized <span></span>us all forever : <b>Family fights to keep 13-year-old Valley Stream girl's murderer behind bars</b> - <a href="https://twitter.com/tlthe5th/status/1707385983514165438">https://twitter.com/tlthe5th/status/1707385983514165438</a><br /><br /></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">His
younger brother was in the house at the time of the murder and has
always been a suspect. For some reason the Jesuits got involved and sent
him away to prestigious Jesuit military academy instead of being tried.
Now, the older brother is up for parole and I'm hoping and praying the
Jesuits don't get this murderer out of prison! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tommy.tlthe5th/posts/pfbid0tf5bZmZVw7jxCioNHL8NPviCCYypiz65VqZcYYtCcqGuE3sVzPeGJ6huyePMJAU6l">https://www.facebook.com/tommy.tlthe5th/posts/pfbid0tf5bZmZVw7jxCioNHL8NPviCCYypiz65VqZcYYtCcqGuE3sVzPeGJ6huyePMJAU6l</a></span></span><p></p><p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><br /></span></p><p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.spirituallysmart.com/</div>tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-21929769187339534972023-09-12T23:17:00.005-04:002023-09-12T23:17:37.734-04:00There's a Monument to the Nazi SS at a Catholic Ukrainian Cemetery in Philadelphia. Jewish Groups Want it Removed<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">There's a Monument to the Nazi SS at a Catholic Ukrainian Cemetery in Philadelphia. Jewish Groups Want it Removed - <a href="https://t.co/dyr9Tke6wQ">https://t.co/dyr9Tke6wQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/v3MZG6L68u">pic.twitter.com/v3MZG6L68u</a></p>— Tommy Richards (@tlthe5th) <a href="https://twitter.com/tlthe5th/status/1701791100279665096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br><br>
<p><samp class="EmbedCode-container"><code class="EmbedCode-code"><br /></code></samp></p><p><samp class="EmbedCode-container"><code class="EmbedCode-code"> </code></samp></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-l71dzp"><div class="css-901oao r-1nao33i r-37j5jr r-adyw6z r-16dba41 r-1h1c4di r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__kgogth461wi" lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">There's a Monument to the Nazi SS at a Catholic Ukrainian Cemetery in Philadelphia. Jewish Groups Want it Removed - </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/dyr9Tke6wQ" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #7856ff;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">https://</span>goo.gl/alerts/MNoVQm<br /><br /><br /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-BG8hjP_JOLCEtYa8FsP6in2p5-njTASI2NDnc43nynXXJ2KZAask_8i6oYvfjTVpheXcXN-NoeCOHQkyvcR8ilI3PKgsMuaaBoM8U9z2pkHSc49_cfoD3F4bGfTd874HBX2XIaEZV7YDYzs37OLJ3sTMYDs9rQxUisMP8aDOB4Grj9A5ZuWP/s1165/catholic-nazi.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Monument to the Nazi SS at a Catholic Ukrainian Cemetery in Philadelphia" border="0" data-original-height="1165" data-original-width="1056" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-BG8hjP_JOLCEtYa8FsP6in2p5-njTASI2NDnc43nynXXJ2KZAask_8i6oYvfjTVpheXcXN-NoeCOHQkyvcR8ilI3PKgsMuaaBoM8U9z2pkHSc49_cfoD3F4bGfTd874HBX2XIaEZV7YDYzs37OLJ3sTMYDs9rQxUisMP8aDOB4Grj9A5ZuWP/w363-h400/catholic-nazi.JPG" title="There’s a Monument to the Nazi SS in an Elkins Park Cemetery. Jewish Groups Want it Removed" width="363" /></a></div><br /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.spirituallysmart.com/</div>tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-89184945692520327412023-05-11T15:28:00.004-04:002023-05-11T15:28:35.677-04:00Pope Francis calls child rapists ‘children of God’ deserving of ‘love’ <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHue7oIrqzfrZcq0-NnnnBzJEL_3-kVlRUDLvfyXkHy45ODuwFJhS2tIwDJSRH6BwCNWQfcXjOWr8yVNreDOAlmu6l_aqImFHz2JydYg9b_5nBOICV9YXI2xUZm1AFDV7BxK8s1Vfipb1WWINquy621AsH5fMCj3QuDjmibnxE1Dh3jesOLw/s904/schmidt-ceo-abc-google-youtube.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="904" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHue7oIrqzfrZcq0-NnnnBzJEL_3-kVlRUDLvfyXkHy45ODuwFJhS2tIwDJSRH6BwCNWQfcXjOWr8yVNreDOAlmu6l_aqImFHz2JydYg9b_5nBOICV9YXI2xUZm1AFDV7BxK8s1Vfipb1WWINquy621AsH5fMCj3QuDjmibnxE1Dh3jesOLw/w640-h387/schmidt-ceo-abc-google-youtube.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />Pope Francis raised some eyebrows while discussing sex abusers, whom
he labeled “children of God” who deserve love and “pastoral care” — as
well revolting “enemies” who must be punished.</span><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The pontiff made his remarks last month during a private meeting with
a group of Jesuit priests in Hungary, but they were only published
Tuesday by <a href="https://www.laciviltacattolica.com/this-is-gods-style-pope-francis-conversation-with-hungarian-jesuits/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">La Civilta Cattolica, an Italian Jesuit journal.</a></span> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“How do we approach, how do we talk to the abusers for whom we feel
revulsion? Yes, they too are children of God. But how can you love
them?” Francis was quoted as saying. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The 86-year-old leader of the Roman Catholic Church was responding to
a question from a Hungarian Jesuit who asked: “The Gospel asks us to
love, but how do we love at the same time people who have experienced
abuse and their abusers?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The pope acknowledged that the answer to this “powerful question” was “not easily at all.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Francis explained that a sexual predator was to be condemned, “but as a brother” still deserving of love and care.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“There is a logic, a form of loving the enemy that is also expressed
in this way,” he added. “And it is not easy to understand and to live
out. The abuser is an enemy.”<br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">While the pope was talking about sexual abuse writ large, the subtext
to his answer is the staggering scandal that has rocked the Catholic
Church involving generations of pedophile priests abusing hundreds of
thousands of children all over the world. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">As recently as last month, a Maryland state report revealed that more
than 150 Catholic priests with the Archdiocese of Baltimore molested
some 600 children, mostly with impunity, over the course of 80 years.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“When you hear what abuse leaves in the hearts of abused people, the
impression you get is very powerful,” Francis told his fellow Jesuits
during the April 29 meeting in Budapest, Hungary. “Even talking to the
abuser involves revulsion; it’s not easy.”<br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“But they are God’s children too,” he noted, referring to sexual
predators. “They deserve punishment, but they also deserve pastoral
care. How do we provide that? No, it is not easy.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">During his 10 years on the throne of St. Peter in the Vatican,
Francis has created a commission on child molestation prevention and has
tightened church laws addressing clerical sexual abuse.<br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But the pontiff’s efforts to redress the crisis have been hampered by
a spate of high-profile resignations from his Pontifical Commission for
the Protection of Minors.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Last week, Francis urged the remaining members of the panel to pursue
a “spirituality of reparation” with sexual abuse survivors. <br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.spirituallysmart.com/</div>tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-38595352637337784832022-12-21T12:41:00.001-05:002022-12-21T12:42:45.943-05:00ξενοφοβία vs φιλοξενία<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOs7BfOdgA6u1_vAq7P_RMfHZ1I8oYhjJl_TPVv2uHGfEiG_DY5NHfg1qbpbucu77TOBTR3NUC56kTkdh6EKey63SWQTvm68MyFvjQhYSmVR2pSoyGrMp3I-lHxERYW56TCR5aQXVVJdUjXEodGPO39G-tg4tYB1Zi7eNQ-YtYqG7Ry6H7JQ/s885/me-too-12-20-22.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="885" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOs7BfOdgA6u1_vAq7P_RMfHZ1I8oYhjJl_TPVv2uHGfEiG_DY5NHfg1qbpbucu77TOBTR3NUC56kTkdh6EKey63SWQTvm68MyFvjQhYSmVR2pSoyGrMp3I-lHxERYW56TCR5aQXVVJdUjXEodGPO39G-tg4tYB1Zi7eNQ-YtYqG7Ry6H7JQ/s320/me-too-12-20-22.PNG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Good day
everyone. Just two of the many flags of the nations I love, admire,
respect in the world. Why? Because I'm a normal person. Many are taught
to be </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">xenophobes. But φιλοξενία (philoxenia) “φιλέω” = “Love of” and “ξένος” = “foreigner” is a greatest command to me by my God. </span></span><br /><p></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div class="css-901oao r-1nao33i r-37j5jr r-1i10wst r-16dba41 r-135wba7 r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__w386zun4z3b" lang="en"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">
More in-depth research proving through the Bible exactly what I mean. This word philoxenia used many times. Especially by the apostle Paul. The word philo ranges from showing friendship to, or literally loving them. But showing friendship is loving them. <br /><br /></span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=backstage_event&redir_token=QUFFLUhqblBpVS1kQkx4RjhGcTZKdDh6WVVXV0llUzY0UXxBQ3Jtc0tteDlVaktoQWFsQzNwZU9vcHVDM3VaWF95NG9ZX3o2UThad0dJc01ydDBpdVZTTFZ3SVNSR1hUY1FLcjAzc0hpT0liZVdsdi1IUjNMMU5JZ2V2dUtPbUR2RmlNRkpQM3pqNFhOc3JSYTdvMDBObVRmRQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fspirituallysmart.com%2Fimmigrant3.html" rel="nofollow" spellcheck="false" target="_blank">https://spirituallysmart.com/immigran...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.spirituallysmart.com/</div>tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-43360812451777524642022-11-16T08:40:00.002-05:002022-11-16T08:40:37.754-05:00Tommy Richards twitter-feed @tlthe5th spirituallysmart.com<p><a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/tlthe5th?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Tweets by tlthe5th</a> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.spirituallysmart.com/</div>tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-5869104360804347032022-11-13T19:18:00.001-05:002022-11-13T19:18:03.680-05:00Alex Jones gets asked about Spirituallysmart.com Live on air<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a7LB0oQpHYU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">All my research on Alex Jones: <a href="spirituallysmart.com/Jones-CIA.htm" target="_blank">spirituallysmart.com/Jones-CIA.htm</a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.spirituallysmart.com/</div>tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-72513840155116316662022-11-02T08:23:00.006-04:002022-11-02T15:55:19.797-04:00Do NOT Support War with Russia<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">To all United states servicemen and people. I am the descendant of military officers dating back to the founding of Jamestown in the United States. My ancestor is Joseph Bridger. Our lineage has fought in all wars starting with the Revolutionary. DO NOT GO TO FIGHT RUSSIA. </span></span><span><br /><br /></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I am a born again Christian who came to Christ in 1997. I live my life in an ultra-conservative fashion. For over 25 years. In the name of Jesus the Christ and God the Father in heaven I DEMAND you not go. Russians are beautiful people and are our family. To fight them is Satanic </span></span><br /><span><br /></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">And you will surely meet a terrible end. The US is now the voice and representative of every kind of evil. Their male officers wear dresses. If you align with them, you are like them. Real Christians in this country will NOT support you. Because you will have sided with Satanic Nazis. <br /><br /></span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I hope and pray you think twice, and listen to reason. If not, you will surely join many of your recent predecessors who were either killed, or are now homeless, forgotten and suffering every day from PTSD and drug addiction. Because unjust war drives a soul to madness. DO NOT GO </span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><a href="https://spirituallysmart.com" target="_blank">Tommy Richards</a> <br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.spirituallysmart.com/</div>tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-11802119903413822242022-10-31T20:24:00.005-04:002022-10-31T20:35:55.615-04:00Ukrainians are cannibals <p> <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">I keep
seeing videos and images of Ukrainian military personnel and civilians
engaging in cannibalism and sick simulations thereof. So now I will tell
people that Ukrainians are cannibals also. No wonder this spec-op is
also being referred to now as the deSatanization of Ukraine.</span><br /><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/tlthe5th/status/1587238634125680640">https://twitter.com/tlthe5th</a><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.spirituallysmart.com/</div>tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-37712856227969440832022-05-29T00:12:00.006-04:002022-05-29T00:12:54.297-04:00Matthew 1:18 in six languages. You can see where a lot of the English came from.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp6u4DIJKblYMCImmeB2rH-AcK0BH0-_-Qb2yy9Dq-k4cQWgxVwSth4PMtKErDlaW_KcW0zUgbcOi8D5bhWejUctLGR9dwjJ8Z2J-tSllNfqxRpsvgrU3sSMo8m_aBKaSrMRoFABMK4wmrDgfp-Z0dbuiqS28BZjsnZ-xQJ-0LgLI99-BAkA/s972/matt1-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="972" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp6u4DIJKblYMCImmeB2rH-AcK0BH0-_-Qb2yy9Dq-k4cQWgxVwSth4PMtKErDlaW_KcW0zUgbcOi8D5bhWejUctLGR9dwjJ8Z2J-tSllNfqxRpsvgrU3sSMo8m_aBKaSrMRoFABMK4wmrDgfp-Z0dbuiqS28BZjsnZ-xQJ-0LgLI99-BAkA/w580-h343/matt1-8.jpg" width="580" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <br /><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto">I
was reading this Parallel & Interlinear New Testament Polyglot: in
Hebrew, Latin, Greek, English, German, and French and I was noticing
some pretty interesting things. The image here is a picture of Matthew
1:18. I have underlined all the places where "Holy Spirit" occurs
(except for Hebrew). At the top you'll see in Latin "Spiritu Sancto."
"Sancto" is the equivalent of the English word "Holy" and is where we
get the word Saint, Sanctified etc. "Spiritu" is where we get the
English word "Spirit." Below the Latin is the Greek ("πνεύματος ἁγίο").
When we read the word "saint" in the New Testament it is in fact the
same exact Greek word for "holy." Pronounced "Hagios." "Hagios
Pneumatos." Or in Greek it always reads "Pneumatos Hagios" (Spirit
Holy). "Saint" is hagios and "sanctified" is hagiazó. See the
similarities? Hagios and Hagiazó mean "holy" and "to be made holy,"
respectively. Below the Greek you'll see German. English is a Germanic
language. Many of our English and Old English words come from the
Germanic language. You'll see I underlined the German equivalent of Holy
Spirit which is "heiligen Geist." That is where we get the King James
Translation of "Ghost" for Spirit. "Geist" is translated as "Ghost" in
Old English. But "ghost" has become obsolete. We now use the word
"Spirit." "Ghost" has taken on a whole new identity which shouldn't be
mingled with biblical Christianity (imho). Below the German we see
French and we can see "Saint Esprit." That French word "Saint" (Holy) is
also derived from the Latin and "Esprit" is the same.<br /><br />In the
beginning of this book the author writes, "Why these Languages and
Particular Versions? The short answer to this question is that these
languages --Hebrew, Latin, Greek, English, German, French -- are the
basic research languages for the field of New Testament studies..."<br /><br />And
I think this verse (Matt 1:18) highlights this fact perfectly! I pray
God the Father and the Lord Jesus the Christ bless you through the study
of His Word. Amen<br /><br /><span>Tommy Richards</span></span></span><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.spirituallysmart.com/</div>tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-27854029591488199282022-04-28T16:04:00.008-04:002022-11-02T13:54:18.845-04:00Nazi-Ukraine, A Creation of the Vatican and the Jesuits (Big Update) <p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTlRDhDSW6dXPrghhwtLq2Uj-1n5uOMU5kbQnNKyriezad12vl8R_oVuctbsQoY136iI5iB0fQTLMHikKNupVvRpqiofQvtDVyxM7Juw-vNljwS0go1Qz7lJuemnnbAU-JO4EKrGVb6HEUEWFji5WTX7w6xOkH-3hX5OCBW6H0d-cTTVm7kg/s1200/collage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTlRDhDSW6dXPrghhwtLq2Uj-1n5uOMU5kbQnNKyriezad12vl8R_oVuctbsQoY136iI5iB0fQTLMHikKNupVvRpqiofQvtDVyxM7Juw-vNljwS0go1Qz7lJuemnnbAU-JO4EKrGVb6HEUEWFji5WTX7w6xOkH-3hX5OCBW6H0d-cTTVm7kg/w640-h640/collage.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br />Updated my Vatican-Nazi page which now connects the Vatican, The US, EU, NATO to the revived AXIS powers which are coming together to start WW3 by provoking Russia through their proxy, the Ukraine: <span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx" href="https://spirituallysmart.com/nazi.html?fbclid=IwAR0w3uWzA4FgB0uMfpFYhSz1z_3hcWiL50_HemIuCHhFuazW5HmLQwjb6rQ" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://spirituallysmart.com/nazi.html</a></span><br /><span></span></span><p></p><div dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_1p"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx" href="https://spirituallysmart.com/nazi.html?fbclid=IwAR0w3uWzA4FgB0uMfpFYhSz1z_3hcWiL50_HemIuCHhFuazW5HmLQwjb6rQ" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><br /></a></span> </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">2/28/22: There is a major update for this web page regarding the Russian-Ukrainian War. This information has earned me special censorship from Twitter, Facebook, Google, Youtube and many other companies. So Please Allow this page to fully load. It is worth your time, I promise. Also keep in mind that this Page was Created for PC use, not Phones. Consider this page as a research lead because I cannot fit everything in here. There are hundreds of pieces of documentation proving it to be true. <br /><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">!! ALERT !! April 28 2022 - The United States, EU, NATO and all affiliated countries are now Nazis and now make up the revived AXIS Powers. The etymology of Nazi is the German form for Ignatius. Yes, the Ignatius who founded the Jesuits for the purposes of the counter-reformation. And now, for the first time in history we have a Jesuit (Nazi) Pope. And he is initiating WW3 against their dreaded enemy, RUSSIA. The same RUSSIA that defeated Nazism during WW2. This web page serves as documentation of the fact that the Vatican and the Jesuits were responsible for Nazi-Germany and WW2 as a whole. And Now I will add the newest and most relevant part of my work which is now the most important and censored information in the world. Adolf Hitler called the Ukraine "the Jewel of the [Nazi] German Empire]. Now we see why. It's because that is where Hitler wanted to set up forces for the eventual destruction of RUSSIA.<br /><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> The First Pieces of Information You Should Know:<br /><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">1. Russia's President Vladimir Putin did NOT want this War but was PROVOKED by the United States who had stationed themselves within Ukraine for provocation purposes.<br /><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">2. Putin has lost many family members to the Nazis<br /><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">3. The Vatican has always hated the Russian Orthodox Church and Communism. There's been interesting comparisons between the founding of Communism and the manner in which God created human beings. It's said that the creation of Communism was based on the fact that human beings are created in the image and likeness of God and therefore can also be great creators. The Vatican and the United States teach the opposite and is only seeking to make everyone stupid and corrupt through the public school system. Therefore, they make their private catholic and military schools far superior and then go on the best universities and positions where they will always be servants of their Roman Catholic Masters.<br /><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">President Putin lost a Brother, Grandmother and at least two Uncles to Nazi forces. Both Putin's parents served in Russia's military to fight Nazis. His father was severely wounded in battle. This is the most incredible history here. Putin's life was deeply affected by the Nazis. My God, no wonder why Putin is so great. God help him.<br /><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Putin's father was a war hero and earned the equivalent of the <span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 q66pz984 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/purpleheart?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZVLmOChkVKmG1AZXvIs-Ihe9ZxUWdC8dvZjNICYmIr9sQSA24DGpHseYzdmesAUhuapIUVWLxGIZw5KCI7AMAvopf2nZ3pdUnfkGtymYvBbgc88q5fi7vJ3bH86XOYeUnhnqOy_IJAGsl3Mn52DnoXd9EKDsWtBvxZcmmwNrtAL5OpJvBHFhzjp9_ERGnjW_gw&__tn__=*NK-R" role="link" tabindex="0">#PurpleHeart</a></span>.<br /><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The very thing the US media hides and has always hid. This silence speaks VOLUMES. This should be on the front page of every newspaper. This is very important. It's even on wikipedia.<br /><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">One should be aware, Nazism has been mainstream within the Ukraine since the end of WW2 (Ukrainian Nazis murdered Jews and others), but it has spiraled out of control more recently. This is why Russia had to go into Ukraine for the purpose of DeNazification and liberation of the anti-Nazi faction within Ukraine. The Ukrainian Nazis have been terrorizing Ukrainian civilians for years. The videos and documentation can be found online if one wants to look. <br /><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Please pray that God protects and blesses Russia as they DENAZIFY the Ukraine and liberate the persecuted anti-Nazi factions within the Ukraine! Also, pray to God that He punishes this country for allowing so much wickedness and filth to take place here as they target everyone through their satanic social engineering via public schools and universities.<br /><br />also see my<a href="https://twitter.com/tlthe5th" target="_blank"> twitter account </a>where 100s of pieces of documentation have been posted<br /><br /><br /></div></div></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.spirituallysmart.com/</div>tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-74199998478044348572022-01-25T15:20:00.004-05:002022-01-25T15:20:34.341-05:00The word "Latin" doesn't appear in the Bible & the Greek word rome<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">I'd love to know why Eugene Nida and/or Barclay Newman make no mention of the word rhomaisti from John </span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">19:20</span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string"> in A Translator's Handbook on The Gospel of John. And after searching through many lexicons and commentaries I've found almost a complete lack of any useful information regarding how rhomasti is the word for Latin. Why isn't it just "Latin" in Greek? Surely that word can be translated. <br /><br />The truth is, the word "Latin" doesn't appear in the Bible.
<br /><br />Also, the word rhome, which means, strength, vigor etc. Surely that was a Greek word in which the great city Rome was named after. Why do I only see this mythological explanation about Remus and Romulus? Why has no scholar or researcher explained this? I've looked everywhere.
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The image shows a screenshot of Proverbs 6:8 from Swete's LXX. It is also found in Rahlfs LXX. This is the only surviving usage of this word (ῥώμῃ) that I have found.
<br /><br />Helpful comments anyone?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuKrDRE0oALBuONBF3GrSFEK_uVqQHANugcv_9hfTbRF3TI1kps5D0WmIig_S59l8-r6r78Gq6181uY7Z_glHDWXtjS80vJS7g2strbX_U5ZTtSuo45NuKkHLTEXMJtZDrte5o7konwCB5BS3T4DWPeSA9l8evxZ8OwBdTvCbOwmeAoJ7eGA=s1029" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="1029" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuKrDRE0oALBuONBF3GrSFEK_uVqQHANugcv_9hfTbRF3TI1kps5D0WmIig_S59l8-r6r78Gq6181uY7Z_glHDWXtjS80vJS7g2strbX_U5ZTtSuo45NuKkHLTEXMJtZDrte5o7konwCB5BS3T4DWPeSA9l8evxZ8OwBdTvCbOwmeAoJ7eGA=w594-h169" width="594" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string"><br /></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.spirituallysmart.com/</div>tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-57053293328426909322020-09-12T12:45:00.001-04:002020-09-12T12:45:54.867-04:00Mark Galli, former Christianity Today editor and Trump critic, to be confirmed a Catholic<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> No surprise there. I've been writing about Christianity Today's pro-catholic bias for <a href="https://spirituallysmart.com/green.html" target="_blank">over 10 years</a></span><br /></p><header class="entry-header">
<h2 class="entry-title"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mark Galli, former Christianity Today editor and Trump critic, to be confirmed a Catholic</span></i></h2>
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<div class="thumb"></div><div class="thumb"></div><div class="thumb"></div><div class="thumb"></div><div class="thumb"></div><div class="thumb"></div><div class="thumb"></div><div class="thumb"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" height="286" src="https://catholiccitizens.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Mark-Galli-Catholic.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="430" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="ccfic-text">Mark Galli receives Communion during Mass at St. Michael Catholic Church early Sept. 8, 2020, in Wheaton, Illinois. </span></span>Add caption<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="thumb"></div><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">By Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service, September 10, 2020</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">CHICAGO (RNS) — On Sunday (Sept. 13), Mark Galli will stand before
Bishop Richard Pates in the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus in Joliet,
Illinois, to hear these words:</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">“Francis, be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit.”</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Pates will then dab Galli’s forehead with anointing oil (using a
cotton ball instead of his thumb due to COVID-19). And with that, Galli —
who has chosen his confirmation name after St. Francis of Assisi— will
become a Roman Catholic.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><figure class="wp-block-pullquote"><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;">As traditionalists,
opposed to gay ordination, the Gallis joined Church of the Resurrection,
part of the Anglican Church in North America, the breakaway group that
left the Episcopal Church. Barbara, who resettles refugees for World
Relief, remains an Anglican.</span></p></blockquote></figure><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Galli’s journey to Catholicism is notable, in part because of the
nation’s political climate. A former Presbyterian pastor, Galli spent
seven years as editor-in-chief of Christianity Today, the premier
publication for evangelicals whose founder was the legendary evangelist
Billy Graham.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">But for a few days last December, Galli was perhaps the most
well-known evangelical in the country – after penning an editorial
calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment and removal from office and
arguing he was “profoundly immoral.”</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">It went viral, earning a rebuke from Trump on Twitter, and bringing
Galli — who retired from the magazine in January — a tsunami of
publicity. Some of his fellow evangelicals praised the editorial as
courageous, given their movement’s overwhelming support for the
president.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Trump’s evangelical supporters labeled it misguided and out of touch.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Now, two months before the election, with evangelical allegiance to
Trump polling as strong as before, Galli is leaving the fold.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">As with most conversions, however, Galli insists his is personal, not political.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Now 68, he had already decided by the time he wrote the 2019
editorial that he would quit the Anglican Church he had attended
alongside his wife, Barbara, for 20 years. His conversion was one reason
he decided to retire from Christianity Today on Jan. 3, after 30 years
as a writer and editor in the news outlet’s stable of publications.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">“I’m not rejecting evangelicalism,” he said recently in an interview
from his home, a few blocks away from Wheaton College, the preeminent
evangelical school. “I’m only taking Anglicanism deeper and thicker.”</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">A contrarian who can be at turns gruff and tender, Galli is not
embracing liberalism. Politically he remains an independent and
considers himself a Burkean conservative — one who believes in honoring
tradition and in slow and cautious change.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">In that spirit, Galli’s late in life conversion has been gradual and carefully considered.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">The first inkling came in 1994 when he served as editor of a magazine
called Christian History and wrote a cover story on St. Francis of
Assisi, whom he admired for his message of simplicity, poverty and
submission to church authority even when he knew the church was not
always right.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">In the intervening years, Galli has slowly moved away from the
evangelical mainstream. He started out a Presbyterian, then became an
Episcopalian and an Anglican. For a time he attended an Orthodox church.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Two years ago when Galli expressed an interest in attending the
course of study for Catholic converts called Rite of Christian
Initiation for Adults, his teacher John Ellison, himself a convert, knew
Galli’s mind was made up.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">“Once something commends itself to you as true and real, even if it’s
inconvenient, you either look the other way and pretend you didn’t see
it,” said Ellison, “or you do something about it.”</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>A storied tradition</strong></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">About 34% of American adults have adopted a religious identity
different from the one in which they were raised, a Pew Research study
found.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">For Catholics, most of the switching is away from the faith, not
toward it. Among U.S. switchers, Catholicism has experienced the
greatest net losses. For every convert to Catholicism, six others no
longer identify as such.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">But there is also a long and storied tradition of Protestants
converting to Catholicism. They include Elizabeth Ann Seton and John
Henry Newman, now saints. There’s Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic
Worker movement, who is being considered for sainthood. Then there’s the
English essayist G.K. Chesterton and the English actor Alec Guinness
and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Some converts are drawn to the beauty of Catholic ritual. Others to
the church’s rich intellectual tradition or the centrality of the
Eucharist, the bread and wine used for Communion, which Catholics
believe becomes the body and blood of Jesus Christ.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">For Galli, all those things were important. So was a certain
weariness with the constant theological polemics and splinters in the
evangelical world.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">“I want to submit myself to something bigger than myself,” Galli said.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">“One thing I like about both Orthodoxy and Catholicism is that you
have to do these things, whether you like it or not, whether you’re in
the mood or not, sometimes whether you believe or not. You just have to
plow ahead. I want that. If it’s left up to me, I am one lazy
son-of-a-bitch. I will not do anything unless someone comes along and
says, ‘You need to do this. This is really important. This will shape
your life. Come on, Galli. Get off your butt.’”</span></p>
<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img alt="" class="wp-image-92793" height="286" src="https://catholiccitizens.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Mark-Galli-Catholic-II.jpg" width="430" /><figcaption>Mark Galli kneels during Mass at St. Michael Catholic Church on Sept. 8, 2020, in Wheaton, Illinois.</figcaption></figure></div>
<p> <span style="font-size: large;">For the past two years, Galli has been attending the daily 6:30 a.m.
Mass at St. Michael Catholic Church, a large parish with about 3,000
families about two miles from his home. He goes to confession twice
monthly. Lately, he has been volunteering to welcome people to the
confession room, and sanitize chairs and door handles in between
sessions.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">He said he was “miserable” during the first two months of the pandemic when the church was closed.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">“The Mass is a perfect Mark Galli service,” he said. “There’s no
singing. There are no hymns. The homily is five minutes. The whole
service is 25 minutes. They give you a single thought, a single
illustration, a quote, and you’re done. Wow.”</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>‘I can’t do it anymore’</strong></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">In some ways, Galli is not a convert. He’s a revert.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Born in California, Galli was baptized a Catholic and underwent First
Communion, mostly, he said, to please his grandmother. By the time he
was 7, his parents quit going to church.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">But the summer Galli turned 13, his mother had a born-again experience while watching Billy Graham on TV.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">After that, he and his mother attended a “very conservative”
evangelical church where Galli answered an altar call and accepted
Jesus. In his teens, and later at the University of California Santa
Cruz, where he majored in history, Galli attended Presbyterian churches.
After graduating from Fuller Theological Seminary, he pastored churches
in Mexico City and Sacramento.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">While still a pastor, Galli discovered the Book of Common Prayer, the
devotional used in the Anglican Communion, and began using it in his
morning prayers instead of formulating his own unscripted version.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">“I was tired of the trite phrases I used all the time,” he said. “The
Book of Common Prayer had these magnificent prayers of praise and
confession and thanksgiving, and I thought, ‘That’s what I want to
say!’’’</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">In 1989, Galli accepted a job as associate editor at Leadership
Journal, a onetime staple of Christianity Today’s roster of
publications, and moved his family from California to the Chicago
suburbs. There, the family joined St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, where
Galli fell in love with the sacraments and the liturgy. He turned in his
Presbyterian ordination credentials.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">But the struggles over homosexuality beginning in 2003 when the
Episcopal Church ordained its first openly gay bishop, and later, his
quest as editor-in-chief of Christianity Today to hold an increasingly
fractious evangelical world together, took a toll.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">As traditionalists, opposed to gay ordination, the Gallis joined
Church of the Resurrection, part of the Anglican Church in North
America, the breakaway group that left the Episcopal Church. Barbara,
who resettles refugees for World Relief, remains an Anglican.</span></p>
<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large"><img alt="" class="wp-image-92794" height="420" src="https://catholiccitizens.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Mark-Galli-Catholic-III.jpg" width="294" /><figcaption>Mark Galli.</figcaption></figure></div>
<p> <span style="font-size: large;">Then for the past seven years as editor-in-chief of Christianity
Today, Galli worked to provide readers a broad tent for Christian
concerns, even as white evangelicals became inextricably intertwined
with Republican politics and Donald Trump.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">It was a source of ongoing frustration.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">“On the whole, he wanted to lead and shape a magazine that reminded
evangelicals of the good things about their movement, especially at a
time when many of us have seen ugly dimensions of the movement,” said
Katelyn Beaty, a writer and editor who was managing editor of
Christianity Today from 2006 to 2016.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Up until Galli’s editorial calling for the president’s removal,
Christianity Today was mostly quiet about Trump. The directive was to
remain above the fray.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Even as Galli decided Christianity Today should publish an editorial
ahead of the president’s impeachment — as it had in the run-up to
President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998 — he was still unsure he
wanted to rattle the cage.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">“I sat down to write a typical Mark Galli: ‘On the one hand, on the
other hand. Let’s listen to one another,’” he said. “I thought about it
for a little bit and decided, ‘You know, I can’t do it anymore.’”</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Living under a structure</strong></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">If Galli had one gnawing frustration with Protestant Christianity, it
was the ceaseless splintering and divisions. He tried to work toward
unity.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">It left him exhausted.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Still, Galli takes seriously Jesus’ desire for unity in his farewell prayer.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">That left him with a choice, he said — to join the institution that claims to be the one true church.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">“True unity requires not just a mental and emotional assent, but
actually an agreement to live under a structure, an ethos, a way of
doing things together,” he said.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">To be sure, the Catholic Church is also beset with factions and
theological controversies, but now retired and a layman, he’ll be a step
removed from the squabbles.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Galli conceded that some Catholic doctrines still sit uncomfortably with him.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Then there’s the ongoing clergy sexual abuse scandal. Galli made his
decision to join the Catholic Church the very week a Pennsylvania grand
jury issued a report showing at least 1,000 cases of abuse by 300
predator priests spanning seven decades.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">“The church is deeply in need of reform,” he conceded. “I’m not
joining this holy institution that has it all right. I want to be one
with these Christians who I think represent the true church in some
sense.”</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Francis Beckwith, a philosophy professor at Baylor University who was
president of the Evangelical Theological Society before becoming a
Catholic, said conversion can’t be easily rationalized.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">“We’re not simply rational beings; we’re also emotional and spiritual beings,” Beckwith said.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Galli, who had planned for his confirmation at Easter before the coronavirus hit, has not wavered.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">He said he reminds himself of the breadth and depth of the Catholic
saints: Augustine, Aquinas, Benedict, Ignatius and, of course, Francis
of Assisi, about whom he wrote a book. And he’s dazzled.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">On Sunday, Ellison, his sponsor, will join him at the cathedral in
Joliet. COVID-19 rules do not allow Galli to bring guests. The 22 adult
confirmands will wear masks and sit at a distance. It’s not the
confirmation he envisioned. But it’s one he’ll live with.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">On Monday morning, he’ll go to Mass.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">This article first appeared <a href="https://religionnews.com/2020/09/10/mark-galli-former-christianity-today-editor-and-trump-critic-to-be-confirmed-a-catholic/">HERE.</a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.spirituallysmart.com/</div>tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-19756037731480426992020-07-25T16:10:00.002-04:002020-07-25T16:10:36.199-04:00Don't condemn others, and God won't condemn you. Matthew 7:1<font size="5"><span data-offset-key="b2p8l-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihL_YPIeGBUs6sMAmbur_ft94nCKeJxJ0-goZwcNarV_-P6M8tM6KpFXXhpgRhu-KJ27GDiqHbMJxlYvABJzcrbl2OgeK8mc2j4fsZc4hBXPY0OxEEZ-WfPm5f7B5lbM92wOjS/s571/matt7-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="468" height="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihL_YPIeGBUs6sMAmbur_ft94nCKeJxJ0-goZwcNarV_-P6M8tM6KpFXXhpgRhu-KJ27GDiqHbMJxlYvABJzcrbl2OgeK8mc2j4fsZc4hBXPY0OxEEZ-WfPm5f7B5lbM92wOjS/w513-h625/matt7-1.jpg" width="513" /></a></div>
This is actually the most accurate translation from the Greek out of all the English bibles I've seen. It is the Contemporary English Version (CEV)
We all use judgment. We all judge everything. That is normal (and important) human behavior. So, it's not that we'll be "judged" because we perhaps judged someone's actions. Otherwise, the words of Jesus would clash with any court system that includes judges. The fact of the matter is, every human being who is born and reaches the age of accountability will be judged by God based on our whole life's actions, our thoughts and even every word. Therefore, the way this scripture is often translated ("Judge not, that ye be not judged."), doesn't really make sense. We will all be judged anyway, regardless if we judged others or didn't judge others. However, if we CONDEMN people (like so many do in this world), we are in another level of danger on our judgment day. Matter of fact, Jesus is pointing out that could very well end up being the case. Jesus is teaching us to live a life of mercy, love and forgiveness. That is God's most important lesson to us and the world. It is the "greatest command" from God which was powerfully reiterated by Jesus and His apostles. And this is how hate should be countered in this world.
Love is the answer. And this love is taught to us by God and shown clearly through the life and death of the Christos (anointed) Son of God (Jesus or Joshua).
Here is the rest, which is also very important (context).
2. God will be as hard on you as you are on others! He will treat you exactly as you treat them.
3. You can see the speck in your friend's eye, but you don't notice the log in your own eye.
4. How can you say, “My friend, let me take the speck out of your eye,” when you don't see the log in your own eye?
5. You're nothing but show-offs (hypocrites)! First, take the log out of your own eye; then you can see how to take the speck out of your friend's eye. ~Matthew 7:1-5
God bless you all in and through Christ Jesus, the Son of the Father. Amen.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />"If you think you are better than others, when you really aren't, you are wrong." Galatians 6:3 CEV<br /><br />Why do people think they are better than others? God looks at everyone with love and desire to be their God. If you think God loves you, know this: He loves everyone, and sent His Son to die for them all.<br /><br /> We have a huge responsibility as believers. If we really are believers. If we're not true believers, then we need to stop falsely professing faith. Because we will all be held accountable for this sort of thing. <br /><br />“If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.” John 9:41<br /><br />This one statement by God tells us we need to be brutally honest with ourselves and be very careful what we say and the claims we make. Especially if we are claiming to represent GOD.<br /><br />PAUL even said, "For now we see through a glass, darkly." (1 Corinthians 13:12a) And in the same letter and context Paul tells us love is far more important than knowledge. So it may be wise to do less talking, and more loving [of God].<br /><br />Paul, again says, "But the one who loves God is known by God." 1 Corinthians 8:3<br /><br />But we can't love God if we don't know Him. But if we do know Him, God will pour out His love into our hearts through the holy Spirit. (Romans 5:5) And this can't be hidden. (Matthew 5:14, 15)<br /><br />Why do we pretend to be such big men and women of God, when we really aren't? Why can't we read God's written word, look at ourselves and be honest? And let that lack DRIVE US into prayer to God for help?<br /><br />“Suppose one of you goes to his friend at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.’<br /><br />Don't you see what Jesus is telling us here? We don't have the bread of God to give to our hungry neighbors!! Doesn't that hurt?? No?? Why not!!?? IT SHOULD HURT US VERY MUCH<br /><br />And so we PRAY TO GOD. For our daily bread and bread for our neighbors. <br /><br />If we truly have Christ in our hearts, we should be able to share Him with others.<br /><br />Isn't that a beautiful THOUGHT? Well, it should be a REALITY. It MUST be a reality IF we profess faith. If we have no bread, then we have no faith. Or we are dormant, lukewarm or worse.<br /><br />"And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Do not bother me. My door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’<br /><br />I tell you, even though he will not get up to provide for him because of his friendship, yet BECAUSE of the man’s PERSISTENCE, he will get up AND GIVE HIM AS MUCH AS HE NEEDS.<br /><br />So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." (Luke 11)<br /><br />Amen. <br /><br />And may God bless you all in Christ Jesus His Son.<br /><br />Tommy Richards</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ancient fragments of Bible found throughout the world are primarily in Greek. That's because Greek was one of the most important languages in and around Israel before, during and after the time of the Christos (Greek word) Son of God. There was a very important Greek Old Testament collection of books at the time of the Christos too. This Greek old testament is primarily the source of old covenant/testament quotes in the New Testament writings! Yes, Jesus and the apostles and disciples quote old Testament Greek passages into the new covenant writings. Often (when studying the Greek), you will find these quotes exactly the same in both old and new testament writings, even though the ENGLISH translation can be very different. Why? So companies can put a COPYRIGHT on God's word and SELL God's word. <br /><br />This is why I study every Greek word in the old and new covenant writings and see where these words appear in both testament/covenant writings. This is called "syntax" and is very important in learning the meaning of these words [OF GOD]. <br /><br />One Greek word I want to share today is νουθετέω ("noutheteó" - Strong's G3560) and is often translated into the English word "admonish". But what does "admonish" mean? The answer to this question is very important. So we see it is beneficial for us to study Greek words AND their English counterparts! Doing this while staying in prayer to God is essential for growth in SOUND doctrine! <br /><br />This word, νουθετέω ("noutheteó" - Strong's G3560), has a wonderful definition on biblehub . com. It reads, <br /><br />3560 /nouthetéō ("admonish through instruction") especially appeals to the mind, supplying doctrinal and spiritual substance (content). This "exerts positive pressure" on someone's logic (reasoning), i.e. urging them to choose (turn to) God's best.<br /><br />As we can see, when we understand these words, we can properly "admonish" OURSELVES and our neighbors, and therefore, LOVE OUR NEIGHBORS AS OURSELVES. We all need this admonishment from God's wonderful Word and Spirit. It is the Spirit that deals with the consciences of men! And this work is accomplished when we are born again, seeking God with all the heart and admonishing ourselves through careful STUDY of God's Words!<br /><br />This Greek word νουθετέω ("noutheteó" - Strong's G3560), is a verb and appears 8 times in the New Covenant writings and 11 times in the Old Covenant writings. The passage I want to share today is in Colossians 1:28: Paul, by the holy Spirit says, "We proclaim Him (Christ), admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ." <br /><br />You can all see how powerful this statement is and how important it is to understand what is being said so "we may present everyone perfect in Christ"!!<br /><br />To prevent this message from becoming too lengthy, I will stop there.<br /><br />May God the Father bless everyone's day in the Name/Reputation of the Christos Son Jesus. Amen!<br /><br />Tommy Richards<br /><br /><br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I created these images below (Greek bible study). I recommend the Apostolic Bible Polyglot by Charles Van Der Pool. <a href="https://t.co/hxBeJkqSu6">https://t.co/hxBeJkqSu6</a></p>— Tommy Richards (@tlthe5th) <a href="https://twitter.com/tlthe5th/status/1604533914198052864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is an old post that was never posted (taken from wikipedia)<br /><br />Hegelian dialectic, usually presented in a three-fold manner, was stated by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Heinrich_Moritz_Chalyb%C3%A4us">Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus</a> as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis" title="Thesis, antithesis, synthesis">thesis</a>, giving rise to its reaction, an <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis" title="Thesis, antithesis, synthesis">antithesis</a>, which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis" title="Thesis, antithesis, synthesis">synthesis</a>.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Although this model is often named after <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Hegel" title="Hegel">Hegel</a>, he himself never used that specific formulation. <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Hegel" title="Hegel">Hegel</a> ascribed that terminology to <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Kant" title="Kant">Kant</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=37451817#cite_note-24">[25]</a></sup> Carrying on Kant's work, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Fichte" title="Fichte">Fichte</a> greatly elaborated on the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis" title="Thesis, antithesis, synthesis">synthesis</a> model, and popularized it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the other hand, Hegel did use a three-valued logical model that is very similar to the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis" title="Thesis, antithesis, synthesis">antithesis</a> model, but Hegel's most usual terms were: Abstract-Negative-Concrete. Sometimes Hegel would use the terms, Immediate-Mediated-Concrete. Hegel used these terms hundreds of times throughout his works.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=37451817#cite_note-25">[26]</a></sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The formula, Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis, does not explain why the Thesis requires an Antithesis. However, the formula, Abstract-Negative-Concrete, suggests a flaw in any initial thesis—it is too abstract and lacks the negative of trial, error and experience. The same applies to the formula, Immediate-Mediated-Concrete. For Hegel, the Concrete, the Synthesis, the Absolute, must always pass through the phase of the Negative, that is, Mediation. This is the actual essence of what is popularly called Hegelian Dialectics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To describe the activity of overcoming the negative, Hegel also often used the term <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Sublation" title="Sublation"><i>Aufhebung</i></a>, variously translated into English as "sublation" or "overcoming," to conceive of the working of the dialectic. Roughly, the term indicates preserving the useful portion of an idea, thing, society, etc., while moving beyond its limitations. (<a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Jacques_Derrida">Jacques Derrida</a>'s preferred French translation of the term was <i>relever</i>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Science_of_Logic" title="Science of Logic"><i>Logic</i></a>, for instance, Hegel describes a dialectic of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Existence">existence</a>: first, existence must be posited as pure Being (<i>Sein</i>); but pure Being, upon examination, is found to be indistinguishable from Nothing (<i>Nichts</i>). When it is realized that what is coming into being is, at the same time, also returning to nothing (in life, for example, one's living is also a dying), both Being and Nothing are united as Becoming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As in the Socratic dialectic, Hegel claimed to proceed by making implicit contradictions explicit: each stage of the process is the product of contradictions inherent or implicit in the preceding stage. For Hegel, the whole of history is one tremendous dialectic, major stages of which chart a progression from self-alienation as <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Master-slave_dialectic" title="Master-slave dialectic">slavery</a> to self-unification and realization as the <a class="new" href="http://www.blogger.com/w/index.php?title=Rational_state&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Rational state (page does not exist)">rational</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Constitutional_state" title="Constitutional state">constitutional state</a> of free and equal citizens. The Hegelian dialectic cannot be mechanically applied for any chosen thesis. Critics argue that the selection of any antithesis, other than the logical negation of the thesis, is subjective. Then, if the logical negation is used as the antithesis, there is no rigorous way to derive a synthesis. In practice, when an antithesis is selected to suit the user's subjective purpose, the resulting "contradictions" are <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">rhetorical</a>, not logical, and the resulting synthesis is not rigorously defensible against a multitude of other possible syntheses. The problem with the Fichtean "Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis" model is that it implies that contradictions or negations come from outside of things. Hegel's point is that they are inherent in and internal to things. This conception of dialectics derives ultimately from <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Heraclitus">Heraclitus</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hegel has outlined that the purpose of dialectics is "to study things in their own being and movement and thus to demonstrate the finitude of the partial categories of understanding"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">One important dialectical principle for Hegel is the transition from quantity to quality, which he terms the Measure. The measure is the qualitative quantum, the quantum is the existence of quantity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"The identity between quantity and quality, which is found in Measure, is at first only implicit, and not yet explicitly realised. In other words, these two categories, which unite in Measure, each claim an independent authority. On the one hand, the quantitative features of existence may be altered, without affecting its quality. On the other hand, this increase and diminution, immaterial though it be, has its limit, by exceeding which the quality suffers change. [...] But if the quantity present in measure exceeds a certain limit, the quality corresponding to it is also put in abeyance. This however is not a negation of quality altogether, but only of this definite quality, the place of which is at once occupied by another. This process of measure, which appears alternately as a mere change in quantity, and then as a sudden revulsion of quantity into quality, may be envisaged under the figure of a nodal (knotted) line".</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As an example, Hegel mentions the states of aggregation of water: "Thus the temperature of water is, in the first place, a point of no consequence in respect of its liquidity: still with the increase or diminution of the temperature of the liquid water, there comes a point where this state of cohesion suffers a qualitative change, and the water is converted into steam or ice". As other examples Hegel mentions the reaching of a point where a single additional grain makes a heap of wheat; or where the bald-tail is produced, if we continue plucking out single hairs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another important principle for Hegel is the negation of the negation, which he also terms <i>Aufhebung</i> (sublation): Something is only what it is in its relation to another, but by the negation of the negation this something incorporates the other into itself. The dialectical movement involves two moments that negate each other, a somewhat and an another. As a result of the negation of the negation, "something becomes an other; this other is itself somewhat; therefore it likewise becomes an other, and so on ad infinitum" Something in its passage into other only joins with itself, it is self-related. In becoming there are two moments coming-to-be and ceasing-to-be: by sublation, i.e. negation of the negation, being passes over into nothing, it ceases to be, but something new shows up, is coming to be. What is sublated (<i>aufgehoben</i>) on the one hand ceases to be and is put to an end, but on the other hand it is preserved and maintained. In dialectics, a totality transforms itself; it is self-related.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />"Because the climate of Egypt is especially favorable for the preservation of antiquities—desert conditions prevail south of Cairo, as one goes up the Nile Valley—an astonishing number of very early Coptic manuscripts have been discovered, dating from AD 300 onwards, and the number continues to grow. <br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> "Coptic literature, which survives in a number of dialects, comprises both original works and translations from the Greek and was m<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">ostly intended for use in the non-Greek churches and monasteries of Egypt. It includes several translations of the Bible made from Greek starting about AD 300, which are a very early indirect attestation of the Greek text and a direct indication of an Egyptian (perhaps Alexandrian) understanding of what it meant: the Coptic versions are of great importance to modern scholars of Biblical textual criticism." ~COPTIC IN 20 LESSONS by Bentley Layton - Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Read free online: "Coptic Biblical texts in the dialect of Upper Egypt" by Budge, E. A. Wallis, Sir, 1857-1934<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> "Contains Coptic versions of the Books of Deutero<span class="text_exposed_show">nomy,
Jonah, and the Acts of the Apostles, from the papyrus Codex Oriental
no. 7594, and the Book of the Apocalypse from the paper manuscript,
Oriental no. 6803."<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> "The oldest known copy of any translation of ... the Greek Bible."<span style="color: #0000ee;"><u> </u></span><br /><br />Includes bibliographical references and indexes.<br /></span><br />
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Budge says in the Preface: "The texts in the papyrus Codex are of great
importance, for the script in the Greek hand which comes at the end of
the Acts of the Apostles proves that the volume cannot have been written
later than the middle of the fourth century. Hence it is now certain
that copies of some Books of the Old and New Testaments, written in
Coptic, were in circulation among the Egyptian Christians early in the
first half of this century: and it is legitimate to conclude that the
origin of the version itself cannot be placed later than the third
century. The Codex is, in fact, the oldest known copy of any translation
of any considerable portion of the Greek Bible: indeed it is probably
as early as any copy now in existence of any substantial part of the
Bible."<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> That was in the early 20th century. Not long after, an
incredible discovery was made. In the forward of Crum's thousand-page
Coptic Dictionary, we read "...Only in rare instances did a Coptic
document preserve a text, or part of a text, whose Greek original was
lost, in which case it became the only source..." "All this changed
dramatically with the discovery late in 1945 of the Nag Hammadi codices.
The discovery consisted of thirteen Coptic codices copied about the
middle of the fourth century C.E. (A.D.)..." "Suddenly, learning Coptic
became the middle-age crisis of the New Testament and Patristics
scholars and produced another language requirement for their doctoral
students." "The thirteen codices contained fifty-two tractates, but
since six are duplicates, there are only 46 works. All are translations
from Greek, and most were composed in the second and third centuries
C.E." ~Forward by James M. Robinson (The forward contains many more
important details which you may read after purchasing online, as I have
done.)<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> As you can probably (hopefully) see, there is good cause for attention to be paid in this field of study!<br /></span><br />
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If anyone is interested in learning basic Coptic language and grammar, I
recommend reading and/or printing the [free] book found online:
"Layton, Bentley. Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic
With Exercises & Vocabularies. Leuven. Paris and Dudley. Peeters,
2006." which is required for Washington University's "COPTIC 101 A:
Introduction to Sahidic Coptic".</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Best wishes to all, in and through Christ Jesus!<br /><br />Tommy Richards<br /><a href="https://septuagint-lxx.com/">https://septuagint-lxx.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Firstly, I am hoping that this post will turn into a research lead for someone who can find out more about this subject. And I humbly ask that you please share with me anything you can find if you do look into this. The information I am sharing here should be interesting to anyone who loves God's word. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I've been studying what I can from the Coptic - English translations of the Bible. I find this to be fascinating and have become somewhat addicted. The most interesting part is that the Coptic books of the bible come from some of the oldest known manuscripts. I also find it interesting that this field of study is neglected. It should not be. All fragments of Coptic manuscripts need to be studied and compared to other manuscripts. It just may be that they turn out to be BETTER and MORE RELIABLE than other manuscripts due to age. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I posted recently about the Book of JOB from the Coptic, translated by Henry Tattam (1788 – 1868) who was a well-educated leader within the church of England and renowned expert in the field of ancient Coptic and Egyptian (which is synonymous with the word "Coptic") manuscripts. The term "Coptic" comes from the Greek to Arabic line and translates "GYPT" from Egypt (dropping the "E" which is simply the definite article from old Egyptian language) and makes it simple "GOBT". English then makes it "Copt". "Egypt" comes from The Latin the English line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Tattam writes in the introduction of his translation of Job: "It may perhaps be sufficient to state here, that the Coptic Version of the Scriptures was made at a very early period of the Christian era. This Version of the Old Testament, like all the other ancient Versions of it, was made from the Greek Text, and not from the original Hebrew."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And as I posted previously, Job 1:6 reads "angels of God" rather than "sons of God". The latter the source of much controversy and debate. AND, if I may say plainly, has been the source of many widespread HERETICAL teachings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> But now to the focus of this new post; The Coptic Version of the NEW Testament in the Southern dialect (otherwise called Sahidic and Thebaic), edited by George William Horner (1849–1930) is lacking the controversial Romans 13:1-6. I find it fascinating that this exact portion, which has been the subject of so much controversy, is wanting in this ancient Coptic text!</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"> And unfortunately, due to the sparse commentary on the Coptic versions of the Bible, I cannot say anymore right now. But wikipedia says this about Romans 13:1-7 (please view their entry for citations and sources @ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romans_13">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romans_13</a> ):</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"According to biblical scholars John Barton and John Muddiman:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Few if any passages in the Pauline corpus have been more subject to abuse than w. 1–7. Paul does not indicate that one is required to obey public officials under all circumstances, nor does he say that every exercise of civil authority is sanctioned by God. No particular government is authorized; no universal autarchy is legitimated. Instead, Paul reiterates the common Jewish view that human governance operates under God's superintendency (Jn 19:11; Dan 2:21; Prov 8:15—16; Isa 45:1—3; Wis 6:3), that it is part of the divine order and so is meant for human good (i Pet 2:13–14; Ep. Arist. 291–2).[12]</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Romans 13 is from time to time employed in civil discourse and by politicians and philosophers in support of or against political issues. Two conflicting arguments are made: that the passage mandates obedience to civil law; and that there are limits to authority beyond which obedience is not required. John Calvin, in Institutes of the Christian Religion[13] took the latter position: "that we might not yield a slavish obedience to the depraved wishes of men". Martin Luther employed Romans 13 in Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants[14] to advocate that it would be sinful for a prince or lord not to use force, including violent force, to fulfil the duties of their office.[15]
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<span style="font-size: large;">Theologian Paul Tillich is critical of an interpretation that would cast Romans 13:1-7 in opposition to revolutionary movements:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the many politico-theological abuses of biblical statements is the understanding of Paul’s words [Romans 13:1-7] as justifying the anti-revolutionary bias of some churches, particularly the Lutheran. But neither these words nor any other New Testament statement deals with the methods of gaining political power. In Romans, Paul is addressing eschatological enthusiasts, not a revolutionary political movement.[16]</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Romans 13 was used during the period of the American Revolution, by loyalists who preached obedience to the Crown; and by revolutionaries who argued for elimination of the unjust authority of the King. Later in US history, Romans 13 was employed by anti-abolitionists to justify and legitimise (sic) the keeping of slaves; notably around the time of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 which precipitated debate as to whether the law should be obeyed or resisted.[15] It was also used by the Dutch Reformed Church to justify apartheid rule in South Africa.[17][18]
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<span style="font-size: large;">In June 2018, Romans 13 was used by Jeff Sessions to justify the Trump administration family separation policy, saying:[15][19][20]
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order. Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves and protect the weak and lawful.[21]</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, echoed Sessions' use of Romans 13, stating:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’m not aware of the attorney general’s comments or what he would be referencing, [but] I can say that it is very biblical to enforce the law. That is repeated throughout the Bible.[21]
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<span style="font-size: large;">Commenting on the fight to define Romans 13, Lincoln Mullen argues that "what the attorney general actually has on his side is the thread of American history that justifies oppression and domination in the name of law and order."
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />The Coptic language is an incredible language based off the Greek. It was in use between 200BC and 1700 and many ancient bibles were translated into Coptic from Greek and was used to preserve the Bible! Yet ANOTHER proven fact of how important and popular the <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/septuagint?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCZAT-FV0fKAVkpB1Z4GlJSBG3hLOvu1MPl6cmOPqXLHxqNDNqCcWv-lGVhxNzhmntXMizMIFkYHNCh4-rtSL7LpRxTHp4kCv6uNuzavCDkpCoBFJDpWnzusaVkA5N4U0wqMoFyE_k55zu5lbeuIUTUGuXmfH_qtjqw9hlEBxgG5fycfnSx_xJSx4bbRaxFgorlIzVV_4c__OOXY3dCKfltLwiArNoFCBQXv8s5yzmV2BEdAGrrW-FbTdvrGbBbPZ8X2m43c3h9qK_jxAPjSywkmEqAhAMc_F4ouCuZIPf52wI3Snk5eUOeV115eRDo09BFyGQCwe5gScxtKRkIVaG8Xkem4RKtKw1RQKEVqCM2dgTxJNajVQ&__tn__=%2ANK-R" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #365899; font-family: inherit;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">Septuagint</span></span></a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/lxx?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCZAT-FV0fKAVkpB1Z4GlJSBG3hLOvu1MPl6cmOPqXLHxqNDNqCcWv-lGVhxNzhmntXMizMIFkYHNCh4-rtSL7LpRxTHp4kCv6uNuzavCDkpCoBFJDpWnzusaVkA5N4U0wqMoFyE_k55zu5lbeuIUTUGuXmfH_qtjqw9hlEBxgG5fycfnSx_xJSx4bbRaxFgorlIzVV_4c__OOXY3dCKfltLwiArNoFCBQXv8s5yzmV2BEdAGrrW-FbTdvrGbBbPZ8X2m43c3h9qK_jxAPjSywkmEqAhAMc_F4ouCuZIPf52wI3Snk5eUOeV115eRDo09BFyGQCwe5gScxtKRkIVaG8Xkem4RKtKw1RQKEVqCM2dgTxJNajVQ&__tn__=%2ANK-R" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #365899; font-family: inherit;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">LXX</span></span></a> was and IS. Here is a graph I put together comparing the Coptic alphabet with the Greek alphabet, and a link to the page where I am gathering information and PDFs of Coptic Bibles with Greek and English notes, Coptic dictionaries, Bible commentaries and a learner's Grammar. <a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" href="https://www.septuagint-lxx.com/coptic" rel="nofollow" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.septuagint-lxx.com/coptic</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />"Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek." John 19:20<br /><br />Important verse to think about and consider. Those three languages were very popular in that region. And this verse amplifies the importance of the Septuagint Greek Old Covenant writings. Because that was the MAIN bible at that time. It was practically all they had, studied, and quoted from. As the New Covenant writings hadn't been written yet. <br /><br />In chapter 6 of the book of Acts we read how "...the Grecian Jews ("Greek-speaking Judeans" = "Ἑλληνιστῶν") began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food." Acts 6:1b "daily distribution of διακονία." διακονία = "waiting at table; in a wider sense: service, ministration." (Strong's concordance).<br /><br />So seven GREEK - Jews were chosen.<br /><br />"Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men confirmed to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will appoint this responsibility to them and devote ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the word.” Acts 6:3, 4<br /><br />"This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, as well as Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism." Acts 6:5<br /><br />If you study these 7 names you will see they were all GREEK names! <br /><br />Again, we see how important Greek was right in the New Covenant writings!<br /><br />On a more personal note, Greek and Latin are easiest for me to study and understand because the English language is largely based on them. I see many whole and partial English words right in these ancient languages. And this helps to UNDERSTAND these WORDS OF GOD *BETTER* (GREAT EMPHASIS ADDED). And the IMPORTANCE of this, cannot be expressed adequately with words!<br /><br />Written by Tommy Richards of septuagint-lxx.com and spirituallysmart.com to the glory of God the Father by and through His Christos Son Jesus. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Amen, to what Peter says in this verse! This, he said in response to the Gentiles officially being accepted into God's family through faith in Christ. And the event was confirmed through the giving of, immersion of, the baptism in God's holy Spirit. Cornelius and his household were born again, anew, fathered, begotten from above. Just like the Judeans were on Pentecost, as Jesus promised. According to Bible historians, Cornelius and his household being accepted by God was approximately 10 years after Pentecost. The Gentiles being justified by and through faith in Christ was somewhat shocking to the Judean believers. But they could not deny what had happened to Cornelius and his friends and family. And they could not deny all the Scriptures which foretold of this event. Peter being the important vessel God used to introduce this fact to the Judeans in Jerusalem. PAUL then became God's main ambassador to the gentiles. He was perfect because no one was more offensive and contrary to God than Paul. If God could save Paul, God could save the gentiles and offer all His promises to them through faith in His Christos Son. And indeed, God has done just that. Gentiles have an ADDITIONAL reason to worship, thank, and praise God the Father through Christ. <br /><br />The two verses that came to mind while writing this were: <br /><br />1. "Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too," (Romans 3:29)<br /><br />2. "Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off." (Romans 11:22)<br /><br />Because, do you think that the knowledge of such an incredible act of God's love and mercy, and His bestowal of His Spirit to us through the death and shed blood of His SON is for nothing? After becoming witnesses of God's reality through the baptism in God's Spirit through faith in Christ, do we pretend nothing happened? Were we not indeed made a new creation? Should not all our thoughts and actions be carefully weighed through prayerful study of God's word? And should we not repent at the reading of His word and allow God's fire to burn away anything other than God's pure teachings? Should we not DO as PAUL teaches us gentiles? Did he not warn them straightly over and over, with tears? Did he suffer everything he suffered for nothing? Isn't this what God's Spirit is pressing upon you when you read His written word? I hope so. Otherwise, our hearts are still like stones. The new heart is needed for God to be able to sow His seed. The perfect soil for planting and growing. That needs to happen FIRST. THEN we can grow into the fullness of the stature of Christ, eventually. We must be born anew. Like the Judeans on Pentecost. And like Cornelius ten years later. And we must strive to do everything PAUL wrote to those who received the Spirit of Christ. As he said, "You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ." Romans 8:9<br /><br />So what can we do to receive God's Spirit? We must first BELIEVE. And only through the unmerited, unearned gift from God can we have this faith. And how does one receive faith from God? Answer: “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” "So, Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ." Romans 10:13-15, 17<br /><br />That's how you become saved, the gift of God opening your hearts to His gospel and His enabling us to endure to the end of our lives. And how does one become condemned? Jesus tells us through the book of John. During His incredible conversation with Nicodemus, He says, "Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. AND THIS IS THE CONDEMNATION: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.” John 3<br /><br />And there you have it. The direction from God. Go to Him for forgiveness. He will grant you forgiveness through His Son. One will only seek forgiveness if one feels sad about what they have done. And one feels bad because our sins separate us from God and His blessings.<br /><br />At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have HIDDEN these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children [(those small in their own mind)]. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight. Matthew 11:25-26<br /><br />It's the lowly sinners who hear the message of God. If you feel sad for your sins, that's a blessing. Turn to God now and trust in Him for eternal life.<br /><br />Here is a prayer I said when I was born again. Say it to God;<br /><br />"My Lord and my God, have mercy on me, a sinner. I believe Jesus the Christ died on the cross and shed His precious blood for the forgiveness of all my sins. I believe Jesus raised from the dead and ascended into heaven and is now on the right-hand side of God listening to this prayer. I open up the door of my heart and I invite You in, Lord Jesus. Thank you, God, for saving my soul and I vow to serve you with all my heart which is the first and greatest commandment. Amen."<br /><br />Written by Tommy Richards, to the glory of God the Father through His Anointed Son Jesus. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The basis of this message I am writing is found in the first epistle of John. He writes, “Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us. You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.” 1 John 2:18-20<br /><br />John tells us we are in the last hour – This is 2000 YEARS AGO which would most likely mean that we are possibly in the last minute of time.<br /><br />John says that “antichrist (ἀντίχριστος) is coming (ἔρχομαι). In the very same sentence John states, “…and already many such antichrists have appeared. This is how we know that it is the last hour.”<br /><br />Appeared = γίνομαι. And is a very common Greek word in the NT and fundamentally means "become" (becoming, became). Therefore, I think the emphasis in this verse is on the fact that there were many antichrist[s] already presently there.<br /><br />John, the apostle. One of the original 12 disciples picked out by the Lord Himself. Author of: The Gospel of John; 1, 2, 3 John (epistles of); and Revelation or "Apocalypse" (ἀποκάλυψις) is a Greek word meaning "an unveiling, uncovering, revealing, revelation."<br /><br />John therefore had the authority to say assuredly, “They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.” (1 John 2:19)<br /><br />I’m writing this because I have seen representatives of churches, sects and cults try quoting this scripture when someone leaves their group. But I say that in most cases they have no authority to do so. The apostle John was a proven leader in the body of Christ. NOBODY else can lay claim to this kind of authority. Therefore, people should be very careful when they try and call someone “antichrist” because someone left their group. People who carelessly accuse people of being antichrist can often wind up looking more like the antichrist than the one they are accusing. I say this because of the reasoning they employ when drawing their conclusions. The accuser/slanderer (διάβολος), are imagining that their group is the one and only bonafide church of God and anyone who leaves it is antichrist. In other words, they are putting their faith into this idea and not putting their faith in the person of CHRIST. This very work puts them in place of Christ. Or instead of Christ. Which is the very definition of “antichrist.”<br /><br />The reason why someone would imagine that their little cult, group or sect is the one and only body of Christ is because they are deceived. And most likely due to pride. Of which, God says He is at war with those who are proud. “But gives His grace (gift of unmerited favor) to the LOWLY.” (Proverbs 3:34 LXX; 1 Peter 5:5; James 4:6).<br /><br />The opposite/antonym of pride which is humility is a prerequisite for properly serving Christ and is the signature of authenticity of a true born of the Spirit follower of Christ. The true believer full well knows his unworthiness and therefore is always looking for Christ’s guidance. As the true believer knows who and what he was before Christ saved him. This guidance, John refers to in the very next verse. The word is often translated as “unction”, but is more properly translated as “the result of the anointing” (χρίσμα) and is where we get the English word charisma.<br /><br />John says, “You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.” 1 John 2:20 (and see 1 John 2:27 to see all the usages (3) of this word (χρίσμα) in the New Covenant writings.)<br /><br />John then says, “I have not written you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.” 1 John 2:21<br /><br />John is talking to members in Christ’s body, firstly. People who have never truly been saved like to imagine they are anointed leaders of God and that all the Bible verses apply to them in a context that was never intended. They throw around heavy duty verses and accusations and they feel that makes them look important. These are the ones who never truly entered into God’s fold through faith in Christ and the initial immersion in God’s holy Spirit at the time of conversion. These are the “antichrists” John is talking about! And their day of judgment and negative verdict is coming very soon. These are the ones who have entered into the fold, not through the Gate (Christ), but “some other way.” The same is “a thief and a robber.” John 10:1<br /><br />Just as John is warning in his epistles; “they did not [ever] belong to us.” And “their departure made it clear that none of them [ever] belonged to us.” (1 John 2:19)<br /><br />These antichrists were never saved! Then, when someone who IS saved visits their group and depart when the spiritual bankruptcy of the hypocrites is manifested, the wolves in sheep’s clothing begin pacifying the others by incorrectly quoting John’s words about antichrist. Except the roles were actually reversed. The antichrists rejected a true born of the Spirit converted follower of Christ and therefore “departed” from Christ’s body without even knowing it. (2 John 1:7; Luke 10:16; Matthew 10:40; John 13:20)<br /><br />John then says, “Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.” 1 John 2:22<br /><br />“Denies” is the English translation of the Greek word ἀρνέομαι and means: “(refuse); hence, contradict, refuse to affirm or to confess (identify with); disown (repudiate).”<br /><br />Those who never knew Christ are easily deceived and manipulated by demons. They naturally repudiate, deny and disown JESUS and those who belong to Him. And before we knew Christ, we all did the very same thing! (Romans 5:10; Ephesians 2:3; Colossians 1:21)<br /><br />But when we were confronted with God’s truth and through God’s mercy accepted it, the antichrists on the other hand denied it, repudiated it and contradicted it (Matthew 21:44; Luke 20:18). And again, John fills in the pertinent information in the all-important third chapter of John. He says, “And this is the verdict (“condemnation” - KJV): The Light has come into the world, but men loved (chose) the darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.” John 3:17, 18<br /><br />Those who are Christ’s go to Him every day and confess their faults and express to Him their need of God’s grace and forgiveness. This allows God to exercise His mercy to us (1 John 1:7). This shows that we are affirming and confirming God as the good and gracious God He is, while we are displaying our humility and need for God’s forgiveness. And THIS is the most important part of God’s work in Christ. As Jesus says, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but [I came to call] sinners, to repentance.” Luke 5:31, 32<br /><br />Jesus WAS BORN into this world for sinners. (1 Timothy 1:15; Matthew 9:13; Luke 19:10; John 3:17).<br /><br />But the antichrists will hardly ever admit they are wrong at all. And therefore, these types do not need Christ. And therefore, reject, deny and repudiate Him.<br /><br />Paul also often speaks of these deniers of God, but does so very specifically in 2 Thessalonians 2. Paul says, “The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.” 2 Thessalonians 2:9, 10<br /><br />And because they refused, denied, repudiated and were hostile toward “a love for the truth,” “For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie,” (The lie that THEY are the anointed of God and everyone who leaves them are antichrist!) 2 Thessalonians 2:11<br /><br />“For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.” 2 Corinthians 11:13-15<br /><br />The holy Spirit tells us all the same things so many times and in so many ways in God’s old and new covenant writings. And I tell you, and echo the words of the Lord Jesus Christ and all His messengers, apostles and prophets; And that is the fact that we need to love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength. We need to seek Him persistently. To read His word prayerfully. And To constantly commune with Him in our heart. And to never stop until we breathe our very last breath!<br /><br />You can be saved!<br /><br />God loves the people in the world so much that He came down to die for us. If God is opening your heart to His message and you feel convicted for your sins which have separated you from a holy God and you feel the need to be forgiven, then say this prayer. This is how I was powerfully converted to the Christ in 1997!<br /><br />Say, "My Lord and my God, have mercy on me, a sinner. I believe Jesus the Christ died on the cross and shed His precious blood for the forgiveness of all my sins. I believe Jesus raised from the dead and ascended into heaven and is now on the right-hand side of God listening to this prayer. I open up the door of my heart and I invite You in, Lord Jesus. Thank you, God, for saving my soul and I vow to serve you with all my heart which is the first and greatest commandment. Amen."<br /><br />Tommy Richards<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://spirituallysmart.com/antichrist.html">https://spirituallysmart.com/antichrist.html</a></span></div>
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"And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ." Romans 8:9b<br />
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Anyone who does not have God's Spirit dwelling within them, they are
still orphans! This is true, but I doubt you will hear this anywhere in
"church land." I never heard this out there. But the Lord showed it to me very clearly in many different ways (in His Word coupled with His Spirit). Not just for me to know, but to highlight the scriptures and share with YOU and the world.<span class="text_exposed_show"> So please read my six-part series on the baptism in God's Spirit as soon as you can. <a data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fspirituallysmart.com%2Fsix-part-series-baptism.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2yBxDY6jiiCGnbfJrmvml6T0X9B3c0oJ_JnyehBItOXlEd1h5GQ6xbzY0&h=AT3hSIDf3Zft0my9-Xhb3jVdShE2G8x7W1So2ZKZ0GFrPApUjSrtYqK35UzUmCOWH3NGUgOw6aqggHL1l1P_KGShuPph28f9EkJBxsOHxJmvYWQm6MWzmDerW9NC1S1lV8uJ_BtUhw" href="https://spirituallysmart.com/six-part-series-baptism.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>spirituallysmart.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>six-part-series-baptism.htm<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>l</a><br /> <br />
Because as Paul tells us, "Test yourselves and find out if you really
are true to your faith. If you pass the test, you will discover that
Christ is living in you. But if Christ isn't living in you, you are
counterfeit." 2 Corinthians 13:5<br /> <br /> This is no joke. We have to
put all our heart into this. We can't be phonies and go to heaven. No
matter how religious, nice or kind we are. We have to be authentic
believers in Christ (truly knowing and loving Him). And we must know and
teach that Christ is our redemption and justification and FINAL JUDGE
in the end!<br /> <br /> I pray God the Father open our hearts and
understanding today to our spiritual condition and give us an urgency to
react and adjust ourselves, before it is too late! I only ask through
Christ Jesus, the Anointed Son of the Father. Amen.<br /> <br /> Tommy Richards</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.spirituallysmart.com/</div>tlthe5thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353793782307969410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37451817.post-49422332301070032092019-05-28T15:34:00.001-04:002019-05-28T15:34:55.832-04:00First Gospel Tract entitled: JUDGMENT with link to download, print and distribute<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">JUDGMENT - Link to word document so you may download, print, and redistribute: <a href="https://spirituallysmart.com/judgment-tract.docx">https://spirituallysmart.com/judgment-tract.docx</a><br /><br />2
CORINTHIANS 5:10 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of
Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the
body, whether good or bad. Therefore, since we know what it means to
fear the Lord, we try to persuade men…”<br /><br />ACTS 17:30,31 “Although
God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all men
everywhere to repent. For He has set a day when He will judge the world
with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to
all men by raising Him from the dead.”<br /><br />ECCLESIASTES 12:13,14 “The
conclusion of the WHOLE matter is this: Fear God and keep His
commandments, because this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring
every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or
evil.”<br /><br />HEBREWS 9:27 “Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,”<br /><br />MATTHEW
12:36,37 “But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of
judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you
will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”<br /><br />JOHN
12:48 “There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive
My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.”<br /><br />REVELATION
20:13 “And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne.
And there were open books, and one of them was the book of life. And
the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the
books.”<br /><br />MATTHEW 24:42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day ….. ”<br /><br />WE
HAVE ALL heard bits and pieces about Jesus. Mostly because of two major
holidays many observe. On “Christmas” many acknowledge Christ was born.
On “Easter” many acknowledge Christ raised from the dead. Major
religions like Roman Catholicism also show quite plainly that Jesus died
on the cross. We have all seen their crosses everywhere which they call
the “crucifix.” <br /><br />Unfortunately, Jesus, these symbols and
holidays have been turned into a weapon of oppression world-wide. Many
war-mongers and insane people have claimed to be “Christian.” That is
why I will not use that term any longer. As it has been hijacked as a
tool of deception, hate and death. Most of those claiming to represent
God’s interests have been false.<br /><br />But Jesus warned us 2000 years ago that this would happen.<br /><br />God
and His Representative/Son Jesus are not like so many professing to
know and represent God. God proved this through His physical appearance
in this world through His Son, Jesus the Christ. Jesus conducted His
life as a total expression of God’s love.<br /><br />God’s love is expressed
in many different ways. And Jesus expressed them all. And those who
truly follow Christ, are obligated to walk as He walked (1 John 2:6).<br /><br />The
Bible was written in ancient Greek. And the Greek words which were
originally written often have a much more expansive definition than the
English counterpart. When the apostle John wrote we are to “walk as He
(Jesus) walked”, that actually means, “conduct one’s life as Jesus
conducted His.” John says, “Whoever claims to abide, remain in Him (His
commands) are obligated to, indebted to, walk as Jesus walked.” <br /><br />And
how did Jesus “walk”? In total love of God and for others (His
neighbors), putting them first, as God has always intended for mankind
to do for each other. That is how God intended man to “conduct their
lives” from the very beginning of time. <br /><br />As Jesus taught in the
very heart of Israel, He was tested with a question by the Jewish
religious leaders there. The question was asked by “an expert in the law
[of Moses].” He asked, “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in
the Law?” Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and
greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as
yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Jesus says!<br /><br />With this in mind, it should then be somewhat easy
to see if someone is actually a representative of God. Do they teach
what Jesus taught? Do they walk as Jesus walked? Now ask yourself. Do
YOU walk as Jesus walked?<br />More than likely, the answer is “NO.”<br /><br />But
we need to walk as Jesus walked if we want to fare well in the final
judgment. And God is offering us all a chance to do just that! And THAT
is exactly what we will find if we begin to honestly and earnestly seek
God for answers. <br /><br />One of the most important teachings by Jesus is
that He tells us to do just that. To seek God. Jesus said to seek God
and not give up. To never give up until we receive an answer. Any of us
can do this. And we don’t have to be in a church building or speak with a
church leader. Anywhere we are, we can talk to God without even saying
an audible word. Because God knows our every thought. <br /><br />Technology is amazing isn’t it? Think about all the different things humanity can do through technology<br /><br />technology.
And think about all the things the government and large companies can
do with and through technology. For instance, it’s been shown that
people who work in this capacity can practically read our thoughts and
know what kind of people we are just by how we browse the internet.
Some companies do claim to offer ways to keep these things private. <br /><br />But with God, NOTHING is private.<br /><br />God
has the most advanced technology humans will never be able reproduce.
God has a recording device built into each and every one of our souls.
Right in our heart. And on judgment day, that recording is going to play
and expose every thought, word and act that we ever thought, said and
committed. However, this technology can be used for our benefit and the
benefit of our fellow man. <br /><br />God calls this technology PRAYER!<br /><br />That’s
right. And it is through PRAYER that we CAN talk to GOD. And that’s
just the very beginning. God is also the source of all energy. Energy
which can power billions of power plants. Matter of fact, His energy is
LIFE and the LIFE of every living thing on this earth. Everything is
operating just as God created it…. …EXCEPT MANKIND<br />We have all been
disconnected from service. God had to pull the plug. Now we all only
have a very short lifespan. Some, shorter than others. Matter of fact,
we never know when our lives will completely be cut off. <br /><br />THAT IS WHY WE NEED JESUS THE CHRIST, NOW.<br /><br />Through
Christ we can all be plugged back into God’s wonderful and powerful
ENERGY. With this energy in us, depression and anxiety doesn’t stand a
chance. God provides perfect peace within our heart. Peace we never
thought possible. I know. I had suffered from acute anxiety for years
before God healed me.<br /><br />And it was through prayer that God heard my
cries and personally delivered to me salvation through the most
powerful act of love no one could ever imagine. And He did this directly
through His Representative, Jesus the Christ. The resurrected Savior. <br /><br />In
the end, God will judge us through Christ. While we still have a breath
in our body, we need to seek Him for forgiveness and eternal life.
This, God WANTS to give to us all. We only need to ask.<br /><br />You can be saved!<br /><br />If
you have never repented of your sins and been saved and feel the desire
to do so now please say this prayer. This is how I was powerfully saved
20 years ago! <br /><br />Say, "My Lord and my God, have mercy on me, a
sinner. I believe Jesus the Christ died on the cross and shed His
precious blood for the forgiveness of all my sins. I believe Jesus
raised from the dead and ascended into heaven and is now on the
right-hand side of God listening to this prayer. I open up the door of
my heart and I invite You in, Lord Jesus. Thank you, God, for saving my
soul and I vow to serve you with all my heart which is the first and
greatest commandment. Amen."<br /><br />Contact Us</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />Email: email@spirituallysmart.com<br />Web: www.spirituallysmart.com<br />Converted to Christ in 1997<br />Written by Thomas Richards – Please copy and redistribute free of charge!</span></div>
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