It's the Christmas time that a huge number of people in the world observe. I'm not an observer of this time myself, as God my Father condemns such an observance. There are a lot who call themselves Christians, though, who observe the time and day. They'll say the most senseless things when confronted with the truth.
For example, upon someone saying that Jesus is the reason for the season, I stated the truth of the matter, that he is NOT the reason for this season; he has absolutely NOTHING to do with it and hates it.
That person said that the scriptures talk about Jesus' birth, and she thought Satan trembles because people observe his birth at Christmas. Well, yes, I said, the scriptures do talk about Salvation's birth, but it has nothing to do with the winter celebration people observe, nor was his birth commanded to be observed.
Another person said that she'd "always been taught" that Christ was the reason for the season, hence the name of Christmas.
Yet another person said pointed it out to me in all caps, as if I was physically blind to the spelling: He's the reason for the season, because it's called CHRISTmas.
Wow, do people REALLY honestly think that just because people call the day Christmas that it is all about Christ and that he's okay with it? What if our government decided to rename the atomic bomb the "Christ Bomb?" What if the ammo used in military guns were renamed "Jesus bullets?" Would that somehow make the wars U.S. wages Christian? Would the bomb and bullets be okay to use against fellow human beings then? Would it automatically get Christ's approval, because someone put his name on it?
If we meditate on this, we see clearly that it is great folly to to believe something like this.
There are homosexual groups out there who put the name of Christ on them, like the Gay Christian Network, for example. There are those out there who have created "Christian porn" sites. There are "Christian" abortionists. The notorious partial-birth abortionist George Tiller "The Baby Killer" who was recently shot and killed was done so as he was walking out of his church on "Sunday" morning. I could go on and on, but surely the point is made.
Christmas, which comes from two words--Christ and mass--means "dismissal of Christ," which doesn't make sense, seeing as it's supposedly his birth being observed. The fact is that Christmas is the old Dies Natalis Sol Invictus (Birthday of the Invincible Sun), a day of worship to the false sun god. Rome gave it a new name. The church in Rome fornicated truth with pagan doctrines and observances.
The truth is that Christians should have nothing to do with "Christmas." It's a deception from Satan himself.
Further reading:
The History of Christmas by Keith Hunt
Naughty or Nice, Someone is Coming to Town? mine
The Truth About Santa Claus by Keith Hunt
Son of God or Sun of God: Which Christ Do You Worship? mine
Link between Christmas and abortion mine
The Tree of Life: Symbolic Representation or Object of Worship? mine
Friday, December 17, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Real Love vs. Lip Service
I like writing things under the topic of spiritual vs. earthly, and this is yet another entry dealing with this topic.
For awhile now, I've really been pushing hard for my two older children, young sons of 7.5 years and 3.5 years, to learn the difference between lip service and true love and faithful obedience. This is something on which all of us in God's Church should also meditate carefully.
I've always been a really loving person, very family-oriented. I value family time more than increasing in wealth. I would always want to talk and play games with my family when growing up, though I never got nearly enough. Ironically,I ended up choosing to spend more time by myself in my bedroom or outside in the woods, either reading or enjoying nature and meditating, rather than watch fruitless television shows. That was their idea of spending time together, day after day, hour after hour, and it never made sense to me, because although I don't mind watching interesting movies with my family now, it's because we watch things that we can talk about, and we do discuss them. We also spend only a small portion of our time doing such things. Watching hours of tv each evening together is not the same as interacting with each other.
My mother always told me that I told her, "I love you" too much and that the meaning lost its luster, because I wore it out. I certainly was not thinking in those terms. I really did just love her and wanted the same kind of love back.
Later, I married my husband, and the strangest thing happened. He told me one time that I say, "I love you" too often. He said something like, "You just told me a few minutes ago." This was TWICE I'd been told this by two different people. I was hurt. I have always been sincere in my love, and I didn't think anything of my frequent vocalizations of it.
Fast forward a few years later. My younger son, 3.5 years of age now, is a Jekyll and Hyde. He can be very sweet and loving, or he can be very raging and hateful. I'm working very hard to teach him to tame his spirit, to "have control" over it.
Well, he says, "I love you" a lot. Sadly, he also has many times screamed "I hate you," and that is something none of the rest of us ever say (and hopefully not think). In his case, he does a lot of lip servicing. He'll say that he loves, but he won't obey. Now, I did a lot of rebellious moves in my teen years, so my vocalized love toward my mother would have been in part lip service, but it didn't have to be that way. Neither of my parents made any moves to be close to me in my teen years. Neither of them had any interest in being my friend. I thought my mother was my enemy; she certainly acted like it. They had no problem sending me to a public school where I was surrounded by other rebellious teens who hated their parents, and some even told me that my mother was a bitch.
Looking back on it all now with a lot more knowledge and wisdom, my parents, whether knowingly or unknowingly, actively supported my dying love and disrespect for them in my adolescent years by approving of the system and setting me in it and never making time to have a deep meaningful relationship with me, because watching fruitless sitcoms was more important. They never even talked to me about the books I read, the music to which I listened, the friends I had at school, or what I was learning at school.
My son Trusten's constant vocalizing his love for me, when it stands with obedience, isn't botheresome to me. The number of times he says it does not aggravate me when he's being well-behaved. However, when he's in a streak of evil, and he tells me that over and over, I feel angry.
I meditated some on my own habit of frequently speaking words of love. I needed to be sure that there was no lip service going on. When I realized that I was clear of any guilt, I used the difference as a teaching tool for my children. When I ask them how they know that I love them, I say:
"Is it because I tell you many times in the day that I love you?"
At first, the answers were affirmative. So I asked something like:
"What if I said that I love you all throughout the day every day, but I called you awful names and beat you and hurt you, and I didn't feed you or I just let you as a child eat whatever you wanted even if it was junk, and I didn't care about you taking a bath and brushing your teeth, and I didn't care about you learning anything, and I let you play with knives, and I let you go wander off in the woods by yourself....
"Would you believe that I loved you, even though I said it?"
The answer, of course, was a NO!
So I asked how did they know I really love them. "Hugs, kisses, reading, toys, clothes, food, etc."
I explained that I also knew that I was loved back by hugs and kisses and trust and obedience. Whereas a parent shows love in providing basic needs, protection, and law, a child shows back that love by trusting and obeying. I remind my children of this over and over. It's a long process in making sure that when they reach adulthood, they will be fine neighbors, fine citizens in society.
Through all my meditation, I realized that vocalizing the words, "I love you" is another one of those things that fall under "physical reminders," this particular thing being a reminder to others, though if you show the love, it's not nearly as important to say it. A person can say it, just use lip service, but show that they do not by their deeds. Another person can show their love and never even say it, but others will know they're loved by that person. For more on outward show vs. the real deal and how it relates to the old carnal covenant vs. the new spiritual covenant, read my study Old Covenant Carnal Showings.
I don't see myself ever ceasing to remind others that I love them, because I know how the human heart and mind is, and I know others like to be TOLD--reminded in this way--that they are LOVED. The more important thing, though, is that I never stop showing it with my actions. Saying it has benefit ONLY when backed by truly showing it, much like Paul said that circumcision of the flesh only has benefit when the heart is truly circumcised.
Our Lord Salvation does not even have recorded words of, "I love you" to any of us, but it is recorded that he said, "No greater love hath a man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." He did that for us. He showed his love to us. He never said, "I love all of you who will follow me in the years to come." We KNOW, however, that he does love us by what he did.
God provides us with all our needs, and He provided our brother, His Firstborn, our Lord Salvation to give us grace through the shedding of his blood. Those of us who truly love God back do so by trusting and obeying Him. Those who do things the way they see right in their own eyes, including worshipping God the Father the way they see fit, may love God to a point, but they do not love Him more than they love doing what they want. That is what I always tell my boys when they do something they were told not to do. Sometimes the excuse is even made that it was done because they love me, because it was a good act. But, if it SEEMS like a good act done for the parent, but it clearly transgressed a command, then it's not a good act.
This is how many who claim to love God do when they keep their seemingly good traditions, like Christmas, Jan. 1, and Easter, etc. It transgresses the law of God, and most of them KNOW it, but they love those things MORE than they love God, so all they can do is just use the excuse, "But, we did it because we love you," just as I've heard from my own children, (in this case,more from my firstborn), even when he or they knew it would break a rule that we have. A quick example would be my son helping me in the kitchen by using a knife to cut up a fruit or vegetable. We have a rule of NO knives without permission and supervision, and yet he has taken it upon himself before to take the knife and start cutting, but then he said, "But, I was being good; I was helping you." If it's against a command, it doesn't matter how good it seems to be. It's WRONG. That is what the Lord Salvation will tell the children of disobedience. The Firstborn knows what makes the Father happy, and we should follow in our Lord's footsteps.
Is it said of you by the Lord, "He/she honors me with his/her lips, but his/her heart is far from me?" (Matt. 15:3, 7-9).
I do honor God with my lips, but my actions back up what I say, and I openly invite him, as David did, to SEARCH my heart.
What about you, dear reader?
For awhile now, I've really been pushing hard for my two older children, young sons of 7.5 years and 3.5 years, to learn the difference between lip service and true love and faithful obedience. This is something on which all of us in God's Church should also meditate carefully.
I've always been a really loving person, very family-oriented. I value family time more than increasing in wealth. I would always want to talk and play games with my family when growing up, though I never got nearly enough. Ironically,I ended up choosing to spend more time by myself in my bedroom or outside in the woods, either reading or enjoying nature and meditating, rather than watch fruitless television shows. That was their idea of spending time together, day after day, hour after hour, and it never made sense to me, because although I don't mind watching interesting movies with my family now, it's because we watch things that we can talk about, and we do discuss them. We also spend only a small portion of our time doing such things. Watching hours of tv each evening together is not the same as interacting with each other.
My mother always told me that I told her, "I love you" too much and that the meaning lost its luster, because I wore it out. I certainly was not thinking in those terms. I really did just love her and wanted the same kind of love back.
Later, I married my husband, and the strangest thing happened. He told me one time that I say, "I love you" too often. He said something like, "You just told me a few minutes ago." This was TWICE I'd been told this by two different people. I was hurt. I have always been sincere in my love, and I didn't think anything of my frequent vocalizations of it.
Fast forward a few years later. My younger son, 3.5 years of age now, is a Jekyll and Hyde. He can be very sweet and loving, or he can be very raging and hateful. I'm working very hard to teach him to tame his spirit, to "have control" over it.
Well, he says, "I love you" a lot. Sadly, he also has many times screamed "I hate you," and that is something none of the rest of us ever say (and hopefully not think). In his case, he does a lot of lip servicing. He'll say that he loves, but he won't obey. Now, I did a lot of rebellious moves in my teen years, so my vocalized love toward my mother would have been in part lip service, but it didn't have to be that way. Neither of my parents made any moves to be close to me in my teen years. Neither of them had any interest in being my friend. I thought my mother was my enemy; she certainly acted like it. They had no problem sending me to a public school where I was surrounded by other rebellious teens who hated their parents, and some even told me that my mother was a bitch.
Looking back on it all now with a lot more knowledge and wisdom, my parents, whether knowingly or unknowingly, actively supported my dying love and disrespect for them in my adolescent years by approving of the system and setting me in it and never making time to have a deep meaningful relationship with me, because watching fruitless sitcoms was more important. They never even talked to me about the books I read, the music to which I listened, the friends I had at school, or what I was learning at school.
My son Trusten's constant vocalizing his love for me, when it stands with obedience, isn't botheresome to me. The number of times he says it does not aggravate me when he's being well-behaved. However, when he's in a streak of evil, and he tells me that over and over, I feel angry.
I meditated some on my own habit of frequently speaking words of love. I needed to be sure that there was no lip service going on. When I realized that I was clear of any guilt, I used the difference as a teaching tool for my children. When I ask them how they know that I love them, I say:
"Is it because I tell you many times in the day that I love you?"
At first, the answers were affirmative. So I asked something like:
"What if I said that I love you all throughout the day every day, but I called you awful names and beat you and hurt you, and I didn't feed you or I just let you as a child eat whatever you wanted even if it was junk, and I didn't care about you taking a bath and brushing your teeth, and I didn't care about you learning anything, and I let you play with knives, and I let you go wander off in the woods by yourself....
"Would you believe that I loved you, even though I said it?"
The answer, of course, was a NO!
So I asked how did they know I really love them. "Hugs, kisses, reading, toys, clothes, food, etc."
I explained that I also knew that I was loved back by hugs and kisses and trust and obedience. Whereas a parent shows love in providing basic needs, protection, and law, a child shows back that love by trusting and obeying. I remind my children of this over and over. It's a long process in making sure that when they reach adulthood, they will be fine neighbors, fine citizens in society.
Through all my meditation, I realized that vocalizing the words, "I love you" is another one of those things that fall under "physical reminders," this particular thing being a reminder to others, though if you show the love, it's not nearly as important to say it. A person can say it, just use lip service, but show that they do not by their deeds. Another person can show their love and never even say it, but others will know they're loved by that person. For more on outward show vs. the real deal and how it relates to the old carnal covenant vs. the new spiritual covenant, read my study Old Covenant Carnal Showings.
I don't see myself ever ceasing to remind others that I love them, because I know how the human heart and mind is, and I know others like to be TOLD--reminded in this way--that they are LOVED. The more important thing, though, is that I never stop showing it with my actions. Saying it has benefit ONLY when backed by truly showing it, much like Paul said that circumcision of the flesh only has benefit when the heart is truly circumcised.
Our Lord Salvation does not even have recorded words of, "I love you" to any of us, but it is recorded that he said, "No greater love hath a man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." He did that for us. He showed his love to us. He never said, "I love all of you who will follow me in the years to come." We KNOW, however, that he does love us by what he did.
God provides us with all our needs, and He provided our brother, His Firstborn, our Lord Salvation to give us grace through the shedding of his blood. Those of us who truly love God back do so by trusting and obeying Him. Those who do things the way they see right in their own eyes, including worshipping God the Father the way they see fit, may love God to a point, but they do not love Him more than they love doing what they want. That is what I always tell my boys when they do something they were told not to do. Sometimes the excuse is even made that it was done because they love me, because it was a good act. But, if it SEEMS like a good act done for the parent, but it clearly transgressed a command, then it's not a good act.
This is how many who claim to love God do when they keep their seemingly good traditions, like Christmas, Jan. 1, and Easter, etc. It transgresses the law of God, and most of them KNOW it, but they love those things MORE than they love God, so all they can do is just use the excuse, "But, we did it because we love you," just as I've heard from my own children, (in this case,more from my firstborn), even when he or they knew it would break a rule that we have. A quick example would be my son helping me in the kitchen by using a knife to cut up a fruit or vegetable. We have a rule of NO knives without permission and supervision, and yet he has taken it upon himself before to take the knife and start cutting, but then he said, "But, I was being good; I was helping you." If it's against a command, it doesn't matter how good it seems to be. It's WRONG. That is what the Lord Salvation will tell the children of disobedience. The Firstborn knows what makes the Father happy, and we should follow in our Lord's footsteps.
Is it said of you by the Lord, "He/she honors me with his/her lips, but his/her heart is far from me?" (Matt. 15:3, 7-9).
I do honor God with my lips, but my actions back up what I say, and I openly invite him, as David did, to SEARCH my heart.
What about you, dear reader?
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Evolution in Lizard's Birth Method Proof for Macroevolution?
I finished reading an article about the evolution in a lizard's birth method.
Fascinating knowledge I just learned. I never knew that the reptiles that give supposed "live birth" actually still have their embryos in eggs but within their bodies, unlike birds and fish. Those reptiles that lay eggs are laying them in the latter stages (in other words, ALL reptiles start with embryos developing inside eggs inside the mother's body) of development. The reptiles that give live birth kept the eggs within them the entire duration, and the eggs THIN over time so that the babies can breathe, and when they are born, what is left of the shells are thin membranes.
YES, another fantastic microevolution/ADAPTATION within one species in action. Yet MILLIONS are deceived by thinking this somehow proves that one species metamorphs into another.
REAL science, REAL knowledge is discovered when there is EVIDENCE. EVIDENCE, EVIDENCE, EVIDENCE. That's the key word. That's what makes LAW/KNOWLEDGE.
Some humans ADAPT to their environment by NATURAL SELECTING genes for darker skin color to protect from the hot blazing Africa sun. Those in less sunny places NATURALLY SELECT genes for less melanin, hence lighter skin, in order to be able to produce sufficient Vitamin D. People in Alaska ADAPT to the cold temperatures by being heavier, having more fat, without negative health consequences.
NATURAL SELECTION and EVOLUTION are SCIENTIFIC FACTS WITHIN A SPECIES. IT IS EVIDENT!!!!
CHANGING FROM ONE SPECIES TO ANOTHER IS NOT EVIDENT. There are SOME (very few) species that can breed naturally with other species, but the offspring are always, or almost always sterile. There is NO evidence of something up as high as a family, order, class, nation (phylum), and CERTAINLY NOT kingdom, CHANGING NATURALLY. There is NO evidence!!!!!!!!!
NO, human beings shall NOT evolve NATURALLY to a new completely different higher up being.
We have SEEN EVIDENCE that human beings can, with their intelligence, genetically engineer different kingdoms, mixing plant genes with animal genes, for example. BUT, we will not NATURALLY become anything else.
Human beings CAN evolve into a member of the God Kingdom (as opposed to man, which is like a mix of God and animal) ONLY through the genetic engineering of God Himself, and only the SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST will make it, and I do NOT mean the way animals survive--through killing, fighting, stealing, sexing with multiple partners, fathers leaving their young for the mothers to raise alone, etc. NONE of this will make a person fit for the God Kingdom. NOPE, no way. Those fit for the God Kingdom will survive by repenting of breaking his law, so then be covered by the grace through Jesus Christ, get the God Spirit begettal, remain faithful and obedient to God's law, and then be resurrected with a NEW body--evolution that is SELECT by God.
There you have it, folks. I put my faith in the things for which I see the overwhelming evidence, and I don't have very much faith in things that are terribly lacking in evidence. I'm an analytical scientist at heart.
Fascinating knowledge I just learned. I never knew that the reptiles that give supposed "live birth" actually still have their embryos in eggs but within their bodies, unlike birds and fish. Those reptiles that lay eggs are laying them in the latter stages (in other words, ALL reptiles start with embryos developing inside eggs inside the mother's body) of development. The reptiles that give live birth kept the eggs within them the entire duration, and the eggs THIN over time so that the babies can breathe, and when they are born, what is left of the shells are thin membranes.
YES, another fantastic microevolution/ADAPTATION within one species in action. Yet MILLIONS are deceived by thinking this somehow proves that one species metamorphs into another.
REAL science, REAL knowledge is discovered when there is EVIDENCE. EVIDENCE, EVIDENCE, EVIDENCE. That's the key word. That's what makes LAW/KNOWLEDGE.
Some humans ADAPT to their environment by NATURAL SELECTING genes for darker skin color to protect from the hot blazing Africa sun. Those in less sunny places NATURALLY SELECT genes for less melanin, hence lighter skin, in order to be able to produce sufficient Vitamin D. People in Alaska ADAPT to the cold temperatures by being heavier, having more fat, without negative health consequences.
NATURAL SELECTION and EVOLUTION are SCIENTIFIC FACTS WITHIN A SPECIES. IT IS EVIDENT!!!!
CHANGING FROM ONE SPECIES TO ANOTHER IS NOT EVIDENT. There are SOME (very few) species that can breed naturally with other species, but the offspring are always, or almost always sterile. There is NO evidence of something up as high as a family, order, class, nation (phylum), and CERTAINLY NOT kingdom, CHANGING NATURALLY. There is NO evidence!!!!!!!!!
NO, human beings shall NOT evolve NATURALLY to a new completely different higher up being.
We have SEEN EVIDENCE that human beings can, with their intelligence, genetically engineer different kingdoms, mixing plant genes with animal genes, for example. BUT, we will not NATURALLY become anything else.
Human beings CAN evolve into a member of the God Kingdom (as opposed to man, which is like a mix of God and animal) ONLY through the genetic engineering of God Himself, and only the SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST will make it, and I do NOT mean the way animals survive--through killing, fighting, stealing, sexing with multiple partners, fathers leaving their young for the mothers to raise alone, etc. NONE of this will make a person fit for the God Kingdom. NOPE, no way. Those fit for the God Kingdom will survive by repenting of breaking his law, so then be covered by the grace through Jesus Christ, get the God Spirit begettal, remain faithful and obedient to God's law, and then be resurrected with a NEW body--evolution that is SELECT by God.
There you have it, folks. I put my faith in the things for which I see the overwhelming evidence, and I don't have very much faith in things that are terribly lacking in evidence. I'm an analytical scientist at heart.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
My Own Christmas Hate Propaganda (Hate Me if You Will)
Firstly, there are two main groups that are called Christians: followers of Christ and followers of Christianity. The former is the Savior of mankind, the Messiah, the Firstborn of the Most High God. The latter is a false religion that is patterned after the heathen religions that came to birth out of Babylon. The heathen/pagan religions have worshiped many gods, with gods and goddesses over each created thing, like the sun, the moon, the earth,and just about anything. The same things are found in each of the religions. The names are different in the different languages, though the meanings really are the same. A pagan emperor of the Roman empire--Constantine--had a vision of a cross and "Conquer by this sign," and so he used the name of Christ and the message of the cross to back his wars. Soon Christ's name was put on heathen feasts, and the feasts were used to worship the true God and the Lord Jesus Christ himself. This includes: the weekly sabbath being changed to the first day of the week, which the Romans call "Sunday," the day to worship the sun; Passover changed to Easter, the fertility feast of Ishtar/Ashtoreth/Easter, a pagan goddess and the celebration of the resurrection of Tammuz the sun god was ascribed to the true Son of God; Feast of Trumpets changed to Christmas, the birth of the sun, as it follows the winter solstice, the day with the shortest daylight hours,and this day is now labled as Christ's birth; Thanksgiving to replace the Feast of Tabernacles, and so on.
God made clear that we are NOT to worship him the way the heathens do (Deut. 12:29-32).
Satanists observe their own birthdays as the highest day,because it is the worship of oneself, a prideful, self-centered thing. This is not to say that observing a person's birthday is wrong, but it's others who love that person who observe that person's birthday. The Firstborn of God, Jesus/Yeshua would NEVER command for someone to make a big celebration on his birthday in honor of himself. In addition, evidence rules out the possibility that our Salvation was born in the Roman month of December.
It is not revealed to us what his birthday is, but it's likely around the Feast of Trumpets or Tabernacles. Regardless, we are not commanded to observe such a feast.
The truth is God hates the practice of offering sacrificial gifts under evergreen trees. He says it's the way of the heathen. He hates when people sing songs of adoration to evergreen trees (O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree, I think you are so lovely....). His Firstborn is the true way to eternal life. An evergreen tree is a physical symbol of eternal life. It is NOT true eternal life. We all know that those trees do eventually die. Santa is a fraudulent substitute of a reward giver. I recommend you read my short article on Santa Coming to Town for the TRUTH regarding the Feast of Trumpets and Jesus Christ vs. Christmas and Santa Claus.
God hates that people desecrate their bodies with swine's flesh, which is the most popular flesh served at Christmas feasts. Isn't it odd that most who call themselves Christians will admit that dogs, cats, horses, snakes, rats, rhinos, monkeys, turtles, etc. are unfit for food, but when it comes to hog flesh, they do not want to give up the fatty meat to serve God with a clean temple for His Spirit.
Christmas is a TIME, a season, that people observe, which culminates into a DAY. God warned about those who observed the wrong days and times. It's a LIE. True Christians do not observe this day nor time. It's a time of materialism, gluttony, drunkenness, and LIES.
As an innocent child, enjoyed Christmas and thought it was a holy day. Now I know the truth and HATE Christmas and the LIE it represents.
Do YOU love to live a lie, or do you rather love God and wish to worship him in Spirit and in Truth? (John 4:24).
God made clear that we are NOT to worship him the way the heathens do (Deut. 12:29-32).
Satanists observe their own birthdays as the highest day,because it is the worship of oneself, a prideful, self-centered thing. This is not to say that observing a person's birthday is wrong, but it's others who love that person who observe that person's birthday. The Firstborn of God, Jesus/Yeshua would NEVER command for someone to make a big celebration on his birthday in honor of himself. In addition, evidence rules out the possibility that our Salvation was born in the Roman month of December.
It is not revealed to us what his birthday is, but it's likely around the Feast of Trumpets or Tabernacles. Regardless, we are not commanded to observe such a feast.
The truth is God hates the practice of offering sacrificial gifts under evergreen trees. He says it's the way of the heathen. He hates when people sing songs of adoration to evergreen trees (O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree, I think you are so lovely....). His Firstborn is the true way to eternal life. An evergreen tree is a physical symbol of eternal life. It is NOT true eternal life. We all know that those trees do eventually die. Santa is a fraudulent substitute of a reward giver. I recommend you read my short article on Santa Coming to Town for the TRUTH regarding the Feast of Trumpets and Jesus Christ vs. Christmas and Santa Claus.
God hates that people desecrate their bodies with swine's flesh, which is the most popular flesh served at Christmas feasts. Isn't it odd that most who call themselves Christians will admit that dogs, cats, horses, snakes, rats, rhinos, monkeys, turtles, etc. are unfit for food, but when it comes to hog flesh, they do not want to give up the fatty meat to serve God with a clean temple for His Spirit.
Christmas is a TIME, a season, that people observe, which culminates into a DAY. God warned about those who observed the wrong days and times. It's a LIE. True Christians do not observe this day nor time. It's a time of materialism, gluttony, drunkenness, and LIES.
As an innocent child, enjoyed Christmas and thought it was a holy day. Now I know the truth and HATE Christmas and the LIE it represents.
Do YOU love to live a lie, or do you rather love God and wish to worship him in Spirit and in Truth? (John 4:24).
Monday, November 29, 2010
Lying Justified to Innocents Not "Old Enough to Know Better?"
Here's something to ponder: Is it okay to lie to young children simply because they are not "old enough to know better?" I'm sure the immediate answer for most is, "No." That's certainly my answer. We just got back yesterday from visiting family for several days. One day, while we were at my parents' house, I was eating at the table, and behind me a kitchen tv was going, and my boys were at the bar, and my mother was in the kitchen. I'm not sure exactly what was on the television, but it was some stupid commercial that mentioned or had Santa Claus. I heard my firstborn (7 years of age) son say, "Santa is a freak."
I corrected him by saying, "A fraud. He's a fraud." He asked, "What is a fraud?" I told him it meant he was a lie, an imposter. (I don't ignore the fact that there was a Catholic bishop named Nicholas, etc., which we are learning about as an educational aside.) My son W. then says to my mother, "You lied to my momma about Santa Claus." She first said, "No I didn't. She knew it was make-believe." He argued, "No, you lied." She retorted, "Well, yeah, only until she was old enough to know better."
I bit my tongue. But, wow.... So, I sat there thinking, "Yeah, and when I was old enough to know better that a good God does not torture people in a fire for eternity and that Christmas was a lie and that the true sabbath is the Roman 'Saturday' and other numerous things were lies, I spent MONTHS in deep shock and feeling greatly betrayed by all those I loved and trusted most."
And this is the truth. When I was "old enough to know better," I discovered that those whom I thought I could trust were just a bunch of liars who love lies, because many of the lies are lies so many ADMIT to being lies, and yet they take pleasure in the unrighteousness, anyway.
I have found that the big false religions of the world (at the top is Christianity and Islam) forbid children to learn about other religions. They're afraid they'll convert to something else! Well, if something is totally truthful, should it not stand up to scrutiny? I am different than most. I have told my firstborn several times already, "I teach you now as a child, but when you reach adulthood, it's your responsibility to PROVE whether what I taught you is right or not." And it is. Adults are supposed to be responsible. If your parents and pastors and teachers and friends and other trusted and loved adults told you lies like those of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Jesus/Yahushua was born on "Christmas," Sunday is the sabbath, and other such things, then what makes you think they weren't lying about a lot of other things, too?
True Christians do NOT lie. How could anyone with good sense believe in Jesus Christ if they do not know the TRUTH in the scriptures but are taught about all the other pagan religions having their sun god born on December 25 and being resurrected from the dead and being born of a virgin, etc.?
If we want our children to TRUST us, then we need to tell them the TRUTH from the very START, when they are innocent and not "old enough to know better," so then when they ARE old enough to know whether you are lying or not, they'll continue to trust you!
Well, all this OUGHT to be good common sense, I would think, but in a WORLD FULL of liars and those who love lies, I guess not.
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie (Revelation 22:12-15).
I corrected him by saying, "A fraud. He's a fraud." He asked, "What is a fraud?" I told him it meant he was a lie, an imposter. (I don't ignore the fact that there was a Catholic bishop named Nicholas, etc., which we are learning about as an educational aside.) My son W. then says to my mother, "You lied to my momma about Santa Claus." She first said, "No I didn't. She knew it was make-believe." He argued, "No, you lied." She retorted, "Well, yeah, only until she was old enough to know better."
I bit my tongue. But, wow.... So, I sat there thinking, "Yeah, and when I was old enough to know better that a good God does not torture people in a fire for eternity and that Christmas was a lie and that the true sabbath is the Roman 'Saturday' and other numerous things were lies, I spent MONTHS in deep shock and feeling greatly betrayed by all those I loved and trusted most."
And this is the truth. When I was "old enough to know better," I discovered that those whom I thought I could trust were just a bunch of liars who love lies, because many of the lies are lies so many ADMIT to being lies, and yet they take pleasure in the unrighteousness, anyway.
I have found that the big false religions of the world (at the top is Christianity and Islam) forbid children to learn about other religions. They're afraid they'll convert to something else! Well, if something is totally truthful, should it not stand up to scrutiny? I am different than most. I have told my firstborn several times already, "I teach you now as a child, but when you reach adulthood, it's your responsibility to PROVE whether what I taught you is right or not." And it is. Adults are supposed to be responsible. If your parents and pastors and teachers and friends and other trusted and loved adults told you lies like those of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Jesus/Yahushua was born on "Christmas," Sunday is the sabbath, and other such things, then what makes you think they weren't lying about a lot of other things, too?
True Christians do NOT lie. How could anyone with good sense believe in Jesus Christ if they do not know the TRUTH in the scriptures but are taught about all the other pagan religions having their sun god born on December 25 and being resurrected from the dead and being born of a virgin, etc.?
If we want our children to TRUST us, then we need to tell them the TRUTH from the very START, when they are innocent and not "old enough to know better," so then when they ARE old enough to know whether you are lying or not, they'll continue to trust you!
Well, all this OUGHT to be good common sense, I would think, but in a WORLD FULL of liars and those who love lies, I guess not.
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie (Revelation 22:12-15).
Monday, November 22, 2010
Babes to Maturity, Physical Love to Spiritual Love
A few weeks ago I received a revelation as I once more meditated on a battle that goes on within me concerning my children growing older. I mostly love the maturing process of my children, because I can connect with them better on a mental level. I love having deep conversations with other human beings and learning things along with them. However, I am one to give a lot of kisses and hugs to my children. I could snuggle them all day, if I didn't have anything else to do.
It seems a person cannot have fully have both, and that is what fully dawned on me one day. As a child gets older, he or she cannot be cradled or carried around. He doesn't or cannot be held in the lap and snuggled. He doesn't want as many kisses or hugs. It's sad in a way, but the joy of having a fulfilling spiritual relationship with the child more than makes up for it, and if the bond is great enough, he'll never outgrow regular hugs and maybe kisses.
I got to thinking more about marital love, too. Marital physical love is quite enjoyable. Physical oneness is a good thing between a man and his wife. However, there is no question in my mind that spiritual oneness between a man and his wife is so much better.
We were made with bodies that enjoy physical closeness, various ways to love physically, with different ways toward our children, spouses, and others. But, spiritual love, a deep fulfilling relationship between the minds of people is so much greater!
Upon even further meditation, I realized that newly begotten sons of God still have a tendency to cling too much to physical/earthly things and not to spiritual things. It's a beautiful thing to see babes of God love our Father so strongly with the way they know best (being familiar so much with earthly things), but it's much more enjoyable to fellowship with mature saints, to have those deep conversations and learning together. It can actually get pretty draining if spiritual babies do not move on to maturity (Heb. 5:11-14; 6:1-2), and some do not move on too well. I've had much experience with this, and also knowing how human children take a lot of work, I can better appreciate their ever-growing maturity, because perpetual human babies would also be very draining.
It seems a person cannot have fully have both, and that is what fully dawned on me one day. As a child gets older, he or she cannot be cradled or carried around. He doesn't or cannot be held in the lap and snuggled. He doesn't want as many kisses or hugs. It's sad in a way, but the joy of having a fulfilling spiritual relationship with the child more than makes up for it, and if the bond is great enough, he'll never outgrow regular hugs and maybe kisses.
I got to thinking more about marital love, too. Marital physical love is quite enjoyable. Physical oneness is a good thing between a man and his wife. However, there is no question in my mind that spiritual oneness between a man and his wife is so much better.
We were made with bodies that enjoy physical closeness, various ways to love physically, with different ways toward our children, spouses, and others. But, spiritual love, a deep fulfilling relationship between the minds of people is so much greater!
Upon even further meditation, I realized that newly begotten sons of God still have a tendency to cling too much to physical/earthly things and not to spiritual things. It's a beautiful thing to see babes of God love our Father so strongly with the way they know best (being familiar so much with earthly things), but it's much more enjoyable to fellowship with mature saints, to have those deep conversations and learning together. It can actually get pretty draining if spiritual babies do not move on to maturity (Heb. 5:11-14; 6:1-2), and some do not move on too well. I've had much experience with this, and also knowing how human children take a lot of work, I can better appreciate their ever-growing maturity, because perpetual human babies would also be very draining.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Changing Seasons and the Life and Death Cycle
Today, as I was breathing the fresh air and admiring the brilliantly-colored leaves on the trees, I meditated on the reminder of the changing seasons. It seems like such nice weather, such a wonderful time of year, but I quickly remembered what it really means. We're soon approaching the death season, when all is cold and gloomy, when wild animals either die, hibernate, or try their best to survive the harsh conditions by huddling for warmth and eating what they can find. My spirit groaned within. I do not look forward to naked trees, dead grass, overcast skies, shorter daylight hours, and greatly decreased warmth from the day star. I cheer myself by focusing on the positive aspects, like winter clothes, clear night skies, hot chocolate, vegetable venison stew, the availability of vitamin D spray, possible beauty of snow, clearer views through the woods, cardinals and blue jays, and the fact that evergreen trees are still green.
The seasons symbolize the life and death cycle of TIME, things of TEMPORARY existence, things subject to DEATH. This earth requires DEATH to continue the cycle. If plants, animals, and man did not die, in a cycle, the earth would die all at once, for everything would become too populated, and the earth could not sustain it.
The spring is the season of birth, summer the season of mature life, fall the season of degeneration, and winter the season of death or sleep.
The day star, the Sun, is the focal point of life on this earth. Without it, all life on earth would die. So it is that the Sun--a created thing, just as the earth--is worshiped by the earth's inhabitants. Shortly after the day with the shortest duration of light from the day star, known as the winter solstice, the majority of the earth's inhabitants celebrate a great festival in honor of the "birth" of the sun. The apostate church in Rome adopted this celebration and gave it the name "Christmas" so that apostate followers of Jesus Christ could honor him on this day, along with many of the same traditions kept by sun worshipers. One of the traditions includes decorating an evergreen tree and offering gifts (sacrifices) underneath and even singing praises of adoration to the tree ("O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, I think you are so lovely!" And on it goes).
Since spring is the season of rebirth, the season of great fertility, the worship of the goddess Easter (or in other languages--Ashtoreth, Isis, Eostre, Ishtar, Diana, etc.) is celebrated in honor of the resurrection of life. The apostate church in Rome also adopted this celebration, though keeping the goddess' name, and many who call themselves Christians also honor this day as Jesus Christ's resurrection. Some of the traditions still kept are hiding eggs and honoring bunny rabbits (both of which are symbols of fertility), as well as having a sunrise service on Easter Sunday.
The God of Israel commanded us not to worship him with the days and traditions with which heathens worship their gods:
When the Jehovah God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto Jehovah thy God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it (Deut. 12:29-32).
Things like Easter sunrise services and Christmas trees are condemned in the scriptures. Read Jer. 10:2-8; Eze. chapter 8, esp. vs. 16.
When Paul spoke to the Galatians, whom were gentiles who were accustomed to keeping these false feasts, and soon after turning to the truth, they turned back to their heathen festivals, he said to them:
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain (Gal. 4:8-10).
I do not wish to worship the created things, nor make up my own gods over all the different things, nor do I want to worship the true God in the same manner the heathens worship their false gods. I do not like the life and death cycle on this earth. I do not want to worship the sun that I know will continue, year after year, to seemingly wane in life and then revive again. I look forward to the day when there will be no need of the sun nor the moon, and there will be no night. In that day, God the Father and Jesus Christ the Firstborn of God--will be the light (see Rev. 22:5). That light will never fail, never dim. Jesus is the Creator of the Sun, which he created in the name of God the Father. Jesus is the true Day Star, the everliving one (Rev. 22:16; 2 Pet. 1:19).
We should keep faith in eternal life and the eternal light of God and not take part in celebrating this temporary life and death cycle that the earth revolving around the sun gives us.
The seasons symbolize the life and death cycle of TIME, things of TEMPORARY existence, things subject to DEATH. This earth requires DEATH to continue the cycle. If plants, animals, and man did not die, in a cycle, the earth would die all at once, for everything would become too populated, and the earth could not sustain it.
The spring is the season of birth, summer the season of mature life, fall the season of degeneration, and winter the season of death or sleep.
The day star, the Sun, is the focal point of life on this earth. Without it, all life on earth would die. So it is that the Sun--a created thing, just as the earth--is worshiped by the earth's inhabitants. Shortly after the day with the shortest duration of light from the day star, known as the winter solstice, the majority of the earth's inhabitants celebrate a great festival in honor of the "birth" of the sun. The apostate church in Rome adopted this celebration and gave it the name "Christmas" so that apostate followers of Jesus Christ could honor him on this day, along with many of the same traditions kept by sun worshipers. One of the traditions includes decorating an evergreen tree and offering gifts (sacrifices) underneath and even singing praises of adoration to the tree ("O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, I think you are so lovely!" And on it goes).
Since spring is the season of rebirth, the season of great fertility, the worship of the goddess Easter (or in other languages--Ashtoreth, Isis, Eostre, Ishtar, Diana, etc.) is celebrated in honor of the resurrection of life. The apostate church in Rome also adopted this celebration, though keeping the goddess' name, and many who call themselves Christians also honor this day as Jesus Christ's resurrection. Some of the traditions still kept are hiding eggs and honoring bunny rabbits (both of which are symbols of fertility), as well as having a sunrise service on Easter Sunday.
The God of Israel commanded us not to worship him with the days and traditions with which heathens worship their gods:
When the Jehovah God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto Jehovah thy God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it (Deut. 12:29-32).
Things like Easter sunrise services and Christmas trees are condemned in the scriptures. Read Jer. 10:2-8; Eze. chapter 8, esp. vs. 16.
When Paul spoke to the Galatians, whom were gentiles who were accustomed to keeping these false feasts, and soon after turning to the truth, they turned back to their heathen festivals, he said to them:
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain (Gal. 4:8-10).
I do not wish to worship the created things, nor make up my own gods over all the different things, nor do I want to worship the true God in the same manner the heathens worship their false gods. I do not like the life and death cycle on this earth. I do not want to worship the sun that I know will continue, year after year, to seemingly wane in life and then revive again. I look forward to the day when there will be no need of the sun nor the moon, and there will be no night. In that day, God the Father and Jesus Christ the Firstborn of God--will be the light (see Rev. 22:5). That light will never fail, never dim. Jesus is the Creator of the Sun, which he created in the name of God the Father. Jesus is the true Day Star, the everliving one (Rev. 22:16; 2 Pet. 1:19).
We should keep faith in eternal life and the eternal light of God and not take part in celebrating this temporary life and death cycle that the earth revolving around the sun gives us.
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