JESUS CHRIST-
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance
to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty them that are bruised
https://youtu.be/vk79027G8h8 Jesus Christ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zQvR8sC6_A Tower 7- a video I made a while back- talked
about it on today’s video- ‘Jesus Christ’.
ON VIDEO-
.TWA flight 800
.Mormon prophecy [from my friend] came true!
.Who put the porn on my facebook site!
.Am I an undercover cop?- watch and see.
.Why would the government lie?
.Catholic prayer
.Sense perception
.Epistemology
.Why no miracles till 30 years old?
.Who said ‘Have we chased God into a box’?
.Best for last
NOTE- I watched the Trump speech the other day- for myself.
I thought it was a good speech- right after the speech the media
kept reporting that Trump wants to ‘ban [all] Muslims’.
I blame the media for inciting actual violence by doing
this-
Why?
Trump ACTUALLY said
if he becomes president- that he would do a TEMPORARY ban on people coming in
‘by the boatloads’ from select areas of the world- that are known hotbeds for radical
Islam- that’s it.
And for the media- or the President- or Hillary to say ‘he wants
to ban Muslims’ [in general] is not only deceptive- but in itself incites violence-
by not being honest about what the man actually said.
Now- the tragedy in Orlando.
Some on ‘the left’ say ‘gun control’.
Let me ask- how will you accomplish that?
President Obama took Mateen [the killer] off the ‘watch list’-
he was under investigation by the FBI- and interviewed 3 times. Yet- after not
finding enough on him- he was no longer under active investigation. .
Many on the left are against what the NYC cops actually did-
when they ‘profiled’ mosques in NY that were known to be radical.
Hillary and the president do not want to ‘profile’ Muslims
at all.
So- what ‘gun control’ would Hillary impellent- that would stop
Muslim radicals?
I’m actually for a ban on assault rifles- and am also pro
immigrant- and hold liberal views on some things.
I even have a study- I did- on my site- that tries to show
the good parts of Islam https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/islam/
But Hillary is specifically against looking at the Muslim
faith as a tool for profiling [I’m not saying I am for it- I’m showing you both
sides].
So- if radical Islamic leanings are not part of the ‘gun
control’ profiling that would have possibly nabbed Mateen- then the argument
does not work.
Because even if she banned the assault rifle- Mateen would
have still been able to buy a gun- because he was no longer looked at as a
possible risk.
Now- the Trump argument is you do have to look at it- not
all Muslims- but those who are showing radical leanings.
It’s important to hear both sides- and make your own
decision- but the media is not giving you both sides- they are cheerleaders for
one.
I talk about these links [downing of TWA flight 800] below
on today’s video.
On the video I talked about this [below]- http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/03/09/new-evidence-shows-foul-play-cover-up-by-fbi-and-osp-in-shooting-of-lavoy-finicum-doj-opens-new-investigation/
and never even googled it until now.
As you see on my video I came to this same conclusion- just
by watching the news [I was right]. http://on.rt.com/73kl
The point is- we- as the public- can actually have the media
report a ‘cover up’ without calling it that- and we just move on.
Never even
questioning the actual news report- that showed foul play.
PAST POSTS [verses below]
https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/overview-of-philosophy/
The study I did on Philosophy a while back
(835)ROMANS 7:1-4 Paul uses the
analogy of a married woman ‘don’t you know that the law has dominion over a
person as long as he is alive’? If a married woman leaves her husband and
marries another man she is guilty of breaking the law of adultery. Now, if her
husband dies, she is free to marry another man. The act that freed her from sin
and guilt was death! Every thing else in the scenario stayed the same. She
still married another, she still consummated the new marriage. But because her
first husband died, she has no guilt. I always loved this analogy. For years I
wondered why these themes in scripture are for the most part not ‘imbedded’ in
the collective psyche of the people of God. We have spent so much time ‘proof
texting’ the verses on success and wealth, that we have overlooked the really
good stuff! Now Paul teaches that we have been made free from the law by the
‘death of our husband’ [Jesus] so we can ‘re-marry’. Who do we marry? Christ!
He has not only died to free us from the law, he also rose from the dead to
become our ‘husband’ [we are called the bride of Christ]. Paul connects the
death and resurrection of Jesus in this analogy. Both are needed for the true gospel
to be preached [1st Corinthians 15]. Notice how in this passage Paul
emphasizes ‘the death of Christ’s body’. The New Testament doesn’t always make
this distinction, but here it does. In the early centuries of Christianity you
had various debates over the nature and ‘substance’ of God and Christ. The
church hammered out various decrees and creeds that would become the Orthodoxy
of the day. Many of these are what you would call the ‘Ecumenical councils’.
These are the early councils [many centuries!] that both the eastern [Orthodox
church] and western [Catholic] churches would all accept. Some feel that the
early church fathers and Latin theologians [Tertullian, Augustine and others]
had too much prior influence from philosophy and the ‘forensic’ thinking of
their time. They had a tendency to describe things in highly technical ways.
Ways that were prominent in the legal and philosophical thinking of the West.
Some of the eastern thinkers [Origen] had more of a Greek ‘flavor’ to their
theologizing [Alexandria, named after Alexander the great, was a city of
philosophy many years prior to Christ. This city was at one time the center of
thinking in the East. That’s why Paul would face the thinkers at Athens, they
had a history in the east of Greek philosophy]. Well any way the result was
highly technical debates over the nature of God and Christ. The historic church
would finally decree that Christ had 2 natures, Human and Divine. And that at
the Cross the ‘humanity of Jesus’ died, but his ‘Deity’ did not. I think Paul
agreed by saying ‘we are free from the law by the death of Christ’s Body’ here
Paul distinguishes between the physical death of Jesus and his Deity. Note-
actually, Augustine would be in the same school as Origen. Alexandrian.
[parts]
[1560] BUT THOU BETHLEHEM, THOUGH THOU BE LITTLE AMONG THE
THOUSANDS OF JUDAH- YET OUT OF THEE
SHALL HE COME FORTH UNTO ME THAT IS TO BE RULER IN ISRAEL. Micah 5:2. In the gospel of Luke we read the story of
Jesus being born in a real place- at a real time. Chapter 2 says that Caesar
put out a decree that ‘all the world should be taxed’ that is they did a kind
of census where you had to go to your native town and register. It just so
happned that Mary, Jesus mother, was living in Nazareth [Galilee] at the time
and Joseph- Jesus’ step dad- was from the lineage of Judah [King David’s
tribe]. So at this very inconvenient time- at the hour of child birth- they
make the trek to Bethlehem of Judea- just in time for the census- and for the
baby! Hundreds of years before this event there was this obscure Jewish prophet
named Micah- he blurted out one day ‘out of you Bethlehem- the least of all
places- shall one come forth- a great ruler of all men’ [my paraphrase]. The
Jewish nation was waiting for centuries for this ‘sent one’ this messiah who
would come to them in the midst of their oppression- and he would fulfill the
promise that God made to father Abraham millennia before ‘we will serve him
without fear and in holiness all the days of our lives’. As a matter of fact-
jump back to Luke chapter 1 and you can read this promise being uttered from
the lips of John the Baptist’s father when he praises God over the pregnancy of
his wife Elisabeth- you see John the Baptist was also spoken about centuries
before his birth- he would come on the scene as a forerunner- a precursor to
the messiah. Yes, John’s father had reason to rejoice. And when the angel
Gabriel appeared to Mary- he told how that she was chosen for this great task-
possibly the greatest task that any human was ever given- she would give birth
to this promised messiah. She asks the angel ‘how can this be- I know not a
man’ he tells her the Holy Spirit will come upon her and she will conceive a
child from God- none before could claim the title ‘the only begotten of God’.
Read Mary’s prayer in chapter 1- it too is a cry for social justice ‘the high
and mighty will be brought low- the poor will be lifted up’ we call her prayer
‘The Magnificat’. Both Zacharias and Mary spoke/prophesied of social justice-
that thru these seemingly strange miracles- God put in place a plan that would
bring justice to all those who were being oppressed. So the day came for Mary
to bear the child- but he was prophesied to be born in Bethlehem- so God
preordained that the great Caesar Augustus would make a decree that ‘all the
world would be taxed’. Caesar came from the beginning line of Rome’s great
Caesars. Octavian- Rome’s first- would be a devastating military leader who
would strike fear into the hearts of Rome’s enemies- the kingdom [Roman Empire]
would take her initial form under his rule. Of course most of us our familiar
with Julius Caesar- he’s made it into the Hollywood hall of fame- and Augustus-
he would be the third in a line of 12 Caesars who would rule Rome. He ruled at
a time when Rome was the center of the world- all roads truly did lead to Rome-
the great eternal city. Rome had her religious adherents- Rome practiced a type
of pluralism- when they conquered an enemy- they would allow the people to
continue to have some form of self rule- believe in whatever religion suits
you- but you were still under Roman rule. The Pantheon [a sort of pedestal for
the various god’s of the day] represented this religious openness of Rome. Yet
the Jews had a different type of belief- they held to what we describe as
Monotheism- a belief that there was only one true God. Her prophets spoke the
words ‘hear O Israel the Lord our God is one’ and they held to their peculiar
belief while Rome overlooked it. In the midst of all these developments, Caesar
makes the decree ‘everyone go back to your towns for the census’ and Mary and
Joseph hit the road. Sure enough the time came for her to deliver the child- he
was born in a stable- laid in a manger and the world would receive her king. 2 Thousand
years have passed- where are the great Caesars? Have you ever even heard of the
name Octavian before today? Yet all over the world- in every nation- on
the radio- over the internet- being
shouted from the speakers at the mall- yes, all over the world we sing that
Jesus Christ is king- the one born in Bethlehem of Judea- the one for whom the
whole world was a stage- even the mighty Caesars of the day bowed the knee unto
this eternal purpose of God- they would be puppets in the hand of God- used of God
to make decrees that would fulfill the obscure prophecy of some Jewish prophet
named Micah- yes- the Virgin had it
right ‘God brought down the mighty- used them for his purposes- and exalted
those who were struggling’. Rejoice- for in this day- 2 thousand years ago- was
born a great ruler- a ruler of all men- his hometown is now famous because of
this birth.
[parts]
We also see the apostle Paul debating with the Greek thinkers in
the city of Athens [the seat of Geek philosophy- the city/state where Socrates
was forced to drink cyanide].
In Acts chapter 17 he is preaching to these guys on Mar’s Hill- he
says ‘In him we live AND MOVE and have our being’.
Now- today as we read this- we don’t get the full import of what
he was doing.
But- to the Greek mind- the source of motion was a big thing.
Paul was a smart guy- and he was saying ‘in him we move’ showing
that yes- the ‘source of motion’ [Thales water] is not found in the natural
world [Physics] but the source comes from the Metaphysical world [God].
He also says ‘when I was walking thru your town- I saw one of your
altars- to the unknown god’.
At the time many believed in a Pantheon of gods- and to cover
their bases- they had an altar for any god they might have missed- smart
thinking!
So Paul says ‘him I declare unto you’.
Notice how Paul was able to debate- converse with them- and at the
end actually use their own ideas- to present the gospel.
In this chapter- Acts 17- we read of the only 2 groups of
philosophers mentioned in the bible.
The Epicureans and the Stoics.
The Epicureans were an early form of what we call Hedonism today-
the idea that pleasure is the principle purpose of man.
The Stoics believed in ‘stoicism’ that man should have no
emotional response to pain or pleasure- that’s why we call people today
‘Stoics’- when they seem to not be moved by anything.
Ok- that’s it for now- might make some comments tonight- but I’m
getting ready to fly out soon- and trying to wind down before I leave.
If I don’t write tonight- I’ll talk again when in North Bergen-
God bless you all.
1Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that
perish
[parts]
VERSES [news links below]
John
2:1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother
of Jesus was there:John 2:2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
John 2:3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.
John 2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
John 2:5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
John 2:6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
John 2:7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
John 2:8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
John 2:9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
John 2:10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
John 2:11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
John 2:12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
John 2:13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 2:14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
John 2:15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
John 2:16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
John 2:17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
John 2:18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
John 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
John 2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
John 2:21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
John 2:22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
John 2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
John 2:24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
John 2:25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
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