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Seems like the culture today is more interested in painting God as a cosmic bully than a merciful God. Most media, elite schools, and staunch atheists claim that the God of the Bible is cruel and ruthless deity who caused mass genocide in the Old Testament. Here are some debated passages in the Old Testament that supposedly back up this view of God.


Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven (Gen. 19:24).


You must devote them to complete destruction (Deut. 7:2).


Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword (Jos. 6:21).

Now go and strike Amalek and devoted to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and women, child, and infant, ox, and sheep, camel and donkey (1 Sam. 15:3).


By simply isolating these Old Testament passages, it's no wonder people think God as a brutal monster. Bearing in mind that these incidents did occur, we need proper precautions and examination of the context before drawing any conclusions. Each of these passages needs to be interpreted in it's proper context, and not taken out of context to try to prove a point.


As to God commanding Israel to destroy the Canaanites and six other nations, it is noteworthy to mention that, these passages reveals something in regards, to the holiness of God. It shows that God's character is absolutely holy, and as such, He must punish sin and rebellion (Hab. 1:13). He's a righteous judge (Ps.7:11), and that's undeniably part of who He is. His character is also merciful (Deu.4:31).


As for the Amalekites, they were far from innocent. Far from it. These were not nice people. In fact, they were utterly and totally depraved. Their mission was to destroy Israel. In other words, to commit genocide. They were relentless in their attempts to murder the people of Israel, and yet you don't hear people complaining about that!


As if that were not evil enough, think about what was hanging in the balance. The Israelites were the chosen people through whom God would bring salvation to the entire world through Jesus Christ. The destruction of their nation was necessitated by the gravity of their sin. Had some hardcore remnant survived, they might have resumed their aggression against the Israelites and God's plan. These were a persistent and vicious and warring people. They wanted to wipe out every last one of the Israelites off the face of the earth. God could have dealt with them through a natural disaster like a flood, but instead He used Israel as His instrument of judgement. He took action not only for the sake of the Israelites, but ultimately for the sake of everyone through history whose salvation would be provided by the Messiah (Jesus Christ) who was to be born among them.


As for the children, socially and physically the fate of children throughout history has always been with their parents, whether that's for good or for ill. You need to understand the situation among the Amalekites. In a thoroughly evil and violent and depraved culture, there was no hope for those children. This nation was so polluted that it was like gangrene that was taking over a person's leg, and God had to amputate the leg or the gangrene would spread and there wouldn't be anything left. In this sense, God's action was an act of mercy. According to the Bible, every child who dies before before the age of accountability goes to heaven to spend eternity in the presence of God.


Isaiah 7:16 talks about an age before a child is morally accountable, before the child knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right. King David spoke of going to be with his son who died at birth (2 Sam. 12:23). Jesus said, ' Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these (Matt.19:14), which indicates they will go to heaven...

Forgive Us Our Debts, As We Also Have Forgiven Our Debtors.



As we also have forgiven our debtors..." There they are- the rest of the words Jesus gave us in asking God's forgiveness. The words that make the prayer work!


Until we put these words right after "forgive us our debts," our prayer is not complete. Because forgiveness is a two-way street! Or to put it another way""What goes around comes around!"


When Jesus gave us these words, He was making it clear that before we can expect God to forgive us, we have to be ready to forgive. Because what these words are really saying to God is: Treat me in exactly the same way I treat other people! Sound kind of familiar? It should.


Remember the Golden rule? "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you..." It's one of the most beautiful- and powerful- pieces of advice Jesus gave. (And one that could keep the world out of trouble if everyone paid attention to it!) In the forgiveness request , however, the idea advances a step further. And it could now read, "do to others what you would have God do to you."


To make sure we'd take seriously our responsibility in our willingness to forgive others, we are reminded of one of the most riveting parables Jesus ever communicated to His disciples (see. Matt. 18:21-35).


It is a story of two debtors. The first owed his master about twenty million dollars- more than he could pay if he lived to be a thousand years old. The second debtor owed the first debtor less than a twenty-dollar bill. When the day of reckoning came, the master forgave the multi-million-dollar debtor every last penny. Instead of being overwhelmed with gratitude, however, the man who was forgiven much tracked down the man who owed him little, grabbed him by the throat, and dragged him away to debtors' prison. When the master heard all that had happened, his condemnation was swift and severe. The ungrateful servant was thrown into jail to be tortured until he could repay his debt in full- which would be... never!


When Jesus finished telling the story, He turned to His disciples and said, "This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart" (Matt. 18:35). The disciples immediately got the point. The debts we owe one another are like mere twenty-dollar bills "compared" to the infinite debt we owe our heavenly Father. Since we have been forgiven an infinite debt, it is a horrendous evil to even consider withholding forgiveness from those who seek it. If for a moment, we might wonder whether or not to forgive our debtors, this parable should immediately soften our hearts and illumine the darkness of our minds.



Furthermore, when we pray, "forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors," we are reminded of the infinite price that was paid so that we might be forgiven. We must ever be mindful that it was God Himself who hung on the cross so that we could be reconciled to Him for time and eternity.


Multitudes have lost touch with this essential truth because they have little concept of the depravity of the human heart (Jer.17:9). As one postmodern American remarked, "The day I die, I should only have to look up on my Maker and say, 'Take me.' Not 'Forgive me.'''(Quoted in Marianne Meye Thompson, 1-3, 46.) Karl Menninger once lamented that we live in an I'm-OK-you're-OK world. In whatever Became of Sin? he compares OK-ness in the face of human depravity to a bluebird on a dung heap (Calvin Miller, Into the Depths of God, 147). The antidote to OK-ness is brokeness. And brokeness is the road map by which we find our way back to an intimate relationship with God.





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One time, superstitions were a daily part of life. Everyone believed in ghosts and other superstitious stuff. Generally not so much today because of our lifestyle and electronics. That don't mean however that the old timers were totally wrong. There is more to things than we can explain and just because we can't explain it, it doesn't mean its not there.

I had a great uncle who could stop blood. True, no bullshit, he really could stop a person from bleeding just by focusing on the cut and saying something to himself, the bleeding would stop no matter how bad the cut was. He never did tell anyone how to do it (I think it was part of a stipulation for learning it originally). There have been many cases where people went to him with a bad cut and he stopped the bleeding. Well known around the area.

My hands used to be covered in warts when I was young. I grew up in the very tail end of the old ways and a few of those superstitions were still around. One I used to hear was to count your warts, put that many rocks in a bag, stand back on to the woods, toss the bag behind your shoulder, don't look back, and in that many days, your warts will be gone. I done it one day, counted the warts, put the rocks in the bag, tossed them in the woods standing back on and walked away not looking back. I never kept track of the days or anything as I just got back to my normal routine and had forgotten I done it. In a week or so time, I had something in my hand and I had to look twice, my hands were wart free, and not only that, I never had a wart come back again since.

I had a classmate who grew up in a haunted house. Been lots of witnesses to wild shit happening in that house. It was eventually torn down as you couldn't live any kind of a normal life in the house, crazy paranormal activity.

Friend of mine lived in a haunted place in her younger years, she used to see a shadow man wearing a hat among other things. Her family had to get out of it and into a new house.

I would never actively pursue any kind of paranormal activity as you could open the door for more than you bargained for but always had a passing interest. When one person tells you about a sighting, its easy to dismiss it but when 10 people tell you about the same sighting, there may be more to it.

Some point to the numbers of boys abused in the Catholic Abuse scandal and then call for the taxation and / or disbanding of the Catholic church.

A closer look reveals that the very same groups calling for taxation or disbanding of the Church were instrumental in corrupting it with atheists and homosexuals.

I should note that no where in Scripture does it see homosexuality or pederasty as of equal dignity as One Man / One Woman holy matrimony. Indeed, Leviticus condemns it to death. God himself is enraged to hear reports of many sins committed in the cities of the plain (Sodom, Gomorrah, Zoar, etc..), with "going after strange flesh" among them, later clarified by the Biblical account of the men of Sodom surrounding Lot's house, demanding that he send the two Angels out, so that they might a$$rape them (as Ahnold might have said: "Bad idea.").

And when it comes to leading children into sin, which is exactly what child molestation is (since a very high proportion of the molested grow up to become homosexual molesters themselves.. suggesting homosexuality isn't passed down in the genes, but by the process of psychic corruption, like the bite of the vampire), even Jesus commands that a millstone be hung about the neck of the corruptor, and then he be cast into the sea.

Thus, anyone who commits such sin is an unrepentant sinner, and not a Christian, and certainly not one who should preach to Christian followers. These are apostate heretics and condemned by Scripture ("depart from me! I never knew ye.")

Isn't it convenient, that decades ago, that Communists decided that the Church, and religious faith, were their mortal enemies. Something had to be done. And that something was the Soviet OPERATION OUTSTRETCHED HAND. (OH).

OH entailed infiltrating and corrupting, and thereby destroying the moral leadership of the church. The Infiltrators? Communists, Atheists, Homosexual- p*dophile, Satanists, often a combination in one person, who would be their ideal candidate.

The concept was to enter the seminary, lie low, rise through the ranks, and once at a commanding rank, start to become a gatekeeper to the seminary. Weed out true believers and good men.

In their place, recruit other Communists, atheists, satanists or pedophilic homosexuals.

This went on for decades, only coming to light when one saboteur, one Bella Dodd, had a change of heart and confessed. Her sin? Placing about 1100 such filthy men into the seminary. Her book is called SCHOOL OF DARKNESS.


Her sabotage was confirmed, years later, by the release of once classified intercepts between Moscow Center and American traitors (VENONA INTERCEPTS).

Another view from inside the corrupted seminary is by Michael S. Rose, in his book, GOODBYE GOOD MEN. It describes how some seminaries have become dens of homosexuals, harassing and driving out hetero but celibate true believers. Another source, a Vatican trained exorcist, Fr. Malachi Martin, had to couch his expose of infiltration of the Church by satanists in his (non-fictional) fiction WINDSWEPT HOUSE.

If you search the term LAVENDER MAFIA, you'll find more of this corruption of the Church by the very same Communists and homosexuals condemning the Church, for the sins they themselves committed.

Such is the way of evil.

(this blog.... for my
darling fiancé:)...

Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
Heraclitus.

Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher who is remembered for his cosmology, in which fire forms the basic material principle of an orderly universe.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, (born May 1, 1881, Sarcenat, France—died April 10, 1955, New York City, New York, U.S.), French philosopher and paleontologist known for his theory that man is evolving, mentally and socially, toward a final spiritual unity.



i love this... .
He famously wrote
(Teilhard de Chardin, 1959b, 219) that evolution is a “general condition to which all other theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

i read this somewhere...

Translation-The soul is atomic in size and can be perceived by perfect intelligence. This atomic soul is floating in the five kinds of air (pra?a, apana, vyana, samana and udana), is situated within the heart, and spreads its influence all over the body of the embodied living entities. When the soul is purified from the contamination of the five kinds of material air, its spiritual influence is exhibited.

Furthermore it is also mentioned in scriptures about the size of soul.
.... i had love to write more/
somethingI'm up to my eyes in work at the moment.


(to my handsome)

(saturday... 03/june)
mumbai(india)9am.

Most people have no idea of the evil that dwells within a pumpkin, although any non-American who has eaten pumpkin pie may well have suspected it. Its flesh is that of the Devil, and its seeds are the seeds of damnation. Remember that the next time you come to fill your bird feeder. Never put a pumpkin outside your door, you may forget it's there and trip over it. God hates pumkins: verse something or other somewhere in the Bible clearly tells us that pumpkins are an abomination upon the face of anybody who puts one over their head. Jesus tells us that whenever we encounter a pumpkin, we must cast it down upon the ground with mighty force, and stamp upon it for good measure.

In my homeland, when this exclamation is heard it’s either a cry of woe, a plea for leniency or a shout of frustration. We've all heard or said “Lord, have mercy”, “May God have mercy upon your soul”, “Mercy me” and other similar phrases at least once in our life. All mention 'mercy', but what does the word mean…exactly?

The Bible explains that Mercy is an act of forgiving the sinner and withholding the punishment that is justly deserved, and it also offers many examples of man-to-man and God-to-man experiences, the foremost one being Jesus’ sacrifice for sin (on mankind’s behalf).
The Dictionary says that it is “compassion or forgiveness shown towards someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm.”
And, in Criminal Law it is “The total or partial remission of a punishment to which a convict is subject.” When someone pleads to the Magistrate for mercy, he/she is aware of their guilt and the punishment that is deserved, but is asking for leniency with the sentence to be given.

Mercy is a godly trait or virtue, so when we show mercy to those who’ve wronged us we are exercising the godliness within us, which then leads us to forgive them. Without ‘Mercy’, granting someone forgiveness (even one’s own self) is impossible, because the formula for it is Love + Mercy. And, it is better to receive mercy than it is to get justice (the formula for which is Love – Mercy). I’m better with reasoning, than with mathematical equations, so if those aren't sound, please, ‘have mercy on me’ .

Remembering to exercise the ‘god’ in us by being merciful, especially towards those who’ve harmed us, is key to receiving mercy from God.
Blessings everyone!

Life is immortal, death is not the end. When life ends in one body, it finds another body to live again. The cycle of birth and death continues until you learn to live without a body.

Hello I'm Michael in my first blog we talked about the Antichrist Being Dead!!
Okay So What's really happening??
It's High Time For all of you to know what's really going on!! Let's give everyone the new hope they deserve
Okay the part from all of you that tune in here that are straight Up,. Believing only what the bible says! Are you sure it was not put there so that you would believe ?? Well please play nice with all your comments and please don't shoot the messenger!!
How far back can the human race see?? 2000 years 4000 years 8000years with compleat 100% accuracy let me pose a question to all the people? Could there have been a time in the past that a group and an individual took compleat control of all the facts? Well I would say it started in the burning of the very very first library in Alexandrea when the library was so big that any new ships coming into port there they would secretly board the vessel and remove any books the vessel had but then the library conveniently was burned down how convenient with all that knolage !! Could a group gain compleat control of all knolage even the info in the bible?? A group of Satanic pedofiles Jews that are not really Jewish but call them selves that so they can't be wiped out! And did you know if, I'm not part and your not part and all your loved ones are not part of there once was Group in there Satanic religion then we were all referd to and called "Goium" and there religion said their God created us so they wouldn't be served by beings that also looked like animals , And that it was are purpose to serve the Satanic fake Jews , try and see if you can Google and Locate the covenants of the Jews and read up it's a shocker,
Any way I'm here to say good things are happening I'm not here to bring you down I'm here to give you hope for what's been happening and kept from you! I telling you the truth the 3rd Antichrist is dead !! All the Satanic Covens Parents are dead, all the Satanic Covens broken up!! And the Satanic money sytem The S.W.I.F.T Babalonium money system called the Federal Reserve, only had a 100 year Charter from the time President Wilson signed it in to law in 1913 that's why , Your not going to see dates on any dollar bills newer them 2017 and they asked for additional 5 years to get a new charter and it didn't happen, So bills your going to see are a bunch of new 2013 and a few 2017 and that's it, no 2018-2022 the money system has been taken from the Satanic fake pedo Jews over and now it's called, K.I.M.S.
Key Monitary Money System , soon all will know every one,
So if you have watched any of the History channel program Nostradamus he talks about the bible and the Coming 3rd Antichrist and a blood bath of the human race , well it's not going to happen sorry! What is going to happen and this is why I'm Writing this! All over the world governments are going to fall why. Because they the politicians are all part of the Satanic Pedofile fake Jews , all governments every where are going to be replaced with assembly's of citizens this is already under way and has been for the past two years no matter where you are on earth I hope you find the New assembly by you and get involved with your vote your say because I can't tell you how bad your vote is needed and if there is not one in your area it's time you get one put together for your area, when the Funding starts flowing it will be flowing though the assembly s then your going to see world wide Planet Earth Restoration happening and there will be peace world wide, this has been under way sense the passing of the third Antichrist, and what will you be doing ?? Well that's another reason why I'm here soon people every where will be doing what they have always wanted to do, as long as it's peaceful and in line with the restoration of earth, get the facts at start getting the real News at from all over the world, be a part of it, reporting where your at
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(...)"If any of you agree on any thing on earth to pray, my heavenly Father will give it to them. Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them". (Mt 18, 19-20)

I want you to pray with me a prayer asking a God to give a soulmate:

Dear God, loving the essence of everything.
Please fill me with your holy being.
I ask for your love and guidance and favor:
Exploring what is hidden in the depths of my heart
please help free the person
which stands in the true path of love.
My heart is pure; my intentions are clear.
Give me the most suitable partner.
I'm looking for a partner
with whom I would become a better person,
the one that would bring more love,
joy, peace and prosperity in my life,
who would love, respect, and cherish fully and always.
May my heart be open and my thoughts pure.
May I be ready to accept true love into my life.
Please accept into your love circle
and ascend to Your grace.
May it happens as I ask.
Amen.