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Latest Articles: Religion
Catholic Church cuts off ACORN funding
Post Date: 2008-11-13 22:59:58 by Jhoffa_
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Catholic Church cuts off ACORN funding (CNN) -- The Roman Catholic Church is cutting off funds to the community organizing group ACORN, citing complaints over its voter registration drives in the November 4 election as part of the reason. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development froze its contributions to the group in June amid allegations that Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke, had embezzled nearly $1 million. This week, as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops met in Baltimore, Maryland, the campaign's chairman said it was cutting all ties with the group. "We simply had too many questions and concerns to permit further CCHD funding of ACORN ...
What do the Jehovah’s Witnesses do?
Post Date: 2008-11-10 11:38:48 by richard9151
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What do the Jehovah’s Witnesses do? I am amazed, and should not be, at the ignorance among people about the Jehovah’s Witnesses and how they operate and teach. After all, until I got involved and actually learned what was going on, I had no idea. Why would I think that it is different for anyone else? Therefore, as one of my goodbye posts as I get ready to leave the internet for good, I thought I would give all of you a little something to think about. (Leave the internet for good; yes, I am close to canceling the internet in the home because I am simply too busy with real work to continue. I now have 5 Bible students, and expect to have 10 within two months. That requires a ...
Not Being Religious Myslef....End Times
Post Date: 2008-11-09 21:51:37 by Old Friend
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Not being religious myself, but knowing a bit of the bible, I checked into whether Obama fit a messianic figure and was surprised to learn he can be better properly fitted as 666, the Beast, as described by the bible. Here are a few generalities. Do they fit? When Satan comes as the beast he will have so much power and authority that the whole world will marvel. Almost everyone in the world will worship the beast. “And all the world marveled and followed the beast.” Revelation 13:3 He will come as Allah or Imam Mahdi to the Muslims, Maitreya Buddha to the Buddhists, Jesus Christ to the Christians, Krishna to the Hindus, Messiah to the Jews, Saoshyant to the Zoroastrians, the ...
The Divine Name -- Its Use and Its Meaning
Post Date: 2008-11-09 20:45:09 by richard9151
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The Divine Name -- Its Use and Its Meaning John W. Davis, a missionary in China during the 19th century, explained why he believed that God’s name should be in the Bible: “If the Holy Ghost says Jehovah in any given place in the Hebrew, why does the translator not say Jehovah in English or Chinese? What right has he to say, I will use Jehovah in this place and a substitute for it in that? … If any one should say that there are cases in which the use of Jehovah would be wrong, let him show the reason why; the onus probandi (burden of proof) rests upon him. He will find the task a hard one, for he must answer this simple question; -- If in any given case it is wrong to use ...
Why We Must Know God’s Name
Post Date: 2008-11-09 18:07:26 by richard9151
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Why We Must Know God’s Name “EVERYONE who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” (Romans 10:13) With these words the apostle Paul stressed how vital it is for us to know God’s name. His statement brings us back to our original question: Why did Jesus put the ‘hallowing,’ or ‘sanctifying,’ of God’s name at the very beginning of his Model Prayer, ahead of so many other important matters? To understand this, we need to grasp a little better the meanings of two key words. First, what does the word ‘hallow,’ or ‘sanctify,’ really mean? Literally it means: “to make holy.” But is not God’s name already holy? Of ...
Monks brawl at Christian holy site in Jerusalem
Post Date: 2008-11-09 17:16:07 by PSUSA
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– Israeli police scuffle with an Armenian monk next to the site traditionally believed to be the tomb of … JERUSALEM – Israeli police rushed into one of Christianity's holiest churches Sunday and arrested two clergyman after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus' tomb. The clash between Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks broke out in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, revered as the site of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection. The brawling began during a procession of Armenian clergymen commemorating the 4th-century discovery of the cross believed to have been used to crucify Jesus. The Greeks objected to the march ...
Election 2008: Deja Vu Repeats Itself All Over Again
Post Date: 2008-11-09 11:43:51 by snoopdougg
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That which has been is what will be,That which is done is what will be done,And there is nothing new under the sun.-- Ecclesiastes 1:9Déjà vu is repeating itself all over again. And I am not freaking out about it.In the Old Testament – I Samuel 8:4-20 – the elders of Israel clamored to God for an earthly king, so Israel could be like all the other nations. God said – this is a crude paraphrase – “Okay, Okay. I will let you have your king, but you will be sorry.”In the New Testament – Matthew 21:9-11 – when Jesus rode into town on a donkey – not an elephant, mind you – the crowds greeting Jesus wanted salvation from Roman ...
Christian Zionist's End Times: Election Reveals Cracks In Logic
Post Date: 2008-11-08 14:50:21 by robnoel
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The 2008 election demonstrated the single mindedness of the Christian-Zionist voting block; this time in a losing effort. They were the biggest group of supporters for John McCain, who received over 62 million votes. The Pew Research Center estimated in advance that some 26 million “white evangelicals,” members of Judeo-Christian Churches (like the one to which Sarah Palin belongs to) would vote. They did! When the smoke cleared we are told about 73% of the "evangelicals/born again" voted for McCain and 26% for Obama. All other religious groups divided more evenly except Jews and Muslims. Surprisingly 78% of Jewish voters picked Obama; "other faiths" including ...
Why?
Post Date: 2008-11-08 01:01:39 by wudidiz
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Why?
Jehovah's Witnesses and John 20:28
Post Date: 2008-11-07 15:06:56 by Old Friend
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Archaelogists Discover Secrets of Luther's Life
Post Date: 2008-11-07 06:21:07 by Ada
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Matthias Schulz Archeologists have uncovered Martin Luther's household waste, including beer mugs, toy marbles and a child's crossbow. The find is being shown in a new exhibition that casts the religious reformer's private life in a new light. Brother Martin, a stout man, was sitting on the toilet in the Wittenberg Monastery, wearing the black robe of the Augustinian Order, when he was suddenly struck with the fundamental concept of his reformist body of thought. Martin Luther himself noted, in two after-dinner speeches (Nos. 1681 and 3232b), that Protestantism was born in the sewer: "The spiritus sanctus imparted this creation to me on dis cloaca." PHOTO GALLERY: ...
What does it mean?
Post Date: 2008-11-06 11:46:27 by richard9151
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What does it mean? Matthew 7: 13 “Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; 14 whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it. People read the above, which is a part of the Sermon on the Mount, and never seem to take the time to understand it. Or is it just that no one wishes to understand it? Do you believe in hell, and a fiery torment of the departed souls of the dead who were evil in life? If you do, that is interesting, because so do most all of the inhabitants of the earth, because such is taught in the vast majority of the ...
The silliness of "free will" in scripture
Post Date: 2008-11-06 11:10:13 by PSUSA
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Instead of continuing another thread hijack... First of all, the only copying/pasting I will do is with scripture, and anothers posts. Richard said: "And I also understand that as long as you adhere to such beliefs, that god is evil (to create evil he has to be at least a part evil), then you will not change. " Excuse me, but I never once said that God was evil. I said, and more importantly SCRIPTURE says, that God creates evil along with peace, and God KNOWS evil. But you ignore scripture that does not fit your sects doctrines. That is fine by me, just so you know what you are doing. Richard says: "Amazing. Almighty God can not lie, and, He can not violate your free ...
Barriers Broken?
Post Date: 2008-11-06 06:57:10 by Ada
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Among those who are bemoaning the election results, one must ask supporters of liberty: given the choices, what would have been a good outcome? We've lived through eight years of what might possibly be the worst executive-driven meltdown of human liberty outside civil or world war in American history, and this is true regarding domestic policy and foreign policy. A McCain victory would have been perceived at home and abroad as a ratification of the past eight years, and it is hard to imagine a worse course of events than that. The Obama victory symbolizes a well-deserved repudiation of this ghastly experience. Of course, the Obama victory elicits its own spin, which is also highly ...
The Apostle Peter Was NOT The First Pope!
Post Date: 2008-11-01 01:38:54 by richard9151
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There is a post in the Religion thread that is neccessary reading if you truly wish to understand what is going on in the world today. That post is titled; Simon Peter versus Simon the Sorcerer It is quite long, so I am going to post here a short version of proofs from that post that come directly from the Bible. Also, a disclaimer. I have been told that I am posting to much info from the Jehovah's Witnesses. Frankly, most of my info comes from many, many other sources. I have posted some info from them, but very, very little. Anyone that believes that the Jehovah's Witnesses are the only ones who understand this what is going on really has very little understanding of the world. ...
GOD HATES YOU ALL!
Post Date: 2008-10-31 22:34:33 by Elliott Jackalope
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GOD HATES YOU ALL! You'll NEVER GET IT RIGHT! EVER! Just one mistake, one bad word, one mistaken belief, and then you GO TO HELL FOREVER! BwaHAHAHAHAA! Suckers! You're ALL DOOOOOOOOMED! There's NOBODY in Heaven! NOBODY will EVER get it right! EVER! You're DOOOOOOMED!
X-MASS - YULETIDE -- A PAGAN FESTIVAL
Post Date: 2008-10-31 21:49:33 by richard9151
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X-MASS - YULETIDE -- A PAGAN FESTIVAL (which is actually condemned by Christ) CHRIST'S OPINION of SANTA CLAUS and YULETIDE, as expressed by HIS ANGEL, to HIS APOSTLE JOHN, in THE APOCALYPSE, Chapter 2. Xmas has absolutely nothing to do with God. It was originally called Yuletide, which is a pagan festival from the Babylonian Mystery religion of SUN worship. The Babylonians were merchants (they were the originators of the "Market-system" which is condemned by God) and they used Yuletide to sell their merchandise because, like today, it made them lots of money. Then in the first century A.D. Simon (the Sorcerer) Pater (NOT Peter) stole the name christian, mixed it with the ...
Simonites Establish UNIVERSAL CHURCH
Post Date: 2008-10-31 21:09:51 by richard9151
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Elevating his personal teachings above the Bible, and preaching a "no-works" doctrine of salvation, Simon Magus soon had a universal, popular following. Deified by the Romans, he was buried on Vatican Hill. Read how it happened in this article. SIMON Magus, just like his Samaritan forefathers, deliberately blended together the teachings of Babylon with Biblical phrases. One of his main intentions was to appropriate a Christian vocabulary to the Babylonian ceremonial system. In other words, he kept on with his heathenism, but now called his system "Christian" in origin. To legitimately introduce paganism into the Church he had to explain away many passages in the Old ...
Roman Catholic Church, History of … or, why people believe what they believe.
Post Date: 2008-10-31 16:31:34 by richard9151
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Roman Catholic Church, History of … or, why people believe what they believe. (There is another post in the religion thread that is essential to understanding this information; Simon Peter versus Simon the Sorcerer) To begin with, let me be frank; nothing that has come from the Roman Catholic church is Biblical. Period. To understand this, go here; http://www.biblebelievers.com/babylon/ This is a free online book titled, Two Babylons, and it accurately describes the source of the rituals and beliefs of the Roman Catholic church. It is worth reading, if you wish to understand. Secondly, I have had discussions, recently, in threads in the 4um from people who accused me of making ...
Simon Peter versus Simon the Sorcerer
Post Date: 2008-10-31 15:21:19 by richard9151
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Simon Peter versus Simon the Sorcerer or St. Peter Meets the Competition!! I would urge you to read this carefully, if you wish to truly understand the real problems within the Christian churches today, and, the true meaning of traditions and dogma. Richard www.reformation.org/simon...r_versus_simon_magus.html This is a great expose by the late Dr. E.L. Martin. It documents the true history of the Samaritans, the meaning of the word "peter" in the ancient world and the "church" that was established at Rome by Simon the Sorcerer. "But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving ...
bloodguilt
Post Date: 2008-10-31 11:44:59 by richard9151
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Firmly Resolved About Life And Blood ‘JUDGE Authorizes Transfusions of Blood,’ declared a recent newspaper headline in Virginia, U.S.A. The article began: “A federal judge Thursday morning authorized the Portsmouth Naval Hospital to administer blood transfusions to a critically ill woman who had refused them for four days, allegedly at the risk of her life, . . . ” 2 Reports of this sort occasionally appear and focus much attention on the value of both life and blood. Before we find out what resulted in the above case, we might think about some fundamental questions: What profound beliefs lead persons such as this one to refuse blood transfusions? Does ...
The Tutor -- What is it in the Bible?
Post Date: 2008-10-31 11:16:29 by richard9151
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TUTOR The tutor of Bible times was generally, not the actual teacher, but the one who accompanied the child to and from school and possibly in other activities as well. He would turn the child over to the instructor. This continued from childhood to perhaps puberty or longer. He was to keep the child from physical or moral harm. (So, too, the old French tuteur and Latin tutor mean, literally, “a protector or guardian.”) However, the duties of the tutor also involved the matter of discipline, and he might be charged with instructing the child in matters of conduct. The tutors’ discipline could be severe, whether they were slaves or were paid tutors. Therefore, Galatians ...
The Levites and the Law
Post Date: 2008-10-31 02:48:42 by bluegrass
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Here's the link I mentioned earlier. The entire book is this: The Controversy of Zion. It changed my perceptions of history. It especially changed my perceptions when I learned what happened to Douglas Reed's career after he began to publish on these matters in the 1940's and 50's. The Levites and the Law "...Deuteronomy is to formal Judaism and Zionism what the Communist Manifesto was to the destructive revolution of our century. It is the basis of the Torah ("the Law") contained in the Pentateuch, which itself forms the raw material of the Talmud, which again gave birth to those "commentaries" and commentaries-on-commentaries which together ...
Vatican issues screening guidelines for priests [screening for evidence of homosexuality]
Post Date: 2008-10-30 20:28:03 by scrapper2
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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican issued new psychological screening guidelines for seminarians Thursday - the latest effort by the Roman Catholic Church to be more selective about its priesthood candidates following a series of sex abuse scandals. The church said it issued the new guidelines to help church leaders weed out candidates with "psychopathic disturbances." The scandals have rocked the church in recent years, triggering lawsuits that have cost hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements. "(The guidelines) became ever more urgent because of the sexual scandals," Monsignor Jean-Louis Brugues told reporters. He stressed, however, that psychological testing ...
BAA, BAA BLACK SHEEP
Post Date: 2008-10-30 13:33:50 by X-15
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Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool? Yes, sir, yes, sir, Three bags full: One for the master and one for the dame, And none for the little boy who lives down the lane. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matt 7:15 America is about to be fleeced. The sheep are being prepared for a shearing. A wolf is at the door and the hirelings have sold out the flock. Barack Obama could not be elected without the church…especially the black church. The “ministers” in those black congregations are complicit in the destruction of this nation. They have trained their sheep to grovel at the teat of government. ...
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