#Did Jesus die only for the elect

[thinkingonscripture]

Divine Election

Election is a biblical teaching that every serious student of the Bible must address at some time. It addresses issues related to God’s sovereignty and human volition, predestination and foreknowledge, sin and salvation, justice and mercy, love and faith. Election is a difficult doctrine to fully understand, and when discussing it with others, it’s always best to keep an attitude of love and…

[thebibliosphere]

He sounded interested and even concerned. I thought he had been touched by what the doctor and advocates in the meeting had just shared about their journey with their patients and their own family members. But I was wrong.

“Those people . . . ” Donald said, trailing off. “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.”

I truly did not know what to say. He was talking about expenses. We were talking about human lives. For Donald, I think it really was about the expenses, even though we were there to talk about efficiencies, smarter investments, and human dignity.

I turned and walked away

[from later in the article]

Donald took a second as if he was thinking about the whole situation.

“I don’t know,” he finally said, letting out a sigh. “He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”

Wait! What did he just say? That my son doesn’t recognize me? That I should just let him die?

Did he really just say that? That I should let my son die . . . so I could move down to Florida?

Really?

[...]

Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised to hear Donald say that. It wasn’t far off from what he’d said that day in the Oval Office after our meeting with the advocates. Only that time, it was other people’s children who should die. This time, it was my son.

When you’re legitimately so evil you tell a parent, your own fucking nephew, to their face that it’d be more cost-effective to let their child die because they are disabled.

Honestly, it's not the ableism or eugenics that shocks me. Donald Trump has shown who he is time and time again. I guess what got me was that he’d be willing to hold the same views for family members.

Usually these types of people make exceptions for their own. “It’s not immoral if it’s my abortion, I’m only doing this because I have no choice, mine is necessary” kind of thing.

But nope. Donald just straight up thinks his great nephew should die because it’s expensive to keep him alive.

Jesus Wept.

Fucking vote. Please, I’m begging you. As a disabled immigrant who isn’t able to vote I see so many people saying they’re going to boycott the election by not voting and I want to scream.

You boycott products by withholding money.

Not voting in elections only disenfranchises yourself. You’re not protesting. You’re giving tyrants power.

Please vote like people’s lives depend on it because they do.

If you need help figuring out how to register I will help you but please. Please vote.

[bokunoheros]

ཐིཋྀ KINKTOBER - day 12 squirting : shouta aizawa/eraserhead

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word count : 420k words and 69 pages

🐙 note : we are not locked in we are as loose as a ran through sorority president

🦊 note : i am. i have no words. idek what happened. we ran out of time so we went with the option we thought might make people giggle (no we didnt we did this bullshit for ourselves)(your regularly scheduled content will resume tmr!)

🪲 note : i ain’t fucking sorry

you adored your husband—shouta aizawa—so much so, that you were his dedicated housewife. he made plenty of money as a pro hero and… enough… as a teacher, so that left you to take care of the house and your shared cat. though when he did come home he was way different than he was at work, usually at work he was all nonchalant and cold but at home he was sweet and caring, sometimes even a bit rough. his students would definitely describe him as laid back and uninterested, yet when you were around they were in awe of his personality shift.

[hiswordsarekisses]

What is the love of the truth?

An example of this in my own life would be like this:

(And this is not the point of the post so I rather not have any comments about this lol!)

When I die, I truly want to shut my eyes on earth and open them in Heaven. I do not want to “sleep” in a grave.

There are many different beliefs we can get from scripture on what happens when you die - but only one of them is true.

I only want to believe that ONE, regardless of how desperately I want to go straight to Heaven to be with the Lord. I know it would only be my spirit, but I want to be “aware” and awake and alert and with Jesus…

There are scriptures that support this, but there are scriptures that also support the idea of being “unaware” and/or sleeping.

I do not want that to be true.

So rather than search the Bible to prove to myself that what I want to be true is actually truth - I search both things because, as terrified as I am of being asleep and unaware, I just truly want to know the truth.

To love the truth, we cannot assume to have it all figured out. We should pray for God to reveal the truth, and we seek the truth. Because the truth should be more important to us than whatever it is that we WANT to be true.

I want to believe many things that we may not know for until we get to Heaven, but there is wisdom in never ending the search that may uncover solid proof. I believe God did it this way for many reasons. The most important of them come to my mind…

One reason is so that we remain teachable, because thinking we have it figured out closes our mind - and can lead to deception. I fear deception much more than I fear being wrong.

I want to know when I’m wrong so I can make a change and understand things - but to be deceived is a terrifying blindness that you do not even realize is there BECAUSE you are blind!!

Being unteachable is, at its root, pride. And pride locks up your mind, ears, and eyes because you are so sure that you are right about something that you block out the truth so completely that it cannot get to you no matter how loud or bold or obvious it is.

I have experienced this blindness and deception, and it taught me the hard way to truly and desperately love the truth.

Always be aware of the fact that you may be wrong about something no matter how sure you are that you are not.

The Bible says that anyone who thinks they stand should take heed lest they fall, and that anyone who thinks they know something does not actually yet know as they should. That’s because pride blocks the truth. (1st Corinthians 10:12, 1st Corinthians 8:2)

I will close with this quote from Elisabeth Elliot which seems to me to fit perfectly.

“But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is. . .

What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, and to desire what He promises?

Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?”

- E.E.

My answer is that I ultimately want whatever God wants. I want to believe what is true, BECAUSE it is true. It’s extremely important to me.

And that is to love the truth.

Jesus and Paul both warn that there is a very strong delusion coming on the whole world in these last days that will affect those who are perishing, so strong of a delusion that “if it were possible” would deceive even the “elect”. . .

The Bible says that those who are perishing will come under this delusion because they “had not received the love of the truth.”

Since the day I read that I have always prayed God would keep the love of the truth in my heart. Once I started praying for that I bought a new, unmarked, Bible and read it fresh, as if it were the first time...

And I asked God to remove all the things I had been “taught to see” in His Word, and to teach me to see the truth.

And it has been a wild adventure ever since as God continuously renews my mind with the truth of His Word.

Every so often I still get a new Bible and start again. I will never stop seeking His truth.

~ Dana Jean Klibert

(His Words Are Kisses)

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[quinn-gaither]

sam and drake as the trial before pilate; or, an analysis of the powerplant incident

religion is all over gone. it's there in abundance, from the names to the internal dialogue to the very acts and events that happen. the overlap of traditional religious idiosyncracies between different characters are so plentiful it is difficult to sit here and say that this character represents this religious figure; they are an amalgamation of different gospels, showing how theology and the themes of the bible can apply to gone as a wider subject matter to stretch out the dystopia, show how the worst of people brings out the very humanity of them.

as such, i don't know for certain if this parallel or idea was intentional or ever in MG's mind as he wrote the scene, but it is something that has stuck with me a lot in my reread: how the drake/sam whipping in the powerplant strongly mirrors jesus' trial before pilate. the extract sticks out to me particularly in terms of understanding how the whipping of sam impacted his arc and his character for the rest of the novel. full disclaimer, i am not an expert in christian theology nor am i christian, and this comparison only came to my mind recently, so it may not have the depth and nuance of others, but it’s something i have thought and researched a lot about, so i hope it will suffice!

under the cut i go into some brief religious context, followed by how this fits in with the scene in the powerplant alongside quotes pulled from the various books to underscore how pivotal the lashings were for sam. so, if you're looking for some unnecessarily deep analysis of sam and drake as religious paragons: look no further than under the cut!

pilate's court: a contextual debrief

for starters, what was the trial before pilate? in brief, it is as follows. in the christian gospels they refer to the final period before jesus' death as 'the passion'; or, 'the passion of jesus'. the passion includes jesus' entrance to jerusalem, his anointing, the last supper, his agony and arrest, for example. it does also include his trial before pilate, the governor of judaea.

this trial is what essentially preceded the denouncement of jesus before he was sent to be crucified. throughout the trial, much to pilate's confusion, jesus was silent, perhaps accepting his inevitable fate or not seeing reason to protest something when he knew he would never win. pilate, at first, didn't believe there to be enough reason to sentence jesus to death and, consequently, elected to flog him as punishment. the bible does not outright state the amount of lashings jesus received, but it is thought the number could have been 39 (due to jewish commands restricting the amount of flogs from surpassing 40).

and so jesus was lashed, and then he was sentenced to death. it is widely agreed that the punishments jesus endured represent him absorbing everyone's sin, seeing him become the icon of rebirth and allowing humans to start all over again.

so, i hear you ask... how does this relate to the drake and sam incident in the powerplant?

drake as judge, jury & executioner

as i mentioned before, i'm not here to say that sam and drake are direct reflections of jesus and pilate. quite the opposite is true, really, and it is more the themes rather than the behaviours and characteristics that tie them together with this gospel. the theory and symbolism behind the trial before pilate can apply in a somewhat inverted way; sam is whipped though he doesn't necessarily die (more on that later), and drake isn't necessarily trying to find ways to punish sam without killing him as pilate was for jesus. drake wants sam dead and, had brianna not interfered when she did, he probably would have killed him. the events at the powerplant are not a complete mirror image of the trial but are, rather, foils to it.

the lashing of sam sees drake attempting to denounce all the perdido beach kids, trying to assert a specific way of thinking over the whole fayz. whether that be the beliefs of caine and the coates clan or the legislation of the gaiaphage is up for debate, but he is still decidedly torturing sam in response to disagreeing with the word he is spreading and the way he is leading. in the same way the roman crowds saw jesus’ behaviours as undermining the king ceasar, drake is acting out as he sees sam undermining his own personal king.

in terms of the text, this all occurs within hunger. however, before diving into that, i'm flashing forward to plague for an interesting excerpt from a conversation between brittany and astrid. it is, in fact, the very passage that got me thinking about all this to start with:

here we have a direct reference to pilate in the books themselves! how crazy is that? pay attention here to the specifics of "and pilate... to crucify him so that he might redeem us." if, in this instance, we are perceiving sam as a jesus-emblem, what brittany is essentially saying here is that sam needs to be punished for hope he might redeem all people. all the perdido beach kids, all the fayz inhabitants.

sam stands to be the symbol for all those who follow him. he is a leader, first and foremost, but he is at base level the most direct representation of all the lives he, begrudgingly, protects. sam is a microcosmic perdido beach resident while also being one of the most powerful mutants. see, then, how jesus is said to represent all despite being the son of god.

the lashing of sam kickstarts the redemption of the fayz kids, even so early into the book series. this happens in hunger, before any of the real horrors begin, but it is in this scene when the tides perhaps turn and the chance of a tunnel out of here manifests within sam's mind. the lashing is part of the passion of jesus, or the passion of sam, and as a result it sets him on a different path that places him in the mindset to understand that murdering drake is something which must happen in order for the barrier to come down. even if he doesn't quite have the foresight to see it at the time - perhaps more focussed on the murder angle rather than the reason - the seeds for drake's death are set in motion right here at the end of hunger.

just to contextualise the whipping within the timeline of the book. it starts halfway through chapter thirty-seven, with 1 hour and 6 minutes before the climax of the novel. brianna appears at the end of the chapter. thirty-eight sees us with 53 minutes later. so, with that knowledge, we can assume that the lashing lasted, at most, thirteen minutes. brianna administers the morphine packet within this chapter, too.

so, after about fifteen minutes since the lashings began he gets his first pain medicine. in thirty-nine (47 minutes) he wasn't feeling particularly intense pain as he was starting to hallucinate. at 33 minutes, he is still under morphine but is once again in pain. note: 33 minutes is when he first declares his intent to take a life. this is, obviously, a very instrumental part of sam's character arc. when he goes from seeing killing as something to be done only as mercy, to put someone out of their misery, to something that is to be done to avenge.

sam notes that the morphine is wearing off with 7 minutes left. so, with all this textual information in place, we can determine that he underwent torture for approximately thirteen minutes, and saw the pain mostly off with a dose of morphine that lasted 46 minutes. it's important to note also, i think, that this lashing happens concurrently with the human crew hunting and essentially sentencing hunter to death in the church.

it is interesting that two heavily religious events are happening at the same time, especially as the events are both underscored by the overarching sense of sacrifice, lawfulness and establishing dominance. the human crew are wanting to metaphorically crucify hunter while drake is flogging sam: they both want to be the power in charge, and they do so without taking into account any jury or justice. they act singularly, for their own gain.

the first 'death' of sam temple

now, earlier up, i mentioned that sam "doesn't necessarily die". he is, after all, not crucified or murdered in any way, he is just flogged. however, i believe that he was fundamentally changed after his encounter with drake, and while he didn't perhaps die physically he did die mentally.

he was on the brink of real death, all but bleeding out on the powerplant floor, and spent at least 46 minutes in a sort of purgatory state where he was hallucinating his better moments in life and wondering if he was going to make it. under the effects of morphine he sees the school bus incident, perhaps a demonstration of him walking towards the light before he awakes and finds himself back in the powerplant.

the lashing of sam is unequivocally the worst experience he endures in his time in the fayz. the worst experience of his whole life, something that shifts his entire perspective of not only drake but also the type of pain he can endure. the memory of it lasts even through light:

even after everything - four more whole books of action - nothing lives up to or usurps the agony of his lashing in the powerplant. it does not kill him, but it kills his soul. similarly to how the darkness kills lana and sucks the light from her life, sam's experience with drake does the same for him.

taking this back to the gospels, then, jesus is battered and bruised when he gets to the crucifix and, as a result, doesn't last long up there. sam is similarly battered and bruised, literally on his last legs of life after drake is done with him. brianna is able to come and administer the morphine and bring him back to physical life, but he is psychologically different after the whippings. jesus's trial before pilate is a distinctive turning point in christian theology; it is where he essentially admits to his fate, refuses to put up a fight, and leaves the ending of his life in the hands of pilate. he understands that his people have given up on him, that he has lost the crown of king of the jews, that he has been so betrayed by those closest to him. and, yet, in the aftermath of the trial and even after the crucifixtion and rebirth, jesus is different. the world is different. it turns into a place where a better ending rests at the end of all the trials and tribulations.

sam accepts his fate. sam understands that he is losing control of perdido beach. if drake wasn't the one to beat him down, the human crew probably would've tried to at some point. in this analogy where drake is a twisted version of pilate, the human crew are perhaps the crowd outside the temple who are calling for the death of jesus; the death of sam. for fifty-nine minutes sam was reduced to nothing but a boy bruised. he was no longer a four-bar mutant, he had no use of his hands, and he was no longer school bus sam either. he was just sam temple, a fifteen-year-old kid dying on the floor at the hands of someone who took it upon themselves to play judge over his life. jesus, in his trial, became the same thing. just a person enduring the worst sort of torture. god couldn't save him, didn't save him, nor did his people or his reputation or his powers.

the powerplant scene puts the fayz over the precipice. it sends drake down a path from which he never recovers, and it pushes sam to the brink of something he almost doesn't save himself from. it sets in stone that sam will come back - stronger - and those who put him through the agony will repent for what they did. in such a short extract, MG essentially plots out the ending of their relationship: sam will prosper while drake will die.

so, overall

i could expand on this entire thing further because, as i said before, there is such an astonishing amount of overlapping religious theology in these texts that it's impossible to sum them all up in one go. but i like to think of this powerplant moment as an opening, as something thematically intrinsic in the way the rest of the novels work out. it's an instance which can be explored even more if one is to bring caine into the narrative too, and consider sam/caine as twin versions of jesus/judas. which doesn't even take into consideration the very on-the-nose naming of them as sam and david and the way that gospel plays into the whole series, too.

i could even bring in one of my favourite pieces of artwork, the angels hovering over the body of christ in the sepulchre by william blake, and perhaps analyse how the angels are symbolic of drake/brittany in later novels, how their constant back and forth as they oversee the rebirth of sam as he conquers them, and the fayz.

anyway… gone is crazy detailed when you look at it through these sorts of theological lenses. i think, to a certain extent, some of the overlaps must be intentional. the fayz is very much a microcosm of particular religions, of the way gods contend against each other and leaders prevail against crowds of opposition.

either way, to conclude: the meeting between drake and sam in the powerplant greatly mirrors the trial of jesus before pilate, just before his crucifixtion. it perhaps represents how sam is forced to shoulder the sins and the misgivings of the perdido beach kids in order to see through to a way of beating the darkness and freeing them from the barrier. though neither drake or sam are perfect reflections of pilate and jesus respectively, the way their actions correspond to and follow those of the gospels brings to surface really interesting observations about the ways the characters and their fates are almost predetermined, how you can see how the books will end even from only the second one in the series.

[legilimensims]

time for yet another coping session ✨ i'll be mean and feefees will be hurt.

i'll try to be brief but ask my bestie and she'll tell you that where i'm concerned brief = 20 minutes ranty audio message.

nah this is gonna be long and i'm not even adding a read more cut. i don't care if i clog your dashboard. stuff needs to be said.

it's funny how i wake up in the morning feeling blue and devastatingly dejected because of the orange bozo being reelected, and as the day goes by i get angrier and angrier until i reach spitting mad levels. i'm angry because i feel betrayed. as an admirer and a defender of president biden (it's not a secret) i feel enraged at how he was treated. how he was betrayed by his electorate.

everything good biden did these past 4 years is gonna be undone because you stupids let the criminal rapi*t win. AGAIN. this is what i can't comprehend. you guys chose to reelect the guy you fired in 2020 because he was a disaster - you elected biden to rescue the country, he DID...and now you brought the old guy back?? the guy you had to save the country from??? after everyting biden did to save your ungrateful asses??? like wtf man. the stupidity, the logic escapes me. make it 👏 make 👏 sense 👏.

i'm mad and i'm not even american, i'm italian. so you'll probably be like "girl why do you care? what's it to you?". well there's a whole world outside of the USA, MAGA is an international movement and many italians embrace that ideology and idolise trump, far-right politicians currently in power included. this means i'm gonna be directly fucked by the result of this election for a multitude of reasons. for example, the right to abortion in italy has been at constant risk, the ultra catholic prolife associations are up giorgia meloni's ass (our fascist PM) and they are salivating at the prospect of a trump no exceptions 50-state abortion and contraception ban so they can replicate it here.

i have spent these past 4 years in the cesspool that is now twitter/x fighting extreme far-right propaganda, italian MAGAturds, fake news, russian propaganda, the 2020 big lie...only to now have trump in power AGAIN, with his slimy couch-fucker VP jd vance, fecking marjorie taylor green possibly in homeland security? the woman who 4 years ago tried to impeach biden even before he was sworn in office??? jewish space lasers marjorie? that uneducated, conspiracy nut blonde TWAT?

i've CONSUMED myself for us as a collective, for a better propaganda and conspiracy-free world. nobody made me do it, i chose to because I CARE. i've fact-checked disinformation into oblivion. for 4 years. and this is what i get. the party with a president who tried to overturn an election and incited an insurrection to stay in power, is back in the white house. everything i and others did was for nothing. you legitimated the big lie. you legitimated january 6th.

i get my fecking trump wannabe salami-kisser VP dressing up in a black dress suit with a red tie as an omage to his orange yam jesus, to mock the opposition. women getting r*pe threats on social media. after everything this is what i get. it's their gloating that i can't stand. my ego can't take it. people are gonna die and they're gleeful about it because they have defeated the "woke virus" and "owned the libs" and the "zecche comuniste" italian for "communist ticks" it's a dispregiative for left-wingers. all achieved with YOUR HELP.

and don't even start with "but the gRocErY pRiCeS and iNfLaTiOn and palestine" nah fuck you. with trump everything is gonna be worse and you actually had the balls to risk the lives of women, of immigrants, of the lgbtq+, and the bpoc community, ukrainians & palestinians, for what...for putin's puppet's false promise of cheaper eggs and gas? for "teaching the dems a lesson"? fuck 👏 you 👏 all the way to HELL.

i've always said that the left will be its own ruin, both in the usa and in italy and i keep being proven right, and the problem lies in us the electorate. time to stop blaming our own dem parties and start to realise that being a left-winger is hard, that the left has many nuances and this means we can't always get everything we want and we gotta compromise. when you have a fascist political candidate on one side and a not so perfect but competent and decent candidate on the other, you don't like them, but the other guy is a FASCIST...you have to compromise. you didn't and you've made the same mistake the italians made two years ago.

those on the right are lucky they have no such problems, they only need to hate everyone who isn't a white, cis, straight, christian individual (man) and they'll all ride in the sunset together forever.

instead of playing the blame game and saying that you were forced to not vote/vote another/if only it was another canditate/if only this/if only that blah blah excuses excuses, start to man-up and accept the responsibility of your shitty self-sabotaging choices.

you've fucked around and you'll find out, enjoy and appreciate joe biden & kamala harris whilst you still have them in the presidency, you ungrateful backstabbers. you've had it so good these past four years and don't even realise it.

and just to be clear, i do believe there was fraud in this election. numbers not numbering, musk and russia interference and all of that, but i don't wanna be a conspiracy turd. hence this ⬆️

time for bed so i'll leave you with a quote:

"Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up is unforgivable. We all get knocked down, but the measure of our character is how quickly we get back up" - Joe Biden.

time to fight bitches.

[procastersleep]

stupid us election rant below

struggling to maintain empathy for american liberals right now when all i am seeing is them blame and whinge and whine about "third-party voters" and evil leftists 😠😠. saw someone genuinely blame chappel roan for trumps win. HUH???? HUHHH??? pigs will fly before they accept that their special, girlboss, slay queen party are a bunch of pro-war, neoliberal grifters who could not actually give a single shit about most americans in this election because they were too busy holding hands with the Cheneys and sucking the toes of any republican voter they dreamt MIGHT vote for them. the harris campaign was an abysmal failure that the entire world now has to pay the price for and american liberals are too busy shouting at this imaginary mass of leftists to realise that the tiny percentage of actual leftists are the only people who are trying to fix this. like they are arguing with THIN AIR. THIS MASSIVE INFLUENTIAL LEFTIST VOTER BASE DOESNT EXISTTTT. i WISH it fucking did oh my god maybe then we wldnt b in this position. i get he's their president, but we all have to fucking deal with the consequences and people will die GLOBALLY. like shut the fuck up unless you're mad at the democrats, educate yourselves, join a union and most importantly organise with your community jesus christ

[apilgrimpassingby]

Jargon Explainer for This Post

Christology

Chalcedonianism: The Christology held to by the vast majority of Christians - Christ has two natures, divine and human, and these are inseparably conjoined, but nonetheless there remains a real distinction between them. This contrasts with...

Nestorianism: A heretical Christology that makes a strong separation of the human and divine natures; for example, a Nestorian could say that Jesus died on the Cross, or even that Christ died on the Cross, but not that God the Son died on the Cross. This is heretical for several reasons, but the most obvious is this - if God the Son did not die, then only the human nature died for us, and so the Incarnation was kind of pointless.

Monophysitism: This term covers two Christologies. Firstly, the heterodox (but not, in my opinion, heretical) Christology of Miaphysitism, which states that Christ had one nature, which was both divine and human, and secondly, Eutychianism, a heretical Christology that states that Christ's divinity wholly swallowed up His humanity, to the point that He had no real humanity. This is heretical for several reasons, but the most obvious is that, if Christ was just God in a human suit, the Incarnation was kind of pointless.

Sacramentologies

Lutheran Sacramentology: Baptism with water is united to baptism with the Holy Spirit, and the bread and wine to the Body and Blood of Christ, to such an extent that whosoever receives one receives the other. Lutherans believe in consubstantiation; Christ is bodily present "in, with and under" (to use Luther's formulation) the bread and wine, and the Sacrament is both bread and wine and the Body and Blood of Christ.

Roman Catholic Sacramentology: Much the same as the above, with the difference that they believe in transubstantiation - the essence (or substance) of bread and wine is replaced with the essence of the Body and Blood of Christ, such that it ceases to have anything other than the appearance of bread and wine.

Orthodox Sacramentology: Orthodox don't like theological theories, but their view is very close to the Lutheran view.

(It's worth interjecting that all these positions would state that God is bound to but not bound by the Sacraments - it's possible for unbaptised people to be saved, and for people to receive Christ without the Eucharist, even if that's an abnormal situation).

Reformed Sacramentology: Baptism with water is united with baptism with the Holy Spirit, and the bread and wine to the Body and Blood of Christ, but not to such an extent that whosoever receives one receives the other - only the elect receive the divine elements of the Sacraments. Reformed believe in spiritual presence; Christ's divine nature is present in the Eucharist, but not His human nature, and hence He is spiritually but not bodily present in the Sacrament.

Baptist Sacramentology: Baptism with water is separate from baptism with the Holy Spirit, and the bread and wine from the Body and Blood of Christ, to such an extent that receiving one is no guarantee of receiving another. While some Baptists affirm that the Sacraments are means of grace, pretty much all of them would deny that Christ is specially present in the Eucharist or that baptism saves.

[itsyourchoicedevotionals]

Tell Them The Truth

“I tell you, No; but unless you repent (change your mind for the better and heartily amend your ways, with abhorrence of your past sins), you will all likewise perish and be lost eternally.” Luke 13:3AMPC

Someone came to Jesus with a ‘did you hear’ message. Whomever the bearer of tidings was, they came not only with the message, but evidently had a question….. ‘Were these people evil to have received this horrible death?’

In verses2-5 Jesus proceeds to tell them, ‘people are going to die. It’s satan’s payoff for serving him. You’ll get the same payoff, if you keep sinning and not turning to the Lord.

Society today is riddled with auto accidents, murders, death by disease-neglect-lack of help. Death is everywhere we look. There’s also sorrow, grief, and pain causing seemingly decent people suffering without relief. We can mourn with those who are mourning. But much kinder to them is whenever possible tell them the truth. Jesus chose to tell those listening to Him— ‘repent. If we don’t repent the same fate awaits everyone who sins— death and hell for eternity.’

I know I’ve been hitting the negative hard lately. It’s become more and more astounding to me as I discover that much of the church-going-Christians don’t believe the Bible is totally true. Some don’t believe in satan being an actual being: in hell being actually a real place: in the fact God will allow people to enter hell by their own choice: in the anti-christ trying to takeover planet earth: nor that God’s love doesn’t supersede and override a person’s choice to sin and not caring about heaven or hell.

Recently a family member— a lady I highly regard and love— lay in the hospital dying, unless she had a miracle. All I could see was, if she didn’t live, she’d end up in hell. Sweet, kind, generous, loving, helpful always didn’t add up to being born again. Often I’d tried to tell her about Jesus, to lead her to salvation. After God so graciously heard my prayer and allowed her to live, I became very up-front-in-the-face — ‘Sweet lady, had you died you would be in hell. God allowed you to live in order to give you another chance to accept Jesus as your Lord.’ I gave her the sinners’ prayer. Her choice for Jesus isn’t an option to me— it’s a necessity.

What will we do when we see war on our soil? We’ve got a Chinese and terrorist army both right here in our land now. This week they were given the right to bear arms as illegal aliens. War is a perfect way to prevent an election.

What will we do when we see people dropping like flies with the disease X? The WHO has already announced it’s going to be a major player in deaths this fall. They ruined one election with a disease.

Wake up. Pray! “If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2Chronicles 7:14NIV. When we repent and seek the Lord, He promises to remove the evil consequences from our land. We will be able to speak to the lost in order to not see as many of those we love die, knowing they’re going to a sinners’ hell.

Are the lost important to you? Is this nation important to you? It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: LORD God the world is lost and dying and we’re not caring for the lost, trying to win them as we should. Help us to awake from our apathy, to repent, to pray, and to live with You, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

by Debbie Veilleux Copyright 2024 You have my permission to repost this devotional for others. Please keep my name with this devotional, as author. Thank you.

[puckrph]

SHIT MY FRIENDS HAVE SAID PART 5

feel free to change pronouns, etc.

“i’m serving only the coldest, stalest opinions in this chilis tonight.” “this man is girlbossing WAY too close to the sun right now, which is bad, because he’s a vampire.” “he looks like if they peeled the grinch.” “i wish desolation row gerard way had me by the throat for real” “absolutely insane in shows and movies when people don’t have their window screens down. you’re just raw dogging life like that?” “it’s not sadistic if your players can take it.” “i’m doing this all in the service of the christian god, so it’s fine.” “wine-horny is what the fuck or die trope is about.” “it’s hot gay serial killer vampire summer” “[in a yoda voice] MMM. CUNT, THEY ARE SERVING.” “boytoy, enable kill mode.” “your father eats tomatoes like a beast of a man.” “you fool. my muppet-like behavior has blinded you to my competency.” “you people need to calm down.” “you know it’s a good joke when i start whimpering like a hurt dog.” “i’m insulted to my core. are you questioning my patriotism? my dedication to this country? my belief that the american dream is witnessing two f-150’s making passionate love on 690? i’ll have your badge and your head, [NAME].” “your influence is both vast and perplexing.” “putting your blood through a brita filter is discount dialysis.” “people is like sauce: more is better.” “hell would be more fun than this, i think.” “hard to believe the same studio made two games where you get to run around, steal vehicles, and be an asshole, if you want.” “pda stands for people doing atheism.” “first of all, through the power of keanu reeves all things are possible, so jot that down.” “i don’t feel like his name should be david. i feel like it should be… giancarlo.” “you aren’t laughing or loving this, and soon you won’t be living either!” “did i ever tell you about the dream i had where baljeet from phineas and ferb got lightning powers and fought in the clone wars.” “everyone is bullying so much about cooking meat that i simply must become vegan.” “i’m gonna deep clean you out of my life.” “the only difference between a twink and a frat boy is a limp wrist.” “he’s right, of course, i am going to do that. but still.” “what is a roommate if not blorbo from your house?” “i just realized that i’m going to medieval times for the first time on the destiel putin election anniversary. none of those words are in the king james bible. how am i going to cope.” “body dysmorphia? yes, but you can hang dong like nobody’s business.” “he can’t do anything wrong, he’s too cute.” “so many people eat an orange normally. isn’t it better, really, to do it like a weirdo?” “i’m probably in the top 98th percentile of pez dispenser information knowers by the way. most don’t know that about me.” “there is always further to fall from god’s grace.” “jesus is rizzin’?? amogus???” “you think i could gauge the emotions or feeling of any human beings in high school?” “sorry, the coffee never actually kicked in so i’m stupid now.” “the bar for men is so low. just be fun, slay, and be a little fruity!” “i feel like JC probably has some hilarious lines in the quran.” “side note: does anyone else initially read FMA as ‘fuck my alchemist.’” “astigmatism is when you have an eye issue and stigmata is when you have the wounds of christ, right? because i was at the eye doctor and he said ‘looks like we need to correct a stigmata in your eye’ and i was like come again?” “surely the micro plastics and lead cancel each other out, you’ll be fine.” “schrodinger’s sports call: the call exists in a quantum state of correct and bullshit until i figure out how it affects my guys.” “oh, tom waits makes some good songs. he just sounds like a gravel beach got a wish to become a real boy.”

[arcplaysgames]

Actually, no. lemme recap now because I bet once I meet the Big Bad and beat them it'll be like 2 hours of cutscenes and dialogue.

Where did I leave off-- REALLY? THAT LONG AGO? FUCK ME.

Okay SOMEONE remind me LATER to sum up Empress, because I completed it. Note to self, it's around 12/2 in your screencaps.

So Shido wins the elections because it turns out that no one saw the Thieves' big calling card for him, and those who did didn't remember it. There is obviously Some Shit going on with people's mass apathy syndrome.

Because Persona only has one theme and it's "people will be too lazy to pay attention to the truth, fucking sheeple," I guess.

/clucks tongue. I'm not really impressed by this turn of the story, I'm kinda Over the slow increase in apathy that winds up being the undoing of the world until we beat up a god and save everyone. This is the third time, I would have shaken shit up by having the Hidden Big Bad send the Thieves a calling card, demanding they come protect their Treasure, and then you meet the Big Bad and just gimme a villain with a motive, goddamn. It's a supernatural story, the sky's the limit!

I shouldn't kvetch too much yet. Anyway, Shido admits to his crimes, but the populace doesn't seem to care and still supports him.

Shido's lackeys basically go "okay Shido had a major meltdown buuuuuut we can still carry his agenda forward bc if we don't, we're all going down with the ship here."

Excellent question. In P4G I had a pretty strong idea what was doing that and here I do not, can y'all drop some hints?

Morgana points out that the general public has a Palace and has a Treasure. It's Mementos. So if the crew wants to force a mass shift in the world's perception, they can do that. But like all other Palaces, when the Treasure is taken, Mementos will collapse, to be replaced with new, corrected cognition.

In the process, the crew will lose their powers. Oh and Morgana is gonna die.

The game hasn't said that part yet but if they didn't kill Ryuji, they're gonna kill Morgana, fucking bet.

I love you, Morgana Notacat.

This was actually where I got my idea of what Morgana is. Morgana's upgraded Persona is Mercurius/Hermes. Yanno, the god of messages, of thieves, of swiftness, and well-known classic psychopomp.

Morgana keeps remembering himself being born in Mementos. He's without a doubt some manifestation of humanity's rebellion against systems, the literally cognitive patron saint of Phantom Thieves. He's a mascot in the most literal sense, an emblem of good luck for the Thieves' work.

Even the fact he's a cat kind of fits in nicely. Cats are free spirits who opt-into being it other people. They are creatures of choice.

I'm gonna be big sad when Morgana fucking dies lemme tell you. I'm pretty sure he's, like, sustained by Mementos and the plan is to collapse it? Yeah, Morgana is fucked.

Goddamn HERMES, that's so cool. Morgana, our psychopomp into the bowels of the collective unconsciousness.

GODDAMIT NOTIGOR WHAT DO YOU WANT, IT IS CHRISTMAS FUCKING EVE, YOU BETTER GIMME PRESENTS.

I know that you know that we all know that this isn't Igor but sometimes it fucking floors me how much he isn't Igor, jesus fucking christ. Who tf is this guy. I hope he's the Big Bad somehow bc there ain't anyone else at this point.

Please don't pull another It Was The Gas Station Attendant, Persona, I'm fucking on my knees begging you.

lmao i love the game poking the player to ensure they noticed Morgana is acting odd

Deep in Mementos is... this..... uh..... thing. A bunch of otherworldly veins flowing down into the core.

/looks nervously around

so uh. is it a hot take to say that, uh, the last segment of this game here, the Mementos Depths, is the ugliest place in the game? Just wondering because wow working through this place, I was struck by how completely aesthetically unappealing all of this is. It should be mysterious and eerie but mostly I am finding it.... blurgh. I thought Kaneshiro's Palace was pretty unappealing too, but this is bad enough I feel the need to remark on it.

/gestures at screen. What is all this????? oh god it reminds me of the Collector Base in Mass Effect 2. Except that game came out in 2010 for the previous generation console. /winces

Anyway.

The Depths of Mementos is a prison of complacency.

All of the Shadows the Thieves defeated are in the prison cells. They are relieved to be there, where they don't have to think. Everything is taken care of for them.

Man, remember back in Persona 3 when it turned out that defeating all the Full Moon shadows was actually the thing that doomed the world? Wouldn't it be hilarious is the Thieves fucked all this up the whole time? l m a o.

I honestly don't know if that's what's happening here yet, I haven't reached, like, the Explanation, but it does feel a bit like alllllllll the way back at the start of the liveblog when I was contending with the ethics of the entire idea of stealing someone's heart and what it does. The game went out of its way to justify doing it with Shido's attempted suicide, but the bridge to far for me (and thankfully for Ann too) was killing these people.

But now what happens seems to be akin to ego death instead, and.... I dunno, man, is that much different than murder?

SIGHS LOUDLY

okay is that true or is this another fucking situation where Izanami is like "WELL REALLY when you THINK ABOUT IT all I'm doing is giving humanity what they really want soooooooooo it makes you think huh, doesn't it make you think"

MAYBE THE GAME WILL PROVE ME WRONG, I DUNNO YET.

oh my god. oh my god.

IGOR!!!!!!!! IGOR IS IN THERE!!!!

LEMME IN!!!!!! LEMME IIIIIIIIN I NEED TO SEE HIMMMMM I NEED TO TALK TO HIM I MISS HIM sobs

yeah no, bet, it's igor's cell. which means Notigor locked him up? maybe Notigor is the final boss, that'd be great, it'd slot in perfectly with this place being a prison and Reverie having been stuck in the shitty Velvet Prison this whole time.

please igor help me, i'm so tired of the edgelord execution shit.

PSYCHOPOMP MORGANA!!!!!!!!!!

me pressing my face against the bars whispering I'll be back for you igor i love you

lol what if it isn't even igor in there can you imagine

[creativewaygrace]

Bible Verses on False Prophets

1 Corinthians 14:33- Since God is not a God of disorder but of peace.

1 John 4:1- Dear friends, do not believe every spirit but test the spirits to see if they are from God because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 Corinthians 11:13- For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

2 Peter 2:1- There were indeed false prophets among the people just as there will be false teachers among you. They will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them and will bring swift destruction on themselves.

2 Peter 2:2- Many will follow their depraved ways, and the way of truth will be maligned because of them.

2 Peter 2:3- They will exploit you in their greed with made-up stories. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

2 Timothy 4:3- For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear.

Colossians 2:18- Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elements of the world, rather than Christ.

Deuteronomy 18:20- But the prophet who presumes to speak a message in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

Ezekiel 13:6- They saw false visions and their divinations were a lie. They claimed, "This is the Lord's declaration, "When the Lord did not send them, they waited for the fulfillment of their message.

Ezekiel 13:9- My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. They will not be present in the council of my people or be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, and they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:18- Her prophets plaster them whitewash by seeing false visions and lying divinations, saying "This is what the Lord God says, when the Lord has not spoken.

Isaiah 8:20- Go to God's instruction and testimony: If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

Jeremiah 14:14- But the Lord said to me, "These prophets are prophesying a lie in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying a false vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.

Jeremiah 23:16- This is what the Lord of Armies says: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are deluding you. They speak of visions from their own minds, not from the Lord's mouth.

Jeremiah 5:31- The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?

John 14:6- Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jude 1:4- For some people, who were designated for this judgment long ago, have come by in stealth, they are ungodly, turning the grace of our Lord into sensuality and denying Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.

Lamentations 2:14- Your prophets saw visions for you that were empty and deceptive, they did not reveal your iniquity and so restore your fortunes. They saw pronouncements for you that were empty and misleading.

Luke 6:26- Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for this is the way their ancestors used to treat the false prophets.

Mark 13:22- For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and will perform signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible the elect.

Matthew 24:11- Many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.

Matthew 24:24- For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible even the elect.

Matthew 7:15- Be on your guard against false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravaging wolves.

Matthew 7:21- "Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord: will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Revelation 13:14- It deceives those who live on earth because of the signs that it is permitted to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

Revelation 19:20- But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with it the false prophet, who had performed the signs in its presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshipped its image with these signs. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burned with sulfur.

Revelation 2:20- But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 20:10- The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Romans 16:18- Because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

[dollycas]

The Sunday Salon is a Facebook group that has become an informal week-in-review gathering place for bloggers. It is also a place to share our thoughts about things of a bookish nature. You can also link up weekly on Readerbuzz. The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received, and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE! On Tuesday I had a 6-month follow-up appointment with my oncologist. Everything checked out great and I was in a fantastic mood. Then, like many, I felt like I was punched in the gut and run over by a bus when the election results came in. Funny everyone said it would take days to get results, but our fate was sealed within a few hours. I have studied Project 2025 and as someone on Medicare and Social Security, I am very concerned. Also, after losing an adult child to suicide I receive emails from different prevention groups, and the number of gay and trans people taking their lives is increasing every day. People are updating the visas, and so many people who have lived here for years working to obtain citizenship are scared about being rounded up, put into camps, and deported. Women are being treated as property with the "Your Body, My Choice" movement, let alone fearing a nationwide abortion ban, a birth control ban, and IVF being challenged. Black people are receiving racist text messages about working on a plantation picking cotton. Add to that worry over how the new administration will handle the wars in Ukraine and Israel. No candidate is perfect but I never imagined I would see "Christians" cheering for very unlike Jesus behavior and a convicted rapist and con man who has shared confidential information with our enemies and other crimes sitting behind the resolute desk. I know inflation is still a problem, the border needs more control, there is a housing shortage, and there are other things to figure out but weighing what we are going to live with or die with now did our country make the right decision? We will see. We traveled about 3 hours away Friday night for the Cardinals Regional playoff game. The boys gave it everything they had and more but ended their season with a heartbreaking 29-28 loss. It was a fantastic season with 11 wins and just this one tough loss. There were tears shed but they have some wonderful memories from this year as do all the people who showed up every week to see them play and cheer them on. For Juniors like Kaden, the Varsity team has only lost 3 games in their high school careers and they should be just as strong next year. Kaden doesn't play a Winter sport so he will be hitting the weight room and getting ready for Track & Field in the Spring. As you know, I am beyond proud of my Kaden. How was your week? Weekly Rewind- November 4 - 9, 2024 Monday - My Reading Itinerary Monday! – Week #45 – 2024 Tuesday - Death Scene (A Witch City Mystery) by Carol J. Perry #Spotlight / #Giveaway @KensingtonBooks #caroljperryauthor Wednesday - Cozy Wednesday featuring Gingerbread Danger (An Amish Candy Shop Mystery) by Amanda Flower #Review / #Giveaway @KensingtonBooks @aflowerwriter Thursday - Special Guest Jane Ellyson – Author of Alone with a Tasman Tiger (Chic Charlie) #GuestPost / #Review / #Giveaway – Great Escapes Book Tour @JaneEllysonAuthor Friday - #FlashbackFriday – Murder at the Library: A North Dakota Library Mystery by Ellen Jacobson #Review / #Giveaway Saturday - Saturday Giveaway – Murder in Berkeley Square (The Lady Worthing Mysteries) by Vanessa Riley #Spotlight / #ARCGiveaway @KensingtonBooks @VanessaRileyAuthor Find a fun book to escape into this week! Your Escape Into A Good Book Travel Agent Read the full article

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Punjabi - Bandaee Khalsae of MunnMukh Lala Banda Bahadur ParMeena Sodhi Punjabi - Bandaee Khalsae of MunnMukh Lala Banda Bahadur Sodhi Khatri ParMeena greater than Lala Prithvi Chand Sodhi Khatri. https://youtu.be/546DvBSShy4 Why did Sachae Patshah Gobind Singh Ji and His Tatt Khalsas never enter the Holiest of the Holy Amritsar Complex? https://youtu.be/2UYYQ-5tKTI The description is too long. I have the full on my website:- www.gnisticgospel.co.uk/GobindAmrit.htm There are four spiritual states called “BIRTTIS” in Punjabi:- Ego called Humae in Punjabi and Khudi in Urdu, Mind called Munn in Punjabi and Nafs in Urdu, Wisdom called Budhi in Punjabi and Akall in Urdu and Will called Chitt Birti or Padh in Punjabi and Al-Haam in Urdu. Based upon these spiritual states, there are FOUR Communities, Panths, Millats or Samaj. 1. The First community in which their Ego in Brahma, Khudah, Yahweh, etc. is boosted is called Hindu in India and Jew in the Middle East. Their intake is once-born children who are first taught the Moral Laws of Moses and Ram Chander Ji, Muryada Parshotam Avtars of “Vishnu” for social affairs and Lord Krishna and King David Neeti Parshotam Avtars of “Shiv”, Prophets, of political affairs as they grow up and their Ego is so fully boosted that they are ready to die for their country or called “Shiv Sena”. Those who have over powered their Ego and learn about our Supernatural Father of our supernatural “souls” in which we have One Father and we are all his spiritual Sons, the moral teachers would introduce to them the Spiritual Principles, “His Word” of our Supernatural Father and this is the knowledge of the Oral Torah = His Will, “Inshallah”, the Taproot of the Tree of Life, the Scriptures; “Vaedon Mae Naam Uttam”. In this, our Most Merciful, Al-Rahim, Supernatural Father Allah, Elohim, Parbrahm, etc. is reminded of Righteousness and to love God through His creation in Agape which is much greater than your own love for the tribal people in Eros. As a Tree is known by its fruit so is the quality of the Moral Teacher through his students as demonstrated by the Samaritan man who picked up the wounded person and looked after him on a philanthropic basis, “Agape”, whereas the dead in the letters Pharisee and Sadducees passed by in Eros. Thus, the Deliverer of the “Oral Torah” Christ Jesus was much needed by the “Saltless” Jewish people than the Samaritans and Gentiles, “His Fold”. Out of the ten lepers that Christ Jesus cured, only the Samaritan man of “Salt” returned to thank Jesus. Thus, the Samaritan people of Joseph were faithful to Abraham and Yahweh, sons of Man, Bandae dae Puttar, and didn’t need the Spiritual Doctor Christ Jesus so much as the “Saltless” unfaithful to Abraham and Yahweh needed. They rather loved “Darkness” and killed him. Today, they are getting bundled up for the FINAL BURNING through the Atomic War as predicted by Christ Jesus in Matthew 13v24-30. About this, Christ Jesus said in Matt.24.22; "And unless those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved; but for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened". I expect the ATOMIC WAR on 14/05/2025 when Israel is 77 (70 + 7 Menorah) years old. Our Father knows BETTER. 2. When the Rabbis had become crooks and started twisting the moral laws to suit their whims, the people were highly cheated. Then, the very Son of Elohim appears to redeem the victims of the Rabbis/Brahmins, the Gentiles as Simeon in the Temple stressed, a Light for the Gentiles. Thus, the First Christ = Satguru came to the Middle East to introduce the Royal Kingdom of God that has a low for the humble like Lazarus and narrow for solitary masters of their own destinies as the Sadhus, Melchizedek. To be spiritually twice-born, you must first be faithful to your tribal father as the Samaritans were the faithful sons of Brahma, Yahweh, Khudah, etc. Bandae Dae Puttar, sons of Shiva, KACHA PEO to Serve ParShiv Sachae Patshah Gobind Singh Ji, PAKKA PEO as His Purely Spiritual Khalsa Soldiers to establish the RULE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS in which the ego of serving Shiv is changed to ParEgo of serving the ParShiv Royal King Sachae Patshah Gobind Singh Ji of the Third Khalsa Panth of Khalas, “NIRMAL”, Men (Puritans) and not women, THE SHAKTI – MAI BHAGO. Thus, TANN, PHYSICAL BODY IS CLEANSED NIRMAL WITH WATER, the tribal father and Munn, mind, Nafs, heart, etc. with His Word delivered by Christ Jesus and Satguru Nanak Dev Ji of the Bhagti Marag in which we are all, friends or enemies, the Sons of God Parbrahm, Elohim, Allah, etc. and in which case we hate none and love all in Agape called “Prem” as demonstrated by Bhai Ghaniyia Ji who gave the First Aid to everyone in the Battle of the Khalsas against the tyrants. Of those Khalsas who wanted to Preach the Gospel, they were ...... My ebook. ASIN: B01AVLC9WO www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/JAntisem.htm M Books:- ONE GOD ONE FAITH:- www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/bookfin.pdf Punjabi www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/pdbook.pdf EXPOSES KHATRIS:- Punjab Siyan. Trinity:- www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/trinity.pdf ...

[leonbloder]

An Election Day Message

Today is Election Day, and I will do my best to eloquently discuss the importance of voting and civic engagement as both a privilege and a responsibility, especially for those who say they follow Jesus.  

Let's be clear: Jesus never said a thing about voting.  

He said many things that were considered political, however. Every time he talked about the Kingdom of God, he made what amounted to a political statement because he compared the kingdoms of this world to God's kingdom. 

But the Apostle Paul had a great deal to say about what it meant to be a citizen of the Kingdom of God and a citizen of whatever earthly kingdom was in power. 

For Paul, Christians needed to be the best citizens they could be.  He exhorted early Christians to be good neighbors, to obey the laws of Rome (as long as they did not violate the higher laws of love), and to do everything they could to live peaceably with everyone. 

Paul responded to a genuine issue that early Christians faced in the first century.  

Because they did not partake in the "cult of the Emperor," which demanded the Emperor be worshipped like a god and also had what were considered secretive rites and rituals (Holy Communion), early Christians were often persecuted, not by the Roman Empire, but by their neighbors. 

Paul's exhortations amounted to a call to a higher level of citizenship, as long as participation did not cause them to violate their beliefs and principles.  

He wrote that IF respect and honor were due to the earthly powers that be, Christians should afford them that.  The key word there was "if."  

Paul was all too aware that the Emperor of Rome at the time was a despotic, narcissistic, and undoubtedly insane ruler named Nero. Nero encouraged and demanded that he be worshipped like a god.  

History teaches that many Christians in the Roman Empire found ways to pray for the Emperor even if they were not willing to pray to the Emperor. They could participate in festivals with their neighbors without eating meat purchased from pagan temples. 

They acted with kindness and mercy to their neighbors, they cared for people during plagues at risk to their own lives, and they rescued baby girls who were left to die of exposure by their parents who didn't want them, among many other things.  

Sometimes, Christians even served in high-ranking positions within the Empire itself. 

I've said all that to say this: If early Christians had been given the right to vote (no one voted for leaders in the Roman Empire; they were all appointed), the Apostle Paul would have most certainly encouraged them to exercise that right and to do it as good citizens. 

I can only guess that Paul would have also encouraged them to use their vote to further the common good, vote for candidates of upright character, and do their best to vote their conscience, which ought to be grounded in the shalom or peace of God's kingdom.  

So, if you still need to vote, get out there today and make it happen.  The Apostle Paul would likely approve of it. 

I came across this quote from the late David Foster Wallace, who wrote about the importance of voting:  

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical…"

We have seen this happen in our country for many years since Wallace wrote this.  He goes on to say: 

"In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”

So, if you don't want to double the value of "some Diehard's vote," make sure you cast yours today.  

Happy Election Day!  

May it be decided by tonight or tomorrow at the latest and not be dragged on and on.  Can I get a witness?  

And may the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us all, now and forever. Amen.