Posted on 09/20/2006 10:14:32 AM PDT by Buggman
We'll just have to accept that as one of my many personal quirks, and move on.
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I happen to love you deeply quirks and all.
Some of the quirks are quite loveable, even.
I think "bogus"
hereon
tends to be like "beauty"
. . . in the eyes of the beholder.
I've asked my Lord if I may speak Hebrew when I come into His House (; and to sing His Name so, all miraculous, all miraculous, all miraculous!
O tidings of the sweetness of the New Year rejoice your heart as you have kindled new rejoicing in mine in these reminders and declarations, in Truth, God's Son - O! what healing in the shelter of His Wings!
It's true that there is some debate about the pronunciation of Yeshua's Name, as the Greek Iesous can be used for either of two names. It is now generally accepted that Y'hoshua (Yoshua or Yehoshua, usually rendered Joshua in English) was the early Biblical pronunciation, but that the late Biblical name Yeshua (Jeshua) had come to replace it. Why? Simply because it was in the late Biblical period that the practice arose of not pronouncing the Tetragrammaton or even its shortened version Yah. Since pronouncing the name Y'hoshua classically (Yah-ho-shu-ah) would require pronouncing the Ineffible, Yeshua was the variant in common use during the Second Temple period.
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Works for me. Not that it's of any great theological consequence. But it's nice to see the evidence in such a logical, plausible way.
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They were also dealing with an entirely different set of circumstances than we are: They didn't have to deal with people mistaking Jewish men for Calvinists.
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Nor did they have to deal with people mistaking straining at gnats and swallowing camels for theological truth.
The error you make, TC, is in misapplying the rule, "Interpret the OT in the light of the New." You start in the NT, come to your conclusions, and then either ignore vast swaths of the Tanakh or twist them in order to fit the conclusions you've come to based on less than 20% of the available data.
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You put so well the truth I've been so troubled by for so long! LOL.
1Pe 3:14
But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
September 23 is my birthday and I expect to see a few more, lol.
A Christian believer will never be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The amusing thing is that reality always trumps belief.
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Yes, I just LOVE the realities affirming this era as the last days . . .
1. Israel a nation again in a day
2. Israel beset about by Russia, China (going into Lebanon), Persia, Egypt,
3. The whole world plagued by Jerusalem as with a millstone about it's neck
4. The technological means for the Mark of The Beast as never before in history the last 2,000 years.
5. The technological means for the whole world to see the 2 witnesses' bodies lying in the streets of Jerusalem for 3 days as never before in history the last 2,000 years.
6. Manmade and other signs in the heavens of multiple types and dramatic degrees--unreported at all in the last 2,000 years.
7. Record numbers of muslims turning to Christ as never before in the last many centuries.
8. Shell Oil discovering the Mt of Olives is increasingly cocked to split as the Bible declares when Christ's foot touches . . . as never reported before in the last 2,000 years.
9. Knowledge expanding and spreading far and wide as never before in the last 2,000 years.
10. Travel to and fro speedily upon the earth as never before in the last 2,000 years.
11. A truly global government to encompass every people group and geographic area on the whole planet is looming as never before in recorded history.
12. The global government is setting the stage to conspire toward the total destruction of Israel as predicted . . . and to a massive degree involving the whole world as never before in the last 2,000 years.
13. The global government is setting the stage as predicted to eradicate all other religions but the worship of its leader as predicted and as never seen before in the last 2,000 years.
14. Moscow is allied with the Arab world to eradicate Israel as never before in the last 2,000 years.
15. Israel has discovered vast reserves of oil and gas on the brink of being brought into production as Biblically predicted and as never before in the last 2,000 years.
16. The Biblically predicted population reduction is now horribly and methodically prepared and planned on a massive scale by various means as never before in the last 2,000 years.
17. At least One King of the East--China--has the means to field the military power--certainly via nukes--and somewhat conceivably by manpower--to impact the Middle East as never before in the last 2,000 years.
18. The United States has begun to loosen it's LIFE GRIP on Israel as never before since Israel's creation in 1948 but in step with Biblical predictions that God alone will be Israel's final protector and defender.
19. The stage is set for Israel as well as the planet to accept a deceptive man of peace who will wage war with peace as Israel's awaited Messiah--but as the Bible makes clear--the false Anti-Christ . . . all staged and ready as never before in the last 2,000 years.
20. A host of natural disasters appear to be primed, cocked, loaded, looming and clustered for an evidently not-to-distant triggering as never before in our awareness and certainly not in the last 2,000 years--including curioius things in the sun, itself.
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Yes, such REALITIES can be very affirming of Scriptural prophecies about the last days in our era.
Of course, I don't expect most of the Mooselimbs or other blind and stubborn folk to be much moved by such facts and realities.
I don't know. Plausible. I just haven't read them or researched them on the net.
There's much more. Am working on which to include in it's own thread.
Must you be so faithful in presenting the facts?
It's quite disturbing to those resistent to the truth!
You leave straw dogs, rabid dogs and lots of other nonsense no peace! Harumph!
You mean . . .
There's no red letter KJV words insisting that Believers ought to be called CALVINISTS????
Oh, Dear! What heresy! What travesty! What horror! What perdition! Whatever can we do!
How will all those angels on the heads of all those needles make do?
How will the planets still reside in their orbits?
How will the shorline continue to stop the seas?
How will the sun continue to shine?
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Your sweet Biblical wisdom is always soothing and calls to high standards I usually can only gaze at. But which I greatly appreciate.
LUB
A Christian believer will never be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Well, certainly God doesn't need the GPS to keep each believer's precise existential and other addresses firmly at hand.
Very comforting.
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
GPS is for designing crop circles and making the feeble-minded delirious.
AMEN Unto The Lord.
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I don't think the GPS has anything to do with AUTHENTIC crop circles. Hoaxers may use it.
What is an "authentic crop circle?"
One in which the nodes of the plants have been heated and often somewhat exploded by extremely brief microwaves; wherein within the circles there is a microdusting of extremely fine iron particles; and within the circles there's a significant difference in the magnatism of the soil vs outside the circle.
I think there are some other scientifically verified differences but those are the basic ones off the top of my head. This has been published in peer reviewed scientific journals, BTW.
The hoaxer's circles have none of the above.
That's just the military testing new weapons. better to aim them at cornstalks than our heads.
Conceivable . . .
There has been a report or two of an Air Force tech or some such putting a design in a scanner and pressing a button and a satellite creating the crop circle.
But there are far more reports and photos of light orbs of various sizes but basketball sized or smaller, usually--flitting quickly about creating the circles while observers watched.
And, there's a significant number of reports of UFO type craft being over the field while the circle was being created or shortly before or after.
Of course, all the above COULD still be military stuff.
But the best researcher in the field--Linda Moulton Howe doesn't think it's military. I think she'd believe that some might be, but not all.
Plasma technology, holograms, etc., there's a reason they call it "active denial technology".
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