And he would still be wasting taxpayers money for being alive.
This verse is in the Old Testament. Who is the God in the Old Testament?
Second verse.
Colossians 2:8 (NET)
Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Early church father Origen of Alexandria wrote a rebuttal of Celsus's accusations against Christianity. One accusation was that Christians run a "secret system", which was that the multitude was taught the entry-level teachings, while the inner circle of Christians were taught the mysteries and wisdom of God. The multitude was the gentiles, who were pagans before their conversion. These people, with their pagan mindsets, were incapable of comprehending the higher reality of the soul.
For your information, the NET bible translates Col 2:6 as:
Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
And the footnotes explained the rationale of such a translation.
Now what do you think are the "empty, deceitful philosophies"? What do you think are the "elemental spirits of the world"?
Got Questions describes it as the "hawking basic worldly ideas about religion and trying to pass them off as truth... whether it be rituals, asceticism, or observance of rules".
There more I read, the more I think that Paul was actually warning against the Christians of today.
The discovery of the beliefs of the disciples who walked and talked personally with Jesus, and the subsequent developments of Christian doctrines over the centuries, have prompted me to leave the orthodox tenets of belief.
What was spoken by God is not the same as what was recorded to the books by men. The Bible has warned against the scribes distorting the law (Jeremiah 8:8) and those who read the scripture in a literal way (2 Corinthians 3:6).
Languages are made by men and are imperfect vehicles in carrying the word of God. If you want to understand the word you must go beyond the written letters.
For those who said the Q source movement is a conspiracy to undermine the faith in God, ask yourself:
- Why did this authority suppress Christians, then suddenly embrace it later?
- Why did they decide to exclude certain books from the canon?
- What happened to those who believed other than what the authority dictates?
- Why were people still murdered for their beliefs after Christianity became official?
- What beliefs have been erased by this authority?
- Why is this authority desperate to retake control after multiple schisms?
- Is this authority faithful to God?
Serving an earthly authority over God is apostasy. And going further by proclaiming the earthly authority as true while attacking the true servants of God is inversion i.e. Satanism.
Before the KJV was the Geneva Bible, which was probably the first bible to be translated by a committee, instead of a single person or any religious authority. It contained many marginal notes aimed at explaining the meaning of the verses and facilitating its understanding.
https://www.apuritansmind.com/puritan-worship/the-geneva-bible/
if you can pick and choose what scriptures are truth
4th century Rome actually did.
Japan has a stronger Q following than America does
What do you think could be a reason for that?
Remember the golden cross in Notre Dame?
My very short answer:
- Paul warned the followers of Christ that willfully sin after coming to the knowledge of the Gospel message could not be restored again to repentance. They will be punished harder than those who never knew Christ.
- Jesus was declared the Son of God on the day of his baptism. God said to him “Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee”.
- “Life insurance” really doesn’t insure you but your relatives. A true “Life insurance” is following The Way and the two are not in conflict with each other.
- The bible does not explicitly say when you will reap what you have sowed. But other events documented in the bible suggest it could happen in anytime.
- The original word of Hell in Greek is Gehenna, which used to be a real fire pit for burning bodies. Jesus used this word as a metaphor for annihilation. This world is not to be confused with another word Sheol (Hades in Greek) which means “grave”.
Isn't there a rule that the government can't do what the Constitution doesn't say?
Edit: Yes. It is in the 10th Amendment.
Next: legalize the shooting down of chemtrail planes.
The inflation target should always be zero.
There is a whole article on Saint Germain. Spare some time to read it:
Tick-tock. 40 days till Ascension.
You probably haven't heard of it because it didn't make it to the canon 17 centuries ago.
There are two ways, one of life and one of death, and there is a great difference between these two ways. (Didache 1:1)
Anyone who knows why the US didn't move to the silver standard when silver price hit $1.29 in the 1960s
It is not the first time Rome syncretized religions.
Happy spring equinox day!
And VKontakte.
What would natural law look like if it were codified?
Background?
Why is Cupid so dumb?