I just trust God the Almighty ✝️. The rest is sideshow. Period. Then you won’t be disappointed.
It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in man. — Psalm 118:8
Now having said that, just a reminder that not all PSYOPS are necessarily bad. You can read here and decide for yourself.
I think there are a couple videos on YT about this place & other similar sites around the world explaining that they are actually pagan sacrificial sites - including use of infants. I’ll try to find them and link them here.
Mate, tell me about it! I ran into the same situation when trying to present the other side of the coin on a similar thread here. Many down-votes but little presentation of counter arguments. 🙁 Is this not the Great Awakening forum where robust discussions, pursuit of truths and understanding is what is all about?? 🔎
So readers should know the work being referred to is the Archko Volume. It is a 19th-century volume containing what purports to be a series of reports from Jewish and pagan sources contemporary with Jesus that relate to the biblical texts describing his life. What is especially interesting it is said that this work was subsequently shown to have been copied almost verbatim from "Ponce Pilate à Vienne," a short story by Joseph Méry published in Revue de Paris in 1837. You can look into it more at Wikipedia
Besides secular sources we can see early church writers (Origen, Josephus) are in agreement that Jesus’ appearance was less than desirable when reading the following scriptures:
For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. — Isaiah 53:2-3
You can read more on this exposition here.
Sorry folks don’t mean to party poop. Thought I I’ll just leave this here.
In 1988, an international team of scientific experts performed radiocarbon dating on snippets of the Shroud of Turin. The results showed that the famous cloth did not date back to the time of Christ’s crucifixion in the first century A.D. In fact, the cloth seemed to have been manufactured sometime between 1260 and 1390 A.D. The team concluded the Shroud was nothing more than a medieval hoax. — PBS “Secrets of the Dead - Shroud of Christ?” 2004
But rather Jesus’ appearance would have more likely resembled an early eastern Semitic man.
Assuming Jesus to be a native West Asian Galilean Semite, the study concluded in conjunction with Mark Goodacre that he would have appeared 'Middle Eastern' and his skin would have been "olive-coloured" and "swarthy". — BBC “Son of God” 2001 docuseries
Other than that, bravo AI. Fascinating. 👏
Your thoughts bring to mind these verses:
20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. 23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence. — Colossians 2:20-23
You have quoted many good applications of the scriptures. But I think you just started out with a wrong premise. I’m guessing you mistook my application of Matthew 10:34-36 as to burn bridges on every disagreements in life. Far from it. Lets be clear here. This concerns only important theological questions like for ex. is Jesus the Messiah or not? Even the early churches had ‘lost’ many brothers/sisters over the question of Christ (1 John 2:19).
I think Jesus didn’t advocate that but says:
Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household —(Matthew 10:34-36)
Dear Pedes and Frens in faith, please allow me to put this out there in a nutshell. I cannot speak for the others but I do know what the Bible scriptures says and doesn’t say. The word of God Almighty takes precedence over any man or movements of the day. Whatever anyone promises you of a ‘great awakening’ or a utopia will be surpassed by God’s promises by many magnitude over.
Having said that. It is the duty of those who follow Christ to be the ultimate sh*t stirrers in spreading the Good News of the impending Kingdom of God and his judgment upon the world. We will not achieve these objectives by sitting on our hands or unwilling to challenge others’ perspectives, or for fear of causing ‘disunity’ or ‘disharmony’ or ‘disturbing peace’. But through voluntary persuasion and sound reasoning - even if it means loosing friends and family.
At the end of the day the sh*t show that is Trump/Q-anon phenomenon won’t matter much - though fascinating as it is. The Kingdom of God WILL proceed exactly to the set timetable, regardless. This is the real Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming.
C’mon guys, the General, with over three decades in military intelligence up and down, doesn’t speculate. It just means he wants us to look into that direction. He’s handling us the piece(s) to solve the puzzle 🧩 🐸