Do Not Neglect Gathering Together

"And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing." Hebrews 10:24-25

Hebrews 10:25 only means that Christians should meet together regularly (specifically for encouragement and spurring on to good deeds)—not that the meeting together has to be convenient for large numbers, or that it has to be in a building designated for that purpose.

The government is not causing us to ignore the preaching of the Gospel by their unlawful restrictions. You do realize that many countries do not allow you to build such buildings (which should not exist in the first place; Jesus did not give His Bride a temple to worship in because we are that temple)? Believers in these countries do the same as in Scripture and meet from house to house. "Traditional" does not equal "biblical". Your experience of "church" does not translate to the biblical standard. Your creed, confession, catechism, constitution, statement of faith, system of theology, etc., must be filtered through the Bible—not the other way around. The Bible must be your absolute authority!

If Paul taught the same things in every congregation (assembly; gathering), then why is there such a huge disconnect between what we read in the Scripture and what we have experienced in our various denominations?

If you bother to look into this, you will discover that these departures began with the Early Church Fathers. Let's look at a few:

• The "fellowship" was "the breaking of bread." They came together over a full meal. How'd we get to tiny cups and wafers/crackers/pieces of bread, etc.? The meal was the focal point of their gathering; not a sermon.
• Baptism was done immediately on the spot (not by immersion; circumstantial evidence obliterates this imposition upon Scripture from an eisegetical reading of Romans 6:3-4), regardless of whether their profession was genuine of false. Why? Because baptism, like circumcision, is a sign/seal of being in covenant with God; it is a witness/testimony for or against us. The Early Fathers created longer and longer delays as well as ridiculous reasons as to why it should be postponed, such as whether or not you were married.
• Membership required only one thing: the indwelling Holy Spirit. This has changed over the centuries to the point where joining a "church" (a building, which is often nothing more than a corporation) is like joining a club. Jump through these hoops, agree to this nonsense, and you are in.

Stop ripping random, isolated verses of Scripture out of their immediate context and forcing your ideological beliefs and subjective experiences upon them! You are to conform yourself and your beliefs entirely to the Word of God. The Bible never conforms to you or your perverse desires!

Do You Think It Is Okay For Christians To Be Cremated?

The reason I ask is because years ago I heard Christians discussing it and condemning cremation. Their reason? Jesus would not be able to "rapture" you. Putting the unbiblical doctrine of the "Rapture" aside, there are several flaws with these people's thinking. How many Christians were burned alive for their beliefs? Are you honestly trying to tell me that these extremely devout Christians will not be in heaven simply because someone burned their bodies to nothing? How many Christians were blown to bits and pieces in modern wars? Are you honestly trying to tell me that these Christians will not be in heaven because their bodies were in pieces and much of them could not be found? What about Christians who lost limbs? Do you honestly think they will be resurrected and still be missing those limbs?

Clearly your biblical understanding is limited and extremely askew. Jesus created your body from the dust, and if to dust you returned (as the body does when it rots), He can certainly re-create your resurrected body (which He will have to do anyway since your body will not exist after decades and centuries).

"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body." (1 Corinthians 3:16-17)

Yes, our body is a temple, but I am afraid many Christians lack proper understanding of this verse and, like many others, rip it out of context to force it to mean whatever their wicked heart desires it to mean in the moment. If our body is a temple, what does that mean if a mortar shell explodes beside us and rips our body to shreds? Are we any less a temple of the Holy Spirit? "Oh no! Johnny got blown to bits and pieces by a nuke! Guess he's not indwelled by the Holy Spirit anymore. We won't be seeing him in Heaven."

Who says cremation is a "pagan" practice? Pagans buried bodies, too, especially certain types of burials that we seem to mimic. Maybe cremation was the new practice because they needed to preserve land since burial takes up so much space. If you take every graveyard across the world and put them together, how much space does that eat up? Maybe cremation was the new practice to thwart plagues and the like (especially when they did not bury them 6 ft deep). If Christians died from plagues, and their bodies had to be burned so that others would not get infected from it, does that mean that person is lost to history and will not be resurrected and in Heaven?

If from dust we came and to dust we will return, does it actually matter how we return to dust? Something to think about.

Who or What Are "the Rest"?

"But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord... But to the rest I say, not the Lord..." 1 Corinthians 7:10-16

Who or what are "the rest"? Does anybody actually know? If verses 10-11 are addressing the married, then "the rest" would logically mean anyone who is not married, right? But verses 12-16 continue speaking about husbands and wives. So what is meant by "to the rest"?

Paul just forbid divorce for married people in verses 10-11. So who are being addressed in verses 12-16 if not the married? If it is not talking to the married, then you really cannot claim that it is talking about an exception for divorce, can you? You could not do so anyway since verses 10-11 just prohibited it. Since Paul does not have a forked tongue and does not speak out both sides of his mouth, he quite obviously did not prohibit divorce in verses 10-11 and then give an exception in verses 12-16. Since the words in verses 10-11 are a direct command from the Lord Jesus, Paul certainly did not just turn around and willfully contradict His Lord and Saviour.

"The rest" could only refer to single people and widowers/widows, right? But then the rest of the passage is problematic since it goes on to speak of husbands and wives, which single people and widowers/widows do not have. The fact this passage continues speaking about husbands and wives is evidence that "to the rest" cannot possibly mean someone other than the married.

There is no group of people that what was said in verses 10-11 does not apply. If you are married, verses 10-11 apply. Verses 12-16 let us know that if we are married to an unbeliever and they are content to live with us, then we should continue to live with them. They may end up saved through us. If they want to leave, then we should let them leave so that there may be peace. If we try to force them to stay, our lives will be like the problematic spouse we read of in the book of Proverbs. This passage nowhere gives occasion to re-marry. If our spouse later becomes saved and wants to reconcile with us, how will they be able to do so if we are married to someone else?

People can try to rationalize their sin all they want, but God's Word is exceptionally clear. We do not want to accept it or obey it because we are rebellious and hard hearted, just as the Jews were. But the Lord Jesus calls us to a higher standard. We are called to be imitators of Him. If marriage is a picture of the Gospel, which it is, and if it is a picture of Jesus and His Bride, which it is, then do you honestly believe Jesus would allow for something that will deliberately mar that picture? Or would Jesus call us to something hard but extremely beneficial for our sanctification? I think you know the answer.

"To the rest" obviously and clearly cannot be referring to another group different from "to the married" because it continues addressing husbands and wives, who are "the married." "To the rest" more than likely means either as to the other part of your epistle, or as to the cases of the rest mentioned in your epistle. Based on the context of verses 12-16, we may infer that verses 10-11 are speaking to husbands and wives who are both believers. Then verses 12-16 address husbands and wives where one is yet an unbeliever.

In verse 25, Paul says, "Now concerning virgins," and then in verses 27-28 adds, "Are you bond to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned." There are three types of people mentioned in these two verses: the married, the widowers/widows, and the virgins.

How do we know that those who are "released" are widowers/widows? Because Romans 7:2-3 and 1 Corinthians 7:39 are extremely clear.

"For the married woman has been bound by law to her husband while he is living, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulterous. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man." Romans 7:2-3

"A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband has fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord." 1 Corinthians 7:39

People can try to explain these verses away all they want, or try to ignore them, but there is no mistaking what is being said. Romans 7:3 agrees with everything Jesus said in Matthew, Mark, and Luke; namely that re-marriage, except in the case of a dead spouse, constitutes adultery. The only way you are "released from a wife" is if she has died. Scripture provides no other legitimate release from the marriage covenant. Not in Matthew 5:32 or 19:9, and not in 1 Corinthians 7:15. Anyone who tells you any different is lying, whether ignorantly or deliberately; their teaching is in error.

I hate to do a shameful plug, but if you want to read a clear exposition and exegesis of every passage affecting the issue of marriage, divorce, and re-marriage, I encourage you to pick up a copy of my book The Bible on Divorce and Remarriage.

The Two Doors Riddle

In the movie The Labyrinth, Jennifer Connelly's character, Sarah, encounters two doors while attempting to rescue her little brother from the clutches of Jareth, a crystal-ball-juggling Goblin King. One leads to the castle, the other to certain death. She may ask only one question to only one guard in order to help her decipher which door is the correct one. Sounds simple enough, but there is a catch: one guard always tells the truth, and one always tells lies.

To solve the puzzle, you must ask one guard (it does not matter which one) which door the other guard would say leads out. Both guards will indicate the same door, which will be the door that does not lead out. Let's call the doors A (the safe door) and B (the unsafe door).

Scenario one:

The guard you ask is the one who lies. – If the guard you asked is the one who lies, then he will lead you astray by telling you (falsely) that the other guard (the truthful guard) will point you towards door B. This makes door A the safe bet.

Scenario two:

The guard you asked is the one who tells the truth. – If the guard you ask is the one who tells the truth, he will tell you (honestly) that the other guard (the lying guard) will point you towards door B. This makes door A the safe bet.

In both cases, the outcome is the same. To stay alive, you must walk through the opposite door you have been told.

The point of my sharing this is to point out the current temperature of the Western world right now. I'll give you three examples. (1.) All news media outlets call each other "Fake News." Certain ones are telling the truth while others are lying. (2.) Concerning this COVID hysteria, certain doctors, scientists and experts are telling the truth while other doctors, scientists and experts are lying. (3.) Various people are calling other people racists, fascists, anti-science, etc., etc., etc. Certain ones are telling the truth while others are lying, projecting what is actually true of themselves upon their opponents.

The situation with the above three examples is the same as facing the two doors. You may not be able to ask a single question in order to determine which is which, but with a little intelligence, wisdom, and discernment, you should be able to figure it out. If you cannot, then you might want to consider that you are probably one of the stupid people that Dietrich Bonhoeffer refers to (see previous post). If you want to believe lies in order to make yourself feel comfortable in life, then best of luck to you.

Stupid Is As Stupid Does

The following excerpt comes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, taken from a circular letter, addressing many topics, written to three friends and co-workers in the conspiracy against Hitler, on the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s accession to the chancellorship of Germany:

"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed- in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.

"If we want to know how to get the better of stupidity, we must seek to understand its nature. This much is certain, that it is in essence not an intellectual defect but a human one. There are human beings who are of remarkably agile intellect yet stupid, and others who are intellectually quite dull yet anything but stupid. We discover this to our surprise in particular situations. The impression one gains is not so much that stupidity is a congenital defect, but that, under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or that they allow this to happen to them. We note further that people who have isolated themselves from others or who live in solitude manifest this defect less frequently than individuals or groups of people inclined or condemned to sociability. And so it would seem that stupidity is perhaps less a psychological than a sociological problem. It is a particular form of the impact of historical circumstances on human beings, a psychological concomitant of certain external conditions. Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity. It would even seem that this is virtually a sociological-psychological law. The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other. The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence, and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances. The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.

"Yet at this very point it becomes quite clear that only an act of liberation, not instruction, can overcome stupidity. Here we must come to terms with the fact that in most cases a genuine internal liberation becomes possible only when external liberation has preceded it. Until then we must abandon all attempts to convince the stupid person. This state of affairs explains why in such circumstances our attempts to know what ‘the people’ really think are in vain and why, under these circumstances, this question is so irrelevant for the person who is thinking and acting responsibly. The word of the Bible that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom declares that the internal liberation of human beings to live the responsible life before God is the only genuine way to overcome stupidity.

"But these thoughts about stupidity also offer consolation in that they utterly forbid us to consider the majority of people to be stupid in every circumstance. It really will depend on whether those in power expect more from people’s stupidity than from their inner independence and wisdom."

Stupidity is not an intellectual defect but a moral one. As Bonhoeffer points out, "There are human beings who are of remarkably agile intellect yet stupid, and others who are intellectually quite dull yet anything but stupid." The stupidity we are witnessing among Millennials, Snowflakes, Social Justice Warriors, and Liberals/Progressives is due mostly to their moral bankruptcy. They have no moral compass. They deny science and nature and claim there are more than two genders/sexes. They deny reality and think men can be women and women can be men. They lie to themselves daily and demand that the majority aid them in their lies by placating to their delusions. This stupidity cannot be reasoned with because it rejects reason as “bigoted.” These stupid individuals are more dangerous than any Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, etc. Evil we can fight against. Against stupidity we are defenceless.

"I'm a liberal professor and my liberal students terrify me. I have intentionally adjusted my teaching as the political winds have shifted.... hurting a student's feelings, even in the course of instruction that is absolutely appropriate and respectful, can now get a teacher into serious trouble." —Edward Schlosser

"The tyranny of the minority is infinitely more odious and intolerable and more to be feared than that of the majority." —President William McKinley

Social Justice Warrior Snowflakes are engaged in the Oppression Olympics (also known as Victimology Poker), a competition of victimhood using identity politics and intersectionality ("I am a Queer Fat Muslim Disabled Transgendered Black Feminist"). These anti-intellectual know-nothing half-wit useful idiots exhibit a form of Collective Munchausen Syndrome (a psychiatric disorder where an individual feigns a medical condition to garner sympathy).

They also exhibit Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome: "This disorder causes a person to reject realities that are otherwise as clear as the existence of gravity. Sufferers of Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome do not believe their lying eyes. They construct an alternate reality known as Unicornia. In such a world, science, reason, rules of causality, evidentiary thresholds, a near-infinite amount of data, data analytic procedures, inferential statistics, the epistemological rules inherent to the scientific method, rules of logic, historical patterns, daily patterns, and common sense are all rejected. Instead, the delusional ramblings of an Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome sufferer are rooted in illusory correlations, non-existent causal links, and feel-good progressive platitudes. Ostrich Logic is always delivered via an air of haughty moral superiority."

These hive-mind drones need an echo chamber in order to feel validated and to validate their obviously blatant stupidity. They are triggered by empirical statements and label them as "bigoted." Opposing viewpoints constitute a form of "violence" from which these fragile little creatures require protection. These losers are nothing more than a pack of wild dogs who will turn on their less pure members in an instant. They always need someone to fight, even if it is from within their own ranks.

"The further a society drifts away from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." —George Orwell

Because of the truth I write about marriage, family, sexuality, gender, etc., these keyboard vigilante clowns attempt to threaten me with their idle threats "and I just LOLOLOLOL emojis for days." They attempt to call me a "culture vulture," which is just another ignorant made up term to go along with "anti-vaxx," "homophobe," "transphobe," "Islamophobe," etc. I am so sorry that you are choked and I am not. Your mental psychosis and delusional fantasies will not dictate my life and worldview. Perhaps you should be locked inside a padded room where you can talk to pink unicorns and pretend you are a fictional manga character as much as you want.

Social Justice Warrior Snowflakes are a walking talking virus of intellectual dishonesty and intellectual sterility, regularly committing moral and intellectual suicide. They are the sad commentary on, and an indictment to, the human race. They are literally walking punch lines.

I am just saying what the silent majority are afraid to say for fear of the ignorant labels these pathetic clowns will attempt to label them. They can toss whatever imaginary labels they want to come up with at me, "but words will never hurt me." If I say it, I mean it; I will not back down from declaring the truth, regardless of whether anyone wants to hear it or not. It does nobody no good to placate to their delusions and be complicit with their lies.

"Never confuse education with intelligence. You can have a PhD and still be an idiot." —Richard Feynman

People who are academically accomplished believe that their academic achievement removes them from susceptibility to media brainwash and propaganda when, historically, the opposite is true; they are the most susceptible. Behind every human atrocity was an academic institution that was convinced of its own virtue.

Experts, or "experts," are not immune from poor judgment and faulty reasoning. Professor Gad Saad once visited a physician because he was suffering recurring bouts of bronchitis. As he sat in his office, the physician was chain smoking. Gad asked him if he thought it was a good idea while treating an asthmatic patient suffering from bronchitis. The physician laughed it off.

We are seeing this kind of poor judgment and faulty reasoning on a monumental scale right now. Doctors and nurses are injecting people with these experimental mRNA gene therapy medical devices falsely called "vaccines" (in order to sneak them under Public Health exemptions), and when the patient comes back with an injury, the doctors and nurses are denying it and saying that it has nothing to do with the "vaccine" (effectively gaslighting these people).

What happened to doctors and nurses who asked for a history? Who asked what changed in your diet recently? Who asked what changed in your life recently? The only thing to have changed in these people's lives is having been injected, but magically the things happening to them have nothing to do with that. This is Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome at its finest, committed by our "experts." Having credentials does not mean you have credibility.

"Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it." —George R. R. Martin

"The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists." —Isaac Asimov

"The human brain can protect us from seeing and feeling what it believes may be too uncomfortable for us to tolerate. It can lead us to deny, defend, minimize, or rationalize away something that doesn't fit our worldview." —Bandy X. Lee

Perhaps the science denying anti-science crowd out there (like Crime Minister Justin Trudeau) would like to remind themselves of some things that Professor Richard Feynman had to say:

"Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion."

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

"Don't pay attention to 'authorities' [i.e., "experts"], think for yourself."

Feynman also said, "I would rather have questions that can't be answered, than answers that can't be questioned." Yet what is the narrative we are hearing from the Covidian Jonestown Kool-aid-guzzling Cult concerning COVID-19 and these so-called "vaccines"?

"You can't question the science!"

I am sorry?

When "Follow the science!" and “Trust the science!” meets “You cannot question the science!", science has met religion. The science is never "settled." Questioning science is science. That is the whole point of the scientific method. People should be able to reproduce your work to verify the results. There is zero "science" connected with these injections!

You can continue to be an anti-science science denying clown, calling long-established evidence-based scientific data "conspiracy theory," or you can face the facts and accept that your immune system is far superior — better, stronger, and longer lasting — than anything a legitimate vaccine has to offer.

"If it’s consensus, it ISN'T science. If it’s science, it ISN'T consensus. Period. Consensus is invoked only in situations where THE SCIENCE IS NOT SOLID." —Michael Crichton

"Peer-review" amounts to a hill of dung; it is worthless and useless and amounts to "consensus." You get a bunch of like-minded fools to agree with your erroneous and far-fetched imaginations and then attempt to label it as "science." Whenever people invoke "consensus" or "peer-review," I know not to take them serious as they obviously don't have a clue what in the world they are talking about.

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." —Galileo Galilei

So much of what is called "scientific research" today is riddled with conflict of interest. We are living in an era of "Scientism." We are being told to "Follow the science," but when evidence-based scientific data is presented, it is ignored, denied, and/or rejected entirely.

"SCIENCE:

If you don't make mistakes, you're doing it wrong.

If you don't correct those mistakes, you're really doing it wrong.

If you can't accept you're mistaken, you're not doing it at all." —Richard Feynman

This scamdemic was planned! Intelligent people understand this. Only cowards living in fear and stupid people believe the disinformation propaganda being spread like wildfire. Feel free to watch this short 5-minute video clip on Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc

"To find yourself, think for yourself." —Socrates

"When all think alike, no one is thinking very much." —Walter Lippmann

"Great minds think alike but weak minds seldom vary." —Unknown

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." —Bertrand Russell

"What luck for rules that men do not think." —Adolf Hitler

"We are discreet sheep; we wait to see hot the drove is going, and then go with the drove." —Mark Twain

"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." —Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault]

"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." —Mark Twain

"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses." —Plato

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits." —Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." —Albert Einstein

"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." —Harlan Ellison

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, andit has a longer shelf life." —Frank Zappa

"We have enough youth. How about a Fountain of Smart?" —Unknown

The World Has Gone Mad

When you have the chief reporter on the beat of COVID for The New York Times talking about how questioning or pursuing the question of the lab leak is "racist," the world has gone mad.

When people believe a "vaccine" is effective at protecting you, but the rest of the world needs to get it too in order for yours to work, the world has gone mad.

When long established evidence-based science is ignored, denied, and rejected by science denying anti-science clowns who keep yelling, "Follow the science," the world has gone mad.

When the superiority of your immune system is ignored, denied, and rejected, claiming some injection will "help boost" it, when that has never been the case in the past, the world has gone mad.

When doctors no longer ask for a history - what changed in your diet or life, and claim that your injuries cannot possibly be due to the COVID injections (despite being the only thing different in your life), the world has gone mad.

When you ask Covidian Jonestown Kool-aid-guzzling Cult members simple logical questions and the blank look on their face suggests "Cannot Compute. Computing Error," the world has gone mad.

When certain doctors, scientists and experts in their fields are doing their jobs and presenting evidence-based scientific data, and being silenced, ignored, smeared, and attacked, while other doctors, scientists and experts in their fields are doing no work at all but merely spewing ignorant subjective opinion, and being gobbled up without question, the world has gone mad.

When you are not able to say out loud and in public that there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad.

When you are not able to say out loud and in public that a man is not and will never be a woman and that a woman is not and will never be a man, the world has gone mad.

When you are not able to say out loud and in public that a human being is not and will never be some other species, or some fictional character, the world has gone mad.

When you are not able to say out loud and in public that certain people are not and will never be an age other than what they are or an ethnicity other than what they are, the world has gone mad.

When we are not allowed to acknowledge that burning is burning, looting is looting, rioting is rioting, vandalism is vandalism, and that they are bad, the world has gone made.

When we are not allowed to acknowledge that silence is not violence, but violence is violence, the world has gone mad.

When, in the name of "progress," young school children as young as kindergarten are being separated in public schools because of their ethnicity, and that is called "progress" rather than segregation, the world has gone mad.

When you are not allowed to have intellectual dialogues, discussions, debates, and disagreements, because some Snowflake's feelings might get hurt, the world has gone mad.

When we care more about some sad Snowflake's perceived feelings than we do about actual truth, the world has gone mad.

When the criteria for hiring someone is based on a minority status rather than qualifications, merit, and individuality, the world has gone mad.

The Hired Hands Exposed

"He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees—and the wolf snatches and scatters them—because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep." John 10:12-13

Say what you will about pastor Henry Hildebrandt of the Church of God in Aylmer, Ontario. While he teaches some extremely unbiblical doctrines, he is nonetheless one of the only pastors in the area (and one out of a handful across the entire country) who exhibited actually possessing a spine. Every other pastor knuckled under like the hired hands they truly are. The wolves came for the church, and these cowards abandoned the sheep and ran away. The Gestapo came, kicked in the door, told them they could not gather, and they said, "Sure thing, Bob! We'll disperse immediately!" I thought these "pastors" read their Bibles? Do they not understand anything concerning the Body and how each member needs the other members? Even John MacArthur stood his ground and fought the State of California on their authoritarian dictates.

You can attempt to defend your pastors all you want, but you are 100% in the wrong and they are shameful cowards. They did not stand up for the church, and they did not teach the church how to stand up for themselves. Instead, they shouted loud and clear, "This is not how to lead God's people!" Over 90% of the pastors across the face of the Earth all at the same time gave up on the church all because their governments told them to do so! The church shut up shop over propagandized fear porn just like the rest of the world. Not only were they not there for their own people, but they were not there for the unsaved. This just illustrates how much of a business that "churches" have become. They do not care about people's souls. Christians of the past worked in and through plagues to help people and reach people, even putting their own lives on the line because of the seriousness of the spiritual. How many did that today in the 21st century? A mere handful! Disgusting! Grotesque!

The only thing worse than this are those pastors who are willfully handing the sheep over to the wolves, encouraging people to get jabbed with these experimental bio-weapon injections and to risk both their health and lives—all while twisting Scripture to try and manipulate them. The false teachers are coming out of the wood work and revealing who and what they really are. Satan has infiltrated God's church and put his own ministers in key positions in order to mislead the sheep and let the wolves devour them.

By the way, this entire situation perfectly exhibits precisely why we should still be meeting in houses precisely as prescribed in the New Testament; precisely as most the rest of the world continues to meet to this day. No one—not one single denomination—was given the authority to change the traditions that the apostles instituted. The early church fathers did not have the authority to change any of the traditions instituted by the apostles. Our practices are so far removed from that of the New Testament that it is not the least bit amusing. There is a reason Paul says that he teaches the same thing in all the churches. The government cannot shut down a house church. They can threaten it. They can invade it (like Russians and Chinese do). They can persecute it. But that is all they can do to it. These pastors abandoning the church to meet online adds another indictment against the ownership and operational costs of a building that never should have existed in the first place. Jesus did not institute a priestly caste or a temple for His church, and neither did the apostles. We are that temple, and we are all priests!

Education

Quotes from Professor Richard Feynman

"Modern education:

Creating people who are smart enough to accurately repeat what they are told and follow the orders.

And dumb enough to think this makes them smarter than everyone else."

"The real problem with the education system is that it tests memorization skills, not learning or intelligence.

The two major aspects that lack in modern education systems are education and system."

"The problem is not people being uneducated.

The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught."

"Education isn't about the ability to remember and repeat, in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.

It is the ability to learn from experience, to think, solve problems, and use our knowledge to adapt to new situations."

"You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.

You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting."

"The goal of teaching should not be to help the students learn how to memorize and spit out information under academic pressure.

The purpose of teaching is to inspire the desire for learning in them and make them able to think, understand, and question."

"Never confuse education with intelligence. You can have a Ph.D. and still be an idiot."

"When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others.

It's the same thing when you are stupid."

"Be careful when you follow the masses. Sometimes the M is silent."

Zombies and Trolls

Only zombies, trolls, and NPC losers reply TL;DR to factual information they refuse to read in order to be educated and informed as to the truth. They want to deny certain things, but when given information that will refute them once and for all, they are too lazy and ignorant to bother reading it. They do not want to be proven wrong, and they want even less to admit they are wrong.

"The zombies and the trolls aren't very bright, and they're unable to see the big picture; they're not bright enough to see things in perspective. They don't believe that anyone could tell such big lies. The zombies and the trolls have never been properly educated; they're content to believe what they're told or what they read on [a bathroom] wall. They're incapable of thinking for themselves. Actually, they're incapable of thinking at all. Bright folk can see through the lies and they can understand what's happening.

"The zombies and trolls have a sense of entitlement that closes their eyes to the world around them.

"Many zombies and trolls don't have friends or contacts, they have followers and fans. If a troll comes across someone with a point of view that differs from their own, their only response is to resort to abuse and a sense of outrage that someone should hold another point of view.

"Male zombies and trolls tend to be effeminate and stupid, while female zombies and trolls tend to be stupid, confused, irritable, and sulky.

"There are millions of zombies and trolls around because they're naive, gullible, poorly educated, unintelligent, immature and self-important, but ultimately terrified of authority."

—Dr. Vernon Coleman

The zombies, trolls, and NPCs never argue the main point; they never have a legitimate refutation; and they never have an intelligent counterargument. All the zombies and trolls ever do is respond with fallacious arguments that have no basis in reality, deflection, projection, ad hominem, and name calling.

Those Who Oppose the Word of God While Pretending To Be the Friends of God

Here’s a tip: When someone accuses a truth-teller of arrogance, it’s because they can find no fault in the truth itself.

Yet, what many of us have been saying over the weekend is that it has nothing to do with how MacArthur said it. It’s what he said. These gutless wonder coward-pastors are just afraid to say they’ve gone the way of the United Methodists and other estrogen-fueled quilting circles.

You see, it wasn’t really about how MacArthur said it. It’s that he said it. The reason why so many complain about how he said it (which was super polite) is that they are afraid to just come out of the egalitarian closet and say, “I’m for women preachers, oppose the Word of God, and deny Biblical inerrancy.”

Trying to get them to just come out and admit they deny the inerrancy of Scripture is like pulling teeth, but they will always first complain about tone. It’s easier than just straight-forwardly stating their position.

It is easier for emotionally lactating males to lament “tone” than to stand up like men and simply state their real positions. When it comes to defending their position, they are just far more comfortable squatting than standing.

I could not put my finger on it until I read these words from an article published by Pulpit & Pen. I have had a few people accuse me of being "abrasive" with my writing. I have addressed this idea before (here and here), but now I have a clearer understanding of why these individuals were doing what they did. Rather than address the content of what I wrote, because they cannot answer the truth of what I wrote, their first complaint was the perceived "tone" of my writing. These individuals did not like what I had to say, but because they could find no fault with the truth I was sharing they decided to attack the messenger instead.

The above words used by Pulpit & Pen are exactly true of these individuals: "gutless wonder cowards," "estrogen-fueled," "closet-egalitarians," "emotionally lactating men," and "more comfortable squatting than standing." Of course these individuals would be offended by such language because the truth hurts.

These individuals are more concerned with their image and/or the image of their "church," than they are with the truth of God's Word. They would sooner water down the truth and make it palatable than to do anything or allow anything that might tarnish their image or affect their reputation. These individuals and their "churches" are narcissistic. God forbid they should actually take a stand behind the Bible and elevate it to a position of sole authority instead of continuing to filter it through their belief system. These same individuals oppose the Word of God and deny biblical inerrancy, but they would never admit it.

Anything else is easier than admitting the truth. You will witness this quite often among professing Christians from various denominations. Whatever biblical truth they choose to reject, rather than admit they oppose the Word of God and deny biblical inerrancy, they will find some other means of attacking the truth they willfully choose to reject and rebel against. It is easier to play these childish games than to come out and admit they are in favour of some sin or other, or some error or other, or some heresy or other. For many of these people, despite the words that might come out of their mouths, the Bible is not their absolute, sole, and final authority. Something else is!

But they do not want to admit it to themselves or to others.

"Truth is not affected by the attitude of the one professing it.

An arrogant person does not make the truth he professes false.

A humble person does not make the error he professes true."

Steven Furtick: Most Dangerous False Teacher

Steven Furtick of Elevation Church handles the Scriptures like Edward Scissorhands handles a water balloon. He is the most dangerous kind of false teacher out there. In one sermon, Furtick acknowledges that John 5:4 is not in the oldest and best manuscripts, but then he goes ahead and preaches from this non-existent Bible verse anyway, allegorizing the entire passage (the way Charismatic false teachers are known to do) and claiming that we are likewise waiting for God to come down and make our lives better. (Perhaps Furtick should try reading the Scriptures and cluing in to the fact that our lives will only be better in the world to come — never in this world.) The man has no deep understanding of Scripture or theology, yet seeks to be in a position to influence many.

John MacArthur was absolutely 100% correct when he stated that Furtick is "UNQUALIFIED". God's Word not only identifies Furtick as being unqualified, but it also identifies him as being a false teacher. His church is a cult, and his followers will attack you if you say anything negative about their cult leader. If you call their gathering a "service," they are quick to correct you by calling it an "experience." (Yeah, like that doesn't make it sound more cultish.) After MacArthur made his statement, Furtick doubled down in his arrogant pride and wrote a poor-excuse-of-a-book in response. (If you look it up on Amazon, you will see an excellent example of how cult members rush to the aid of their cult leader in order to defend him. Practically every "review" is 5-stars. Other false teachers would no doubt rush to his aid, too, as birds of a feather flock together. Just look at the "praise" for the book — every single comment is from a known false teacher.)

As this article states (https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chorusinthechaos/steven-furtick-false-teacher/): "If [Steven Furtick] is genuinely in Christ, the best he has to hope for on this trajectory is to be saved, but only as one being snatched from the fire; he will lose all he has built (1 Cor. 3:15)." As it is, Furtick is presently heading directly toward Hell on a greased pole. If he is truly a disciple of Christ, he needs to step down, start learning, and correct his errors. Furtick does not even understand what the Gospel actually is! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98LJL1YWpxo)

Nine Reasons Why Discerning Women Are Leaving Your Church

 by Michelle Lesley

Earlier this week, Thom Rainer, president and CEO of LifeWay, pubished a blog article entitled “Six Reasons Why Women May Be Leaving Your Church.” Although I am not particularly a fan of Dr. Rainer (due to his allowing heretical materials to be sold at LifeWay), I thought this article was a good one, and I agreed with several of the issues he raised, especially, that these issues need to be addressed by church leadership.

As a ministry wife and someone in the field of women’s ministry myself, I, too, have noticed women leaving the church. Not just women in general, but a certain subset of church-attending ladies: discerning women. While Scripture is pretty clear that we can expect women (and men) who are false converts to eventually fall away from the gathering of believers, why are godly, genuinely regenerated women who love Christ, His word, and His church, leaving their local churches?

1. Eisegetical or otherwise unbiblical preaching

Discerning women don’t want to hear pastors twist God’s word. The Bible is not about us, our problems, and making all our hopes and dreams come true. We don’t want to hear seeker-driven or Word of Faith false doctrine. We don’t need self-improvement motivational speeches or a list of life tips to follow. We want to hear a pastor rightly handle God’s word from a trustworthy translation and simply exegete the text.

2. The worship hour has become a variety show

Skits, guest stars, movie clips, dance routines, rock concerts, elaborate sets, light shows, and smoke machines. We didn’t sign on for Saturday Night Live on Sunday. This is supposed to be church. Get rid of all that junk, turn the lights on, give us solid preaching, prayer, and some theologically sound songs we can actually sing, and maybe we’ll stick around.

3. Women in improper places of church leadership

The Bible could not be more clear that women are not to be pastors, instruct men in the Scriptures, or hold authority over men in other capacities in the church. If your church has a female pastor, worship leader, or elders, or if women are teaching and leading men in Sunday school, small groups, or from the platform in the worship service, or if women are heading up certain committees, departments, or ministries which place them in improper authority over men, you’re disobeying Scripture, and we don’t want to help you do that by attending your church.

4. Children are being entertained, not trained

There’s nothing wrong with a bit of play time or crafts for younger children, but we want our children trained in the Scriptures, not entertained for a couple of hours. We want their teachers to open God’s word and read and explain it to them at a level they can understand. We want them memorizing verses, learning to pray, and demonstrating an age-appropriate comprehension of the gospel. We want them to understand that church is joyful, yet, serious, not a Jesus-laced party at Chuck E. Cheese. We need church to bolster the Scriptural training we’re giving our kids at home.

5. Women’s “Bible” Studies

The majority (and I don’t use that term flippantly) of churches holding women’s Bible studies are using materials written by Beth Moore, Priscilla Shirer, Joyce Meyer, Lysa TerKeurst, Sarah Young, and others who teach unbiblical ideas and false doctrine. Not minor denominational differences of opinion. Not secondary and tertiary unimportant issues that can be overlooked. False doctrine. While we long to study God’s word with other women, discerning women will not sacrifice sound doctrine nor the integrity of Scripture to do so.

6. Ecumenism

Is your church partnering with other “churches” whose orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy are at odds with Scripture? “Churches” which approve of homosexuality or female pastors, or which hold to an unbiblical soteriology (grace plus works, baptismal regeneration, Mary as co-redemptrix with Christ, etc.)? Are you partnering with those who deny the biblical Christ altogether such as Muslims, Jews, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Hindus, Mormons, or Buddhists? Discerning women know Scripture forbids yoking ourselves to unbelievers and we want no part of it.

7. Ageism

Look around at your pastor and staff, your lay leadership, your music team, the “face” of your church. How many of those people are over 40? Usually, discernment and spiritual maturity come through walking with the Lord over many years, yet, increasingly, churches are run by twenty-something pastors, staff, and other leadership, who are often spiritually immature and/or lack the wisdom and life experience that come with age. The counsel and wisdom mature, godly men and women have to offer is brushed off as old fashioned, and middle aged and older church members feel alienated and unwanted. Discerning women value the wisdom and teaching of their godly elders.

8. The “troublemaker” label

Discerning women who see unbiblical things happening in their churches and stand up for what God’s word says about biblical ecclesiology and teaching are often villified and labeled as troublemakers. We are called haters, threats to unity, complainers, gossips, negative, and a myriad of other scornful names. All this for wanting things done according to Scripture. Can you blame us for shaking the dust off our high heels and leaving?

9. Spineless or stiff-necked pastors

Discerning women have little respect for, and find themselves unable to submit to the authority of pastors who see people in their churches acting overtly sinful or propagating false teaching yet are so afraid of confrontation that they will not set things right. By the same token, we cannot continue to attend a church in which we bring scriptural evidence of false teaching or sin to the pastor and he outright denies the biblical truth we present to him. We cannot be members of churches in which pastors will not submit to Scripture or carry out biblical mandates.

Frequently, the discerning women you see tearfully leaving your church have been there for years. Sometimes they leave your church because it was never doctrinally sound to begin with, and God has opened their eyes to this as they grow and mature in Christ. Sometimes they leave because false doctrine and unbiblical practices have crept in and taken over a church that was once a refuge of trustworthy biblical teaching. Either way, these things should not be.

Maybe it’s not that discerning women are leaving the church, but that the church is leaving them.

You Cannot Convert A Single Soul!

Christians...

It is our job to proclaim the Gospel and all the words of God to any and all who will listen, but it is not our job to try and sway nations or to convert souls. That is God's realm! You are not God, so stop pretending to be Him, or, worse, trying to be Him.

The world will always choose sin over righteousness, and that should not surprise us. Sinners do what comes naturally to them: sin.

You want to win someone who believes in abortion? Speak to them personally and share with them the facts. Leave the result in God's hands. If they reject reason and pursue an abortion, love them just the same. Jesus would have. Stop trying to politicize morality.

We should be striving for Christ-likeness, walking after the Holy Spirit, and living it out before an unbelieving world. After all, actions speak louder than words.

Yes, we should be trying to reach the world with the truth, but we should not expect them to act like we do. Until God gives them a new heart and spiritually regenerates them, they will continue to do what is "right" in their own eyes. It is not our job to convert people. That is the work of the Holy Spirit; to convict the world of sin and judgment.

No matter how much knowledge we may possess, no matter how great of an orator we may be, you and I can never convert a single soul; nor should we pressure ourselves into thinking we can or that it is our responsibility to do so. God is the One Who converts the soul! You and I may plant and/or water, but it is God who gives the increase.

We need to put ourselves in our place and stop trying to be God!

Before we were saved, we spent our days worshipping ourselves. After salvation, some Christians are still intent on worshipping themselves, thinking that God needs them or that it is their responsibility to convert souls. Our only responsibility is to be the salt and light and to proclaim the Gospel and the whole counsel of the Word of God. What results is the responsibility of the Holy Spirit. Whether someone is converted or not by our efforts is at the sole discretion of Almighty God.

Pay attention to the lives of Jesus and the apostles. They did not demand that governments and individuals agree wholeheartedly with them and live by their standards. What did they do instead? They lived out what they believed and proclaimed the Gospel and the truth of God's Word to any and all who would listen. Some accepted their words, many rejected them. They did not, however, become activists and make God's Word political by protesting the heathen. For you to do so and expect a different result is just insanity.

Ask yourself What Did Jesus Do?, and then look in Scripture at the life of Jesus for the nearest equivalent to what His response would have been. The woman at the well was an adulteress (she had five previous husbands, and her current husband was not her husband).

Christians and Gay Marriage

Are most Christian denominations affirming of homosexual relations and embracing gay marriage? The homosexual and pro-homosexual community would have you believe that this is indeed the case, but it is not. Statistics from the "Christian" public are hardly reliable as most of these individuals are nominally Christian, meaning "Christian" by name only. You are not a Christian because you were raised in a church or because some fool Pope-ishly pronounced you to be a Christian when you prayed some prayer. Observe:

Christian Denominations and Gay Marriage
by Roger E. Olson

A few years ago I had the privilege of re-writing (editing and authoring) the 14th edition of the venerable reference book The Handbook of Denominations in the United States published by Abingdon Press. One of the changes I made was to mention each denomination's stated policy with regard to gay marriage and homosexual sexual relations. In some cases I could not find a stated, official policy, so I contacted the headquarters and spoke or corresponded with the highest leader possible.

Of the approximately 260 denominations listed and described in the volume, about 200 of them have official or unofficial policies against gay marriage and same-sex sexual relations. In some cases they asked me not to publish their policies, but they assured me they practice the policies even if they do not want it known outside their denominations.

They are worded very differently from each other; there is no "template," so to speak. However, the vast majority of Christian denominations in the United States do not condone gay marriage among their ranks and do not approve of same-sex sexual relations. Many of them state that it is sin.

A few denominations take a kind of middle position — saying (for example) that they do not condone it among their own "people" bud do not oppose it outside of their ranks. In other words, they are not going to fight or lobby to reverse the Supreme Court decision regarding equality of gay people with straight people in terms of government-recognized marriage. Most did not say anything about that. A few denominations take a middle position saying that they will include gay people — married and not married — within their membership ranks but will not perform gay marriages.

The overall impression, however, that I think is not well understood by most people, is that the vast majority of American Christian (and many non-Christian) church organizations, denominations, networks, independent congregations, do not approve of gay marriage or same-sex sexual relations.

It is not as if there are a "few hold outs"; the "hold outs" (in terms of denominations) are those relatively few who endorse and affirm gay marriage within their ranks.

A few so-called "mainline Protestant" denominations leave the issue up to regions (synods) or individual congregations. Some of those are now facing divisions over that. New denominations are forming all the time because of perceived permissiveness on this issue. The new denominations are almost all opposed to gay marriage.

An impression is circulating that only a few ultra-conservative, fundamentalist, hateful religious groups and institutions stand against gay marriage within their ranks, within their institutions, but that is a wrong impression.

Those Christian institutional leaders who feel under pressure to allow gay marriages within their ranks (student bodies, staff, etc.) need to know that they are not alone in holding the line against gay marriage within their ranks.

Now, if you are really interest in this, please buy your own copy of the book: The Handbook of Denominations in the United States (14th edition) (Abingdon Press).

People who affirm homosexual relations and gay marriage are ignorant, having been persuaded by fallacious arguments and blind emotions. If they claim to be "Christian," whether this claim is true or false, it is quite obvious that they are ignorant of the Word of God and have never bothered to read it. God is against homosexual relations of any kind (buggery, pederasty, bi-sexuality, ___-sexuality), being contrary to the created order and simple reproductive biology, and upholds heterosexual relations from Genesis to Revelation.

Those who claim that Jesus said nothing about homosexuality are being morally and intellectually dishonest. Jesus directed his listeners to the created order and quoted twice from Genesis: "Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." It is quite evident that Jesus upheld heterosexual relations as the only acceptable expression of human sexuality.

Jesus is the Word of God. He spoke the universe into existence. When the Bible records, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination," those are the words of the pre-incarnate Jesus. Since God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, it stands to reason that homosexuality is just as detestable to Him today as it was in the days of Sodom.

Christians are not to hate homosexuals or any other people. We are not to try and reform nations. A sinful world will always do what is right in their own eyes and pursue sin rather than righteousness. We can try to influence the world around us by being the salt and light and living out what God's Word teaches us, but it is foolish to expect sinful individuals to live by any means other than what comes natural to them. If and when they become Christians, then it is right for you to expect them to repent and change. Pay attention to the lives of Jesus and the apostles. They did not demand that everyone agree with them and go by their standards. What did they do instead? They lived out what they believed and they spoke the Gospel and the truth to any and all who would listen. Some accepted their words, many rejected them. They did not, however, protest the heathen or become activists for or against anything the wicked did naturally. For you to do so and expect a different result is just insanity.

Do your part, live the life of a Christ-like follower of Jesus, and speak the truth to all who will listen, but do not make it political and do not try to do the work of the Holy Spirit. You are not God, so stop trying to be Him or act like Him!

Southern Baptist Convention Hypocrisy

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) claims that there are zero women serving as "pastors" in any of their churches. Guess what? Here are 46 SBC churches with women "pastors" in their employ:

FBC Alexandria

Journey Church » Our Leadership

Bon Air Baptist Church | Staff

Crossland Community Church

First Hot Springs

The Connection Church

Westside Baptist Church

Grace Midtown Church

The Woodlands First

Skyway Church

Mt. Pleasant Baptist

Our Team – Passion Community Church

Staff at Lakeside Baptist Church

Columbia Baptist Church: Our Staff

Our Team — Clovis Hills Community Church

About | Daybreak Church

Church in San Antonio, TX – Ministries, Sermons | Grace Point Church

Our Pastors – Antioch Long Beach

Staff — FIRST BAPTIST OF GAINESVILLE GA

Staff | First Denton

Staff | Jacob’s Well Church

» NLCC Staff

Staff — Fellowship of the Rockies

Church Staff | NorthWood Church

About

Staff | Bay Life Church

Discover – Casas Church

https://www.smzbt.org

LifePoint.tv

Staff — Woodcrest

Staff Members | NorthPointe Community Church

Our Staff | Abba’s House

Our Leadership | Word Tabernacle Church

Our Staff – Bethlehem Church

Our Pastors | New Faith

About – Lifepoint Church

Higher Dimension Church

Staff – The Heights Church

Our Staff & Elders | Beltway Park Church

Meet Our Team | BT.CHURCH

Our Staff | The Crossing Church

Pastoral Staff — Hillvue Heights Church

Pellissippi – Faith Promise Church

The Fountain of Praise: Home

Grace Point Church – Our Staff

Leadership / Staff

These 46 SBC churches are in violation of not only the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 (BFM 2000), but also the Bible, God's Holy Word.

Praying the Rosary: Rank Heresy

Will Catholics be in Heaven?

Some will, yes, but most will not. Those who end up in Heaven, it will be in spite of their many heretical practices and beliefs. Only because of Christ Jesus and their trust in His person and His saving work on the cross will anyone — Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, Reformed, etc. — find themselves in Heaven. (Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims, and other cults will not find anyone from their ranks in Heaven because they believe in a different, non-biblical Jesus.)

The Rosary is nothing but rank heresy! Allow me to demonstrate why.

This is how Catholics are to pray the Rosary:

1. Make the sign of the cross and say the "Apostles' Creed."
2. Say the "Our Father."
3. Say three "Hail Marys."
4. Say the "Glory be to the Father."
5. Announce the First Mystery; then say the "Our Father."
6. Say ten "Hail Marys" while meditating on the Mystery.
7. Say the "Glory be to the Father."
8. After each decade, say the "Fatima Prayer" requested by the Blessed Virgin Mary.
9. Announce the Second Mystery: then say the "Our Father." Repeat 6, 7, and 8 and continue with the Third, Fourth and Fifth Mysteries in the same manner.
10. After completing the five decades, say the "Hail, Holy Queen" and make the sign of the cross.
11. As a general rule, the Joyful Mysteries are said on Monday and Saturday; the Sorrowful Mysteries on Tuesday and Friday; the Glorious Mysteries on Wednesday and Sunday; the Luminous Mysteries on Thursday.

Not only is such a practice vain repetition, which the Lord God hates, but it is also superstition (like much of the Catholic belief system).

The "Hail Mary" is utter heresy. First of all, Mary is not the "mother of God"; she is the mother of God in the flesh. God existed long before Mary was ever a glint in her father's eye. God created Mary. Catholics need to get their terminology correct, which would correct a great deal of their erroneous theology. Second of all, praying to Mary (or any other saint, for that matter) is blasphemous. She can no more do anything for you than I can. Praying to me is just as foolish as praying to Mary. Last of all, Mary is not praying for anyone. She does not even hear your foolish misdirected prayers.

The "Hail Holy Queen" is utter blasphemy. First of all, Mary is not the "Queen" of anything! Least of all the "Queen of Heaven." Second of all, she is not the "mother of mercy." She cannot even offer you mercy. Mercy comes from God alone! Third of all, Mary is not "our life" nor "our hope" — Jesus is! Fourth of all, our cries, sighs, mourning, and weeping are sent up to Jesus — not to Mary! Fifth of all, Mary is not our Advocate — Jesus is! Last of all, Mary cannot, and does not, pray for you.

As I am sure you have noticed by now, the Catholics have turned Mary into another god; into a goddess, which they subsequently worship. Not only do they ascribe to her attributes and characteristics that belong to Almighty God alone, but they also make her co-equal with Jesus in numerous ways (co-Advocate, co-Redeemer, co-Saviour, etc.). Mary is a sinner just like the rest of us.

Here are the "promises" that the Catholic church has falsely ascribed to Mary (with my commentary):

1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the rosary, shall receive signal graces.
   We know from this first point that this "Mary" is none other than Satan himself. The real Mary, mother of Jesus, would never ask or demand that others serve her. We are to serve Christ Jesus alone. Furthermore, Mary cannot grant you a single thing. She has no "graces" to bestow upon you!
2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the rosary.
   Sorry, but Mary cannot protect anyone from anything. The only person who can protect us from anything is Jesus!
3. The rosary shall be a powerful armour against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
   Really? The rosary now possesses attributes of Christ? Can anyone say, "Heresy"?
4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal thing. Oh, that woulds would sanctify themselves by this means.
   Sorry, but what the Bible — God's Word — says is, "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them" and "for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure." The rosary itself, and praying the rosary, will do nothing for you! Men are sanctified by the Holy Spirit, not by the rosary or the recitation thereof!
5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the rosary, shall not perish.
   Funny, I am pretty sure that what the Bible — God's Word — says is that "whoever believes in [Jesus] shall not perish." There is nothing about reciting the rosary, and neither Mary nor the rosary can save you.
6. Whoever shall recite the rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.
   See the next point. There is much wrong with this point.
7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
   True devotion is reserved for Christ Jesus and Christ Jesus alone, and for none other and for nothing else. To engage otherwise is to commit idolatry.
8. Those who are faithful to recite the rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.
   Where in God's holy Word is such a thing taught? Oh, that is right, nowhere!
9. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the rosary.
   There exists no "purgatory," and even if there did, Mary could not deliver anyone from it. She does not have the power to do so.
10. The faithful children of the rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.
    Wow! Where to start. This contradicts so much of what Jesus spoke directly to His disciples. And now, according to Catholics, Mary is contradicting Him? If any of this were true, then Mary fell a long way into sin after Jesus ascended into Heaven.
11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the rosary.
    Really? Mary is co-equal with Jesus? Sorry, but the Bible — God's Word — says, "Whatever you ask in My name [Jesus], that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son." Mary can grant you nothing!
12. All those who propagate the holy rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
    Another promise Mary cannot deliver on.
13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.
    Yeah. Sure they will. These are not the words of Mary, but of a narcissistic individual bent on perverting Christianity into goddess worship.
14. All those who recite the rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only son Jesus Christ.
    More idolatry and blasphemy. Brothers and sisters of Christ Jesus are sons and daughters of God the Father. They are nothing to Mary because Mary is nothing. Mary is not the wife of God the Father. She is not "Queen of Heaven" and does not" have any co- qualities with either God the Father, Christ Jesus, or the Holy Spirit. Mary herself, as a believer, is a daughter of God the Father and a sister of Christ Jesus, a sister to the rest of us — not a mother! Furthermore, Jesus was not her only child.
15. Devotion to my rosary is a great sign of predestination.
    *LMAO* That is hilarious! Quite obviously the Catholics fail to understand what "predestination" actually is. It is no wonder their theology is completely bankrupt.

The real Mary, mother of Jesus, would never suggest something that drew attention away from Christ Jesus and centered attention on herself! In fact, she would never accept worship of herself, just as the angels, prophets, and apostles refused, because worship belongs to God alone.

If you speak with a Catholic apologist on these things, they will attempt to deny what these things clearly teach, and try to slither around them deceitfully. They will try to explain them away. For example, they deliberately ignore and twist passages that say she was a virgin until Jesus was born, and that Jesus has several younger brothers and sisters. They will attempt to cite a bunch of early Church fathers, like heretic Jerome, who spoke about Mary being a "perpetual virgin." I have already shown in previous posts how in the second century the early fathers had already begun perverting God's Congregation through the heresy of apostolic succession. You can witness it with regard to the Lord's Supper, baptism, and even congregational membership. The traditions of the Catholic church are built upon nothing but egregious error upon egregious error.

Let us get several things straight and clear: Mary is not our Saviour. Mary is not our Redeemer. Mary is not our Deliverer. Mary is not our Advocate. Mary is not our life. Mary is not our hope. Mary is not our mercy. Mary is not our grace. Mary is not our sanctification. Mary is not our mother. Mary is not our queen. Jesus alone is our Saviour, our Redeemer, our Deliverer, our Advocate, our life, our hope, our mercy, our grace, and our sanctification. Jesus is our All in all.

Human Responsibility vs. Inability

Human Responsibility to Come to Christ vs. Human Inability to Come to Christ

Inviting or Commanding a Sinner to Come	Stating That a Sinner Cannot Come
Josh. 24:15 Matt. 11:28 John 7:17 John 7:37 Acts 2:38 Acts 3:19 Acts 16:31 Acts 17:30 Rev. 22:17	Matt. 19:25-26 John 3:3 John 6:44 John 6:65 John 12:39-40 Rom. 8:8 1 Cor. 2:14

Sinners are responsible to repent, believe, and come to Christ. Yet, at the same time, they are unable to repent, believe, and come to Christ.

There are 0 verses in Scripture that say a sinner can come to Christ. All verses attempted to be quoted invite or command the sinner to repent, believe, or come to Christ, but 0 say they can!

Salvation comes from God. It is the result of grace. It has nothing to do with you! A dead man lying at the bottom of the ocean floor cannot reach up to grab a life preserver. Life must be breathed into him before he can do so, and he will do so because he can do nothing else.

Israel's 'Oracle' Says "Messiah Is Here"

Daniel (the only name he is known by) and Binyamin Golden, two Israelites with autism, are nothing more than false prophets. In early July of 2020, Daniel proclaimed a message that purports that Messiah is already here and waiting, but he is being delayed because of Jews living in America and other places around the world. Daniel is calling for their return to Israel. Here is his message:

The situation is very bad, very bad Abba (father). Most people just don’t understand what is going on. And they don’t want to make teshuva (repent) now. Those who don’t want to make teshuva by now, Hashem (God) will force them to answer later for their sins, and much more suffering and tears.

We’re already beginning to feel what is happening in the world. The world we live in today has become harsh. We live in a world that is now ruled by the most wicked people that ever lived, incarnations of the most wicked people of all of the generations that lived in the past. Abba, you don’t understand how scary it is. And what is more scary is that the people of Israel do not understand.

I’m talking to all the Jews that live in the United States. Your life will not go back to what it used to be. Although now it seems as if it’s quiet and peaceful, but it’s not the case. Do you think that you will hang out in the United States until the redemption? No, no, it’s not like that!

Sure, in the past you came to Israel for vacation... but the situation is different now. Now you have to come to Israel for good, to come to Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel), even if you have to live in tents. Yes! Come with a strong desire, knowing that salvation is very near and that the Moshiach (messiah) is already here.

If you come out of your exile with the feeling that it is our duty as Jews to come to Eretz Yisrael, to make aliyah to the land that God gave us, then you will survive more easily. But, if you wait too long, for whatever reason, such as that you don’t have enough money to buy an apartment in this country, or some other reasons, then no! Woe to you! No good!

So anyone who wants to save himself, he must make aliyah to Israel now. The Land of Israel belongs exclusively to Hashem. And if we are in the Land of Israel, Hashem will protect us. If you believe in God, then you need to come. This is the place to be, and the place to receive the Moshiach.

Even though it seems like it’s the most dangerous place at the moment, it is really the safest place to be. Come to Eretz Yisrael. I’m not [only] talking to the American Jews. I’m talking to all the Jews all over the world and especially the Jews in Europe and England. It is very dangerous to be there. It [will be] very dangerous for you soon. The Shechina (Divine presence) has already left these countries. So there’s no more protection for the Jews abroad anymore. Am Yisrael (the Jewish nation), this is not a joke. This is real.

So I ask, I beg the people of Israel, come home! Come home! Moshaich is here and he’s waiting but Hashem is not giving him the sign to be revealed. But obviously, come, no matter what you have or what you don’t have. Just come. You will not lose in the end. You will only win and you will rejoice.

Although we’re currently suffering from the coronavirus, there will be more. There will be more things to come, much more difficult things in the near future because we’re at fault. We said we do not want to make teshuva. So that’s why it’s happening. Please make teshuva. That’s it. Thank you.

First of all, contrary to Daniel's claims, and that of many ignorant people these days, autistic individuals are not "more soul than body." They are not on a higher plane of intelligence than the "normal" folks, as one movie recently tried advocating. Many, if not most, have serious issues navigating life, not to mention any social issues.

Second of all, I am sorry, Jews, but you guys have already missed the Messiah. He was already here 2,000 years ago, and the majority of your people rejected Him. The majority of you still reject Him. His name is Jesus (a transliteration of the Greek, Iesous, which comes from the Hebrew, Yeshua). When He returns, "every eye will see Him" (Rev. 1:7). He will be returning as Judge of the world.

Jews, read your scriptures and pay attention to them! Read Isaiah 53. As Jesus told the Jews of His time, "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. ... For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?" (John 5:39-40, 46-47). "Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He [Jesus] explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures" (Luke 24:27).

When Jesus returns, those who have accepted Him as the Messiah and their Saviour will be ushered into the everlasting kingdom, while those who have denied Him and rejected Him will be cast into utter darkness.