There Should Be One 'Church' Per Location

It is agreed by Christians everywhere that there is only one Congregation (or "Church"), and that all believers must walk together in unity. The reality, however, is that in the majority of locations, there is either no unity, the unity is superficial, or it is not complete. It does not help in the least when believers regard others as “not belonging to Christ.” This is a great resistor to true “unity of the heart.”

In a typical location, there will inevitably be a variety of denominational congregations, one or two non-denominational congregations, a few house congregations, and a bunch of non-affiliated believers. In each congregation, there will be a set of elders who will generally have little or no relationship with other sets of elders from other congregations in the same city. Also, these “elders” in these congregations are often ‘lay people’ who have not been called by Jesus, but simply ‘good people’ committed to Christian life.

The contrast with the above is evident from Scripture: “The reason I left you in Crete was that you might straighten out what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.” Titus 1:5-6

The word “elder” in the Bible is an adjective; it is never a noun. It is not a title or an office. Likewise, watchmen (overseers) and ministers (servants) are not titles or offices; they are functions. No one leads a congregation other than the Lord Jesus through the Holy Spirit. Watchmen merely shepherd the congregation, looking out for it and protecting it, but they are not its leaders. Jesus stated clearly and unequivocally, “Do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is Christ” (Matthew 23:10). Peter gives this exhortation to elders:

“Therefore, I exhort the elders among you...shepherd the flock of God among you, overseeing not under compulsion, but willingly, according to God; and not for dishonest gain, but with eagerness; nor yet as lording it over those allotted to you, but being examples to the flock.” 1 Peter 5:1-3

Elders in the Bible were appointed on a town-by-town or city-by-city basis. In the book of Revelation, Jesus wrote letters to congregations... the congregation of Ephesus, the congregation of Philadelphia, and so on. In the mind of Jesus, there is only one congregation in each location. There may be many congregational meeting places (different houses they meet in), but there is only one congregation in each location. Observe:

“...the congregation of the Thessalonians...” 1 Thessalonians 1:1

“...the congregation of the Thessalonians...” 2 Thessalonians 1:1

“...the congregation of God which is at Corinth...” 1 Corinthians 1:2

“...the congregation of God which is at Corinth...” 2 Corinthians 1:1

“...the congregation in Ephesus...” Revelation 2:1

“...the congregation in Smyrna...” Revelation 2:8

“...the congregation in Pergamum...” Revelation 2:12

“...the congregation in Thyatira...” Revelation 2:18

“...the congregation in Sardis...” Revelation 3:1

“...the congregation in Philadelphia...” Revelation 3:7

“...the congregation in Laodicea...” Revelation 3:14

Because so many believers today think it is normal for the congregation to be fragmented, they may have never considered that the "eldership" and "leadership" structures they have may not be biblical. In fact, they are not. With only one congregation in each location (according to the Bible), then there should also only be one set of elders (local congregational overseers) in each location, too.

Once we move from the point of having many sets of elders to only one set in a given location, we then start to reconsider the type of people who are appointed as overseers. This is where the list of qualifications given by Paul to Timothy becomes important. It becomes obvious that we would not just pick ‘good people’ committed to Christian life, but people with a genuine call by Jesus.

In Acts 15, we see the phrase “the apostles and the elders” several times. Biblically, elders are the shepherds of the congregation in a given location. In a city, there might be many local congregations but there will only be a handful of elders, and these will be selected from among the ministers already in the city. Elders are chosen from existing ministers in a city.

Understanding this concept reveals much about how we perceive elders in New Testament times. We are not talking about a few slightly more spiritual men in a local congregation who volunteer their time for overseeing, and who may rotate every 3 years, or serve in this role because of a vote. We are talking about men called by Jesus to life-long ministry, selected because of their dedication and qualifications (according to Timothy), appointed by apostles and called to walk in love with the other elders to lead the whole congregation in their city. We are talking about something different to anything we have seen or experienced in our lifetimes.

This is a call to prayer – prayer for right relationship between overseers, prayer for the unity of the Body of Christ in your city, and prayer for the restoration of city-wide elders. Will you answer the call to prayer?

Our Trip to Peru: June 21 - Sept. 6

June 21st, 2022

So... Peru requires you to have either three poison jabs or a negative test result from the fraudulently-used PCR test in order to enter the country. It is said that the Rapid Antigen test is not acceptable.

Well... my wife and I had the Rapid Antigen test done anyway ($40 each) because we were not paying $170 each for a fraudulently-used PCR test and having something illegally [see Quarantine Act s.14(1)] shoved up into our brain cavity. And we certainly are not receiving the poison death jabs falsely labeled as “vaccines.”

Thanks to the Lord Jesus, we entered Peru with our negative Antigen tests without issue. Not only that, but for each flight you are supposed to have a negative test not more than 48 hours old. After visiting extended family for five days, we used the same test five days later (nearly 7 days old) to travel and visit her family. They only looked to see that it said “Negative.” They never read the top, which says “Rapid Antigen Test,” nor did they bother looking at the date. I am convinced we could use this same test when we return home.

We prayed that Yahweh would help us and make the entire process smooth and simple, and that he would blind the eyes of those looking for certain criteria in order to enter. The entire trip down went smooth without a hitch.

Returning to Canada will be fun! We will not be using ArriveCAN. The government website states, “Canadian citizens, permanent residents . . . will not be denied boarding or entry.” They cannot deny such because it would violate section 6(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms regarding Mobility Rights, which states, “Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in, and leave Canada.” If they attempt to select us for random PCR testing, I have a bunch of laws ready to fight them with. We will not be performing anything they want us to (none of the tests or quarantine), nor paying any fines they attempt to give us. The fines will be thrown out in court as they have been for hundreds of people over the course of this scamdemic.

September 6th, 2022

My family (my wife, my 3-year-old daughter, and my 1-year-old son) and I returned from our two-month visit to my wife's family in Peru. Peru to Mexico was pretty uneventful. In Mexico, two people asked about ArriveCAN. The first guy, I said, "It is not required of Canadian citizens." He responded, "You are Canadian? Okay, so sorry, sir. Go on." The second guy, I said the same thing and gave him a copy of these words:

• On the government website on the page for ArriveCAN under the heading 'If you don't submit your information through ArriveCAN," it states, "Canadian citizens, permanent residents ... will not be denied boarding or entry."
• Even the description under the ArriveCAN app on both Apple and Google stores states, "Travellers with a right to enter Canada, such as Canadian citizens, Canadian permanent residents ... will not be denied boarding of their flight or entry to Canada if they do not use ArriveCAN."
• The supreme law of Canada, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, under section 6, 'Mobility Rights," states, "Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in, and leave Canada."
• On our passport it states unequivocally that we are "to pass freely, without delay or hindrance."

No debates. No arguments. Nothing.

Upon arrival at Toronto Pearson International Airport is where we were accosted by Trudeau's brainless Liberal Gestapo thugs, including clowns impersonating Peace Officers.

The Transit Officer directed us to Public Health because we did not agree to the Terms of Service for ArriveCAN. We tried to by-pass this as we have the right to return home without conditions or obstructions [section 6(1) of the Charter, inside page of my passport, etc.], but were threatened that if we did the police would be involved.

We told the Quarantine Officer and the Public Health Officer that we do not agree to the Terms of Service of the ArriveCAN app, which is not a requirement of Canadians. They kept insisting that it is "mandatory." I asked the Quarantine Officer and the Public Health Officer at least three (3) times (perhaps as many as five (5) times) for them to produce their certificate from the Minister of Health in accordance with section 5(4) of the Quarantine Act. They refused to do so, ignorantly asking, "Who are you?" I asked them to verify, in writing and signed under the penalty of perjury, that they have the proper delegated authority to ask us the questions they wanted to ask us. They refused.

I informed them that according to section 5(4) of the Quarantine Act, they are required by Law to produce their certificate. They ignored me. They kept trying to insist on testing. I informed them that according to section 14(1) of the Quarantine Act, the fraudulently used PCR is a violation of my bodily autonomy and the Law. They ignored me. When they wanted to write me a ticket and the police were involved, I told all of them that the Quarantine Act refers specifically to the Criminal Code of Canada when defining what a Peace Officer is, which does not include a Quarantine Officer or a Public Health Officer. I informed all of them that Public Health does not have the authority or jurisdiction to write a ticket. They all tried claiming that section 58 of the Quarantine Act gives them this right, which is false. Clearly they have never read the Quarantine Act. Section 58 says no such thing and gives them no such right, not to mention it would violate the clear definition as to what constitutes a Peace Officer. They claim they are following the Quarantine Act, yet when I laid out three (3) clear violations of the Act, they ignored my words completely. They did not even want to read what the Act says when offered (or any of the other laws their oath requires them to uphold).

A clown wearing a turban (cannot even respect the uniform) and impersonating a real police officer attempted to intimidate and threaten me. The Quarantine Officer and Public Health Officer (and another person from their crew) tried threatening, blackmailing, and manipulating my wife, who is a Permanent Resident, into complying with their illegal demands by telling her that their illegal and invalid fine could prevent her from ever becoming a Canadian Citizen. [This has been confirmed by three different lawyers since this time to have been false, and each time they suggested we should file a complaint.]

They issued us both fines for $6255 each.

We filled out section three on the back of the tickets, declaring “Not Guilty” and demanding a trial, and sent them unsigned by registered mail. They know the tickets are illegal and invalid, just as I do. I hope it goes to trial, but from what I keep hearing, either the Crown or PH ends up dropping them before it ever gets to the trial date because they know they do not have a case.

All in all, the clowns involved in accosting my family committed these crimes: Assault [265(1)], Harassment [264(1)], Threats [264.1(1)], Torture [269.1(1)], Extortion [346(1)], Fraud [380(1)], and Intimidation [423(1)]. If it goes to trial, I will be asking for full disclosure, and hopefully the names of these clowns are present so I can file criminal charges against each one of them. Sadly, I was not recording the events and did not get names and information.

UPDATE:
The fraudulent charges against my wife and I were withdrawn by the Crown on April 8, 2024. They knew they did not have a case against us. I received two notices for Early Resolution meetings, both of which never took place.

Are All Denominations Cults?

ALL denominations are cults to one degree or another!

I am not playing it safe. I said what I said. It is what it is.

A cult is a group (religious or non-religious) that follows a particular set of beliefs or theological system. While there are the more obvious cults (the low hanging fruit), like the Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Christian Science, Christadelphians, and the Moonies, there are also cults within Christendom and among Christians. For example: the KJV-Only group is a cult. Here are some characteristics of a cult:

1. Dictatorial: Restricts the freedom to analyze for yourself or to question.
2. Controlling: Controls people. Employs emotional manipulation to effect control over members by twisting the Scriptures, threatening loss of salvation, or resorting to guilt at the supposed disappointment of God.
3. Speculative: Encourages unquestioning commitment to its leadership (whether alive or dead) and their teachings, which are typically bogus, to the point of discouraging studying the teaching of others.
4. Arrogant: Claims special revelation or special authority converging on one individual at the ultimate head of the organization.
5. Legalistic: Indirectly and subtly insists that dependence on their teachings and methods is a condition for salvation, usually based on a perversion of the Scriptures.
6. Formularized: Asserts rigid uniformity to their direction, which must be identical for all members, as the only way a person can enter into or maintain an undefiled relationship with God.
7. Restricted: Restricts access to information. Contrives an additional mediator, either directly through the leaders of the group or indirectly through the instruction of the group, as necessary in order to have relationship with God, thereby effectively making the group's leadership, instead of Jesus, the gatekeepers to God.
8. Isolated: Restricts access to family members who are not part of the group. Minimizes contract with people outside the group with some perverted instruction on purity and remaining undefiled; pushes for a polarized us-versus-them mentality, even and especially against others within the Body of Christ.
9. Elitist: Displays self-righteousness by claiming to be the only group discovering or maintaining the "truth" and the only group that has the authority to credit others with faithfulness to the "truth."
10. Abusive: Domineeringly forces women and children into duties warped with the absence of compassion, justice, and mercy, thereby creating the ideal environment for sexual exploitation.
11. Passive Aggressive: Embeds the practice of unmerciful shunning and disdainfully avoiding those who question the teachings of the group as the social norm through a perversion of ex-communication.
12. Cowardly: Avoids publicly addressing the challenges and scrutiny brought by leaders and elders of other congregations.
13. Superficial: Perverts modesty through dictatorial uniformity for all members according to misinterpretations of the Scriptures or culturally invented standards not specified in the Scriptures.

A cult does not need to possess every one of the characteristics above in abundance in order to be a cult. The more of these characteristics and warning signs that are present, the more cultic and dangerous the group is, especially to your relationship with the Lord Jesus.

Much of our experience of “church” is unbiblical and indefensible from the Bible, save for twisting specific, random, isolated verses ripped out of their immediate context the way the devil quoted Scripture to Jesus.

Were you aware that you cannot “go to church”? This kind of language was foreign to Jesus’ apostles and other disciples. You cannot “go to” something that you are! Ponder that promptly.

Use critical thinking and investigate the traditions and practices of Oriental Orthodox Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Catholics, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, "Calvinists," Anglicans, Anabaptists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists, Pentecostals, etc., and you will soon discover that their traditions and practices do not square with the Scriptures. But are they willing to change and conform to the Scriptures? Not on your life! They do not want to forfeit power or control.

Attitudes are as much cult-like as teachings are. If you have ever left a particular “church” or denomination (because you moved, or for any other reason), how many of your “friends” stayed in touch? How many of them made efforts to reach out? There are the odd few who will, because they truly know Christ and have His love in their hearts. (Providing it has nothing to do with you being part of a particular clique.) However, most “churches,” as soon as you are no longer attending, regardless of the reason, the people cut all ties with you. You probably have friends that you made in high school who still keep in touch, but you change “churches” or denominations and the “friends” you made there all of a sudden pretend you do not exist. Does that sound “Christian”? Is that how they learned Christ?

The more I carefully think about it, the more I am convinced that ALL denominations are cults—to one degree or another. I am not saying that there are no true believers in them, or that I am the only true Christian. That would be extremely naive and foolish. By the grace of God, thankfully I am not so foolish.

If you carefully, and discerningly, investigate “church” history, you will discover that since the 4th century every denomination has implemented traditions and practices that deviate from those instituted by the Lord Jesus and His apostles. Who gave them this right or authority? Many of those traditions and practices, while being rooted in paganism, still mirror Catholicism.

“Was it from you that the word of God first went forth? Or has it arrived to you only?” 1 Cor. 14:36

Was it from the __________ [insert denomination] that the word of God first went forth? Or has it arrived to the __________ [insert denomination] only? In other words, who gave any denomination the right or authority to change any of the traditions and practices instituted by the Lord Jesus and His apostles? Who gave them the right or authority to “do church” differently than the Lord and His apostles prescribed? Who gave them the right or authority to choose their own method via pragmatism?

Answer: NO ONE!!!

Paul repeatedly mentioned that all the congregations were taught, and practiced, the same things. He praised them for following his traditions. If we observe that the apostles were pleased when a congregation followed one specific tradition of congregational practice (1 Cor. 11:2), then we would be expected to apply that approval to other patterns we see modeled by the apostles in their establishment of congregations. The Congregation, the Bride of Christ, is too eternally important to allow her to deviate from traditions established by the Lord and His apostles.

If your “church” does not look and function as we see recorded in God’s holy Word, as was practiced for the first 300 years until Emperor Constantine paganized Christianity, then it is no “church” at all. All denominations are ruled and governed by men who will throw hissy fits if you attempt to deviate from their prescribed traditions and practices. If you get in the way of their power, position, popularity, or pay check, they will turn on you and engage in the most egregious forms of IMAX-level projection, ad hominem, name calling, and character assassination attempts. If you do not believe me, try it.

If you bother to take the time to think about this, to carefully and discerningly analyze it, you will see that I am absolutely correct. When a denomination controls your thoughts, beliefs, and behaviours, it absolutely is a cult. If you are not allowed to question or challenge anything, it absolutely is a cult. Regardless of how you “feel” about it or whether it “offends” you.

Paul writes of both the Ephesians and the Colossians that they had love for “all the saints” (Eph. 1:15; Col. 1:4). How many “Christians” today can say the same? I want to fellowship with genuine believers from all denominations who truly belong to Christ Jesus. We may come from different cultures and backgrounds, but we have the most amazing thing in common—the Lord Jesus and our salvation. If I meet a foreign Christian in the grocery store (who is on vacation), I want to invite him/her over for a meal and to fellowship. This is the love that demonstrates to the world that we are indeed Christians—followers of the Lord Jesus.

If you truly know Christ Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, and your life reflects Him and demonstrates that you have been touched by Him, and you are truly starving for genuine Christian fellowship, then please reach out to me. I would love to hear from you. You can contact me through my website: https://timothyklaver.com Please introduce yourself and tell me a bit about you. If you have prayer requests, please share them with me. Let us make a world-wide community of loving Christians.

Do You Believe Dinosaurs Are a Hoax?

Unbelievably, there are individuals, such as Jeremy James, who ignorantly believe that “dinosaurs” (dragons) are a myth and a complete fraud. Not only do these people ignore historic writings where the authors describe dragons of varying types, not only do they ignore ancient paintings of dragons that just happen to resemble our “dinosaurs” of today, but they also claim that none of the ancient world dug up any such animals or recorded having dug them up.

First, the great catastrophe that wiped out the majority of these creatures was Noah’s flood; not some asteroid or volcano. Second, these civilizations likely encountered some of these creatures and killed them, and so were not overly surprised by some of them. Third, the ancients were not obsessed with the past or with dead bones the way we are. When they dug up bones, like any normal person, they discarded them. Last, the historical writings describing dragons (not the mythical Hollywood dragons you are used to) are clear evidence of their existence. Not only that, but do you honestly believe the Chinese have eleven real animals and one mythical animal on their calendar?

There are far more “dinosaurs” today compared to when I was a child. However, how many of them have actual fossils and how many are purely fiction, found only in books and videos? As I said in the past, one of their “dinosaurs” they have only ever found two arm bones and three vertebrae, and yet they show you what it looked like and give you a full back story on it. If you have never seen a human being before and all you find are two arm bones and three vertebrae, not only will you never be able to produce an accurate depiction of how they looked, but you also will never know how they behaved, what they ate, or how powerful they were.

Another dinosaur (I believe it was the Spinosaurus), they talk about how powerful it was and how sharp its claws were and built a robot arm to “replicate” its power and claws. All the bones tell you is that it once lived and is now dead. There is no scientific way that you could know how powerful it was or to accurately reflect it. This robot arm was pure conjecture. The robot arm can be as weak or as strong as you make it, and it was likely an exaggeration of the creature’s true power, which they claim its claws could rip right through a car door like butter. They have zero physical, scientific evidence of what these creatures looked like, how they behaved, what they ate, or how powerful they were. The shape of teeth does not tell you anything. If you find a well-preserved “dinosaur,” all that tells you is what its last meal was. For all you know, they were omnivores.

You need to learn to think critically for yourself and stop blindly believing all the crap these “scientific” liars hoist upon you. Everything they tell you about these creatures, where is the evidence to back their stories? Have they ever observed these creatures in order to verify what they are saying? Evidential facts get impaled by these people’s conviction of dogma, too. They only see what they want to see, what they have been told to see. This is why they never date the bones they find, because they believe by faith that they are millions of years old, and are afraid of the facts to contradict their beliefs. Ignorant fools, such as Jeremy James, who deny the existence of “dinosaurs” and the physical evidence before their eyes suffer from a special kind of delusion. But then again, Jeremy James is one of those ignorant clowns who believes the Earth to be flat and stationary. Go figure.

If “dinosaurs” are a complete hoax, as these individuals claim, then how do they explain this Mayan mural from around A.D. 600 depicting the head of a “dinosaur”? The head is clearly larger than the heads of the people carrying it. These people were not stupid (though we cannot say the same for many people today). Furthermore, how do they explain the Nasca Indians (c. 200 B.C. to A.D. 600) depicting “dinosaurs” in their art, as seen in the three stones below? What is even more fascinating is that Sauropod frills, such as seen on the Diplodocus in the second stone, were not found until 1992. Yet, they were being drawn correctly 2,000 years earlier by the Nasca Indians!

A stone temple in Cambodia from A.D. 1186 has an unmistakeable carving of a Stegosaurus on it. How did they know what a Stegosaurus looked like 800 years ago if “dinosaurs” are a complete hoax, or if they have supposedly been extinct for some “65 million years“?

In Acambaro, Mexico in 1945, a bunch of figurines were discovered. These figurines have been dated back to circa 2500 B.C. There were some 33,000 sculptures unearthed, hundreds of which appear to be dinosaurs, as you can see from the other images. And notice how Iguanodon was sculpted perfectly as we now know he looked today, as opposed to the early erroneous depictions. How do these individuals account for this? Was the entire world in on this fraudulent hoax prior to the 19th century when they first “discovered” them? These individuals, such as Jeremy James, are intellectually embarrassing.

P.S.: The reason I put "dinosaurs" in quotation marks is because the correct term for these creatures, before the crook Richard Owen coined the phrase 'dinosaur,' was DRAGONS. This term was being used for centuries before the mythical Hollywood "dragons" arrived on the scene to obscure the reality (the same way 'unicorn' underwent a definition change in dictionaries in favour of the mythical and dropping the reality).

YHWH Written On Human DNA

Yahweh (or Yahowah), the name of God, is written on the human DNA. The Tetragrammaton, YHWH, as God first identifies Himself to Moses (Ex. 3:14), corresponds to the numbers 10-5-6-5. “Coincidentally” (for those people unfamiliar with the law of large numbers) 10-5-6-5 is also the spacing of the base pairs in the human DNA.

This alone constitutes the basis for religious exemption of these toxic chemical cocktail bio-weapons falsely labeled as “vaccines”!

Former Moderna CEO Tal Zaks said, “We’re actually hacking the software of life.” For those with intelligence who not only have the cognitive capacity to understand those words but also have the ability to read between the lines (something the pathetic brainless hacks writing for so-called “fact checking” entities quite obviously lack), he absolutely did say that mRNA “vaccines” change your DNA. Only unintelligent clowns who lack the ability to read (or listen) and understand will attempt to deny this fact.

We are made in the image of God in more ways than one, and the enemy seeks to undermine and destroy this. The enemy frequently employs wicked men who also hate God to perform his bidding. Should it come as a surprise that they are trying to change man’s DNA to reflect something other than our Creator?

Daily Gaslighting Practices

The idea that you need to hold a particular title or position or that you need a degree in something in order to understand it is FALSE; it simply is not true. It is a fallacy and it is gaslighting. You do not need to be an “authority,” an “expert,” a “theologian,” or a “scholar.” (What even determines whether you are an “authority,” an “expert,” a “theologian,” or a “scholar,” since different groups have their own and they are not in agreement? What determines who is right?) It does not matter if you have a degree in rocket science or shovelling manure; if you can read and understand, then you are qualified to speak on it, providing you have actually done your homework and researched the subject thoroughly before you attempt to speak on it. Otherwise you are a mere fool who talks for the sake of hearing your own voice.

Atheists are typical of this. They want to gaslight you on what is or is not science (something they clearly do not understand themselves), what does or does not constitute as medicine, as well as all their other bogus beliefs, but when it comes to religion they are each somehow self-appointed “experts” who have never researched it honestly and do not have the slightest clue what they are talking about. They read/heard someone say something they blindly agree with and then they ignorantly parrot it as if having any kind of force of validity. It sounded good to them, so they repeat it. Even though the argument can be easily refuted ten different ways, they stand by it and repeat it no matter how many times you dismantle and obliterate it. They keep beating their favourite dead horses expecting them to magically get up and win them the race.

The key here is having the ability to read and to understand, which most of these people do not have. First, they have no interest in reading the Bible, let alone seeking to understand it. “If [you] never look to see what it says, [you] can’t test to see if it’s true or even take the exam.” Second, what little they do read they fail to understand. Or they talk to some clown who refers to him/herself as a “Christian,” but does not know the first thing about Christianity or the Bible and has several wacky beliefs, and ass-u-me that is what biblical Christianity is. It is easy to refute your own self-erected straw men.

STOP listening to so-called “experts” and “authorities”! Find out for yourself. THINK for yourself! Professor Richard Feynman has some excellent words for you to heed:

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

“Since then I never pay attention to anything by ‘experts.’ I calculate everything myself.”

“Don’t pay attention to ‘authorities,’ think for yourself.”

“Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, ‘Is it reasonable?’”

“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.”

“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.”

“When your ‘education’ limits your imagination it’s called indoctrination. Those who cannot think for themselves are truly lost.
Education should be a rewarding experience which allows you to think, imagine, question, doubt and solve problems.”

“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.”

By the way, according to the Noah Webster American Dictionary of the English Language, a "scholar" is nothing more than "One who learns of a teacher; one who is under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; hence, any member of a college, academy or school; applicable to the learner of any art, science or branch of literature." A "scholar" is not, as people tend to use the term today, an "expert" of some kind. So when ignorant people talk about "our scholars say/teach such and such," they are really saying, "our students say/teach such and such." Since when do we listen to students? Should you not be saying "our doctors say/teach such and such," since "doctor" used to mean "teacher"?

When some ignorant clowns says, "the scholars say this," make sure that you laugh directly in his/her face because he/she clearly does not know what they are talking about, and they are desperately reaching in an attempt to be right and make you wrong. This is no different than that child who always used to know someone in their family who just happened to do that particular thing that proves you are wrong and support his/her ridiculously asinine lies.

The Trinity

The expression of the Trinity is made throughout the entire Bible:

One God

1 Tim. 2:5; Deut. 4:35, 6:4; Is. 43:10-11.

Plurality of One God: Gen. 1:26; 3:22; 11:7; Is. 6:8.

Isa 9:6 shows the multiple persons of God as Father, Son, and Counsellor (a.k.a., Comforter, which Jesus said He would send to His disciples [John 15:26]).

The Father is God

Is. 6:3; 1 Cor. 8:6; John 17:1-3; 2 Cor. 1:3; Phil. 2:11; Col. 1:3; 1 Pet. 1:2; Matt. 6:8; 7:21; Gal. 1:1.

The Son is God

John 12:41; 5:18; 20:28; 1:1-14; 9:35-37; Titus 2:13; Rom. 9:5; 2 Pet. 1:1; Col. 2:9; Heb. 1:8-10; Rev. 1:8, 18; Is. 7:14; 45:21-22; Mic. 5:2; Matt. 1:23.

The Spirit is God

John 16:13; Heb. 9:14; Acts 5:3-4; 2 Cor. 3:17; John 15:26.

Who raised Jesus from the dead?

Father: Rom. 6:4; Acts 3:26; 1 Thess. 1:10.

Son: John 2:19-21; 10:17-18.

Spirit: Rom. 8:11.

God: Heb. 13:20; Acts 13:30; 17:31.

Who is God?

Father: Eph. 4:6.

Son: Titus 2:13; John 1:1; 20:28; 9:35-37.

Spirit: Gen. 1:2; Ps. 104:30.

God: Gen. 1:1; Heb. 11:3.

Who saves man?

Father: 1 Pet. 1:3.

Son: John 5:21; 4:14.

Spirit: John 3:6; Titus 3:5.

God: 1 John 3:9.

Who justifies man?

Father: Jer. 23:6; 2 Cor. 5:19.

Son: Rom. 5:9; 10:4; 2 Cor. 5:19, 21.

Spirit: 1 Cor. 6:11; Gal. 5:5.

God: Rom. 4:6; 9:33.

Who sanctifies man?

Father: Jude 1.

Son: Titus 2:14.

Spirit: 1 Pet. 1:2.

God: Ex. 31:13.

Persons of God do: Of the Father, by the Son, through the Spirit (1 Cor. 8:6; John 15:26).

Origins of Yahweh and Jehovah

In Exodus 3:14, God revealed Himself as “I AM that I AM” (יהוה). Sometime before the 1st century A.D., it became common for Judaites to superstitiously avoid saying the divine name for fear of misusing it and breaking the commandment, “You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain” (Ex. 20:15; Deut. 5:11 — 3rd for Judaites and Protestants, 2nd for Catholics and Lutherans). Whenever they read Scripture aloud and encountered the divine name, they substituted another Hebrew word, “Adonai” (which means “Lord” or “my Lord”), in its place.

When Hebrew eventually developed written vowels, which appeared as small marks called vowel points and were placed above and below the consonants of a word, some Judaites in the 6th or 7th century began to place the vowel points for “Adonai” over the consonants for “Yahweh” to remind the reader of Scripture to say “Adonai” whenever he read “Yahweh.”

Around the 13th century, when Christian scholars took the consonants of “YHWH” and pronounced it with the vowels of “Adonai,” it resulted in the sound, “Yahowah.” This was then Latinized as “Jehovah,” the first recorded use of this spelling made by Raymundus Martini, a Spanish Dominican monk, in 1270.

Without argument, the precise vowels and pronunciation are unknown. While most English translations opt to use “LORD” in place of the Tetragrammaton, YHWH, the ASV (American Standard Version, 1901) and LSB (Legacy Standard Bible, 2021) are unique. The ASV opted to render it as “Jehovah,” while the LSB opted to render it as “Yahweh.” After all, it is God’s name we are talking about here, which certainly is not Allah.

The practice of rendering it “LORD,” as opposed to “Lord” (which typically renders the Hebrew, “Adonai”), follows the custom intitated by the Septuagint (which used the Greek, “Kurios”), and perpetuated in the Latin Vulgate. Some Judaite traditions, however, choose to render YHWH as “HaShem” (literally, “the Name”).

Proper names are never translated but rather transliterated. The letter J was the last letter added to the English alphabet. The Latinized Jesus (or Iesus, as it originally appeared) comes from the Greek, Iésous (transliteration of Ἰησοῦς), and the Hebrew, Yehoshua (transliteration of יְהוֹשׁוּעַ), which both mean “Yahweh saves” or “Yahweh is salvation.”

Since certain letters in certain languages have a different sound than in English, such as the letter J in Spanish having both an H sound (as in “jalepeño”) and a Y sound (as in “Jaci”), could it be possible that the Y and I words in Hebrew and Greek were pronounced with a sound similar to the sound of J in English? Well, according to www.howtopronounce.com, Ἰησοῦς is pronounced with an H sound (the same as the Spanish pronunciation of Jesus), and יְהוֹשׁוּעַ is pronounced with a Y sound. So where and why did words like Joshua and Jesus, which start with Y and I in the Hebrew and Greek (respectively), suddenly get the sound of J (such as George)?

Genius Betrayed

History is replete with stories of genius betrayed by backward thought and jealously, but most pathetically, by greed and money.

Forward momentum in humanity is always disrupted by these lame and pathetic culprits. Those with celebrity status, money, and political connections, due to their massive ego and stubborn pride, use ad hominem attack against their betters because they cannot engage them on the merit of their work. Three such examples are: Louis Pasteur vs. Antoine Béchamp; Thomas Edison vs. Nikola Tesla; and Richard Owen vs. Gideon Mantell.

If you cannot humble yourself to acknowledge that someone else’s work is superior to your own, and instead you have to resort to denial, deflection, projection, censorship, "cancelling," manipulation, smearing, gaslighting, jamming, framing, ad hominem, name calling, character assassination, intimidation, and the use of fallacious arguments that have no basis in reality, you are confessing your own intellectual bankruptcy.

When you cannot have a serious, mature, respectful, intelligent, rational, honest conversation, but instead have to go after the individual in order to circumvent what they are saying, in order to dodge and evade the issues (often by way of obfuscation, technicalities, ambiguous language, and equivocation), being unable to argue the main point and never providing a reasonable refutation or an intelligent counter-argument (merely presenting subjective opinions and irrational feelings), you are confessing your own intellectual bankruptcy.

Show yourself to possess integrity, character, and honour; be the bigger man and take the high road.

Reform and Conform Yourself to ALL Truth

"It is a small and narrow mind that is afraid to change; it is a sign of greatness that one is prepared to admit at times that one has been mistaken, and that therefore you have had to change your position." ―David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Regardless of what the situation or scenario is (creation, religion, church doctrine, church practice, medicine, etc.), once you learn the truth, if you were conned, if you were manipulated, if you were lied to or misled (deliberately or ignorantly) and were wrong, it is okay to change course.

You should align with the truth, if you have any integrity, character, or honour.

Once you learn the truth and that you are mistaken, once you learn that you were conned, that you were manipulated, that you were lied to or misled (deliberately or ignorantly), if you continue on with the lie, now you have become a party to it; now you are aiding and abetting that lie and the perpetrators of that lie.

“You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” John 8:32

Anytime you learn truth, there is a sense of being set free; free from the chains that once bound you. If something you believe to be true tugs at you, you should investigate it, and do so with prayer and great discernment. Often people exchange one lie for another lie. When I was a child being taught about the Pangaean Theory, something deep inside tugged at me; the entire concept made absolutely zero sense unless every continent was nothing more than an island floating atop the water.

A word of caution: When you discover the truth, or it is revealed to you by someone else, often you will become angry and try to defend the lie. You will want to hold on to the lie rather than admitting you were conned, manipulated, lied to or misled. Your pride is a very powerful thing. Even as you fight the truth, the information will ring true with your core being.

“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” —Arthur Schopenhauer