Better Godliness Through Love

2007-06-17T02:20:00.000-07:00

Loving others is not the channel to loving God. Loving others is law. Loving God is the most perfect expression of love. Expressing it through loving others is like applause. Loving others is the jelly in my eye that I look through, while vision itself is loving God.

If you focus on loving others and not on loving God, you are loving others, not God. Love God first. Honor God First!!

Antiquity and Sexual Morality

2007-06-14T09:56:00.001-07:00

This Fox news article saying caveman sex was kinky offends sensibilities.

Regardless of whether 'cavemen' had strange sex, sexual perversion is wrong. Sodom and Gomorrah had bad sex about 5,000 years ago, and they were smashed with burning sulfur in the same way Egypt was hit with 7 plagues. Wanting sex more than wanting what is good is a plague upon anyone.

The Venus of Willendorf is not necessarily pornography. Look at the nudes of the middle ages and renaissance. Were they pornography? Are today's artistic nude pieces? The photos of 10,000 naked people standing in Barcelona? Consider it closely.

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This image is a violation of decency and is nothing less than unclassy. Gatwick, I will never fly to you.

Sexual decency and privacy are honorable. May it make you feel good and okay and honorable rather than cowardly.

A Mature Life

2007-03-25T15:08:00.000-07:00

Humans can be functioning in a mature manner by the time they are ~18 years old and successful in society en masse. I would recommend to any middle-school age human to begin socially investigating topics of technology, art, spirituality, science, or any topic that they find exciting, so as to be well versed in it and immersed in an enjoyable field by the time they are in their late teenage years. Current school systems do not provide this. Homeschooling is an excellent way for a child to advance along their chosen path and develop a good and full and successful life early on.

Spiritual goodness, a bountiful private education from an early age, advanced technologies, and a community of possibility can help a human produce and experience an ideal life. Pursuing this dream for yourself and your children will enhance your relationship with God and with yourself and your neighbors and family.

Education Freedom

Sexual Covenant Between Man Woman and God

2007-02-20T20:34:00.000-08:00

The sexual portion, be it sustainable on a genetic and familial level by generations and infinitely so as well as outwards, within the context of God's laws and love, no bond has been broken in this place.

Beyond this, the contract is between the man and woman and God. Beyond that, society with the man and woman and God. If these are obeyed to the satisfaction of all and the tenets above, what bond has been broken?

Kirk Douglas on His 90th

2006-12-12T13:37:00.000-08:00

Kirk Douglas Issues Editorial on His 90th

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 My name is Kirk Douglas. You may know me. If you don't ... Google me. I was a movie star and I'm Michael Douglas' dad, Catherine Zeta-Jones' father-in-law, and the grandparents of their two children. Today I celebrate my 90th birthday.

I have a message to convey to America's young people. A 90th birthday is special. In my case, this birthday is not only special but miraculous. I survived World War II, a helicopter crash, a stroke, and two new knees.

It's a tradition that when a "birthday boy" stands over his cake he makes a silent wish for his life and then blows out the candles. I have followed that tradition for 89 years but on my 90th birthday, I have decided to rebel. Instead of making a silent wish for myself, I want to make a LOUD wish for THE WORLD.

Let's face it: THE WORLD IS IN A MESS and you are inheriting it. Generation Y, you are on the cusp. You are the group facing many problems: abject poverty, global warming, genocide, AIDS, and suicide bombers to name a few. These problems exist, and the world is silent. We have done very little to solve these problems. Now, we leave it to you. You have to fix it because the situation is intolerable.

You need to rebel, to speak up, write, vote, and care about people and the world you live in. We live in the best country in the world. I know. My parents were Russian immigrants. America is a country where EVERYONE, regardless of race, creed, or age has a chance. I had that chance. You are the generation that is most impacted and the generation that can make a difference.

I love this country because I came from a life of poverty. I was able to work my way through college and go into acting, the field that I love. There is no guarantee in this country that you will be successful. But you always have a chance. Nothing should interfere with it. You have to make sure that nothing stands in the way.

When I blow out my candles -- 90! ... it will take a long time ... but I'll be thinking of you.

Prayer

2006-12-08T03:38:00.000-08:00

I follow the path of God. You, Ahmedinejad, will not bring down the Most holy God's wrath upon me for your human judgements.

May the leaders of the West follow Jesus Christ and God into heaven. May the Middle East follow God through their ways and seek to remedy their faults.

May God deliver us all from evil and give us great wisdom, love, mercy, and justice.

Love and Sociology

2006-11-21T08:18:00.000-08:00

For a man, a woman is a companion, not a total mental/emotional/social circuit.

WBUR 90.9 has produced a discussion on social isolation, marriage, and love. It seems that the xenophobic and isolationist tendencies of Americans during the 20th century and especially since the 1970's and spiking in the 1980's have produced a far closer reliance on the marriage/sexual relationship. For some it may be asked to fulfill the role previously supplied or enjoyed through friendships and other relationships.

Automobile, internet, television, cynicism, money.

We've seen a dramatic reversal of the xenophobic element, to the point of [periodically] pouring the heart out to total strangers and psychologists. There is no more town square, and it has been replaced by the chatroom and the marriage.

This can be compared to the Rubens tube and a wave measuring distance/density. The stranger, being very distant socially, has become upswung, the normal close relationships have been downswung, and the very close relationships have been far upswung. This is in response to an intensification of social Hz.

Arguably, this is sexual art

2006-10-26T22:52:00.000-07:00

I hate to link to moronlandmedia, but i want you to see some of these ceramic urinals of flowers and shells. Arguably, this is sexual art.

Next revolution, fire.

Better Godliness Through Sex

2006-10-09T20:54:00.000-07:00

Sunday, October 08, 2006

16:57 - Promiscuity

Yay sex. Sex is an awesome part of life, but there's way more to consider than just the act. Any true loving sex could cause babies, and when a woman is pregnant, lives are at stake. The baby's life is precious and vulnerable, and the woman carrying the baby is nearly as vulnerable. Her sexual partner should be a good mate emotionally, socially, and physically for her in such a case, and to have sex irresponsibly or in reckless ways not accounting for this kind of possibility is dangerous, and not hot.

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Heather

well said - people should have sex, this is an important part of life, but it is also a precious one! in today's culture and society it's everywhere...used in all the wrong ways. it should be loving :)

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I do not like to make exceptions. No people will be excluded. Only behaviors and attitudes.

It's just not attractive! I would not enjoy dating a chick who is a porn star or wants to be, or wants their nakedness online openly. I'd call it no chick whose express purpose is sex, or who really emphasizes her sexuality unless it's in such a tasteful manner and is clearly ajoined by ethics. No chick who is evil or wants to be seen as evil, or loves the idea of sin or hating. Chicks who like chicks sexually are also rather a turn off. Chicks who are super prideful or jealous or stomping of other chicks. These chicks are not given my love muffins.

Chicks who love good, who love children, who love their families and want to make their own families. Chicks who love intelligent pursuits and nature and culture, chicks who are spiritual and religious. Chicks who have healthy sexual and social feelings. *These* chicks are the ones who I preserve my muffins of love for.

The Pope and Islam

2006-09-18T22:06:00.000-07:00

It seems that the Pope has made an announcement that indicates Islam should refrain from using or espousing violence. I agree that violence and armed conflict have no place in this world.

I wonder, did the Pope cite the dismissal of the Iranian leaders of suicide bombing? I am so pleased that Iranian leaders denounced suicide bombing as a tactic. That makes me hopeful and proud.

I do hope the Pope remembered to mention that event and other positive ones like it in the Islamic world. If he failed to recognize things like that, he is grouping all Islam together into one bundle, when Christianity is not even in one bundle, except under the Lord of Abraham, Isaac, and Joesph, and the Lord's son Jesus Christ.

Before burning the Pope in effigy, consider what that is saying. When you consider such an action, do not cry against Christ or God. Remember that any call for violence is unGodly, and that God is infinitely just and perfect and requires no help from us humans to achieve justice. Merely obedience and love. Let the meekest inherit the earth, and take no revenge.

Jesus Christ <3

2006-09-13T21:35:00.000-07:00

I love God! God has given me such good things. I owe God everything. God has given us Jesus Christ to pay what we owe! All we have to do is accept Jesus Christ's action and standing as the son of God and our debts are paid.

2006-09-11T13:13:00.000-07:00

The world is God's bride. Sin is the pimple on her lip. Jesus is the love anyway. A relationship with God is the kiss.

Hippo And Impala

2006-09-10T23:13:00.000-07:00

http://www.filecabi.net/video/mouthtohippo.html

Dude this is amazing! That hippo saved the baby impala deer from a croc and then gave it mouth to mouth resuccitation! I am amazed.

It reminds me of these birds I had empathy with at the veterinary clinic in Lowell. They were in this place and they were like frantic about what was going on. There were dogs barking and they were all confused and wondered what this place full of suffering was.

So I did my best to tell them what was happening. They seemed to understand after explaining it a few times. One of the birds was pushy and the other was more reserved. It was amazing! They also told me something awful was going on in the place, and I prayed about it and I know justice shall be served. Then all over the place I've empathed animals talking about all kinds of medical stuff and humanlike social interactions. Even my cats. Now I see this hippopotomus give another animal mouth-to-mouth resuccitation, like they'd know. The video predates my visit, but only by about a week, and I just saw it tonight.

This goes along with the 100th monkey principle. If you teach 99 isolated monkeys something, 1 monkey elsewhere in the world will know how to do it! It is totally telepathy demonstrated in animals. I am one with the animals, I am a man, and I love you God. Your world is something amazing.

Better Godliness Thru Right Emotion

2006-08-24T17:24:00.000-07:00

It may also be so that emotion can be stored and translated out from a person's youth to their adulthood. Especially so if it interacts with their 'mental growth plates'.

Love

2006-08-21T18:39:00.000-07:00

In a way, pleasing your parents is service to God, which is defined in the way your parents choose. This in a way extends to our many mothers and fathers in society, 'nationhood' , and law.

However, what does this produce, when great national or economic fathers want you to honor them by making them fabulously or disproportionately wealthy, which they then misuse?

Bad models. When do you stop following your parent because they are not following God? Parent/nation/society.

God's Justice is Perfect

2006-08-18T07:01:00.000-07:00

All shall be tested. the way certain folk react to it and the strengths
they build indicates their goodness or evil. 'no discipline is pleasant in
its study, but it's fruit is pleasant.' so we refine ourselves with our
minds either according to God's justice or according to other, and praise
God and ask for his help or not. So God shall judge us.

Is it not his right to reward and help the good and also stifle and
destroy the evil? And if an evilly trained person, willingly choosing
evil, asks God for help, would God not try to help them change their
training to good? It is written that if you do good things today, the evil
you have done yesterday will not hold you back. But if you do evil things
today, the good things you have done yesterday will not save you.

God's justice and the apple

2006-08-17T13:44:00.000-07:00

Do not place or allow anything to be placed between you and God. God cannot be represented in a figure or act, which is why I believe he said not to have any idols representing God, or other idols or gods.

The power truth and authority emanates from God, and not from a symbol placed between you and God. Be right up next to God. Push your face into God.

You have an apple inside you, however. This apple could come between you and God at any time if you let it. It represents your fear of God's wrath, your past disobedience to God, and anything else you allow it to attach to. It is rotten. It is knowledge of good and evil. If you know yourself to be evil, and know that God is good, you must experience justice. Through Jesus Christ, your confession and abandonment of what is evil. Then you will no longer be evil and God's justice shall be served.

Do what is right and good. Know yourself to be good and know God as well.

Community Kingdom

2006-08-14T20:39:00.000-07:00

I was asked to do a review for Community Kingdom by a man in Second Life, to which I am happily obliging! I am pleased to see a Christian social networking site offering areas for people to associate on a Christian topic. Christian life requires a large amount of spiritually-focused socialization. It is good to come together and address grinding social issues that face everyone's life as a group.

It hosts blogs, has friends, messaging, links, photos, many things. I'd like to see people able to hook up friends to myspace and other social networks. I'd like to see active windowed chatrooms. I'd like to see a little webhosting from this place. Signatories should be able to build their own web pages off of this Christian site.

I want news. I want Christian news and outreach programs and links to clickable charities. www.twomillionwells.blogspot.com has certain clickable links. You can donate to charity just by clicking a button! I want to have that organized on CK.

A vending store might be a good idea too. You could monogram Bibles, some gentle Christian apparel, [I've got this fantastic bandana with a cross on it.] And allow users to sell their items from the store also, without becoming a temple moneychanger.

I like the games, but there's a big list of non-descript titles. Tell me a little about them, or give me screenshots. List high scores, set up some team games. And I want some health warnings about using sunscreen or avoiding certain products.

Criticism: I think the Medieval theme is a little weird. This does not need to be a Medieval Christian site to be total Christian. That was not an excellent time for much of Christianity and I'd make it something to do with music. That's it. Play music on the site. I want a list of 40-100 Christian songs and a little player built into the website. Any page I browse to within the site, it should keep playing the song I was on and be groovy.

Organize Christian bands on this page. Match up Christian musicians, and give us a few bios about small and large Christian bands already out there. I want grassroots Christian bands. I want folk. I want Christian punk bands. Give it to me.

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Burro

2006-08-13T09:26:00.000-07:00

In life, you are like a man leading a burro laden with goods.

GET THERE!!! Drop it off!!

More importantly, who cares where you drop it off. The goods are love, the burro is your body, the man is your spirit. The trail is time and life. The origin is your heart and the destination is frankly up to you. Get there.

Formality

2006-08-11T17:55:00.000-07:00

We are leaving some formality. I practice this with my lovely blazers and suits in casual environments. I am pleased that people understand formality is not the key and that love is the answer.

The Rapture Index?

2006-08-10T11:05:00.000-07:00

Yes, it is lovely that some Christians believe that the events in the middle east signify the return of Jesus, but it is also said that no one shall know the hour nor the day. That action is highly inappropriate. If you want to be ready for the rapture, then pray and lead a good Godly life. Don't you think that much will be needed to the very end and that your judgement will not be changed for thinking the apocalypse is soon?

I do not approve of Israel's actions. I also do not want people to be tricked by Satan. Consider 7th Day Adventists' position that before the real Jesus returns, a fake Jesus, a false prophet spoken of in Revelations, will show up claiming to be Jesus.

"If they say, 'he is in the desert', do not go. All nations will see when he returns."

That means all. I believe in the scripture fully, and I rely on God.

Mexican Charity

2006-08-06T06:53:00.000-07:00

Guys, the Rio Grande is at the highest level in 100 years. People in border towns, their simple homes have been washed away. PLEASE, give what you can to charities helping them. They need you.

http://www.tapestriesoflife.com/

The Bible

2006-08-06T05:49:00.000-07:00

Noah's ark is in Turkey. The Mother Mary appeared over Paris, France, before millions of witnesses as flowers rained from heaven. Healings at Lourdes are miraculous and unduplicatable by even modern medicine. Near death experiences occur and have been proven to be accurate and actual events.

Then there's existance, life, consciousness. Fantastic.

You are living, real, and conscious. What is so unbelievable about a living, real, conscious God?

The Bible references numerous archaeological sites once thought unreal that were later found. They are lying in the video. I wonder why.

They also do far too much to die the organized church to spirituality itself. Yes, the church has been corrupt. Jesus Christ said it would become corrupt. I am not surprised. All good things come from God. Church corruption is the flaw of mortals and the temptation of demons. Beings made, loved, and given free will by God.

Let us follow in his ways.

Ephasia [sp] and Mind

2006-07-29T17:00:00.000-07:00

Ephasia. The injury of the brain as a result of stroke. I believe that a large portion of the brain may be killed as a result of vessel blockage. Bloodflow, and bioelectric flow may be dramatically reduced to portions of the brain or the entire brain by the event. The results of this from an empathic bioelectric telepathic point of view is the destruction of existing functional mental circuitry. This circuitry performs critical functions, some communicating with the body from the consciousness [articulation], some communicating with the consciousness [sensation]. This might also produce some difficulty among consciousness-consciousness communication [cognition], and unconscious-unconscious communication [biometric function].

Some of these functions can be rapidly rerouted. Some will be very difficult to reform and reroute. If areas central to identification are destroyed by the stroke, the people will need to rewire their standing understandings of objects or activities [or people]. If they can hybridize their old understandings of 'now nameless' things, they can repair the old circuitry without rewriting it entirely. It could be a good therapy option to try to identify undamaged understanding fragments and link them up to newly understood topics destroyed by the injury.

Since the layout of the brain is naturally arranged, however also placed inexplicably and at will, by the at will manner of associations, and because the clot or injury can find its way to any portion of the brain without sensible prediction, injury to the brain or topic groups cannot be grouped, and a full pass of topics and knowledge will need to be done in both cognition and perception. From this point through stimulus and desire and therapy, brain function can likely be reformed.

Classical Music, Marriage, Telepathy

2006-07-28T22:18:00.000-07:00

"Given the chance to express musical preference, chickens prefer Pink Floyd."

I noticed tonight that classical music and the white cliffs of dover are remarkably similar. It makes me speculate that chamber music from the 1700's and before continued unadulterated through the 1950's, with differing strains developing in jazz and rock in America by the 1920's and 1950's, which converted and blended a considerable portion of aristocratic music. Also the onset of radio and modern recording methods, as well as folk music spurred this change.

I also found the song we'll meet again on the tape, appearing in Blackisle's Fallout 1998, which pleased me greatly.

Your life is planned by God. The people you will meet and expose to information and be exposed to by, the tasks you will accomplish, the things you will discover and decide, they are planned. People say that in reincarnation you select a sort of life you would like to live in and what things you'd like to accomplish or experience. This of course within God's will.

I was pleased to discuss family and reproduction and sex after marriage with these chicks I know tonight. I was amazed that they combined knew of only one other man who felt the way I do about it.

Any sex could create a baby. Even with protection, no matter what countermeasures you put up there nothing can guarantee no babies where there is sex. Any time where there may be babies, I want to be married and in a family to raise this/these babies. And I'd like to do the house/car/white picketry as well. I have no idea how it feels because I've never been there, but it seems like it would be wonderful. I hope to do that someday.

This translates into no sex before marriage.

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It has been said that there are electrical pathways in the brain and body causing all things to function. I imagine that without appropriate charge, even chemical neurotransmitters would be ineffective, or with appropriate countercharge or chargelessness. In a similar way, every charge is a circuit of neurons in the CNS or PNS responding to stimuli, be it the from the consciousness end or from the unconscious body end. Each neural circuit is a unique electromagnetic charge and has unique universal effect X infinite radius. An existing circuit is an ambient circuit field. All such circuits exist, and by recognizing something you create an ambient circuit containing it. [Actually numerous millions of such circuits considering the possible pathways, unless the charge is perfectly bioelectrically/anatomically sequestered, in which case it Each piece of attention is the result of electromagnetic actions and affects the quantum condition of the world, causing things to either be or not be. A quantum area or ligne creates a differing chemical structure and conductivity and can express varying possibilities, or make a reality in which possibilities are expressed, affecting probability.

So the world is made via knowledge and given texture by attention. God has made us all and made this world, and I believe He allows us to create minicurrents within the macrocurrents of life, as given our authority by Him, within His rules. When His rules are broken, when our other agreements with Him are broken, other consequences may appear and our authority may be affected.

Consider the affect of this on reality. Consider NDE, the proven existance of the spirit as life outside of the body. Consider temporal mechanics and probability. These all exist on a framework of God's good law, and then within that mesh, our own desires and goals, which we are allowed to express, upon which we are judged.

According to God's law, there shall also be a time when these intra-authoritarian meshes will all be judged and a greater mesh will be formed of the chosen meshes, while the unacceptable meshes destroyed and hung to dry. It is part of the mesh that we not know when this event occurs.

This is a well tacked law. It is not a theory. The way the spirituality expresses and the way you run your own mesh is upon your own authority within God's good law, and within God's law of your relationship with Jesus Christ. These things are for you to know and find and spread.

Know.

2006-07-16T10:05:00.000-07:00

Those who make fun, they are to be pitied for they believe they have time to chuckle and participate in a society of unlove. They also lack the charity to have pity instead of laugh.

Noetic Science

2006-07-16T02:47:00.000-07:00

"While on his journey to the moon and back, astronaut Edgar Mitchell conducted an unscheduled experiment of his own. On June 22, 1971, he informed the New York Times that:

"During the Apollo 14 lunar expedition I performed an extrasensory-perception experiment the world's first in space. In it five symbols a star, cross, circle, wavy line and square were oriented randomly in columns of 25. Four persons in the United States attempted to guess the order of the symbols. They were able to do this with success that could be duplicated by chance in one out of 3,000 experiments.”

He claimed, in effect, that his demonstration showed that ESP was independent of shielding, locale, distance, or time. When he got back to planet Earth, he founded The Institute of Noetic Science (IONS), noetic meaning consciousness studies. That program, now run by parapsychologist Dean Radin, is still thriving and the Institute recently moved to larger quarters in an old school in Petaluma, California."

http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/psi.htm

I have no interest in psyops. Psy is ops. The op is spirituality, and the goal of spirituality is the worship of God and the betterment and propagation of mankind and consciousness. Let it be.

DC Declares Crime Emergency

2006-07-12T20:10:00.000-07:00

12 July 2006 Washington DC is experiencing a crime wave.

In summer of 1993, 4000 meditaters descended on Washington, DC and meditated on peace and love. Crime decreased by 25%, as was predicted from 40+ other previous urban events.

Maybe we should begin.

I propose a national and international peace meditation team. Standing militaries should be trained to meditate for peace when they are not busy fighting for peace. This will have a dramatic positive effect on the world populace and social environment. Please, join us right now.

The Dennys of God

2006-07-09T19:55:00.000-07:00

Some people know that miracles and wonderous works of God can happen. Our Bible is filled with accounts of miracles. Jesus Christ performed many miracles during his walk on earth and many since. But many modern people do not believe in miracles, but the limited version of the scientific method.

Tell your friends of the miracles that have filled the world.

About preaching, who can go about from city to city like Paul did or those of the early church? We would replace that with a chatroom. Please, preach in the chatrooms. They went from house to house in the city. Please, preach from cafe to cafe. Dennys of God.

What are the duties of a Christian? By faith in Jesus we are saved. But it appears that there is so much more to be done than merely have faith. Expressing faith in Jesus through all things we do are the works of a Christian. A Boy Scout can be a new Scout through to an Eagle Scout, all are in the BSA. Believing in Jesus through to performing all things you to in faith in him by God is among all Christians.

Give not your strength to those who ruin kings

2006-07-09T18:28:00.000-07:00

Proverbs 31 warns Lamuel not to give his strength to those who ruin kings. How then are we to act in the face of what appears to be government injustice, corruption, and fraud? It is said that God has chosen our leaders, that we deserve our leaders as a people, and that we are to obey authority for it comes from God.

Our authority is not just our president and elected officials, but the formative papers of our nation, and, for many, the works of the Bible and Gospel. Ruining a 'king' of America would be to ruin America, but serving America and producing American justice in the face of a tyrannical king to secure America and world justice is a great deed. Obey the laws, review the laws. Obey the courts, refer to the courts. Vote, review the vote. Pay taxes, review the spending programs. Consult the Bible and proverbs in how to spend money and for whom, and how to produce work and for whom.

Proverbs 31 and 28

2006-07-09T17:50:00.000-07:00

The words of Lemeul, king of Massa. The advice which his mother gave him:

What, my son, my first-born! What, o son of my womb; what O son of my vows!
Give not your vigor to women, nor your strength to those who ruin kings.
It is not for kings, O Lemeul, not for kings to drink wine; strong drink is not for princes!
Lest in drinking they forget what the law decrees, and violate the rights of all who are in need.
Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the sorely depressed;
When they drink, they will forget their misery, and think no more of their burdens.

Open your mouth on behalf of the dumb, and for the rights of the destitute;
Open your mouth, decree what is just, defend the needy and the poor!

Proverbs Chapter 28

The wicked man flees although no one pursues him, but the just man, like a lion, feels sure of himself.

If a land is rebellious, its princes will be many; but with a prudent man it knows security.

A rich man who oppresses the poor is like a devastating rain that leaves no food.

Those who abandon the law and morality praise the wicked man, but those who keep the law war against him.

Evil men understand nothing of justice, but those who seek the Lord understand all.

Better a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is crooked in his ways and rich.

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but the gluttons' companion disgraces his father.

He who increases his wealth by interest and overcharge gathers it for him who is kind to the poor. [interest and overcharge were strictly forbidden in the old law among Israelites because it was presumed that the borrower was in distress.]

When one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abonimation.

He who seduces the upright into an evil way will himself fall into his own pit and blameless men will gain prosperity.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who is intelligent sees through him.

When the just are triumphant, there is great jubilation; but when the wicked gain pre-eminance, people hide.

He who conceals his sins prospers not, but he who confesses and forsakes them obtains mercy.

Happy the man who is always on his guard; but he who hardens his heart will fall into evil.

Like a roaming lion or a ravenous bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

The less prudent the prince, the more his deeds oippress. He who hates ill-gotten gain prolongs his days.

Though a man burdened with human blood were to flee to the grave, none should support him.

He who walks uprightly is safe, but he whose ways are crooked falls into the pit.

He who cultivates his land will have plenty of ood, but from idle pursuits a man has his fill of poverty.

The trustworthy man will be richly blessed; he who is in hatse to grow rich will not go unpunished.

To show partiality is never good: for even a morsel of bread a man may do wrong.

The avaricious [avarice] man is perturbed about his wealth, and he knows not when want will come upon him.

He who rebukes a man gets more thanks in the end than one with a flattering tongue.

He who defrauds father or mother and calls it no sin is a partner of the brigand.

The greedy man stirs up disputes, but he who trusts in the Lord will prosper.

He who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom is safe.

He who gives to the poor suffers no want, but he who ignores them gets many a curse.

When the wicked gain pre-eminence, other men hide; but at their fall the just flourish.

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These proverbs from chapter 28 are pieces of wisdom for people to act by. On top of this wisdom, have love for your neighbors even if they fail these proverbs. Ask God for mercy if you fail them.

Love is the Answer

2006-07-07T14:45:00.000-07:00

Acts 12
Herod's Persecution of the Christians

About that time King Herod caught some members of the church to harm them. He had James,m John's brother, killed by the sword, and when he saw that the Jews liked this he arrested Peter too. It was the feast of Unleavened Bread.
He had him put in prison under guard of 4 squads of 4 soldiers each. He intended to bring him before the people after Passover, so he kept Peter in prison for then. But prayer in the church was ascending to God on his behalf.
On the very night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter, secured by double chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, with soldiers keeping watch over the prison. Suddenly, and angel of the Lord stood by him and light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter oin the side and awakened him, "Get up quickly." The chains fell from his wrists. The angel said to him, "Put on your belt and your sandals." He did so. Then he said to him, "Put on your cloak and follow me." So he followed him out, not realizing that what was happening through the angel was real, he thought he was seeing a vision. They passed the first guard, then the second, and came to the iron gate leading out to the city, which opened by itself. They emerged and made their way down an alley, and suddenly the angel left him.
Then he realized he wasn't seeing a vision but it had all happened. "Now I know for certain that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people has been expecting."
So he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who is called Mark, where there were many people gathered in prayer. When he knocked on the gateway door, a maid named Rhoda came to answer it. She was so overjoyed when she recognized Peter's voice that she ran back inside to tell the others instead of opening the gate. They said, "You are out of your mind, it is his angel" but she insisted and they went back and opened the gate and were astounded to see Peter there at the gate.
He motioned with his hand to be quiet and explained to them just like I am explaining to you how the Lord led him out of the prison, and said, "Report this to James and the brothers." then he left for another place.
At daybreak the soldiers were dumbounded and Herod was way upset. He had the guards search but they didn't find anybody, so he had the guards tried and executed, then he left Judea to spend some time in Cesarea.

Then Paul wrote this to a church in Rome. 14:13-23
Consideration For the Weak Conscience
"Let us no longer judge one another, but resolve never to try to get another to mess up or hinder a brother. I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; still, it is unclean for someone who thinks it is unclean. If your brother is being hurt by what you eat, your conduct is no longer in accord with love. Do not because of your food destroy him for whom Christ died. So so not let your good be reviled. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of food and drink, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit; whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by others. Let us seek what leads to peace and to building up one another [even if it is through chemistry, but by love alone] For the sake of food or anything like it, do not destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong or anyone to become a stumbling block by eating; it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother [or yourself] to stumble. Keep the faith that you have [to yourself] in the presence of God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself for what he approves. But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because this is not from faith, for whatever is not faith is sin."

Faith conquers all fear.

Repentance

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When you have done something wrong, go first to God. Tell him what happened and honor him. Be filled with the holy Spirit and do what you know to be right. If you must go to a brother, do so one on one as Paul says for when you have been wronged so as to foster the correct repentance methods from the place of your brother whom you have wronged. Then, if that does not work, go to the community.

We must follow this in a court of law. Too many people go right to the community and skip God and a one-on-one with their fellow. Legalism and microregulation restrict the freedoms and individualism of us all and prevent us from becoming brothers. We are brothers of the same Father.

It is critical

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Peace is the symptom of love. There are hundreds of thousands who die daily from malnutrition and other preventable diseases. It is love to try to help them. It is an expression of love to try to help humanity from itself and one another. Do what must be done to aid these people materially for their hearts and spiritually for their souls. I want clicks for them. I want clicks for the rainforest. Is big spending on military and tax cuts edging out possible humanitarian programs? There is only so much money to be sent around. Big debt, big guns, and big cuts are taking up all the economic space. This must be resolved by big love.

We have a duty from the Bible to help those starving at the gate. This is an expression of love that is unmissable if you have the chance. Take it.

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Better Godliness Through Love

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We can honor God better by having faith in him and loving the things and people around us, and ourselves. This can be done in any way that you have faith honors him. I write this blog to make it easier to understand love, and easier to honor God through love.

What do we value? Things? Rest? Pleasure and avoiding pain? Entertainment? Love? Believing we are worthy of love? Believing we are helping others and pulling our own weight?

God values you no matter what you do. Anything that happens to you or that you do, you should still love God and have love for others.

A car accident could make us fear for our own lives, or the lives of others, or the law, or the money in our car or insurance, and these fears could cause us to curl into ourselves and withhold love. We view these things as important. Sometimes we believe we can teach people to behave differently by withholding or seeming to withhold love from another, to get them to be afraid to act that way again. This is fear training. It places the things you do above your being. It places things above love. This is wrong.

We should engage with others in the manner God intended, by social interaction, with our feelings, with our minds, with our hearts. Loving one another and helping one another achieve the goals we all have, and sharpening and refining these goals of love and expressing love we all share.

I love everything. My actions are all an expression of this love. My prayers are all asking pursuit of this love, and my thanks are all for this love. I teach others the way I understand loving behavior. I seek to learn better ways to love. Sometimes letting go of old ways to love is scary, but it is only scary because I do not want to be away from that love.