Posted on 09/23/2023 5:45:08 AM PDT by Rev M. Bresciani
If you’ve listened regularly to my Line of Fire broadcast or read my articles consistently, you’ll see that I’ve said or written very little about former President Trump for some time now. There are several reasons for that.
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https://youtu.be/wrzTc32aI48?feature=shared. Need I Say More
‘Do you really know the God of the Bible?’
which testament of the Bible? the gods in those narratives are antithetical to each other...
the OT God had few qualms about tormenting His creatures...
God, family, country............. and in that order.
‘Whoever God chooses to be the next president will be the one he int3nds to carry out his will in this nation and around the world.’
what in the world makes you think a deity chooses political leaders...? would that not make your own political involvement totally irrelevant...?
Like so many he would like to walk on a little water too
My first reaction as well
No it would not- thanks, have a nice day
I agree, my loyalty is to be to JESUS CHRIST, period.
Your loyalty is to a blog.
I understand your point, but I believe in one God in three Persons. The Old Testament points to Jesus. Jesus Himself quoted the Old Testament on many occasions.
This! +100%
The reason he is obsessed by Trump? It is simple, Trump does not hate us. You would think that this would be an odd reason to dislike someone but when you read several of Michael Brown's articles it is obvious that he DOES hate us.
By "us" I am referring to normal Christian Americans.
Are you being attacked by the alphabets? There is an excuse for that. It is all your own fault. I mean sure they probably should not be murdering you but you started it by pointing out that dressing a little boy like a fairy princess is not normal. So while your death is over the top it serves you right.
Do you think that the Faggots are serious when they say outright that they are coming for your children? You are overreacting because everyone knows they are not.
Are you an ethnic or religious minority who has been the victim of a physical attack? Well, their attacking you is understandable. Not because you actually did something but because someone who might have had some vague physical resemblance to you sometime in the past 500 years might have done something bad to someone who might have born a vague physical resemblance to the person who beat the crap out of you for giggles. So that is your own fault and you should not blame your attacker.
Trump does not believe it is your own fault and thinks you should be able to defend yourself. And that just makes Michael Brown so MAD he could just stomp his little feetsies.
All examples are drawn from Michael Brown's own articles.
"In order that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, gives it to whomever He will, And sets over it the lowest of men.’" Dan 4:17
Yep, nothing about that.
Wrong. GOD is One. Jesus IS the Old Testement GOD.
which testament of the Bible? the gods in those narratives are antithetical to each other...the OT God had few qualms about tormenting His creatures...
With all due respect, that is simply a product of superficial reading and lack of consideration of texts in context, and of understanding related aspects.
The context in which you see (I surmise) whatever you think God "tormenting His creatures" entails, was usually that of exceedingly wicked societies in relatively early civilization (as in the ancient near East), from Sodom to Egypt to the Canaanites, and of physical opposition, usually in which the people of God, as a minority, were seeking to escape domination and to conquer a homeland from perverse people groups.
And which was usually under a government in a physical theocratic kingdom, in which the enemies were pagan idolators which opposed them, and thus warfare was physical.
As was the chastisement of Israel itself, along with many of the blessings, incurring material benefits of faithfulness to the covenant they had collectively entered into after being brought out of Israel "With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever," (Psalms 136:12) and who often saw miracles and eras of peace and prosperity (often the final test) such as under the Solomonic kingdom. But which were followed by the loss of which due to impenitent unfaithfulness to the same covenant, with physical chastisement via her enemies, "the wicked, which is thy sword" (Psalms 17:13) usually being the means.
For not only was opposition to the chosen people one of infectious immorality (Leviticus 18:27) and of military force, but the nature of the chosen people (after hundreds of years of slavery) was, as Moses stated, "Ye [the Hebrews] have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you." (Deuteronomy 9:24) Thus warfare and chastisement was physical.
Read Psalms 78:1-70 and Psalms 106:1-48 for a warranted good overview of this, contrary to typical isolationist anti-theist rants.
Yet in which overall context people were promised a future savior (Is. 53:1) ruler (born in Bethlehem: Mic. 5:2) and kingdom and covenant. (Jer. 31:31-34)
In contrast to a physical kingdom under a theocratic government, the context of the New Testament (new covenant) is that of the chosen people being under domination, looking (and with some guerrilla-fighting) for deliverance from a vast empire, but which Deliverer came to provide a greater deliverance for all people that did not depend upon physical domination, instituting the promised New Covenant.
` Whose "kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence." (John 18:36)
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12)
And the commanded annihilation of the Canaanites and Amorites has as its parallel the commanded mortification of the sinful nature with carnal affections and lusts (Colossians 3:5; Galatians 5:24) In whose [Jesus] ministry we see another extraordinary manifestation of a age of grace,confirmatory of additional revelation, not that of subduing the Romans, but that of the spiritual realm
"How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." (Acts 10:38) When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. (Matthew 8:16-17)
And which included affirming the holiness of the Law, invoking commands of it and magnifying it.
Yet "doing good" must include reproof of that which is not good, and thus the Lord's pronouncements of about many "woes," that of afflicting the impenitent complacent (Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. - Luke 6:25) while comforting the afflicted (Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. - Matthew 5:6)
And which included warning of physical chastisement via enemies for impenitence in the light of grace (And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. - Luke 19:41-44).
As well as warning of eternal fire in the supernatural realm (And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched - Mark 9:42-43)
That of the final future judgment:
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Matthew 13:40-43)
Yet, having instituted the promised new covenant by His death, (Hebrews 9:16,17) which was "Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord," : (Jeremiah 31:32) then as the NT reveals in which ways it was "not according to" the old covenant, the just use of the sword of men is not given to the church, the body of Christ, but restricted to the civil government. (Rm. 13:1-7)
Meanwhile, non-retaliation is enjoined upon the church. (Luke 6:29; Romans 12:17-19; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; 1 Peter 3:9,10)
And as for physical annihilation of the wicked, the correlation to that is by spiritual means, both in church discipline of severe cases (1 Cor. 5:1-5; 1 Timothy 1:20) and in supernatural deliverance and judgments, (Acts 13:4-11) including the final act of physical annihilation. (Revelation 20:7)
And which (contrary to erroneous RC eschatology) is after the Lord Jesus, with his administrative saints, reigned for a 1,000 years in a earthly kingdom, in which were as yet impenitent unsaved souls from various people groups who has survived the Great Tribulation, but in which the devil was bound, a time of peace and great longevity, and in which the Lord "shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. (Isaiah 40:11) and the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof, (Zechariah 8:5)
However, as there are yet rebellious souls, who have no excuse for being so, thus the Lord shall "rule all nations with a rod of iron" (Revelation 12:5) And finally, "as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers." (Revelation 2:27)
And which last example illustrates the contextual contrast btwn the revelation of God as both a God of judgment as well as compassion, which is just what the subjects of both testified to in the Psalms. Thus, there is no actually demonstrable difference btwn the God of the OT and of the NT, but only that of which relates to context and differences in the nature of the kingdom and its means of warfare, all of which explains the differences in narratives.
the OT God had few qualms about tormenting His creatures
Rather, it is man who often exhibited few qualms about tormenting His creatures, in which context we see whatever you refer to as God tormenting His creatures.
God destroying everything that lived on the earth, which in context was because "the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually," (Genesis 6:5) "corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence," (Gn. 6:12) due man using the meaningful ability to make choices, and while prosperous, misusing their bodies. Which would include abuse of children as well as animals.
Which children as well as animals God delivered from further abuse, and saved the children from being like their fathers. As for torture, whatever that is defined as, drowning (likely as drunk) it would not be much for these and whose earth was filled with violence.
Of-course, if the charge of God having "few qualms about tormenting His creatures" refers to what God allows, leading to the charge of atheists asserting that since God knew what man would do wickedly then He is responsible for allowing it, then this actually is an argument against enabling man to make choices, and allowing alternatives to chose btwn, and to effect others thereby, including posterity by them.
Yes, make man like a robot, or with constant physically compelled obedience, or prevent consequences to choices, or immediately reverse negative effects, or not make man an eternal being, with corespondent consequences.
All of which is contrary to allowing man to make moral responses and thereby to manifest what he truly wants and will do, despite or because of consequences for time and eternity.
Yet the atheist - who both finds fault with the means by which God dealt decisively with people like as He did via the Flood, as well as for not doing dealing decisively with evil in a timely manner - is in no position to judge an omniscient and omnipotent Being, who knows what all the effects will be of every action and non-action, as well as their effects, and not only for this life in our speck of time, but for eternity.
And as omnipotent, can also make all things to ultimately work out for what is Good, with just judgment (relative to accountability and iniquity) of the wicked, and grace toward those who truly sought God with an honest and contrite heart and conscience, and thus choose the Light, Jesus Christ, with the truth they had, believing the essential gospel of grace.
For the choices of an omniscient and omnipotent Being - who gives life as well as takes it - can easily be manifest as moral in the light of of all that can be known, including within the complex tapestry of the life of even man. And that God, to whom man owes for all the good he has, both good things and good laws, which man misuses and breaks, respectively, is both gracious and His judgements are indeed "according to Truth," (Rm. 2:2) knowing even the thoughts and motivations of every being.
Meaning that in the end, when every thought, motive and act is reveled with their effects, then every act of God will be manifest as justified even to the subjects of punishment, while all creation shall glorify God in the light of God who is Light. (Revelation 5:13)
Thus, in order to morally sit in judgement upon the God of the Bible, the atheist must reduce God to being a finite being as himself, or elevate himself as if he were omniscient, thus only selectively using the Bible to make a moral argument. But faced with this in this context, the recourse of atheists is usually to attack the integrity and authority of the Bible, since his moral judgment of God cannot stand in the light of all of it, in its contexts.
The next example of profound judgment, though unlikely one you would cite as God torturing His creatures, would be the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, cities given to fornication, concomitant with (as today in the US) "pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness" and selfishness. (Ezekiel 16:49) But which judgment was sudden.
Next example perhaps - if "torture" is liberal-ly defined - are the plagues of Egypt, which were supernatural (in a contest of supernatural powers) and which should have persuaded Pharaoh early on but who hardened his heart (and by which negative reaction to what should motivated acquiesces, God hardened the heart of this intransigent soul), but it did motivate the populace to send the Hebrews away with the goods they asked (which the Hebrew word translated "borrow" in Exodus almost always means).
And as with the Flood, you have the drowning of Pharaoh and his army who pursued the escaped slaves, despite such overt manifestations of supernatural power.
But then you have Joshua's conquests, that of the commanded (but incomplete) extermination of an entire nation, or subjugation of such, and of bereavement of widows (while dismissing the sex-slavery atheists imagine being sanctioned).
Which was due to gross immorality, even sodomy and bestiality and child sacrifice, "For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled." (Leviticus 18:27)
Today, child sacrifice is thru abortions, the taking of human life in the womb, almost always for reasons of convenience, with the value of human life being based upon the level of functionality and location. Which in principal is leading to the termination of life of the disabled, even if with induced consent.
Meanwhile, close to 800,000 Americans have died, primarily due to an unnatural practice (80% of new HIV cases being among MSM), while along with fornication in general, costing tax payers millions.
However, in Biblical wars and executions death was not to be prolonged, with zero commands to torture (contrary to the Inquisitions), though capital punishment - on the basis of at least 2 or 3 eye-witnesses (in a close community) was usually commanded as being by communal stoning. Which is congruent with the offense being against the community (which itself is promoted), not just the individual, while graphically illustrating the cost of crime (as well as for perjury, as those guilty of the latter were to suffer according to the consequences of their crime).
As for slavery, contrary to the anachronistic imposition of the typical view of African slavery, in the Bible there is no actual command to take slaves, aside from in wars, but sanctions slavery in dealing with an already established institution integral to the economy of the ANE which Israel was part of, and later that of the church as existing in slave states, and thus enabling it to be cast off as a cultural appendage were possible, as contrary to the outworking of Christian love for others.
In the context in which slavery is sanction in its regulate from, it existed environments radically different then today ( the priority was steady food, clothing and shelter and procreation for survival in an labor-intensive (no machinery, plumbing, etc., with much to care for) world.
Therefore, aside from wars, for Israel, slaves were usually obtained in the interest of survival by a person selling themselves or by a family selling a family member. And in which slaves could even have slaves, as well as having certain property rights.
In which, as far as "torture," while non-fatal injuries to the slave by the owner were not punishable (under the premise that such hurt the owner himself), yet causing the loss of even a tooth mandated freedom being given to the slave, and "if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished," (Exodus 21:20) concerning which, consistent with "life for life," (Exodus 21:23-27) Targum and Jarchi explain this as meaning 'being condemned to the punishment of being slain with the sword, to deter masters from using severity and cruelty towards their servants." (Dr. John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible)
And finally, unlike typical slave law, the law of Moses commanded, "Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him." (Deuteronomy 23:15-16)
Thus, if for some reason, the slave judged that leaving his slave status would be better for him then he could leave (if not his family). Forever, if the slave was a wife, then neglect of her rights of Meanwhile, God's laws promoted life and forbid murder, adultery, envy and selfish stealing, etc. and esp. focused on the most helpless, of widows and the fatherless, and prioritized the family and development of character (the lack of which necessitates more government and more laws). Thus, the law, with its commands to decisively deal with that which militated against or destroyed life, worked toward protecting life and the quality of it.
And early on God instituted a basic judicial system to decisively deal with sins and crimes in a rough environment, which all but eliminated a penal system, and with principles that flowed from the 10 commandments and allowed for expansion to deal with contingencies of environmental and technological change.
Thus, rather than God having few qualms about tormenting His creatures, as if careless, any tormenting of His creatures by God was a result of man doing so, as being contrary to how man is to treat others.
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