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Posted on 01/18/2003 6:10:20 AM PST by 2timothy3.16
The so called major media have been full of one story after another about the so called "Anti-war" protesters. These are not anti-war protesters, they, like their cohorts in the so called major media, are anti-USA, pro-our enemy demonstrators.
On September 11th, 2001 the United States of America was attacked by those who seek to destroy us. Their hatred of us is based not upon fact, but upon garbage fed to them by their rulers so as to keep them enslaved. Iraq supported, suppled intelligence, supplied funding and training for those that attacked us. Those who protest what is about to happen are not war protesters. They are protesting our retaliation for what was started on 9-11-01. For if they were really protesting against war, they would be protesting against those who attacked us, not our response.
Lest we forget:
let it load and look at it, for this is what we are fighting about.
Jesus tells us: Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. He goes on and further states this:
That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him (Jesus) should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
As the supporters of our enemies go to Washington and their friends and fellow haters of our Republic in the press and congress, let us go to the Lord in prayer asking Him for the salvation of our young men and women who are about to demonstrate to the rest of the world, what Japan learned in 1945, leave us alone, don't tread on us.
Lord we commend to You our young volunteers who are to take up the fight for us. We ask Thee Lord that Thou would open each of their eyes to Your saving Grace before they go into combat. In the Sacred name of Jesus, we beseech God the Father, amen.
Exactly right!
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Using the Gospel to promote war, you should be ashamed of yourself.
He is not using the Gospel to promote war, he is using it to show the importance of our troops being saved before they enter into something that may get them killed.
You need to learn to read first and then comment.
The Bible, a great read, you can twist it any way you want.
Never Forget.
As the supporters of our enemies go to Washington and their friends and fellow haters of our Republic in the press and congress, let us go to the Lord in prayer asking Him for the salvation of our young men and women who are about to demonstrate to the rest of the world, what Japan learned in 1945, leave us alone, don't tread on us.
That sounds good, but assumes that our response, attacking Iraq, is an attack on those who attacked us. While you seem to have the evidence that Sadaam is behind the the attacks, to others it looks like bait and switch.
What is this necromantic obsession the Left has?
The Wellstone funerally, now the King holiday. They are, in effect, attempting to raise spirits of the dead. The 60's are dead, yet they still attempt to conjure that "spirit."
Necromancy, idolatry,...
Consider the following (even in more secular sense) related to this topic, from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan:
Part IV. Of the Kingdom of DarknessChap. xlv. Of Demonology and other Relics of the Religion of the Gentiles.
[10] Another relic of Gentilism is the worship of images, neither instituted by Moses in the Old, nor by Christ in the New Testament; nor yet brought in from the Gentiles; but left amongst them, after they had given their names to Christ. Before our Saviour preached, it was the general religion of the Gentiles to worship for gods those appearances that remain in the brain from the impression of external bodies upon the organs of their senses, which are commonly called ideas, idols, phantasms, conceits, as being representations of those external bodies which cause them, and have nothing in them of reality, no more than there is in the things that seem to stand before us in a dream. And this is the reason why St. Paul says, "We know that an idol is nothing": not that he thought that an image of metal, stone, or wood was nothing; but that the thing which they honored or feared in the image, and held for a god, was a mere figment, without place, habitation, motion, or existence, but in the motions of the brain. And the worship of these with divine honour is that which is in the Scripture called idolatry, and rebellion against God. For God being King of the Jews, and His lieutenant being first Moses, and afterward the high priest, if the people had been permitted to worship and pray to images (which are representations of their own fancies), they had had no further dependence on the true God, of whom there can be no similitude; nor on His prime ministers, Moses and the high priests; but every man had governed himself according to his own appetite, to the utter eversion of the Commonwealth, and their own destruction for want of union. And therefore the first law of God was: they should not take for gods, alienos deos, that is, the gods of other nations, but that only true God, who vouchsafed to commune with Moses, and by him to give them laws and directions for their peace, and for their salvation from their enemies. And the second was that they should not make to themselves any image to worship, of their own invention. For it is the same deposing of a king to submit to another king, whether he be set up by a neighbour nation or by ourselves.
[14] An image, in the most strict signification of the word, is the resemblance of something visible: in which sense the fantastical forms, apparitions, or seemings of visible bodies to the sight, are only images; such as are the show of a man or other thing in the water, by reflection or refraction; or of the sun or stars by direct vision in the air; which are nothing real in the things seen, nor in the place where they seem to be; nor are their magnitudes and figures the same with that of the object, but changeable, by the variation of the organs of sight, or by glasses; and are present oftentimes in our imagination, and in our dreams, when the object is absent; or changed into other colours, and shapes, as things that depend only upon the fancy. And these are the images which are originally and most properly called ideas and idols, and derived from the language of the Grecians, with whom the word eido signifieth to see. They are also called phantasms, which is in the same language, apparitions. And from these images it is that one of the faculties of man's nature is called the imagination. And from hence it is manifest that there neither is, nor can be, any image made of a thing invisible.
[15] It is also evident that there can be no image of a thing infinite: for all the images and phantasms that are made by the impression of things visible are figured. But figure is quantity every way determined, and therefore there can be no image of God, nor of the soul of man, nor of spirits; but only of bodies visible, that is, bodies that have light in themselves, or are by such enlightened.
[16] And whereas a man can fancy shapes he never saw, making up a figure out of the parts of divers creatures, as the poets make their centaurs, chimeras and other monsters never seen, so can he also give matter to those shapes, and make them in wood, clay or metal. And these are also called images, not for the resemblance of any corporeal thing, but for the resemblance of some phantastical inhabitants of the brain of the maker. But in these idols, as they are originally in the brain, and as they are painted, carved moulded or molten in matter, there is a similitude of one to the other, for which the material body made by art may be said to be the image of the fantastical idol made by nature.
Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness
Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness
[1] Besides these sovereign powers, divine and human, of which I have hitherto discoursed, there is mention in Scripture of another power, namely, that of "the rulers of the darkness of this world," [Ephesians, 6. 12] "the kingdom of Satan," [Matthew, 12. 26] and "the principality of Beelzebub over demons," [Ibid., 9. 34] that is to say, over phantasms that appear in the air: for which cause Satan is also called "the prince of the power of the air";[Ephesians, 2. 2] and, because he ruleth in the darkness of this world, "the prince of this world":[John, 16. 11] and in consequence hereunto, they who are under his dominion, in opposition to the faithful, who are the "children of the light," are called the "children of darkness." For seeing Beelzebub is prince of phantasms, inhabitants of his dominion of air and darkness, the children of darkness, and these demons, phantasms, or spirits of illusion, signify allegorically the same thing. This considered, the kingdom of darkness, as it is set forth in these and other places of the Scripture, is nothing else but a confederacy of deceivers that, to obtain dominion over men in this present world, endeavour, by dark and erroneous doctrines, to extinguish in them the light, both of nature and of the gospel; and so to disprepare them for the kingdom of God to come. (bold added for emphasis)
The Left is obsessed with spirits of the dead and of death, phantasms, idolatry of vain philosophy, symbolism over substance. (Astrology? Psychics? Necromancy?)
There are those who probably tire of my pointing this out, but it is the core of the Leftist methodology and should be exposed...
Consider this in relation to Iraq:
Part III. Of a Christian Commonwealth.Chap. xxxviii. Of Eternal Life, Hell, Salvation, and Redemption.
[12] And first, for the tormentors, we have their nature and properties exactly and properly delivered by the names of the Enemy (or Satan), the Accuser (or Diabolus), the Destroyer (or Abaddon). Which significant names (Satan, Devil, Abaddon) set not forth to us any individual person, as proper names do, but only an office or quality, and are therefore appellatives, which ought not to have been left untranslated (as they are in the Latin and modern Bibles), because thereby they seem to be the proper names of demons, and men are the more easily seduced to believe the doctrine of devils, which at that time was the religion of the Gentiles, and contrary to that of Moses, and of Christ.
[13] And because by the Enemy, the Accuser, and Destroyer, is meant the enemy of them that shall be in the kingdom of God, therefore if the kingdom of God after the resurrection be upon the earth (as in the former Chapter I have shewn by Scripture it seems to be), the Enemy and his kingdom must be on earth also. For so also was it in the time before the Jews had deposed God. For God's kingdom was in Israel, and the nations round about were the kingdoms of the Enemy; and consequently, by Satan is meant any earthly enemy of the Church.
I DARE ANY PERSON TO QUESTION A BIBLICAL BASIS FOR WAR WITH THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL...
What language? But Of Course, tongues!
Lyrics:
It ain’t necessarily so
It ain’t necessarily so
De t’ings dat yo li’ble
To read in de Bible
It ain’t necessarily so
Li’l’ David was small, but oh my
Li’l’ David was small but oh my
He fought big Goliath
Who lay down and dieth
Li’l’ David was small, but oh my
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale
Fo’ he made his home in
Dat fish’s abdomen
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale
Li’l’ Moses was found in a stream
Li’l’ Moses was found in a stream
He floated on water
‘Till Ole’ Pharaoh’s daughter
She fished him, she says from dat stream
It ain’t necessarily so
It ain’t necessarily so
Dey tell all you chillun
De Debble’s a villum
But ‘t ain’t necessarily so
To get into heaven
Don’t snap fo’ a sebben’
Live clean! Don’t have no fault
Oh, I takes dat Gospel
Whenever it’s pos’ble
But wid a grain of salt
Methus’lah lived nine hundred years
Methus’lah lived nine hundred years
But who calls dat livin’
When no gal’ll give in
To no man what’s nine hundred years
I’m preachin’ dis sermon to show
It ain’t nessa, ain’t nessa
It ain’t necessarily so!
Here the media wasted a big article on an anti-war protest that will be lucky to get 30 people in it. I could get a gathering bigger than that just to go for happy hour after work.
Anti-war protesters to gather at bridge
As the U.S. military deployment picks up pace, anti-war protesters are massing in cities around the country this weekend, including El Paso and Juárez.
El Pasoans will have their own cross-border protest today, meeting their Juárez counterparts at the Paso del Norte Bridge at 1 p.m. Organizers couldn't estimate how many would be drawn to the protest, but El Paso police said they didn't expect problems.
The event organizers, a coalition of students, religious people and artists called Border Peace Presence, meet every Friday evening at San Jacinto Plaza to voice their disapproval of the war to the beat of drums. They said they have seen their ranks grow modestly from 20 to 30 or 40.
http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/borderland/20030118-65920.shtml
By the way, what's with that screen name?
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