Posted on 09/02/2011 9:07:47 AM PDT by marshmallow
Minneapolis, Minnesota (CNN) –Prior to 2006, few people even knew that then-Minnesota state legislator Keith Ellison was a Muslim. Because of his English name, he said, no one thought to ask.
But five years ago, when he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives - a race he would go on to win - word of his religious affiliation began to spread.
“When I started running for Congress it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress,” said Ellison, a Democrat now serving his third term in the House.
“But someone said to me, ‘Look Keith, think of a person of Japanese origin running for Congress six years after Pearl Harbor–this might be a news story.’”
Though Ellison's status as the first Muslim elected to Congress is widely known, fewer are aware that he was born into a Catholic family in Detroit and was brought up attending Catholic schools.
But he said he was never comfortable with that faith.
“I just felt it was ritual and dogma,” Ellison said. “Of course, that’s not the reality of Catholicism, but it’s the reality I lived. So I just kind of lost interest and stopped going to Mass unless I was required to.”
It wasn’t until he was a student at Wayne State University in Detroit when Ellison began, “looking for other things.”
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God said it, JA. Not me.
LOL!!!!
Good thing I know better than to drink coffee and FReep. I couldn’t afford the number of keyboards it would cost me.
My statement is true notwithstanding your subjective conditional phrase. Most of current American jews have eagerly adopted the bankrupt spirit of atheism. This fact is clearly attested to and paraded about by Dershowitz et al, who practice and write about it, congratulating themselves for having jettisoned their lives of past superstitious habits of the Orthodox Yeshivas. They wallow in this sea of rejection of the Divine.
This weeks Torah reading :shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiachDeuteronomy 16
21 “You shall not plant for yourself an AsherahFrom wiki: Asherah
of any kind of tree beside the altar of YHvH
your God, which you shall make for yourself.The Book of Jeremiah written circa 628 BC(E) possibly refers to AsherahVery timely as always from the Ru'ach HaKodesh.
when it uses the title "queen of heaven" (Hebrew: לִמְלֶכֶת הַשָּׁמַיִם)
in Jer 7:18 and Jer 44:17–19, 25.
(For a discussion of "queen of heaven" in the Hebrew Bible,
see Queen of heaven.)
Just remember that Jesus the Christ was, is and will always be a Jew.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
I dfidn’t say Holy Scripture is junk, I said the Berean Society “rightly dividing” is junk. You’d better stick with the dispy caucus, where that lame junk belongs.
Or else someone will dredge up an 8 year old post, completely out of context, and drag it into the current thread in violation of forum rules, to insinuate that you are a satan worshiper or worse. Typical passive aggressive behavior.
Yeah, we Proddys see the Rabid Cliques of the Vatican Ishtar-Mary-Goddess cult and similar cults do such things quite routinely, frequently, relentlessly on FR. It’s begun to appear to be a RELIGIOUS DUTY OF OBLIGATION. Perhaps they think it earns them less time in purgatory.
"STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD, A WORKMAN THAT NEEDETH NOT TO BE ASHAMED; RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH."
GOD SAID IT, JUDITH ANNE. NOT SOME SOCIETY.
I agree. We have had some rather in depth discussion and I have also been impressed with your responses. They are generally well thought out and I can always sense that your heart is right. I do sense that you are truly searching for truth. As long as we remain respectful, which I believe you and I have, it’s a learning experience. I truly feel in my spirit that you have Christ in your heart. Just remember that if we truly seek Him He will reveal to us His will in our lives. I hope we can continue to discuss and debate if necessary in the future.
>>Scripture specifically mentions meeting on Sunday to break bread. In Acts 20 they have met to break bread and Paul is speaking to them.<<
Please understand that it doesn’t matter to me on what day you gather. My contention was with your giving credit to the RCC as the source of setting that day. You illustrated yourself when explaining the reasoning for Sunday worship used the example of the Apostles so with that showed it was a custom well before the official RCC was formed. Remember that at that time there was no organized “church”. The church was and has always remained the number of those individuals who have accepted Jesus as their savior. It is not now nor has it ever been a single organization or gathering of those individuals. There will be those who regardless of what organization they gather with or building they gather in will not be part of the church. There will also be those who don’t belong to any organization and those who no matter what organization they belong to are part of the church. It simply comes down to a personal relationship with Christ.
>>I did not say that Scripture called Sunday the Lord’s Day, I said that it came to be called that after John’s Revelations.<<
The “day of the Lord”, “the Lords day” has a special meaning in scripture. I is what the tribulation is called. If you study all the instances in scripture where that phrase is used you will see that it is a “great and terrible day”. "Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come! Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man's heart will melt, and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in travail. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame. Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it. For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its light. I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and lay low the haughtiness of the ruthless. I will make men more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger." (Isaiah 13:6-13)
Okay. God said it. Your commentary is pointless, since it doesn’t seem to have had any impact on your conduct. So, God might as well have just left it out of your Bible, for all the good it’s done in your life.
It speaks VOLUMES of the person you are, as opposed to claim to be. And once again, the irony is priceless.
You and I have chatted several times about my mother's gift of faith. We Christians all have the grace of faith but her's was something to behold.
Whenever she laid a burden down before the Lord she never picked it up again. It was a "done deal."
And many miracles followed.
The earliest was when she was just a kid. Her cousin also a kid was hit by a vehicle and his abdomen opened up throwing his intestines onto the street. The doctors said there was no hope. All but mom believed the doctors, she prayed. He survived and became a preacher.
There are too many miracles to itemize here but I will mention her being booked for surgery in her senior years to repair a hiatal hernia. She was all packed and had prayed about it. After they did the preop xrays the doctors came to her and said there must have been a mistake and sent her home.
Her faith was so strong I really wondered whether she would ever get sick enough to die physically. The day she died, she placed the lifeline my brother got her which she had never used on the coffee table. As I looked at her I knew she want to wrap it up and going home. And she did.
And so this passage has particular meaning for me:
For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.
But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for you. - Philippians 1:20-24
God's Name is I AM.
I know a surgeon who is a committed Christian who prays for and with his patients and he regularly sees people healed and has to send them home HIMSELF because the scans he read showed no sign or what originally brought the patient to him in the first place.
My own daughter was recently healed from a blocked kidney that needed a medical procedure and when she went in for it and they did the scan, it was completely unblocked and clear where she said even she could see the blockage two days before, and it hasn’t bothered her since.
She was also healed from asthma, her lung capacity tests showing the improvement in lung function.
You have to LOL over the “God gave gold teeth..” nonsense.
It’s such hideousness from these cults.
I do believe strongly in healing through prayer and annointing, but I’d have to see the gold teeth to believe them.
I remember your daughter's situation as I was one of those praying for her and praising God for His tender mercies in making it just go away!
Thank you for the joyful testimony! It was fun to read! God is Good! Praise our Lord Jesus Christ! :)
I think that your emphasis on current common usage is treating a moving target as if it were fixed.
Groups have their dialects. If I wanted to talk to a Southerner I learned what he meant by "jitney", "carry", "poke", "buggy" and the rest. And after a while I found myself using the words as they did.
If I want to talk to a sailor, while he should know that what he calls a "line" is generally called a "rope", and "port" is not just an opening or a fortified wine but it is also a direction.
And here's an instance: TO me "mad dog" means a rabid dog. I took the name because I was exposed to rabies. But if you mean a psychotic dog, I can work with that. Just letme get a note from my pshrink.
I think there needs to be give and take. Part of that will be openness on the part of all parties to the idea that the other party was using "shop talk" wiuthoutmeaning to or knowing that he was doing so. I have NEVER (that I can recall) taken 'co-' tomean 'equal'. Even among co-authors usually one takes the lead. Put that on your ISP and save it.
And a co-pilot is still subordinate, is s/he not? He is not equal in rank or responsibility to the pilot, unless something happens to the pilot. If it comes to orders, the pilot gives them and the co-pilot takes them, is that right? I think it is.
In any event, right now we're working on what 'co-' means and whether our use of it is licit. Can we settle that before we go to the doctrinal error that may or may not be in the way we use it?
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