Posted on 09/24/2010 6:53:34 AM PDT by kindred
4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. 5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
8But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
9For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. 10But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. 11Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me. 12The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
There is no doubt in my mind that Lucifer must have been a democrat.
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This is also Zer0's base. They will stick with him no matter what. And they can inflate their numbers by about 20% using fraud, dead voters, multiple voters, illegal aliens and the line. This is why you will never see Zer0's approval ratings and subsequent vote totals drop below 40% (33% + 2-%) no matter what.
don’t refer to the snake devil satan loser as something that means light.
one of his followers deliberately mistranslated in his favor centuries ago giving him a name that means light
satan the evil loser loves to be called that
but he is darkness and death only, the loser, nothing more
The older I get the easier it becomes to identify evil simply through recognizing it’s inability to create. It must be a terrible curse to live with. Having only the power to destroy. A burning envy of the creator.
When the towers fell on 9/11 I could smell it all around me. Using an engineer to destroy what he could not build for himself, how clever. An entire failed culture driven mad with envy.
The message is God is so powerful that he can take an angel whose very name means "Bringer of Light" and cast him into eternal darkness.
Back when the very best a man could aspire to was being called God fearing, the message came through loud and clear.
These days with a sweet all loving and all forgiving small 'g' god? Not so much...
Yes, but don't you think His message on helping the poor was too liberal and socialistic for today's politics?
I’m stealing that for my profile page.
That is a great point. I never heard it put quite that way before.
The greatest shame is that these people are not atheists.
They know there is one true God, and yet reject Him for their own power and glory.
This, too, shall come to an end.
“Yes, but don’t you think His message on helping the poor was too liberal and socialistic for today’s politics? “
The perception that Jesus was a socialist and was always concerned about the poor is inaccurate.
Mark 14:3-9
While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.
Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume? It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly.
“Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.” (not particularly concerned about the poor there was he)
Matthew 15:26; “He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to their dogs.” “Yes, Lord,” she said, “but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”
(The woman was not a Jew so, at the time Jesus was not obligated to answer her prayer)
“Then Jesus answered, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.”
So, this idea that Jesus was a liberal, socialist, only caring about feeding the hungry, etc. is not totally accurate.
They may call themselves athiests, yet inside they know there is one true God. So inside, instead of calmly and “intellectual” saying “I do not believe in the existence of any diety”, they shake their fists toward Heaven, screaming “No, God!” in rebellion.
As described by one Pentacostal minister long ago.
If you have any interest at all in identifying the particular model of statism that Obama follows (perhaps in order to more efficiently oppose it), put aside any emotional connotation you have to the word “fascist” or “fascism”. Then read works that explore how fascism worked in the real (NOT THEORETICAL) world of Italy. I think you will be amazed at the parallels with Obama’s actions AND the aspects of implemented fascism that set it, and Obama’s methods and agenda, apart from other forms of statism. [A recommendation would be Bosworth’s “Mussolini’s Italy”.]
Anyone that believes in satan, knows there is God. For without the Word of God there would be no satan.
They only fool themselves, as satan did, while achieving the power and glory they need.
What they don’t realize is that there is greater power in love and humility than they will ever find in power and gold.
There is no satisfaction in their search. The more they have, the more they want.
When we accept what God provides, no matter our state, we have total peace.
I think Jesus cared deeply about the needs of the poor, but the intent, is that we, as believers care for them, not that we give the Government our money so that they can allocate it however they would like....
It’s about our personal responsibility... Based on “Love one another as I have loved you”, and being my brothers “keeper”.
In no way does God’s word allocate that to the Government, but to GOD’S people.... to give “with a joyful heart” to those in need.
If the Govt. is taking all we have (wealth redistribution) than we will likely have nothing left to “give to the poor”!
Watch out for organizations by the way, that are branches of WISDOM, who trained the great O, and who go by Biblical acronyms, for the sake of deceiving pastors and using profits to promote a leftist agenda!!
Right, Jesus was not ALWAYS concerned with the poor but He was concerned about the poor many times.
>> Yes, but don’t you think His message on helping the poor was too liberal and socialistic for today’s politics?<<
Socialistic? Never once did Jesus say it was the government’s responsibility to take care of the poor. In fact, He said it was a personal responsibility. The Church and it’s members have abdicated their responsibility and will pay for it.
“In no way does God’s word allocate that to the Government, but to GOD’S people.... to give “with a joyful heart” to those in need.”
Spot on! The church’s role is to feed the hungry, etc. that way there is some honest oversight. Giving to those truly in need and not freeloaders. There is also a blessing in personally giving to others that is taken away from us if we let the government take that responsibility away from us.
By allowing the government to take the responsibility of feeding the poor we set up the government as our god. It also allows for “vote buying” of an entire class of people.
True. But Jesus knew that would come up short because He said the poor would always be with us. If people accepted this personal responsibility it would not be necessary for religious or government solutions to exist. Well some might be willing if the tax deduction is personally beneficial.
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