Posted on 08/14/2013 7:02:28 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
You are to funny....really? I mean really? Quoting Albert Pike???? I think not. He hardly qualifies as a theologian or a pastor. On the other hand he was an attorney and a freemason.....
Football is a game. YOU make the false gods not the game
You have totally twisted what I said. That’s fine. Go ahead.
Football is a GAME. You make it into some kind of idol not me. I spend my time fighting other battles.
Yup, we agree here.
Archer, are you willing to shoot arrows of love and not the devil’s burning arrows?
I mean, explain what God is to you. I don’t believe God’s highest thought toward us was to fulminate about how human glorifying faith systems are corrupting God’s message!
I believe the message has gotten expressed to its pinnacle in the Christian faith, IN SPITE OF, not BECAUSE OF, the way that men have continually sought to make any faith system to be about themselves (and hence all the denominations we know now). The Holy Bible is the core document here. Yes in theory it’s possible to multiply conspiracy theories. Looks like Pike has done a masterful job of that. But then where does that leave you at? How about giving the Christian God an actual serious test to see if He pans out. If He will not pan out then what, you only wasted a little time. But if He will pan out, you will gain a literal eternity — a reality that transcends our universe.
By the way, WHEN the Christian God pans out, you’ll find yourself in a position similar to mine. You will find yourself to be a universal Christian, a believer in what C. S. Lewis called “Mere Christianity” and yet able to affiliate with a real Christian congregation even if (WHEN!) it does not have everything perfect. The Lord Jesus Christ really does cut through the crap, pardon my French, but it’s true.
You ASSUME.
I tested it. I have witnessed this Lord take my confused past, many elements that I never could understood, and weave them together into an increasingly solid whole. EXACTLY what you would expect a God to do. Now what men could come up with a system like that, and not be crowing about how they’ve beaten a Sigmund Freud at his own game?
I don’t assume any more than I assume there is a sun and a moon.
And if that wasn’t enough, then there has been providence in small and great ways that have focused my life in where I am now.
I mean I could in principle keep on multiplying conspiracy theories, but then that would leave me where? In the same muddle you are in now, obsessing over a book that is all down and no up.
We test the Lord like scientists test a chemical. In real life.
>>Football is a game. YOU make the false gods not the game
Right, and in the Nifster Newspeak Edition of History the Colosseum’s creators probably didn’t make the gladiators, either.
Got Bread and Circuses?
You said only those without sin should be critical of a football player who has made comments of a live and let live nature about open homosexuality in pro football
You said it....repeatedly....and some chimed in supporting you
No one has twisted a thing
I disagree and BTW I don’t like pro sports much anymore for reasons folks like elaborate on a lot here
You do realize the devil’s game is blasphemy (blaming, putting things down gratuitously) don’t you?
He started with God.
You’re doing a marvelous job of that.
And if the bible is all “ASSUMPTION” then why are you even following a guy who took a piece of it and then went on from there as best he could think?
I dare you. I double dog dare you. Test the Lord. He will pass!
Hey guys. Cut the mutual pot shots. And pray for TArcher (and my witness). OK?
"When Christianity had grown weak, profitless, and powerless, the Arab Restorer and Iconoclast came, like a cleansing hurricane. When the battle of Damascus was about to be fought, the Christian bishop, at the early dawn, in his robes, at the head of his clergy, witll trle Cross once
so triumphant raised in the air, came down to the gates of the city, and laid open before the army the Testament of Christ.The Christian general, THOMAS, laid his hand on the book, and said, "Oh God ! If our faith be true, aid us, and deliver us not into the hands of its enemies!" But KHALED, "the Sword of God," who had marched from victory to vict ory, exclaimed to his wearied soldiers, "Let no man sleep! There will be rest enough in the bowers of Paradise; sweet will be the repose never more to be followed by labor."The faith of the Arab had become stronger than that of the Christian, and he conquered..."
--Page 36
http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/masonry/Albert_Pike_-_Morals_and_Dogma.pdf
You’re the one doing the ASSUMING. You’re not the Bible.
Matt 4:6-7
6 "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written:"'He will command his angels concerning you,
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"7 Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'"
NIV
So even the Lord is the devil to you?
Notice that you’re obsessed with devil, devil, devil, devil, devil.
Where is God in your picture? Could that bible you quote be lying to you about the devil too? Is the picture you see only composed of bad, without any good?
Pike does not show you any God that can save.
This is as far as I can go and it is also characteristic of God. God will not shove himself down stubborn people’s throats. But the devil always finds a way to bind stubborn people worse and worse.
What a crock of baloney.
We are talking here about a Moslem attack on a church that had attempted to do the verboten. It had attempted to assume (yep there’s your word, except used in the RIGHT context) dominion over nonbelievers. That was a no-no and made it spiritually weak. It could not withstand the Moslem pagans. God chastened it that way. God did not crush it however. More purified, it went on later to succeed in the famous Crusades.
You are following a blind man here, sir. Why don’t you call HIM on “ASSUMPTION”?
The Sun is the ancient symbol of the life-giving and generative power of the Deity. To the ancients, light was the cause of life; and God was the source from which all light flowed; the essence of Light, the Invisible Fire, developed as Flame manifested as light and splendour. The Sun was His manifestation and visible image; and the Sabaeans worshipping the Light--God, seemed to worship the Sun, in whom they saw the manifestation of the Deity.The Moon was the symbol of the passive capacity of nature to produce, the female, of which the life-giving power and energy was the male. It was the symbol of Isis, Astarte, and Artemis, or Diana. The "Master of Life" was the Supreme Deity, above both, andmanifested through both; Zeus, the Son of Saturn, become King of the Gods; Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, become the Master of Life; Dionusos or Bacchus, like Mithras, become the author of Light and Life and Truth.--pg 11
Got Appocolypto?
>>So even the Lord is the devil to you?
No more so than NebuchadnezZAR was.
>>Why dont you call HIM on ASSUMPTION?
Because He’s not the self-worshipping Redneck who’s doing the ASSUMING.
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