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There are many Xians out there who are against the use of phrases like “happy holidays” and “seasons greetings”. While I understand that it is assumed that these phrases are most often used to avoid picking the Christian holiday to celebrate, I don’t think that one must be forced to adopt only usage of Merry Christmas this time of year. There is more than the one holiday, and usage of Happy Holidays is only a short hand way of saying Merry Christmas, Exciting Boxing Day and Happy New Years, with maybe the addition of Hanukkah (25th of Kislev and seven days following), Saint Nicolas Day (December 8th), Saint Basil Day (1st of January), Winter Solstice (22nd of December) and a host of other holidays that fall in the beginning of the winter season. It is also just as appropriate to say season’s greetings. Personally, I don’t see why all these Xians get so upset at such things, it’s not like Jesus was actually born on the 25th of December (the Gregorian Calendar having not been invented back then).

As if it weren’t bad enough that so many Xians are pushing so hard against inclusiveness, many have taken a full on attack against X-mas, Happy Holidays and Seasons Greetings. I don’t know what these Xians have against people enjoying themselves, but it’s really making Christianity look bad, especially when they lie to push their war on X-mas. I am not a fan of lying, and am against lying Xians on almost anything they peddle.

Abortion is an abomination. The rate that babies are aborted in North America is an atrocity. Babies are blessings of God, and rejecting such is disgraceful and certainly a sin.

If abortion is made illegal:
-We will no longer have any real statistics on abortion, but only guesses. Therefore, we will no longer have any measurement of the success of the pro-life side. Abortion would not be stoppable by the methods they are prevented now.
-We will not be able to prevent late term abortions. If a woman wants a late term abortion, she will not be constrained by the law to carry her baby to term, but only as constrained by the law as an early term abortion would be. The late term and the early term abortions would be on the same level.
-We cannot force abortionists to provide accurate details about the process. In fact, they would probably be even worse than they are now in pushing abortion.
-We cannot force a preoperative wait time or counselling.

If abortion is made illegal, the pro-life movement ends with a loss.

We have been in the “Last Days” for close to 2000 years, and for the last 2000ish years there have been Christians who were sure that either the end of all things or the end of the age would be in their generation. One day those Christians will be right, but not in my generation. Personally, I’d give it another 200ish years to the end of the age of the gentiles.

If you’re reading Revelations/Daniel et al. into the news, or reading the news into Bible Prophecy, you will not get out of either of them their desired purpose. I have not seen any reason to believe that we are in the last generation of this age, and do not condone such an attitude as it takes focus away from worship of our Lord, and service to His people.

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The thread this is from.

There is one infinite God, who we know as Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit. Jesus is not ⅓ God, neither is the Father, nor the Holy Spirit. Each is God.

I think that the focus of the Sh’ma on God being one, and the understood deity of Christ is where the trinity doctrine finds its roots. While the doctrine certainly originates in the third century, it does not have its roots in any of the pagan triads or trinities. No, those triads were three gods in unity to become one, and the trinity of Christianity is one God who has revealed Himself three ways.

I believe that much has been added to this doctrine, separating the three persons (modes, representations, manifestations, emanations) of God, and much has been added to this doctrine to blur the lines that separate these persons.

“Timothy, could you please expound on “Each is God”, as this is where the problem exists.
When you say “Each is God” in your mind are you saying Each as in Father=1, Son=2, Spirit=3, each one is a whole, together these One’s are The Supreme Being we call G-d?”

∞ x 3 = ∞

Together these infinites are the Supreme Being we call God. I know the Father to be infinite in nature, I know the Son to be infinite in nature, and I know the Spirit to be infinite in nature, which I get the ∞ x 3 equation from.

Timothy, it creates more [questions], the problem I think that exists and I see this with all Trinitarians, is that if they were to just speak plainly, I think it would sound like polytheism to them as well, and they do not want to give that impression.

Honestly I think the majority of people that embrace the trinity do not fully understand it, and always just look for far out allegories to explain, however, the more we drill down to the simplistic, we always end up at the same place:

Jesus is G-d but He is Not The Father (This is 1)
The Father is G-d, but He is NOT Jesus (this is 2)
The Holy Spirit is G-d, but He is neither The Father or Jesus (This is 3)

If each one of these manifestation are indeed G-d, and they are eternal deities that remain individual and NOT the others, than this is the very definition of a Triad, therefore Polytheistic.

∞ is indivisible

Where I say The Father is not without the Son, and neither are without the Spirit, others say the Father is God (1), the Son is God (2) and the Holy Spirit is God (3), and yet they are one. This speaks against monotheism, and is heresy. It is based in trying to better explain that which is abstract, and thus leads away from the original intent; the trinity is an abstract explanation of the deity of Christ in monotheistic Christianity, anything further is heresy.

Regarding John 8:16, the man Jesus relied on the testimony of those who heard the Voice from Heaven say “This is my Son,” and is not proof that the Son and Father are not the same.

Regarding John 14:26, this is showing that the Spirit is sent in the same manner as the Son, and so to understand separation there, you must preconceive that the Son is separate from the Father.

Regarding Acts 10:38, again this needs the preconception of the Father and the Spirit being separate, and the Father and Son being separate in order to interpret that the son and Spirit are separate.

I like to avoid the idea that the Father is not the Spirit or the Son, the Spirit is not the Father or the Son, and the Son is not the Spirit or the Father because I staunchly believe that God is indivisible and so one part is never without any other in any instance (accepting Jesus’ humanity at the point where he bore all sins on himself). Saying otherwise to me sounds like calling one 2D square face of a cube separate from another face.

I will give one more statement regarding the issue

but the more I expound on my two mathematical statements, the further from the Sh’ma and the deity of Christ I stray, so I do not wish to explain this very much, and will likely be the first to abandon it.

If we human beings are able to understand the vast difference between our nature and God’s, it would be like a 2 dimensional square realizing the difference between itself and a 3 dimensional cube. God has revealed Himself to us in three very personal ways, if we call these persons, modes, forms or what have you, it takes away from the fact that He IS God. The trinity doctrine was formed in an attempt to understand these three ways that God had reveal Himself to us.

Christianity is quite old, and has since the very beginning had copycats trying to seduce the masses.  These were called anti-christs, which from the Greek would mean other christs, with another gospel, and another fire.  When the sons of Aaron lit a strange fire before the Lord, He destroyed them.  It’s not good to play with another fire.

In my life I have seen revival with the fire of God preceded by contrition and real humility, and I have seen people search for revival, only to find a revival of the strange fire.  I think that there are too many people in the Body right now who are seeking revival rather than seeking humility, but I may be wrong about that.

In the time of Christ, and all times prior, religion was political, and what politics you held decided what god(s) you served.  Jesus was asked probably the most politically loaded question in first century Palestine, “Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar?”  And Jesus replied with “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s” which serves as the first time recorded that anyone suggested that there be a separation of Church and State.

We are, as Ambassadors of the Kingdom of God, not to stand in between this dark world and it’s darkness, but to reflect the light of God into this world.  Deuteronomy 30:18 says, “Now choose life” and this should be the motto of the pro-life movement.  The Bible is fully pro-choice, and fully pro-life.  Every child is a blessing, and every abortion brings a curse, but it is up to the pregnant woman to choose, not for any ambassador to push legislation on someone, only to push them away from the love of the God you claim to serve.  Make no mistake in what I am saying; Making abortion illegal would only serve to make outlaws of perfectly forgivable people.

The sin of Sodom is that it was overfed and unconcerned; they did not care for their poor. (Ezekiel 34ish:17ish)  There are many people declaring that Sodomy is an abomination before the Lord, and that is true!  Neglecting the poor is the worst thing a Christian can do.  True and perfect religion that is honoured by God is this; to look after widows and orphans in their distress and to keep yourself from being polluted by the world (James 1ish:26ish).  Nowhere does the Bible say that God wants his people who are called by his name to demand that their country abide by God’s rules, and Christianity got it’s start in one of the most horrific empires the world has ever known in regards to abortion and homosexuality.  It’s a non-starter.  Why are there Christians ostracizing people because of a sin that is one of the 613 commands of Torah, when Covetousness, one of the 10, is so prevalent?

The Bible is the Most Holy Book, and in any translation, it must be read literally*. Note that I said “translation” and not “paraphrase;” just because the New Living Translation translates from the three dead languages into modern English, does not mean that it is a translation. It is only a paraphrase, no matter how inaccurately I portray that word.

Christianity will be preached to all people, even if Christ is not. This means that every bum who asks for a quarter should not be given a hot bowl of soup and a sandwich, which would enable him to spend his scavenged money on wine and whatnot. NO!! He must be given a Bible Tract with the Four Spiritual Laws written plainly in several languages on it. That way when God sends him to Hell to be punished for all eternity, he can’t say we didn’t warn him.

Christian nations must always prevail over other nations**. We will get God on our side, so that’s a given anyway, but to be on the safe side (since God doesn’t always do His job) we must enforce the Geneva Convention when it is in our best interest to do so, and avoid the topic when it’s not. When ever a war breaks out in the world, the side that gives the most benefit to the Christian Agenda will get the most support from Christian nations, and the more benefit, the more powerful the support.

The Conservative movement is the only God approved movement whether in the United States of America or any other Christian country. No True Christian™ can ever join a liberal party, unless it is to infiltrate and destroy***. If a liberal leaning party supports a cause, the Whole Christian Agenda® may be revamped to suit an all out assault on such a cause, even if it is a biblically sound cause like the separation of Church and State.

If someone claims to be a centrist, they’re actually claiming to be lukewarm, even if they are known to be very extreme in their views. And we all know where lukewarm believers go..

If someone claims to be a liberal Christian, they need to be informed that it’s actually a contradiction of terms. I’m sure they’ve been told this by other liberals, but this is a very stupid person.

The sanctity of marriage refers to the fact that it’s never between a man and a man, and nothing else. The sanctity of marriage does not have anything to do with fidelity, and never has. Homosexuality is the utmost abomination against our Lord the baby Jesus.

Pro-choice means abort every foetus that comes along. If someone says that they are both pro-choice and pro-life, you must correct them that they cannot be both. They are going to burn in hell because they want every foetus to be aborted, and they have no idea what being pro-life is about anyways.

The universe was created by God in 6 days 5770 years ago and science proves it. Anyone who says otherwise just hasn’t looked at the same facts as we have and there’s no reason for a True Christian™ to look at the facts that say otherwise.

*The Bible must be read literally unless a literal rendering supports a liberal cause.
**Prevail against all other nations unless that’s the Jewish nation, because we’re still trying to pay them back for all of them that suffered from previous, less righteous, Christian Agendas (we know they were less righteous because they didn’t register their trademark).
***Thank you Ed Rendell and Terry McAuliffe in America and Stephane Dion in Canada, you’ve served the Christian Agenda® well

> Dear Mr.
> Harper,
>
> Please find below my suggestion for fixing Canada’s
> economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to
> banks and car companies, that will squander
> the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the
> following plan:
>
> There are about 20 million people over 50 in the work
> force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for
> early retirement with the following stipulations:
>
>  1) They MUST retire.  Twenty million job
> openings - Unemployment fixed.
>
>  2) They MUST buy a new Canadian CAR.  Twenty
> million cars ordered -
>  Auto Industry fixed.
>
>  3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their
> mortgage - Housing
>  Crisis fixed.
>
>  4) They must send their kids to school / college
> /university - Crime
>  rate fixed
>
>  5) Buy $50 of alcohol / tobacco / gasoline a week…
> there’s your money
>  back in duty / tax etc
>
> It can’t get any easier than that!
>
> P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of
> parliament pay back
> their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances.
>
> If you think
> this would work, please forward to everyone you
> know. If not, please
> disregard.

Here’s my reply:

For starters, Mr. Harper would not listen to a petition that made sense, let alone this.

Secondly, the amount of oversight to ensure the stipulations to the
million dollar giveaway are met would take more paperwork and money
than it’s worth.

Thirdly, 20 million new employees will not solve the unemployment
problem as much as it would create problems in the human resources
departments of nearly all employers.

Fourthly, twenty million cars in one shot will produce a glut in demand
that would be immediately followed by a shortage in demand when those
twenty million car buyers have their cars.

Fifthly, if all the mortgages are paid off, the interest rates will
shoot through the ceiling making it harder for the next generation of
home-owners to get by, and may cause even more foreclosures of
mortgages which were previously quite manageable.  At the same time,
with all those houses being bought, the demand will again spike,
driving the price of houses up.

Sixthly, college and university educated people will commit just as
much crime as high school dropouts if given the opportunity.  The
crimes might be white collar crimes, but crime is crime.  Criminal
behaviour is not based on education or poverty, but psychology.

Finally, assuming that our Honourable Members of Parliament make false
claims on their income tax, it seems doubtful that they fraud so much
as to fix the economy with their corrections.

As much as it pains me to say it, the economy will only be fixed by
trickle down economics, as it was taken down by an outright rejection
of the same.  Right now would be a great time to revamp our entire
economic structure, while spending billions on our infrastructure.  Our
economy penalizes employment and rewards slothfulness.  Our economy
does nothing to discourage the destruction of the environment.  What
would have been great to go along with the major changes to the
infrastructure, would have been a huge shift in our taxation laws, in
which earning and spending are no longer taxed, but maybe spending on
environmentally detrimental products would be taxed to make up for lost
revenues.  That seems like a really good plan, I think I’ll call it the
Shift-away-from-income-tax…  or the Environmental Shift…  How
about…  nah, nobody will ever buy into the Green Shift.

(Not to mention that this is only a copy of a pettition to Obama with Harper’s name on it.  There aren’t 20 million employees in Canada, let alone 20 million employees over 50 years of age.)

A Biblical church would consist of the laity, elders, deacons and their wives, various teachers or pastors of church ministries, pastor and pastor’s wife, Evangelists, Prophets, apostles and God.

The only qualification to be an elder is to not have died sooner, and their role is to be a respectable elder no matter what your age (hence the laity doesn’t actually exist, accept that all the laity are elders) and to pray for the sick.

The qualifications of being a deacon are found in Act 6:3 and I Timothy 3: 8-13, and your role is to do the menial tasks necessary for the church to run, including but not limited to: changing the sign, setting up the chairs, keeping the books, working in the soup kitchen, collecting the offering, cleaning the bathroom and baptizing. The deacons answer to a pastor, as they may be novices in the way. Every church should be able do decide how many deacons it requires, bearing in mind that the deacons must put their family before church work as their children may still be quite young.

The various teachers (youth Pastors, worship leaders, Sunday School teachers.. etc.) require the calling of God and a great deal of humility. They must also control their tongue.

Pastors require the calling of God and must be monogamous husbands, their biological children must be fully grown (youngest past bar mitzvahs age) and living Godly lives. Pastors must be highly respected in their community for their Godly lives. The role is to oversee (delegate and lead) all positions in the church, to bless the Host, and to prepare and deliver a sermon every week that God gives him one, and to know when someone else has to give the sermon. His role is to love and serve the Lord, to love and serve the pastor’s wife, to love and serve the church and to love and serve the congregation.

Pastor’s wives require the calling of God and must be highly respected in their community for their Godly lives. The role is to love and serve the Lord, to love and serve the pastor, to love and serve the church and to love and serve the congregation. She must be a shining reflection of Christ-like goodness and she will receive more respect than the pastor, but must always deflect the honour to God. She is the driving force behind every good sermon, the reason the pastor can delegate and lead, and the source of most of the pastor’s love.

Evangelists are called by God to be celibate for the sake of the Kingdom of God (Matthew 19: 10-12) for at least the time of their evangelism. Their role is to reflect the love of God to the unbeliever, and occasionally to encourage the body of Christ into a fuller understanding of God.  hey must be self-disciplined and follow God earnestly, they do not belong to any denomination, but put themselves under the oversight of Pastors or denominational boards.

Prophets/prophetesses are called by God to be celibate for the sake of the Kingdom of God, although sometimes there is a Gomer (a spouse who God will use as an illustration to the prophet). Their role is firstly to encourage the body of Christ into a fuller understanding of God, and occasionally to reflect the love of God to the unbeliever.  They must be self-disciplined and follow God earnestly, they do not belong to any denomination, but put themselves under the oversight of Pastors or denominational boards.

Denominational boards are to be set up to hold prophets, evangelists, teachers and pastors accountable to the scriptures and the will of God. The board is to be made up of teachers of the word devoted to prayer (Acts 6:4). They are to ensure the finances are not spent frivolously. They must be fully involved with denominational agencies like the MCC and participate in interdenominational agencies like World Vision.

I realize that there are no denominations that are run like this, nor have any been for over one and a half thousand years, but I think that this is the plan pointed to by the apostles in the epistles of the New Testament.  (There are exceptions to everything…  I’m not in the habit of defining a role or qualification for God…  This is only what I understand from the New Testament…)

The time for true revival is coming, and the time of the Lords visitation is upon us.  A messianic Jewish friend of mine recently gave a sermon on the days of the Lord’s visitation.  Starting with the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Teruah,  a day of introspection (and the start of the days of awe), and repentance from past mistakes, 1st day of the Seventh month, Sept. 29th, 2008, which in started the economic crash and America saw the largest stock market crash recorded of 777 points (retrospectively, many Americans would have bought a much cheaper house).  Then the day of Atonement, showing God’s mercy, the 10th day of the Seventh month, Oct. 9, 2008, where America saw the second largest crash to date.  The feast of Tabernacles, for rejoicing in the first harvest, 15th day of the Seventh month, Oct. 14, 2008 when the markets again had the second largest crash to date of 737 points.  Throughout Chanukkah, oil prices crashed and have stabilized around $42/barrel.

In regards to the end times, and having read the entire Bible in a dozen English translations, I am sure that nearly all speculation as to what the actual beast will be is false.  The anti-Christ is a matter I have of contention with much the rest of Christendom. Anti-Christs have been around throughout church history and the actual Greek could be read “another Christ”, as in a strange Christ teaching a strange gospel with strange fire.  In the end times undoubtedly there will be a tremendous falling away from the true historic Messiah Jesus of the Bible, and a turn toward one specific variation of Jesus who christians will set up for themselves.  At this time the Jewish community will turn to their true Messiah and will be the greatest light in the world’s darkest darkness.

It is much like a bride who has expectations of who her husband is, but doesn’t try to get to know him.  Just like the non-christian Jews of the first centuries, such is the fate of the gentile church in the end times.  I pray that this is not our current condition.

Purim starts this Sunday at sunset with the fast of Esther, which according to current customs starts the following sunrise, although I’ve heard that this one fast was to be a 25 hour observance, to be sure that the full day is fasted.  This fast is to commemorate the three day fast commanded by Esther for all the Jews in Shushan (Susa) praying for the fate of the children of God who faced certain doom.  Without food or water, one is to pray every time they have a craving for either.  This fast is followed by giving gifts, reading Esther and celebrating for one (Mon)day.  It is required to “celebrate” until one cannot tell the difference between “cursed be Haman” and “blessed be Mordecai”.