...Johann Adam Weishaupt was a German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati, a secret society with origins in Bavaria. Weishaupt decided to infiltrate Masonic Lodges to spread his Luciferian doctrine world-wide. There has been a lot of speculation about the Illuminati in the past and some even argue that the Illuminati does not exist. If the Illuminati does not exist then we have nothing to worry about, but if it does, we have a lot to be concerned about as will be discovered in this video. It has always been my contention that the governments of the world are not based on Christians values and principles, and that those who are truly in power in the world today are in fact Luciferians. What is a Luciferian? This is someone who believes that Lucifer (Satan) is in fact the true God, the “Light Bearer”, the “Morning Star” (angel of light). This belief system is based on the story of Genesis 3. 3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” 4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 When...
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...A Prayer to Help You Start the Day This is a prayer to help you get started every day. Inspired by St. Patrick. Recite this prayer in the morning and you are ready to face the world. I arise today through the power of God: God's might to comfort me, God's wisdom to guide me, God's eye to look before me, God's ear to hear me, God's word to speak for me, God's hand to lead me, God's way to lie before me, God's shield to protect me, God's Heavenly Host to save me from the snares of the devil, from temptations to sin, from all who wish me ill, from near and afar, alone and with others. May Christ shield me today against poison and fire, against drowning and wounding, so that I may fulfill my mission and bear fruit in abundance. Christ behind and before me, Christ behind and above me, Christ with me and in me, Christ around and about me, Christ on my right and on my left, Christ when I lie down at night, Christ when I rise in the morning, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone that speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me. Hi, Sitom! In this modern world, sometimes it's easy to forget that we can only serve one master. Jobs, friends and relationships can often cloud our judgment. So remember, don't forsake God to worship false idols like money. He is your God and it is He you should serve! :) Enjoy the videos...
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...God is fully involved in each and every detail of our lives. Both of these approaches to the providence of God have legitimate reasoning and a thought process that makes each creditable, but only one has the complete support of scripture. The Calvinist approach would be the view that God is intimately involved in all decisions in our life, and the Arminian view would be that God’s control is limited because He grants freedom of choice1. This paper will explore both schools of thought and then come to a conclusion of which school of thought is the most accurate and best supported by scripture. Calvinist View of Providence ------------------------------------------------- The Calvinist viewpoint holds that God is in control of every aspect of mankind’s life through the preservation and governing of man. “Preservation is God’s maintaining his creation in existence. It involves God’s protection of His creation against harm and destruction, and His provision for the needs of the elements or members of the creation.”1 One does not have to look far in scripture to see God’s preservation of His creation. God’s Word says “Then God said, "Behold, I have given...
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...Liberty University Theological Seminary A THEOLOGICAL BOOK CRITIQUE: GOD IN THE WASTELAND A Theological Book Critique Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Course Systematic Theology I - THEO 525 By Chad Stafford ID# 22235852 28 September 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Brief Summary Capitulation Keys to reformation Critical Interaction Jesus and McGuire Modernization Displacement of God Loss of God’s transcendence and holiness Loss of God’s authority Moral Irrelevance Regaining our voice Conclusion 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 5 6 7 9 9 10 ii. Introduction God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams is authored by David F. Wells, a distinguished seminary professor and theologian at Gordon-Conwell Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. No Place for Truth was his first significant treatise on the subject of evangelicalism’s theological corruption which grabbed the attention of the evangelical community. God in the Wasteland is a continuation and his second treatment of the subject, in a four-volume series, where the author seeks to further define the origins and problems of evangelicalism’s theological compromise while proposing solutions like radical resistance to modernity and restoration of God-centeredness as central to regaining ground that has been lost to modernity within the church. In this critique I will seek to primarily interact with Wells assessment of evangelicalism’s compromised condition, and secondarily...
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...dualism and synthesis in Christianity Major themes in a worldview: Human nature, truth, meaning, purpose . 46 Scripture as the source of a Christian worldview The contours of a Biblical worldview . . . . . . .. . . . . . 59 70 87 104 119 136 157 Structure and direction. Sin and evil. Common grace The task and calling of humankind: to care for the creation . The nature of Christian community. A Christian view of society. The Kingdom of God: God's righteous rule over the whole creation . Bibliography . . . . . . . . ii Introduction The creation of the Father, fallen in sin, is redeemed by the death of the Son of God and is being transformed by the Holy Spirit into the kingdom of God. Herman Bavinck This series of studies is designed to provide a basic introduction to a distinctively Christian worldview that seeks to see the whole gospel applied to the whole of life. This Christian worldview makes a difference, because it is significant for our life in the world. It shapes and directs our lives in important ways, because it is the framework of our most basic beliefs about everything. These studies provide an initial introduction to the idea that Christianity provides a coherent, robust and significant basis for life that is a distinctive and genuine alternative to the prevailing worldviews which currently shape our society. No doubt there will be many questions arising out of these studies that cannot be...
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...Prophet: Jeremiah Jeremiah is one of the four major prophets according to the Catholic church. The book of Jeremiah covers the period between 626 BC to 583 BC. It is written by Jeremiah and his secretary Baruch. Jeremiah dictated and Baruch recorded his message. Jeremiah may have been related to the deuteronomic authors or some may say he may been one of the deuteronomic authors. Certainly his message was close to the deuteronomic writing. Jeremiah was born in a priestly family from a town near Jerusalem, around year 650BC, about 100 years after the prophet Isaiah. God had blessed him and God called him when he was very little. Jeremiah followed God’s way and was faithful to God. He lived his life in turmoil because he was witnessing the Israelites acting out their unfaithfulness to God. Jeremiah was called by God to be his prophet to Judah and to the nations in the mist of Judah’s political convulsions : - (687-642), the political dependence of the Assyria brought on an resurgence of idolatry in the form of a syncretist fusion of the Mesopotamian astral gods and the Canaamite fertility deities. - The religious and political situation persisted until 622-621 when the Book of the Law was discovered in the Temple, Josiah led a thorough reform in Judah, which he extended to northern Israel. The people of who had been faithful the Yahwistic covenant did really supported the King. This glorious reign came to end in 609BC after the king’s death. - (609-598) Under Jehoiakim...
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...Wright Report There are numerous ways to view Jesus. His life, teachings, and impact on the world have different meanings to people around the world. In Simply Jesus, N.T. Wright takes a look into Jesus’ life as well as the world in which he lived and the people he lived among. By diving deep into history, Wright attempts to portray Jesus as something larger than people often times imagine. Wright begins Simply Jesus with one of the most important visualizations of Jesus: his entry into Jerusalem on a donkey. Through years of academic study and contemporary events, such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Wright has come to believe that “Jesus – the Jesus we might discover if we really looked! – is larger, more disturbing, more urgent than we – than the church! – had ever imagined” (4-5). In part one, Wright compares Jesus’ life to a “perfect storm,” where a set of circumstances combine to create unexpected and unmatched conditions. This “perfect storm” is composed of skepticism and conservatism, the growing and dominating power of Rome, and the divinity of God’s kingdom, with Jesus striding out into the eye of the storm. Part two focuses on how Jesus brought the kingdom of God to the Jews of the first century. Wright shows how Jesus himself had, in a way, become a new Temple for the Jews. Jesus taught the Jews with parables, spoke of a great battle against “a satan” (119), and the cleansing and rebuilding of the Temple. Jesus both fit into and yet did not fit the roles of...
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...between two people that existed in the world. However, due to process philosophy, we can now see that same institution is being attacked and transformed into something that God objects to. As Christians, the Bible is our way to better understand and worship God. If we explore the ESV version in Genesis 2, we see God made man and woman and said that they “shall become one flesh”. Karl Marx however, offered up a different approach. Marx was an Atheist and therefore did not believe in God or the word of God (Martin, 2006). Marx’s atheistic teachings created a succession of process philosophers that eventually brought us to our current situation. By not believing in or following God’s word or established institutions, in this case the family and marriage, humans begin to go against God and away from God. In today’s world, the news headlines are filled with results of process philosophy; homosexual “marriages” being legalized, divorce rates are sky high, domestic violence rates up above normal, etcetera. The biggest of the issues in my opinion that involves process philosophy is the national legalization of homosexual “marriages”. The phrase most frequently used is “gay marriage”. This wording however does not align within a biblical worldview because marriage is between a man and woman. “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22). By adhering to our biblical worldview, we would and should follow God’s holy word. Marx “adopted the idea of...
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...Inspiration and Inerrancy (Turabian-Bibliography) Terrell Harrison Student # 23479051 Theology 201 William D. Aleshire Liberty University Online, February 24th,2014 Contents Introduction 1 How does the World see the Word 2 Five Questions kinds of Research Questions 2-5 a. The authority of the Bible and where it came from? b. Inspiration and Biblical Support. c. The validity of the Arguments of Inerrancy with Biblical Support. d. The relationship between inspiration and inerrancy. e. Living as what I proclaim to be. Conclusion Introduction Millions of people in the world today are looking for something. Some have an idea where to find it, yet others question the very validity of God’s word. During my walk with Christ this question has been asked more than once and sometimes not nearly enough.”What does it mean to say that the Bible has “Authority, and how do we know for sure where the Authority of the Bible came?” The interesting thing is when you do explain the truth of God’s word to today’s society; society is still inept to believe Hollywood before it understands the authority of God’s word. Let’s consider the Atheist beliefs. Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Most inclusively, atheism is the absence of belief that any deities exist. Atheism is...
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...and more than 90 percent of the executions for the witchcraft in British America occurred in Puritan colonies. Many factors contributed to the hysteria that gripped Salem. Impact of King William‘s War, the Puritan belief system and gender roles all led to the Salem witch trials. The foundation of the witchcraft crisis lay in the Puritan New Englanders’ singular worldview, one they had inherited from the first settlers of Massachusetts Bay more than sixty years earlier. That worldview taught them that they were a chosen people, charged with bringing God’s message to a heathen land previously ruled by the devil. And in that adopted homeland, God spoke through his providence - that is through small and large events of daily life. New England’s Puritans even in the third generation, believed themselves to be surrounded by an invisible world of spirits as well as by a natural world of palpable objects. Both worlds communicated God’s messages, because both operated under his direction. Losses sustained in the Second Indian War, King William’s War, prompted doubts or spiritual anxiety within the Puritan community. “That their Wabanaki enemies were Catholic (or at least aligned with the French Caltholics) made matters worse, suggesting that the settlers’ own Protestantism might not be destined for the triumph they had long assumed inevitable.” (296) The First Indian War, though extremely costly, ended with a victory in southern New England in the late summer 1676 and with a standoff...
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...Biblical World View Essay Paul’s letter to the Romans he addresses some very important aspects that pertain to the Christian lifestyle. He talks about many subjects pertaining to God’s wrath against mankind serving as a warning to those that turn away to attaining peace and life through the Lord Jesus Christ. Here I will be discussing Romans chapter’s one through eight and how the letter pertains to the following: The Natural World, Human Identity, Human Relationships, and Culture. In the natural world Paul addresses that recognizing the hard truths in relations to God’s stand point. He goes on to describe oppositions that will encounter the natural world towards God and His true will. God being assigned the main cause, he makes it very clear that God is and will always be the Creator of everything. Paul clarifies that the creation of the world itself is God’s way of showing His invisible and unique works (Romans 1:18-21). It can be interpreted here that God showed Himself to us and people will still choose to neglect giving the glory to whom it belongs and even recognize Him for what they do have or even both. Paul also recognizes the problem of the natural world worshipping created things rather than the One and only God, the Creator (Romans 1:25). Just to emphasize on this with some weight to it is Paul states the origin of this fall “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned”...
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...State legislatures, voters and more recently the courts have made sweeping changes over the past two decades in laws defining whether marriage is limited to relationships between a man and a woman or is extended to same sex couples. Gay marriage and gay rights are a major controversy in the world today. It is a constant debate on whether or not traditional marriage is out-of-date and that a new way is better. Although many believe in gay rights, it is difficult to support something that is against the foundation of America, and something that is harmful to the people of America. The Founding Fathers envisioned a government that would promote and encourage Christianity. The founding fathers wanted a firm foundation of christianity for America;...
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...Does man have free will? This question has been asked within the church since its inception. If man’s will is free then in a sense there is a part of creation that exists outside of God’s control, bringing His sovereignty into question. If man does not have free will his significance as the height of the created order is lessened. The question is further clouded by the fact that the Bible seems to support both ideas; that man is free and wholly responsible for his actions and that God is sovereign over every action within his creation. Paul Tillich describes the issue writing, “The question is whether the moral imperative is dependent on the divine grace for its actualization, or whether divine grace is dependent on the fulfillment of the moral imperative.”[1] This debate has been the cause of much disagreement throughout the history of the church. Brought to the forefront of debate by Augustine, arguing for the sovereignty of God, and Pelagius, arguing for the free will of man, the discussion over the relationship between God’s control and man’s ability has continued to this day. Later, during the reformation, Calvinists and Arminians continued the debate over the role man plays in the salvation process. This disagreement has caused Roger E. Olson to write, “We need to shoulder the responsibility of choosing between Calvinism and Arminianism. That does not mean choosing between Christianity and something else. It means choosing between two respectable interpretations...
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...CHAPTER 8 The Origin Of Sin--Part 1 We live in a world that is filled with evil and wrong. Are the daily newspapers filled only with nice stories about people loving and helping each other? Does the news on television show a world in which everything is happy and peaceful? We live in a world that has a very real need for policemen, soldiers, judges, and prisons. Every car is equipped with locks on the doors. Homes are built so that doors and windows can be locked. All the evidence points to the unmistakable fact that we live in a world that has been spoiled and polluted and defiled by SIN. Where and when did sin ORIGINATE (see Chapter 1 for the meaning of the words "origin" and "originate")? Where did sin first begin? When did sin first begin? When did sin first begin on planet earth? Who was the first sinner? Was there ever a time when there was no sin? Today God’s sinful creatures (men and angels) are at war with God. They rebel against God, disobey God, dishonor God, and turn aside from God’s ways. Was there ever a time when God’s creatures were in perfect HARMONY with God, and, enjoying perfect FELLOWSHIP with Him? How did sin first originate? Where did it all begin? Complete the following sentence by circling the correct answer: SIN FIRST BEGAN . . . a. With Eve who ate the forbidden fruit. b. With Adam who ate the forbidden fruit. c. With Satan who deceived Eve in the garden of Eden. d. With Cain, who murdered his brother Abel. The correct answer...
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...moment of creation he intervened once. Now we experience his act unfolding. As Edwards says, “all of this is God’s work, brought about by God working in and through the laws of nature over immense lengths of time and with great patience.”(4) Now what does this have to do with abortion? Abortion is a serious political and religious issue. It is the removal of a fetus from a women’s uterus to end a pregnancy. It is the center of much debate primarily between the church and state. Currently the law states that abortion is legal; meaning that women have the right to choose whether or not they would like to continue with their current state of pregnancy or terminate it. The Church however has its own laws and guidelines set, and has a very strong opinion when it comes to the topic of abortion. Separate from the Church there are there are currently three positions that can be taken in the discussion of abortion; Pro-choice, Pro-life: another group of people who believe that there are special circumstances in which an abortion could be classified as necessary yet for the most part they believe that is morally reprehensible. An individual who describes themselves as being Pro-life believes that life begins at conception and that terminating a pregnancy is the murder of an unwanted child. They consider an abortion as a complete destruction of God’s creation and a disruption in God’s plan for...
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