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justachristian1 wrote:

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What really gets my goat is the government telling 'YOU WILL ACCEPT IT'. We are supposed to 'by law' consider homosexuality normal.... and by law consider lesbianism as 'normal' when clearly it is not.
I refuse to accept it as 'normal. So what will the dear old Canuck guvminty do ... put me in prison for refusing to obey its 'law'?
Sure --'abortion on a whim is to be 'accepted'... sex without marriage is supposed to be 'accepted' and it is further condoned and encouraged by supplying condoms...
Drug addicts have their needles supplied to 'prevent contamination'... yet DIABETICS who REALLY need syringes and other supplies must pay for their own.
Canada is NUTS.

YAY! Tennessee is now going to be doing welfare drug testing!!!!!

It's about time.

[Full of Love]

Pad wrote:

<quoted text>Terrible things happen daily everywhere.It is unconscionable how any adult can abuse their own.but wonders of wonders people every year pull some stunts you would like to see them beat for what they do.
Not too long ago my neighbor's son was involved in a relationship where they had a baby together.The mother was having an affair with another guy,and her boy fried beat the little one,when she would get him mad.well he killed her finally,and you will not believe how the woman protected him.
The woman told police that the little girl pulled a VCR down on top of her and killed her.Get a load out of such a story.My neighbor's son grew up the fast way,and he is much more serious about life now.
LTM I just came home today from the hospital.Last Wednesday I had a bowel obstruction from scar tissue that had dehydrated and strangled my colon, fortunately no cutting into the bowel was necessary.It was horribly painful,and I was very sick to say the least. What a week,had a wonderful surgeon,medical staff was wonderful as well.
Thank God all went well. Won't be getting on here too soon,so maybe I'll check in tomorrow. I had a twisted bowel in 2006,and a ventral hernia in 2009,so there was a lot of scar tissue,but it now has all been scraped away.
Take care will check in again soon.Bye, D a n.

I pray you get well soon Pad.

[Hermeneutics Smutics]

Let us all remember that these words

‘let us stand well, let us stand in awe"

were the words that Archangel Michael (the first to rise up against Lucifer) announced, when, with his sword drawn, stopped the falling of God’s angels who were following Lucifer into the abyss.

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Thanks for proving everything I wrote in my post to par about you and your ilk....not that more proof was needed. You and Old have provided plenty already.
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Spoken like a true sock cucker.

Thanks for the help////

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Hey ITB. Based on information received from OX it has been determined exactly why your husband keeps you around. Could it be you can suck a golf ball thru a garden hose? LOL LOL
A golf ball may be a bit too much...but...I would bet that she could suck mouthfuls of spehetti through a 50' hose!!!!!

Thanks for agreeing...you are a blessing!!!!!

[Hermeneutics Smutics]

On an even deeper level, this spiritual principle--do not react--teaches us that we need to learn not to react to thoughts. One of the fundamental aspects of this is inner watchfulness. This might seem like a daunting task, considering how many thoughts we have. However, our watchfulness does not need to be focused on our thoughts. Our watchfulness needs to be focused on God. We need to maintain the conscious awareness of God's presence. If we can maintain the conscious awareness of His presence, our thoughts will have no power over us. We can, to paraphrase St Benedict, dash our thoughts against the presence of God. This is a very ancient patristic teaching. We focus our attention on the remembrance of God. If we can do that, we will begin to control our troubling thoughts. Our reactions are about our thoughts. After all, if somebody says something nasty to us, how are we reacting? We react first through our thinking, our thoughts. Perhaps we're habitually accustomed to just lashing out after taking offense with some kind of nasty response of our own. But keeping watch over our minds so that we maintain that living communion with God leaves no room for distracting thoughts. It leaves plenty of room if we decide we need to think something through intentionally in the presence of God. But as soon as we engage in in something hateful, we close God out. And the converse is true--as long as we maintain our connection to God, we won't be capable of engaging in something hateful. We won't react... Metropolitan Jonah

[Hermeneutics Smutics]

Being Watchful

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Watchfulness is the action to guard us from our automatic reactions to thoughts stimulated by our senses. It is being attentive to your inner self. The Greek word that is translated as watchfulness is “Nepsis”. It comes from “nepho,” which means to guard, inspect, examine, watch over and keep under surveillance. Watchfulness has been described by Elder Ephriam of Philotheou as “the axe which shatters the large trees, hitting their roots. When the root is struck, it doesn’t spring up again.”

Saint Hesychios sees watchfulness as follows:
Watchfulness is a continual fixing and halting of thought at the entrance to the heart... If we are conscientious in this, we can gain much experience and knowledge of spiritual warfare.

He shows us that this involves an effort to intercede on our thoughts, forcing them to be examined, to shine the commandments of our Lord on them.

He emphasizes the importance of this by calling it warfare. We know in warfare we need to have effective weapons that are stronger than those of the enemy.

It is essential to develop self-control over the inner workings of our mind.

Most importantly, you can learn to harness the actions of your mind which tends to run wild and unchecked. This unbridled condition leads you to rely on mental programming that needs to be changed if you are going to live the Orthodox life.

Being watchful means you have the necessary self-discipline to guard your inner sanctuary from being invaded by thoughts stimulated by your senses that lead you to sinful actions such as anger.

It is an ability to intervene in the process of choosing how to act based on any kind of stimulus that leads to a thought. It is a capacity to intervene in real time in your thought process.

How do you experience the distractions in your mind? Reflect on the times you notice that you were distracted in your daily activities. Was it due to an argument? Was it due to having too many commitments and you could not live up to all of them? Was it a recurring worry? Did it come from a feeling of guilt? Was it sadness that distracted you? Maybe you felt lonely and began to feel sorry for yourself. Was it a fear of something? Maybe you wanted something you don’t have? Each of us will have our own set of issues that are distracting us and keeping us separated from God.

A mind that is left to its own devices will remain untrained. An untrained mind is impossible to control. It will remain jumping from one thought to another just like a butterfly in a field of flowers. It will quickly jump from one flower to the another in what seems like a random pattern. To develop mindfulness or watchfulness requires ascetic disciplines, such as prayer and fasting, as well as help from the Holy Spirit.

Doing one thing at a time is a good way to become more watchful. Focus totally on each activity. Don’t let your mind wander. Make this a discipline until you feel you have this capacity of watchfulness.

Of course the regular reciting of Jesus prayer will help develop this ability.

Ordering your life will also help you create a less distracted life situation.

Participating in worship and the liturgical cycle of the church will help to keep your mind focused on God.

As long as you insist on living life as if you can do many things at the same time without any regard for God, you will remain scattered in your mind and you will not remember Him when you need God the most.

Slow down, order your life, and focus on one thing at a time. Turn your whole life into a prayer.

With God’s help, in the context of the Church, you can train your mind to become focused and pointed so it acts more like the laser beam, with the power of the Holy Spirit.

[Seraphima]

Oxbow wrote:

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Thanks for agreeing...you are a blessing!!!!!

what a joke.Everyone knows Hemi would never agree with a discusting remark like that.

[Hermeneutics Smutics]

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

- Erich Fromm

[Seraphima]

justachristian1 wrote:

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No problem, Herme -- No apology really is necessary, but if you feel better offering it, I am more than happy to accept it.
I know you and I have BOTH had our diffs -- but thanks be to God, we are adult enough to get over them and move on!!

move on to what?Move on until the next bashing of the Catholic/Orthodox disagreement with you and what you believe is the truth?It wont be long until you turn him away again with lies,

[Seraphima]

manna manna manna...when are you going to learn..lol

[Hermeneutics Smutics]

Internal spiritual warfare is warfare is a war against ourselves, the type of war that is so well pictured in C.S. Lewis’ book, The Screwtape Letters. And, there is no doubt that fasting, the reading of Scripture, prayer, the reading of the lives of the saints, the readings of the great spiritual classics help us to be open to receiving the power of the Holy Spirit that we need in order to win the war against ourselves and to do what is right before the Lord.

That warfare, properly handled can teach us much about ourselves. It can teach us about our weaknesses. It can teach us about how sinful and poverty-stricken we are. It can teach us about how we are naked and poor and need God’s clothes.
“For he has clothed me in garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness,” Isaiah 61:10.
It is no surprise that one of the most often heard refrains from the saints who have purified themselves is,“Lord, have mercy,” even when they are leading lives that would have the majority of us convinced that they need little mercy.
True fasting and prayer, true inner spiritual warfare lead us to a true knowledge of our condition, of the grace of God, and of the Holy Spirit who is so available to us.
It is also no surprise that the saints who are recorded as being most successful in this type of warfare are also recorded as being immensely forgiving and loving.
Having looked at themselves, they know that they have no choice but to forgive others.
Having looked at God, they know that they have no response other than to love others.

Sadly, that warfare, improperly handled, can turn us into arrogant fools. They now believe that they have wisdom, when they merely have knowledge, that they are capable of judging others when they are incapable of judging themselves.

[Hermeneutics Smutics]

Seraphima wrote:

<quoted text>move on to what?Move on until the next bashing of the Catholic/Orthodox disagreement with you and what you believe is the truth?It wont be long until you turn him away again with lies,

Dont listen to her. We have a schism in our loving home.I excommunicated her and she excommunicated me.I thought I was on the Love Boat but now I am stranded with the Howells, Mary Ann, Ginger, the Professor, and Skipper.

[OldJG]

James 4:12, "God alone, who gave the law, is the Judge. He alone has the power to save or to destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor?"

[OldJG]

Early Christianity is generally considered as Christianity before 325. The New Testament's Book of Acts and Epistle to the Galatians records that the first Christian community was centered in Jerusalem and its leaders included James, Peter and John.

[OldJG]

COUNCIL OF NICEA (325 AD)

In 325 AD over 300 Bishops, Priests and acolytes, attended the Council of Nicea after being ordered there by Constantine I, who while presiding over it sat on a thrown of gold dressed in a robe of jewellery. Flavius Valerius Constantinus was the Roman emperor 306-337 AD, was Godfather of the Roman Catholic Church, worshipper of the sun God "Sol Invictus" and held title "Pontifus Maximus" (High Priest) until death and was supposedly baptized a Christian on his death bed 337 AD by an Arian bishop, Eusebius of Nicomedia.

The "First Christian Bible" was commissioned, inspected, paid for, edited and approved of by Constantine for church use at the Council of Nicaea, 325 AD. He made many changes to the Christian faith blending worship of the sun into Catholicism.(Examples of his acts are below:)

The birthday of the pagan Sun god, December 25th, was made the official birthday of Jesus.

It was made unlawful to rest on Saturday (The 7th Day) so the new Christian religion changed their day of rest to the first (Sunday, the day of the sun (Deis Solis)).

The coins during Constantine reign were inscribed: "SOL INVICTO COMITI",(Committed to the Invincible Sun), and pictures of the Sun God used on them.

Constantine built the triumphal arch of Constantine, 315 AD, there is no Christian symbols on it, only those of Mithras, Jupiter, Mars and Hercules. It was built in celebration of his famous victory at Milvian Bridge in 312 AD, where modern day Christians believe he found God.

Is Jesus not depicted as having a halo, as is the Virgin Mary, the Apostles and the Angels of God? What do you think the halo represents? Yes the rising sun as used on roman coins and art of the Sun God from times before the church was created. Many sun gods used this symbolism.

[justachristian1]

Seraphima wrote:

<quoted text>move on to what?Move on until the next bashing of the Catholic/Orthodox disagreement with you and what you believe is the truth?It wont be long until you turn him away again with lies,

Sera, I have never told any lies to Herm or anyone else.
ALL I have done is speak the truth against the false teachings of romanism.
Sorry, but YOU are bearing false witness against me.

[justachristian1]

Hermeneutics Smutics wrote:

<quoted text>Dont listen to her. We have a schism in our loving home.I excommunicated her and she excommunicated me.I thought I was on the Love Boat but now I am stranded with the Howells, Mary Ann, Ginger, the Professor, and Skipper.

And I think Sera is trying to make me look like Gilligan!
Oh well...

[OldJG]

Absent from the Body, Present with the Lord

BIBLE MEDITATION:
“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 5:8

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
A man named Solomon Peas died. His tombstone in London reads:

“Beneath these clouds and beneath these trees
Lies the body of Solomon Peas.
But this ain’t Peas - it’s just the pod.
Peas shelled out and went to God.”

I like that. That’s what your body is. It’s just a pod. What happens to a child of God who has trusted Christ as his personal Savior? When he closes his eyes in this life, he opens them in the next. Jesus did not say,“After two or three thousand years, you’ll be with Me in paradise.” Jesus said,“Today, truly, you’ll be with Me in paradise”(Luke 23:43).

ACTION POINT:
Are you confident that if you died today you’d be with Jesus in paradise? If not, then confess your sins and believe upon His name to save you. Now, go and tell someone!

[justachristian1]

7th Day Catholics Rock wrote:

<quoted text>You are clueless Christians have been Martyred from day 1 for protesting the Pagan Roman Empire and being Jew or even for keeping the Sabbath by the gentile/christians that had false doctrines filter the church. As Christ implied even now Satan is at work from within and false prophets abound

HOW TRUE.