Headline of the Day

Ok, So here is some real religious nonsense! This is a headline off of one of the blogs that I have coming to my google reader. Hold on to your seat.

"Lesbian Ordained in Lutheran Church"

Ok, so maybe not so outrageous, which really is the sad part about it. However only need to dig up two verses on this one to say why this is wrong.

1 Timothy 2:11-14 (11A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. 13For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.)

Second verse is Revelation 21:8 ( 8But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.")

So, women should not be pastors and the sexually immoral are headed for Hell. Is this someone that should be preaching in your church, or for that matter any church? I prefer to learn from someone that has sound theology, and not from someone that wants the church to adjust the Word of God to fit with their lifestyle. They are on the wide path that leads to destruction. I pray that you are not on it with them.

THINK ABOUT IT, AND READ THE WORD (DON'T BE HOODWINKED)

Try Jesus !

Oh, where oh where to begin. I was on my way to the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks when I saw this church sign. I actually turned around to get a picture of it. No I was not in the back of a police cruiser when I went by. I was getting fingerprinted for foster care reasons. My thoughts however on this sign just screemed to be put on the "drivel" sight.

"Try" Jesus, what are they saying, they make it sound like they have a product that they are selling and if you don't like the outcome of the product you can just return it and go back to the way it was before trying the product to begin with.

The dictionary defines try as "to test the quality, value, fitness, accuracy, etc." Do we really need to test the quality, or value of Jesus? If the gospel of Christ is presented in a way that people are shown that they are sinners and that God is just and will punish sinners in Hell, before they are told that they need to repent and trust in Jesus the value is made perfectly clear.

This sign seems to be saying that this Church would like to fill the pews however they are not really concerned if you stay or not. The following is a cut and paste from the Seventh Day Adventist Web site, from the "What Adventists Believe" page "God's vision for you is life as He lives it! God loves you, and wants to give you the highest quality of life imaginable."

God's vision is to live life as he lives it? How is that possible until we are in Heaven with him. God wants you to have the highest quality of life? There is that ugly prosperity gospel again. In 2 Timothy 3:12 "In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted"

Sad, so sad.

THINK ABOUT IT, AND READ THE WORD (DON'T BE HOODWINKED)

Million Dollar Goof !

So you might be asking what is the goof? Well the tract to the left is a gospel tract from Way of the Master.com and I actually have some of them myself that I have given them out to people. They are a great thing to leave with the person at the drive through of your favorite fast food.

However there is no such thing as a million dollar bill. Since 1969 the largest bill in circulation is the one hundred dollar bill. But stupid is as stupid does and a man in Pittsburgh, PA tried to pay for his groceries with it. Now I see a couple of problems here. First, if he read the back of the phony bill he would have read "Have you ever told a lie, stolen anything or used God's name in vain?" Well I would say that he broke all three of these 10 commandments trying to pass the bill off. He was lying that this was a real bill, he was trying to steal the groceries with funny money and I would bet he may have used God's name in vain when he got busted. Second, when was the last time that you saw a store cash register have change for a million dollars? My heavens you would be lucky to get for one hundred dollars.

So here is the article found on Fox News.com

That's what a man was seeking Saturday when he handed a $1 million bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket. But when the Giant Eagle employee refused and a manager confiscated the bogus bill, the man flew into a rage, police said.

The man slammed an electronic funds-transfer machine into the counter and reached for a scanner gun, police said.

Police arrested the man, who was not carrying identification and has refused to give his name to authorities. He is being held in the Allegheny County Jail.

Since 1969, the $100 bill is the largest note in circulation.

Police believe the $1 million note seized at the supermarket may have originated at a Dallas-based ministry. Last year, the ministry distributed thousands of religious pamphlets with a picture of President Grover Cleveland on a $1 million bill.

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Who Would Jesus Bomb? - Well lets find out!

So this is the first post of my new blog. I have decided to keep Family and the other posts I have separate. So this is the very first post and enjoy the read.

Who Would Jesus Bomb? This is a bumper sticker that I saw the other day and I had a couple of thoughts about it right off the bat. The first being that this is some peace loving non-sense. The second was that the person that puts this on their car has not read their Bible very well. So in this post I am going to show you who Jesus would bomb.

First we have to define some words. There are only 4 words in the whole bumper sticker and I think that only two of them need to be defined for us to move forward here. The words that need to be defined are Jesus and Bomb. So we will start with Jesus. I will use the Bible to define this, why wouldn't I, no other book is going to come close. Not the Webster dictionary. Which defines Jesus as
"the Jewish religious teacher whose life, death, and resurrection as reported by the Evangelists are the basis of the Christian message of salvation"
So I think we should define him by using his OWN words. John 10:30 "I and the Father are one." (This is a red letter blog, words of Jesus in red) So Jesus states rightly that he is GOD. Ok one word down one to go.

Second word BOMB. I will use Websters to define this word. Websters has multiple definitions for this word based on if it is being used as a noun or a verb. But since it is being used as a verb in this context that is how we will define it. Bomb - "to defeat decisively" So there we have the two words defined and we can now say "WHO WOULD GOD BOMB". I think that we would all agree that bombing includes death. So in this bumper sticker, we can conclude that they are asking "WHO WOULD GOD KILL"?

Well anyone that has read the Bible knows that it will not take long to figure this out. So in my research I started at the begining and found quite a few. In fact you ony have to read six chapters into the Bible to see the very first instance of "WHO GOD WOULD KILL"

Genesis 6:7 - So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them."

Holy smokes, all of mankind! Seems a little harsh, and we are only bombing the bad guys in a couple of countries. God chose to eliminate EVERYONE in verse 13 the Lord says that because the earth is full of violence, he is going to destroy men and the earth (environmentalist watch out). Has anyone noticed that the earth is again full of violence? That does not bode well for the future (for some people). More on that later.

Next up Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis 19:24 - "Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens." Why did he do this you ask, go back one chapter to 18:20 - "because their sin was so grievous" The Lord decided that he himself would take a look. He even agreed to save it if he could find 10 righteous people. Guess what, he couldn't, and in this instance he actually did BOMB! the people. Hence death was sure.

Next up Elijah. In 2 Kings chapter 1 Elijah tells the kings messangers to tell him that he will surley die since he is worshipping and idol. (ooops, broke the second comandment). So the king sends a Captain and 50 men to go get Elijah, what happens next? 2 Kings 1:10 - "Elijah answered the captain, "If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!" Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men." Hey look at that more BOMBS!. But then in verse 12, what do you know it happens again. Slow learners. In verse 13 they try again. However this time, the Captain shows God the respect that he deserves, and his life is spared.

Now I am going to move to the New Testament. God chose to kill his only SON (Jesus), why you ask. Simple, go back to the flood, God promised that he would not destroy the earth and everyone in it again, by flood (he is going to do it again, just not by flood) "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though ^[a] every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. He even still shows us that this promise stands when we see a rainbow. "Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth." But man still has a problem and that problem is sin Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. and we are told what the result is 3 chapters later. Romans 6:23 - for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life is Christ Jesus our Lord. So you have to REPENT and TRUST in Christ to save you and then you won't have to be around for the seven Bowl Judgments. These are not super bowls, cereal bowls, or ice cream bowls. These will not be fun to watch. You can read about them in Revelation 16.

So in conclusion, God will judge, punish and kill those that sin and there will be justice. And if he so chooses he will bomb us. He will bomb us again in the bowl judgments. Does God love us. Absolutely, but there is more to him than just love. Many people don't want to believe that, but after you die you will believe it, but then there will be nothing that you can do about it.

THINK ABOUT IT, AND READ THE WORD (DON'T BE HOODWINKED)