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		<description><![CDATA[What the common Protestant Christian and citizen of the United States is ignorant of, was a well known fact with many, during the nineteenth century. What was it that they, the common Christian, were ignorant of? Namely, the invasion of despotic Papal influence into the hard won civil liberties, which make up the foundation of [...]]]></description>
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<p>What was it that they, the common Christian, were ignorant of? Namely, the invasion of despotic Papal influence into the hard won civil liberties, which make up the foundation of this Nation.</p>
<p>I do not say &ldquo;Christian liberties&rdquo; because those liberties are the result of being born again and having the Spirit of God dwelling inside of us. But, it is this Christian liberty, the liberation of the soul from the bondage of the law, the liberty of conscience, that is rooted in Biblical Christianity, freeing us from the doctrines and commandments of men, which are, in any way, contrary to His Word, which is the cornerstone of true civil liberty. Today there is nary a word heard of this so dire an enemy. The awful result of not responding to this foe has been the nearly complete victory of, and even joining with, the Catholics in all their Pagan and heretical&nbsp; beliefs.</p>
<p>Truth, and Protestant Christianity, the bloody and hard-fought prize of the Reformation, is diametrically opposed to that from which it has been freed:&nbsp; mental and spiritual darkness, and the Roman Catholic Church. But, why the bloody protest? and why the present frightful silence? Is that, which was so hardily fought against, now our bosom buddy?</p>
<p>Are the words below, of Charles Spurgeon, still as true today as they were in January 1873?</p>
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<p><img align="left" alt="Spurgeon" src="http://www.spurgeon.org/images/spurgn38.jpg" style="display: inline; float: left" />&mdash;the superstition of Rome is the worst of all the evils which have befallen our race; may the Lord arise, and sweep it down to the hell from whence it arose.</p>
<p>Essence of lies, and quintessence of blasphemy, as the religion of Rome is,<font style="background-color: #ffff00"> it nevertheless fascinates a certain order of Protestants</font>, of whom we fear it may be truly said that &quot;they have received a strong delusion to believe a lie, that they may be damned.&quot; Seeing that it is so, it becomes all who would preserve their fellow-immortals from destruction to be plain and earnest in their warnings. Not in a party-spirit, but for truth&#39;s sake, our Protestantism must protest perpetually. Dignitaries of the papal confederacy are just now very prominent in benevolent movements, and we may be sure that they have ends to serve other than those which strike the public eye. A priest lives only for his church; he may profess to have other objects, but this is a mere blind. Our ancient enemies have small belief in our common sense if they imagine that we shall ever be able to trust them, after having so often beheld the depths of Jesuitical cunning and duplicity. The sooner we let certain Archbishops and Cardinals know that we are aware of their designs, and will in nothing co-operate with them, the better for us and our country. Of course, we shall be howled at as bigots, but we can afford to smile at that cry, when it comes from the church which invented the Inquisition. &quot;No peace with Rome&quot; is the motto of reason as well as of religion.</p>
<p><strong>We must have no truce, no treaty with Rome. War! War to the knife with her! Peace there cannot be. <br />
		</strong>C. H. S.</p>
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<p>The unqualified answer is YES! his words still ring true today!&nbsp; As the sun reaches its apogee and moves again to perigee, and the waves with regularity push up toward the sky, then back into the darkness, so the history of man upon the earth vacillates between hot and cold, light and darkness. The words of Spurgeon stands to warn us that even now we are moving back again into the darkness of embracing the anti-Biblical and paganistic ideas of Rome.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Where can we expect the compromised, corrupted, Protestant leaders of 21 century Churches to lead us? Naturally, it would be backwards into falsehood, darkness, and delusion. The Bible warns us about how sensual the inclinations of the flesh are, and that at every opportunity it would attempt to lead us into fleshly worship experiences, through minute mixtures of paganism, with truth.</p>
<p>It is common and profitable for Pastors and authors to capitalize on this human weakness to pamper the flesh. True Christianity can be quite boring for the nominal believer compared to the flamboyance of pagan rituals that excite the flesh. The Christianity of Christ and the Apostles was of a simple nature, and a simple life, exemplified by the simplicity and pureness of worship and lifestyle, and not a flesh tingling experience. We should not be surprised, although we always are when we finally come into the light of truth, to find that there is, today, a near universal appeal to the flesh, through the senses, to grow Churches. The whole Catholic religion is based on the sensual, the experiential, the flesh, and consequently, the paganistic, to lure those, conditioned from birth, to un-conscientiously accept her teaching as the &ldquo;gospel truth.&rdquo;&nbsp; These outward appeals , fashioning themselves to be &ldquo;holy,&rdquo; are the devises used to forge a strictly material organization called &ldquo;church.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Is it any wonder that the now post-<em>protest</em>ant church, being experientially based, finds little conflict with Catholicism, and seeks to capitalize on her proven methods of capturing souls for Jesus, and enslaving them to experiential forms of worship, rather than the freedom of simplicity? This is not conjecture, it is a fact!</p>
<p>A very well known, post-protestant author and <img align="left" height="225" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT1WKENcFVuZDX16c-4CQVzHUeJgY_XcladSlSBvN28oVltHXWcqg" style="display: inline; float: left" width="174" />professor (now deceased), Robert E. Webber writing to, &ldquo;The Younger Evangelicals,&rdquo; concerning, &ldquo;facing the challenges of the new world&rdquo; directs the young and na&iuml;ve, who know nothing of their Protestant heritage, but know everything about the flesh, backwards into what he terms &ldquo;ancient-future faith,&rdquo; which is nothing but rehashed Catholicism and paganism, and does this without any kind of warning as to its origin. He does not advise these youngsters to investigate this mystical form of worship which generated the Inquisition and consequential death of 60,000,000 Christians for no other reason than they wanted to read the Bible, and understand it, as it is written. He does not highlight the fact that the so-called leaders were some of the most personally corrupt individuals to walk the planet. He does not remind us that the belief system of these ancient desert fathers rarely agreed with the Bible. These &ldquo;fathers&rdquo; interposed their own mystical gleanings over and above the Bible itself, and claimed their inspiration as valid; although it, in almost every case, conflicted with the words of Scripture. He, like the Catholic priest, minimizes Scripture and promotes experience to validate truth. Has the Catholic Church chosen to adopt the American way of freedom and partake of Reformation truth? No she has not reformed.</p>
<p>To give an example of where the post-protestant churches today are headed I will but reference the last commercial church I attended; Eagle Church (Christian and Missionary Alliance) in Whitestown, Indiana. While attending there it was not unusual to hear Eric Simpson, the assistant pastor, praise the Catholic Church. He would even take sabbaticals to monasteries. Eric has no respect for the multiplied millions who died to secure for him a pulpit to preach his duplicity. Eric is a closet Catholic duping the ignorant and leading souls back into darkness, where no salvation exist. <a href="http://www.eaglechurch.com/ericsimpson">Here is the web page where Eric promotes his love of Romanism.</a></p>
<p>Eagle Church is nowhere close to being the only example. If you would look closely at most &ldquo;evangelical&rdquo; Churches you will likely find the earmarks of the infiltration of paganistic Rome, either through spiritual formation, contemplative prayer,&nbsp; the use of images, incense, lighting and sound effects, burning of candles, sacred spaces, sacred traditions, and many other things built upon multi-sensory, ancient-future, and vintage forms of worship, gleaned from the Roman Catholic Church.</p>
<p>The Church of Rome and the post-protestant evangelical church are kindred spirits, both promising the same thing, but by slightly different paths of experiences. What was once wrong and highly protested, not only by the faithful Church but also our founding fathers, is still wrong today. All of our preachers have become mute, who only speak sweetness, and are failing in their true calling to not only proclaim the Good News, but to warn the flock of the damning infiltration of Rome.</p>
<p>Not many today will even claim the name of &ldquo;Protestant&rdquo; to promote their Church; although most will still use denominational titles, identifying them with a particular sect.&nbsp; Recently there is a move to hide behind the more docile, ecumenical, and generic titles of &ldquo;community church&rdquo; or &ldquo;cultural center,&rdquo; so as to blend with the world. There is a stigma attached to the word &ldquo;protestant&rdquo; that has been associated with bigotry and intolerance, and instills fear in the un-grounded and nominal believer. The word protestant Christian should be a badge of honor, that shows that a person stands against all falsehood, regardless of its origin, but especially against the spreading scourge of Romanism.</p>
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<p><img align="left" height="257" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G5p0MLGrzw0/TQCLtU1F7KI/AAAAAAAAAKs/_1qY16ov8t4/s1600/Pope.jpg" style="display: inline; float: left" width="195" />In 1835, in his <i>Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States</i>, Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph wrote: &ldquo;Surely American Protestants, freemen, have discernment enough to discover beneath them the cloven foot of this subtle foreign heresy. They will see that Popery is now, what it has ever been, a system of the darkest political intrigue and despotism, cloaking itself to avoid attack under the sacred name of religion. They will be deeply impressed with the truth, that Popery is a political as well as a religious system; that in this respect it differs totally from all other sects, from all other <b>forms of religion in the country</b>.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Following is the link to the book, &ldquo;Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United State&rdquo;. Please take the time to read it, I guarantee it will be an eye opening education; <a href="http://arcticbeacon.com/books/Samuel_Morse_A_FOREIGN_CONSPIRACY,1853-With-Addendums.pdf">download the complete book here</a> .</p>
<p>For more reading:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://arcticbeacon.com/books/Chiniquy-Fifty_Years_in_the_Church_of_Rome-1886-NOT-Bkmrkd.pdf">50 Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Chiniquy</a></li>
<li>People&rsquo;s Padre by Emmett McLoughlin</li>
<li>A Woman Rides the Beast by Dave Hunt</li>
<li>Ecclesiastical Megalomania</li>
<li>The Torch of the Testimony by John W. Kennedy</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ivantic.net/Ostale_knjiige/The%20Two%20Babylons.pdf">The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop</a></li>
<li>Roman Catholicism by Loraine Boettner</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/history/About.htm">History of the Christian Church by Phillip Schaff</a></li>
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<p><font color="#a5a5a5"><em>The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.</em></font></p>
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<h2 align="center">Part Three</h2>
<h3 align="center">The Christian Fools Paradox, Black Is Black?</h3>
<h3 align="center">and White Is Actually White?</h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/uncategorized/jewels-plucked-from-the-fist-of-folly-2/">Part One</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/uncategorized/jewels-plucked-from-the-fist-of-folly-part-2/">Part Two</a></p>
<h4 align="center"><i>An offering of bliss, or an intolerant assault on insanity?</i></h4>
<p>The Christian lives his/her life in conflict, or at least they should, say true wisdom. There is not only the conflict of their life with the world, a continual struggle of lifestyles; but there is the conflict of paradox; living a life of contradiction, as seen from the natural man when compared to the Bible. Folly makes capital of the wisdom that postulates that we must die to live, we must mourn to be joyous, we must surrender to be victorious, we must hate to love, we must follow to lead, we must become poor to be rich, we must become the least to become the greatest, we must be blind to see, we must work to rest, and we must be homeless to have a home. The hardest thing a Christian can do is to be faithful to this life of self-contradiction, and this is the greatest contradiction of all, that it cannot be done by any of them. This paradox brings much scorn and laughter from Folly and her cohort of motley fools, whether they are humanist, trans-humanist, or the new variety of &quot;Christian&quot; humanist; or just the generic tomfools lacking any sense of judgment or understanding.</p>
<p>As contrary as Christian truth appears to those outside, the &ldquo;truth&rdquo; of the world is even more-so. For with the world, even though they use the word truth, they can never see black as black, or white as white; the ground is always giving way under their feet and balance is found in a vacuum of uncertainty. To understand anything absolutely, is to wage war with the Queen of conundrums and lord of the ludicrous; better to go with gray; a moving target is hard to nail down. They see the world as silly putty; fashioning peace on the passing approximations of plastic truth, and take their stand in the flux of creative thinking, having their feet firmly planted on nihilistic delusions. Is not this the paradox of paradox; the confidence to trust the wreathing truth of the witless?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Humanist-Symbol.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1587" height="226" src="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Humanist-Symbol.jpg" title="Humanist Symbol" width="125" /></a>In Folly&rsquo;s jovial irreverence she sees only those things that lend to pleasure and happiness. Everything she represents is geared to produce the &ldquo;happy human,&rdquo; but she never deliberately divulges at what cost her happiness is procured. Whole societies are instituted for nothing else than to worship and adore her in drunken humanistic happiness; but the folly of Folly is that she cannot keep us laughing, and the truth of despair, frustration, loneliness, and guilt keep returning, calling us back to a tormented sort of sanity, which by design encapsulates a hope of deliverance. There is not enough foolishness in Hell to keep back the truth of our depravity; and our own consciousness of damnation is a signal that help is very near, that rescue is a reality, and that our sight can be restored. But, Folly in her cunning, foolishly makes us think we have no sin, when we are all sin, through-and-through; then periods of powerful soberness invade our inebriated slumber and the penetrating light of conviction brings our eyes wide open, and is the signal that it is time to fly to Jesus; a way of escape has once more opened into a foolish heart.</p>
<p>But many also are the Christian foolish, who have seemingly fled to the threshold of faith toting a truckload of earthly gained talents, on a quest to the Celestial City, and to build something for Jesus, and found<strong> the gate</strong> a difficult endeavor, (I think strait is the term), not adapted to heavy loads or self-imposition; and turning to a less treacherous and more stimulating way lead off into the fog of delusions, half truths, and the perceived values of good marketing. Folly wants us to believe that we are some new kind of Jew, that we must be working, doing, working, doing, and doing some more, whether in sweat, song, or sermonizing; when in truth the dead do nothing. If we want to <b>do something</b> for Jesus we must first&nbsp;<b>do nothing</b> at all. <i>&ldquo;Unless a grain of corn falls to the ground, and <b><u>die</u></b>. . . .&rdquo;&nbsp;</i>&nbsp;&ldquo;He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.&rdquo; (Jim Elliot)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/joel3.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1589" height="182" src="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/joel3-300x182.jpg" title="Joel Olsteen" width="300" /></a>The Cost of foolishness; it is much more than any of us can afford. Since foolishness is nearly universal, then we need only inquire of those whose job it is to gather facts and statistics and see for ourselves the very high price of frequenting the house of Folly. With the increase of foolishness comes increased cost, and foolishness is habitual, so consequently, the ultimate bankruptcy of her children. The cost of foolishness is not apparent all at once, but is generally hidden in our slumbering attitudes of acceptance over time; it becomes a &ldquo;norm.&rdquo; Early America was characterized by Pilgrims and Puritans in sacrificial service to God who gave them great abundance through enormous loss. These many years later, their progeny is characterized by religious entrepreneurs, lost in their own self-consciousness, making merchandise of men&rsquo;s souls. And, this attitude is equally wretched in the not-so-pious group known in the new religious jargon as &ldquo;the un-churched,&rdquo; who used to be called &ldquo;lost.&rdquo; Their lostness or un-churchedness, or what-ever, is best portrayed in the form of statistics, but is probably seen by them as being progressive&nbsp;<a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Stats.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1591" height="194" src="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Stats-300x194.jpg" title="Stats" width="300" /></a>and diverse, or even culturally hip.</p>
<p>Folly has our eyes fixed on the surface of things and is always involving us in some gag to prevent our eyes seeing below the crust. Truth is not generally apparent in superficial things, or trivial things that only have the appearance of importance. It takes a discerning eye to perceive, or judge, on matters of true truth. Truth is more than a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Truth-of-the-Flower.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1593" height="300" src="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Truth-of-the-Flower-222x300.jpg" title="The Truth of the Flower" width="222" /></a>definition or mental favoritism of &ldquo;what is.&rdquo; Truth is a revelation of the right &ldquo;idea&rdquo; coming to mind when you <strong><em>hear</em></strong> the word of the Lord. The word of truth should be neither an empty sound nor a vague notion of what is meant. What did Jesus mean when He said, <i>&ldquo;I am the truth&rdquo;</i>? Folly would state something merely intellectual that she could hand out or teach a class on, and leave lying on a shelf to gather dust. Jesus, on the other hand, meant something vital, something alive, self-sustaining, and so vital that all relationships are subject to it; He was not just speaking truth, He is Himself the embodiment of truth; all truth is comprehended in Him. Folly merely puts the highest word she knows to the highest fact she knows, and calls it the&#8211;truth; but is there a higher order? In our world of jest and joviality we say no, but in our moments of extreme mental anxiety we pray there is a higher order, and the real hope of such a thing keeps us off the bridge. But, we cannot know &ldquo;truth&rdquo; until we know the soul of truth and that soul&rsquo;s true determination; we need&nbsp;<em>&quot;truth in the inward parts.&quot;</em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Christian truth appears to be an assault on what the world calls sanity, but what is the truth? The Great Physician has told us not to listen to all the voices in our head, but to follow His prescription precisely. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John 7:17 <em>&ldquo;Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.&rdquo;</em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;John 8:31,32 <em>&ldquo;To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, &lsquo;If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.&rsquo;&rdquo;</em> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John 15:7&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.&rdquo;</em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2 John 1:9&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.&rdquo;</em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The world is a hellish insane asylum with all the doors left open and the most insane of all become the ward keepers and directors. The best that the resident doctors can do is to keeps us all medicated and away from any desire to escape into the light of true truth pretending to see beyond the realm of our detention. In the world of the benumbed &nbsp;truth is like the pretty shells along the sea shore, everyone holding fast their prettiest one, never lifting eyes to gaze upon the mighty ocean from which it came.&nbsp; Reality for them is found in the debris that is washed ashore; the remains of the catastrophe that once was life. They see shadows and glimmerings of things that speak of another time, but never question the reality of the once living thing that is now dead, and carefully placed on the mantelpiece to enchant us.</p>
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mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#001320">We never question the remote presence of flowers, even though we cannot see them, when their scent reaches our nostrils; or the nearness of a restaurant when the smell flows down the corridor of some mall; nor the fact that water exist when thirst awakens our desire. Every man and woman has been given the innate desire and sense of the supernatural that Folly masks in humor or ridicule; but have you every desired something that has no root in reality or fulfillment; your desire is prophetic of its own fulfillment. Reason and logic are confounded when presented with the true facts.&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The truth is ever before us and is nowhere hid from those who want to see it; and the truth is much more exciting than the lie.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Think for a moment now, and ask yourself, What color is my world? Do I live in the light of truth or the fog of folly? In every thing you do, and every answer you give, test yourself; you may be quite surprised at what you find.<o:p></o:p></p>
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		<title>The “churched,” the “unchurched,” and the hyper-churched</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; by&#160;glennchristopherson &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Let me fly my colours straight up. I would rather be unchurched&#160;and saved, than churched&#160;and unsaved. This concept of targeting the unchurched&#160;has its modern manifestation&#160;beginnings with the &#8220;seeker friendly&#8221; movement, but it&#8217;s really just a rehashing of the ancient Papal heresy of, &#8220;there is no salvation outside the church.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Let me fly my colours straight up. I would rather be unchurched&nbsp;and saved, than churched&nbsp;and unsaved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">This concept of targeting the unchurched&nbsp;has its modern manifestation&nbsp;beginnings with the &ldquo;seeker friendly&rdquo; movement, but it&rsquo;s really just a rehashing of the ancient Papal heresy of, &ldquo;there is no salvation outside the church.&rdquo; Of course, when Catholic apologists think church, they think the institution with its headquarters&nbsp;in Rome. When the current crop of churchians&nbsp;think church, they think their personal little religious kingdoms. I suspect that many of the mega churchian leaders have a sneaking admiration for the Roman religion. After all, they have managed to sell to millions of people the idea that they must belong to their organization if they want a secured eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">This distinction between unchurched&nbsp;and churched&nbsp;is actually a rewriting of Jesus&rsquo; instructions to His followers. Christ called us to make disciples of Him, not to join a religious group. His focus is always on redeeming sinners, not churching&nbsp;unchurched.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Not only is the whole intention of churching&nbsp;people unbiblical, it actually works against obedience to Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Now we have multitudes of religious folks who think the main goal is to get people along to the meetings, rather than to present the beauty, majesty, and necessity of Jesus and His plan for salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">This insidious man-powered and man-focused doctrine leads to the error of proselytism rather than evangelism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Proselytism&nbsp;is focused on getting people to join OUR thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Evangelism is committed to seeing people align with God&rsquo;s thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Proselytism exalts men and loves their earthly organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Evangelism exalts Jesus Christ and loves His heaven-birthed family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Proselytisers can travel over land and sea to make one convert and yet make him twice the son of hell they themselves are.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Evangelists will also travel land and sea but snatch the hell bound from the fires&nbsp;of destruction and set them safely under the wings of the Almighty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Proselytism leads to syncretism and godless pragmatism. <i>Whatever works</i> is the motto.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Those with the heart for evangelism love Jesus more than building a reputation by adding notches to their Bible. Therefore, they are faithful and sincere and will only present their message in strict obedience to their Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The sad result of the doctrine of churching&nbsp;the unchurched&nbsp;is religious organisations filled with unregenerate attendees. After all, if going to church is the goal, why bother getting saved? Why bother repenting, or studying God&rsquo;s word, or fellowshipping with Christ.&nbsp;<i>I go to church; what more do you want</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">This of course is where the Catholic institution&nbsp;is today. While it is possible to come to the Lord in the Roman cult (even Luther thought there was enough light in Catholicism to get saved), the truth is very few are. I&rsquo;ve never personally met a committed Catholic who I could be sure had a saving faith, and half of my extended family&nbsp;is Catholic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">However, there is no refuge in modern Protestantism or Evangelicalism or Pentecostalism either. When these groups embrace the same errors as the Roman Catholic Church, they will end up with the same results; hyperchurched&nbsp;heathen in an unsaved &ldquo;church.&rdquo;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Not only that, it produces the most horrible situation of false converts, men and women who think they are safe from the wrath to come because of their ecclesiastical membership rather than by the eternal blood of the Lamb of God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">I love the church of Christ. The blood-purchased believers, living stones&nbsp;of a holy temple, heavenly citizens of an eternal kingdom, but I despise the demonically-inspired, man-focused religious clubs that unrightfully claim the title &ldquo;church.&rdquo;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Precious believer, don&rsquo;t fall for the satanic propaganda that you must belong to a church as defined by the churchian who is spreading this deception. Don&rsquo;t ever fall for the subtle but deadly error that your goal is to &ldquo;church&rdquo; people. Don&rsquo;t be deceived by the demonic doctrine that there is no salvation outside the church. Please don&rsquo;t allow yourself to be institutionalised; rather be sanctified, set apart for the Master and ready for service to Him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Father, I ask for Your protection over Your people in apostazing institutions. Call them out and connect them with true brothers and sisters. Bring revelation to those who have not yet been converted but think they have and grant them repentance unto life. Empower us afresh with Your Spirit to present Your truths to this dying generation, and Lord, expose those who don&rsquo;t know You and yet use their religious reputations to deceive sinner and saint alike. For Jesus&rsquo; sake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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		<title>Jewels Plucked From the Fist of Folly: Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.&#8221; Part One Part Three &#160; Part Two Now, let&#8217;s see, where were [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/uncategorized/jewels-plucked-from-the-fist-of-folly-2/">Part One</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/uncategorized/jewels-plucked-from-the-fist-of-folly/?preview=true&amp;preview_id=1585&amp;preview_nonce=a583eabef3">Part Three</a></p>
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<h2 align="center">Part Two</h2>
<p>Now, let&rsquo;s see, where were we when last we were together? That little sleep has made me stuporous and hazy headed. Oh yes, now it is coming back to me. We were speaking of our dear beloved Stultitia of whom we have all bowed the <a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Behind-the-Curtain.jpg"><img align="left" alt="Behind the Curtain" border="0" height="195" src="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Behind-the-Curtain_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Behind the Curtain" width="194" /></a>knee. In a rare exhibition of her generosity she has paraded all of mankind onto the stage of our delusionary life and given us a peep behind the curtain. Here we also met her propmasters and helpers Anoia<em>, (lack of understanding or ignorance)</em>, and Lethe,<i> <em>(obscurity, or forgetfulness)</em></i>, with whose help she prepares the costumes and prints the script. It is not at all unusual to find one of her actors totally involved in his or her part, believing that they are the epitome of fashion, the defenders of the faith, masters of their own destiny, the most brilliant, the most beautiful, able to perceive dark mysteries, leap tall buildings with a single bound, or prevent the train wreck that portrays man&rsquo;s life, teetering on the brink of that great death, the oblivion of outer darkness. The plethora of foolish imaginations and the creative genius of their dementia have provided the gods with infinite hours of entertainment.</p>
<p>We also discovered just how necessary foolishness is to the successful exploitation of our miniscule part in the grand play. Why, without Folly, her children pout and become bored, peradventure some benevolent soul should cross their path with news of life outside the cave and the hope of something more serious strike a root. Yes, yes, foolishness is what makes life worth living, proven by all of her children. From A to Z it is Folly who opens the doorway to bliss. Now, just think about it, remove all the foolishness from this dismal existence and what do you have left? Complete boredom! Veracity occupies only a fly speck in the overall production that only a minutia of mankind are ever likely to recognize it; but Folly, on the other hand, is fruitful and can be found and favored anywhere anytime, and requires but one resolve, i.e. ignore the fable in some ancient moth eaten manuscript, and get on with the show.</p>
<p>Folly has been generous in her perusal and desires to go beyond the general to the exalted. The common person will most readily admit of their foolish life, replete with redundant misdeeds, and ever anxious to test some new life strategy, like Lotto or investments in depreciating commodities. But, let&rsquo;s go on to those who are the &ldquo;wise&rdquo; in this world, and who profess to shun foolishness. It is these worldly wisenheimers who have raised foolishness to an art form, and who have perfected stupidity while thumbing their nose at the common duncical lot of humanity.</p>
<p>Bear with me awhile as we venture into the realm of well-mollified madness. Madness tranquillized and normalized, Insaneness promoted to the status quo. Think not that Stultitia has been relegated to the State Department only; it simply is not true my fellow fool; if Folly is prolific anywhere she is prolific in the pulpit. Now we will pass from the general to the more specific.</p>
<p><font color="#9bbb59" face="Georgia" size="3">Delusions of Grandeur, the Breakfast of Champions</font></p>
<p>Folly declares that she is so much more tempered and not like those other gods and goddesses who send curses and lightening, draughts and plagues, and all kinds of suffering when improperly recognized. She demands no temple or sacrifices. &ldquo;Why sh<a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Bohemian-Grove.jpg"><img align="right" alt="Bohemian Grove" border="0" height="280" src="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Bohemian-Grove_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Bohemian Grove" width="260" /></a>ould I require a goat or a wafer when men everywhere pay me homage in their minds and manners continually.&rdquo; She would be the first to remind us that even the Christians follow this rule. How many of them do such foolish things like burning candles, even during the day when they are not needed, or becoming a wholly different person with a completely different persona on a certain day of the week, sometimes twice a day, and practice rituals, doing this, that, and the other, then revert back to their common everyday self for the conduction of business and life outside their religious building. And especially, those Catholics with all their sacraments, pretending to be holy by doing certain things certain ways and invoking the names of Apostles and mere men, weeping at scratches on walls, worshiping the virgin Mary instead of Jesus through so many Hail Mary recitations and bead counting, and believing they are accepted of God by these, and never actually imitating the Apostle&rsquo;s holy lives with selflessness and humility. &ldquo;Good lord, why would I want a temple, the whole world is my temple, dedicated to me, Folly?&rdquo;</p>
<p>And, those Protestants, they are no better. Thinking they made great strides with Luther and Calvin. Their followers through time set up whole institutions of religious practices, dampening the light and darkening the path with the leaven of foolishness. Even the Peasant&rsquo;s War, although the product of the madness of a malicious sort reflected the same folly as Popery, promoting vanity, pride, and the conceit of selfish-fulfillment, and rang the death knell for many local Catholics. Calvin also, with his great influence, was unable to forgo the sentence of death, for the poor fool Servetus, by his own followers. What was it that the Protestant church protested anyway if it wasn&rsquo;t the complete foolishness of corrupt popery with its thousands and thousands of butchered humans because of their differences in beliefs on thousands of possible points? Madness never ceases. Christ&rsquo;s command for them to go back and do their first work over again was translated by the Reformers as only going part way back to maybe the third or fourth works, which allowed faith and foolishness to remain a mixture.</p>
<p>Having taken a peek into the vortex of madness, which is madness of the grossest sort, Folly now fast forwards us into our present foolishness. Today the word &ldquo;Protestant&rdquo; is rarely used, and this is due to Folly&rsquo;s apt assistant Lethe a.k.a. forgetfulness, which she administers with sophistication; a quality of which the whole world belies. Pray tell, what is there to &ldquo;protest&rdquo; today, aren&rsquo;t we all becoming one. What better unity and ecumenism than the universal adoration of Folly? I, Folly, am the fulfillment of all the hopes of Hippies, the existential hinge on which the whole world turns; the universal, ecumenical, experiential focus point that every generation has sought; I, Folly, am above all gods, beloved of my children. To wake-up into my sleep is eternal, blessed, bliss.</p>
<h4><font color="#9bbb59" face="Georgia" size="3">The Reverential Face of Folly</font></h4>
<p>Folly is often found in the pulpit imitating the &ldquo;divines&rdquo; who are confident that they have risen to Lordship, Father-hood, Reverend, or Most Reverend, or some other self-ingratiating title, and let&rsquo;s not forget our esteemed Doctors.</p>
<p>Certainly, though no one is less willing than our religious leaders to recognize my good will toward them, but they are still obliged to me for no little benefit of <a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/conceit.jpg"><img align="left" alt="conceit" border="0" height="229" src="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/conceit_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="conceit" width="229" /></a>importance. Who, but I, have blessed them with so much selflove that they are wholly persuaded that they are dwellers of the third heaven, looking from their lofty perch, declaring mere recipients of revelation as only kitchen table theologians, and not fitted for understanding the deep things of a Schoolman? And, those of popish persuasion declare proudly of their ability to see meanings of words not apparent to the vulgar cut of mankind; projecting penance for repentance, indulgence for grace and free gift, or judging Jesus&rsquo; own words <em>&ldquo;it is finished&rdquo;</em> to mean that it is <b>not</b> finished. Do you see the absolute foolishness of this? and it goes on and on, and they are lucky enough to find whole troops of gnats and flies to believe them, never questioning this popish poopery. What total moronity and my own foolishness exceed even me, in their own declaration and separating out of venial and mortal sins. Why, this madness alone accounts for the complete blessedness of millions to enjoy booze, bingo, and casino night for the price of a few good deeds. Little do they know, because they are held by an inebriated elation, that venial sins are a mere fantasy and are not to be found anywhere in all of creation. What they don&rsquo;t know is that all sins are really Mortal, and there is <strong>nothing they can do</strong> to get rid of them, so <em>&ldquo;eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.&rdquo;</em> Yes, yes, oh for the joy in it all that even Jesus has been reduced to a wafer and taken captive in a bird cage. Please, let&rsquo;s not stop this joy fest just now; please indulge me this further foolishness. Truth has been so far forgotten that men dressed in black open their mouth and gnats and flies fall prostrate licking their feet insisting that they have fulfilled the rule and deserve &ldquo;forgiveness&rdquo; from the authorized divine, according to the mandate of men. The Protestant crowd is no different; they just haven&rsquo;t had as much practice.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Harlot.jpg"><img align="right" alt="Harlot" border="0" height="249" src="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Harlot_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Harlot" width="178" /></a>Oh what vanity my dear prelates in Rome have, fools of the highest order, creating a schooled system of salvation by works. It offers salvation on the installment plan, and then ensures that the pathetic evildoer is perpetually behind in his payoffs, so that when he croaks there is a prodigious unpaid balance, and he must continue payments by sufferings in purgatory, or until the debt is paid by the prayer, contributions, and sufferings of his living relatives and friends. Oh, what thumbs must have become sore, sucking this from their deepest innards. The whole system and plan calls for blindness, merit, and moolah, from the cradle to the grave and even beyond. Surely the sapience that drew such a plan of salvation is from Stultitia. These foxes have so many holes they can run to that their joy is never ceasing, and their blindness never healing. If boredom sets in then a mere question is set in their mind, like &ldquo;is it possible for the Father to hate the Son?&rdquo; Or &ldquo;could it have been possible for Christ to have been born a woman, or a devil, or a donkey, or a cucumber, or a rock? Then how the cucumber would have preached, performed miracles, and been nailed to the cross? Or, will it be permissible to eat and drink after the resurrection, seeing how much we love to eat and drink? And, the Apostles, they all knew Jesus&rsquo; mother, but which one of them could show how she was preserved from original sin as well as any of the learned Catholic theologians of renown, or how she could remain a virgin after having other offspring? The Apostles cannot hold a candle to these puffed-up beetles with all their volumes of publications and prescriptions, their holy robes and clerical collars, setting them off as excellent vessels of the Lord. And, &ldquo;it is hardly clear how it was revealed to them that a charcoal sketch on a wall should be worshiped with the same worship as Christ Himself, provided that the picture has two fingers extended, long hair, and three rays in a halo stuck on the back of the skull.&rdquo; Only the immense education, (the Apostles being ignorant, na&iuml;ve, and uninitiated) of elite men with keen brilliance and intellect have achieved such insight. Little, will they admit, that it is Folly who has awarded these dustballs with crowns and gowns.</p>
<p>Pleassseee, give me my credit in this madness, the whole crowd draws it pleasure from me. The deliciousness of Stultitia&rsquo;s spiritual concoction, a little holiness, a little profanity; nectar and naughtiness, mixed by pope and pastor, with an open invitation to belly up to the bar, and experience the emergence of euphoria with its new relaxed dress code. Catholics and Evangelicals coming together, pondering t<a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Vatican.jpg"><img align="left" alt="Vatican" border="0" height="171" src="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Vatican_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Vatican" width="246" /></a>he last great social question; the question of human solidarity. It was my idea; give me a little credit; the conjoining of all in one. The whole idea is so exciting I get a little goosey. The world&rsquo;s most immoral governing body (the Vatican) leading the way in social justice. Only Folly could have empowered the most notorious trull, wenching with kings and princes, to coach the world concerning chastity; and cover it in the vesture of charming words, <font face="Castellar">&ldquo;Caritas in Veritate,&rdquo;</font> charity in truth.</p>
<p>Imagine with me for a moment the potential of being driven by this purpose. Whole worlds of possibilities are opened up. Baptist taking vows of silence and monasteries created for no other purpose than to paralyze the tongue. Methodist stuck to the top of a pole like a sponge, not eating or sleeping, the <a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Pillar-Saint.jpg"><img align="right" alt="Pillar Saint" border="0" height="244" src="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Pillar-Saint_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Pillar Saint" width="164" /></a>epitome of sacrificial righteousness; protestant pillar saints; what a concept. They could even have some fun with the flogs; rent them out right next to the coffee bar and have Wednesday night workouts while contemplating how much I love them. I am beginning to sound like a mother, am I not? I am so pleased with them all; all except for those others; they refuse to play along. They are not mine, neighbor children, but I have succeeded in getting some to come over and play; funsuckers, that&rsquo;s what we have nicknamed them. We can&rsquo;t have them spoiling the party, can we? Our motto is &ldquo;Come along, to get along,&rdquo; catchy wouldn&rsquo;t you say?</p>
<p>I could say so much more if I weren&rsquo;t dancing, jostling, juggling, and joking. Why should life be so &ldquo;straight&rdquo; after all, it&rsquo;s unnatural; and black is never black, or white, white; statutes were made for statues, stone men, and laws were built to be busted, they&rsquo;re all cracked from the get-go anyway; foolishness is never cast in concrete.</p>
<p>Well, children, it is past my bed time. Tomorrow we will embark on an adventure to the abyss of the absolute; a field trip to the house of absurd relics: truth, holiness, perfection, and eternity, to name a few; they&rsquo;re all party favorites, so come dressed-up if you like. It should be a fun time, so let&rsquo;s all get a little rest; you&rsquo;ll need it.</p>
<p><i>Coming soon to a Blog near you&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;.</i></p>
<p><font color="#9bbb59" face="Georgia" size="3">The Christian Fools Paradox, Black Is Black? and White Is Actually White?</font></p>
<p>An offering of bliss, or an intolerant assault on insanity?</p>
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		<title>Radio Station in Texas cancels David Barton’s Wallbuilders Live During Show</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a very important event. Americans, and the world have had their heads buried in the sand for way too long, and it is people like David Barton who have turned that sort of thing into a national past time. The old saying, &#34;Ignorance is bliss&#34; has never been more true than today. Politics [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="plus-one-wrap"><g:plusone href="http://www.indywatchman.com/uncategorized/radio-station-in-texas-cancels-david-barton%e2%80%99s-wallbuilders-live-during-show/"></g:plusone></div><p><a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/beckbarton.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1440" height="162" src="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/beckbarton.jpg" title="beckbarton" width="200" /></a>This is a very important event. Americans, and the world have had their heads buried in the sand for way too long, and it is people like David Barton who have turned that sort of thing into a national past time. The old saying, &quot;Ignorance is bliss&quot; has never been more true than today. Politics and religion are the two areas where ignorance is the most blissful. Well a little of this bliss has been has been interrupted with a refreshing case of c<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; ">onscientiousness; let&#39;s just hope it is a trend.</span></p>
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<p>&nbsp;Following is a transcript of an article written by Warren Throckmorton detailing the events of the beginning of David Barton&#39;s demise. Also, below is the audio link of Chris Pinto&#39;s<a href="http://www.noiseofthunder.com/show-downloads/2011/9/19/noise-of-thunder-radio-reformer-shows-follow-up-91911.html"> Noise of Thunder radio show</a> talking about this same event, up to 8:30 mark. Wake-up people, time is running out.</p>
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<h2 style="margin-top: 4px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); "><a href="http://wthrockmorton.com/2011/09/14/radio-station-in-texas-cancels-david-bartons-wallbuilders-live-during-show/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(187, 0, 0); " title="Radio Station in Texas cancels David Barton’s Wallbuilders Live During Show">Radio Station in Texas cancels David Barton&rsquo;s Wallbuilders Live During Show</a></span></h2>
<div class="postinfo" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); ">Posted on&nbsp;<span class="postdate" style="color: rgb(170, 170, 170); ">September 14th, 2011</span>&nbsp;by Warren</span></div>
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<div class="twitter_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); "><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="20" scrolling="no" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwthrockmorton.com%2F2011%2F09%2F14%2Fradio-station-in-texas-cancels-david-bartons-wallbuilders-live-during-show%2F&amp;count=horizontal&amp;lang=en" width="110"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); "></span></div>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); ">An affiliate radio station of the Moody Network in East Texas,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.kbjs.org/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(187, 0, 0); ">KBJS-FM</a>&nbsp;canceled David Barton&rsquo;s Wallbuilders Live radio&nbsp;program during the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wallbuilderslive.com/archives.asp" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(187, 0, 0); ">show yesterday</a>&nbsp;while Barton was discussing Glenn Beck&rsquo;s religious beliefs. Randy Featherston, KBJS manager, said the show was dropped due to Barton&rsquo;s failure to distinguish between Mormon theology and Christianity.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); ">&ldquo;When David Barton said it doesn&rsquo;t matter whether you are a Mormon or a Baptist or a Methodist, we felt we had to do something,&rdquo; Featherston explained.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); ">On&nbsp;the&nbsp;Tuesday&nbsp;program, Barton played audio of Glenn Beck saying that &ldquo;the Lord Jesus Christ is my Savior and my Redeemer.&rdquo; Then Barton said he believed that Beck was a Christian based on his statement of belief and &ldquo;his fruits,&rdquo; meaning his good deeds. Based on Beck&rsquo;s statements, Barton then asked co-host Rick Green, &ldquo;Glenn says he&rsquo;s Mormon. Ok, that&rsquo;s fine. Based on what you heard, if you heard a Baptist say that or if you heard a Methodist say that&hellip;what would you say?&rdquo; After Green answered that Beck&rsquo;s testimony indicated a real conversion, Barton responded, &ldquo;Why is it not a real conversion because of the label he wears?&rdquo;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); ">Throughout the program, Barton dismissed Beck&rsquo;s Mormonism, saying at one point, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care what label Beck wears. I don&rsquo;t care what Glenn thinks Mormon means.&rdquo; Barton also asserted that Beck uses the same Bible, but added, &ldquo;Now he may use the Book of Mormon, we never talked about the Book of Mormon.&rdquo; &nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); ">Featherston added that the station received many calls during the broadcast with callers who objected to Barton&rsquo;s views. All but two callers supported the decision of the station to drop the show.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); ">Some callers also complained that Barton misuses history and &ldquo;takes facts out of context&rdquo; to create a false impression about the Constitution and founding of the nation, according to Featherston.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); ">Featherston said the station did not take the action lightly, saying &ldquo;I like a lot of what Barton has to say, but we don&rsquo;t want to confuse listeners into thinking that Mormon doctrine and Christianity are the same.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); ">&mdash;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); ">Scott Krus wrote to say that KBJS-FM is an affiliate of the Moody Network but not one of the 36 stations owned by Moody. Mr. Krus added that Wallbuilders Live is not carried by the Moody Network.</span></p>
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		<title>Secularists and Religionists Join Forces Against Christ</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;by&#160;glennchristopherson Two news stories in recent days caught my attention. The first&#160;reported that the Education Department (Australia) has decided in their new curriculum&#160;to&#160;remove the dating reference points BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini, ie&#160;in the year of our Lord) and replace them with BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) The cultural vandals [...]]]></description>
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/humanist.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1432" height="364" src="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/humanist.jpg" title="humanist" width="273" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Two news stories in recent days caught my attention.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">The first&nbsp;reported that the Education Department (Australia) has decided in their new curriculum&nbsp;to&nbsp;remove the dating reference points BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini, ie&nbsp;in the year of our Lord) and replace them with BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era)</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">The cultural vandals of the loopy left are often caught out attempting to sideline any reference to Christ. Even secular commentators have spoken up passionately against this expensive, time-wasting and vain attempt to remove Jesus from history.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">I&rsquo;m not sure if&nbsp;the architects of the new curriculum&nbsp;have thought through how they will answer students queries on what happened to change BCE to CE.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">The other story that caught my eye related that Cardinal Pell, the highest ranking Catholic in Australia has organized an interfaith service in St Mary&rsquo;s Cathedral in remembrance of 911.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Cardinal Pell is no stranger to interfaith involvement, being one of the key-note&nbsp;speakers at the World Parliament of Religions (WPR)in Australia recently. Just so you are aware that I&rsquo;m not &rdquo; Catholic bashing&rdquo; the other speaker at the WPR was Tim Costello, ordained Baptist minister and head of World Vision in Australia.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Cardinal Pell is something of a hero to conservative religionists in Australia</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">And of course the education department is ruled by the&nbsp;extreme left&nbsp;influence of the United Nations.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Pell would likely argue against the changes proposed by the boffins in the Education Department but he is essentially&nbsp;doing the same thing. Jesus didn&rsquo;t just divide history, He divides humanity. And His division is not based on whether one is religionist&nbsp;or secularist, progressive or conservative, left wing&nbsp;or right wing. He does not advocate a particular political party or a particular religion. His issue is not between atheist&nbsp;or supporters of faith traditions. He owns no denomination although some have disowned Him. The mindless atheism of the cultural elites and the powerless moralising of the religious lobby are both under His judgement.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Christ divides history, humanity, society&nbsp;and family&nbsp;into those who have been born&nbsp;from above&nbsp;and those who have not.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">And the life of every follower of Christ is eternally divided into BC and AD. Their life without Christ and their life with Him. And those who follow Him are passionate about His exclusivity and will not muddy the spiritual waters by&nbsp;defiling their&nbsp;worship with unregenerate religionists.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">The anti- Christ spirit of the leftists will go to extreme lengths&nbsp;in an&nbsp;attempt&nbsp;to whitewash&nbsp;(black wash??)&nbsp;history in their hatred&nbsp;towards Christ.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">When the ultimate anti Christ appears on the scene, he will attempt to change times and seasons. (Daniel 7:25) It seems&nbsp;the move has begun to do just that.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">But&nbsp;some right-wing&nbsp;conservative&nbsp;religionists&nbsp;has just as much disdain for the biblical/historical Jesus as the wild-eyed atheist.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">How senseless is it to promote oneself as a &ldquo;Christian&rdquo; leader and then to trample on&nbsp;Christ&rsquo;s&nbsp;repeated claims for exclusivity. In a free country (for the time being) it is the right of every citizen to speak their mind and enjoy freedom of worship but it is a little frustrating that&nbsp;&rdquo;church&rdquo; leaders&nbsp;who could be using their freedoms to present Christ, instead use them to deny Him&hellip; and do it in His name!</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Most Christians are rightfully upset that secularists use their position in politics and the beuracracy to force their no faith religion on every one else, and some are raising their voices in opposition. Good. But when religionists such as Cardinal Pell deny &ldquo;cardinal&rdquo; tenets of the faith all one hears from religious commentators is the sound of crickets.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">The issue is the same in both instances. A rejection of Christ and His word. A pompous belief that man can dictate to God. A carnal willingness to impose man&rsquo;s preferences upon God&rsquo;s reality.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">The atheistic secularist will only be in the presence of the God he denies for a millisecond before he realizes the foolishness of his anti-intellectual, anti-faith, anti bible and anti Christ&nbsp;bias. We pray that repentance is granted before that day.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">But the rebels in the religious world wrongly feel secure in their activities. After all they are doing what they do in the name of God. They too will be in shock when Jesus&rsquo; words are heard on that day, &ldquo;Depart from me , I never knew you!&rdquo;</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; "><em style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels</em></span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; "><em style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Mark 8:38</em></span></p>
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		<title>The Issue Is WHO You Worship</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160;by&#160;glennchristopherson Recently I listened to a&#160; debate on radio discussing the issue &#8220;Does religion cause more harm than good?&#8221; Because I knew without doubt the answer to this question, (of course it does)I listened&#160;with interest&#160;to hear the views expressed. In one corner was a Right Reverend someone or other (I had never heard of [...]]]></description>
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<div class="entry-content" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Recently I listened to a&nbsp; debate on radio discussing the issue &ldquo;Does religion cause more harm than good?&rdquo;</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Because I knew without doubt the answer to this question, (of course it does)I listened&nbsp;with interest&nbsp;to hear the views expressed.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">In one corner was a Right Reverend someone or other (I had never heard of him) who took the opposing view. His adversary was an allegedly&nbsp;well-known atheist. (I had never heard of him either)</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">The discussion was polite and the arguments anticipated, but neither one seemed to grasp that the argument has never been ,&rdquo;Is religion good or bad?&rdquo; but rather WHO do you worship?</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">See, the devil is a master of the hegelian dialectic. He loves to own both sides of the argument, so that no matter who wins, he wins.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Many have become convinced &ndash; even within the Christian camp &ndash; that the debate is between the atheists and the religious.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Well, it&rsquo;s not. Not now, not ever.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Atheists, historically speaking, are just a blip on the religious radar, here for a short sojourn and soon to be relegated to the ranks of the Dodo and other extinct creatures.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Basically an atheist is simply an example of what one wag commented as, &ldquo;Self made men who worship their creator&rdquo;.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">The problem with the mind-set&nbsp;that our spiritual battle is against atheists, is that by implication God&rsquo;s people can feel that those who are religious are our allies. Nothing could be further from the truth. And this is the foundation of much ecumenical and interfaith nonsense.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Even a&nbsp;brief reading of scripture reveals the biblical perspective that atheism is a rarity&nbsp;and anyone&nbsp;ignorant enough to think in his heart (as opposed perhaps to his words) that there is no god, is in Yahwehs words, a fool.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">The real battle has always been between&nbsp;the&nbsp;worship of the true and living God -&nbsp;Yahweh, as revealed in the scriptures and ultimately in Christ Jesus -&nbsp;and the worship of false gods &ndash; idolatry.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Elijah did not challenge the Israelites to decide between Yahweh and atheism but between the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and Baal.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Because man is a spiritual creature the attempt to deny spirituality always leads eventually to superstition. The atheistic efforts of the twentieth century are now succumbing to the green paganism of the twenty-first. The battle looming will not be against a pseudo scientific secularism but a scientific fraternity controlled by an irrational and dangerous religion of save the earth-ism. Some of the prophets of the &ldquo;goddess&rdquo; Gaia&nbsp;have already laid their cards on the table but the main talking heads of the media are either ignorant of the implications of government sponsored professors and high-flying opinion controllers bowing to a human hating religion of earth worship, or they simple can&rsquo;t believe&nbsp;what the&nbsp;supposedly educated mouthpieces of the global elite are saying.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">The various scare campaigns of the day &ndash; global warming, climate change, global cooling, overpopulation, dwindling energy reserves etc etc&nbsp;are nothing more than the out-working&nbsp;of a religious world view. In this&nbsp;perverted perspective&nbsp;people are bad, nature is good. Progress is evil, primitivism is grand. The west is corrupt and is always the cause of suffering for the downtrodden of the rest of the world.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">And, its important to note that the promotion of this new religion (which is not really new at all&nbsp;of course but simply another manifestation of ancient Babylonian theology) leads to a hatred of nations&nbsp;on principle, the nation of Israel in particular and the Church of Christ especially.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Along with this is a loathing for a biblically defined family structure and&nbsp;marriage as taught by Christ. Idolatry always leads to immorality.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">But the enemy does not want the people of the planet and especially the people of God to realise that the battle is not between those who worship and those don&rsquo;t but rather the war of the ages is about&nbsp;<em style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">who</em>&nbsp;we worship.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">There are a million or more false gods, but only One True and Living God.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">There are an almost infinite&nbsp;variety of worship practices but only those endorsed by the Creator are acceptable to Him.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">There are thousands of ways to eternal judgement but only one way to eternal life.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">This is all perfectly logical and sensible to those within whom the Spirit of God dwells but to those controlled by the spirit of the age it is nonsense and incomprehensible.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Many laughed and mocked as the prophet toiled on the ark but the judgement came and only those within the shelter of that picture&nbsp;of Christ were raised above the waters of God&rsquo;s wrath.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Multitudes were bitten by the serpents in the wilderness but only those who obeyed and looked with faith upon the bronze serpent on the pole were healed.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">The rest perished in full view of the offered salvation.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Many gods have come and gone. Satan has tried a multitude of spiritual&nbsp;deceptions to keep people in bondage and darkness. Atheism is one minor trick which has likely served its time and is rapidly losing influence&hellip;.but the earth adoration of the latest bunch of Ashtoreth worshippers is the next big thing on the Adversaries calendar. And as always some of those who profess to be followers of Christ are taken in hook line and sinker. How tragic when those who are called to be fishers of men become the catch of satan. If indeed they had ever been Christ&rsquo;s to begin with.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Idolatrous religion always abhors what the Christian adores.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Gaians&nbsp;purport to love the planet and wish to remove humanity to save it.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Christians&nbsp;delight in&nbsp;the planet as a provision of the Loving God for the benefit of humanity to the glory of His own Name.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Gaians, like all streams of Babel religion, are globalist and reject&nbsp;the concept of&nbsp;nations.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">The twice born children of God know God created the nations and raises them up or brings them down according to His immeasurable wisdom. He has according to the principles of firstfruits revealed this by choosing one nation as His own special possession. Israel.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Gaia&nbsp;worshippers hate monogamous&nbsp;heterosexual marriage, and despise children. Why else would they so viciously defend sodomy and abortion. This is not a result of a modern enlightenment as the propagandists tell us but simply a contemporary example of the worship practices of the nations that God judged and cast out of their land in ancient times. Deviant sexual practices and child sacrifice were common long before the &ldquo;gay rights&rdquo; and &ldquo;womens&nbsp;rights&rdquo; movements revived them. God&rsquo;s response will be the same and the followers of the Righteous One will do what they can to stop the disease from spreading&hellip;.and to warn the &ldquo;practioners of rebellion&rdquo; of the temporal and eternal consequences if they don&rsquo;t lay hold of the Lord&rsquo;s mercy.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">There is a battle..but it&rsquo;s not a battle against people but rather against world views&nbsp;on behalf of&nbsp;people.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Humans are not the enemy but the prize.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Scripture clearly states that God seeks worshippers who worship in Spirit and in truth.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Worship is essentially about bowing. Bowing the head and bending the knee is entirely appropriate but far more necessary is a bowing of the heart and the mind.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">True worship is more than parroting a creed which can easily be done with stiff neck and proud heart. It&rsquo;s a spiritual prostrating of oneself before the infinite majesty and wisdom of the Most High God.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">True worship is an acknowledgement that Father knows best and that a reverent and joyful obedience is the long sought after secret of life.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">As we draw near the end of the ages and the enemy of our souls begins to play his final aces, the&nbsp;people of God would do well not to be distracted by satan&rsquo;s deceptive strategies.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Religion is the enemy.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">People are precious.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Christ is the only gate to the green pastures of life.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">As the apostle John put it, &ldquo;Dear children keep yourselves from idols&rdquo;.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Father</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">You have spoken clearly throughout the ages. You have called the children of men to abandon their dead and deadly idols and bow to You the Living and life-giving God. Expose the deceptions of the pagan professors and the spiritually illiterate elite.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Empower Your church to discern and declare a clean uncluttered truth.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">Open eyes, unblock ears, soften hearts and increase the population of the faithful&hellip; for Christ&rsquo;s sake.</span></p>
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		<title>Pioneering the Truth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The thoughts within our heads move in certain trained ways which make it easy for us to jump to conclusions or make assumptions. For instance I assume that when I use the word &#8220;God&#8221; that everyone understands that I mean the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The thoughts within our heads move in certain trained ways which make it easy for us to jump to conclusions or make assumptions. For instance I assume that when I use the word &ldquo;God&rdquo; that everyone understands that I mean the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the God of the Old and New Testaments, the one true God, Maker of heaven and earth; but the question arises again and again whether God actually exist. It is a worthless pursuit to speak of Christian things if one does not believe that the Christian God even exists. If an individual assumes or presupposes that there is no God then any effort to convince otherwise would be futile, regardless of how compelling the evidence.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have written in the past about &ldquo;truth&rdquo; and about how, primarily, our belief system is an inherited trait. Generally speaking, most people acquire their beliefs through contact, like a cold or flu. Most people like to think of themselves as freethinkers, and accept or reject things based on conscious thought processes, but this is not true, or at least rarely true. Everything we learn, either by experience or schooling, are true or false, good or bad, depending on our attitude toward them, or how they affect us personally.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>We assume truth based on a whole long list of acquired inducements and justifications, not necessarily on facts, or even on reality.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When we are born our databases are empty. Over time, through many associations and experiences of family, friends, acquaintances, and environment, and based on our individual emotional makeup, we begin to input data and build an elaborate grid arrangement through which all data must pass and be sifted and screened. The results of the screening govern how we comprehend and understand all matters pertaining to life. This filtered data makes up what is called our presuppositions or worldview. The product of your worldview determines personal tastes, desires, and ambitions. Your final conclusions about life are based on a very complex database of accumulated information, very little of which has its bases in truth; it is more likely that your final result is the rolled up effects of bad data, i.e. misinformation, propaganda, and marketing, by way of TV/radio/newspaper, parents, friends, books, politicians and preachers, or peers. As the old saying goes, &ldquo;junk-in, junk-out.&rdquo; We look at others and wonder how they can believe what they do, it is so illogical, but to that person, it may be the hinge on which the world turns. Religion and politics are just two examples of how complex and diverse each person&rsquo;s grid system differs. Remember, we are not in Eden anymore.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To come against a person&rsquo;s presuppositions or worldview is dangerous. The thing that we presume to be factual, even though baseless as far as truth goes, are the idols we set-up in our hearts and minds, that override reason and common sense. If we would sit down and catalog the things we do and ask the question, &ldquo;Why do I do these things?&rdquo; we might find that we go to a particular religious building (that we call a church) because of some surrounding influence, or we work in a particular trade because of a compelling family tradition, or we pledge allegiance to a flag due to strong national pride, and not because we have set down and studied the matters thoroughly and researched all sides of an issue to discover the rightness or wrongness of it. Our worldview has caused us to have certain vested interests that cause us to perceive things in dull light. This is the very point that afflicted Jesus and earned Him a verdict of death from the world at large and the religious establishment in particular. He dared to see through peoples false assumptions and to question their motives; and this is the test of an authentic Christian witness. Do we dare to challenge another&rsquo;s presuppositions? Do we dare knock over their idols? Will we risk shining a light onto those living in darkness, and exposing a falsehood that may well be the foundation that supports years of intense building and the squandering of many resources?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have all heard of those people who see the world &ldquo;through rose colored glasses;&rdquo; and we understand this comment to mean that this person has effectively filtered out truth, and has a false view of reality. The Bible calls this &ldquo;deception,&rdquo; and declares, from Genesis to Revelations, that all of mankind is deceived; all of them. With everyone having their own &ldquo;truth,&rdquo; i.e. presupposition or worldview, you can begin to see why nearly all of our statements of truth are tainted and untrustworthy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Coming to the knowledge of truth is no small matter. Many have sacrificed their lives for this thing called truth. To be a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">seeker</b> of truth is not a job for the faint hearted, but it is the highest aspiration that anyone can pursue. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Finding the truth</b>, on the other hand, is a discovery that demands a strong will, and is sure to throw your whole life out of whack. Truth will test every motive, and every thought, and if allowed to flourish it will demolish your shrine, with all its idols, and even clear the foundation for a new beginning. Where once there was bigness, there will be smallness. Where once there was life, there will be death. Where once there was pride, there will be humiliation and shame. Truth is the clearing house and the examination room, where everything is exposed and brought under the microscope; and then the tough question comes, &ldquo;Do I amputate, or do I die.&rdquo; There are no half measures when dealing with the disease inherited from our great grandparents; only a radical procedure will do. To simply go to a religious building, wear a cross shaped amulet, or give up TV for Lent, does not constitute being a follower of Jesus.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Given that all of mankind is born under the same set of circumstances we should not be surprised to find so many, and diverse, belief systems, each having created and configured their own presuppositional worldview, using a multitude of differing data. To follow Christ is to come away from the whole gamut of contorted and distorted religious proclamations and plead for the healing of our hallucinations and debilitating blindness. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>We get so carried away with our own version of reality, viewed through our personal filter, which we cannot, or will not, recognize the diabolical madness of what is happening in ourselves and all around us.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Once we begin to acknowledge that something is wrong, and adjust our filter, and our will, to allow for truth to enter, in any degree, the dominos will begin to tumble. It will be by our own efforts that they remain upright, by continuing to live according to faulty data, which is a roadblock to complete freedom.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The mass majority of people are modeling their lives on what they consider to be truth. We allow our filtering system to permit or approve certain things, not because they are the truth, but because we are prejudiced, and biased, and our own &ldquo;truth&rdquo; convenient.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of course there are atheists, and of course there are ten thousand religions, and there are just as many variations within each sect and denomination, and of course each one makes a declaration of truth, so of course there is confusion and division. To be a pioneer of truth is to enter a vast wilderness, and to attempt such a thing without a map or compass is ludicrous. That is exactly what we do when we look for truth based on religion, presuppositions, or worldview. We need to find truth first, and then allow it to shape our worldview. We need to come to Christ and leave all our presuppositions at the door; our presumptions about truth or Jesus will only lead us off the narrow path. Most Christians have no desire for &ldquo;truth;&rdquo; they find themselves a &ldquo;church,&rdquo; or &ldquo;religion,&rdquo; or &ldquo;denomination,&rdquo; because of their supposed need of a place to raise the kids, or good programs, or smooth and comforting speeches, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>or location, or beautiful architecture, or size, or because they are looking for &ldquo;purpose,&rdquo; or <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>&ldquo;Focus on the Family.&rdquo;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To be a pioneer of truth today is to genuinely be a person who will open up and explore new territory, a new territory in the sense that true truth has been hidden from sight for a long time, covered by years of thorny undergrowth. It is to beat back the temptation to accept the status quo, convenience, or expedience. It is to risk everything in this life to gain eternity in the next.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If there is a &ldquo;God&rdquo; then He promises to reward those who will start all over, not on the bases of our presuppositions, but on the bases of Truth; Jesus says <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">&ldquo;I am the way&rdquo;</i></b> (the path that leads to safety), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:<br />
normal">&ldquo;the Truth&rdquo;</i></b> (His ways are not the ways we would choose, but they are the Truth), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">&ldquo;and the Life&rdquo;</i></b> (Jesus&rsquo; life is the standard by which our life should be compared.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:<br />
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Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">All of God&rsquo;s promises are based on belief, trust, and faith. He makes no promises to shower us with miracles proving His existence. If we were God we would be more than glad to prove ourselves, but it simply is not God&rsquo;s way. God&rsquo;s ways are not man&rsquo;s ways, and Jesus says,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:<br />
normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:<br />
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:<br />
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:red">If</span></u></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;<br />
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:red"> any man will do his will, </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">(then)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:red">he shall know</span></b><span style="color:red"> of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or</span> <span style="color:red;mso-bidi-font-style:<br />
italic">whether</span> <span style="color:red">I speak of myself.</span></i> <b><span style="color:maroon">John 7:17</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:<br />
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Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">God has given us the capacity to believe; Satan has given us presumptions and presuppositions; the choice is yours.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor Harold Camping, the whole world has witnessed his fall, and now he must bolster his pride and continue his self-deception or confess and repent. But, let me say this in his defense; he is more honest in his promulgations than the whole camp of liberal Emergents. Harold studied the Bible, in the power of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="plus-one-wrap"><g:plusone href="http://www.indywatchman.com/uncategorized/harold-camping-more-honest-than-emergents/"></g:plusone></div><p><a href="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Harold-Camping-2.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1362" height="226" src="http://www.indywatchman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Harold-Camping-2-300x226.jpg" title="Harold-Camping-2" width="300" /></a>Poor Harold Camping, the whole world has witnessed his fall, and now he must bolster his pride and continue his self-deception or confess and repent. But, let me say this in his defense; he is more honest in his promulgations than the whole camp of liberal Emergents. Harold studied the Bible, in the power of his own mind and reasoning, and boldly stated his conclusions to the world. The liberals, on the other hand, do their studying and then scurry off into shadows, innuendos, insinuation, half-truths, and misrepresentations.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">These New Age liberal Emergents come to no absolute conclusions. By making no judgments, they can say everything, without saying anything. They have perfected the Luciferian art of &ldquo;doublespeak&rdquo; by virtually prefacing all they say with the preamble <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">&ldquo;Hath God really said,&rdquo;</i> or as Rob Bell would say <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">&ldquo;. . . and someone knows this for sure?&rdquo;</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> </i><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>Harold did no such thing; he boldly proclaimed his error, in the face of truth; he dared to come against the light in the open, and fell. The liberals lay in ambush with snares and pits, and hide in the fog of deceit. Harold was not really honest by any stretch of the imagination; even still, he was more honest than the Emergents. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>When Satan initiated the use of Liberal tactics, in the Garden of Eden, he was awarded the title, &ldquo;Father of all lies,&rdquo; so what does that make the Emergents?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Harold rejected God&rsquo;s truth and is condemned. The liberal Emergents reject God&rsquo;s word and are applauded, proving that it is hard to hit a moving target or put fog in a box. At least Harold tried to be honest in his own deceived way. The best way to deceive is to copy Satan, by muddling, diluting, mixing, melding, stretching, bending, thinning, reducing, cutting, adulterating, or prostituting the truth, and never show your hand. Harold showed his hand, and is now clearly a liar and false prophet. You will rarely get a peek at the hand of an Emergent. Emergents love to engage in mind manipulation and ego massage, and appeal to the desires of the flesh, where the subtle effects of leaven can work unnoticed. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Who should we be concerned about mostly? Harold was a shooting star, his predictions were confined to a small group of followers, and collateral damage was minimal. On the other hand there are the liberal Emergents, whose infectious disease gnaw on and disintegrate the very foundation of truth. Harold Camping&rsquo;s teaching is unsound, and needs to be exposed, and was mostly accomplished by his own actions; but the Emerging scourge is a wretched curse by which many a soul will be damned. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We love to focus on today&rsquo;s headlines, and laugh at such foolishness as billboards predicting the return of our Lord, when all the while leprosy is creeping up our legs unnoticed. Satan will keep our eyes on the immediate comic display of a few as the real enemy surrounds the city. Harold Camping is more like a sedative to distract our attention till it is too late, until the last curtain falls on the final act, and the world is carried away in its stupor.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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		<title>Time Is Running Out For Harold Camping, Judgment Day is Definitely Coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 02:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Not only have we had 2000 years of waiting for the promise of Jesus and the Prophets to be fulfilled, that someday all things would come to an end, but we have had 2000 years of those who mock, and 2000 years of those who teach false doctrine. &#160; The&#160;false prophet Harold Camping (see [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoTitle">Not only have we had 2000 years of waiting for the promise of Jesus and the Prophets to be fulfilled, that someday all things would come to an end, but we have had 2000 years of those who mock, and 2000 years of those who teach false doctrine.</p>
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<p>The&nbsp;false prophet Harold Camping (see my article <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;<br />
color:black"><a href=":%20http:/www.indywatchman.com/uncategorized/harold-camping-proclaims-the-lords-return-will-be-in-may-21-2011/#ixzz1LtXf5l7i">Harold Camping proclaims the Lord&rsquo;s return will be in May 21, 2011</a>) has put up billboards across the nation advertising his belief that the Lord will return for His Church on 5-21-2011, one such billboard is in Indianapolis.</span></span> Harold&rsquo;s heresy has been matched by the American Atheists who have put up their own billboards mocking, not Harold Camping, but all of Christianity. My question is, what will Harold be doing on May 22?</p>
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