The root of ALL evil & it’s not money!!

October 7, 2008 in Christian | No comments

We all know that famous saying about how the root of all evil truth about enzyte is the love of money and indeed it’s a scriptural statement, but I’ve discovered over time that there is an even worse and more devious concept that has shown itself to be far more deadly and dangerous than the greed for money, in destroying lives and families. If you haven’t worked it out yet - it’s the deadly art of LYING!!

Right from the very outset of history and time, lies have been something that man has spoken to cover up sin and protect reputation etc. And lies don’t always come big and dark such as those perpetrated by politicians etc, because there’s not one of us who hasn’t committed the most common one of all - the “white” lie. That one you tell because you’re trying to not hurt someone - the typical one being when you’re asked your opinion on how someone looks and in an effort to please them you say whatever you think they want to hear rather than tell them what you’re really thinking. That one is so common it’s the source of multiple major jokes and most of us find it a harmless thing. But is it? I learnt a lot from having my 20-something stepdaughter living with me for a few years. She would routinely come in to see me wearing some new outfit she’d bought and wanting to know my opinion on it. When she first came to stay, I tended to say nice things even if I thought the outfit was hideous, but over time as we connected more and I came to know her tastes better etc, I got a better sense of what she did look well in and so by the time she was moving out last year, she knew she could trust me to tell her straight what I thought. I never hid my initial reaction and she knew immediately what my view was likely to be, so to tell her something different was hugely obvious to her and I learnt not to even try to be deceptive in my opinion. And while this was a very small example of the wisdom of truth over even the simplest of lies, I found sometimes that she would actually lie about situations such as being late for her work or not going in to work at all, spinning some tale to her boss - she would openly tell me about doing this, and always prefaced it with “God forgive me but…” My view on that was always if you have to ask God to forgive you in advance of something then you know you shouldn’t be doing it to start with!!

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Dying at the right time….

September 9, 2008 in Christian, Christianity, God, bible, death, freedom | Tags: death, dying, health, sin | 5 comments

This is a post aimed solely at Christians and, of those who call themselves such, to those who accept the bible implicitly as God’s inerrant and trusted Word and take Him at it without trying to make Him comply with our viewpoint.

I want to explore this concept of health and death from the point of view that you will often hear people stating that if you do x, y or z you will “extend your life” or conversely that if you do certain things wrong you will die young or sooner than society would deem “acceptable” which probably means any age before 90! Now, apart from the fact that we all know many people who don’t fit either camp such as the baby who dies before they’ve even started their life, or the rampant alcoholic who manages to live well into their 70s despite doing everything to “die young” in the eyes of those around them, my contention is that we can do nothing to extend or shorten our lives in that God has determined the length of our days before He granted us life:

Psa 139:16: You saw me before I was born. The days allotted to me had all been recorded in your book, before any of them ever began.

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Fellowshipping in ecumenical fornication….

August 19, 2008 in Christian, Christianity, End times, God, Jesus, Truth, apostasy, bible, deception, ecumenism, idolatry | Tags: Christianity, deception, ecumenism, faith, false religions, one world religion | No comments
It’s the most awesome thing to sit and watch biblical prophecies coming true in our generation in the most incredible ways. Worldwide, the Church is in turmoil as one after the other falls to apostasy without even realising it. I’m sure if you asked the worst offenders if they knew they were part of this aspect of prophecy, they’d fervently deny it, stating that they seek only to love everyone and not upset anyone yet therein lies the very root of the apostasy currently sweeping the world.

I watched a programme on ITV (UK) today which focused on the lives of vicar’swives primarily in the Church of England and it made for interesting viewing. This particular programme showed the vicar and his wife both not just spectators but active participants in their city’s yearly Sikh religious festival. The wife spoke about how it was “wonderful” to be granted the opportunity to be so heavily involved and “accepted” by this (pagan!) faith. She marveled at many of the aspects of the Sikh faith stating that they had a lot of things in common with that belief system and it was good to be able to learn about them. The festival involved a lot of rites and rituals including wrapping the vicar up in a traditional turban and bringing them on board a float which hosted the “sacred book” which to the Sikh’s was a “person” - the wife spoke specifically about how this holy book would be cremated at the end of its life and she found that endearing!! The couple openly participated in “prayers” initiated by the Sikhs to their god with the vicar turbanned yet still wearing his collar!

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Where would you be if….

July 25, 2008 in Christian, Christianity, God, abortion, adultery, doctor, feminism, fundamentalism, health, hell, marriage, relationships | No comments

Before you start to read this, be warned - it’s a rare “rant” for me as I don’t often give in to the extent of my feelings on some issues in the way I have done with this one, but some things just get me plain mad, and this is one of them!!

I’ve been listening a lot lately to talks and discussions about abortion issues in particular, especially where they concern Barack Obama’s excessively liberal stance om this topic. I was utterly shocked beyond anything I’ve ever felt before, to hear that he not only condones abortion, but also that he voted in favour of partial birth abortions to the point where he would support a doctor actively killing a BABY if it dared to exit the womb of its own accord before the doc got his hands on it during a planned abortion procedure. I find it incredibly fascinating how so many women in particular seem to be able to ignore the utterly obvious in all of this. While they lie there 7 months+ pregnant desiring to be rid of the “thing” inside of them, they don’t want to contend with how that is done, or the end result etc. To them the “thing” inside them is a nonentity of no value - it must be, or else they would not only deliver the baby but be willing to put it up for adoption instead. I seriously want to know why that is such a huge undesirable thought for them. What really leaves me confused is how in an “unwanted” pregnancy the baby is only ever referred to as “product of conception” or other medical terminology e.g. foetus, embryo, etc, but yet, if say x years down the line the woman’s circumstances change and she then is married and gets pregnant, from the outset the “thing” is incredibly now called a BABY!!! Does anyone else see the irrationality in that?? Or can someone explain it to me, as I’m seriously lost on how you can switch your entire pysche to think one thing to suit one set of circumstances and an entirely different to suit another, when it pertains to the same “thing” - a BABY!! I’m also utterly galled by the fact that partial birth “abortion” is nothing short of infanticide but because the woman’s rights trump the baby’s it’s overlooked and everything is done to prevent it gaining any notoriety. I have to ask again - what the heck is the problem about giving birth and handing the child over to someone else to love it and bring it up - and I can only surmise that it’s a desire to have NO responsibility in any shape or form for the child that God has graciously granted the mother to have - perhaps even for the sole purpose of providing the child for another infertile couple - who knows?!

Abortion is the greatest crime against humanity ever known, and this generation has almost made a religion out of it. While women may be entitled to their rights and rightly so (pardon the pun) they absolutely should NOT extend to the right to kill another human being under the guise of some ill-defined inability to allow him or her to live. What I do know is that if these women do not repent of their sin before God, when they die, the soul of that baby will condemn them before Him for not granting them life. And thus I would urge any woman reading this, who has any conscience about her role in this, to seek God mightily and repent heavily because He alone can forgive a crime which is against Him first and foremost and the child secondarily. I appreciate that may sound a very harsh, and to some perhaps a judgemental attitude, but I fear for the eternal future of those who slap God in the face for daring to visit them with an unwanted pregnancy. One thing I do know is that God is Sovereign and thus every second of your day is in His Hands and thus if you do end up pregnant in a committed marriage, while it may not be what you think is the right time or situation, etc, He will absolutely enable you to fulfil your obligations to bring up that child. However, if you are sinning from start to finish in a relationship outside of marriage, or an adulterous one, etc, then you need to repent first and start seeking His Will for your life in total, before you determine what to do about the pregnancy.

I’ve never been pregnant, but I just keep thinking - if your parents had determined that YOU were just a “thing” to be done away with and despatched in the cruellest vile and truly evil manner that partial birth abortion is, you wouldn’t have a life to start with. Yet many women dare to think that their circumstances are somehow unique and their rights overturn that of the person who would like to have the same opportunity at life they (the mother) has had. Few women would happily go up to a newborn baby and stick a knife in it because it was in their way or an inconvenience to them somehow (although an odd one might!), but just because a doctor is doing the evil deed doesn’t remit the mother from her part in the crime, and a crime it absolutely is - a crime against humanity. Coming back to Obama, I note that he has 2 daughters who he’s famously stated he wouldn’t want to be “punished” with a baby. They wouldn’t be alive if his wife had had the attitude that she wanted a life and not a child to have its. If people started reverting back to biblical morals as preached by Paul, they would be in a much better place all round. If couples quit having premarital sex to start with, there wouldn’t BE any unwanted babies most likely, or at least a lot less, and there certainly wouldn’t be any concept of “punishment” if such a thing did happen. It’s an interesting term - punishment after all is what you get when you do wrong, so I wonder if he was recognising that his daughters would have to be doing something wrong in order to get pregnant in the first place, and he might just also recognise that it is the stance of the excessively liberal Left in society that prevails to promote promiscuity amongst the youth to start with.

Ok - think I’ve ranted enough, and will close this out before I say anything further to inflame my faithful visitors. I’m open to a healthy debate on this topic, but please - no ultra feminist views about “women’s rights” etc - I’m just NOT interested unless you can provide a sensible argument on the point. If not, your comment won’t get posted :( ALL comments on this post will be moderated.