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Wisdom "Your understanding has utterly failed regarding this world, and do you think you can comprehend the way of the Most High?" The Ten Commandments Love thy neighbor Bible Gateway Bible Online / Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry HTML Bible Bible Plus // KJV(win) tool The Bible Library Early Christian Writings Old Testament Apocrypha: [Charles (a)] [Charles (b)] [Wesley] [Apocryphal or Deuterocanonical Books] New Testament Apocrypha The Torah in Modern Scholarship The Babylonian Talmud Zohar Kabbalah (or) Kabala True Torah Jews Against Zionism History of Zionism What is Zionism? Lost Books of the Bible: [The Lost Books] [CARM] [Sacred Texts] [BibleUFO] Internet Sacred Texts Archive // maintained by J.B. Hare The Qur'an (Koran) / Islam The Bhagavad Gita / Hinduism The Vedas / Hinduism Buddhism The Urantia Book / a real mind bender... Religions Compared Shroud of Turin: [1] [2] Government training pastors to train congregations to "obey the government" "A Pastor is blowing the whistle on a nationwide FEMA program training Pastors to teach congregations to "obey the government" using Romans 13. Confirmation from other pastors has been received according to this report. Besides Romans 13, American Christians have been effectively neutralized, becoming powerless to defend themselves from anti-American government dictates. Contributing to this servile status is a total misunderstanding of the meaning of, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." Also contributing is the very worldly love for money shown by the church. It is willing to give up its independent voice to criticize worldly government behavior in exchange for an exemption from paying tax. If that is not irony... Watch the New American Theology of Civil Submission (video) In this message ("I'm free to submit to authority") this pastor (Time of Grace Ministries) says Christians should honor government no matter what because if Christians don't, "the name of God will look bad ... the way you talk about your government ... honor the king, whether the king deserves it or not." He says, you "are free to be a slave.... You are free to respect the authority of the government that God gives to you.... Don't be afraid to do this. It's part of a plan.... ALL authority is an extension of God's authority.... Honor the king." Romans 13 (New International Version) Submission to the Authorities 1 Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. 4 For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. 6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor. Christians need to review what Christ DID, not what the Apostle Paul had Tertius to write somewhere between 56 and 58 A.D..	..... An Interview With God / power point 7 Wonders of the World / video Bible Origins google: Emperor Constantine Nicaea 325 a.d. Google: preterism "Preterism is the belief that all Bible prophecies, including those concerned with the Second Coming of Jesus, the Resurrection of the Dead, the Rapture, the Judgment and the arrival of the Kingdom of God, came to fulfillment in a.d. 70 at the destruction of Herod?s temple in Jerusalem as predicted by Jesus in Luke 21 ..." Source: preterism.info Example: Jesus said, ?this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come? (Matt. 24:14, KJV). Paul answers: ??the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven? (Col. 1:23b, KJV). Preterists point to many other verses that seem to indicate that the 'end' occurred in a.d. 70. Israel Is the following true about the origin of the name Israel? Isis-Ra-El = Israel Egypt, Isis was personification of wisdom Amen-Ra = Sun god (Amen at the end of a pray is praise for Amen-Ra) EL is god of Saturn. These 3 gods were merged = Israel Amos 5: 25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? 26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. Amos 5:25-26 (KJV) Acts 7: 43 Yea, ye [house of Israel] took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. Acts 7:43 (KJV) Is Judahism based around the worship of Saturn? The sacred day of worship is Saturday. Is the symbol for Saturn the same as for the star of David. The Talisman of Saturn "The so-called Star of David is essentially a hexagram, nothing more, nothing less. There is no Biblical or Jewish evidence that traces this ancient occult symbol with King David of Israel. However, there is evidence that it was used by King Solomon, after he turned to pagan gods and the occult, late in his life." Source: Star of David OR Star of Lucifer? • If Americans Knew: [video trailer] [website] • De Israel Lobby • Galloway on Israel & Lebanon / 2006.06.08 • Video Israel Doesn't Want You to See • Murder of Mohammed Al-Dura and his 12 year old son by Israeli forces • The Truth Behind The Gates Of Auschwitz	Alternatives? • Nightfall Project • Philosophical Research Society • 5 Myths About 7 Books • Jordan Maxwell: [website] [Questions] [Astro-Theology?] • Esoteric Agenda: • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection / Stellar House Publishing / Acharya talks about her book 'Who Was Jesus?' A debunking of the material presented below is presented here: "Zeitgeist" Online Movie: Part One Refuted The following images are from Zeitgeist - The Movie - 2-4 of 13 (Part [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] of 3 on Religion) Zeitgeist Addendum playlist The Ages The Bible moves through 3 ages and foreshadows a 4th. Taurus the Bull (golden calf) Moses the Ram (Jewish Ram's horn) Jesus Christ, Son of God in the age of Pisces (the two fish) Five loaves of bread and two fish (Matthew 14:17) The Last Supper Luke 22:7 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. Luke 22:8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover." Luke 22:9 "Where do you want us to prepare for it?" they asked. Luke 22:10 He replied, "As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters Luke 22:7-10 (NIV) When the Sun, God's Son, leaves the age of pisces, the Sun will enter the age of aquarius. Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the (aeon) age." The 'end of the world' is a misinterpreted astrological allegory. Matt 28:19-20 (NIV) Cross of the Zodiac [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Compare ... Horus (Egypt) to Jesus (Israel) Epic of Gilgamesh (2600 BC) to Noah and the Arc Birth of Moses to Sargon (~2250 BC) Law givers: Manou of India, Minos of Crete, Mises of Egypt, Moses 10 Commandments to Spell 125 Egyptian Book of the Dead Joseph (old testament) to Jesus (new testament) Thomas Paine (1737-1809) said, "The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally paid to the sun." Is Paine correct? Rome 325 AD Emperor Constantine - Counsel of Nicaea / Christian Bible assembled - doctrines established Roman Catholic Church Interactive transcript with citations for the Zeitgeist movie The Zeitgeist Movie website "Zeitgeist was created as a non-profit filmiac expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are. The information in Zeitgeist was established over a year long period of research and the current Source page on this site lists the basic sources used / referenced. Soon, an Interactive Transcript will be online with detailed footnotes and links so exact sources and further research can be relayed." "The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose.... The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of time. But it was a beginning." - Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time -

"By the time of Jesus, Palestine had been under Roman domination for almost a century.97 Rome ruled through puppets—first Herod the Great, then Herod Antipas in Galilee and Pontius Pilate in Judea--and this rule was devastating.

"Roman legions killed tens of thousands of people and enslaved many more. One traumatic attack was the burning of Sepphoris, only a few miles from Nazareth, near the time of Jesus' birth.98 Some 2,000 rebels were crucified at about the same time.99


Besides killing and enslaving the Palestinians, the Romans taxed them severely, pushing many of them permanently into debt. By the time of Jesus, there was "a crisis of debt and dispossession that touched and transformed the lives of nearly every peasant family in Galilee."100

"Jesus' anti-imperial gospel is apparent in what we call "the Lord's Prayer," which is a modification of the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the establishment of God's kingdom. The central phrase of Jesus' prayer was, therefore, "thy kingdom come"--an abbreviation of the Kaddish's petition, "May God establish his kingdom in your lifetime." That Jesus was not talking about some exclusively otherworldly realm is shown by the next line: "thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." Thus, says Horsley, "God's activity was political and Jesus' preaching of that activity was political--with obvious implications for the 'imperial situation' then prevailing in Palestine." The reign of the Roman emperors was to be replaced by the reign of God, which would transform "the social-economic-political substance of human relations."101

"The centrality of the economic issue is shown by two other elements in this prayer: the petition for "our daily bread" and the idea that we should "forgive our debtors"—an allusion to the fact that unjust and unforgiven debt regularly forced peasants into servitude to rich landlords (as reflected in the parable of the wicked tenants).102

"That Jesus opposed Roman rule even more directly is suggested by evidence that Jesus challenged the payment of the Temple tax and the tribute to Rome103 and that he protested the Temple's system of collecting money.104

"That Jesus was regarded as a rebel against the empire is implied by the very fact that he was crucified. The death penalty could be authorized only by the Romans, and crucifixion was an exclusively Roman manner of execution, used primarily for those regarded as challengers to Roman authority. "That Jesus was crucified by the Roman governor," says Horsley, "stands as a vivid symbol of his historical relationship with the Roman imperial order."105

"One dimension of the Roman imperial order that particularly offended Jesus and his fellow Jews was Rome's claim that its empire was divinely authorized.106 Early Christians had a very different view, as shown by the final book of the New Testament, which portrays Rome as a dragon, symbolizing Satan.107 For the early Christians, Horsley says,

"Rome was the Beast, the Harlot, the Dragon, Babylon, the Great Satan. They knew that Rome's empire was made possible not by divine order but by the acquisition of vast territories through the deadly violence of the Roman legions.108

"America as the New Rome

"Is Bacevich right to say that today America is Rome? One way to answer this question is in terms of four commonly accepted features of the Roman empire.109 First, it portrayed itself, as we have seen, as guided by divine providence. Americans have said the same about their own empire. In 1850, an American editor wrote: "We have a destiny to perform, a 'manifest destiny' over . . . South America, . . . the Chinese empire . . . and the . . . Japanese. . . . The eagle of the republic shall poise itself over [the rest of the world] and a successor of Washington ascend the chair of universal empire!110 The Christmas card sent out by Dick and Lynne Cheney in 2003 asked, rhetorically: "[I]f a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?"111

"A second feature of the Roman empire was the development and employment of overwhelming military power. Bacevich, summing up this feature of our own empire, says that the present aim of the U.S. military is "to achieve something approaching omnipotence: 'Full Spectrum Dominance.'"111

"A third feature of the Roman empire was rule through puppets, such as Herod, backed up by the empire's pervasive military presence. Some of the most notorious US puppets have been Batista in Cuba, Somoza in Nicaragua, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier in Haiti, Marcos in the Philippines, Diem in Vietnam, and Suharto in Indonesia. More recently, America has installed a puppet regime in Afghanistan and has been trying to do the same in Iraq.

"A fourth feature of the Roman empire was that through its imposition of exorbitant taxes, it impoverished the countries it dominated. America's taxation is more indirect, being exercised through the global economy enforced by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization. But it impoverishes just as effectively.

"... Christians and the New Rome

"Any attempt to answer that question would be very long. I will here simply suggest a first step: the formation of an anti-imperial church movement, in which the rejection of America's imperial project is considered a necessary implication of Christian faith. Such a movement would be analogous to the movement of "Confessing Christians" formed in Germany in 1934, a year after the Nazis had come to power. This movement, two leaders of which were theologians Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, opposed the movement known as the "German Christians," which treated Hitler as a new messiah who would bring Germany the greatness it deserved. In their famous Barmen Declaration, the Confessing Christians said that support for National Socialism violated basic principles of the Christian faith. One had to choose either Christian faith or National Socialism. One could not affirm both.123

"Later in the century, some Christian bodies decided that rejection of the system of apartheid in South Africa was a necessary implication of Christian faith. In 1977, the Lutheran World Federation declared that although with regard to most political questions, "Christians may have different opinions," the system of apartheid in South Africa was "so perverted and oppressive" that it "constitute[d] a status confessionis"—a confessional situation. The Christian faith, these Lutherans declared, required that "churches would publicly and unequivocally reject the existing apartheid system."124

"An analogous question before churches in America today is whether the American empire, with its imperialism and global apartheid, is "so perverted and oppressive" that the public rejection of it should be regarded as an implication of fidelity to God as revealed in Jesus of Nazareth, who died on a Roman cross.

-- David Ray Griffin, "9/11, American Empire, and Christian Faith," Global Research, May 5, 2006 --