Random Thoughts

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Why didn't Yahshua have a non-Adamic non-Israelite as one of his disciples?

If Yahshua meant for non-Israelies to be part of the kingdom of heaven, why did he say

"I have not come but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel?"

There's long been a large population in China. If the universalist are correct, "everyone who believes on the Lord Jesus can be saved," why did the Chinese have to wait 1800 years to get a bible translated into their own language?

Why didn't Jesus send a Paul to China immediately after the resurrection? Or to Africa, or to North America to visit the Native American Indians?

If the jews are God's Chosen, why have they been booted out of so many countries because of their obnoxious behavior?

If Jesus was a jew, as William has so sagaciously observed, why did he speak in parables and not do stand-up comedy instead? Or come as a banker and lend money at interest?


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"My meditation of Him shall be sweet."

Psalm 104:34

Thoughts of comfort.

Romans 8:31 "God for us."

"Yahweh is for us ..."

32: "... how shall he not with him, freely give us all things?"

".. how then with Him, will He not favor us in every way?"

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My missionary friend in Thailand sent me this photo, I guess, as evidence that the gospel is for all nations and all tribes.



"Praise for Bringing us through 18 and Launching us into our 19th year in Asia!"

Yes, too bad, all those wasted years among the tares and goats.

We are deeply grateful how many of you have stood behind us all these years.

[Yes, hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted and could have been used for your own people.]

"Church Leadership Seminar for Akha Elders

Last week we brought Evangelism training to their pastors and evangelists. October 11-12, we will be teaching church board members from the Akha tribal churches under Frontier Laborers for Christ here in Chiang Mai province. As many indigenous churches in the region, they were "brought up" being supported and expecting contributions from the West to operate.

On the whole they do not tithe or take care of their pastors' families.

[Of course not, Mr. Missionary.]

" ...they were "brought up" being supported and expecting contributions from the West to operate."

[Gee, maybe they "became Christians" just to get the support and contributions from the West, ever think of that? ]

"So I and another brother have been asked to explain their biblical role as church elders, and God's mandate to support their pastors. We covet your prayers."




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Seems David was concerned with how he was to get on in his old age, about losing his strength:

Psalm 71:

9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

18 Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not;

David, in his greyheaded years, looked to Yahweh for his strength.

3 Be thou my strong habitation,

16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD:

18 Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

David's had no choice but to look to Yahweh for his strength and hope:

14But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.

20Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

21Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

"Comfort me on every side."

Yahweh will surround me with His comfort. You've heard of surround sound? How about surround comfort?

Meditation on the Surround Comfort of Yahweh brings one to praise:

19Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!

22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

Yes, Yahweh/Yahshua has redeemed my soul.

Praise Yahweh.

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Why does it take a nigger to lecture these white cops on what's what?

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Governments Can Hate, But Citizens Can't Hate Governments

http://keruxreplies.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/governments-can-hate-but-its-citizens-cant-hate-its-government/

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I looked up neighbor while studying this important first commandment:

Mark 12:

29And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

30And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

31And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Strong's G4139 - plēsion

1) a neighbour

a) a friend

b) any other person, and where two are concerned, the other (thy fellow man, thy neighbour), according to the Jews, any member of the Hebrew nation and commonwealth

c) according to Christ, any other man irrespective of nation or religion with whom we live or whom we chance to meet

Where in the world did http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G4139&t=KJV get this definition?

No references are cited, not Thayers, not Vines, not Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, just a definition.

And where did Christ say, "any other man irrespective of nation or religion with whom we live or whom we chance to meet" ? What scripture is this based upon?

My neighbor is any nigger I "chance to meet?"

WTF?

Methinks someone is making this stuff up as they go along to support their multiculturalism, diversity garbage.

Anyone care to comment?

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Edit:

Most people, and few even do a search, would have stopped at that definition and gone away with the idea that according to Christ, "any other man irrespective of nation or religion with whom we live or whom we chance to meet" is my neighbor.

I checked Vines: http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/dictionary/viewTopic.cfm?type=getTopic&Topic=Neighbor&DictList=9

1. Neighbor:
lit., "one living in the same land," denotes "a neighbor," always plural in the NT, Luk 14:12; 15:6, 9; Jhn 9:8.

2. Neighbor:
an adjective, lit., "dwelling around"), is used as a noun in Luk 1:58, "neighbors."

3. Neighbor:
the neuter of the adjective plesios (from pelas, "near"), is used as an adverb accompanied by the article, lit., "the (one) near;" hence, one's "neighbor;" see refs. below.

This and Nos. 1 and 2 have a wider range of meaning than that of the Eng. word "neighbor." There were no farmhouses scattered over the agricultural areas of Palestine; the populations, gathered in villages, went to and fro to their toil. Hence domestic life was touched at every point by a wide circle of neighborhood. The terms for neighbor were therefore of a very comprehensive scope. This may be seen from the chief characteristics of the privileges and duties of neighborhood as set forth in Scripture,

(a) its helpfulness, e.g, Pro 27:10; Luk 10:36;

(b) its intimacy, e.g., Luk 15:6, 9 (see No. 1); Hbr 8:11;

(c) its sincerity and sancitity, e.g., Exd 22:7, 10; Pro 3:29; 14:21; Rom 13:10; 15:2; Eph 4:25; Jam 4:12. The NT quotes and expands the command in Lev 19:18, "to love one's neighbor as oneself;" see, e.g., Mat 5:43; 19:19; 22:39; Mar 12:31, 33; Luk 10:27; Gal 5:14; Jam 2:8. See also Act 7:27.

Note: In Rom 13:8, for hetron, "another," RV has "his neighbor."

This gives a better idea of what the word "neighbor" meant back in NT times.

lit., "one living in the same land," And most people lived near people of their own kind.

an adjective, lit., "dwelling around"), is used as a noun in Luk 1:58, "neighbors."

Luke 1:58

And 2532 her neighbours 4040 and 2532 her 846 cousins 4773 heard 191 how 3754 the Lord 2962 had shewed great 3170 mercy 1656 846 upon 3326 her 846; and 2532 they rejoiced 4796 with her 846.

neighbours 4040

Strong's G4040 - perioikos

1) dwelling around, a neighbour

peri- around

those that dwell around (you)

A universalist is going to look at this and say: "My neighbor is any person who dwells (lives) around me, regardless of race. I'm supposed to love that nigger next door. (If I don't move away first.) lmho "

I know this can't be true.

Anyone have access to a Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon ?

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A key to the first commandment is

Hear, O Israel

So, only Israelites are being addressed here.

The Lord our God is one Lord:

The Lord is our God.

It would follow that only fellow Israelites are my neighbors.

I am to love the Lord my God, and my fellow Israelite neighbors. Starting with those who dwell around me.

Then, why in the world are we sending millions and millions of dollars to niggers in Haiti?

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Here's a typical universalist teaching on this commandment:

When Jesus was asked, “Who is the neighbor I’m supposed to love like myself?,” he didn’t say “Your family,” or “The people of your neighborhood—people who are like you.”

For all practical purposes, Jesus turned the question into a racial issue. It was no coincidence that Jesus picked a Samaritan to demonstrate the meaning of neighbor to a Jewish expert in the law.

Jews didn’t see the Samaritans as their neighbors. Samaritans were half-breeds, the scum of the earth, outcasts. The Jews believed that if a Jewish person’s shadow happened to touch a Samaritan’s shadow, it would contaminate the Jew. If a Samaritan woman entered a Jewish village, the entire village became unclean.

But in this story Jesus says that our neighbors are especially those people who ignore us, those people who separate themselves from us, those people who are afraid of us, those people we have the most difficulty loving and those people we feel don’t love us. These are our neighbors. In Matthew 5:46 Jesus says, “If you love those who love you, what reward will you get?” Anybody can do that.

It gets worse:

DO YOU RECOGNIZE YOUR NEIGHBOR?

It doesn’t take much imagination for each of us to figure out who Jesus would use as an example of “neighbor” in our own towns and cities.

For an Israeli, how about a Palestinian?

For an Arab, how about a Jew?

For a rich white, how about a black welfare mother?

For a poor white, how about a middle-class black who got where he is through affirmative action?

For a black male, how about a white male—better yet, a pickup-driving, gunrack-toting, tobacco-chewing, baseball-cap-wearing white man who still refers to a black man as “boy”?

For a feminist, how about an insensitive, domineering male chauvinist?

For a suburban white family, how about the new black or Hispanic family that moved in down the street?

For all of us, how about the unmotivated, undisciplined, uneducated poor? Or an AIDS victim who contracted AIDS not through a transfusion but through homosexual activity or intravenous drug use?

Who would Jesus use as the neighbor if he were speaking to you?

http://www.cbeinternational.org/?q=cont ... y-neighbor

So, who is my neighbor?

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