I've been thinking


I found a strong correlation between "gravity anomalies" occurring within galaxies and the "expansion" of the Universe. Such as anomalies that defy gravity and anomalies that approximate gravity effects without detectable matter. Mainstream theories pin this to "dark energy" and "dark matter" respectively. But IMHO, there maybe no exotic processes involved. Neither dark matter nor dark energy is involved in these "gravity anomalies. References below this post.

The correlating factor between intergalactic and extragalactic gravitational anomalies is strong polarization of light. For example, of high red-shift celestial objects and light along the galactic plane.

Mainstream theories break this down via two different processes (dark energy and dark matter). However I found a single process that can reproduce both cosmological "expansion" of the universe and the anomalous orbital velocities (gravity anomaly) of stars around galaxies.

When gravity is fully or partially blocked along a boundary or region, it will reproduce both the anomalously high orbital speed of stars around galaxies and also cause far away galaxies to "defy" gravity and accelerate away from us.

I think some of the processes that causes strong polarization of light as it travels through space (electromagnetic fields, ions, relativistic particles, dust, or the combined effects of these agents, etc) present in both intergalactic space and in abundance along the galactic plane may also be partially blocking gravity fields either directly or indirectly.

It may sound ridiculous or even dumb and stupid but only IF you assume my theory only accounts for blocking the gravity field of a local celestial body such as that of a planet, or a star, or a whole galaxy.

However, if you also account for the gravitational energy of the whole universe, you'll come up with some insane numbers because the gravitational energy density of the whole universe would be many orders of magnitude greater than Earth's and much closer to the energy density at the event horizon of a black hole.

For example, the Universe's Schwarzschild Radius exceeds its observable boundary. In a manner, roughly-speaking, though not necessarily true, our universe may be a really really large black hole and we're living inside of it. But whether this statement is true or not, it does show ridiculous amounts of gravitational energy filling every cubic cm of space.

We don't normally feel the black-hole levels of gravity density because it's pulling in all directions canceling each other out resulting to a net force of zero. But if you can create an energy field that can block gravity, the space near this field will only see cosmic gravity moving in more or less same direction - generally in a direction moving away from the gravity-blocking field. This can either cause far away galaxies to accelerate away from us or for galaxies to manifest gravitational pull well in excess of its detectable mass - if the gravity-blocking field fills the void between galaxies and exists in greater densities in space surrounding galaxies.

Based on this hypothesis, Far away galaxies are not really being repelled away but rather "accreting" or merging towards distant galactic clusters no longer detectable due to extreme red-shifts. Not otherwise possible if gravity is propagating unimpeded throughout the Universe.

The proposed shapes of the Universe, many that is pinched would support the "condensation theory" than expansion.


One might expect via this theory the Earth's Van Allen belts may produce similar effect. However, the effect may be negligible because the ions involved are "light", for example, individual protons or electrons.

So far, the effect may only be manifesting whenever heavy ions are involved and in large quantities only possible in intergalactic space. Amplifying the effect down to practical vehicular size may require the heaviest nuclei that can be contained with powerful magnetic fields and lasers.

I'm not sure how feasible this concept is. But summing it up, a gravity blocking field would separate extremely powerful but opposing cosmological gravitational fields into more or less monodirectional fields which might better explain cosmological patterns in far less complicated fashion and might be utilized some day and even in the near-future, practical faster-than-light interstellar / deep space travel technology.

References:
Heavy ions surround Galaxies


Light polarization around our galaxy

Relation of polarized light and red-shifted objects

Magnetic field gradients around galaxies

Schwarzschild radius of Universe

Shape of the Universe

Dipole Repeller

Galactic repulsion

Many within the church of today have forsaken the Lord Jesus Christ. They may have a form of godliness, and they may even be fully involved in religious activities, but they deny and reject Jesus Christ by their lifestyles. They have even made idols for themselves in the form of public figures, sports, TV, the internet, games, possessions, houses, cars, careers, personal intellect and appearance, leisure activities, entertainment, and/or sinful pleasures, etc. And, so Jesus Christ is barely on their radar, forgotten altogether, or else he gets only an occasional passing nod here and there.

They run their own lives, and don’t inquire of the Lord nor do they submit to his will for their lives unless they are in trouble, and then they expect him to come through for them. They have forgotten the Living Water which springs up like a fountain within those who believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior, and they have chased after what can never satisfy. Some of them may have never truly trusted Jesus Christ with their lives, while others have, but have since wandered away and have gone after the things of this world. So, Jesus is calling for them to turn from their sin and their idols, and to surrender their all to Him.

Living Water

An Original Work / November 21, 2013
Based off Various Scriptures

My people have forsaken Me,
Their Savior, who died on a tree;
Made idols, and they worshipped them;
So empty, they will ne’er fulfill.

Lord, You are the hope of Your chosen ones.
Those who turn away from You will be shamed;
The Spring of Living Water left behind.

Living Water satisfies.

The thirsty, let them come and drink;
Believe in Jesus as their King;
The gift of Jesus given them,
So they will never thirst again.

Indeed, the Living Water flows within.
It springs up like a fountain cleansing sin.
Eternal life in heaven promised them.

Living Water glorifies.

Oh people, won’t you come to Him?
Obey Him and repent of sin.
Let Jesus come and live within.
Surrender all your life to Him.

My people, won’t you turn your hearts to Me?
Forsake your idols and then you’ll be free.
Won’t you come now to Me on bended knee?

Living Water sanctifies.

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I've been doing a local 9 week Catholic course on the (seven) Sacraments. Part of this is that we give answers to some questions. I probably should not put this here, but it is my own work so I suppose I can do with it what I want.

Part of the reason I'm doing it is that I think God wants me to write a Blog. I've been dragging my feet on it (partly because I don't want to spend the money - Blue Host, Word Press, domain name etc), laziness and also 'what shoud I write about?').

I'm hoping that if other people respond, whether they agree or not, I might get some ideas for topics.

So here goes. Incidentally in most cases I'm likely to exceed the requested word limit (but it's not Harvard) and they'll be a few weeks apart as I'm only responding as the questions are asked.

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REFLECTION ACTIVITY 1 – BOB CROWLEY

In his letter to the Romans, St Paul writes that, “ever since the creation of the world [God’s] eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made” (Rom 1:20).

In 300 – 500 words, write a reflection that address the question: how does seeing the whole world as sacramental – as a sign of God’s eternal power and divine nature – help us to encounter God in our daily lives.
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We live in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. It is estimated there are 200 billion to 2 trillion galaxies in the visible universe.

Even within the Milky Way our location is ideal. We are far from lethal levels of radiation, far enough from the core that we can determine the type of galaxy in which we live and close enough to other stars that we can study them without much interfering galactic dust.

Yet we are not too close to any star such that it would pose a danger to life or prevent scientific study of the universe beyond. It seems that our galaxy and our location within it are consistent with God’s plan for humanity.

At the same time God is concerned at the quantum level. Our sun requires quantum tunnelling for fusion to occur as the internal pressure is not sufficient. The enzymes in our bodies have been postulated to use quantum tunneling to transfer electrons in electron transport chains. It is also believed to be used by plants during photosynthesis.

I claim to have had three “double whammies” as termed by my former psychiatrist (depression) because he has had them too. They’re like a breath going through you in strong waves from head to foot – quite pronounced and you know they’re not from you. In my case they were used to emphasise a phrase which someone else was saying. I still remember those three exact phrases 40 years later for that simple reason.

We move at about 220 kms per second through the universe. If it was six months between first and last “whammy” then I moved about 34.7 billion kilometres in that time (Christmas 1983 to approx June 1984). I was one of about 4.8 billion people living at that time.

I think God supplied the “double whammies”. If so then he knew how to contact me specifically three times out of 4.8 billion people as we all whizzed through the universe at 220 kms per second, without anybody else knowing about it unless I told them. Even if an angel was responsible, he would have been relying on God to give the instruction.

To get onto a more Catholic perspective, Thomas Merton in his book “New Seeds of Contemplation” stated “the perfection of each created thing is not merely in its conformity to an abstract type but in its own individual identity with itself … Therefore each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity … gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now…”

I suppose I might argue the toss about mosquitoes, malaria parasites and carrion eating vultures (with immune systems to suit) but the point is that everything has its place.

Yet despite this the universe adds up to nothing – a “sum zero energy universe”.

As Stephen Hawking quoted in his book A Brief History of Time: The total energy of the universe is exactly zero. The matter in the universe is made out of positive energy. However, the matter is all attracting itself by gravity.

The Big Bang came out of a zero energy point – since energy can be neither created or destroyed, the totality remains zero.

God created it out of nothing (ex nihilo); it adds up to nothing; and it will go back to nothing when God’s finished with it.

The universe is therefore a stage prop for the human drama, or if you like, a sacramental sign.

Into this sacramental sign Almighty God inserted Himself in human form, so quietly and unobtrusively that at one point he was just a man asleep on a boat in the Sea of Galilee.

Despite His infinite power, He can operate with the lightest touch. (Word Count 627 words).

If you look up this word “rejoice” in the Greek Interlinear on biblehub.com, it says that it means to “delight in God’s grace, to experience God’s grace, to be conscious (glad) for his grace.” So, this isn’t just about rejoicing in the Lord, in general, but more specifically we are to rejoice in him and his grace to us. And that is certainly much cause for rejoicing, for without his grace to us who believe in him, we would all still be bound in slavery to sin, without hope, and without purpose, and we would all end up in hell for eternity.

So, we are to be glad in the Lord and in his grace to us always, without end. For by his grace Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, who is also God – the second person of our triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – was crucified on a cross in order to put our sins to death with him so that by God-persuaded faith in him we might be crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness.

[1 Peter 2:24; Romans 6:1-23; 2 Corinthians 5:15; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20]

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is “training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives” while we wait for our Lord’s return. For Jesus Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works,” “which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them,” as “his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works” (Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:10).

And when this says that we are to let our reasonableness be known to everyone, this is speaking of fairness, treating other people with fairness and reasonableness which “builds on the real intent (purpose) of what is really at stake” “in order to keep the spirit of the law” (biblehub.com). And now Jesus Christ is our example in this, and how did he do this? It wasn’t by lessoning God’s standards to make life easier for us, was it? In fact, he taught the law more strictly in order to keep “the spirit of the law” (Matthew chapters 5-7).

Let me give you an example of this from Matthew 5:27-30 ESV:


So, “fairness” and “reasonableness” tell people the truth. It is not fair nor reasonable for us to ever lie to people by diluting the truth of the gospel to make the truth more palatable to human flesh so as not to offend people. But this is not an excuse to be mean and hateful, either. For the Scriptures teach that we are to speak the truth “in love” to one another, and Jesus and the NT apostles are our examples for how this should be done, and what this should look like. And they did not hold back truth to make people feel good.

And then we are not to be anxious (worried) about anything, but we are to take all our concerns to the Lord in prayer, seeking his counsel and wisdom, trusting in his grace and mercy, and leaning on him for support and strength to make it through every day and every difficult situation. And we must trust in the sovereignty of God over our lives, knowing that whatever happens to us, God allowed it (not necessarily caused it), and he will bring us through it. We just have to give these situations over to God and follow his lead.

And when we do this, when we surrender our circumstances over to the Lord, trusting in his grace and mercy, and following his leading in our lives, we can be at peace even in the midst of some of the worst “storms” of life. And this is something I have to remind myself of from time to time, too, when things in my life are troublesome and Satan tries to get me to be afraid. I have to remind myself that God is in control, and that he has this handled, and that he will get me through it, and then I must walk by faith.

Lead Me Gently Home, Father

By Will L. Thompson, 1879

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
When life’s toils are ended,
And parting days have come,
Sin no more shall tempt me,
Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,
If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,
Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
In life’s darkest hours, Father,
When life’s troubles come,
Keep my feet from wand’ring,
Lest from Thee I roam,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.

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I have been studying a possible interpretation of the seven seals in their relation to the restoration of the nation of Israel. Jesus said in Matthew 24:32-34 that the generation seeing the signs He spoke about earlier in the chapter would not pass away until all those things would be complete. A typical generation, according to Psalm 90:10 is between seventy and eighty years.

Zechariah 6 presents four chariots headed in four directions, each represented by a color, to survey the land in relation to Jerusalem's desolation. Per verse 6, the black horses go north, the white horses go west, and the dappled horses go south. That can only mean that the red horses go east.

If we apply that context and description to the four horsemen in Revelation 6, we can deduce that there purpose is to restore Jerusalem to the promised seed once more. The first horseman rides a white horse west and is given a bow to conquer with. This was Israel, along with his false messiahs, taking over the land of Palestine. The second horseman rides on a red horse east and is given a large sword to take peace away from the earth. This was the Palestinian intifadas that broke every peace treaty Israel made with Palestine. The third horseman rides a black horse north and the rider is given scales to unjustly deny people of food. This was the Gaza Blockade that has been in effect since 2006, which was the year the government of Hamas was voted into power. The fourth horseman, named Death, rides a pale horse south and is followed by the grave. This is the war currently going on in Gaza against Hamas, which has left so many cities an utter desolation and has killed so many people. However, and very importantly, the prosperity of earthly Jerusalem is a wilderness for the residents of heavenly Jerusalem.

Jesus said the gospel of the kingdom would be preached to all nations and then the end would come (Matt 24.14). The fifth seal shows souls of martyrs under the altar questioning when God would avenge them. They see Babylon flourishing and heavenly Jerusalem as a wilderness. They see that the gospel has gone out to all nations and reached Jerusalem again, but the end had not yet come. This indicates that earthly Jerusalem has to fill up its measure of wickedness by persecuting the church. This results in the true and faithful witness of Jesus Christ in earthly Jerusalem, which seals the 144,000 Israelites during the sixth seal.

The sixth seal is the spiritual restoration of earthly Jerusalem because of the testimony during the fifth seal. Zechariah 12 shows that God would pour out a spirit of grace and supplication upon the house of David and Jerusalem after he gives Jerusalem military success against her enemies. Jesus also preached that there would be signs in the heavens and distress upon earth preceding the election of the remnant. In this way, they are given two wings of an eagle to flee to a place prepared for them in the wilderness, earthly Jerusalem. This is a tell that Jacob's Distress is not part of the sixth seal. Rather it is the judgment of the surrounding nations and the spiritual healing of the elect remnant.

Thoughts?

I read that your wife is Baptist. One of our deacons is married to a Baptist, too. My hubby grew up Baptist, stopped going to church, and then went with me to the Lutheran church for a few months before I came back to Catholicism. Now he doesn’t go to church again anymore.
How do you and your wife handle being different denominations? Do you go to your church and she goes to hers? Do you go to church together and alternate which church you go to? What about Christmas and Easter?
Christianity is important to me and it bothers me that hubby isn’t very interested. He’s definitely not going to join the Catholic Church or return to the Baptist church.

At least, in the Eastern Hemisphere…

Hello folks. It seems that Zechariah is a complicated book to dissect and analyze. How do I go about doing this? The book uses a lot of metaphors, and deep historical/prophecies which are difficult to apply to daily life or summarize in a convenient format.




I am hoping to analyze Zechariah using the familiar format below, which is common for my daily devotionals/scripture analyses. These analyses are supposed to stay as true to the Bible as possible, while also connecting the verses to modern life.

After the flood, Gen 10 listed the Table of Nations, King James Bible:

5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

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Strong's Hebrew: 1471. גּוֹי (goy) — 561 Occurrences

Brown-Driver-Briggs:

1. nation, people
   a. specifically of descendants of Abraham
   b. definitely of Israel
   c. usually of non-Hebrew peoples

NASB Translation
every nation (2), Gentiles (1), Goiim (1), Harosheth-hagoyim* (3), herds (1), nation (120), nations (425), people (4).

H1471-goyim could refer to Jews or non-Jews. NASB translated H1471 as "Gentiles" only once.

ESV, Genesis 10:

5 From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

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KJB used the word "Gentiles" anachronistically in Gen 10:5. The name "Abram" first appeared in Gen 11.

At Biblehub, 5 versions used "Gentiles" and 26 used "nations" or "peoples".

H1471-goy had a different usage meaning in Genesis 12, ESV:

1 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

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Here, H1471-goy referred to descendants of Abram. Both ESV and KJV translated H1471-goy as "nation".

King James Bible:

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

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Did goyim refer to Gentiles?

Not every time.

See also Some poor translations of King James Bible

I remember very well some of the images that came out of Wuhan , and some seemed very questionable.
Like for example these two clips , the first one shows two supposedly infected people being placed into a metal box on the back of a ute. Now if the box has no air vents then these people will suffocate , and if the box does have air vents then there would be no reason to place them in this metal box in the first place , correct..?

And the second one shows a guy supposedly dropping dead from the virus , only he puts his hands out to soften the blow , very questionable indeed!

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And there was one that I saw where the guy first looks at the camera and then falls forward and puts his hands out to land softly , came across that one the other day but lost it for now.
Got any questionable acts that you can remember?

I have mental problems and i have experienced great hardship in my mind. I got through it by hoping in Jesus Christ the whole time.

Never give up hoping in Jesus, no matter the failure, fear, confusion or gloom. Persevere always. If you fall down get back up. God will help us.

As people who live on this earth, who God created, we live in flesh bodies which are vulnerable to sickness, injury, disasters of all kinds, suffering, and temptations to sin. So, while we live in these bodies of flesh, we groan, whether or not we are believers in Jesus Christ, for all humans are subject to suffering and are tempted to sin. But those of us who have God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, we groan, longing to put on our heavenly bodies which we who obey God will have when Jesus returns for his bride, for eternity.

And why do I say, “we who obey God”? It is because the faith that comes from God, and is gifted to us by God, and is not of our own doing – not of the will nor of the flesh of man – is God-persuaded faith. For we can’t even come to faith in Jesus Christ unless God the Father first draws us to Christ. And God, who is rich in mercy, sent Jesus Christ to die on that cross and to put our sins to death with him so that we will now die daily to sin and walk in obedience to his commands. But if we obey sin, it leads to death.

For Jesus said that if anyone would come after him, he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin, we will lose them for eternity. But if for Jesus’ sake we give up our lives of sin to follow Jesus in obedience to his commands (New Covenant), then we have eternal life with God, but provided that we continue in those walks of dying daily to sin and of following Jesus in obedience to his ways, steadfast until the end.

[Heb 12:1-2; Eph 2:8-10; Jn 1:12-13; Jn 6:44; Lu 9:23-26; Matt 7:21-23; Matt 24:9-14; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14,24; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; Jn 8:31-32; Jn 15:1-12; Rom 11:17-24; Col 1:21-23; 2 Tim 2:10-13; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Pet 1:5-11; 2 Pet 2:20-22; Eph 4:17-32]

For, by faith in Jesus Christ it should be our aim to please him in all that we are and do and say. And this is not to say that we will be absolutely perfect in every way in everything that we do or say, but that we should be denying self daily, dying to sin daily, and walking in obedience to our Lord daily, i.e. in practice, by the grace of God, in the power of God. For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to say “No!” to ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives till Jesus returns.

And we should want to please our Lord in every part of our being and days and time because we love him, and because he is now our Lord (Owner-Master) and we belong to him, and he now lives within us via his Holy Spirit, if our faith in him is genuine. But also we should want to obey him and do what he says to do, for all of us are going to appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. And this includes Christians.

[Rom 2:6-8; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

Lead Me Gently Home, Father

By Will L. Thompson, 1879

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
When life’s toils are ended,
And parting days have come,
Sin no more shall tempt me,
Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,
If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,
Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
In life’s darkest hours, Father,
When life’s troubles come,
Keep my feet from wand’ring,
Lest from Thee I roam,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.

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I've been walking with Jesus for years now I believe. What's disappointing is the progress. I've made many positive strides, don't get me wrong. I've done things now I never would have thought possible.

I guess what scares me the most is the seriousness of Sin. How destructive it really is. It makes me angry more than anything but a little sad as well.

I'm still on medications. Lots actually. I think the idea of quitting them scares me. I have a tendency to (in my mind) hold a list up to myself of every single thing wrong or that ever went wrong blame myself for it.

I fear that if I ever got off medications, instead of it being a positive thing I'd just be uncovering another wound rotting away cause it's been there so long.

We used to have a band play at Easter.
I was thinking about it recently.
What put it to mind was how folks 'seek' emotion at Church and I recall drums get emotions rolling.
I like drums so it woke me up and at that time, a kid in fact, I didn't mind it.

Reflecting on it, it was really a distraction.
I could not make out the songs because the drums.
I was more interested in the drums and beat than what it was about.
SO yeah, emotional or exciting things at Church that are sought out, replace not enhance.

Emotions do not stay regular.

The apostle were dressed in rags and were poor. They were out of their minds for God at times. Paul had a messenger of Satan torment him. He didn't trust his own judgment but waited on God to judge.

if he came to your church you might think that he's a crazy or demon possessed homeless man

Matthew 10:24 “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. 25 It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house [Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household! 26 Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.

2 Corinthians 5:13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

2 Corinthians 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.

1 Corinthians 4:. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human [a]court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

4 For I know of nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.

5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one’s praise will come from God.

Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be [c]puffed up on behalf of one against

8 You are already full! You are already rich! You have reigned as kings without us—and indeed I could wish you did reign, that we also might reign with you!

9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle [e]to the world, both to angels and to men.

10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!

11 To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. 12 And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being defamed, we [f]entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

4 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. 15 For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

16 Therefore I urge you, imitate me.

17 For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.

The first canon was affirmed by the Council of Rome (AD 382) Pope Damasus I.
Most of that is ok with protestants except for a few intertestamental books known as the Apocrypha.

So we can we attribute this selection of books by Catholics as guided by the Holy Spirit. We all agree they are divinely inspired.

This is where I don't get Sola Sctiptura that posits the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christians.
The Bible itself is a product of tradition and Church authority.

Anglicanism, Methodism and Pentecostalism uphold the doctrine of prima scripture with scripture being illumined by tradition and reason.

The Eastern Orthodox Church holds that to "accept the books of the canon is also to accept the ongoing Spirit-led authority of the church's tradition, which recognizes, interprets, worships, and corrects itself by the witness of Holy Scripture".

The Catholic officially regards tradition and scripture as equal, forming a single deposit, and considers the magisterium as the living organ which interprets said deposit

We become all things to all people as Paul did. He would be neither a republican or a Democrat. He would be a friend and not a political enemy. Jesus wouldn't be Republicans and democrats warring with native Americans over land, resources and gold.

I don't see the church when I see politics. I see pride, bitterness, rivalry, division, pain, wounds, tears, fear and contention. American patriotism and politics are rubbish and a stumbling block.

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May 4, 1970. Kent State. A different time, a different rebellion, the same old sick society.

These are examples of spiritual blindness. (Matthew 6:22, Psalms 115, and proverbs 23)

Both Isaiah chapter 58 and the apostles teach us to put away lust for wealth and all division, contention, slander and gossip, and to instead help each other. Ezekiel 34 has a similar message. God rebukes us.

These wrong things are dirty feet that defile our holy ground. We need shoes of peace in God's armor and clean feet. Our divisive words of discontent, complaints, fears, worries, slander, judging, suspicions, conspiracies, and gossip defile us. They blind us in my opinion.

Isaiah 58 and 55 show us the right way. We put away all political and religious division and contention and we stop loving money. We put on gentleness, meekness of wisdom, love, faith, hope, compassion, mercy and we strengthen the weak.

Matthew 6:22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy,[c] your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy,[d] your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Psalm 115:1 Not to us, Lord, not to us
but to your name be the glory,
because of your love and faithfulness.

2 Why do the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
3 Our God is in heaven;
he does whatever pleases him.
4 But their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.
5 They have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see.
6 They have ears, but cannot hear,
noses, but cannot smell.
7 They have hands, but cannot feel,
feet, but cannot walk,
nor can they utter a sound with their throats.
8 Those who make them will be like them,
and so will all who trust in them.

Proverbs 23:4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
do not trust your own cleverness.
5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
for they will surely sprout wings
and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

23 Buy the truth and do not sell it—
wisdom, instruction and insight as well.

29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaints?
Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

30 Those who linger over wine,
who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
31 Do not gaze at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup,
when it goes down smoothly!
32 In the end it bites like a snake
and poisons like a viper.
33 Your eyes will see strange sights,
and your mind will imagine confusing things.
34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas,
lying on top of the rigging.
35 “They hit me,” you will say, “but I’m not hurt!
They beat me, but I don’t feel it!
When will I wake up
so I can find another drink?”

Ezekiel 34:4 You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.

17 “‘As for you, my flock, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will judge between one sheep and another, and between rams and goats. 18 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? 19 Must my flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak sheep with your horns until you have driven them away, 22 I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another. 23 I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them; he will tend them and be their shepherd. 24 I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them. I the Lord have spoken.

Isaiah 58: Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!

Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.

2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.

3 Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.

4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a ruler and commander of the peoples.

Isaiah 58:3 Why have we fasted,’ they say,
‘and you have not seen it?
Why have we humbled ourselves,
and you have not noticed?’

“Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please
and exploit all your workers.
4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,
and in striking each other with wicked fists.
You cannot fast as you do today
and expect your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,
only a day for people to humble themselves?
Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed
and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call a fast,
a day acceptable to the Lord?

6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness[a] will go before you,
and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
11 The Lord will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.

Link to part 1: Biblical terms used to identify Satan and his first canonical appearance in Genesis. What occurred in Eden.​

Link to part 2: Job chapter 1 shows us very important aspects of Satan's place in scripture.

Link to part 3: Satan's attributes are recapped and Job 41 is used to Demonstrate how to find Spiritual Prophecy that reveals Satan.

Link to part 4: Jobs Faith is contrasted against Satan's deceit. Discussion about the Decalogue, Full Book of the Law and Moses. Job 2 shows Satan increasing in his Pride.
Link to part 5:The biblical timeline of when Satan hadn't been cast from Heaven, yet. Implications discussed.
Ezekiel 28 reveals so much more.

Link to part 7: Scripture study methods to properly exegete scripture. Esther 1-3
There is a narrative that needs to be spelled out. We will go through scripture as succinctly as possible, because it has to be done, to follow the narrative. Even though this Narrative is spelled out, primarily through Genesis and Deuteronomy, this narrative requires Genesis through Revelation to spell out. We will observe this narrative in the most succinct way possible. There will be plenty of direct references to full passages of scripture to come in future parts of this OP... but today, it's going to have to be a birds eye view of several threads that twist together to form this narrative that we are observing.

The threads that make up the overall single thread have to be articulated.

Thread 1: The standards and perfection of God.
Thread 2: The difference between God and God's Creation (Privation)
Thread 3: The Blood lineage of God
Thread 4: Satan's Work against God
Thread 5: God's plan.

Let's start with Satan's Work against God. There was only ONE command dispensed to mankind. It was that mankind wasn't supposed to Burden itself with the knowledge of God. (Genesis 3:22) The work of Satan accomplished several things.

Paul said that eating the Lord's flesh and blood in an unworthy manner results in being sick. What is this sickness? I believe it's spiritual illness like spiritual blindness and uncircumcised ears and hearts.

1 Corinthians 11:30 For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.

Ephesians 5:14 Therefore He says:

“Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light.”

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Researchers have found that vitamin D improves immunity to cancer by encouraging the growth of a type of gut bacteria in lab mice.

Given a diet rich in vitamin D, they had better immune resistance to cancers and improved responses to immunotherapy treatment.

The team found that vitamin D acts on cells in the intestine, which in turn increases the amount of a ‘good’ bacteria called Bacteroides fragilis. This microbe gave mice better immunity to cancer as the transplanted tumors didn’t grow as much.

The team from the Francis Crick Institute, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health and Aalborg University in Denmark reported their findings in the journal Science.

Continued below.

This is the state of our world today:

Someone who lives on a farm and has to deal with unruly animals at times is excoriated for killing a mere animal,

while those who torture and murder the unborn every day in abortion mills.. What do we hear about that? Usually:

(interestingly)

Crickets