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THE guidance from God’s Word, the Bible, ‘is more to be desired than gold—than much refined gold.’ (Psalm 19:7-10) Why? Because “the law of the wise one [Jehovah] is a source of life, to turn one away from the snares of death.” (Proverbs 13:14) When applied, the counsel from the Scriptures not only improves the quality of our life but also helps us to avoid snares that endanger it. How vital that we seek out knowledge of the Scriptures and comply with what we learn!
Originally posted by Whereisthelogic
Is it OK or a good thing to desire (or want) the instruction of Jehovah instead of silver, to desire knowledge rather than choice gold or precious rubies?
How about desiring/wanting to do unto others as you would have them do unto you? A desire to do good? A desire to be kind to everyone (even those hating you, doing bad things to you, or things you take offence of, not doing unto you as you would like them to do)? A desire to forgive others? A desire to tell the truth? Perhaps this text can provide a clue (since you were quoting from Proverbs as well):
Proverbs 13:12
12 Expectation* postponed makes the heart sick,
But a desire realized is a tree of life.
*: Or “Hope.”
Perhaps it matters more what a person actually desires or wants (to do)? (thinking about some earlier commentary I've seen on ATS by those giving the impression that all forms of "desire" are a bad thing, or evil, depending on how they want to phrase that, usually those into Eastern philosophy, Buddhism or Hinduism, Gnosticism, or New Age philosophy)
Jesus said at John 8:43-45:
Why do you not understand what I am saying? Because you cannot listen to my word. 44 You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a murderer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie. 45 Because I, on the other hand, tell you the truth, you do not believe me.
Jesus also desired/wanted to do the will of his Father and his God, Jehovah (see John 4:34).
Coming back to that proverb you quoted for a moment:
“Everyone Shrewd Will Act With Knowledge”
THE guidance from God’s Word, the Bible, ‘is more to be desired than gold—than much refined gold.’ (Psalm 19:7-10) Why? Because “the law of the wise one [Jehovah] is a source of life, to turn one away from the snares of death.” (Proverbs 13:14) When applied, the counsel from the Scriptures not only improves the quality of our life but also helps us to avoid snares that endanger it. How vital that we seek out knowledge of the Scriptures and comply with what we learn!
2 Peter 3:9:
Jehovah is not slow concerning his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire anyone to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.
originally posted by: Malocchio
Where is the guy who said ''four Melchizedeks?"
I have been waiting for the evidence, I even called b.s. on him/her.
I guess I called it right.
Originally posted by Whereisthelogic
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I indicated later that my questions were based on thinking about the way others here on ATS have talked about the subject of desire.
Originally posted by Whereisthelogic
Reading back my comment I probably did a poor job at that cause the questions are very direct and rhetorical as if I did assume this regarding you (perhaps I should have mentioned whose commentary I was thinking about and which views I was responding to a little earlier in my comment, right after the first question).
Originally posted by Whereisthelogic
Is it OK or a good thing to desire (or want) the instruction of Jehovah instead of silver, to desire knowledge rather than choice gold or precious rubies?
originally posted by: vethumanbeing
originally posted by: Malocchio
Where is the guy who said ''four Melchizedeks?"
I have been waiting for the evidence, I even called b.s. on him/her.
I guess I called it right.
[vethumanbeing]
YES YOU DID
Originally posted by Whereisthelogic
Sometimes I prefer responding to people I can agree with on something rather than responding to those who I already know or expect to go 'nuh-uh'
Originally posted by Whereisthelogic
Is it OK or a good thing to desire (or want) the instruction of Jehovah instead of silver, to desire knowledge rather than choice gold or precious rubies?
How about desiring/wanting to do unto others as you would have them do unto you? A desire to do good? A desire to be kind to everyone (even those hating you, doing bad things to you, or things you take offence of, not doing unto you as you would like them to do)? A desire to forgive others? A desire to tell the truth?
Originally posted by Whereisthelogic
(but others can read along as I raise the points that I think might be useful for consideration in a particular conversation, in your case for bringing it up next time as well, regardless of their current views or whether or not you already did, since I can't keep track of all your comments about that subject anyway, so just in case you didn't bring them up or didn't think about phrasing it that way* when you are having a conversation with those who feel the way about "desires" as described earlier).
Originally posted by Whereisthelogic
This means everlasting life, their coming to know you,* the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
Originally posted by Whereisthelogic
*: Or “their taking in knowledge of you.”
Regarding the theological doctrine (or theology) that the holy spirit of God is a person and therefore is capitalized or even referred to as "the Holy Ghost" (KJV, not that you did the latter but it's involved in this way of thinking about the holy spirit), Luke 1:35a:
In answer the angel said to her: “Holy spirit will come upon you, and power of the Most High will overshadow you.
The holy spirit = The invisible energizing force that God puts into action to accomplish his will. It is holy because it comes from Jehovah, who is clean and righteous to the highest degree, and because it is God’s means to accomplish what is holy.—see also Ac 1:8. And my comment in this thread.
originally posted by: whereislogic
a reply to: ChesterJohn
Luke 16:10 (NWT):
The person faithful in what is least is faithful also in much, and the person unrighteous in what is least is unrighteous also in much.
KJV:
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Note that the Trinitarians in the video are arguing almost the same way (at least thinking the same way, or giving the same impression with the same type of excuses regarding deliberate deception while acknowledging a supposed 'mistake') Eugenie C. Scott is arguing below concerning Haeckel's fraud (starting at 1:43):
I think Eugenie C. Scott makes it a bit more obvious what she's doing there, the Trinitarians earlier are much more cunning in the way they phrase things and acknowledge something they like people to quickly dismiss as trivial, no issue for their doctrines and philosophies/ideas about reality and drawing attention away from the topic of deliberate deception.
John 8:44 (NWT):
You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a murderer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie.
KJV:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Truth is not in them, a defining characteristic for many today including no real love for what is true/correct, without error/accurate. Or finding out what's true and correcting yourself accordingly (denial of realities/facts/certainties and feigning or willful ignorance also comes into play here, promotion of uncertainty/vagueness and embracement of vagueness/uncertainty or the notion that certain things can't be figured out conclusively, phrases like "God is a mystery" and a certain fact "is unknown", "not yet known", "I have faith..." when referring to blind faith, etc. all come into play; I tend to refer to it as the agnostic philosophy of vagueness to keep it a bit shorter, popular in religious circles and amongst popular philosophers and gurus).
Spirit of the World
Definition: The impelling force that influences human society made up of those who are not servants of Jehovah God, causing such people to say and do things according to a characteristic pattern. Although people act on individual preferences, those who manifest the spirit of the world give evidence of certain basic attitudes, ways of doing things, and aims in life that are common to the present system of things of which Satan is ruler and god.
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1 John 5:19: “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” (Satan has fostered a spirit that dominates the thinking and activities of those of mankind who are not Jehovah’s approved servants. ...
Source: Spirit of the World: Reasoning
Additional correct information:
An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture is a dissertation by the English mathematician and scholar Sir Isaac Newton. ...review all the textual evidence available from ancient sources on ... 1 John 5:7 and 1 Timothy 3:16...
Newton describes this letter as "an account of what the reading has been in all ages, and what steps it has been changed, as far as I can hitherto determine by records"...He adds that "the more learned and quick-sighted men, as Luther, Erasmus, Bullinger, Grotius, and some others, would not dissemble their knowledge".
I.e., they knew the truth of the matter, but were deliberately hiding it from the flocks. Truth is not in them. Note that the KJV is based on Erasmus' Textus Receptus which in turn takes most of its influence from Jerome's Latin Vulgate and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in key places (such as Proverbs 8:22, which changes the Greek word for "created" or "produced" to Latin "possedit" and then english "possessed" so that the reader can't see the evidence in Proverbs 8:22 very clearly anymore that):
Jehovah produced me [Jesus] as the beginning of his way, The earliest of his achievements of long ago. (Proverbs 8:22 NWT, between brackets is mine)
Source was: An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [the paragraph after the line "Additional corect information:"]
To name a few bible translations that have "brought forth", "made", "produced", "formed", "created", etc. at Proverbs 8:22:
NIV, NLT, HCSB, ISV, NET, New Heart English Bible, Aramaic Bible in Plain English, JPS Tanakh 1917.
But only 1 of those bible translations* reminds the reader that is was Jehovah creating Jesus "at the beginning of his creation" (instead of "as", perhaps this may lead to confusion as well), and it still does so in a confusing manner by adding the title "Lord" that isn't found in the Hebrew manuscripts of Proverbs 8:22, so that one isn't quite honest either (playing the other game of conflation with "LORD" and "Jehovah"; the earlier game of conflation referring to pretending it doesn't matter if you use "possessed" or "created", "produced", etc.; the latter set of words being distinctively different from "possessed", something that is intentionally not made clear or pointed out in Trinitarian produced bible dictionaries and Hebrew lexicons).
* = I refer back to Matthew 7:13,14 that I quoted to think about when reading that sentence.
Lucifer is the light bearer, Jesus is the light. The demonization of Lucifer is a demonization of the light and of what is TRUE. We as a species have rebelled against nature so we have drifted to the left hand whereas we should be more toward the right and peace. So I guess it is we as a species that sit on the left, though not every individual is this way.
Compared to: Isaiah 14 12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!Text