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Agreed my friend, it seems like a lot of 'best practices' that held societies functionally together before Christian Rome were wiped out, in many ways just to validate the notion of the God in a bizarre way.
Far more likely that a very good "double" was put into play, and that the double died, and was cremated...
Originally posted by Adamanteus
I have one Question and am sure someone has a plausible explanation.
If Rome still rules the world by treaties and contracts that started 1000's of years ago then why doesn't summon just attack Vatican city and steal these binding contracts and destroy them?
I am sure they could get other countries to not retaliate by saying "Hey stand down and I'll rip up all contracts binding you also"
I would assume these binding contracts are stored in the Vatican's Library Vault.
Simple followers of the written word which they ascribe to and live out verbatim without trying to interpret, question or pick and choose from, they do enjoy a nearly completely atonymous life with the Government rarely intruding in any way into their communities or on to their lands...
So yes, regardless of the origins of Jesus's teachings, those who want to follow them verbatim in this fashion, do enjoy a very real type of immunity from the state.
... (*Writer’s note: I made my own calls to these offices and when I stated what I was calling in reference to, the staffers got really nasty and then hung up)
In fact Sen. Kohl’s staffer, Kim Cates’ husband is on the Agriculture Consumer Protection Citizen board. He would not even meet with John Kinsman of Family Farm Defenders to discuss the issue.
On the state level are the continuous lies. These people will say Premises ID has nothing to do with NAIS. They say this even though they have been shown the cooperative agreement between USDA and Wisconsin DATCP outlining Premises ID as the first step. They refuse to look at or acknowledge the legal documents.
DATCP had a document on the Wisconsin Legislative information Bureau site saying that the Amish don’t have any problem with this. If the Amish don’t have a problem with it why are they suing Emmanuel Miller Jr., an Amish from Clark County?
...But farmers like Mr. Stoltzfus (Amish) are facing growing scrutiny for agricultural practices that the federal government sees as environmentally destructive....
“There’s much, much work that needs to be done, and I don’t think the full community understands,” said David McGuigan, the E.P.A. official leading an effort by the agency to change farming practices here in Lancaster County....
But the focus on the plain-sect dairy farmers is unavoidable: they own more than 50 percent of Lancaster County’s 5,000-plus farms.
For now, the environmental agency’s strategy is to approach each farmer individually in collaboration with state and local conservation officials and suggest improvements... But if that does not work, the government will have to resort to fines and penalties... www.nytimes.com...
FDA Raids Amish Farmer Dan Allgyer
...Two months prior, on February 4, FDA agents had trespassed on Allgyer’s farm, claiming to be conducting an “investigation.”
Two were from the FDA, agent Joshua C. Schafer who had been there in February and another. They showed me identification, but I was too flustered to ask for their cards. I remember being told that two were deputy U.S. Marshals and one a state trooper. They started asking me questions right away. They handed me a paper and I didn’t realize what it was. Agent Joshua C. Schafer told me they were there to do a “routine inspection.” At 5:00 in the morning, I wondered to myself? ”Do you have a warrant?” I asked, and one of them, a marshal or the state policeman, said, “You’ve got in your hand buddy.” I asked, “What is the warrant about?” Schafer responded, “We have credible evidence that you are involved in interstate commerce.”
...I read the warrant. Among other things it said that any search was to be conducted “at reasonable times during ordinary business hours.” When I exclaimed, “Ordinary business hours!” and pointed this out to the marshal who was dogging me, he said, “Ordinary business hours for agriculture start at 5:00 a.m.” I challenged him that the warrant does not say agriculture hours, it said ordinary hours. He replied, “That’s what the government told us.”
But I clearly see a state of harmony between the Essene rituals and Christianity as well.
[Strong] is working as diligently as he can with his mystic second wife Hanne to help create a New Earth-Friendly Religion...
Some equally high-powered and influential people come to his ranch to share his dreams and encourage more dreaming, people with names like Rockefeller, Kissinger, McNamara, Trudeau, Moyers, the Dalai Lama, Shirley MacLane ~ along with countless other dignitaries, politicians, businessmen, media moguls, actors and actresses......
...Hanne Strong prophesied: 'It will not be too distant before the Baca attains its true potential. 'You will see more and more world leaders of various fields coming here to help the world community put into action proper enlightened plans that will eliminate problems...solving the political, social, and environmental difficulties of the world.' Her millionaire husband shares her dreams, and is financing the settlement of various religious houses: a Carmelite monastery where men and women live together, a $175,000 solar-powered Hindu Temple, a monastery for Tibetan Buddhists, temples for Sufis and Taoists, a center for the study of Jewish mysticism, a center for environmentalists from the Aspen Institute ~ all in the effort to create a New World Religion based on earth spirituality that will be more tolerant than the 'ancient' religions. Hanne calls it 'The Valley of the Refuge of World Truths,' and FTM's Colorado correspondent says the place is growing by leaps and bounds.
Once the religious component is in place, the Strongs think, corporate and political leaders will follow, making the Baca Complex the 'Vatican City' of the New World Order. Today, the area is booming, and there are plans for a complex of futuristic buildings, including a 300-foot pyramid. Making His Mark On The World Just who is Maurice Strong? West magazine reporter Daniel Wood spent a week with Strong and his wife Hanne in preparation for his story, and he found himself 'wondering what dedication, what idealism compels them toward such an unlikely dream. And the more I learn, the more aware I become that I've entered a world of illusions, where the surface conceals things unfathomable. That world sound just like the United Nations!
www.scribd.com...
My dear dear Proto, this is yet again another deception of Rome. Christ taught that the kingdom of God is within you.....
...and due to purely military factors, many parliamentarians also sought for ideological and religious reasons to alter the fabric and fittings of churches, to remove and destroy physical elements and symbols which they associated with Roman Catholicism or with the high church, Laudian policies pursued by Charles I and his Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, during the pre-war period; for many opponents of these policies, Laudianism was effectively creeping Catholicism. Targets of this ‘iconoclasm’ included altar rails (many of them very recently installed), altars, stained glass, paintings on screens, the screens themselves, religious statues and carvings, crosses, vestments, prayer books and organs; around the same time, though not principally for religious reasons, royal arms and the tombs and effigies of some elite families were also sometimes damaged or defaced. Some of this religiously-motivated destruction was undertaken in a fairly methodical way, with campaigns of purification run during the mid 1640s in line with parliamentary policies and ordinances and overseen by mayors and aldermen or by semi-official commissioners... Oliver Cromwell
Oh how you have been deceived my friend. Please allow me to show you what Christ was trying to tell you with that passage.
Originally posted by jackflap
That's what has been bugging me for some time now. You are asking for permission to show someone what Christ was trying tell them. Well I believe Christ would have the wherewithal to make His point clear and wouldn't need Iam to translate, correct?
Originally posted by jackflap
Ahh, but here is where it gets interesting. You have your ideas and I'm sure have like minded individuals who agree with you. You probably even turned a few who believed otherwise to believe what you believe the scriptures are saying.
Originally posted by jackflap
This is all well and good but you must realize that interpretation of these scriptures have not been so harmonious. Can you say without a doubt that you have it all hammered out and are correct in how you see the scriptures and therefore can tell everyone without a doubt what is being said by an all powerful, all knowing being who apparently hasn't made things clear enough? We both know that no prophecy of the scriptures are of a private interpretation.
Originally posted by jackflap
There are people who believe wholeheartedly that there will be no second coming and we have people who believe there will be. There are hoards of people who believe in a pre-tribulation rapture and hoards who don't even believe in a rapture. There are tens of thousands who do not believe that the communion wafers turn into flesh and millions of people who do. I can go on and on.
Originally posted by jackflap
There is one thing they can all agree upon though. That they are wretched and lost and in need of salvation and forgiveness. They just can't agree on the particulars of how to accomplish and sustain that forgiveness. There are those who believe you can lose your salvation and those who believe you cannot.
Originally posted by jackflap
Enter Rome's baffling divide and conquer strategy. There were public bath houses in ancient Rome. All over the place. The citizens demanded them. They also demanded bread and circuses. Conquest of other lands paid for it all. The citizens demanded temples to their gods and were appeased. Now how do you get these spoiled citizens under control? I don't need an answer to that, I only put that there for pondering.
Apparently he does need I AM to correctly translate, but only when the plain words have been twisted to mean something else to fit an agenda. If they are read plainly and taken for what they say, then no translation is needed.
Originally posted by Adamanteus
You now accuse me of having an agenda? I have no agenda and I twisted no words to mean something else to meet alleged agenda. I simply read the words and processed them in my brain and then put what Interpreted said words meant to me in the context of this thread.
I do not wish to convert anyone to my way of thinking (I am not so arrogant)
I will do my best to explain this without using scripture.
Originally posted by jackflap
Have you published you own concordance yet? Who knows, it may just be the thing that answers all of the questions once and for all. We still haven't figured out who has it right. The Muslims, Christians or the Jews. Or is it another religion?
You cannot say that each one is a way to the same thing because each one explicitly says that it is the only correct text. Seeing as how the three major faiths all came from the same place, who has it right? The world may never know because the other two faiths believe in what they believe in with as much fervor and sincerity of heart as you.