Hi Sean, and thanks for your reply. I'm not sure what you mean by your comment. Could you please explain? Are you comparing the inerrant Word of God to today's mainstream media?
My point is that the deliberate slaughter of human babies is savagery that evokes the deepest horror, whether the killing of Hebrew infants at Pharaoh’s command, the 40 at Herod’s command, the (faked) reports of Belgian or Kuwaiti babies, or the real but ignored cases of children killed by the mNRA poisons.
Thank you for your response and clarification, Sean. I agree with you, these horrors (real or fake) are meant to evoke extreme visceral reactions. I appreciate you taking the time to reply to me, as I understand that I am a pariah among modern Christians. I want to glorify Christ and serve Him, and I am the worst sinner this world has ever known. But for the grace of Jesus through God the Father, I would have zero value at all. I pray that God blesses you beyond our wildest dreams, and then blesses you more!
Well thank you Special Ted! I have nothing against birthday celebrations in general but notice only two birthdays mentioned in Scripture, both involving potentates and both involving executions, the Baker in Pharaoh’s case and John the Baptist in Herod’s case.
Ecclesiastes 7:1 “ A good name is better than fine perfume,
and the day of death better than the day of birth.” I am not a member of one of those sects that forbids celebrating Christmas or personal birthdays. But I personally don’t party on my birthday. People who blow a fuse over me not sending a card or a gift strike me as immature. However I always sent my mother flowers on her birthday and a telephone call to my father while they lived and continue to send birthday greetings to my brother and sister. But the story of Herod Agrippa’s birthday begins with Herod’s (incestuous) lust for his daughter in law Salome and Herodias’s hatred for John who is arrested for denouncing Herod’s marriage to. So there is nothing of kindness, parental respect, or love about this celebration but instead Herod’s vain-glory and lust and Herodias’s jealousy, hatred and bloodlust. The most I got out of Pharaoh’s birthday was that it was not such a bright idea to steal from your employer, especially if he is a Pharaoh. I don’t think all birthday celebrations are wrong but I can understand why some Christian groups might think so.
Wow, thank you so much for sharing this Sean! I, too, do not care anything about birthdays, but I try to honor my family due to tradition. I do not celebrate any holidays, including Christmas and Easter, but Christmas has bothered me for many years. I can’t find any Scripture instructing us to celebrate Jesus’ birth. My research points to it being around late September, anyway. Scripture instructs us to celebrate/commemorate Jesus’ DEATH and resurrection, clearly. but modern Christians following Scofield’s heretical futurism have an Israel-based view of prophecy and are completely clueless. Pre-millennial dispensationalists have been blinded, but there is hope that they can be educated. I would appreciate anything more you have to explain, if you’re willing. God bless you!
Ah, I see. You do not believe the Bible. You probably believe in a god powerful enough to create and control everything, just not powerful enough to inspire the writings of men. Your god is weak and powerless, like men. You are a god unto yourself, no?
Or the Gospels’ reporting 40 man children slaughtered in Bethlehem at order of His Majesty King Herod?
Hi Sean, and thanks for your reply. I'm not sure what you mean by your comment. Could you please explain? Are you comparing the inerrant Word of God to today's mainstream media?
Hello Special Ted:
My point is that the deliberate slaughter of human babies is savagery that evokes the deepest horror, whether the killing of Hebrew infants at Pharaoh’s command, the 40 at Herod’s command, the (faked) reports of Belgian or Kuwaiti babies, or the real but ignored cases of children killed by the mNRA poisons.
Thank you for your response and clarification, Sean. I agree with you, these horrors (real or fake) are meant to evoke extreme visceral reactions. I appreciate you taking the time to reply to me, as I understand that I am a pariah among modern Christians. I want to glorify Christ and serve Him, and I am the worst sinner this world has ever known. But for the grace of Jesus through God the Father, I would have zero value at all. I pray that God blesses you beyond our wildest dreams, and then blesses you more!
Well thank you Special Ted! I have nothing against birthday celebrations in general but notice only two birthdays mentioned in Scripture, both involving potentates and both involving executions, the Baker in Pharaoh’s case and John the Baptist in Herod’s case.
Very interesting! What significance do you assign to the birth dates?
Ecclesiastes 7:1 “ A good name is better than fine perfume,
and the day of death better than the day of birth.” I am not a member of one of those sects that forbids celebrating Christmas or personal birthdays. But I personally don’t party on my birthday. People who blow a fuse over me not sending a card or a gift strike me as immature. However I always sent my mother flowers on her birthday and a telephone call to my father while they lived and continue to send birthday greetings to my brother and sister. But the story of Herod Agrippa’s birthday begins with Herod’s (incestuous) lust for his daughter in law Salome and Herodias’s hatred for John who is arrested for denouncing Herod’s marriage to. So there is nothing of kindness, parental respect, or love about this celebration but instead Herod’s vain-glory and lust and Herodias’s jealousy, hatred and bloodlust. The most I got out of Pharaoh’s birthday was that it was not such a bright idea to steal from your employer, especially if he is a Pharaoh. I don’t think all birthday celebrations are wrong but I can understand why some Christian groups might think so.
Wow, thank you so much for sharing this Sean! I, too, do not care anything about birthdays, but I try to honor my family due to tradition. I do not celebrate any holidays, including Christmas and Easter, but Christmas has bothered me for many years. I can’t find any Scripture instructing us to celebrate Jesus’ birth. My research points to it being around late September, anyway. Scripture instructs us to celebrate/commemorate Jesus’ DEATH and resurrection, clearly. but modern Christians following Scofield’s heretical futurism have an Israel-based view of prophecy and are completely clueless. Pre-millennial dispensationalists have been blinded, but there is hope that they can be educated. I would appreciate anything more you have to explain, if you’re willing. God bless you!
Well Ecclesiastes 7:1 certainly fits Jesus’s death and resurrection.
I trust in Jesus’ death and resurrection, everything else is suspect.
The 'inerrant word of god' was written by men.
Ah, I see. You do not believe the Bible. You probably believe in a god powerful enough to create and control everything, just not powerful enough to inspire the writings of men. Your god is weak and powerless, like men. You are a god unto yourself, no?
All gods are man made.
Says you. I say different. Looks like we have ourselves a Mexican standoff. Let's see which of us is correct at the end of this earthly life.