Colonial Hearts, Modern Hearts: Access to evil.

A group of Brothers in the Lord have now have serious problems with the law because they decided to block an entrance to an abortion clinic in Kentucky.  So much so, that now the federal government has placed felony charges on them.

Protesters don't usually block entrances to abortuaries and murder mills but I guess they felt convicted to try something else in the face of political stagnicity.  

I've seen videos of what has happened in old video footage when protesters have tried to block doors at abortuaries and the local police become brutal.

It's b/c our nation literally wants to murder and sacrifice its own children. There's no other way to look at it.     

"Evil and Greedy".   

For over 50-60 years our people have been working on making this happen and HOW it could have passed as law, demonstrates that our people no longer fear God.  


These 11 brothers in the Lord now have to go through the legal wringer. But before we start thinking that they crossed a line, I ask myself

what's going to happen when free speech is taken away - as in, you can't protest in front of abortuaries anymore?  

THAT would also become illegal and then many more would find themselves in the legal wringer.       What happens when you can no longer call out SIN? ... 


That's  extremely capable of happening in fact, that's the motive of the leftist machine in this country.  They've already tried
to call reading the Bible or free speech in front of abortuaries some form of abuse...  And that has been presented in court.  

Because of the strands that are still holding together our constitutional rights, they weren't imposed as law but we've 
seen just about every other tactic used to try and counter our constitutional rights already.

Who can trust what's law when "laws are made to be broken"?

Man gives law.... Man takes law away.   Ho-Hum!


My mind is starting to consider that it's not exactly all about whether our people are just more evil than we were at 
the start of our country.  After seeing for myself the remnants and images of an America from the past at our Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia vacation, I'm trying to wrap my mind around the comparison between those times and our times.  

Evils existed then also.  ... Just as evil men existed then.  

In those days, people didn't think twice about owning a slave.  In fact, people could perhaps disappear like nothing and who would wonder about them?  

Who could care for a slave other than the person profiting from them?   Families could be torn apart at a blink of an eye, and again, who would care?

Families torn apart, just as they are today.


To own and enslave a person has to be one of the worst evils ever known to mankind, and yet it was everywhere back then IN THIS NATION.   What was done to the native Indians living all over this country, was unfathomable, and yet it did happen.

My recent trip to Colonial Williamsburg, VA opened up more interest in learning about those times and what was really going on.  I expect to do a lot more research on Colonial times.   I feel like immersing myself in that time to see if I could really get to understand the type of people who lived then.  Because I know there's a political side that wants me to believe that those people where God-conscience people, and then there is the other political side that wants me to recognize the evil that was in them.

Lately, another issue has come up and that is the issue of how could those people who seemed to be "more" moral than us today and more "God"-conscience, enslave people w/ no apology-- even to the degree that it would send them to a civil war in order to defend owning slaves???

These people had to be just as greedy and evil as we are today if they did that - and they did!   

So who were these people on the inside?? ... 

And when I read my Bible, Jesus would often say, "This wicked and adulterous generation", and that was 18 THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE the start of this nation!!!

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do w/ the reason why we broke off from England.   If these Protestants left the church of Eng. b/c they wanted to be free and start a "free" life somewhere away from the Church of Eng., due to their new found ability to interpret that Bible for themselves, etc.   

But what about the interpretation of owning slaves? ... They apparently got that all wrong.   What happened to their idea of "all men are created equal"?   Didn't that come from that break from the church of england.?

What interpretation of the Bible allowed them to slaughter the Native Indians?

As in, "Do not murder", and "God created man in His image"?

There's more to lead me to believe that perhaps they left the Church of Eng. in order to be atheists and do whatever they wanted as hedonists - if anything!   Because it wasn't the freedom to practice the Bible as it was read.   

If it was the ignorance they had of the scriptures and how Judaeo-Christianity really worked, perhaps this is why they could tote their guns, Bibles and slaves back then.   

What about the puritans?  Were they all puritans?... Apparently not.
Some where perhaps more "pure" in the Word than others?...  

So then more emphasis has to be added to my thinking that these people where not more God-conscience at all.   I think it's just that TODAY we have MORE ACCESS to SIN and as time has passed, our hearts have hardened more and more.   Our blessings and modernization has allowed out to kick God out of the picture more and more, and thus our imaginations to sin increase as a result of it.   Which is the natural thing that happens when you give a child a gift, ... the gift becomes more important than the gift giver.   People get lost in the gift.

Does that make us more evil today? ... Perhaps as a result, it does.


As it's written in the Book of Genesis, God looked down and saw that "Man had BECOME progressively MORE wicked as time lapsed, and the intention of the evil w/in their hearts increased on the earth...   Their intentions to do evil increased more and more all the time.. and that's when God's judgment had to put a stop to it.

There's quite a bit of language and description of progressive evil in the book of Genesis AS WELL AS approaching the end times.  

Therefore, things are going to become more and more evil before the coming of The Lord.    With more access to sin, WE WILL ACCESS SIN MORE.. it's as simple as that.

Were those people in those funny clothes, living in those "backward" colonial times less evil than us today??..... YES AND NO.

Look what they did when they grew in power over the native Indians... 

They over-powered people, enslaved, raped, pillaged, and took over and slaughtered.  They created evil and murdered.... 

It HAS repeated itself over and over again in other circumstances after that, in other countries where we've had access and power, and leverage, etc.   

The only diff. between us and those people w/ the funny shoes is that they had funny shoes and less access to porn than us!  We decided we didn't want to inconvenience ourselves with the responsibilities of family life, so we diminished and keep diminishing the power of "the family", and murder our own children as a result.   

The destroying our own nuclear family has become the evidence of a hard and contrite heart, and a heart that "wants what it wants".   

God's order to "Be fruitful and multiply" is not being heeded.  Male headship which is the image of God as to His order on how to run the family is being blasphemed and cursed by man in rebellion all sorts of ways, and 
we're allowing it because we no longer FEAR God.   Because we don't fear God, we no longer know Him.

Not knowing God means that what is "god to us" becomes our god or our idolatry, and so we've become a VERY PAGAN nation serving MANY DIFFERENT gODS.    We're becoming just as pagan as the pagans we ran off from the land.

And that too is reminiscent of what happen after the children of Israel received the promise -- land to the disgrace of their people.


So those Colonial people were people just like people are.   Whether they knew or followed the true God of the Bible, it's still the case, that you're only Christian if you're Christ-like (and truly born again of the Spirit of God).  Just like today.

And this seems to me to be the more Biblically sound way to compare and contrast them and us today.

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Slavery in the Bible

Taken from www.carm.org


Slavery was permitted in the Bible because of sin in the world.  It existed before the Jews were formed as a nation and it existed after Israel was conquered.  God allows many things to happen in the world such as storms, famine, murder, etc.  Slavery, like divorce, is not preferred by God.  Instead, it is allowed.  While many nations treated their slaves very badly, the Bible gave many rights and privileges to slaves.  So, even though it isn't the best way to deal with people, because God has allowed man freedom, slavery then exists.  God instructed the Israelites to treat them properly.

• The Bible acknowledged the slave's status as the property of the master (Ex. 21:21; Lev. 25:46).
• The Bible restricted the master's power over the slave. (Ex. 21:20)
• The slave was a member of the master's household (Lev. 22:11).
• The slave was required to rest on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10; Deut. 5:14).
• The slave was required to participate in religious observances (Gen. 17:13; Exodus 12:44; Lev. 22:11).
• The Bible prohibited extradition of slaves and granted them asylum (Deut. 23:16-17).
• The servitude of a Hebrew debt-slave was limited to six years (Ex. 21:2; Deut. 15:12).
• When a slave was freed, he was to receive gifts that enabled him to survive economically (Deut. 15:14).

The reality of slavery cannot be denied.  "Slave labor played a minor economic role in the ancient Near East, for privately-owned slaves functioned more as domestic servants than as an agricultural or industrial labor force.

And the culture of sewage aint slowing down:

And the culture of sewage aint slowing down:

(first draft)



It is true that even though Obama is out of Washington, still, in the states there are severe issues and evil embedded on the local level with regard to this diabolical social push into cultural madness.  And it truly is "madness"!  It's grounded in the most deceptive, dark and backwards anarchy/evil ever seen in our culture.  The thought that people of renown: professionals, smart people, supreme court judges, lawyers, professors, educators, medical doctors, philosophers, etc., can endorse such unscientific and irrational BS!   It blows your mind.   How can anyone consider these things unless they have a grounding and understanding of supernatural warfare detailed within the Holy Scriptures????    And there's no debating going on w/ regard to these matters.... they just expect people to swallow this craziness whole...
WHAT-THE-HELL????... 

This is the "aha" for anyone who understands Biblical truth!  For years, we've read the Bible, and it details this very type of evil and Hell-bound heart depravity, and people - believers take it as truth by faith.  But today, these things are ever before us, with NO denial or ambiguity.  But those that are being led to the slaughter and are perishing aren't going to see the Bible literally unfold before their eyes!  

The accounts of Noah, Soddam and Gomorrah, Jonah, Revelation, Romans chapt. 1, "The Day of the Lord", (wherever it's mentioned in the OT/NT, etc.

Yet believers have for themselves the proof of our Lord's Words come to fruition w/in our very own lifetime.  WHAT-THE-HELL!!!.... LOL.... It blows me away!

Along with the elements of evil growing in aggressiveness to push on these God-resisting and blasphemous campaigns, there's also another element, just as evil which SILENCES those who SEE these things growing.  There are always people who recognize with these evils and are supposed to stand for truth, but allow themselves to deny Christ and the truth, just like Peter denied Christ. Because they don't have a God-saving love of the truth, they give in to cowardice and end up denying Christ.

It doesn't matter if they see the tide rising above their children's schools or future; it doesn't matter that they see how these evils are taking influence w/in the culture everywhere imaginable, they will not be moved from their "safe spaces", and their comfortable self-righteous positions within their religious comfort zones.    "They give hearty approval" with their silence and with the critique of the church for standing up to these cultural anomalies.  

It's extremely sad.   Because when that tidal wave comes, THEY TOO will be washed away in the most brutal and forsaking way.  

They will be the ones hearing Christ say, "I don't know you... get away from me with your lawlessness"!  

How scary and sad is that???    "Those who deny me in this wicked and adulterous generation, I will deny...".

SAD and SCARY indeed!   Because The Bible speaks how the cowardly will be damned.   To be cowardly is to have NO faith ....and "True faith knows no fear".   
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Credits:  transmaddness/LGBT influence in schools, courts, sports, greater culture, etc.
Muder/terrorism on the rise; fascist-liberalism; 

Bible: Evil will increase / lawlessness / depravity / man's heart / 

Such is life...

We're never going to stop having problems but how God handles our personal issues is HIS grace, His decision, His sovereignty... It's only as important as WE are important... and honestly, with regard to eternal things, we're not very important.   But the Gospel and His will IS important.  

IN FACT, only what's for the Kingdom is what's truly important...not what we are momentarily dealing with.  All that we're dealing with is the course of life... 

life, death, taxes, suffering, dancing, joy, pain, laughter, responsibilities, goals, set backs, recreation, vacations, playtime, bills, milestones, etc., etc.  

So the worst thing we can do is get too boggled down ON US when there are more important (and eternal ) Spiritual things to deal with.  

We are to "Be about our Father's business", not our own.

And although, God is "involved in the affairs of men"; Although God does know "When even a sparrow falls from the sky"; Although God does "Number the hairs on our heads".... Still...

We have to give all those things over to Him, and then wait on Him for the answers and for Him to provide.   The Lord was clear; "Seek ye FIRST the Kingdom of Heaven, and all these things will be added unto you".

There's no greater way to prove your faith in Him than to lay your problems before the "Throne of Grace", and move on in faith.

It doesn't mean that we become uncaring about our personal responsibility to ourselves and others.   If anything, it empowers our clear thinking in order to better serve ourselves and others.

Because worry has never added an inch to anyone's stature.


Like the quote in the movie "The Shawshank Redemption"... 

"In life, We either gets to livin' or gets to dying"...

God has given us the assurance of eternal life...  What decision are we going to make??

That should be an easy one!  


Be empowered in The Eternal Lord: Creator and sustainer of EVERYTHING.

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"He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?"

- Mark 4:40

The road to tribulation..

False narratives are flooding the airwaves more now than when the leftist was in the office. It's on TV, radio, magazines, 
newspapers, everywhere!  And the bozo's who have been stuck w/ their 
programmed norm are sucked into believing everything "big brother" tells them on the liberal airwaves.

That ANYONE can stand around and listen to what "Madonna" has to say...
just goes to show how far we've fallen.

-The idea that women are being threatened..  lol
That's another BLM type smoke screen to defy anything that'll get in 
the way of ABORTION.  Yet it's so clandestinely hidden bwtn the lines.

They march in support of an extremely broad concept like "Women's rights", income wage inequality; Trump's vulgarities against women; "reproductive rights"... 

but it's all about something else:  The right to kill our babies.

There are multi billionaire devils in the shadows funding and organizing
by riling up the minds of the simple and firing up their passions to go 
against American cultural norms as we've known them.  

These people have been programmed to think against American exceptionalism,
nationalistic pride, and national law enforcement 
for decades from Hollywood, universities, left-wing media so that they can be used as a base to create chaos in order to allow more sinister powers to 
rise to the top, and take complete control politically.  

- Racism and a divided nation.  while the previous administration did 
little to diffuse the problem of race issues by giving BLM a platform, 
they managed to attack and smear a whole national law enforcement system.
They continue to give voice to this lunatic mentality of "White 
privilege", "male privilege", etc.  The left allows it.

-The leftist ideology is a slow cancer upon our American society.  It cuts 
people down socially, in education, economically, psychologically, 
spiritually, etc.    It's literally against humanity.

Everything it creates is a system that leads to death and thus we see 
the "culture of death" in abortion, contraception, euthanasia, 
centralized govt., globalism, Socialism / Communism etc.

And it robs from people their person-hood, the family structure, property
rights, human rights, civil rights, free market capitalism, etc.

Unless this president does a complete about face on conservative values
w/in these next 4 years, I'd predict that the frenzied left will only 
become more and more incensed and eventually get another socialistic 
megalomaniac in the office to make Obama seem like a moth in the wind.

The next leftist- in- chief will be ruthless AND might end up being the 
Antichrist.

And all of this is the baby of the Darwinian, evolutionary secular mindset 
that sets itself on the throne of God w/in people's hearts, and makes itself
out to be a god.

This leftist and socialistic mindset Cancer w/in society demonstrates a 
clear picture of it's potential when it aligns with Islamic Jihadi- type
behavior.  Whenever you see a mob of incensed and out of control 
masked anarchist looting, randomly attacking people on their own
 streets who disagree with them, burning their own flags, etc.  
Where else do we see this if not video footage of how jihadists and 
incensed Muslims protest.    

It doesn't matter to the left the fact that Sharia Law condemns practically everything the left tries to institute here in the US.   And that's because under the surface, the left is about using whatever cultural means to disrupt and alter our American culture, family values, etc..  It's all social engineering.  

These are the secular anarchists who will one day drag Christians on 
the streets.  When they hold banners of "tolerance", and yet their 
policies are actually intolerant of religious rights... This is the 
hypocrisy that is increasing.  When you see the most unloving gestures
holding up signs that read, "Love wins"... you'll realize that we're no
longer dealing rational thinking.  There is no debate, their is no longer dialog... 
It's fascism and the conversation is over with the leftist ideology.  

The Bible teaches that behind all of these destructive passions (that man devises) is the influence of the "evil one", Satan himself.  Demons of various supernatural powers take over the hearts of those who don't know God.  

When a person isn't guided by the light of God's Truth, all that remains is a void within them to accept ANYTHING contrary to God's Truth, and thus they become a "vessel for dishonorable use".  

The "pot" of Christian persecution is boiling and since evil keeps 
increasing, the Gospel message has to be all the more steadfast.
Soon, the pot will boil over just like it has so many times before 
in recorded Christian history and it'll be OUR turn.   But... 

"True love casts out all fear"- 1 Jonn 4:18

Maranatha!

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Psalm 83:

O God, do not remain silent;

do not turn a deaf ear,

do not stand aloof, O God.

See how your enemies growl,

how your foes rear their heads.

With cunning they conspire against your people;

they plot against those you cherish.

“Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation,

so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”

With one mind they plot together;

they form an alliance against you—

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

of Moab and the Hagrites,

Byblos, Ammon and Amalek,

Philistia, with the people of Tyre.

Even Assyria has joined them

to reinforce Lot’s descendants.

Do to them as you did to Midian,

as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

who perished at Endor

and became like dung on the ground.

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,

all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

who said, “Let us take possession

of the pasturelands of God.”

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,

like chaff before the wind.

As fire consumes the forest

or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

so pursue them with your tempest

and terrify them with your storm.

Cover their faces with shame, Lord,

so that they will seek your name.

May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;

may they perish in disgrace.

Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord—

that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.

Abortion is Child Sacrifice to the god of self:

There is no good reason to kill a baby in the womb.
There is no "right" given to anyone (mother, father or state) to kill children.
Murder is murder.
Laws are either just or unjust.

Those who call themselves "Christian" and argue for OTHER people (their neighbors) to kill their own children under the excuse of a legal "right", are themselves under judgment, and have blasphemed God.   They are not Christian and are not representatives of God in Christ.

Repent!  The wrath of God abides on you.... The murderer and the one who justifies the murderer.  

Textual Studies: P52

This is the oldest fragment of the Gospel of John chapt. 18.  Jesus, our Lord before Pilot.
Glory be His name!









The latest Greek NT manuscript fragment piece (of Mark's Gospel) was discovered wrapped in an Egyptian mummy burial mask and can be dated back to the 80's (50 years after Christ).

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The argument for Jesus' divinity and the skeptics contention that His divinity only came afterwards in time, is ridiculous simply because the concept of Messiah was of the essence of God.  John's Gospel demonstrates this when the Jews were wanting to stone The Lord for as they put it, "Trying to make yourself to be God".   So, there's no question that the understanding of Christ as "Kurios" was not just divine but also, that of God to merit worship. Also, NEVER throughout the whole NT does Jesus REFUSE others worshiping Him.

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Dan Wallace pretty much did snag Ehrman on that point when he can't argue for what the NT says by looking at what he hasn't proven yet.  He can claim that there's something that might look diff. in earlier texts by saying "we can't know what is in the earlier texts" but he's just being subjective.  Subjective scholars don't make good scholars.  Besides, Wallace contends that this is part of a duel said of Ehrman where he admits to others that 'what we have is pretty much what was written earlier (in the original writings), yet on his books, he exclaims, "We don't know what the originals look like"!

So far, from what can be suspected about this man first, calling himself a "former" Christian (which is unbiblical) and then progressively becoming more and more a Christ hater - one can determine that he's headed deeper and deeper into darkness w/in his personal life.  B/c you cannot attack the Word of Truth and think it's "just business"... you're dealing with The Word of God!    Perhaps the Spirit of God is dealing w/ him and this man does not want to be judged by his person for doing what he's doing - knowing fully well to the world, that this man is getting paid HUGE money by the fleecing of God's flock.  W/out a doubt, one of the biggest abominations The Lord Himself mentioned when He walked the earth was condemning those who would "offend any of those little ones from believing" in The Lord.  Oh man... without a doubt, Ehrman is headed for some serious wrath.  You can only watch in fear and trembling for this man b/c the curse of God is heavy upon him.  Lord have mercy.

-For Ehrman to say, "We don't have the originals" is to contend that the will of God was for us to have the originals.  So when the prophesy was being spread by word of mouth (as we see in Judaism), are we to say that we NEED to hear the original audio from the first prophet's mouth who spoke those words??  NO!   This is not how God intended for us to get His Word down to us.  God has used the copying method to bring to us only a snippet of His revelation to us.  As it's written, "The hidden things are of God and the revealed things are for us and our children so that we can what's written w/in the law", and down to the following generations.

What we know NOW, we know that despite approximately 400k variants w/in the collection of scripture that only 1% of that troubles the understanding of the message w/in Christianity in our modern day AND of that 1%, there is NOTHING that contradicts any of our important doctrines w/in the faith.   If that's not scrutiny, I don't know what it is.

We might have a gap of perhaps 800 years (from Christ's days to the first full codex copies of the NT) and based on the variants that we have regarding what we do have, we can expect that there will be even far less meaningful/viable variants w/ anything w/in those 800 years span between the original writers and our complete manuscripts.

There is more volume and information to take from the NT than from any other manuscripts found in ancient antiquity.  So if we can't know or have faith w/in the NT, we truly can't rely on any other information coming from Greek, Latin or Roman history.  And yet we have continued to build our civilization and societies on the mathematics, philosophy, the legal and societal ethics found w/in ancient antiquity, etc.

If we can't know what the NT authors said then we truly can't know what anyone has said or thought in ancient history b/c we have over 1000 times more detail and information on the NT than for anything in ancient antiquity.  ********

*** This is what brought us out of the dark ages b/c we could look back and what all those authors wrote about their civilizations, and we learned from them, etc.  And we for SURE didn't have any original writings there either!

To reject writings found from ancient antiquity b/c they're not originals is to reject everything we know now b/c of them, and head back into the dark ages.     (Dr. Dan Wallace)
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William Lane Craig:

Greek NT words: 138k greek words in the NT
about 1400 are uncertain today.  99% are established to be certain today.  of the 1% that is uncertain none affect any of the doctrines w/in Christianity.

Examples of the uncertainty:

1-  "We write this so that YOUR joy will be made full"  /   "We write this so that OUR joy will be made full".

2- 1 Thessalonians 2:7:  "We became gentle among you.." vs.
"We became little children among you... ".

*Many are either nonsense variants or "movable Nue" variants (as in English 'A and An' w/in a grammatical sentence, etc.).


*note:  To have approx. 40k variants w/in 30k manuscripts is VERY FAVORABLE**


**Note:  The way the study of manuscripts are understood, it is more than favorable  to have the abundant number of manuscripts of ANY ancient documents today**.

TODAY we have 5,752 NT manuscripts ****
Nothing can be compared to that in order to sort out HISTORY.

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*** ALSO, We have over a million quotations and commentaries of Church fathers of the NT which are themselves a source to what they've read and understood to be written of the Word of God and understanding of doctrine, early church history, etc.


**No Christian doctrines are affected by the differences (variants):  Deity of Christ; Virgin birth; Resurrection of Christ, etc., etc.

P52 discovered in 1934:  (Housed in England)
(palm size)  Written on both sides.  Believed to be written on a codex (book)
John 18:31-33  one each side John 18:37-38

** Finding this manuscript basically proved the dating of John's gospel wasn't any earlier than AD160 to AD170 as once thought.

This discovery brought John's Gospel back to the 1rst century.


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Birth of Christ:

Using these methods, most scholars assume a date of birth between 6 and 4 BC, that Jesus' preaching began around AD 27-29 and lasted one to three years. They calculate the death of Jesus as having taken place between AD 30 and 36.


-Codex Sinaticus AD350
-Codex Vaticanus AD325-350
-Chester Beatty papyrus (fragmants): AD180-200
-Bodmer Papyrus AD180-200
-Rylands Papyrus P52: AD125-130   *(note: if John wrote before AD70 then the diff. btwn his original and this fragment is about 60 years, If he wrote about 80-85 AD then the span is only about 50 years or less.)
-Magdalen Papyri  Pre AD70
-7Q5: 50BC-AD50 (fragment of Mark) Part of the dead sea scroll.