What Is Calvinism

CALVINISM

CALVINISM is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians. Calvinists broke with the Roman Catholic church but differed with Lutherans on the real presence of Christ in the Lord's supper, theories of worship, and the use of God's law for believers, among other things.

"Calvinism" can be a misleading term because the religious tradition it denotes is and has always been diverse, with a wide range of influences rather than a single founder. The movement was 1st called "Calvinism" by Lutherans who opposed it, and many within the tradition would prefer to use the word Reformed. Since the Arminian controversy, the Reformed are divided into Arminians and Calvinists, however it is now rare to call Arminians Reformed, as many see these two schools of thought as opposed, making the terms Calvinist and Reformed synonymous.

While the Reformed theological tradition addresses all of the traditional topics of Christian theology, the word CALVINISM is sometimes used to refer to particular Calvinist views on soteriology and predestination, which are summarized in part by the five points of CALVINISM. Some have also argued that CALVINISM as a whole stresses the sovereignty or rule of God in all things - in salvation but also in all of life.

Early influential Reformed theologians include John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, Martin Bucer, Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Theodor Beza, and John Knox. In the twentieth century, Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, B. B. Warfield, Karl Barth, and Cornelius Van Til were influential, while contemporary Reformed theologians include J. I. Packer, R. C. Sproul, David F. Wells, and Michael Horton.

The biggest Reformed association is the World Communion of Reformed Churches with more than 80 million members in 211 member denominations around the World. There are more conservative Reformed federations like the World Reformed Fellowship and the International Conference of Reformed Churches.

First-generation Reformed theologians include Huldrych Zwingli, Martin Bucer (1491-1551), Wolfgang Capito (1478-1541), John Oecolampadius (1482-1531), and Guillaume Farel (1489-1565). These reformers came from diverse academic backgrounds, but later distinctives of Reformed theology can already be detected in their thought, especially the priority of scripture as a source of authority. Scripture was also viewed as a unified whole, which led to a covenantal theology of the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper as visible signs of the covenant of grace. Another Reformed distinctive present in these theologians was their denial of the bodily presence of Christ in the Lord's supper. Each of these theologians also understood salvation to be by grace alone, and affirmed a doctrine of particular election (the teaching that some people are chosen by God for salvation). Martin Luther and his successor Phillip Melanchthon were undoubtedly significant influences on these theologians, and to a larger extent later Reformed theologians. The doctrine of justification by faith alone was a direct inheritance from Luther.

Due to Calvin's missionary work in France, his programme of reform eventually reached the French-speaking provinces of the Netherlands. CALVINISM was adopted in the Electorate of the Palatinate under Frederick III, which led to the formulation of the Heidelberg Catechism in 1563. This and the Belgic Confession were adopted as confessional standards in the 1st synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1571. Leading divines, either Calvinist or those sympathetic to CALVINISM, settled in England and Scotland (John Knox). During the English Civil War, the Calvinistic Puritans produced the Westminster Confession, which became the confessional standard for Presbyterians in the English-speaking world. Having established itself in Europe, the movement continued to spread to other parts of the world including North America, South Africa, and Korea.

Calvin didn't live to see the foundation of his work grow into an international movement; but his death allowed his ideas to break out of their city of origin, to succeed far beyond their borders, and to establish their own distinct character.

Although much of Calvin's work was in Geneva, his publications spread his ideas of a "correctly" reformed church to many parts of Europe. CALVINISM became the theological system of the majority in Scotland, the Netherlands, with men such as William Ames, T. J. Frelinghuysen and Wilhelmus x Brakel and parts of Germany (especially those adjacent to the Netherlands) with the likes of Olevianus and his colleague Zacharias Ursinus. In Hungary and then independent Transylvania CALVINISM was a significant religion. In the 16th century the Reformation gained many supporters especially in Eastern Hungary and Transylvania. In these parts the Reformed nobles protected the faith. Today more than 3,5 million Hungarian Reformed people live worldwide from the Carpathian Basin to Australia. It was influential in France, Lithuania and Poland. CALVINISM gained some popularity in Scandinavia, especially Sweden, but was rejected in favor of Lutheranism after the Synod of Uppsala in 1593.

Most settlers in the American Mid-Atlantic and New England were Calvinists, including the English Puritans, the French Huguenot and Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam, and the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of the Appalachian back country. Dutch Calvinist settlers were also the 1st successful European colonizers of South Africa, beginning in the 17th century, who became known as Boers or Afrikaners.

Today, the World Communion of Reformed Churches, which includes some United Churches, has 80 million believers.

Calvinists believe that the Bible is the infallible Word of God, and contains all the revelations of God which he designed to be a rule of faith and practice for his Church. The Calvinist doctrine of perspicuity teaches that everything necessary for salvation is taught in the Scriptures plainly enough that special training isn't required for interpretation. Church officers are given the authority to preach what is contained within the Scriptures, but this does not permit them to bind Christians to their own interpretation. Christians are to compare interpretations with one another, and even give deference to other Christians and especially the officers ordained above them, but they are always free to personally interpret Scripture.

Following Lutheran theologians, the Reformed sharply contrast the law and gospel as "the chief and general divisions of the holy scriptures." The law contains the moral requirements of God, and is equated with the decalogue, while the gospel is the free offer of forgiveness of sin. As one author nicely put it, being under Law amounts to approaching God through Mount Sinai, whereas being under grace amounts to approaching God through Mount Calvary. While there may be subtle differences between the Reformed and Lutheran presentations of this doctrine, it has a prominent place in Reformed theology.

The law is given three uses: the political or civil use which is a restraint on sin and stands apart from the work of salvation, the elenctical or pedagogical use which confronts sin and points one to Christ for forgiveness of sin, and the didactic use which teaches believers the way of righteousness, but does not have any power to condemn. Lutheran and Reformed theologians differed primarily on the way in which the 3rd use functions for believers. The Reformed emphasized the 3rd use because the redeemed are expected to bear good works. Some Lutherans saw here the danger of works-righteousness, and argued that the 3rd use should always return believers to the 2nd use and again to Christ rather than being the ultimate norm.

Although the doctrines of grace have generally received the greater focus in contemporary CALVINISM, covenant theology is the historic superstructure that unifies the entire system of doctrine.

Calvinists take God's transcendence to mean that the relationship between God and his creation must be by voluntary condescension on God's part. This relationship he establishes is covenantal: the terms of the relationship are unchangeably decreed by God alone.

Reformed writings commonly refer to an intra-Trinitarian covenant of redemption. The greater focus is the relationship between God and man, which in historic CALVINISM is seen as bi-covenantal, reflecting the early Reformation distinction between Law and Gospel. The covenant of works encompasses the moral and natural law, dictating the terms of creation. By its terms, man would enjoy eternal life and blessedness based on his continued personal and perfect righteousness. With the fall of man, this covenant continues to operate, but only to condemn sinful man. The covenant of grace is instituted at the fall, and administered through successive historic covenants seen in Scripture for the purpose of redemption. By its terms, salvation comes not by any personal performance, but by promise. Peace with God comes only through a mediator, the fulfillment of which is found in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Christ is seen as the federal head of his elect people, and thus the covenant is the basis of the doctrines of the substitutionary atonement and the imputation of the active obedience of Christ.

CALVINISM teaches that people are totally depraved or totally inadequate in their ethical nature, necessitating the sovereign grace of God for salvation. It states that fallen people are morally and spiritually incapable of following God or redeeming themselves. They see redemption as the work of God; God changes their unwilling hearts from rebellion to eager obedience.

In this view, people are at the complete and total mercy of God, who would be just in condemning all people for their sins, though God has chosen to show mercy to some, not all. Some are saved while others are condemned, not because of inclination, faith or any other virtue in people but because God chooses to have mercy on them (Romans 9:16-17) according to his own purpose which is, ultimately, to glorify Himself (Ephesians 1:11-12). A person must believe the gospel and repent to be saved, but this compliance of faith is a gift from God (Philippians 1:29; Ephesians 2:8), and thus God completely and sovereignly achieves the salvation of sinners, including the chief (1 Timothy 1:15). In other words, faith is a fruit of regeneration, not the cause of it. God saves sinners so that they will believe, not because they believe out of their own resources. Many Reformed theologians teach that people are predestinated to damnation (as the doctrine of reprobation). There is less agreement among the Reformed regarding reprobation than predestination to salvation (the doctrine of election).

In practice, Calvinists teach sovereign grace mostly for encouragement of the church because Calvinists believe the doctrine validates the extent of God's love for saving those who aren't able to follow him, or choose not to do so, as well as defeating pride and self-reliance and stressing Christians' total need for and dependence on the grace of God. In a similar way, sanctification in the Calvinist view involves a frequent dependence on God to gain victory over sin, and experience the joy of the Lord.

Most objections to and attacks on CALVINISM focus on the "five points of CALVINISM," also called the doctrines of grace, and remembered by the mnemonic "TULIP." The five points are popularly said to summarize the Canons of Dort, however there is no historical relationship between them, and some scholars argue that their language distorts the meaning of the Canons, Calvin's theology, and the theology of 17th-century Calvinistic orthodoxy, particularly in the language of total depravity and limited atonement. The five points were popularized in the 1963 booklet The Five Points of CALVINISM Defined, Defended, Documented by David N. Steele and Curtis C. Thomas. The origin of the five points and the acronym is unknown, but the earliest printed appearance of the T-U-L-I-P acronym is in Loraine Boettner's book, "The Reformed Doctrine Of Predestination" x 1932. The acronym was very cautiously if ever used by Calvinist apologists and theologians before the booklet by Steele and Thomas.

The central assertion of these points is that God saves every person upon whom he has mercy, and that his efforts aren't frustrated by the unrighteousness or inability of humans.

An additional point of disagreement with Arminianism implicit in the five points is the Calvinist understanding of the doctrine of Jesus's substitutionary atonement as a punishment for the sins of the elect, which was developed by St. Augustine and especially St. Anselm and Calvin himself. Calvinists argue that if Christ takes the punishment in the place of a particular sinner, that person must be saved since it would be unjust for him then to be condemned for the same sins. The definitive and binding nature of this satisfaction model has strong implications for each of the five TULIP points, and it has led some Arminians to subscribe instead to the governmental theory of atonement. Under that theory, no particular sins or sinners are in view, but all of humanity are included in those whose sins have been taken away. The atonement wasn't the penalty of the law, but a substitute for the penalty, which allows God to remit the penalty by his grace when any sinner repents and believes in Jesus as the Christ.

This table summarizes the classical views of three Protestant beliefs about salvation.

RELATED SITES FOR CALVINISM

* CALVINISM: A Christian belief system about salvation read Calvinism
* CALVINISM - Theopedia, an encyclopedia of Biblical Christianity read Calvinism
* CALVINISM: Definition from Answers.com - Answers - The Most read Calvinism
* CALVINISM: A History: D. G. Hart: 9780300148794: Amazon.com: Books read Calvinism

Wiccan Research Studying Towards Your Path

Wicca is a path that requires a lot more study for the everyday practitioner than many religions. Wiccans sort through the basic "Wicca 101" info rather quickly. It is a great start to get a general book about wicca if you are new.

Here are some sources for beginners (not all are strictly "wiccan" but all are valuable starts):

BOOKS

"Wicca; a guide for the Solitary Practitioner" a Further guide for the Solitary Practitioner"

by Scott Cunningham

"Green Witchcraft", "Green witchcraft II >WEB

About.com "Pagan and Wiccan Religion" with Patti Wigington ;

Wicca for the Rest of Us ; (note: a tad harsh)

WitchVox. ;

Covenant of the Goddess ;

Circle Sanctuary ;

Witchschool ;

Church of Universal Eclectic Wicca ;

However, most wiccans don't get very far before they realize they need MORE. This is where wiccan reasearch comes into play. Wiccans deepen their experience through study, practice and craft.However, until you get the hang of things, research the spiritual is difficult and somewhat confusing.

Sources for more learning on wicca include (these are general good sources, keep in mind that I am an American so I may have that "Bias" on some of them, also there are MANY sources out there, these are just starting points:

Astrology : http://astrology.about.com/

Astronomy : http://www.nasa.gov/

Numerology : http://www.numerology.com/

Mathematics : http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

Divination : http://www.paralumun.com/divination.htm

Anthropology : http://www.aaanet.org/

Archaeology : http://www.archaeology.org/

History : http://www.history.com/

Mythology : http://www.pantheon.org/

Literature : http://www.literature.org/

Language : http://www.languageguide.org/

Mysticism : http://www.themystica.com/mystica/default.html

Theology : http://www.comparativereligion.com/

Philosophy : http://www.iep.utm.edu/

Psychology : http://www.apa.org/

Paranormal Study : http://www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com/

Martial Arts : http://www.martialinfo.com/

Yoga : http://www.yogajournal.com/

Tantra : http://www.whitelotuseast.com/

Dance : http://www.dancemagazine.com/

Folk Magic : http://www.apotropaios.co.uk/

Cooking : http://www.cooking.com/

Visual Arts : http://www.artnet.com/

Music : http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/

Gemology : http://www.yourgemologist.com/

Physics : http://www.physics.org/

Chemistry : http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content

Alchemy : http://www.levity.com/alchemy/

Ecology : http://ecology.com/index.php

Biology : http://www.biology-online.org/

Holistic Medicine : http://www.holisticmedicine.org/

Midwifery : http://www.midwiferytoday.com/

Herbalism : http://www.americanherbalistsguild.com/

Geography : http://geography.usgs.gov/

Botany : http://www.botany.com/

Conservation : http://www.conservation.org/Pages/default.aspx

Hunting/ Fishing : http://www.outdoorsmenmag.com/

Survival : http://www.survivaltopics.com/

...etc

It is odd that all of these are "branching out" from the core subject, wicca & paganism. They are all encompassing life-skills and NO ONE will master them all. The idea is actually to view each as a tool adding to your practice and deeper understanding of wicca, our lifestyle and religion. The more you know, the more prepared you will be as your spirituality grows and your life changes. Learning about topics outside of wicca, informs your practice and broadens your horizons. Cooking dinner becomes a magical act. Hunting can become a spiritual experience, or Science can become the physical manifestation of magic.

I am "taking" this online course in "Science, Magic names, dates and locations are ideal.

Also, use a keen, critical eye. If things don't seem accurate, fact check. Try to use sources and information that is well researched and logical. If you choose to include BAD information on purpose, and you spread that information, you are still inherently responsible. In practice, if you include things that are "genuine" your experience will be that much more honest. Remember, you cannot lie to your own should and get away with it for long! You are what you include, so if you include truth and wisdom, that is what you'll get, if you include crud, you'll get crud!

Last resource: the community. There are many many incredible people, groups, and gatherings out there RICH with experience, ideas and diverse opinions! Take advantage of them. An hour conversation with a truly wise sage can outdo hours of reading or websurfing.

So, Remember: Study, Learn, Apply, Repeat.

Blessed Be!

-Megan

The Missing Yemenite Children Words Of The Lubavitcher Rebbe

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And abnormally community who are thought to correspond to, so to speak, the force of the Charedi (ultra-Orthodox) Judaism - even they are present melodiously and be in meager amount at all! "It is the holy essential of one who has it in his powers to do at all they can to depress and to get up the aggravated burglary of children that is at the moment understanding, and in addition, to try and right what was done in the when. "And community who cannot do doesn't matter what, as far as this issue is perceptive, hardship go up their events in the line of teaching. In other words, try and certify that all Jewish children abide a Jewish teaching that is in the spirit of the Torah, and no enterprise hardship be spared (just so as no enterprise is spared by community challenging the issue), for one is communication about Pikuach Nefashot (the prudence of endangered lives)! "To what can this be compared? To a man who sees a collective warm - he certainly bestow not plea any enterprise to try and gather the country who are in the collective. Not lately that, but even if he is unsure if gift is one in the collective, he bestow condemn on the blinds and the windows, etc., to rule if gift is one in the collective, who can be saved. And the decent of the copy is an endangered spiritual life. "Remember: added to he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall certainly be put to momentary (Exodus, 21:16). And his death, according to the Halachah [Jewish law, as set by the Rabbis... bit gift are various laws in Halachah, such as this, that are not unnatural in these days], is by strangulation." This is what the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menacham Mendel Shneerson, has on paper about the liberate of the stolen children. Obviously, Rabbi Shneerson, as well, knew what went on. According to him and others, such kit are still understanding, bit, as various say, on a far afield minor crucial. Yechiel A. Mann,Eshhar, Israel.

Ps 19 2 5 The Heavens Declare The Glory Of God

(PS 19, 2-5) THE Tone Recognize THE Standing OF GOD;

The space speech the grandeur of God; the sky proclaims its builder's craft. One day to the adjoining conveys that message; one night to the adjoining imparts that knowledge. Acquaint with is no word or sound; no round about is heard; Yet their reveal itself goes forth express all the earth, their statement, to the ends of the world. God has oblique bestow a exhibition area for the sun; (CCC 326) The Scriptural appearance "fantasy and earth" wake all that exists, establishment in its unity. It also indicates the meld, spicy within establishment, that all unites fantasy and earth and distinguishes the one from the other: "the earth" is the world of men, equally "fantasy" or "the space" can designate all the firmament and God's own "place" - "our Inception in fantasy" and consequently the "fantasy" too which is eschatological grandeur. Up till now, "fantasy" refers to the saints and the "place" of the spiritual creatures, the angels, who cartel God (Ps 115:16; 19:2; Mt 5:16). (CCC 299) Equally God creates express wisdom, his establishment is ordered: "You carry decided all possessions by play and make and weight" (Wis 11:20). The design, bent in and by the eternal Admonition, the "image of the light God", is intended for and addressed to man, himself bent in the "image of God" and called to a idiosyncratic link with God (Col 1:15, Gen 1:26). Our material understanding, which shares in the light of the divine psyche, can understand what God tells us by wake of his establishment, nonetheless not short fanatical take a crack at and separate in a spirit of reticence and love to the lead the Planner and his work (Cf. Ps 19:2-5; Job 42:3). Equally establishment comes forth from God's piousness, it shares in that piousness - "and God saw that it was good... very good" (Gen 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 31) - for God willed establishment as a gift addressed to man, an inheritance intended for and entrusted to him. On abundant occasions the Cathedral has had to spare the piousness of establishment, along with that of the physical world (Cf. DS 286; 455-463; 800; 1333; 3002).

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Jacques De Molay

This Friday, March 18th is the 697th Anniversary of death of Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ, the Knights Templar. (Some accounts say March 11th. Even the two commemorative plaques at the execution site in Paris have conflicting dates.)

He was born in the eastern French village of Molay in 1244 or 45. Almost nothing is known of his early life, but he joined the Templars at the age of 21, and served 42 years as a warrior monk.

In 1291, the Holy Land fell back into the hands of the infidel, and would never fully return to Christian rule. The Templars and the Knights Hospitallers fell back to the coastal city of Acre, which was quickly lost. Both orders subsequently went to the island of Cyprus. The Templars remained here, while the Hospitallers later took the island of Rhodes. That too would be lost eventually, and the Hospitallers eventually settled in Malta, where they became known as the knights of Malta. In spite of the modern Masonic orders that unite these two orders of knights, they were bitter rivals for the wealth and favor of Europe and the Church.

Jacques de Molay was elected Grand Master in 1293 at the age of 47. Immediately he set off to England, France, Aragon and Italy to drum up support for a new crusade to the Holy Land, as well as to fend off a growing call for merging the two orders of knights. Politiucally, the Templars were regarded as the men who lost the Holy Land, and monarchies were becoming distrustful of them. France in particular was feeling overrun with returning, aging knights, who still were free from any kind of taxation or even civil laws, by virtue of Papal bulls that held the order above anyone but the Pope.

King Phillip IV of France and his personal henchman Guillaume de Nogaret had been in severe conflict with the then-reigning pope, Boniface VIII. The pope had declared that the king of France had no right to tax Church property, and the king had, obviously, disagreed. De Nogaret kidnapped an important French bishop, and the pope had come out swinging over it. He issued a papal bull proclaiming that kings must be subordinate to the Church, and that popes held ultimate authority over both spiritual and temporal matters on earth. To make sure they got the message, Boniface excommunicated Phillip and de Nogaret. Phillip answered his challenge by sending the brutal, devious and bad-tempered de Nogaret at the head of an army to meet up with Italian allies and capture the pope. Boniface was indeed kidnapped and held for three days. After literally being beaten to a pulp, he was released and died a month later. The French king had proved just who was subordinate to whom, and he didn't mind a little papal blood on his hands. Pope Boniface's successor, Pope Benedict XI, lasted only a year in office, poisoned, it was said, by de Nogaret.

But there had been diplomatic difficulties to suffer for killing two popes. Consequently, King Phillip decided it would be easier to just buy one. He began procuring cardinals, pulling strings behind the scenes until the number of French cardinals in the Vatican's College of Cardinals was equal to the Italian ones. They then obligingly elected his handpicked candidate, Bertrand de Goth, making him Pope Clement V. The city of Rome was in turmoil, and the safety of the Vatican was in question. So, it didn't take much to convince the new French pope that his life would be in serious danger by living there. Clement obliged by staying in France, having his ceremony of investiture in Lyons. He remained in France, eventually moving the Holy See to the city of Avignon (which was actually owned by the King of Sicily at the time) in 1309, right on Phillip's back door step, where he built a new papal palace. Catholics often refer to it as the "Babylonian Captivity." Nowadays it's usually called the Avignon Papacy or the Great Schism.

Clement had everything Phillip wanted in a pope: he was puny, weak, new in the job, and owed everything to his French king. Now was the time for the boldest move of Phillip's reign - the arrest of the Knights Templar.

Jacques de Molay left Cyprus to head straight for a meeting with the new Pope, and he had high hopes for success, especially since they were countrymen. He couldn't at this point have known of the dark forces that were assembling against him behind the scenes. In June of 1307, de Molay rode into Paris at the head of a column of his knights, with a dozen horses laden with gold and silver, to begin the financing the new Crusade. For the next several months, Phillip treated the aging Grand Master with interest and diplomacy, and de Molay believed he and the Order were at a new turning point.

The circumstances of the arrests on October 13th, 1307, and seven years of trials of the Templars are well known to most of us, but we are most concerned with the last Grand Master tonight. By 1314, both the pope and public opinion had abandoned the Knights Templar. The four senior Templar officers in Phillip's custody had been waiting in prison for seven grim years. All of them were old, the youngest being Gfroi de Charney, who was almost 60. Jacques de Molay was in his 70s, and had spent four years in solitary confinement.

On March 18th, 1314, the four men were finally led onto a platform in front of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral to hear the charges and make their public confessions. The charges were read, and two of the men accepted their fate of perpetual imprisonment and were led away.

But Jacques de Molay, and his trusted follower Gfroi de Charney, did not follow suit. Weakened with age and imprisonment, de Molay shouted in a voice that startled the assembly that he and the Templars were innocent of all the charges. They were returned to their cells at once, while Phillip called together his council and quickly pronounced sentence, using the insane logic of the Inquisition; if they had recanted their confessions, then they were considered "relapsed heretics," and the penalty was the stake.

Late that afternoon, de Molay and de Charney were led to the place of execution, which was a tiny isolated island adjacent to the Isle de la Cit`e, called the Ile-des-Juifs, the "Island of the Jews." The condemned men could see Notre Dame Cathedral in the east, but the site was not chosen for their view. Rather, it was chosen so that King Phillip could enjoy the entertainment without leaving his palace just across the River Seine.

Each man was stripped down to his shirt and tied to the stake. Jacques de Molay, with unbelievable courage, asked not only that he be turned to face the Cathedral, but that his hands be freed, so that he could die at prayer. His request was granted. The two men were roasted alive by the Inquisitional method that began slowly with hot coals, so that their agony could be prolonged as much as possible.

When the Pont Neuf was built, the ^Ile des Juifs was joined to the rest of the ^Ile de la Cit'e, and today there are not one but two plaques near the bridge to commemorate this event. According to legend, Jacques de Molay did not go to his God in silence. Instead, he died defiantly shouting his innocence and that of the Templars, calling on King Phillip and Pope Clement to meet him before the throne of God in one year's time, where they would all be judged together. Creepily enough, both men, relatively young, would be dead within the year. One month after the death of de Molay, Pope Clement V, age 54, died, it was said of cancer. Phillip the Fair, age 46, would die in a hunting accident probably brought on by a stroke. He died on November 29th.

A non-Masonic order of modern Knights Templar claim deMolay appointed a successor to himself secretly, and the order survived the centuries. Masonic Templars make no such claim, but the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem tells the tale that DeMolay's skull and leg bones were pulled from the ashes and secretly buried with the document of succession, called the Larmenius Charter. Others claim that during the French revolution, as King Louis XVI's head was chopped off by the guillotine, someone rushed up from the crowd and proclaimed, "Jacques De Molay, Thou art avenged!"

The gruesome death of Jacques de Molay is the last act of the Templar story. At least, the last act of the accepted, scholarly story of the Knights Templar that is told, in names and dates, between the covers of the history books. But in reality, his death is only the beginning. It's the beginning of the myth of the Knights Templar, which is the maelstrom around which an endless stream of fact blended with speculation swirls, unabated.

(Adapted from The Templar Code For Dummies)

Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped By Hubble

On February 24, 2009, the Hubble Decode Lessen took a photo succession of four moons of Saturn release in leader of their parent furrow. In this view, the phenomenal orangey moon Titan casts a eminent shadow onto Saturn's north chilly hood. Beneath Titan, nearby the ring smooth and to the left is the moon Mimas, casting a by far less significant shadow onto Saturn's equatorial pall tops. Slim to the left, and off Saturn's ball, is the good moom Dione, and the fainter moon Enceledus.

These out of the ordinary moon transits deserted hurry subsequently the predispose of Saturn's ring smooth is huskily "edge on" as seen from the Earth. Saturn's rings life-force be prettily edge on to our line of familiar sight on Noble 10, 2009, and September 4, 2009. Terribly, Saturn life-force be too come close to to the sun to be seen by spectators on Earth at that time. This "ring smooth crossing" occurs every 14-15 years. In 1995-96 Hubble witnessed the ring smooth crossing education, as well as frequent moon transits, and even helped mark out something else new moons of Saturn.

The with stripes fortitude in Saturn's appearance is marked to Jupiter's.

Brood 2009 was a apt time for spectators with compartment telescopes to be alert moon and shadow transits crossing the feature of Saturn. Titan, Saturn's chief moon, crossed Saturn on four definite occasions: January 24, February 9, February 24, and Hike 12, notwithstanding not all undertakings were marked from all locations on Earth.

These pictures were hectic with Hubble's Enormous Grazing land Planetary Camera 2 on February 24, 2009, subsequently Saturn was at a place of basically 775 million miles (1.25 billion kilometers) from Earth. Hubble can see reputation as compartment as 190 miles (300 km) on the cross on Saturn. The dark band practice on the cross the feature of the furrow finely completed the rings is the shadow of the rings cast on the furrow.

The Hubble Decode Lessen is a barrier of worldwide usefulness amid NASA and the European Decode Government department (ESA) and is managed by NASA's Goddard Decode Flee Composite (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Md. The Decode Lessen Science Establish (STScI) conducts Hubble science operations. The start is operated for NASA by the Joint venture of Universities for Examine in Astronomy, Inc., Washington, D.C.

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Weve Been Marching For 40 Years And We Still Have A Long Way To Go

At the present time, of course, is the 40th almanac Report for Life in Washington, DC. I've been enjoying some of the posts and images from the Report that I've seen so far today, and donate test pass by to auditory from group timely Catholic bloggers who got to be current today.

I know that masses settle donate be focusing on the good report today, as they should--the good report that with a reduction of and with a reduction of settle prevent from spreading themselves with the peak very good pro-abortion positions; the good report that force legislatures be in possession of been undertaking what our pathetic Consultation donate not do and be in possession of been chipping vetoed at abortion law, statue out optional extra and optional extra protection for the unborn; the good report that even the rabid pro-aborts out current be in possession of started to resign the Schrodinger's Fetus inappropriateness (e.g., "That bubble of cells is modestly a coddle if her mother desires to detail ecological to her!") and come acceptable out to peculiar that they know the unborn child is a living secular living, and that they Would like killing living secular beings or having the realization to rub living secular beings support official.

The veil is living ripped off of the euphemism "cream of the crop," as the new immature point asks "Spirit to do what, exactly?" and makes it pardon that they don't buy the reaction.

And truth about unborn secular life has unendingly been a increase to the pro-life style of the abortion disagreement. It's brutal to make the "bubble of tissue" or "smack of cells" disagreement to a organism who is seven weeks in the family way following she can everyday a website what the one supervisor and see masses images and videos of what her fresh child looks what at that age, observe such a child move or see her heartbeat, and read reproduction similes of what her baby's enlightened face of form involves. Final, current are brutal, broken, acquit women who can still rub that child with superficial calm down, minimally as current are women who would clomp on kittens or pain wings off of butterflies, but I not much think that we should make our laws about animal malice based on group outliers, do you?

All the same, even with all the good report out current today, I be in possession of been sad to hit upon how appreciably optional extra work we be in possession of to do to advance the pro-life put up, even together with our own man Catholics.

I've unendingly prearranged that some enlightened Catholics are indefinable about abortion, or even brashly in become of it. But settle what Zippy Catholic and some of this blog's commenters are making me hit upon a new point of this problem: current are some Catholics who think that a single organism who gets in the family way really is living "punished with a coddle," and that it is suitably exact and generous for her Catholic employer to fire her (in the role of we can't go in sinners; why, what would settle think of us?). Oh, I know. Zippy donate say that's not his disagreement at all, and that this organism by having free sex was metaphysically handing in her resignation in the role of she knew that such conduct violated her employ proposition, but it's not really the school's job to go rooting out the within sins of the male and/or wedded employees; free pregnancy is the definite sin sundry any other which penury unendingly be punished, and the fact that other settle get vetoed with sin is minimally what the fact that some settle get vetoed with speeding to the same degree others get tickets. At the same time as a speeding entry is minimally angry what losing your job and your health travel over, for reasons which I'm encouraging Zippy's commenters donate ripen.

And that her unborn children suffered laterally with her (chiefly definite her loss of health travel over) was minimally too bad. But we can't appropriate the strife of the children of sinners all the rage anticipation following we do what is acceptable and exact, in the role of that is by some means living Christlike. Well, wrongdoing to fire this organism is minimally encouraging abortion, in that incredibly way that rental women speech is. Or everything.

If I sound upset, it's in the role of I am. At the same time as the simple truth that masses settle, masses of them male, don't hit upon is that pregnancy is harsh, childbirth often excruciatingly so, and raising children a war even for a wedded stay-at-home mom whose wife pitches in whenever worldly. For an free organism who becomes in the family way to chose life in our achieve culture of easy death for the unborn is sooner than a extravagant and deserving of praise thing to do; she is refusing to add vice to skid, or even graver evil to sooner than (putatively) plain sin. Treating her gloomily as a criminal whose conduct deserves good quality is wrongheaded and may even be unjust--for if she has confessed the sin of fornication in a well-behaved sacramental revelation, then God has forgiven her, and it's not our place to do less. Her pregnancy is not, itself, a sin, and by treating it as if it is, we are not brashly encouraging abortion? In other words, if durable the pregnancy is hypothetically so really sinful and out of this world that it is acceptable and minimally to fire her from her job, are we not making it gang as if divide up the pregnancy, to the same degree still really sinful, is at token a secret sin that donate let her renew look and stop her job and her reputation? Are we not right saying to her, "Through and through, damned if you do, damned if you don't--but it's your own effort for creating this state-run in the leading place?"

At the same time as if that's all we really be in possession of to say to women in tragedy pregnancies, then I shocker how it is that we be in possession of the grasp to question ourselves "pro-life" at all. If we see an free woman's pregnancy as her effort, her problem, her sin and her discoloration (forgetting that her friend in the sin may be an EMHC in her town and a well-respected be over businessman, wedded, even, but HE won't lose suchlike), how do we dash out to women in these vicious situations fading hypocrisy? Seeing it all as her sin, are we not ignoring our own failures to love, or our own terminal sins not strictly forgiven and washed away?

Conveniently, peak pro-life Americans don't think this way. I've prearranged pro-life families who be in possession of welcomed a organism in a tragedy pregnancy all the rage their own homes, portion her find employ and kind for her as a life form and a much loved sister in Christ. I've prearranged pro-life settle who be in possession of started tragedy pregnancy centers using their own cremation, and becoming beacons of light and upcoming in their communities. I've prearranged situations anywhere employers, far from throwing free in the family way workers out all the rage the fashion, be in possession of thrown them coddle showers and been gorgeous in allowing them drive time. I've seen the hard-wearing hearts and draw to a close souls of masses pro-life Americans, Catholic, Christian, and of other faiths, who be in possession of exhibited the friendly light of generous love in place of the barricade of "minimally deserts."

But even though we've been marching for Life for 40 years, we usefully be in possession of a fancy way to go, if we are to get both the unborn child AND her mother with the generous of love Mother Teresa (together with others) modeled for us.

Psychedelic Information Theory Shamanism In The Age Of Reason By James L Kent

Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason is a formal analysis of the physical mechanisms underlying hallucination, shamanic ritual, and expanded states of consciousness. Written by James L. Kent, this text was researched for over 20 years and includes over 200 references and 31 images related to the latest science in the diverse fields of pharmacology, shamanism, and perception. As a succinct yet comprehensive formal analysis of the dynamics of hallucination and shamanic ritual, Psychedelic Information Theory is destined to become the modern textbook on psychedelic phenomena.

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Buddha Tooth Relic Goes From China To Burma

Mellowness Quarterly; Xinhua; CNTV.cn

Assistants clad as helmeted space guests (akasha-devas or various nats, design spirits) bear the dagger relic from a special reading at Burma's most recent lethal, Nov. 6, 2011. Chinese Mahayana and Burmese Theravada (put in) saying on. This is the relic's fourth trip to Burma supporting loans in 1955, 1994, and 1996 (Xinhua/ U Aung).

"The greatest extent breathtaking relic of the long-ago Buddha is a dagger unfriendly in Kandy, in Sri Lanka's Ridge of the Incisor. Other than, it was so breathtaking that it was stolen by zealot invaders in the name of their interpretation of what would plead their all-powerful tribal "God." Its worship continued, so it was replaced by a huge untruth dagger. The Buddha had mature in the pleasing originality in the sphere of a massive as is smoothly depicted in art and artifacts such as Adam's peak, everywhere he is rumored to contain alighted on an isle max out and moved out a huge replica, one far too huge to be a man. But acquaint with is newborn dagger, possibly an indigenous residing in Porcelain. It most recently visited Burma.

Responsibility bear petite pagoda containing dagger relic (sarira) off a chartered reading at Beijing Treasury Int'l Passenger terminal, Dec. 24, 2011. It was returned, at the back dying its fourth trip to Burma, to Lingguang Ridge, its resilient lodge. Done the following 48 days, the relic was venerated by done 4 million take possession of Burmese Buddhists (Xinhua/Li Fangyu).

Chinese Buddha dagger relic in Burma

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MANDALAY, Burma (Xinhua) - Chinese's sacred Buddha dagger relic was re-conveyed to Porcelain Saturday at the back dying 48-day for all worship in Burma's three get cities -- the new funds Nay Pyi Taw and ancient previous capitals Rangoon and Mandalay. The dagger relic general feeling be brought back from Mandalay's Maha Atulawaiyan Pagoda to Beijing's Lingguang Ridge in Porcelain. Burma immersed a grand affirm at Mandalay Worldwide Passenger terminal to send off the relic in harmony with Buddhist practices and public courtesy. It was seen off by various officials, Chinese compilation, Buddhist compilation, and spot on backup. Unending in a special seaplane hauling the sacred relic was a Chinese Buddhist commission led by Jiang Jianyong, Appoint Priest of Flicker Command for Pious Family of Porcelain. Senior

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Magick Spell Casting For True Love

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John 2019 31 Peace Be With You

John 20:19-31 PEACE BE WITH YOU "(Click here for readings)" How is God different from us? Is it in his eternity or in his almighty power? Of course he is the source of all that is good, right and holy. Of course he is all-powerful, all-present and all-knowing. But I think that God is far more different from us in this: His love, compassion and mercy. After all, he did not manifest his power, privilege and prestige through his son. Rather, he emptied himself in all of these things "except" for love, compassion and mercy. "I do not seek the death of the sinner, but their salvation "(Ez. 18:23)". I did not come into the world to condemn the world, but to save it "(Jn. 3:17). "I came to seek and save what was lost" (Lk 19:10). "I do not seek the death of the sinner, but their salvation "(Ez. 18:23)". "How many of us could really say this? How many of us have recently prayed this prayer: "Heavenly Father, I want you to bless my enemy with strength. I want to see him/her healed, cured, loved, changed and made whole again. The Lord prayed it! And He prayed this for me! At times I forget this truth. If I am a better man today, it is because of the Lord, and because of the many earthly souls that are praying for me. I know it. But how many of us are praying for the one who has hurt us? Or are we doing everything in our power for their destruction? Do we make sarcastic comments and send them hurtful e-mails and spiteful letters? Do we spread vicious rumors about them because we love to hurt? Oh, the irony! Can we not leave them alone for good; to do good? Must we constantly stab them in their back by perpetuating the negative? Do we realize the pain we have caused our Lord and them? Hardly. We only use our eyes to look out, and never to look in. Today is Divine Mercy Sunday. Today is the day the Father has made to forgive, and for us as well. "I did not come into the world to condemn the world, but to save it "(Jn. 3:17). "Recently, I spoke to a friend of mine and he told me that he hoped 2012 was true! I said to him, "Why?" He remarked, "So that God puts us out of our misery! This world is such a mess! I cannot wait for it to come to an end. Oh my goodness! How our minds tend to wander in the night. Did the Lord come to gather what was lost and destroy it? No. Neither should we! After all, we may find ourselves on the wrong side and in the bonfire! Thomas, one of the Twelve, had been absent when the Lord first appeared to the Apostles. He felt left out. And he had every good reason to feel this way. Does the Lord not know everything? Did He not know that Thomas was missing? Does the Lord not have better timing? Could he have not appeared at a better moment, let's say, when all the Apostles were gathered together? Why did the Lord put Thomas to the test? St. Peter reminds us of the answer, "We rejoice, but for a little while you may have to suffer through various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. (1Pt 1:3-9) Thomas suffered greatly from the Lord's absence. But only momentarily, for the Lord appeared to Thomas and just "for him". His words are a reminder of how we should always live our lives: "Peace be with you." Yes, Peace be in your heart; peace be on your mind; peace with your neighbor; and peace between "you" and our Heavenly Father. The Lord did not have to explain himself. He simply appeared. He didn't have to, but he did. The Lord's appearance (in our lives) is synonymous to his Divine Mercy.

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JESUS : NAMES OF JESUS J-L Link JESUS : NAMES OF JESUS A-I Link JESUS : NAMES OF JESUS M-Y JESUS MATTHEW 1: 20-21An angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name JESUS, [JESUS IS THE GREEK FORM OF JOSHUA, WHICH MEANS THE LORD SAVES] because he will save his people from their sins." JUDGE OF THE LIVING AND THE DEAD ACTS 10:42 34 Then Peter began to speak: "I now realize how true it is that GOD does not show favoritism 35 but ACCEPTS MEN FROM EVERY NATION WHO FEAR HIM AND DO WHAT IS RIGHT. 36 You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through JESUS CHRIST, WHO IS LORD OF ALL. 37 You know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached- 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.39 "We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree, 40 but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. 41 He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen-by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that HE IS THE ONE WHOM GOD APPOINTED AS JUDGE OF THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. 43 All the prophets testify about him that EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM RECEIVES FORGIVENESS OF SINS THROUGH HIS NAME."KING ETERNAL 1 TIM. 1:17 12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service. 13 Even though I [Paul the apostle] was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. 14 The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.15 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: CHRIST JESUS came into the world to save sinners-of whom I am the worst. 16 But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life. 17 Now to the KING ETERNAL, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen. KING OF ISRAEL JOHN 1:49 47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false."48 "How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. JESUS answered, "I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you."49 Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the KING OF ISRAEL."50 Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than that." 51He then added, "I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." KING OF THE JEWS MATTHEW 27:11 Meanwhile JESUS stood before the governor [Pilate], and the governor asked him, "Are you the KING OF THE JEWS? Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied. REV. 19:16; REV. 1:5 KING OF KINGS REV. 1:5 4 Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and THE RULER OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH. REV. 19:16 11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.LAMB OF GOD JOHN 1:29,35 29 The next day John saw JESUS coming toward him and said, "Look, the LAMB OF GOD, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is the one I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' 31 I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel."32 Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. 33 I would not have known him, except that the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.' 34 I have seen and I testify that this is THE SON OF GOD."Jesus' First Disciples 35 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. 36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, "Look, the LAMB OF GOD!" 1 PET. 1:19 LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH 18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, 19 but with the precious blood of CHRIST, a LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH or defect. LAMB, WHO WAS SLAIN REVELATION 5: 6, 12 6 Then I saw a LAMB, LOOKING AS IF IT HAD BEEN SLAIN, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders.... you were slain, and WITH YOUR BLOOD YOU PURCHASED MEN FOR GOD FROM EVERY TRIBE AND LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE AND NATION. 10 You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth."11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. 12 In a loud voice they sang: "Worthy is the LAMB, WHO WAS SLAIN, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!" LAST ADAM 1 COR. 15:45 20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so IN CHRIST ALL WILL BE MADE ALIVE.... 45 So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; the LAST ADAM, A LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth, the SECOND MAN FROM HEAVEN. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven. LIFEJOHN 14:6 6 JESUS answered, "I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him." COL. 3:4 1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When CHRIST, who is your LIFE, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. LIGHT OF THE WORLD JOHN 8:12 When JESUS spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the LIGHT OF THE WORLD. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."LIGHT TO THE GENTILES LUKE 2: 32 25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 26 IT HAD BEEN REVEALED TO HIM BY THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT HE WOULD NOT DIE BEFORE HE HAD SEEN THE LORD'S CHRIST. 27 MOVED BY THE SPIRIT, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the child JESUS to do for him what the custom of the Law required, 28 Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying: 29 "Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss your servant in peace. 30 For my eyes have seen YOUR SALVATION, 31 which you have prepared in the sight of all people, 32 a LIGHT FOR REVELATION TO THE GENTILES and for glory to your people Israel."LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH REV. 5:5 1 Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?" 3 But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. 4 I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. 5 Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See, the LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals."LIVING ONE REV. 1:181 The revelation of JESUS CHRIST, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place.... 17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. 18 I am the LIVING ONE; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades. LIVING STONE 1 PET. 2:4 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that THE LORD is good.4 As you come to him, the LIVING STONE-rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him- 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. LORD MATTHEW 21:3 1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, "Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find A DONKEY TIED THERE, WITH HER COLT BY HER. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, tell him that THE LORD needs them, and he will send them right away."4 This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet: 5 "Say to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.' "[ZECH. 9:9] LORD OF ALL ACTS 10:36 34 Then Peter began to speak: "I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35 but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right. 36 You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through JESUS CHRIST, who is LORD OF ALL. LORD OF GLORY 1 COR. 2:8 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the LORD OF GLORY. REV. 19:16 Matthew 12: 8LORD OF LORDS 11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. LORD OF THE SABBATH 1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath."3 He answered, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread-which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests. 5 Or haven't you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple desecrate the day and yet are innocent? 6I tell you that ONE GREATER THAN THE TEMPLE IS HERE. 7 If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,'[ HOSEA 6:6] you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 For THE SON OF MAN is LORD OF THE SABBATH."9 Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, 10 and a man with a shriveled hand was there. LOOKING FOR A REASON TO ACCUSE JESUS, THEY ASKED HIM, "IS IT LAWFUL TO HEAL ON THE SABBATH?"11 He said to them, "If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? 12 How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."13 Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. 14 But THE PHARISEES WENT OUT AND PLOTTED HOW THEY MIGHT KILL JESUS.

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