Religion and Spirituality Part 3
There is nothing wrong with embracing real religion. There is certainly nothing wrong with doing the right thing in trying to improve ones life spiritually indeed (True spirituality is definitely a mechanism that can assist folks to cope with the issues surrounding the existence of life). Real spirituality can be blessing to inspire lives to have a real connection with God. We all need to love God and love all people (both male and female) as equals. Loving your neighbor as yourself is an authentic commandment all of us should live by. That means don't talk disrespectful language to anyone. That means helping people if they need assistance in life. That means living by the righteous words that proceeds out of the mouth and word of God Almighty. The problem arises when religion is exploited to promote false doctrines or when someone use it formethodological, illegitimate means (in order to control people in an immoral way). The Blasphemy by TBN is very common place. Now, for years religious people have legitimately exposed TBN or Trinity Broadcasting Network. Paul Crouch is the leader of it and he doesn't want even legitimate exposure of his heretical ideas. He calls Christians contending for the faith in exposing fraud as "heresy hunters." He said that: "Heretic hunters, those guys who spend their lives straightening us all out doctrinally, they are going to go straight to hell." That's a lie since the Bible promote real discernment and contending for the faith in the world. Crouch can control his network and the numerous messages proceeding from it, which is sent to millions of people. Yet, he refuses correction which is against what the Bible says: "...Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die." [Prov 15:10]. Paul Crouch and Kenneth Copeland define faith as similar to a spiritual force or a force. Faith isn't a force. God uses faith and faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. God is the total Sovereign God, who is the author of our faith and is our assurance. Kenneth Copeland blasphemes God on many times and called God the biggest failure in the Bible. He said to Paul Crouch that: "...He lost His top ranking of His most anointed angel, the first man He ever created, the first woman He ever created, the whole earth and all the fullness therein, a third of the angels at least. That's a big loss, man! I mean, you figure up all of that, that's a lot of real estate, gone down the drain. Now, the reason you don't think of God as a failure, He never said He's a failure. (Paul Crouch and others laughing on the set.) And you are not a failure until you say you are one."
That's false since a failure is when you don't reach a certain standard set beforehand. God isn't a failure since he gave Adam and Eve a choice between eating the tree of the fruit or not. Adam and Eve made an error by eating the fruit and punishment was exacted unto them by their own accord, which it wasn't God's fault. Additionally, God isn't a failure since he saves humans all of the time in his Word and deed. Copeland believes that Jesus was only human in his earthly visit and that he was only Divine when he came into Hell. That's false since Jesus redemped the souls of men by the time of the Cross not in Hell. Of course in the Praise the Lord Show, Paul Crouch, Benny Hinn, and Kenneth Copeland call themselves a little gods in this dialogue:
"...Paul Crouch: "He doesn't ever draw a distinction between himself." (Jan Crouch agrees in the background.)
Kenneth Copeland: "Never, never. You never can do that in a covenant relationship."
Paul Crouch: "You know what else that settles then tonight. This hue and cry and controversy that has been spawned by the devil to try and bring dissent within the body of Christ that we are gods. I am a little god."
Kenneth Copeland: "Yes, yes!"
Paul Crouch: "I have His name. I'm one with Him. I'm in a covenant relationship. I am a little god."
Kenneth Copeland: "Critic, you are anything that He is."
Paul Crouch (heard under the worth of Kenneth Copeland): "Critic, be gone."
Paul Crouch: "Yes!"..." Many others in the World Faith Movement crowd promote this lie of man being God or gods. Here are other quotes from them (including Mormons) speaking in these terms:
Kenneth Copeland: "Never, never. You never can do that in a covenant relationship."
Paul Crouch: "You know what else that settles then tonight. This hue and cry and controversy that has been spawned by the devil to try and bring dissent within the body of Christ that we are gods. I am a little god."
Kenneth Copeland: "Yes, yes!"
Paul Crouch: "I have His name. I'm one with Him. I'm in a covenant relationship. I am a little god."
Kenneth Copeland: "Critic, you are anything that He is."
Paul Crouch (heard under the worth of Kenneth Copeland): "Critic, be gone."
Paul Crouch: "Yes!"..." Many others in the World Faith Movement crowd promote this lie of man being God or gods. Here are other quotes from them (including Mormons) speaking in these terms:
"...Adam walked into God's class. Adam did things in the class of gods… All right, are we gods? we are a class of gods.” (Kenneth Copeland “Praise the Lord” (TBN), recorded 2/5/86)
“Adam was the god of this world.” (The Believer's Authority, 2d ed. Kenneth Hagin Ministries, 1991], 19.)
“Though we are not Almighty God Himself, nevertheless, we are now divine” (Benny Hinn, TBN, 12/1/90)
“I am a little messiah walking on earth,..... You are a little god on earth running around (Benny Hinn Praise-a-Thon TBN, Nov. 6 1990)
“in each of us is the potentiality to become a God” (Spencer W. Kimbal President of Mormon church Salt Lake Tribune, October 7, 1974).
“The Father begets; the Son is begotten; they are Parent and Child; Sire and Son look alike, so much so that they are the express image of each other's persons. (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon apostle Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, Vol.3, p.138).
Satanists, New Agers like the woman J. Z. Knight, and some Masons believe that they are a little god, god, or God. This is a false view that Satan told Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:5. The Bible says that man can't be like God in divinity at all. Isaiah 45:5-6 mentions that: “...I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else..." All humans came from God as his Creation (in his image or likeness) not as divine beigns. Copeland of course believes in the occult heresy that God was a androgynous being in his own words: "...Then, he created Eve out of Adam. Now, actually God didn't name her Eve, Adam named her Eve later. That wasn't her name, her name was Adam-Adam. When God said Adam, they both came. Their authority was one and the same together. They did everything together. They had always been together. Even when she was still part of him, he was as much female as he was male, LIKE GOD IS. And God separated the female part of him and then put them back together. And she was Adam, they were Adam. He was the man, she was the woman. She was the man with the womb..." This is found in the Kabbalah, Plato (in ancient Greece, there was the cult of Hermaphroditos that praised the Greek false androgynous deity called Hermaphroditus), Aristophanes, etc. The Bible says that God is total MALE not female or androgynous. TBN allows heretics to show their tenets without even a rebuttal. One example is Phil Munsey talking about Mother Earth and respect for Buddhist doctrines. You can't mix paganism with Christian teachings. TBN is obviously an Ecumenical operation that is apart of the religious establishment sent to distract people from the simplistic Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's also in existence in my opinion to covertly imply that real Christians are extremists, which isn't the case at all.
Joyce Mayer is a middle aged woman and a famous preacher of the Prosperity Gospel movement like others. She is one of the top religious establishment teachers in the world. Some things that she mentions are legitimate and other parts of her teaching are errors. She is yolked with the World Faith Movement with its members like Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn, Kim Clement, Mike Murdock, and Kenneth Copeland. Copeland's "The Believer's Voice of Victory" have some of her article. In her broadcast the first week of January 2005 she interviewed a man giving testimony to Kenneth Hagin who is known for spreading the word/faith heresy to his disciples. Joyce been through real struggles like having breast cancer and getting surgery. Joyce Mayer doesn't take legitimate criticism lighty from having a large, expensive wardrobe, teaching men plus women, and wearing jewelry. She is 60 years old now. Her ministry revenues have increased over the years. From 1998 where they took in 40 million, to 1999 they brought in 55 million, to 2000 70 million, to 2001 near 80 million, to 2002 near 90 million. Today her Life in the Word organization estimates to take in $95 million this year. The ministry says it spends about 10 percent - $880,000 a month - on charitable works around the globe. Mayer lived in a 10,000 square foot Cape Cod style estate home. It has a guest home and a garage. Joyce supports the falsehood that you have to live in wealth to experience the promised land: “I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it ”(Joyce Meyer, “What Does Your Future Hold” May 21, 2004). Meyer believes that words have spiritual power. This is a word faith doctrine. She said that: “But you cannot throw out positive confession, and you cannot throw out all the faith teachers, and you cannot throw out positive thinking. And you cannot get rid of those kinds of things because they're in the Bible from one end of it to the other.” (Joyce Meyer, PFO Quarterly Journal, April-June 2002, p. 6. Withcraft and Related Spirits, pt. 1, sides 1 and 2). Sorry, we can reject false faith teachers if they teach the lie that I need wealth to have a real spiritual connection with God. Joyce Meyer also believe in the heresy that Jesus went into Hell to save souls (as found in her 1991 edition, First Printing of her book entitled "The Most Important Decision You will Ever Make". She said that: "..,“Jesus said, ‘It is finished.’ And He meant the Old Covenant. The job He had to do was just getting started. He really did the job the three days and nights that He was in hell. That’s where the job was done” “He was pronounced guilty on the cross but He paid the price in hell.” (From the Cross to the Throne Joyce Meyer, audio tape) This teaching has been popularized from Hagin, Copeland Fred Price, Charles Capps etc. The Bible is clear that Jesus Christ went into Hell, but he didn't pay a price there. He was already victorious. He paid the price of sin from the cross.
Colossians 1:19-22 says that:"...19 For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fulness to dwell in Him,
20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say , whether things on earth or things in heaven.
21 And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,
22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach–..."
Meyer believes that: "...“Pain is a spirit. When it gets on your body, tell it to leave” ( Joyce Meyer, From the Cross to the Throne, audio tape, sermon recorded at Life Christian Center in Saint Louis, Mo -referenced from Personal Freedom Outreach). Pain of course isn't a spirit. Pain is apart of human existence. Even Jesus Christ said that sickness and pain can be from unclean spirits and some of sickness plus pain aren't from spirits at all. She prays to God to protect her money and checkbooks. Rev. Larry Rice KNLC canceled her Sunday evening program, because he believed that Meyer existed in a lavish lifestyle. Rice said he had become increasingly worried about what he views as the “excessive lifestyle” of Meyer and her family.
He said on a Friday that the ministry's $2.5 million home in south St. Louis County where Meyer lives, and the $100,000 Mercedes-Benz owned by her husband, Dave, “crosses the line.” The pastor is right to stand for the truth. Some people like Bob Schneller were decieved by Meyer and became broke. He and his wife gave gave her - $4,400 a year - surpassed his annual mortgage payment. He and his wife lived on $30,000 a year. Bob said that they once followed the seed offering heresy of giving money to eat back more money tenfold or a hundredfold (or that if you have enough faith, you can claim it). He became divorced and problems persisted. Schneller spoke against holy laughter and Meyer told Schneller that she couldn't support him. Schneller parted ways with Meyer. He works as a security guard and attends a “regular church, where the Bible is taught verse by verse.” So, there are tons of more stories that describe the damage that false prosperity gospel have done to many people. Kurt Warner is the famous supporter of Joyce Meyer. Warner was the quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals. He even went as far as saying that preachers should be paid as high as CEOs in the millions of dollars. Kurt Warner did so some good things like inspiring people to believe in God and become inspired to develop their own lives spiritually. He recently retired form the NFL in late January 2010.
He said on a Friday that the ministry's $2.5 million home in south St. Louis County where Meyer lives, and the $100,000 Mercedes-Benz owned by her husband, Dave, “crosses the line.” The pastor is right to stand for the truth. Some people like Bob Schneller were decieved by Meyer and became broke. He and his wife gave gave her - $4,400 a year - surpassed his annual mortgage payment. He and his wife lived on $30,000 a year. Bob said that they once followed the seed offering heresy of giving money to eat back more money tenfold or a hundredfold (or that if you have enough faith, you can claim it). He became divorced and problems persisted. Schneller spoke against holy laughter and Meyer told Schneller that she couldn't support him. Schneller parted ways with Meyer. He works as a security guard and attends a “regular church, where the Bible is taught verse by verse.” So, there are tons of more stories that describe the damage that false prosperity gospel have done to many people. Kurt Warner is the famous supporter of Joyce Meyer. Warner was the quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals. He even went as far as saying that preachers should be paid as high as CEOs in the millions of dollars. Kurt Warner did so some good things like inspiring people to believe in God and become inspired to develop their own lives spiritually. He recently retired form the NFL in late January 2010.
Steve Harvey is a famous man now in the public eye. He is known for making movies and being a comedian. Now, he shows his theology to the world. His theology is nothing new. It's about don't judge anyone at any circumstance, don't preach that much agaisnt sin, compromise in letting the worldly influence into the church. Even in dating advice, he's wrong. His new book is called "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment." That's wrong on it face, because a man should act and think like a man. A woman should think and act like a woman. The book pretty much says that ladies must adapt to a man's thinking or they will be single. That's silly since a woman should be their own independent selves without a man dictating their personalities or unique value. Likewise, a man should be their ownselves in dating a person and not compromise who they really are. Real people will attract real people if you will just be yourself. The book is filled with stereotypes and innuedos about both genders like: men are more sex driven than women are, men like women who keep themselves and their homes looking good, you'll know if a man loves a woman if a man show you off to family and friends and call you something other than your name ("my lady" for example), and men don't like to talk about their feelings. I guess Steve forgot that Jesus cried and showed his emotions constantly. Real men don't want a Stepford wife. A real man needs a real woman. This isn't 1955 with a Ozzie and Harriet mentality. Steve Harvey is on his 3rd marriage to a woman, which he cheated on his 2nd ex-wife with. His ex-wife that he was with for 17 years and married to for 10 years have claimed physical and emotional abuse including neglecting his other kids and the son they share together. The book is in error also because a man should cultivate the needs and interests of the woman plus vice versa. A man should be a man naturally. A woman shouldn't force a man to be a man period. A man should be a man without assistance from a woman on how to be a man (and vice versa). The book promotes the stereotype that males naturally are lazy, not considerate, most men will cheat on their spouse, etc. The truth is that real men are multifaceted in their attributes (like working on jobs, having compassion for people, even shedding tears, standing up for what we believe in, showing strength, etc.). The lesson here is that personal communication is a key in developing relationships. Steve Harvey believes in the 90 Day rule. That means that you have sex with a woman after 90 days of going out. Isn't he suppose to be a Christian, yet he promotes fornication in relationships? The truth is that a man should have self control in his actions. This is 2010 not the Victorian 19th century era. He is not a Doctor, Psychologist, or Licensed Therapist. For example, he claims not to condone cheating in men, however, he will explain a cheating man as just interpreting his own cheating as getting "tightened up," and nothing more. No, a cheating person regardless of gender is a deciever, a liar, and an adulterer if the person is married. A man doesn't need a dating book to improve his confidence. A man just lives his life as a man with independent thinking without ego boosts from a woman. Likewise, an independent woman can easily provide for her own needs. The fact is that men and women should get their lives in order before going into a long term relationship with anyone without stereotypes. Women should not be a slave in their place. Men and woman should be independent and think for themselves. Men aren't simplistic or one dimensional people at all who are all scared of emotional commitment. The shameful thing is that this book is about the stereotyping of especially Black Men and Black Woman, because I know plenty of black people (among both genders) that aren't cheaters, money hungry, or lust after sex constantly. The book embodies an outdated world view in which women are desperate to pin down a man, men are uniformly selfish and simpleminded, and a woman has to conform to the man's mindset in order to manipulate a man into getting what she wants. Steve Harvey talks about God and religion, but on his radio show he sometimes curse like a sailor. Doctrinally, Steve Harvey believes that Christians should judge nothing. He was on TBN crying with his ally & Barack Obama supporter Donnie McClurkin. Steve Harvey complained about the criticism against him by saying that people don't know him. Donnie pacified Steve when he cried about how no one understands what he goes through. People do since people in Steve's position have woke up and became born again for thousands of years. Donnie didn't correct Steve Harvey, but went along with his words. Harvey pushed his secular book on dating on TBN. He made the unscriptural, deceptive comment that: "...some Christians make the path to narrow and should broaden it..." Harvey meant by that quote that he believes that Christians should be more accomodating to the secular crowds and sinners joining the Church. The Bible though teaches that the path to Heaven is narrow: "...Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it..." (Matthew 7:13-14). This means that a narrow gate is location to find eternal life. There is nothing wrong to welcome sinners into the Church voluntarily with respect and love. There is a problem when some in the Church will try to compromise with them as an excuse to be politically correct though. So, we should not judge immorally, but we should judge righteous judgment (as found in John 7:24) and inspire people to repent in a loving fashion. Steve Harvey can really wake up though, so I want to make that clear.
Peter Ruckman is a keen deception in Christianity. He had his headquarters in Pensacola, Florida. Now, his major heresy is teaching that the KJV is advanced revelation being even superior to the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible. He does this in claiming to defend the KJV, but he isn't defending the King James Bible at all. He's giving haters of the KJV ammunition in order to unfairly demonize true proponents of the KJV. He said that: “The A.V. 1611 reading, here, is superior to any Greek text” (Peter Ruckman, The Christian’s Handbook of Manuscript Evidence, Pensacola Bible Press, 1970, p. 118) and “Mistakes in the A.V. 1611 are advanced revelation!” (Ruckman, Manuscript Evidence, p. 126). The truth is that the inspired Word of God existed before 1611. The church and even ancient Jewish people had scriptures for eons. The original manuscripts were created by inspiration of God, but the King James Version of the Bible is an accurate translation of the original text (the original text was given by inspiration of the Holy Spirit). Perservation is God's promise that he will perserve his Word forever, which is true. The Geneva Bible and the KJV are a result of perservation. Now, Peter Ruckman has multiple divorces (and remarriage) for non-adultery reasons and he tries to justify them. Divorces are known for their hostility, children suffer for a time, and it deals with a broken promise obviously. He believes that man is saved by works in different times, but the Bible is clear that God is saved by grace through faith (even in the Tribulation, the blood of the Lamb saves sin). Ruckman is known for extreme anger and utilizing name calling like calling people punks, dumb, jack legs, etc. He blasphemes God in lying that God tells him to speak like this. The Bible is clear that we should let no filty communication out of your mouth. James 3:13-17 forbids people using envy and strife as a means to get our point across. There is nothing wrong with humbling yourself in other to express your views in life. He teaches heresies like angels are 33 year old males without wings and that all women in the church age will get 33 year old bodies in the Rapture, the flood in 2 Peter 3 is not Noah's flood, and that God ordained the Earth 12 boundaries with 12 nations (to be destined to leave the earth). He even believes in abortion on demand now. The baby is clearly formed in the womb as a distinct human life. Killing unborn human life is a sin. The Bible says don't kill and don't shed innocent blood (which defines abortion completely to a T). Peter Ruckman is a racist that believes that segregation against black Americans is fine. He said the slander that all black people are racists. Sister Tracy (form www.jesus-is-lord.com) left a Ruckman conference because he expressed bigotry against his fellow human beings. Sister Tracy is a black woman.
Some verses to ponder in conclusion:
Isaiah 56:3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 56:6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, EVERY ONE that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: THEIR BURNT OFFERINGS AND THEIR SACRIFICES SHALL BE ACCEPTED UPON MINE ALTAR; FOR MINE HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED AN HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL PEOPLE.
Romans 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
Isaiah 56:3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 56:6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, EVERY ONE that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: THEIR BURNT OFFERINGS AND THEIR SACRIFICES SHALL BE ACCEPTED UPON MINE ALTAR; FOR MINE HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED AN HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL PEOPLE.
Romans 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
Ephesians 6:9 ... your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
Colossians 3:25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
James 2:1-3, 9 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
1 Peter 1:17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
Lev 19:34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
The Bible shows examples of how we can be saved:
6}Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
-John 14:6 (KJV)
{9}That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.{10}For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
-Romans 10:9-10 (KJV)
{17}..where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
-IICorinthians 3:17 (KJV)
-IICorinthians 3:17 (KJV)
The Surveillance/anti-Liberty Society
The Surveillance society is a threat in the world. The Detriot incident has many questions and some believe it was a staged event. The person caught is named Abdulmutallab. He is more than just an extremist trying to ignite a powdery explosive substance on board a flight into the USA (He is from Nigeria). Eyewitnesses point to a man helping the accused young terrorsist to board an aircraft without a password. There is an unusal cameraman documenting the attempted attack on board the plane. This raise more than red flag and it could point to an intelligence operation (in the form of a drill) that is utilized to continue this evil war on terror. Even CNN interviewed key flight witnesses during their December 28th program raising these points (and a possible intelligence handler). Kurt Haskell and his wife saw a well dressed, wealthy looking Indian man giving assistance to Farouk Abdulmutallab at the boarding gate in Amsterdam. Haskell said that the accused bomber looked "poor" next to the well dressed man. Haskell said that the man did the talking for Abdullamutallab claiming that he was a Sudanese refugee, so he doesn't need a passport to board the aircraft. The gate attended reffered the odd couple of a older Indian man and a Nigerian young man (who was reported to U.S. authorities by his own father) to the manager. Haskell said that's the last he saw of the wealthy man. Haskell's wife, Laurie, said that it's odd that authorities didn't follow up on the seeing the Indian man prior to boarding the flight. A camerman pictured the whole flight. This cameraman was the only one standing up and intently filmed the entire incident. Now, neo-liberals and neo-cons like Senator Liberman want to preemptively attack Yemen. Also, there are body scanners that can see the naked human body, etc. Kurt Haskell made bombshell revelations also about Flight 253. He said that the FBI detained a 2nd man after dogs detected a bomb in his luggage. The FBI has not only ignored Haskell’s story, but they have launched a cover-up by refusing to even acknowledge the existence of another man who filmed the entire flight, including the aborted attack, as well as the well-dressed man who aided the bomber to board the plane even though he had no passport and was on a terror watch list. Haskell believed that the FBI have acted lackadaiscal in how they handled airport security after the plane landed at the Detriot Metro airport in Romulus, Michigan. Haskell said that the FBI showed him images of people, but the agents tried to pass off 2 photos of Mutallab to discredit him. Mr. Haskell questioned why officials have not released the Amsterdam airport security video that will undoubtedly reveal crucial information about the “sharp-dressed man” who escorted a disheveled Mutallab to the boarding area. He said that the FBI used a bomb sniffing dog to handcuff another Indian young man. Later, the FBI moved the passengers to another location. The Nigerian man has been called the underwear bomber.
Yemen is apart of the war on terror since it has oil near Saudi Arabia. It exports billions of dollars worth of crude oil per year. Some believe its oil supplies are shrinking. Yemeni crude oil exports decreased to $1.5 billion during the fiscal period from January -October of 2009, compared with $4.2 billion during the same period of 2008, a decrease of $2.7 billion, the Central Bank of Yemen reported. Some believe its oil reserves are decreasing and it could lose it tally by 10 years. Of course, this doesn't prove Peak Oil since oil resources are gorwing in other places globally as well. There is more to Yemen as well.
UK PM Gordon Brown even wants an emegency summit among the U.S. and the UK to deal with Yemen as a terrorist haven. He believes that the governments of American and the UK to tackle Yemen's al-Qaeda problem. This is a green light to expand the War on Terror in Yemen and Africa even more than it is already. “The United States will more than double its security assistance to Yemen, officials said Friday, and Britain will host an international meeting this month to seek ways to prevent the poorest Arab nation from becoming an al-Qaeda stronghold,” reports The Washington Post. “The announcements highlight mounting Western concern over Yemen after a failed attempt to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas; the suspect is a Nigerian man who reportedly told authorities that he received training and equipment in the country, which borders Saudi Arabia.” This is insanity since we have a recession now already. Houthi fighters disagree with the current government of Yemen (who are alllied with the Sunni Saudi Arabian government). That is why Saudi warplanes attacked northern Yemen villages and troops are sent from Saudi Arabia into Yemen. The Houthi believe that the Yemeni government are discriminating against them politically, economically, and religiously. The Yemeni government believe that the northern Sa'ada region of their nation is a terrorist then. The Shabab revels in Somalia now want to send fighters into Yemen to fight jihad according to the New York Times. These fighters have battled the African Union peacekeeping force including the transational federal government in Somalia (which is only across the Gulf of Aden near Ymen). The Times believe that the Shabab fighters established links with al-Qaeda. Webster Griffin Tarpley believe that battle in Yemen relates to Sunni vs. Shiite power struggles and the West trying to claim more power over Russia in his own words:
"...In Yemen, a civil war pits the Saudi-backed central government against the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthi rebels, whom the US has bombed at least twice this month. The goal here is to play Iran against Saudi Arabia so as to weaken both the pro-Moscow Achmadinejad government in Iran, and also those Saudi forces that are fed up with their status as a US protectorate. The US is openly now sponsoring a regroupment of “al Qaeda” (the CIA Moslem legion) in Yemen , including by sending fighters direct from Guantanamo . The new CIA-promoted entity synthetic entity is “Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula or AQAP, a gaggle of US patsies, dupes, and fanatics which is claiming credit for the Umar Farouk incident. The US hopes to further dominate the exit from the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, while also easing pressure on the battered US dollar by jacking up the price of oil in an atmosphere of tension on the Arabian peninsula..."
So, the Umar Farouk possible false flag incident have been exploited by internationalists and governmental leaders in order to fight battles in Yemen in order for the Middle East plus Africa to be encoporated in the new world order construct. TSA Scanners exist now in America. The full body scanners are frying travelers with radiation. This has been increasing with the failed terrorist attempt on Flight 253. These scanners have been exposed as dangerous by real researchers. Neo cons want these X-Rays shipped nationwide. Yet, these things can have unhealthy amounts of ionic radiation just for the sake of the incident of Mutallab. The Zogby poll say that Americans approve long lines and gridlock at airport passenger screening points.The majority of people supporting stuff like this doesn't mean that they are right. They are wrong since civil liberties are important to perserve. The TSA or the Transportation Security Agency is in charge of airport screening. So, much of the public want the TSA to enact fascist policies among people. People now may have to go to X-Ray machines into order to pass through airport security checkpoints. The TSA Security Laboratory Director Susan Hallowell recently announced the agency’s intent to use back-scatter X-ray machines for passenger surveillance. They can track people's whole body with explosure of ionizing radiation to people. These machiens are tested in U.S. airports like JFK, LAX, and Orlando. The government is making more profit over these events. In the last 17 months, TSA has received over 30,000 proposals for Big Brother technology and equipment needed to keep 280 million citizen-suspects under careful surveillance from the inside out. This is growing the Big Brother police state in America. Digital Security Systems of Miami have promoted its ConPass Security Body Scanner that can do virtual cavity searches using deeply pentrating X-Radiation.
Scanners have been exposed grealty. Some want to boycott these scanners, because they violate human privacy, they are a health risk, and it apart of a long list of tyranny. We don't need a control grid that eixsts so common in American society. Global warming hysteria, and other instruments are utilized by those among the government including Homeland Security in order to decrease personal freedom, while totalitarianism is permitted to be a reality. This oppressive scanning security could spread into shopping malls, public schools, and many other buildings. Now, the TSA and Homeland Security want people who opt out of body scanners to embrace a full pat down on their bodies. TV Networks are promoting these devices from CNN, FOX, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. Now, there are calls to renew the expiring and evil Patriot Act. Paranoia is running amok here in the West, when an aborted plane bombing attempt is exploited as means to fund military operations in Yemen. Homeland Security has gone too far agian by experiment with a bracelet shock device. If it's given unto all travelers, it can electric shock them if they deem suspicious (which classification can be subjective at times). “A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc. website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers,” reported the Washington Times. In the UK, body scanners can violate child pornography laws like the Protection of CHildren Act of 1978. This law makes it illegal to create an indecent image or a pseudo-image of a child. So, in the UK, they have no right to use these full body scanners according to Terri Dowty. She is from the Action for Rights of Chiildren. Michael Chertoff (whose security consulting agency called the Chertoff Group including a client that manufactures body scanners in airports). That is why Chertoff wants such inventions in airports nationwide. These scanners have health cornerns (especially if people who have previous x-ray scans, mammograms, or is a frequent flyer experience these scans). Dr. John Gofman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, Berkeley, maintains that there is no safe dose of ionizing radiation. Gofman argues that radiation from medical diagnostics and treatment is responsible for 50 per cent of cancers of 60 per cent of heart disease cases amongst Americans. “The fact, that X-ray doses are so seldom measured, reflects the false assumption that doses do not matter…[but] they do matter enormously. And each bit of additional dose matters, because any X-ray photon may be the one which sets in motion the high-speed, high energy electron which causes a carcinogenic or atherogenic [smooth muscle] mutation. Such mutations rarely disappear. The higher their accumulated number in a population, the higher will be the population’s mortality rates from radiation-induced cancer and ischemic heart disease,” states Gofman. Even some people like Ben Wallace said that scanners aren't a silver dullet in stopping such potential bombers. Ben Wallace is from the defense research organizaiton called QinetQ. We should disagree with these bull body scanners.
InfraGrad is another spy group. Matthew Rothschild from The Progressive at February 7, 2008 reported on InfraGrad. This is the first time of me hearing of this organization. InfraGrad is about 23,000 representatives of private industry working quietly with the FBI and the DHS (or the Department of Homeland Security). InfraGrad recieved terrorist threats before the public or even public officals do. They provide information to the government. The ACLU opposes this group, beacuse this group may be another spy organ of the federal government via corporations like the TIPS program. There is nothing wrong with legit corporations as long as they play by the rules and don't get involved in anti-liberty activites. Corporations shouldn't control all laws and the government. rhough The people and individuals ought to control the government and create the laws. This group has been involved in emergency drills (Curt Haugen is CEO of S'Curo Group admitted to this. Haugen himself is a InfraGrad member). One InfraGrad member told Rothschild that he has a right to shoot to kill in case of emergencies. That's strange, but this is the mentality of many anti-liberty, pro-police states members of government (not all people in government). Random searches, excessive surveillance, and militarized police are common place in many large cities of America. It's even worse in the United Kingdom. Simon Jenkins from Wednesday on February 6, 2008 had an article mentioned by The Guardian. Jenkins documents the police state action in the UK. For example, Jenkins wrote that some British officals private dealings between lawyer and client, and between MP and constituent, should no longer be considered immune from state surveillance. The monitoring organisation Privacy International cites Great Britian as having the worse record in Europe in terms of protecting privacy. Even Liberals in Britian want oversight, but oversight masks the issue. The real solution is the curtailing of these surveillance obstruction of our rights and a return to principles of warrants, laws, and other legitimate situations.
By Timothy
By Timothy
5 comments:
Brother, I believe from your comments that you have a good heart. However, It seems to me that you criticize others without knowing the full story. I write specifically of Peter Ruckman. Peter Ruckman is, as we all are, fallible. He is not God and would tell you so in a quick second if you asked. You criticized his stance on separation of the races. I believe that you would understand the biblical precedent for separation if you would read his, Ruckman's, commentary next to your KJB. God certainly calls us to be separate (2Cor 6:17) but His principle of separation begins as early as Gen 1:4, He separates the light from the dark, and continues to call for separation throughout His Word. God separates the races by sending Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the progenitors of the races, out in Gen 9. In Gen 9 God also curses Ham's son Canaan, widely accepted as the progenitor of what are the Middle Eastern races including the black races. He calls for, and separates, the races further in Gen 11:9 using language as a tool. I am sorry that your friend was offended but God's Word is true despite the fact that it offends us sometimes. It is the offense that we feel that should give us a clue that we are out of God's will in an area and need to change our lives to fit His Word.
I have never heard or read Pete Ruckman make a racist statement. It is my opinion that people look for reasons to be offended especially if it detracts from God's Word being spread. The truth's of the bible are hard to be heard by those who want to stay connected to the world and are only revealed by dedicated study and approaching God's Word without bias and preconception.
An old pastor of mine told me once that "When you respond to the light that God gives you, He will respond by giving you more light." It seems that you would be a good example of that judging by your commentary. You seem to have come a long way for a 26 year old.
As far as Dr. Ruckman's divorces are concerned, he will tell you, and has stated publicly before, that he didn't initiate or want the divorces. Unfortunately, in our society, a man doesn't have much choice when a woman wants to leave him.
You questioned Ruckman's stance on work's salvation vs. salvation by grace through faith. Your answer lies in the dispensational nature of the question. Hebrews 11 will give you a place to start in your quest for God's Truth. It's all about rightly dividing the Word. Look for who the book is written too, and the context. One thing is clear; Abraham lived a life of works because he believed and it was credited to him as righteousness. It will return to a works/faith salvation during the tribulation and works only salvation during the millennial reign. We can see that because during the millennial reign Christ will be present so faith will not be necessary. So grace through faith is over at that time.
Some doctrines are easily seen, like salvation by grace through faith during this dispensation, while others, like faith/works or works salvation take more diligent study. Joyce Meyer's error is easily seen in light of 1Tim 2:12. Most Christian's today would disagree but that doesn't make God's Word wrong does it? Would it be different if someone said "Oh that's not what that means."? No! It is what it is. God's Word stands alone as truth.
Anyway, I am probably starting to ramble as it is getting late here. Try not to mar your witness brother by spending your time paying attention to the hypocrites and pretenders. Their fruit will show them for who they are. Focus on just staying in the Word and maintaining your testimony. By the way, it is my opinion, that Pete Ruckman is the foremost biblical scholar in the world today. He has a miserable personality by worldly standards but that doesn't make him wrong. If you can get past all the bad press and compare his works with the KJB I think that your opinion will change. Mine did.
These words are interesting. I will make a response on what parts I agree and disagree with you on.
Peter Ruckman is proven wrong on many issues. His errors have been shown not just but by me, but others. Your alliegance to him is telling. Our alliegance is to God, not to a man. He is falliable, so that is all the more reason to construct authentic critiques of the man when it's fitting. Separation isn't monolithic as you seem to embrace.
In other words, some separation is good. We should separate from evil and we should separate from wickedness. Some separation is evil. One example is that we should separate from any opportunity to send the Gospel to people of a different race. There is nothing wrong with being appreciative of your background, but even the Bible says that you send the Gospel to all Creation.
This commandment from Jesus Christ isn't race-limited. That call to send the Gospel to all people includes all people you know. As for Shem, Japheth, and Ham, these people were call to spread their populations globally. There were never called to separate in a racist fashion to promote hatred. They were called to promote their languages and culture. How is that separatist when trade existed globally back then.
Also, there is no evidence that Canaan was the pregnitor of the black race. The black race came from Africa. Canaan existed in North Africa and Phoenicia. Also, Jesus Christ ended all curses from the Cross. A language is a tool. Yet, languages are wedges to promote bigotry. Tracy was offended. Yet, she was offended in a false way. There is no verse in the NT that promotes segregration that is based upon race. You can't show me a single verse saying that. That's the point. Also, black people made great, advanced contributions in the world stage spanning a very long time. Ruckman's hatred of black and his use of evil language is telling of his character.
You judge a man by their deeds and character, not by their skin color (which is God-given). You know this. Others have proven that Ruckman have said racist statements before. There is nothing wrong with using accurate studying in figuring out what the Bible says. It's wrong to exploit the words in the Bible to advance nefarious principles of bigotry and forced segregation by race.
A divorce isn't a death nail. I take your word on those divorces by Ruckman, yet that doesn't excuse his other errors. Joyce Meyer's false doctrines are easily decipherable.
By Timothy
Timothy, I agree that Pete Ruckman is fallible, however, I don't believe that he is on the separation of the races. Historically, archeologically, and geographically, Ham's descendent's did settle in the areas of the then undivided land mass that eventually became the Middle East Southern Europe, and Africa. At least that's what I was taught. But who can trust a scholar?
I totally agree with your statement concerning the spreading of the gospel to all people, and firmly believe that God wants all the people to come to a saving knowledge of Him through His Son. I do believe that separation is huge. God uses it throughout the bible and I believe that it is without a doubt one of His strongest doctrines.
I was not precise when I said that Canaan was the progenitor of the black races. I believe that Ham was the actual progenitor. Unfortunately this forum is not the appropriate place to delve into a subject that deep. Other readers might not have the discernment to understand some of the truth's that are related to that study, and I don't want to turn any milk drinkers off. But let it suffice to state that at that point in time there were only eight souls alive, if you are a bible believer, and so separation didn't need to be ordered by God specifically. Geographically, the four men would have needed to separate if for no other reason than the growth of their families and livestock would have moved them apart!
You commented on my allegiance to Dr. Ruckman, but my only true allegiance is to the Word of God. I am not blessed with a mind like some men, like Dr. Ruckman and others, and so I am learning, slowly by keeping my ears and eyes open and my mouth, well, more often now, shut. As I have stated, I have never heard Pete Ruckman use racist terminology. I have not read all your work but I will say the stuff I have read, for the most part, I like and agree with. I haven't seen you produce any evidence of the racist talk that you refer to, stating rather that, "others" have shown him to be in error. Well I will take your advice and let his extensive work speak for him until I hear and see his error for myself.
In Him.
Here are documented evidence of Ruckman's racist statements:
http://www.ruckmanism.org/racism
http://www.ruckmanism.org/content/critique-ruckmanism-ruckus-new-book-defense-peter-ruckman-0
http://www.ruckmanism.org/?q=overview
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/race.htm
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