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21 | Confirmation of Humbledygraces Warning | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205958 | ||
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22 | kiv Grt Commission of JC, how we see it | OT general | Tamara Brewington | 205180 | ||
Dear chessshores, Your question was; q: can we assume from this passage that the "spirit/essence of Prophecy, the Testimony of Jesus" (New Testament)is poured out by our Active Living Jehovah since the invisible things are clearly discerned (apostolic epistle) to every unbeliever through the glory of creation, the tell-it-all? The passage you cited from Proverbs has nothing what so ever to do with the spirit and essence of prophecy, the testimony of Jesus Christ. Proverbs were words of wisdom written by Solomon to guide the wise mand and to rebuke the foolish. Proverbs is prose language, not prophcy of any kind about any one. The gospels descrbing the spirit essence of prophecy, the testimony of Jesus as you like to call it, what ever that means to you, I am not sure, are full of 350 fulfilled prophecy, but this is not one of them. I am looking closely at your passage and do not find the words, the invisible things are clearly discerned, any where in the two passages you cite. Do you have another passage in Proverbs in mind here? You have included here an allussion to invisible things being cleary discerned to every unbeliever through the glory of creation, the tell it all, this was a revelation of God given to men which they rejected, but you are linking it to another type of revelation, Jesus Christ... Do you mean that the revelation of Jesus Christ was poured out by God after every unbeliever rejected the revelation of the creation by God, and that this is a result of a prophecy from Proverbs coming true? The first part of that is true, but that it was a prophecy from Proverbs is not. Take your time, craft your questions in parts if need be, you can have one scripture and several questions at once, it is all right to do. Where you go to write a question it will be suggeted to you to pick a verse first. Up top there are two boxes and you type in there your verse or book in question. The page will flip to a new page where you will then write your question. God's day to you, Tamara |
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23 | you didnt see the harmony of the Whole | OT general | Tamara Brewington | 205197 | ||
Dear chessshores, Because not until now did you explain the harmony of the whole as you were seeing it, thank you for clarigying what you were seeing. After looking at what you had to say, I see what you were getting at in the first place and happend to agree with you. Try this, when replying to someone, chose note instead of question, then the person you are replying to will receive the email, I found your reply by looking in unaswered quesitons. Tamara |
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24 | miracle in all 4 Gospels | NT general | Tamara Brewington | 203725 | ||
The feeding of the five thousand. | ||||||
25 | "living water"... | NT general | Tamara Brewington | 203726 | ||
The woman of Samaria at the well in John 4. | ||||||
26 | "Inner circle" - 3 disciples? | NT general | Tamara Brewington | 203727 | ||
Peter James and John, He took them to heal the daughter of Jairus and up the mountain for the transfiguration. | ||||||
27 | hai friends...... | NT general | Tamara Brewington | 203773 | ||
The act of confession to Priests in the Catholic Church stems from the doctrine of the Catholic church that the power to remit sins comes from Peter and the Apostles. The scripute they base this on is John 20:22,23 where Jesus has risen from the dead and breathed the Holy Spirit on the apostles and told them to go out and that if they forgave the sins of people they would be forgiven and that if the retained the sins of any they would not be forgiven. NO ONE ELSE in scripture was given permission to do this only the apostles. But the Catholic churh has decided based on that the aposltes layed hands on people in order to anoint them for offices in the church in all of Acts that the actual power Peter had as an apostle is being transferred down from hand to hand since the first century to forgive or retain sins, although God never said anyone else had, or would have the permission and power to do this. This is a Catholic doctrine based purely on churh beliefs and tradition and became a doctrine because it was practiced and not because the scriptures say to do it. James 5:16 says for believers to confess their sins to one another in order to be healed of afflictions, it does not say to confess to the apostles per say, but is referring to the elders who come to pray over the sick. But the Catholic church sees this verse as talking about priests anointing the sick instead of elders and therefore say it means that you should confess your sins to the priest. The first century church which should be our model had no priests but elders and deacons, pastor/ teachers and so on, but priests were an invention of the Catholic church traditions and do not come from scripture. There is only one high priest in the Bible and everyone who also believes is a priest according to the Bible. Here, look and see; I Peter 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. So you see we are all priests offering spiritual sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ. See here in, I John 2:1 where it says that if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. We don't have to go to anyone else to be forgiven, just to Jesus. There is only one high priest in heaven and on earth; see Hebrews 3:1 where it says that Jesus is the Apostle and high priest of our confession. So there is one high priest and the rest of the saved are all priests to God through Jesus Christ. The problem becomes are you going to believe the Catholic church doctrines for salvation above the word and blood of Jesus? The Catholic church teaches that if you don't believe in the authority of the pope and the Catholic church and their traditions you won't be saved. The Bible teaches that all you need to do to be saved is to Believe in Jesus; Acts 13:31 Believe in the Lord Jesus and be saved... Romans 10:9,10 where it says to confess that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that he died and was raised on the third day and you will be saved. The Catholic church has added tradition and said you can only get saved through Jesus plus... The work of the apostles and the type of power they had is confined to the first century and was not transferred hand to hand, you don't see any priest performing miracles or introducing whole groups types of converts like Jews, Gentiles, Samaritans, those who only had the repentance of John, or founding new churches to entire communities who never heard of Jesus do you? Think long and hard about another thing that is not in the Bible; Jesus said not to perform repetitious prayers(like the rosary) because they will not be heard, God said do not make an image of anyting in heaven or on the earth and worship it (like the statues and icons), Jesus said the only way to the Father is through Him and the apostles said Jesus is the only advocate (not Mary), the original language of the Greek in which the Bible was written said that Mary after she gave birth to Jesus had children by Joseph, it says Jesus had brothers and sisters by Mary, the Bible does not teach that Mary ascened into heaven, that is not in there; these are things that the Catholic church teaches that are not in anyone's Bible no matter what version you use you won't be finding them, it is the tradition of men who believe things that aren't true based off their traditions... | ||||||
28 | how old is this world? | Genesis | Tamara Brewington | 203701 | ||
I think that the first thing to consider when thinking about this very important question is to consider that if God was able to perform great miracles like the 10 plagues of Egypt, or the parting of the Red Sea and most importantly the advent of Jesus Christ as God with all the attendant proof that He is God, then there is no reason not to believe that God created the earth in 6 literal 24 hour days. Secondly, the word for day is Yom in Hebrew and refers in most instances to literal 24 hour periods as in Exodus 20:8 where Moses uses the word Yom as a literal 24 hour period (he never intended that the Sabbath was an extremely long day of a thousand years or so, he meant 24 hours and was referring to creaiton when he used the word Yom). Thirdly the verse in II Peter 3:8; there has been gross eisegesis by those who see this as one day being as a thousand years to God as referring to creation. The verse is specifically referring to God being long suffering to those who are perishing, down in verse 9, as that His long suffering is such that one day is as a thousand years, not that one day is a thousand years. When plain sense makes good sense seek no other sense, use this as a barometer when trying to figure out numbers in the Bible... It will yeild a basis for sound exegesis. The earth was created in six days, and God rested on the seventh, its just a miracle. | ||||||
29 | Need good book series...entire bible... | Gen 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204829 | ||
Dear Egosophist, Welcome to the forum! OK you have finished your masters and are going on to your Phd. So what you will be looking for are exegetical commentaries, assuming your masters was in a religious area that is, and that you are moving on to a Phd. in a religious area... If you are moving from a masters in a non religious area to a Phd. in a non religious area you would be starting off with a study oriented commentary (don't get a devotional commentary you will be sorely disappointed). There are all kinds of series out there, but you have to know which type of commentary would suit your needs. For a good study oriented commentary there are a whole lot of series and authors and many series have books by differing authors in their series; New Testament Commentary 12 volumes, by William Hendrickson and Simon J. Kesetmaker - from the Reformed position. Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament 10 volumes. The Boice Expositional Commentaries on CD ROM. John MacArthur's Bible Commentary Series For The New Testament a whole lot of volumes, several for some books of the NT. Great Author's Works Martin Luther's Works on CD ROM. The John Calvin Collection. The Arthur Pink Collection. The John Owen Collection. The Jonathan Edwards Timothy Dwight Collection. The Charles Spurgeon Collection. The John Piper Collection. The Some of the Great Church Fathers - this is a short list of an exhaustive list; The Works of Augustine. The Works of Polycarp. The Works of Justin Martyr. The Works of Tertullian. The Works of Iraneaus. The Works of Thomas Aquinas. A good exegetical commentary is hard to find unless you already know your authors, this becomes a major drawback. Here are some very well known exegetical commentary authors, they have not all written a complete commentary series but some of them have covered almost all the Bible; The Works of Godet. The Works of Spinoza. The Works of Lenski. The Works of Lightfoot. The Works of F.F.Bruce. Exegetical Commentary Series - these types of series are hard to find but there are a whole lot more than these. New International Critical Series - a very good series. Anchor Bible Series - a good series. Blacks Exegetical Commentary Series - some authors are better than others. The Bakes Exegetical Commentary Series - some series are better than this one. I am just a student at a little non accreditated Bible School, but the professor's there have been a treasure trove of information about good study sources. I went looking for you through two years worth of scattered notes to find this stuff, but if you are really serious, which it seems you are, and if you have the money, it is all worth investing in. Don't ever sell your religious text books to get back the money, once you invest in them, they will stand you by for a life time. eamil me at whatdoyoubelieve.com for a page worth of online bible study tools if you are really going to study for a whole year in preparation, if you don't have these tools already, they will be invaluable. I hope this helped, God Bless, Tamara |
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30 | Need good book series...entire bible... | Gen 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204868 | ||
Dear egosphist, By the way I like your handle, your bio in your profile was awfully non descript... Teacher progessor? Of? It would be nice to know. Let me scoop you a bit about how this site works... I am saying this after viewing the conversation that got started by your fisrt question and thinking you would be interested in what every body else had to say about it other than the folks who contacted you directly... Check it out... Go to any question that you have asked and scroll all the way down to the bottom of your screen, you will see something called threads. Check the date of your original post, look in there from time to time as members very often go down there to see what is up. Then they often click on a note that was an answer to your question and start talking to one another about your subject without contacting you. You can jump back in the conversation or just observe the conversation. Every day when you come in here click on the already answered questions in primary and look down at the threads, you can jump in at any point in the thread and respond to whoever posted a note in reply to the original question, or post a note to the original question in addition to whoever else decide to reply. Also go to where you see on any page a users name and click on it to read who they are and what they are about. If you have not filled in your profile in some detail yet please do. Also from time to time you will not be aware of a running conversation, go to the original front page, and on the left top is a window with every latest post whether question or note and you can click on and jump into what people were just talking about latest. Again, welcome to the forum Tamara |
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31 | what does verse 4 chapter 18 mean | Gen 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205613 | ||
Dear mhigh, What we have here is the first genealogy of the Bible that is the very beginning of the lineage of Jesus! What you have stumbled onto is the beginning of the line of Jesus, most folks think that it begins with Abraham because God have Him the promise that He would bless His seed in all the nations. Others trace it from David who was given the promise of an heir to the eternal throne. Here is what I found studying this; Genesis 5:1-32; Adam to Noah. Genesis 10:1-32; Noah to Joktan. The important person to trace here is Shem he carries the genealolgy of Jesus. Genesis 11:10-32; Shem to Abram. The imprtant person to trace here is Abram who becomes Abraham he carries the genealogy of Jesus. Genesis 12-49; Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to Judah. Mathew 1; take all the names after Judah and look then up them up in the Strong's Concordance to see what book they appear in all the way up to Jesus. Hope this helped, God Bless, Tamara |
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32 | holy spirit | Gen 1:2 | Tamara Brewington | 204082 | ||
Genesis 1:2, where the spirit of God was hovering over the water, second reference Genesis 1:26 God speaks to the other parts of Himself. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
33 | Biblical laws governing trees | Gen 1:28 | Tamara Brewington | 204027 | ||
Try looking at Genesis the first chapter where it talks about man making the earth to be in subjection to himself and and having dominion over the earth. And try Genesis 2 where God tells Adam to dress the gareden and keep it and not to eat of the tree of good and evil. I don't know of any other Biblical laws governing trees in the Bible other than Leviticus 19:23 where it says to count the fruit of the newly planted trees as forbidden for three years. Try this, go to www.blueletterbible.com and use the search engine there and type in trees, that is how I found the Leviticus text for you. God Bless, Tamara |
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34 | very few accept the Lord today | Gen 6:5 | Tamara Brewington | 205680 | ||
Dear Charlo, Genesis 6:5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Man's heart is infinitely wicked and no one on their own recognizance comes to God without the acitvity of the Holy Spirit, the cross and the Father to draw them to God and salvation. It has always been this way, there are less people who will come to Christ than there are those who will be going to hell. Hell is going to be bursting at the seams, but there will be a whole lot of room in heaven and the New Jerusalem because man is depraved. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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35 | Was it the Holy Spirit dictating? | Ex 33:11 | Tamara Brewington | 205470 | ||
Dear BarryB, Welcome to the forum! II Peter says this about what you are asking... :20 for no prophecy was ever an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. And Paul says; II Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness. The first scripture there is clearly saying that all the men who have given us this word we have were moved by the Holy Spirit to speak from God. So that would include every writer both OT and NT. The second scripture there is saying something interesting in the original Greek. It is saying all scripture is God breathed, literaly, God blew out the scriptures, God inspired the scriptures. That means that according to the first passage that it is the Holy Spirit who is God who is the one blowing out scripture to man. This is called plenary inspiration - this means that all scripture is inspired by God in that every word is inspired by God, not dictated to men, but every word is the inspired word of God. God used these men and their particular personalities and natural abilities to write thes thing in their own wording, by that very wording is inspired completely by God and is not of their own invention, although it is not dictated. God did not speak in their minds and tell them, write this, nor did He speak out loud dictiating exactly how to write what He had in mind. He told some of them to go write these things down, but did not say specifically go write this, go write that. He did inspire them what to say, not how to say though. Hope this clears it up! God's Day To You, Tamara This is called |
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36 | Was it the influence of | Ex 33:11 | Tamara Brewington | 205472 | ||
Dear BarryB, Number of things going on here... The Bible says, no man may see His face and live right? The Bible also says God is a spirit right? Question for you; did or did not Moses see God in the burning bush and speak with Him face to face? In what way did Moses see God in the burning bush? This is called anthrompomorphism - this means God deals with humans using modes of revelation that man can understand in human terms. Moses saw what appeared to be God in the burning bush, the Jews call this the Angel of God, a likeness of God where God is there for real speaking, but showing himself to men in a likeness of Himself. So when we say that Moses spoke to God face to face, God was really there, and most times as an invisible spirit, and someitmes the presence of the cloud would come and engulf the place where Moses was standing there talking to God. It was not a metaphor for God's thoughts in Moses mind, they met for real often and spoke as if face to face, Moses according to the Bible was hearing God's voice out loud in the air. This is what is meant by speaking face to face. An interesting study is Exodus 34 where Moses goes up the mountain to speak to God. Moses goes up and is engulfed in a cloud with the presence of God in it. Moses asks God if he can be allowed to see His glory in Exodus 33:18 and God says in verse 20-23 that He will put Moses in the rock and cover him with His hand and that Moses will see God's glory and that Moses will see His back. Moses asked to see God's glory, God speaks back in anthrompomorphic language saying He has a hand and a front and a back. But see God is a spirit, He may not have a hand or a back or a front, but that is up for debate because angels are spirits and they have spiritual bodies with fronts, backs, sides, hands, wings, and some have four fronts and no backs. So it is possible for God to have a spiritual body with hands, front and back, but we have no proof that this is so. We do know that what Moses asked to see was God's glory and that God was saying no man can see His face and live and that God said, I will let you see my backside. God meant the backside of His glory, which is what Moses asks about, His glory. So in Exodus 34 Moses is covered somehow by God, whether it was a real hand or a figurative hand as God's power to cover Moses and then Moses saw the tail end, the back side of God's glory. Some like to say it was the length of time that He was up there with God, or the quality of the relationship, but that doesn't add up. Moses had a quality relationship with God for a long time and Moses spoke to God face to face all the time, the only real difference between those times and this time was that Moses saw God's glory, the back end of it. This surely means that at least we can say God actually has a back and a front to His glory as a spirit. After Moses sees God's glory, he is suffused with God's glory and he goes back down the mountain with hi face shinning. Hope this answers it. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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37 | Was it the influence of | Ex 33:11 | Tamara Brewington | 205473 | ||
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38 | Jewish Calendar ? | Leviticus | Tamara Brewington | 204796 | ||
Dear Lookinforacity, The Christian Calendar The Christian calendar is the term traditionally used to designate the calendar commonly in use, although it originated in pre-Christian Rome. The Christian calendar has years of 365 or 366 days. It is divided into 12 months that have no relationship to the motion of the moon. In parallel with this system, the concept of weeks groups the days in sets of 7. Two main versions of the Christian calendar have existed in recent times: The Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar. The difference between them lies in the way they approximate the length of the tropical year and their rules for calculating Easter. What is the Julian calendar? The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC. It was in common use until the late 1500s, when countries started changing to the Gregorian calendar (section 2.2). However, some countries (for example, Greece and Russia) used it into the early 1900s, and the Orthodox church in Russia still uses it, as do some other Orthodox churches. In the Julian calendar, the tropical year is approximated as 365 1 to 4 days is 365.25 days. This gives an error of 1 day in approximately 128 years. The approximation 365 1to4 is achieved by having 1 leap year every 4 years. 2.1.1 What years are leap years? The Julian calendar has 1 leap year every 4 years: Every year divisible by 4 is a leap year. However, the 4-year rule was not followed in the first years after the introduction of the Julian calendar in 45 BC. Due to a counting error, every 3rd year was a leap year in the first years of this calendar's existence. The leap years were: 45 BC, 42 BC, 39 BC, 36 BC, 33 BC, 30 BC, 27 BC, 24 BC, 21 BC, 18 BC, 15 BC, 12 BC, 9 BC, AD 8, AD 12, and every 4th year from then on. Authorities disagree about whether 45 BC was a leap year or not. There were no leap years between 9 BC and AD 8 (or, according to some authorities, between 12 BC and AD 4). This period without leap years was decreed by It is a curious fact that although the method of reckoning years after the (official) birthyear History of the Gregorian Calendar The Gregorian calendar resulted from a perceived need to reform the method of calculating dates of Easter. Under the Julian calendar the dating of Easter had become standardized, using March 21 as the date of the equinox and the Metonic cycle as the basis for calculating lunar phases. By the thirteenth century it was realized that the true equinox had regressed from March 21 its supposed date at the time of the Council of Nicea,325 to a date earlier in the month. As a result, Easter was drifting away from its springtime position and was losing its relation with the Jewish Passover. Over the next four centuries, scholars debated the correct time for celebrating Easter and the means of regulating this time calendrically. The Church made intermittent attempts to solve the Easter question, without reaching a consensus. By the sixteenth century the equinox had shifted by ten days, and astronomical New Moons were occurring four days before ecclesiastical New Moons. At the behest of the Council of Trent, Pope Pius V introduced a new Breviary in 1568 and Missal in 1570, both of which included adjustments to the lunar tables and the leap-year system. Pope Gregory XIII, who succeeded Pope Pius in 1572, soon convened a commission to consider reform of the calendar, since he considered his predecessor's measures inadequate. The recommendations of Pope Gregory's calendar commission were instituted by the papal bull Inter Gravissimus, signed on 1582 February 24. Ten days were deleted from the calendar, so that 1582 October 4 was followed by 1582 October 15, thereby causing the vernal equinox of 1583 and subsequent years to occur about March 21. And a new table of New Moons and Full Moons was introduced for determining the date of Easter. Subject to the logistical problems of communication and governance in the sixteenth century, the new calendar was promulgated through the Roman-Catholic world. Protestant states initially rejected the calendar, but gradually accepted it over the coming centuries. The Eastern Orthodox churches rejected the new calendar and continued to use the Julian calendar with traditional lunar tables for calculating Easter. Because the purpose of the Gregorian calendar was to regulate the cycle of Christian holidays, its acceptance in the non-Christian world was initially not at issue. But as international communications developed, the civil rules of the Gregorian calendar were gradually adopted around the world. Anyone seriously interested in the Gregorian calendar should study the collection of papers resulting from a conference sponsored by the Vatican to commemorate the four-hundredth anniversary of the Gregorian Reform. |
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39 | Disobedience to God - Why? | Num 20:11 | Tamara Brewington | 204357 | ||
The exact answer is becuase God told Moses in verse 8 to speak to the rock, not strike the rock. In verses 9-12 Moses is angry calling Israel rebels and in anger strikes the rock twice instead of speaking to the rock to get the water for a complaining Israel. God tells Moses because you did not believe Me to treat Me holy (speak to the rock, not strike) you will not bring the assembly into the land I am giving them. God Bless, Tamara |
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40 | laying out fleece vs divining | Judg 6:38 | Tamara Brewington | 205702 | ||
Dear Believer53, The laying out of fleece was actually something the Lord decided to answer tha Gideon did out of a lack of faith. Think about it a little -Gedeon says If you will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken, etc." We can stop right there, Gideon says something very important here, he says, "as You have spoken". God had already told Gideon what He would do. Then in the next verse 37 Gideon divises a test to confirm what God already promised to do! Let's not even get into you shall not test the Lord your God... God decides in His own mercy and sovereign will to answer Gideon's request for a confirmation of His word to Gideon. That is not diving anything that is asking God to confirm His word and only becuase God decided to answer Gideon are we hearing about in the Bible. Not to teach us to divine things, but as an expample of God interacting with man in a miraculous way that was never, ever repeated, nor will it be. This is what the Bible says about diviners, which would include dousing as dousing as it is a form of divination; Deuteronomy 18:10-13 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. Deuteronomy 18:14 For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has nto allowed you to do so. Dousing is done by having one with the power of divination go out and point a stick at the ground in order to "divine" where the water is. Persons are said to be born with this power, it is said this power runs in families and the like. I would say this - being a psychic of any kind is done by the power of the devil and sometimes quite effectively and there are many things folks may be able to truly acccomplish by the power of the devil. I am sure that being a pychic can be real because I used to be one before I got delieverd from the power of the devil. I used to be able to walk up to folks and know their personall business down to details I should not be knowing, I married into a family that did this on the side for a living part time and they would sit there in the fanciest hotels where there were long long lines of people waiting to be read for ten dollars a pop. The power of the devil has deceived many for century upon century with impressive feats of knowledge and divinations of all kinds, dousing is just one of many that does work, but is evil. The devil has a kingdom of which he is ruler and it is called the world forces of this darkness, called so by Paul, it is also said by Jesus that the earth is the kingdom of the devil. This stuff is very real and not all supersition based on nothing, but it is indeed evil and you should gaurd your heart and your very life from it by studying the Bible to find out every truth in it. God's Day To You, Just a evil sinner who got saved by His Infinte Grace, Tamara |
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