Pharmakeia...in the bible

If the purpose isn't to impress your peers, you would practice your religion alone, in private.

Crusader wrote:When referring to prediction over prophecy, I was referring to Revelation 11:9.  The 2 prophets of God were killed and their bodies were left in the street.  They were viewed by people of every nation and tongue.  People all over the world were celebrating and exchanging gifts.  

I'm not referring to the prophecy that this will happen.  I'm referring to the ability for everyone in the world to hear about their deaths and see their bodies during a 3.5 day period.  That would require something like television or internet.  The Bible predicted television or internet or something that can spread this news all around the world so quickly.

I have heard LOTS of 'pastors, preachers and prophets' claim that television and the Internet, (man made inventions), would facilitate what the Bible prophesies as future events. The problem I have with this is that God does not need humans nor a human invention to make His prophesies a reality. God created the Universe and can certainly allow everyone to 'see' whatever He wants with NO human concocted anything!

Lummy wrote:If the purpose isn't to impress your peers, you would practice your religion alone, in private.

was that for me?

RV wrote:

Crusader wrote:When referring to prediction over prophecy, I was referring to Revelation 11:9.  The 2 prophets of God were killed and their bodies were left in the street.  They were viewed by people of every nation and tongue.  People all over the world were celebrating and exchanging gifts.  

I'm not referring to the prophecy that this will happen.  I'm referring to the ability for everyone in the world to hear about their deaths and see their bodies during a 3.5 day period.  That would require something like television or internet.  The Bible predicted television or internet or something that can spread this news all around the world so quickly.

I have heard LOTS of 'pastors, preachers and prophets' claim that television and the Internet, (man made inventions), would facilitate what the Bible prophesies as future events. The problem I have with this is that God does not need humans nor a human invention to make His prophesies a reality. God created the Universe and can certainly allow everyone to 'see' whatever He wants with NO human concocted anything!

well that is true but how often does God make use of human 'invention'. AND intervention.  God's word says that he puts us where he wants us in a particular time and place.  That certainly indicates to me that he uses human INterVention. AND. look at the instances where he actually raises up a man and teaches him the lessons he wants him to learn in order to use him in a particular time and place. Additionally and off hand........David and other writers of psalms say that God knew them while they were being put together in their mothers' wombs.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:American Indians smoked Peyote in order to communicate with the spirits and creator.

I am certain that they communicated with 'Spirits'...

Calypso Jones wrote:Tlaib is all for abortion.  She is muslim....although this:

Personal life
In 1998, at the age of 22, Tlaib married Fayez Tlaib. They have two sons, Adam and Yousif. The couple have since divorced. In 2018 a campaign spokesperson referred to Tlaib as a single mother.[91]

In September 2018, The New York Times reported that Tlaib walked into her family's mosque to express her gratitude for the opportunity to run for Congress by saying "Today I was being thankful, embracing how incredibly blessed I am to grow up here, to have this tremendous opportunity...Sometimes I say 'Thank her' because my Allah is She."[92] The Detroit Free Press reported that, although she recognizes that some in her faith community consider her not "Muslim enough",[1] she believes that "Allah ... understands"[1] and "knows that I am ... giving back and doing things that I think are reflective of Islam"

She's all for Killing The Infidel - as she's been told to do, in that profane Q'oran that Satan gave to Mohammed.

This is one way. Make the godless Infidel women wallow in their sins. They will shrink in number, and be crippled with guilt and mental illness...and thus receptive to the profane blasphemy of Mohammed.

it also decreases our population.

Calypso Jones wrote:

RV wrote:

Crusader wrote:When referring to prediction over prophecy, I was referring to Revelation 11:9.  The 2 prophets of God were killed and their bodies were left in the street.  They were viewed by people of every nation and tongue.  People all over the world were celebrating and exchanging gifts.  

I'm not referring to the prophecy that this will happen.  I'm referring to the ability for everyone in the world to hear about their deaths and see their bodies during a 3.5 day period.  That would require something like television or internet.  The Bible predicted television or internet or something that can spread this news all around the world so quickly.

I have heard LOTS of 'pastors, preachers and prophets' claim that television and the Internet, (man made inventions), would facilitate what the Bible prophesies as future events. The problem I have with this is that God does not need humans nor a human invention to make His prophesies a reality. God created the Universe and can certainly allow everyone to 'see' whatever He wants with NO human concocted anything!

well that is true but how often does God make use of human 'invention'. AND intervention.  God's word says that he puts us where he wants us in a particular time and place.  That certainly indicates to me that he uses human INterVention.  AND. look at the instances where he actually raises up a man and teaches him the lessons he wants him to learn in order to use him in a particular time and place.   Additionally and off hand........David and other writers of psalms say that God knew them while they were being put together in their mothers' wombs.  

How does that jibe with this witch's vetch which Pfizer and Moderna cooked up?

How can the one be God's hand and not the other?

We have good and we have evil. In this world of soft living, hundreds of thousands of rentier-rich; more rich that are idle in other ways...inheritance, easy work, such as money-changing and trading over the Interwebs...and these spoiled, idle, mentally-weak people are able to never meet someone who had to stay up all night walking a beat, or who had to go into a slaugherhouse and gut steers, eight hours a day, for those rich...

...that, and zero-cost money available with CTRL+PRNT...deviates in government can conjure it up to reward their friends, pay for social-engineering and even punitive programs, designed to manipulate, mess with, or injure **THOSE PEOPLE**...what you have is a society based on idle evil, on spoiled rich people looking for sexual novelty, for massive social conflict, for their entertainment...and of course, to gain further seigniorage out of the gusher of New Money.

As with the Great Flood...as with Sodom and Gomorrah...I don't think there is any salvaging. But why, if God is planning so intricately, why did it have to happen this way? Why was there not a wise man (there were, many of them) that emerged as a leader (not since Reagan) who culd STOP this insanity, and change course?