We are in end times. Really looking forward to new times.
The truth about sin
The difference between (medieval) human law and God's law is that God's law is natural law (ROMANS 1:20, COLOSSIANS 1:16-17) and human law derived from the whims of some king who simply followed his own appetites (rather like Korah, the cousin of Moses).
Natural law is what binds atoms into molecules and molecules into objects. Natural law brings natural compounds together and forms living creatures (Genesis 2:7). Natural law governs the biosphere and forms each creature according to its personal constitution and its place relative to the others (Psalm 50:10-11, 104:10-14, MATTHEW 6:26). Likewise, God's law aims for people to grow into fruit-bearing adults who fit perfectly into the greater global human ecosphere. Unfortunately, we're all stuck in this transitional period between a humanity consisting of tribal chiefdoms and an integrated global economy where everybody is free โ which is why Christ is slowly but surely bringing an end to all rule and dominion (Daniel 7:27, 1 CORINTHIANS 15:24).
Note (the literal meaning of the name Christ is Anointed, but practically it means much rather Inaugurated or even Highest Earthly Rank. Politically speaking, it describes the Individual's Autonomy, as opposed to a political system in which one person or a few people exert absolute power over the rest (read our article on the name Antichrist).)
Sinning has nothing to do with breaking some formal law and everything with getting in nature's way (EPHESIANS 4:30). Sinning has nothing to do with being guilty and everything with being in a situation in which you don't belong or even want to be. Kings, popes and CEO's will want you to believe that sin has to do with being uppity, but capitalism is of course the greatest enslaver of all, and the imposition of poverty the most evil of evils (Zechariah 13:5, 1 TIMOTHY 6:10).
http://www.abarim-publications.com/DictionaryG/a/a-m-a-r-t-a-n-om.html
The number found in Revelations, for instance, is not 6-6-6, which would indeed transliterate to w-w-w in Hebrew, and we all would be in trouble, but 666; six-hundred sixty-six (chi-xi-sigma), which can not be transliterated into Hebrew because the Hebrew alphabet stops at the letter taw, which stands for 400. The number 600 is assigned to the final form of mem, that's when it occurs as last letter of a word.
The problem lies not in humans choosing to be carnists but in "how" humans treat the animals in raising them and in slaughter.
After the flood in Noahโs time, God gave humanity permission to eat meat (Genesis 9:2-3). God has never rescinded this permission.
Nor as God ever said it was ok to be cruel to animals.
Smile Pepe.
Knowing where we erred and working on making ourselves a better person is a really good thing.
Knowing where we erred with our local and global community and working on making the world a better place is an awesome thing.
In through all the truths coming to light across all spectrum of sciences and religions, gaining back our personal power is priceless.
SATAN
The masculine noun ืฉืื (satan), meaning adversary. This noun occurs about three dozen times in the Bible and only a few of these occurrences denote the big bad guy: 1 Kings 11:14, "And YHWH raised up ืฉืื (satan) to Solomon; Hadad the Edomite . . . " 1 Kings 11:23, "And Elohim raised up ืฉืื (satan) to him; Rezon son of Eliada . . . "
In Numbers we even see this noun ascribed to the Angel of YHWH: Numbers 22:22, " . . . and the Angel of YHWH set Himself in the road as ืฉืื (satan) . . . " And verse 32, "I have come as ืฉืื (satan) because your way is contrary to Me".
In the New Testament Jesus rebukes Peter by saying, 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, "Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men."(MATTHEW 16:23), illustrating the difficulty that translators run into when the same word is translated sometimes as a regular verb or noun and sometimes as a defining personal name. Every now and then Jesus' words are transliterated from Aramaic and it is highly unlikely that He personified Peter with the devil.
The denominative verb ืฉืื (satan) meaning to resist or be an adversary. This verb is used six times in the Bible, for instance in Psalm 38:20, where it reads: ' . . . they ืฉืื (satan) me because good follows me.'
The feminine noun ืฉืื ื (sitna), denoting a kind of written accusation, or a Cease And Desist notice. This noun is used only once in the Bible, in Ezra 4:6.
NOBSE Study Bible Name List reads Adversary. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names does not translate.
Regular dictionary:
adยทverยทsarยทy
noun
one's opponent in a contest, conflict, or dispute.
"Davis beat his old adversary in the quarterfinals"
synonyms: opponent, rival, enemy, antagonist, combatant, challenger, contender, competitor, opposer; More
CHRIST and ANTICHRIST
The noun christ, on which the word antichrist obviously hinges, comes from the common verb creo, which means to anoint (as the Hebrew verb mesah, from which comes the noun messiah). Anointing was the act of pouring oil over someone's head in order to indicate this person's social position. People that were anointed always stood on top of the hierarchical ladder โ kings, high-priests and prophets โ and the only thing these people had in common was that they were not subjected to any other human person. Anointed ones were sovereign and worked for God alone, and they were to seek the ways of the Creator and pass them on to the people.
The most general definition of the antichrist therefore is that which rules and directs the world without the authority that comes with the knowledge of its purpose and destiny.
http://www.abarim-publications.com/End_Of_Time/Antichrist_666.html
Always go to the original source of the information if you want the truth. Do your own research - whether it is religion before Christianity, the making of Christianity, the making of the bible (the author's own books of the Encyclopedia article because they changed aspects of his work to correspond to established views).
I found this site during my own search for the truth. One of the good things about it is they actually use theological dictionaries to explain what the names in the bible mean.
http://www.abarim-publications.com/
see >>1532743
They are explaining the KJV. Much has been lost in translation and theory.
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Scriptures are worth checking out as well.
About the Nag Hammadi Library (The Nag Hammadi Scriptures)
The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient books (called "codices") containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary "Gnostic Gospels" โ texts once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy" โ scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth. The discovery and translation of the Nag Hammadi library, initially completed in the 1970's, has provided impetus to a major re-evaluation of early Christian history and the nature of Gnosticism.
http://gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html
Leaven in the Bible
Leaven is a fungus that freely flows through the air and settles on everything, like living dust. It feeds on sugars and produces carbon dioxide, which explains bubbles in bread and beer. Archeology shows that leaven was domesticated thousands of years ago, when people managed to isolate and cultivate strands of leaven that resulted in the best beer and bread. The key to the process was to not use all the leavened dough for bread, but to leave some behind. That remnant or residue was then injected into the next batch of dough, and in time this next batch would have become fully permeated by the original leaven.
The word for bread (ืืื, lehem) was also used to denote food in general, and even all things that sustains a person or even a society. The smallest trace of leaven will eventually find its way through the whole batch of dough, and produces a gas (ืจืื, ruah, meaning wind or spirit) which makes the bread more tasty and easier to eat and digest. Hence leaven acquired the strong symbolic meaning of what we today would call a fad or fashion, or even a "going viral": a full fledged movement of passion (whether joyous or riotous) that grew out of a relatively small concept and pervades the whole of society.
There's nothing intrinsically bad about this social leaven; it just happens to be the way our world works. Life without social leaven would be boring and not very effective, but, as with any kind of fast track, sometimes things go wrong and the wrong kind of info creeps in (smoking is cool, adultery is fun, etcetera). In that case it's sometimes best to condemn the whole strand of leaven, and start all over with a fresh batch. That's obviously what the Hebrews did when they left Egypt (Exodus 12:8), but it's also what Descartes attempted when he reduced all knowledge to his famous cogito ergo sum.
Jesus compared the evangel to leaven; it starts out as a simple message of love and forgiveness but spreads through the world like leaven through dough, until it forms into a universal and spiritual kingdom (MATTHEW 13:33). Unfortunately, humans like bad news much more than good news and most of the winds that blow our world are negative (nearly all of the violence we believe in comes from our television; the real world outside our windows is nearly entirely at peace). Hence Jesus warned His audience for the leaven of Herod and that of the Pharisees (MARK 8:15), and Paul warned for the leaven of misinformation (GALATIANS 5:9).
Paul further spoke of the leaven of boasting and arrogance (1 CORINTHIANS 5:6) and explained that the old leaven must be cleaned out and a start must be made with a new, unleavened lump, "just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the [Passover-] Feast, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with bread without leaven, the bread of sincerity and truth" (1 CORINTHIANS 5:7-8).
After all, knowledge puffs up (ฯฯ ฯฮนฮฟฯ, phusioo), but love builds up (1 CORINTHIANS 8:1); knowledge is the gas, love is the bread.
http://www.abarim-publications.com/Dictionary/si/si-a-r.html
I never justified killing for taste. Give your head a shake.
And humans have been eating meat for well over 50,000 yrs. Do your research.
Cripes. You are just as bad as the biblefags who can't stop talking about entities who never existed.
It is what we are feeding the animals and injecting them with that is causing health problems to humans.
It is the chemicals we are adding to our foods for long shelf life that is causing our health problems.
But in the end, it is the choices humans have made for convenience that has caused all the problems with our health including medication instead of looking after their health.
Humans need a psychological and spiritual re-set.
Definitely not to hold an intellectual conversation with anyone who does not follow his beliefs.