Hello World:
I want to say again that the English name of Jesus is true. The following scriptures refer to Jesus and the power of His name, and believing on His name.
Scripture Reference: St. Mark Chapter 16: Verse 16; Jesus said, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be damned."
Verse 17; "And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;"
Verse 18; "They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."
Verse 19; "So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, He was received up into Heaven, and sat on the right hand of God."
Verse 20; "And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the Word with signs following. A-men'."
Isaiah 53:5; "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed."
Okay, to everyone Jesus is alive and Jesus is real. There is power in the name of Jesus. Jesus is the True Messiah. All other Messiah wanna-bees are false. Jesus name is higher than any other name, except Yahweh, because He and Yahweh, the Heavenly Father, are One with the Holy Spirit. However, there is no other name given among men and women and children whereby they must be saved, but by the name of Jesus.
Now I want to emphasize some things about the name of Jesus. Again, as I mentioned before, Jesus is not Zeus and is not related to Zeus. Zeus or Nimrod is a phony, dead, and has no power. Again, Jesus is alive and has all power given to him of the Heavenly Father.
Jesus saves, but He does more than save. In Jesus name you are healed according to the scriptures I gave above. By His stripes you are healed. Jesus also said that whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name He will do it. Jesus said in His name they that believe will cast out devils.
Great and powerful things, wonderful things happen in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus people are saved, healed of sicknesses and diseases. In other words, their physical body's are repaired and made whole again. Again, the name of Jesus restores complete physical health.
The name of Jesus brings deliverance. You say from what? The name of Jesus brings deliverance from every thing or anything that is bad or not of God. The name of Jesus delivers you from oppression, depression and possession. The name of Jesus delivers you from any and all problems and any demons, bad persons and bad situations.
Again, good things happen when you use the name of JESUS. Satan or the Devil can NOT stand the name of Jesus, so you know there is goodness, truth and life in Jesus. If Satan does not like Jesus name then there is nothing bad in it, but again all things good and Godly in the truest sense. I will say more about Jesus name in part four on the way.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Jesus Name In English Is True Part 2
Hello World:
I am continuing to talk about that Jesus' name in English is true here in part 2 of this series. From what I said last time concerning using several personal names, as an example here. I have several names that I can be called by that I accept. I also have several nicknames. If you know me, you can call me at any given point by any of those names.
So, because I have several names, and not one name, I will turn and respond to any of my names if called, not just one. If someone makes up a nickname for me that I do not like, I will tell them not to call me that. You and me have to agree in a language on a decent meaning of my name or nickname, before I accept what you call me. The same with the Lord. You have to know the Lord, to know what He prefers to be called.
Another thing, in addition to my regular names, I have different names or titles given to me from God, as I mentioned some time back. I have a certain name or title of God, depending on what I am doing for Him. Those titles and names are spiritually symbolic, and different from my regular names. The titles and names of God are automatic between me and God, and He does not have to call me by them. Me and Him knows, what I am to Him and what I am doing.
Also, most of the time He, God, does not call me "son" or "child". These things are automatic between us. Most of the time, God just starts speaking or showing me something, and I know it is Him. It is kind of like we are already in conversation.
Getting back to the name of Jesus. I looked at how scholars and other experts have pieced and paired Jesus with Zeus. They even pronounce Jesus as "Gee-Soos". Again, as mentioned before some scholars look at the Greek form of Jesus, Iesous, and say that the "sus" part of Jesus is Zeus. However, upon my further study of this, there is a good possibility that is not the case, and that the scholars got the actual pronounciation and end spelling of Zeus wrong. Now, I know Spanish speaking people say "soos", or "Hey-soos", but me speaking English never say or said "Gee-Soos".
I pronounce His name in English two ways; Gees-Us, as in "US" as a group of people; or I may say "GeeZus", or "GeeZ-Zus". In other words, I go up high "Gee", then falling down with "uh" sound, not smooth across "sooce". The key thing I want to stress is that I do not say "soos', "sooce" or "oos". "US" is different from "EUS", and ZUS is not EUS, and therefore different from Zeus. Most other English speaking Christians say it like "Gee-Sus" or "Gee-Zus" a well. Through that kind of pronunciation there should NOT be any valid derrogatory meaning or interpretation against the true Savior.
Also in continuing, it should be seen that the S, in the middle of Jesus, can be pronounced softly, or hard like Z; but still end with US, not EUS. So, no, I do not call to Zeus the sun-god, nor do I call the true Lord and Messiah a horse; Nor do I ever mean to. Again, people who truly believe, pronounce his name with pure meaning in their heart's to God, and that includes Spanish speaking Believers.
I personally know in English that the name of Jesus is approved of God. When I pray to the God, in Jesus name, God answers me. God does good things when I use Jesus name. When I use Jesus name, I know who I am calling to, and I am confident in who I am calling to. He, Jesus, is Faithful an True. I will go to part three on the true applications and results of using His name next.
I am continuing to talk about that Jesus' name in English is true here in part 2 of this series. From what I said last time concerning using several personal names, as an example here. I have several names that I can be called by that I accept. I also have several nicknames. If you know me, you can call me at any given point by any of those names.
So, because I have several names, and not one name, I will turn and respond to any of my names if called, not just one. If someone makes up a nickname for me that I do not like, I will tell them not to call me that. You and me have to agree in a language on a decent meaning of my name or nickname, before I accept what you call me. The same with the Lord. You have to know the Lord, to know what He prefers to be called.
Another thing, in addition to my regular names, I have different names or titles given to me from God, as I mentioned some time back. I have a certain name or title of God, depending on what I am doing for Him. Those titles and names are spiritually symbolic, and different from my regular names. The titles and names of God are automatic between me and God, and He does not have to call me by them. Me and Him knows, what I am to Him and what I am doing.
Also, most of the time He, God, does not call me "son" or "child". These things are automatic between us. Most of the time, God just starts speaking or showing me something, and I know it is Him. It is kind of like we are already in conversation.
Getting back to the name of Jesus. I looked at how scholars and other experts have pieced and paired Jesus with Zeus. They even pronounce Jesus as "Gee-Soos". Again, as mentioned before some scholars look at the Greek form of Jesus, Iesous, and say that the "sus" part of Jesus is Zeus. However, upon my further study of this, there is a good possibility that is not the case, and that the scholars got the actual pronounciation and end spelling of Zeus wrong. Now, I know Spanish speaking people say "soos", or "Hey-soos", but me speaking English never say or said "Gee-Soos".
I pronounce His name in English two ways; Gees-Us, as in "US" as a group of people; or I may say "GeeZus", or "GeeZ-Zus". In other words, I go up high "Gee", then falling down with "uh" sound, not smooth across "sooce". The key thing I want to stress is that I do not say "soos', "sooce" or "oos". "US" is different from "EUS", and ZUS is not EUS, and therefore different from Zeus. Most other English speaking Christians say it like "Gee-Sus" or "Gee-Zus" a well. Through that kind of pronunciation there should NOT be any valid derrogatory meaning or interpretation against the true Savior.
Also in continuing, it should be seen that the S, in the middle of Jesus, can be pronounced softly, or hard like Z; but still end with US, not EUS. So, no, I do not call to Zeus the sun-god, nor do I call the true Lord and Messiah a horse; Nor do I ever mean to. Again, people who truly believe, pronounce his name with pure meaning in their heart's to God, and that includes Spanish speaking Believers.
I personally know in English that the name of Jesus is approved of God. When I pray to the God, in Jesus name, God answers me. God does good things when I use Jesus name. When I use Jesus name, I know who I am calling to, and I am confident in who I am calling to. He, Jesus, is Faithful an True. I will go to part three on the true applications and results of using His name next.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Jesus Name In English Is True Part 1
Hello World:
Post about getting and not getting to Heaven coming soon, and I have "added" a post to making it a 8-part series instead of 7. There is some confusion as to whether the name Jesus is the true name of the Messiah or Son of Yahweh, God. So, I am going to explain why the name of Jesus as it is in English is the true name of the Messiah and Son of God.
I will also talk about Jesus as spoken in other languages. Because of the growing confusion about this, I have decided by God's leading to make several post parts in a series on this, in an attempt to "not" further confuse people, but to give people a clear understanding of what God is looking for from a more spiritual approach.
This post series is a spin-off to my comments at the very bottom section of my blog page. I did some research into the name of Jesus. I am not going to go into the theology of the letter "J" that was not accounted for in Hebrew back during biblical times before the 17th century. I already mentioned some things about that awhile back in a previous post.
Depending on how you translate "AND" pronounce Jesus, you can come up with different meanings. For instance in Spanish they pronounce Jesus as "hey-soos", which in Hebrew is Yeshua which could mean hey horse? However, in Spanish Jesus, "Hey-soos", is a personal pronoun or a specific name of a person who is referred to as the Messiah. Also, in Spanish, "El Salvador" means "the Savior", which is not as specific in identity, but in this post refers to the Savior of man, Jesus.
In Greek, Jesus is Iesous in which some seem to think that the soos part supposedly mean Zeus? Also, the Hebrew has another meaning. So depending, the Messiah's name could be mispoken? Notice how I adding question marks to some of those meanings, because when Believers speak the Messiah's name in different languages, it is likely to "not" be mispoken. True Believers definetely do not "intend" to mispeak the name of the Messiah.
Also, there seems to be some confusion on the Yah and the Yesh parts of Yahshua and Yeshua. Then you have the ushua, ushuah and other uahs. Several Hebrew interpretations contradict each other and use both Yah and Yesh when talking about the Messiah. That is why in my comments at the very bottom of my blogpage, I say the controversial information surrounding Jesus name is inconclusive. because some Hebrew scholars say Yeshua, and other Yahshua, and others say Yahushuah.
Now it seems clear though to me from all Hebrew meanings that Yah stand consistently in meaning for Almighty God. With Shua and ushua(h)s meaning salvation. Therefore, I tend to lean more towards Yahshua. Yahshua is a shortened version of Yahushuah, and almost everywhere you see me mention Jesus, I put Yahshua there, next to it. Because consistently in Hebrew terminology it make sense as in relation to Yahweh.
Upon further analysis, I can determine that I can not go wrong using the name of the Lord and Messiah as Yahshua. However, that is not the end of the story.
Let me say that depending on the language(s) and the "intent of your heart" saying Yeshua can actually not be bad as I pointed out earlier how some interpret that to mean a horse. Now, I think I told you all I could be a very good lawyer, so here we go. You can take the word and meaning of the word "Yes" in English, which means "I affirm" or "I agree".
Then you take the Hebrew word "shua" and its' meaning, which is "salvation". Then you can combine the two with one "s" and say a combination of words and meanings from two different languages which means "Yes to salvation". Or "I agree with salvation", and Jesus you are my salvation from God!
Also, you can take or say "Ye", which in English means you, and combine the shua and come up with "You are salvation". Then come the question of who is the "you" that you are talking about? The "You" is the Son of Yahweh, God, who has come in the flesh and died for our sins, but is now risen from the dead and is seated on the right hand of the Father in Heaven. That "You" is Yeshua(English and Hebrew name combination).
That would clear up the confusion on that; if people looked at Yeshua/Jesus that way, in a pure sense with a pure heart, and not trying to be funny and offensive or derogatory, or looking to condemn someone else because they say something, and are not as knowledgeable about Hebrew as others.
If you look at what I just finished saying above, you take "Yeshua" to a much higher level. You are saying, "Yes, God you are my salvation". You are saying, " Yes God, I accept you as my savior". Now again, I can say Yahshua or Yeshua; I prefer to say Jesus most of all. However, if you say Yahushua, Yahushuah, Yahshua, Yeshua or like my Dake's Bible say "Yehoshua", those names to "me" refer to the True Lord and Savior Jesus, the Son of Yahweh, Jehovah. Now, I may not know what you truly want those names to mean when you use them. I can only tell you what those names mean to me according to how I use those names.
I only want to use those names, to describe the true or real Messiah and Son of God, in the purest sense. The most important thing is that God knows what you mean. I will continue with the second part of Jesus name in English is true soon.
Post about getting and not getting to Heaven coming soon, and I have "added" a post to making it a 8-part series instead of 7. There is some confusion as to whether the name Jesus is the true name of the Messiah or Son of Yahweh, God. So, I am going to explain why the name of Jesus as it is in English is the true name of the Messiah and Son of God.
I will also talk about Jesus as spoken in other languages. Because of the growing confusion about this, I have decided by God's leading to make several post parts in a series on this, in an attempt to "not" further confuse people, but to give people a clear understanding of what God is looking for from a more spiritual approach.
This post series is a spin-off to my comments at the very bottom section of my blog page. I did some research into the name of Jesus. I am not going to go into the theology of the letter "J" that was not accounted for in Hebrew back during biblical times before the 17th century. I already mentioned some things about that awhile back in a previous post.
Depending on how you translate "AND" pronounce Jesus, you can come up with different meanings. For instance in Spanish they pronounce Jesus as "hey-soos", which in Hebrew is Yeshua which could mean hey horse? However, in Spanish Jesus, "Hey-soos", is a personal pronoun or a specific name of a person who is referred to as the Messiah. Also, in Spanish, "El Salvador" means "the Savior", which is not as specific in identity, but in this post refers to the Savior of man, Jesus.
In Greek, Jesus is Iesous in which some seem to think that the soos part supposedly mean Zeus? Also, the Hebrew has another meaning. So depending, the Messiah's name could be mispoken? Notice how I adding question marks to some of those meanings, because when Believers speak the Messiah's name in different languages, it is likely to "not" be mispoken. True Believers definetely do not "intend" to mispeak the name of the Messiah.
Also, there seems to be some confusion on the Yah and the Yesh parts of Yahshua and Yeshua. Then you have the ushua, ushuah and other uahs. Several Hebrew interpretations contradict each other and use both Yah and Yesh when talking about the Messiah. That is why in my comments at the very bottom of my blogpage, I say the controversial information surrounding Jesus name is inconclusive. because some Hebrew scholars say Yeshua, and other Yahshua, and others say Yahushuah.
Now it seems clear though to me from all Hebrew meanings that Yah stand consistently in meaning for Almighty God. With Shua and ushua(h)s meaning salvation. Therefore, I tend to lean more towards Yahshua. Yahshua is a shortened version of Yahushuah, and almost everywhere you see me mention Jesus, I put Yahshua there, next to it. Because consistently in Hebrew terminology it make sense as in relation to Yahweh.
Upon further analysis, I can determine that I can not go wrong using the name of the Lord and Messiah as Yahshua. However, that is not the end of the story.
Let me say that depending on the language(s) and the "intent of your heart" saying Yeshua can actually not be bad as I pointed out earlier how some interpret that to mean a horse. Now, I think I told you all I could be a very good lawyer, so here we go. You can take the word and meaning of the word "Yes" in English, which means "I affirm" or "I agree".
Then you take the Hebrew word "shua" and its' meaning, which is "salvation". Then you can combine the two with one "s" and say a combination of words and meanings from two different languages which means "Yes to salvation". Or "I agree with salvation", and Jesus you are my salvation from God!
Also, you can take or say "Ye", which in English means you, and combine the shua and come up with "You are salvation". Then come the question of who is the "you" that you are talking about? The "You" is the Son of Yahweh, God, who has come in the flesh and died for our sins, but is now risen from the dead and is seated on the right hand of the Father in Heaven. That "You" is Yeshua(English and Hebrew name combination).
That would clear up the confusion on that; if people looked at Yeshua/Jesus that way, in a pure sense with a pure heart, and not trying to be funny and offensive or derogatory, or looking to condemn someone else because they say something, and are not as knowledgeable about Hebrew as others.
If you look at what I just finished saying above, you take "Yeshua" to a much higher level. You are saying, "Yes, God you are my salvation". You are saying, " Yes God, I accept you as my savior". Now again, I can say Yahshua or Yeshua; I prefer to say Jesus most of all. However, if you say Yahushua, Yahushuah, Yahshua, Yeshua or like my Dake's Bible say "Yehoshua", those names to "me" refer to the True Lord and Savior Jesus, the Son of Yahweh, Jehovah. Now, I may not know what you truly want those names to mean when you use them. I can only tell you what those names mean to me according to how I use those names.
I only want to use those names, to describe the true or real Messiah and Son of God, in the purest sense. The most important thing is that God knows what you mean. I will continue with the second part of Jesus name in English is true soon.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Catholic Church Part 2
Hello World:
I am presenting part 2 on the Catholic Church. Before I start, again I want to let everyone know that coming very soon, I will have a series of posts concerning Heaven. Please look for those Heaven posts, specifically, for this June/July 2008 year.
To the Catholic Church, and devote Catholics, Scripture Reference; Exodus Chapter 20: Verse 3; "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:"
Verse 4; "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me."
Okay, those scriptures above are the second of the famous "Ten Commandments" of God. Technically, if you follow through all those scriptures from that chapter, you will find that God is giving us more than ten commandments. It is more on the order of eleven to nineteen commandments there if you look closely. Because everywhere God is telling us to do something or not do something there are descriptive differences, and each difference is a command.
Now in regards to that "second commandment", I am speaking to everybody, but Catholics especially. God does NOT approve of you Catholics making shrines, statues or other graven images and paying homage to them in visitation and worship. When you, Catholics do this, you are treating the statues, figurines, etc like gods, with a small "g". This includes statues of Mary, and statues and pictures of saints, such as Saint Peter. God does not want you or any of us to be going to visit and honor statues that cry tears, bleed, talk or moan. Those things are not of God, but of Satan. God has made that very clear from those Exodus scriptures.
Moving further along, one of the main things I know and most other people know is that the Catholic Church put alot of emphasis on Mary, the mother of Jesus. To Catholics, Mary is a deified being. As I mentioned in part one, to Catholics, Mary is bigger than Jesus.
Let me cut to the chase so to speak. Mary is not a God or Goddess. Mary is a human being just like the rest of us. Mary was born in sin, she was not sinless, because every person born after Adam and Eve were born in sin. The reason why Jesus was the exception and not born in sin, was because of the Holy Ghost. However, that does not make Mary a sinless human.
Mary was just a willing, obedient vessel. After Mary had Jesus, she had slept with Joseph and had other children who were half brothers of Jesus. Therefore Mary is no longer a virgin either, unlike what the Catholic Church would have everybody to believe. Mary, truthfully, should not be called a virgin now. She was a virgin before Jesus was born, and that is it. Afterwards, and up to today she is no longer a virgin.
Another problem with the Catholic Church and Catholicism is this thing with "confession" or confessing to a "human father" or "priest". This goes into my hierachial disfunction area of the Catholic Church. First off with that, you are NOT supposed to confess your sins to any flesh and blood creature so that they can take your sins to God so that He will forgive you. No, this is so wrong!
Paul talked about that confessing to one another, only for the purpose of counsel and strength to get out of patterns of sin. That statement by Paul is not for you and I to go to another man, so that that man will see to it that God will forgive us. That is what accepting Jesus as your Savior is for. Paul also said, in 1 Timothy Chapter 2: Verse 5, that there is only one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Jesus said, He is the way, the truth and the life; no man can come to the Father(Heavenly) but by Him(Jesus).
So, to you Catholics who have these human "fathers" behind these booths listening to people's sins, you are trying to take Jesus place. You Catholic priest are saying Jesus is irrelevent or does not matter. You Catholic priest are telling God, that His plan of Jesus as our advocate is worthless. That is what you Catholics are saying.
Another thing, we as individuals need to be careful and wise about confessing to men, priest or any flesh and blood human. Do you understand me? The words that Paul spoke on confessing to one another is not for everybody, because most people can not be trusted with your secrets and personal problems. Some things are better off being just between you and God, literally!
Also, during the time frame of this post, we already know that many of the Catholic priest have their own secrets of sin. So, in reality no man is perfect. Salvation is a daily thing. No matter what people tell you, they may not do bad things, but there are sins of the heart. There is such a thing as sins of thought. None of us have "arrived" yet.
This is how God wants it to work; if you are "born again" you pray or petition to the Heavenly Father in Jesus name, NOT a Catholic father or priest. If you are not born again, you must pray the prayer of salvation to Jesus first, to get access to God and for Him to "become" your Father, again NOT a father appointed by the Catholic church.
As a "true believer and follower of Jesus," you, yourself can always talk to God and Jesus, which is slightly different from petition prayer. Again, With petition prayer or asking for something, petition only to the Heavenly Father in prayer not directly to Jesus, but ask the Father in His(Jesus) name all by yourself. That is what Jesus said. That is referring to after salvation. Just remembering that it is because of Jesus that you can petition the Heavenly Father.
The next thing I want to talk about and really hit the Catholic Church and the Pope hard on is the issue of sainthood. I am trying hard not to bring in scriptures. However, there are scriptures that relates to saints going back to the Old Testament, long before the Catholic Church was established.
How dare you Catholic Church and Pope assume the role of appointing saints or people to sainthood. You have no right or power to make anybody a saint. Saints are people chosen of God, Himself, upon their acceptance of His son Jesus. Good works and miracles does not make one a saint. Satan or the Devil can and have done miracles; so does that mean he should be a saint? Who would you call him, Saint Lucifer? That is preposterous!
When a person repents of their sins and accepts Jesus into their heart they automatically become a saint, period! They do not have to perform any kind of miracle and wait for your flesh and blood approval. Also, according to scriptures people who are called just, righteous, sons of God, chosen of God, people of God, and sealed of God are Saints of God.
Saints have existed and will exist whether you, Catholic Church decide to make them saints or not. It is not up to you. It is not your decision. God has never given any man or any religious organization the authority to make someone a saint. Again, God makes saints, and you Catholic Church and Pope do not. Most of the people sitting in your congregation are most likely saints, if you led them to receive Jesus properly.
Fathers, Bishops, Priests, and Cardinals did you explain to your congregation "specifically" how to pray the "prayer of salvation" to accept Jesus into their hearts? When was the last time you mentioned Jesus in your services? How often do you proclaim the name of Jesus in your services? Or did you talk about the rosary, or what the Father ate for breakfast? In other words, how much ceremonial nonsense was spoken and performed to the congregation that will not help anybody's soul, and how much of Jesus and the Word of God was talked about; to which, really will spiritually benefit somebody? Who in your service or "Mass" did you glorify more, yourself, Mary or God?
Okay, there is more I can discuss concerning the Catholic Church. However, I was able to cover some very important issues in the Catholic Church that the Lord led me to cover in these past two posts. I will proceed to the next topic.
I am presenting part 2 on the Catholic Church. Before I start, again I want to let everyone know that coming very soon, I will have a series of posts concerning Heaven. Please look for those Heaven posts, specifically, for this June/July 2008 year.
To the Catholic Church, and devote Catholics, Scripture Reference; Exodus Chapter 20: Verse 3; "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:"
Verse 4; "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me."
Okay, those scriptures above are the second of the famous "Ten Commandments" of God. Technically, if you follow through all those scriptures from that chapter, you will find that God is giving us more than ten commandments. It is more on the order of eleven to nineteen commandments there if you look closely. Because everywhere God is telling us to do something or not do something there are descriptive differences, and each difference is a command.
Now in regards to that "second commandment", I am speaking to everybody, but Catholics especially. God does NOT approve of you Catholics making shrines, statues or other graven images and paying homage to them in visitation and worship. When you, Catholics do this, you are treating the statues, figurines, etc like gods, with a small "g". This includes statues of Mary, and statues and pictures of saints, such as Saint Peter. God does not want you or any of us to be going to visit and honor statues that cry tears, bleed, talk or moan. Those things are not of God, but of Satan. God has made that very clear from those Exodus scriptures.
Moving further along, one of the main things I know and most other people know is that the Catholic Church put alot of emphasis on Mary, the mother of Jesus. To Catholics, Mary is a deified being. As I mentioned in part one, to Catholics, Mary is bigger than Jesus.
Let me cut to the chase so to speak. Mary is not a God or Goddess. Mary is a human being just like the rest of us. Mary was born in sin, she was not sinless, because every person born after Adam and Eve were born in sin. The reason why Jesus was the exception and not born in sin, was because of the Holy Ghost. However, that does not make Mary a sinless human.
Mary was just a willing, obedient vessel. After Mary had Jesus, she had slept with Joseph and had other children who were half brothers of Jesus. Therefore Mary is no longer a virgin either, unlike what the Catholic Church would have everybody to believe. Mary, truthfully, should not be called a virgin now. She was a virgin before Jesus was born, and that is it. Afterwards, and up to today she is no longer a virgin.
Another problem with the Catholic Church and Catholicism is this thing with "confession" or confessing to a "human father" or "priest". This goes into my hierachial disfunction area of the Catholic Church. First off with that, you are NOT supposed to confess your sins to any flesh and blood creature so that they can take your sins to God so that He will forgive you. No, this is so wrong!
Paul talked about that confessing to one another, only for the purpose of counsel and strength to get out of patterns of sin. That statement by Paul is not for you and I to go to another man, so that that man will see to it that God will forgive us. That is what accepting Jesus as your Savior is for. Paul also said, in 1 Timothy Chapter 2: Verse 5, that there is only one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Jesus said, He is the way, the truth and the life; no man can come to the Father(Heavenly) but by Him(Jesus).
So, to you Catholics who have these human "fathers" behind these booths listening to people's sins, you are trying to take Jesus place. You Catholic priest are saying Jesus is irrelevent or does not matter. You Catholic priest are telling God, that His plan of Jesus as our advocate is worthless. That is what you Catholics are saying.
Another thing, we as individuals need to be careful and wise about confessing to men, priest or any flesh and blood human. Do you understand me? The words that Paul spoke on confessing to one another is not for everybody, because most people can not be trusted with your secrets and personal problems. Some things are better off being just between you and God, literally!
Also, during the time frame of this post, we already know that many of the Catholic priest have their own secrets of sin. So, in reality no man is perfect. Salvation is a daily thing. No matter what people tell you, they may not do bad things, but there are sins of the heart. There is such a thing as sins of thought. None of us have "arrived" yet.
This is how God wants it to work; if you are "born again" you pray or petition to the Heavenly Father in Jesus name, NOT a Catholic father or priest. If you are not born again, you must pray the prayer of salvation to Jesus first, to get access to God and for Him to "become" your Father, again NOT a father appointed by the Catholic church.
As a "true believer and follower of Jesus," you, yourself can always talk to God and Jesus, which is slightly different from petition prayer. Again, With petition prayer or asking for something, petition only to the Heavenly Father in prayer not directly to Jesus, but ask the Father in His(Jesus) name all by yourself. That is what Jesus said. That is referring to after salvation. Just remembering that it is because of Jesus that you can petition the Heavenly Father.
The next thing I want to talk about and really hit the Catholic Church and the Pope hard on is the issue of sainthood. I am trying hard not to bring in scriptures. However, there are scriptures that relates to saints going back to the Old Testament, long before the Catholic Church was established.
How dare you Catholic Church and Pope assume the role of appointing saints or people to sainthood. You have no right or power to make anybody a saint. Saints are people chosen of God, Himself, upon their acceptance of His son Jesus. Good works and miracles does not make one a saint. Satan or the Devil can and have done miracles; so does that mean he should be a saint? Who would you call him, Saint Lucifer? That is preposterous!
When a person repents of their sins and accepts Jesus into their heart they automatically become a saint, period! They do not have to perform any kind of miracle and wait for your flesh and blood approval. Also, according to scriptures people who are called just, righteous, sons of God, chosen of God, people of God, and sealed of God are Saints of God.
Saints have existed and will exist whether you, Catholic Church decide to make them saints or not. It is not up to you. It is not your decision. God has never given any man or any religious organization the authority to make someone a saint. Again, God makes saints, and you Catholic Church and Pope do not. Most of the people sitting in your congregation are most likely saints, if you led them to receive Jesus properly.
Fathers, Bishops, Priests, and Cardinals did you explain to your congregation "specifically" how to pray the "prayer of salvation" to accept Jesus into their hearts? When was the last time you mentioned Jesus in your services? How often do you proclaim the name of Jesus in your services? Or did you talk about the rosary, or what the Father ate for breakfast? In other words, how much ceremonial nonsense was spoken and performed to the congregation that will not help anybody's soul, and how much of Jesus and the Word of God was talked about; to which, really will spiritually benefit somebody? Who in your service or "Mass" did you glorify more, yourself, Mary or God?
Okay, there is more I can discuss concerning the Catholic Church. However, I was able to cover some very important issues in the Catholic Church that the Lord led me to cover in these past two posts. I will proceed to the next topic.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Catholic Church Part 1
Hello World:
In my next several post starting with the Catholic Church subject, I feel led of the Lord to make some statements concerning my upcoming posts about Heaven. Therefore, in the next few weeks, I will have some postings concerning Heaven. I do not want say exactly what is in the details of those posts yet. Let me say that at this point in time, I have altered my sidebar on describing getting to Heaven. I simplified some explanations, and I moved alot of those explanations down to the very bottom section of my blog.
One reason why I did this is because I go into details, in those upcoming posts concerning getting to Heaven. So, after all those posts are posted, because they make up a series, instead of me having information crammed in my upper sidebar, I will leave what is there now, and at the end of that upper sidebar, I will refer everybody to the Heaven posts to get further understanding. There is alot to say, and I do not want people to have misconceptions about what I say concerning getting Heaven. So, I will continue to have that section called, "Heaven, How To Get To Heaven", which has a very critical prayer. That upper sidebar section, with my referring statements to the DETAILED POSTS and SCRIPTURES, and where to find them will always be there. "ALL" of my scripture references on my Heaven explanations will be at the bottom section of my blog, but may not all be shown in the posts. In the next few posts, I will just make a general statement or two so that everybody will know that the Heaven posts are on the way.
I finally am able to discuss the Catholic Church today. Even though I do not know everything about the Catholic Church, some things about the Catholic Church or Catholocism I do know. The things I know about Catholocism is from some research on my own, what I have been taught in ministry, and what God has shown me. I want to go right into some areas of God, that I feel led of God to say concerning the Catholic Church.
To start, a little while back I was helping a Catholic organization in some charity work. By the way I do not consider myself to be Catholic. The organization I was helping does alot of good things to help others. When I was helping them, I received letters and gifts from them. I noticed one important thing about the letters and gifts; that is, there was hardly no mention about Jesus Christ. In fact, I would "estimate" in ninety-nine percent of the letters and gifts I received, Jesus Christ was only mentioned one time, and that was around the Resurrection Holiday.
So, this was like this, I feel for a lengthy time frame to only mention Jesus Christ once. I had to do some further research into this Catholic organization. There were two things I needed to know. First, how often did they talk about Jesus? Secondly, how or where do they present the meaning of salvation to mankind in their organization?
Basically, in researching the organization I was looking very hard for the words Jesus and salvation, or how a person can be saved or born-again. Looking back, because it has been awhile, I honestly can say that I could not find Jesus mentioned in any important or profound way. Now, I am not saying I did not find Jesus mentioned in that organization, but I do not remember His name being consistently with any importance. Jesus, to that Catholic organization, was no big deal. I can also say, for sure, that salvation, or how to be saved or become born-again was "not" mentioned anywhere in that Catholic organization.
What the organization did talk alot about was what they did or their actions in helping others. They also talked about their representatives. They mentioned Mary, the mother of Jesus alot, and they talked alot about their father or priest who was over the organization. I forgot his name. However, they made a big deal about his prayers and speeches. He did not even talk about Jesus in his prayers and speeches. So, this did not sit well with me.
Here is the thing, it is very good to help others, and to love others and show that love through giving something significant. The main problem with that is that without the acknowledgement of Jesus Christ, those good deeds do not save anyone's soul. Why have you not presented the person of Jesus Christ to people? Why have you not mentioned or acknowledged Jesus Christ as the Risen Lord and Savior?
To me Jesus Christ(Yahshua) is a big deal. Jesus is bigger than Mary. Jesus was before Mary. The deity of Jesus Christ far exceeds his humanity. Also here, I want to take a punch at other religions and other denominations in Christianity and say the following; Jesus is far greater and above any prophet, Jesus is "NOT" the brother or half brother of Lucifer, and the true God, Yahweh does not discriminate, segregate, neglect or punish anyone because of their race or skin complexion. Another thing, the most important thing every person MUST DO is receive salvation or become born-again by accepting Jesus Christ. How can you as a religious institution supposedly representing God, not show people the avenue to become born-again through Jesus Christ?
I can give a man a bowl of hot soup that will help him for a day, or some food that can help him for a few days; but that food is for his physical body. Neither the food or his physical body will last forever. His soul will continue on and has to go somewhere in eternity; either to everlasting death, or go to everlasting life. What is more important, than the physical food, is that that man receive the bread of life, Jesus, which will give everlasting life to his soul. I will stop here and pick up on part 2 of the Catholic church coming next.
In my next several post starting with the Catholic Church subject, I feel led of the Lord to make some statements concerning my upcoming posts about Heaven. Therefore, in the next few weeks, I will have some postings concerning Heaven. I do not want say exactly what is in the details of those posts yet. Let me say that at this point in time, I have altered my sidebar on describing getting to Heaven. I simplified some explanations, and I moved alot of those explanations down to the very bottom section of my blog.
One reason why I did this is because I go into details, in those upcoming posts concerning getting to Heaven. So, after all those posts are posted, because they make up a series, instead of me having information crammed in my upper sidebar, I will leave what is there now, and at the end of that upper sidebar, I will refer everybody to the Heaven posts to get further understanding. There is alot to say, and I do not want people to have misconceptions about what I say concerning getting Heaven. So, I will continue to have that section called, "Heaven, How To Get To Heaven", which has a very critical prayer. That upper sidebar section, with my referring statements to the DETAILED POSTS and SCRIPTURES, and where to find them will always be there. "ALL" of my scripture references on my Heaven explanations will be at the bottom section of my blog, but may not all be shown in the posts. In the next few posts, I will just make a general statement or two so that everybody will know that the Heaven posts are on the way.
I finally am able to discuss the Catholic Church today. Even though I do not know everything about the Catholic Church, some things about the Catholic Church or Catholocism I do know. The things I know about Catholocism is from some research on my own, what I have been taught in ministry, and what God has shown me. I want to go right into some areas of God, that I feel led of God to say concerning the Catholic Church.
To start, a little while back I was helping a Catholic organization in some charity work. By the way I do not consider myself to be Catholic. The organization I was helping does alot of good things to help others. When I was helping them, I received letters and gifts from them. I noticed one important thing about the letters and gifts; that is, there was hardly no mention about Jesus Christ. In fact, I would "estimate" in ninety-nine percent of the letters and gifts I received, Jesus Christ was only mentioned one time, and that was around the Resurrection Holiday.
So, this was like this, I feel for a lengthy time frame to only mention Jesus Christ once. I had to do some further research into this Catholic organization. There were two things I needed to know. First, how often did they talk about Jesus? Secondly, how or where do they present the meaning of salvation to mankind in their organization?
Basically, in researching the organization I was looking very hard for the words Jesus and salvation, or how a person can be saved or born-again. Looking back, because it has been awhile, I honestly can say that I could not find Jesus mentioned in any important or profound way. Now, I am not saying I did not find Jesus mentioned in that organization, but I do not remember His name being consistently with any importance. Jesus, to that Catholic organization, was no big deal. I can also say, for sure, that salvation, or how to be saved or become born-again was "not" mentioned anywhere in that Catholic organization.
What the organization did talk alot about was what they did or their actions in helping others. They also talked about their representatives. They mentioned Mary, the mother of Jesus alot, and they talked alot about their father or priest who was over the organization. I forgot his name. However, they made a big deal about his prayers and speeches. He did not even talk about Jesus in his prayers and speeches. So, this did not sit well with me.
Here is the thing, it is very good to help others, and to love others and show that love through giving something significant. The main problem with that is that without the acknowledgement of Jesus Christ, those good deeds do not save anyone's soul. Why have you not presented the person of Jesus Christ to people? Why have you not mentioned or acknowledged Jesus Christ as the Risen Lord and Savior?
To me Jesus Christ(Yahshua) is a big deal. Jesus is bigger than Mary. Jesus was before Mary. The deity of Jesus Christ far exceeds his humanity. Also here, I want to take a punch at other religions and other denominations in Christianity and say the following; Jesus is far greater and above any prophet, Jesus is "NOT" the brother or half brother of Lucifer, and the true God, Yahweh does not discriminate, segregate, neglect or punish anyone because of their race or skin complexion. Another thing, the most important thing every person MUST DO is receive salvation or become born-again by accepting Jesus Christ. How can you as a religious institution supposedly representing God, not show people the avenue to become born-again through Jesus Christ?
I can give a man a bowl of hot soup that will help him for a day, or some food that can help him for a few days; but that food is for his physical body. Neither the food or his physical body will last forever. His soul will continue on and has to go somewhere in eternity; either to everlasting death, or go to everlasting life. What is more important, than the physical food, is that that man receive the bread of life, Jesus, which will give everlasting life to his soul. I will stop here and pick up on part 2 of the Catholic church coming next.
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