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A person named Jeshua lived but only two thousand years ago. Not so long ago in the history of mankind. A blink in time, really. And it is recorded he said a few things. Supposedly. But these were written down many many years later, so, who knows? But they are only of trifle brilliance in comparison with many Greek Scholars' teachings. But most Christians wouldn't be inclined to know about that, would they? Their minds are closed. Jesus has had an enormous impact on the world. Admitedly. That is, considering the amount of violence which resulted from his existence. He's been like a torch bearer of Death. Face it! How much pain and death has he caused? It's mind boggling. To much to even begin to dare to think about. So Christians avoid that. And, of course, none can ever be expected to apologize to the rest of humanity. That won't ever happen. Talk about Hell on Earth! Over and over, again. Two thousand years ago is but a tiny instance in the totality of the time man has been on Earth and I "believe" (you got to believe!) I can safely predict that Christianity will be completely forgotten in other thousand years or so. It is a dying religion.Now! Face it! You can see many old churches in most any city no longer in use. A Mega-Church closed in Texas last year. I wonder why? Maybe the idea that "YOU GOT TO BELIEVE!" just ain't believable enough anymore. That could be it. People are wising up. At least, a large number are. Here's your DEMANDED verse and chapter. (You're welcome.) A large crowd of more than 500 eyewitnesses saw the risen Jesus Christ at the same time. The Apostle Paul records this event in 1 Corinthians 15:6. The most astounding event of all time and few Christians regard it. You didn't know it! The churches ignore it. (Can't blame them!) AND NO ONE ELSE bothered to even record it. It's like it never even happened. And likely didn't. Oh, I VERY MUCH RESENT your totally stupid remark about me and God. What backwoods did you emerge out of? "BASED ON (all) YOUR ABOVE STATEMENT(s), I HAVE TO CONCLUDE THAT YOU ARE INTO YOURSELF AND THAT YOU". . . (and that means, YOU!) have had very little if any actual mystical or spiritual experience. You know nothing, but you are good at memorizing lists. "Experience is the only true teacher." the GUIDE Book by E Stewart (not yet published.) Statute copyright protected.

Made me laugh and choke! Bad man! (Or, whatever.) More choking. . . . Ah, don't be so negative. Got to stay with the program, fully way artificially PUMPED UP, max, or the Dinar won't RV. (Everybody knows that!) I believe the Politically Correct assessment is, POS. Thank you. Use a substitute, quite smoking, drinking, chewing your fingernails, stealing office supplies, failing to stop at lights, not giving pedestrians the right of way when turning right at intersections, sex. Whatever you get the most value out of, give that up, and you won't need to have to get a job to quit from.

Sorry to disappoint you! But you will get no argument from me on any of that. Looking forward to the 10 parts.

The MYSTERY here is WHY do the PRICES appear to be in USD or after an RD prices? They say, IQD.

Right on. Panama would be a great place to live but not incorporate or bank.

What would I do? I would do what I would do if I had not bought any Dinars. What a tragedy. NOT!

I sure hope there is a free decoder ring. The one I had was a piece of junk and fell apart. And now I can't do any more editing on my book.

Good post.

WHERE AM I?

BINGO!

No. Those look like RDed prices.

SO EXCITING!

Is there a free decoder ring?

Yes. Yes. No.

WHOA! I thought all that was supposed to be kept secret! Naturally. Unfortunately, I failed to emphasis how the "LOPSTERS" (those that undserstand what an RD is and how it works) want an RV even MORE than the anti-LOPSTERS do! And many of the these lobsters hold large pokes. Man! How do I get a promo code that serves me so that I can use it myself? Maybe mine was that lost fifth one.

Truly excellent post. One of the reasons, if not the ONLY reason, you can see modern Protestants preaching the Gospel on the internet the way they do is because it is all they know. In their involvement with other "Christians" the accepted practice is to learn and memorize all the key buzz words and phrases being commonly exchanged. And when one is able to "share" with others parroting glibly the accepted and expected jargon then one can fit in and belong to the the group. And not otherwise. Any involvement with the understanding of ideas is not a part of this. And the TV Evangelists apply this situation to the hilt, powerfully. In modern times, in the US, for the most part, being a Christian is not a matter of any extent of of understanding or realization or any form of revelation, it is a matter of simply claiming that one has been SAVED (WAHOO!) and skilluly being able to throw one's hands in the air in churches and acting wild together with the rest of the group. NEVER MIND that Jesus said to go into one's closet, alone, to pray. Spiritual matters are a personal private affairs and the blatantly displayed public performances are but pure fraud. I am convinced if Jesus suddenly appeared in our midst today He would say exactly the same thing I just did.

I had to copy out and paste below your reply because it was all embedded within a quote, and otherwise, unaccessable for in a new reply. Nelg, on 31 August 2011 - 01:58 PM, said: Whoa! I am in awe. Never thought I would ever be impressed by anyone thumping the Bible, so to speak. Pretty impressive, indeed. Prolly hurt a few poor peep's feelings, here, though. You will likely experience a strong back lash. So, gird yourself. I am interested in the extent of your studies, ice. Have you studied about Paul? I should maybe mention I have a real respect for authentic words of Jesus (the so called Lord's Prayer isn't among them), but little for Paul. In my view, the Christian church became utterly corrupted at the onset, and by Paul. <br style="mso-special-character:line-break"> <br style="mso-special-character:line-break"> Just a question, Why do you think Paul corrupted the church? My thoughts are totally different. Paul, as well as the other writers of the New Testament, were writing under the inspiration and direction of the Holy Spirit (Jno 14:16-21), which was the Spirit of Christ (14:18 ). So all the words of the writers of the New Testament were words of Jesus, the Christ, through the Spirit. If Paul’s writings corrupted the church, then it was Christ who corrupted the church. I don’t think that is what you meant, but that is what you are saying. It is easy to make claims. I can also claim that my own work was spiritually inspired. In fact, most of the original drafts were penned as fast as I could write immediately after waking, as I bent to get down on paper all the words that had passed through my mind in dream. But claims like this are unprovable as to their validity, exactly the same as claims that Jesus, himself, inspired Paul's et al's writings. It is an empty idea and carries no weight. Actually, Paul was illiterate and simply dictated to a scribe, not that that makes any difference.I am not going to be delving into the considerable differences between Jesus' teaching and Paul's dogma, here. But I did mention already about salvation and elimination of sins.Jesus appointed a certain one of his disciples to lead the church into the future, and as a kind of mystical-minded joke named the person, Peter. Petros. Which means, rock. This in turn meant, FOUNDATION. Peter was supposed to be the foundation of the church. Peter was not to be the head of the church. There is only one Head and that is Christ (Colossians 1:18) and the statement that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God is the foundation of the gospel (1Corinthians 3:10-11). WHAT I meant was leader of the physical church as a material entity. Not spiritual. Peter, as I said, was meant to be the foundation, as it were, and Jesus stated this clear. "In concert with His redemptive act, Jesus did three things that established the framework of His Church. First, He chose humans to carry out His work. He appointed Peter to be the visible head of the Church. Jesus said to Peter, "You are Rock and on this rock I will build my Church." (Matthew 16: 18) Jesus said "build," as in to create a structure. Jesus built His structure on specifically chosen human beings Peter and the apostles.http://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/churb1.htmBut Paul jumped in and overthrew Jesus' plan. Hah! Fact.But another man trumped him. And that man's name was Saul. This is the same man who made the incredible claim that over 500 people witnessed the risen Christ at the same time, at a gathering. Paul wasn't there. He was supposedly but simply reporting on the event. Passing it on in passing. Just a side remark. (Sorry I don't recall the chapter and verse.). (1Corinthians 15:1-11) With that many witnesses one would think that the most incredible event of all time and history would have been reported also by others, considering just how many there was present. A couple of things you need to consider. Paul was writing this chapter (1Cor. 15) to glorify the resurrection of Christ from the dead. He placed no emphasis on himself. The resurrection of Christ was unique in that the body that Christ received was one that was fitted for eternity. He was buried a physical body, but raised a spiritual body. A real body, but changed into a glorious one (1Cor 15:35-49). Because there were so many witnesses, when the resurrection of Christ was proclaimed (Acts) there is no questioning by the Jews, no rejection by the disciples, for what they proclaimed was known to be true. Accepting or rejecting the resurrection was another matter. Yeah but this wild exaggeration is obviously deliberately ignored by modern churches and even by the Evangalists it is so far fetched. Whenever I bring it up no Christian I have ever talked to even believes the Bible tells about the 500. They think I'm making that wild claim up. It's too fantastic. All through his writings he sets the tone for modern day Evangelists' style of preaching, like the "fundamental" exaggerated performances. It's like Paul sanctified it all. I find the preaching of Paul and his writings as totally opposite to what you are saying. Do you have some examples to justify the way you feel? I don't have anything prepared and am too preocupied with other matters to dig it all up. It is likely though that there exist books with the understanding already laid out. I will research this issue some time.Have you studied about Paul and how he had been a Roman soldier bent on persecution of Christians? Paul was not a Roman soldier. He was part of the Jewish religion and under orders by the Jewish temple officials (high priest) to arrest and put to death believers (Acts 9:1-2; Galatians 1:13-14). Since Paul was not a Roman soldier and had no part of a cultic religion, the following illustration concerning his participation in Mithraism is bogus and is based on a false conception of Paul's faith. In those days with VERY RARE exception a young man did not entered his father's trade. Doing the same work one's father did was the normal way to go. There are many who like to believe that Jesus was a fisherman. He was not. He was a carpenter by trade. And that was the early main reason he ventured about, doing construction jobs where ever they might be found.Paul was a Roman because his father was, and in his writings he put a great deal of emphasis on Roman Soldiers and their sword as metaphor because he thought like a Roman Soldier because he had been one.It was many years before the existence of the Internet I understood that Paul was a Roman Soldier and was into Mithraism.It's not just my idea."Saul was well educated and highly trained as a Roman citizen, though he was an Armenian by birth. He and his family were well known Pharisees of Tarsus. He spoke several languages as well as Latin, the language of the "empire". Early in his life he became a Roman soldier, and because of his nationality, he was placed in Jerusalem as a key person to both understand and help control the native Palestinians. Saul and his Roman troops closely followed the developments of the "christian cult" led by Esu (Jesus) Immanuel in Palestine."http://www.truthwinds.com/siterun_data/bellringers_corner/people_of_the_lie/news.php?q=1225075901"Roman Soldier and Paul’s Metaphors of the Christian Life"The apostle Paul wisely used everyday, common things that the people he was ministering to could relate to when teaching spiritual truths. One of his frequently used metaphors came from the life of the Roman soldier. Several times Paul used the soldiers armor as a metaphor for the Christian life. For example, in 1 Thessalonians 5:8 Paul employs the breastplate and helmet of the soldier in an effort to show how faith, hope and love are the Christians powerful defenses in difficult times. Here is a picture that gives us an idea of what Paul had in mind with this. . . . " http://prolepticlife.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/roman-soldier-and-pauls-metaphors-of-the-christian-life/"It always possible to recognize Saint Paul by his iconographic attributes: A sword and a book. Legend tells us that Saint Paul was a Roman soldier (hence the sword) who was converted to belief in the Holy Scriptures (the book) by an appearance of Christ on the Road to Damascus."http://italytravelista.com/rome-basilica-of-saint-paul-churches-in-rome/"There are also some similarities between events in Josephus' alleged life and that told of Paul (Saul) of the New Testament. Both Josephus and Paul, in the early years of their lives, subscribed to the sect of the Pharisees. Paul changed his name from the Jewish "Saul" to the Roman Paul (Paulus). Josephus changed his name from the Jewish "Joseph ben Matthias" to the Roman "Josephus." Paul was a Roman soldier before being converted to Christianity and Josephus was said to be a priest before becoming a Jewish army commander. Both Josephus and Paul were said to have made a similar disastrous sea voyage to Rome, in the same 62-64 CE time period, as a result of an interview with Felix, the Roman governor of Caesarea. Both were writers while residing in Rome, both changed their allegiance to their governments; Paul, from the Romans to the Christian Jews, and Josephus from his Jewish background to Roman citizenship, and both Paul and Josephus were apparently about the same age." http://sidneyrigdon.com/vern/Vern2000.htm Are you aware of the so-called, Secret Religion of the Roman Soldiers? That region was called, Mithraism. And one of the main features of this religion concerned the sending of a goat out in the desert to suffer and die as a sacrifice for the expiation of the sins committed that year by the Roman soldiers. I am going to claim here (though this is actually not my own idea) that what Paul mainly did was he took his Mithra religion and translated it into Christianity with the idea that Christ suffered and died on the cross for the ridding of sins of those that "believe" in him. All Paul's idea! He made it up. I am not aware that Jesus said anything about anything such matter as that, so modern Christianity is misnamed. It should be called, Paulinism. He mostly invented it. The redemption of mankind from sin is the theme of the entire Bible. It was planned before the foundation of the world and will be complete when Christ returns. Paul knew nothing about the total plan of God. It was a mystery which was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit (God) (Ephesians :1-13). The Bible is not a randomly selected collection of writings. It has a purpose and that purpose is to reveal the plan of God to redeem the human race from sin. One of the main problems of modern Christianity is that it does not have a clue in consideration of metaphors. I would agree with you here. Metaphors are the language of communicating to us by God. There is a wonderful book that helps to explain metaphors entitled “Plowshares & Pruning Hooks, Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic” by D. Brent Sandy. I recommend this book when someone is having problems understand the way God communicates through the Bible. A good statement.Jesus was asked, "Why do you speak in parables." He said, to paraphrase it, "It is because you aren't ready to hear the straight dope. You have not spiritually matured enough, yet." And he indicated that there were incredible things he could tell, but none of it would be understood. So he makes a point to keep things simple by using parables, which are but symbolic stories. And those parables are just one type of symbology among many others in the Bible. But modern Christians, it seems, are no more mature than they were back at the start as they seem to have no clue as to the use of symbols, and, thus, dramatically, fanatically, take ideas and things at their face value. That is true. However, all symbols, metaphors, figures of speech are based in truth or a reality. And all of them have a specific purpose. True. They have meaning or there's no point to them.Just as our governments of the world have become corrupted, so have religions. I sometimes watch the Sunday preachers on TV, in amazement. They are all very much alike. I believe they study each other. Copy each other's moves. I am astounded how anyone could accept any of that malarkey. Basically, it is all a scam business and art to suck wealth out of poor peoples pockets, and it hinges on what was done in the past by powerful people inventing ridged doctrines and beliefs for the sake of enslaving a population's mind body and soul. This is spiritual enslavement. To get really dramatic, here, it is like it's the work of the Devil himself. But the believers just close their minds to the idea of learning and evolving on their own power and initiative and become spiritually stuck as a result. Stopped. In a sense, dead. See? If one is not actively living one's life it is the same as being dead. Again, you and I would agree about the some of the TV preachers. They are giving Christianity a bad rap by not speaking the truths of God. They are perverting the gospel and robbing the saints much like the priest and Pharisees who robbed the widows (Lk 20:45-47). All who fail to live godly in Christ are truly spiritually dead (Ephesians 2:1-3; 1Timothy 5:6). Time again some famous evangelist can find his career ruined as a result of a scandalous situation occurring which reveals that the evangelist is the very thing he preaches so strongly against, while collecting millions. TV Evangelism has nothing to do with religion. It is a business, and generally falsely set up as a non-profit corporation. Those mega-churches compare. One of those failed in Texas a couple of years ago, so there is hope that people are beginning to see the light.The immediate foregoing is a point from a series of books I am working on which will be called, the GUIDE Book. It is a set of books concerning spiritual guidance, and alternate Dimensions of Consciousness, but I expect them to be seriously attacked by the fundamentalist community. Their subtitle, is, A Metaphorical Psychology Series. In an early draft stage they were asked for by the Professor of Psychology at the University of Duquesne in Pittsburgh for use as text books. But they were not developed enough for me feel I could let them go yet. A critical analysis of every work SHOULD be done to see if what is being taught is truth. Your own statements about TV preachers, Paul, or the teachings of others is a validation of the need for a critical look at what you have written. That's part of the journey in writing. If it is a valid truth, it will stand under the pressure. If it is not, then it needs to fall as false. VERY true. But the material needs to be able to physically endure a degree of time for a true testing to occur which can prove validity. Such "proof" may not be available in its early days.THAT IS WHY I need the RV. HOWEVER, I had a vivid dream a few weeks ago. A very pronounced and effectual one, too, wherein I was told that I would be being given a "gift." Upon waking I consider how that could be the RV. Maybe. Need it for the work to eastablish a Foundation to hold the copyright. I plan for the work to out live me. And it will if I set it up right I will be publishing in several forms and this includes digital. In many cases one can buy sample copies of digital books (say, one third) for 99 cents. They allow one to view a considerable portion of a book. One will easiliy be able to know whether the book is any good. I plan to offer this feature. But not soon.You mentioned about how Jesus emphasized the idea that one should remain in a state of expectation, in my terms. My books present the understanding that one needs to expect the unexpected. The idea is that such an attitude keeps one from developing a closed mind. It helps to keep one alive, alert. On one's toes. It is a means for enabling a quality of spiritual vitality to ever be present. It allows Life Force to be able to enter the body and the mind. And, tell me, WHAT MODERN RELIGION TEACHES ANYTHING LIKE THIS? None do. At least, as far as I know. I say, they all fail. They actually oppose congregation members from doing doing anything but BELIEVING what they are told to believe. No inquiry such as you are doing is permitted. No investigation. It's like such questioning is the work of the Devil, himself, at least this is the idea stemming from the modern pulpit, or the TV screen. I know for sure that you and I have a totally different experience with Christianity. I was raised with believing parents who encourage an open minded and an enquiry into what was being taught. Christians who do not question what they have been taught and find out for themselves the truthfulness or falsity of their belief system are borrowing their faith. Faith is a constant questioning. I have encouraged my daughter (one child now 43) to make her faith real by questioning and observing, listening and learning what God is telling us. Questioning is good, but if you accept all teaching as being truth, you will reject everything. You are no ordinary man. Modern dogma holds that questioning is doubt which stems from the Devil, himself. So the preaching is that it is best to avoid any questioning. Or at least, that is the idea if one wishes to be a worthy Christian, while remaining fundamentally a fool.We live in a truly Dark Age. Read more: http://dinarvets.com/forums/index.php?/topic/81874-in-the-twinkling-of-an-eye/page__st__40#ixzz1WeOln8Vi

THAT is the bottom-line fundamental REALITY.

I've successfully ordered Dinars from Dinar Banker a few times. No problem. A friend in Florida visits Dinar Inc. They are good peeps there. I've had my friend get me some there too.

Ooops! You must be absent minded, too. You left off the main thing. All LOPSTERS were directed to SELL their Dinars, and a number of times.

HARD TO BELIEVE! At this very moment there are "48 People Reading This Topic." (Gluttons for punishment?)

WHOA! Why didn't I think of that. Oh, when you get a raise at work, you get an increase in money. Anyway, it is a computerized translation glitch.

THINK about it. All the qualities of YOUR God tells me you actually worship the Devil, himself. ONLY a Totally Demonic being would be like yours. You really need to stop listening to those that have corrupted your mind and begin thinking for yourself and start analyzing things. You have become seriously infected.

Oh? Have you ever actually had a true cosmic experience? Have you ever traveled out of your physical body into other more advance worlds that exist? Or are just believing in the limited beliefs that have been laid on you to box in your soul within a very limited scope or sense of Reality? That's true, we do have choices. In FACT, we are forced to choose every step of the way through life. Or we can choose not to choose. Our choice. The result of the choices made, if any, can bring experience which can become KNOWLEDGE. Do you have knowledge based upon experience or merely beliefs? Beliefs are the opposite of true knowledge, you know. If you tell me you have a belief about this or that you will be telling me you do not actually know about the matter due to a lack of genuine experience.

What God wants us to know? Well, I thought God was All-Powerful, and knows EVERYTHING, and can do anything, too. Besides, on the Seventh Day God rested. His work was done. He doesn't WANT anything further. (READ THE BIBLE!) The God you seem to be talking about does not seem all that capable or knowledgeable. (Note: If you tell me that God hopes for this or that I will need to ask you, "How do you know that? How do you know what's on God's mind?") In my view, any God who is not One with Infinity is a pip-squeak, really. Oh, is God a being who enjoys bursts of vengeance and who creates a Hell to send His Creation into, and where those that believe in Him are proud that they are God Fearing Christians? In my view, further, all the above is concerned with a totally spiritually sick situation. Very ill. Altogether unwell. Lost, even.