AEDIFICATION
meaning EDUCATION ONLY. The only FORMATION
power is the Gospel OF THE KINGDOM or Church
of Christ.
Jackie.Halstead.Anti-Word.or.LOGOS.of.God 5
6.08.20 Instrumental Music Sounds of SORCERERS or WITCHES. Apollo or Apollyon is the leader of the LOCUSTS. The Locusts are Apollon's Musical Worship Team
Defines Rejecting the Word, Walking the Labrinth, Witchcraft, Women, Babylon Mother, Musical Sorcerers. Rhonda Lowry Ecumenical.
FELLOWSHIP WITH INSTRUMENTAL-TRINITARIAN-PERVERTED IDOLATRY FORBIDDEN.
THERE CAN BE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THOSE WHO REPUDIATE THE WORD OR REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE
THERE CAN BE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THOSE WHO CALL THEE HOLY SPIRIT A LIAR WHICH DEMANDS BAPTISMLegitimate methods of healing mental health, substitutes for the SPIRIT which, for a tiny few, is Sanctified and Transferred into the Heavenly Kingdom. Institutions established as Christian BIBLE colleges are USURPED and used as Active and Hostile agents OF the World Order, to attack the World or Aion of the Messianic age.
Rhonda Lowry Biography
Rhonda completed her M.Div. degree and has taught at Fuller Theological Seminary and Pepperdine University.
She is also a fellow with the Institute for CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
The Christian Spirit OF God is revealed ONLY through the WORDS which God gave to Jesus of Nazareth for the LAST TIME.
Jesus said that Holy Scripture was the PROPHETS and other Prophecies CONCERNING ME. SPIRIT means that God put His WORD into the MOUTH of A Moses, the Prophets [Elias] and for the LAST TIME, the MAN Jesus of Nazareth. SPIRIT is never a person or a God. LIPSCOMB was cast into the deep swamp by H. Leo Boles and used to subvert preacher-persons and literature. This was lectured in 1938 and published in 1942. Spirit which is made available after Jesus and the Apostles finished their "part"
God is Holy or "Wholly Spirit" which Jesus defines as without flesh and bones as you see ME have. Humans are made of Flesh and Bones controlled by MIND. As the ANTITHESIS of the usual FEMALE who when literally or mentally intoxicated or MAD, in Paul's Words, God's SPIRIT puts only WORDS into the MOUTH of Moses (The Book of The Covenant--Abrahamic), Elias (the Prophets) but for the LAST TIME God rebuked by saying:John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothing: [the SPIRITUS of Apollyon leader of the Locusts or MUSICIANS]
the WORDS that I speak unto you, they are SPIRIT, and they LIFE.
Matt. 17:5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them:No one knows the Father but the SON and those to whom HE would reveal this knowledge. BAPTISM SAVES (denies the scholars) because it Calls upon God and requests A HOLY spirit or A good conscience, consciousness or a CO-perception of that which the Apostles as eye-- and ear-- witnesses left us. 2 Corinthians 3 says that you cannot READ BLEAK text on BROWN paper or HEAR the Word when it is PREACHED by being Read unless you TURN, are Converted or Baptized into the Body or Church of the First Born head and only Teacher of His Church.
and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said,
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; HEAR YE HIM
A HOLY spirit or A good conscience or consciousness means the ability to read BLACK text on BROWN paper (2 Cor 3). That lets you grasp that the LORD Jesus in His glorified STATE is Holy Spirit.
The Invasion of Female and Feminists Herneneuts.
Carroll D. Osburn: Such fundamentalist views on women in the church are primarily the result of reaction against cultural changes and only secondarily the result of biblical proof-texting. This, basically, is our legacy" (p. 17) "Paul's arguments carried weight in HIS DAY even though they may not necessarily be convincing by today's standards" (p. 135). With so many questions flying around and so much uncertainty being expressed in various quarters, what an opportunity for the various faculties of our Christian colleges and universities to help shape the future! These are the best of times to be involved in Christian education!
If we are to have a truly significant impact upon the national and international scene, faculties of religion must play leading prophetic roles in channeling and facilitating whatever changes loom ahead.
The method is: subverting the 'hierarchial" views of Jesus and Paul is "Feminist hermeneutics stands over against patriarchal hermeneutics" its goal achieved "by small, often unnoticed acts of SUBVERSION. Numerous such incremental changes, like EROSION, will eventually bring down the FORTRESS " ( p. 32).
Spiritual Formation rejects the claims of "Jesus and Paul" and believes that they can DO and THINK their way "beyond the sacred pages." Theology REJECTS the Text and consults "like scholars in history."
"Higher Self is the term given to that divine part of each human being which knows ultimate Truth. Ascended Master is the name given to a great teacher such as Jesus, Buddha, Saint Germain, etc. by New Age devotees. Great White Brotherhood is a name for the collective group of Ascended Masters.
"Simply stated, Channeling is the process whereby a human host claims to enter into an altered state of consciousness thereby allowing a spirit entity or alien being from some distent physical or spiritual realm to take possession of their body and give instructions to New Age believers.
"The spirits were thought to speak in murmurings or piping sounds (Isa 8:19), which could be imitated by the medium (witch or ventriloquist)...Most spiritual and popular was the interpretation of dreams. It also was the case that mediums intentionally would convert themselves into a semi-waking trance. In this way the suitable mediums attained to a certain kind of clarvoyance, found among various peoples.
This approaches the condition of an ecstatically aroused pseudo-prophet.. In Greece, too, oracles were pronounced by the Phythian prophetess who by vapors and the like was aroused to a practice of the mantic art. (Int Std Bible Ency, p. 2466)
THIS IS ANTI-CHRIST and not part of the Invisible Kingdom Jesus died for to remove Laded Burdens and Burden Laders. The TEXT is for READING or SPEAKING and outlaws Private Interpretation or further expounding. The FINAL Christ-ordained leaders are Pastors and Teachers. The Deacons are the VOCATIONAL teachers of the flock
Eph. 4:21 If so be that ye have heard him,
and have been taught by him, as the TRUTH is in JESUS:
Eph. 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation
the old man, which is CORRUPT according to the deceitful lusts; [Living off the Free Water of the WORD]
[seeing godliness as a means of occupation. Paul's not CORRUPTING the Word meant that he did not SELL it at retail.
The word defining people selling their own doctrines as PROSTITUTION]
The TRUTH is the WORD, LOGOS OR REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE: it outlaws rhetoric, singing, playing instruments, acting or anything you invent or compose.
Eph. 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,
for the EDIFYING of the body of Christ:
Eph. 2:20 And are built upon [EDUCATED ONLY]Eph. 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, [The Word, Logos, Regulative Principle: SPEAK or READ only]
the foundation of the APOSTLES and PROPHETS,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
JESUS AFFIRMS: Teach and observe what HE taught from the Prophets who defined the Christian System perfectly]
LIPSCOMB DENIES:
and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Eph. 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro,
and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men,
and CUNNING CRAFTINESS, whereby THEY LIE IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.
-Panourg-os (properisp.), on, A. ready to do anything, wicked, knavish,
II. in a less positively bad sense, cunning, clever, smart, “p. kai deinos” D. 1.3, cf. Pl.Tht.177a, Arist.EN1144a28; “p. te kai sophos” Pl.R.409c; “kompsos kai p.” Plu. 2.28a: Sup., Plb.5.75.2. Adv. “-gōs, p. kai hupokritikōs legein ta epē” Ath.9.407a.
Sophos , ē, on, A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, harmatēlatas s. Pi.P.5.115, cf. N.7.17; “kubernētēs” A.Supp.770; “mantis” Id.Th.382; “oiōnothetas” S.OT484 (lyr.); of a sculptor, E.Fr.372; even of hedgers and ditchers, Margites Fr.2; but in this sense mostly of poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kithara s. E.IT1238-“p. kai deinos” egein clever at speaking, forcible, vehement, style in oratory,
“d. hupo panourgias”
-Plat. Rep. 409c But that cunning fellow quick to suspect evil, and who has himself done many unjust acts and who thinks himself a smart trickster, [panourgos te kai sophos]
when he associates with his like does appear to be clever,
being on his guard and fixing his eyes on the patterns within himself.
But when the time comes for him to mingle with the good and his elders,
Plat. Rep. 3.409d then on the contrary he appears stupid. He is unseasonably [kairon] distrustful [apistōn] and
he cannot recognize a sound character
because he has no such pattern in himself.
But since he more often meets with the bad than the good,
he seems to himself and to others to be rather wise than foolish.” “That is quite true,” he said.
“Well then,” said I, “such a one must not be our ideal of the good and wise judge but the former.
For while badness could never come to know both virtue and itself, native virtue through education
Plat. Rep. 3.409e will at last acquire the science both of itself and badness.1 This one, then, as I think, is the man who proves to be wise and not the bad man.2” “And I concur,
1 Cf. George Eliot, Adam Bede, chap. xiv.: “It is our habit to say that while the lower nature can never understand the higher, the higher nature commands a complete view of the lower. But I think the higher nature has to learn this comprehension by a good deal of hard experience.”2 Cf. Theaetetus 176 D “It is far best not to concede to the unjust that they are clever knaves, for they glory in the taunt.” Cf. Unity of Plato's Thought, n. 21.
etc.; also en oiōnois, kithara, E. IT662, 1238 (lyr.);
Gal. 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Gal. 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies
2Tim. 1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words,
which thou HAST HEARD OF ME in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
SCRIPTURE HONORED BY ALL BELIEVERS AFFIRMTHE INSPIRED WORDS OF PAUL WHICH JESUS TAUGHT HIM..
LIPSCOMB WITH NEW REVELATION DENIES
But honorable, Civilized Society does not INFILTRATE AND DIVERT other people' "investment"
Eph. 4:15 But SPEAKING the TRUTH in love, [Word, Logos, outlaws personal opinions, rhetoric, singing, playing]
MAY GROW UP into him in all things, which is the HEAD, even Christ:
Eph. 4:23 And be RENEWED in the SPIRIT of your MIND;
Eph. 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, [baptism]
which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. [given A holy spirit]
Eph. 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, [Lying is speaking your own words or Hallucinating]
SPEAK every MAN TRUTH with his neighbour:
for we are members one of another. [No Clergy: Qualificatiion: Ability to Read]
There is NO Scripture to SING and never a COMMAND to SING the WORD or Logos.
Phil. 1:27 Only let your conversation
be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent,
I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in ONE SPIRIT with one MIND
striving together for THE FAITH of the gospel;
2Th. 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled,
neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Rhonda is a frequent speaker nationwide in programs dedicated
to ENABLING Christians to know Jesus DEEPLY and
to serve him in the everyday places of their lives.
All of the sorcery or witchcraft of using YOUR OWN EFFORT to hear NEW words because you DESPISE the Jesus who was Mockingly distracted by action and musical instruments may be what God WANTS you to do. The MARK is RESTORE the Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted play at Mount Sinai which was a SIGN of Anathema.
Jude 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation,
it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you
that ye should earnestly contend for THE FAITH
which was ONCE delivered unto the saints.
Jude 4 For there are certain men [and women] crept in unawares,
who were before of OLD ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men,
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness,
and denying the
ONLY Lord God, [Theos]
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our Lord [kurios] Jesus Christ.
Jude 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this,
how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,
afterward destroyed them that believed not
UNIVERSITIES CALL IN ALL OF THE "ELECT" TO LECTURE ABOUT EXODUS AND ARE BLIND BY GOD'S FORE ORDINATION.
ALL HISTORIC SCHOLARS UNDERSTOOD:
Exod 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings;
and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play
Paig-ma , atos, to,A. play, sport, lōtos hotan . . paigmata bremē whene'er the pipe sounds its sportive strains, E.Ba.161(lyr.); “Ludia p. luras” Lyr.Alex.Adesp.37.15.II. 'child's play', to toiouto p. tōn logōn
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While God was feeding the flock with all delights, it chose for itself as its Shepherd the calf, which was not able even to eat.
........... Moses who kept them in awe was removed from them, that the idolatry might cry aloud in their mouths,
which the restraint of Moses had kept down in their hearts. For they cried:
Make us gods, to go before us.
19. But when Moses came down, he saw their heathenism revelling in the wide plain with drums and cymbals.
Speedily, he put their madness to shame by means of the Levites and drawn swords.So likewise here, our Lord concealed His knowledge for a little when the sinful woman approached Him, that the Pharisee might form into shape his thought,Paul silenced both male and female "so that we might all be SAFE and come to a knowledge of the truth." The very rare female would CLAIM to be able to bring the gods down and give you goodies. Paul called them "mad women of Corinth." Nevertheless, since all rhetoric and music are defined as SORCERY, iif you do not flee Babylon you WILL be trapped.
........ as his fathers had shaped the pernicious calf.
The MALE leadership at the now female-dominated universities are not able to REFUTE without losing their jobs.
Matt. 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
1John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Mark 12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
John 8:19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Eph. 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
1Cor. 2:12 Now we have received, not the SPIRIT OF the world,
but the SPIRIT WHICH is of God;
that WE MIGHT KNOW the things that are FREELY GIVEN to us OF God.
1John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
Rev. 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
The PATTERN is to REpurpose your Congregation or even UNIVERSITY to teach their own Blasphemy and Biblical Illiteracy. That is being charitable, Paul said that they are LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.
Rhonda Lowry USURPS the Owner's Authority with glee: The organization sees itself as part of the “wider church,” in the denominational world. Its website states that “The church universal is like a global jigsaw with its denominations, divisions and regional groupings, and the many parachurch organisations. World Convention helps relate the tradition of the ‘Christian’ family to the wider church, and the activities of the wider church to OUR family.”
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Rom. 8:5 For they that are after the FLESH do mind the things of the FLESH;
but they that are after the SPIRIT the things of the SPIRIT.
Eph. 4:23 And be renewed in the SPIRIT of your MIND
Phil. 1:27 Only let your conversation
[con-verso To abide, live, or dwell somewhere: , keep company with, FELLOWSHIP]
be as it becometh the GOSPEL of Christ:
Becometh unanimis. We Speak the same things when we use "one mind and one mouth to speak that which is written for our learning" Romans 15
The Gospel is the ONLY POWER available. Nothing of human invention can ASSIST the SPIRIT which is more than the MIND. There can be no fellowship with anyone who does not rest solely on Holy Scripture for CHRISTIANS who are DISCIPLES individually with no professional intercession.
that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs,
that ye stand fast in ONE spirit, with one mind
striving TOGETHER for the faith of the gospel;
The only assembly is well defined from the wilderness onward. Individuals gather to READ and discuss the Scriptures. There is no organization required for small groups in their isolated settlements to, on the REST day, to study. Jesus said that where two or three are gathered in His NAME He will be there.
Churches of Christ developed out of the Reformed Baptists and was never at any time or place JOINED to the Disciples or Christian Church. There can never be any SUPPORT of any group which repudiates all recorded history and became a SECTARIAN group of the Disciples of Christ. The Christian Church was officially removed from the Disciples census in 1971 and have never ceased trying to Infiltrate and Divert people to take the MARK.
World Council: According to the website, “The
assemblies focus on meaningful worship
[There is no example for holding Meaningful Worship Services in Scripture. Worship is IN the human Spirit [A Place] and NOT in the Flesh. God does not live in human houses nor does He show up to listen to rituals. God is not worshipped with the WORKS of humans. Works are poetic: it includes composing and performing poems, songs or sermons out of human heads.
(including outstanding preaching
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that PREACH him, being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day.
She means HOMILECTICS and RHETORIC which are human schemes to ENHANCE the Work of God. Historic Homilies are specific discussion of Scripture and the Word or Logos OUTLAWS rhetoric, singing or playing instruments.
THEN AND NOW LEADERS ARE MURDEROUS.
Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their RULERS,
because they knew him not,
nor yet the VOICES of the PROPHETS
which are READ every sabbath day, [once a week]
they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
The word PARASITE identifies anyone who gets food for performing Religious Rituals.and inspirational music),
Jesus removed the BURDEN LADERS by founding a School (only) of the Word (only)
That is the claim that none Biblical or Anti Biblical songs with instrumental noise (never called music) are INSPIRED.learning (with study of significant themes), CONTEMPORARY evangelism (Bader Lectures)
[Music is universally the instrument of Sorcery or LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE Ephesians 4]
and global fellowship. …
FELLOWSHIP WITH INSTRUMENTAL-TRINITARIAN-PERVERTED IDOLATRY FORBIDDEN.
Bless their heart, no one has the time to gather in musical idolatry even within their own small village.
1Cor. 10:20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice,
they sacrifice to devils, and not to God:
and I would not that ye should have FELLOWSHIP with devils.
1Cor. 10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased:
for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
1Cor. 10:6 Now these things were our examples, [PATTERN]
to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
tup-oō , A.form by impress, receive a form, be modelled,
III. ordain, decree,
IV. execute in due form,
epistol-ē , hē, (epistellō) A.anything sent by a messenger, message, order, commission, whether verbal or in writing ex epistolēs by command, like grammata,Tup-os u^, ho, (tuptō) IX. prescribed form, model to be imitated, 2. general instruction, b. rule of life, religion,
1 Pet. 3:21 The like figure (Antitupon or Antitype counterpart) whereunto
even BAPTISM DOETH ALSONOW SAVE US
(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
but the answer of [Appeal FOR] a good conscience toward God,)
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin,
but ye have obeyed from the heart that form (tupos a model for imitation) of doctrine
which was delivered you. Ro 6:17
But now being
made free from sin, and
become servants to God, ye
have your fruit unto holiness, and
the end everlasting life. Ro 6:22
2 Thess 3:9 Not because we have not power,
but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Anti (g473) an-tee'; a prim. particle; opposite, i.e. INSTEAD or because of (rarely in addition to): - for, in the room of. Often used in composition to denote contrast, requital, SUBSTITUTION, correspondence, etc.
- We are baptized by GRACE instead of having to build an Ark or drown
- We are baptized by GRACE instead of having to cross the Red Sea or be destroyed by FAITH ONLY when God said "Quit whining, lift up your arm and MOVE into the jaws of death.
- We are baptized by GRACE instead of having to be pinned on a stake and shed OUR blood.
THEY FOLLOWED THE JAY GUIN PATTERN FOR THE LAW OF SILENCE AND INSTRUMENTAL WORSHIP:
1Cor. 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
paizō , 2. esp. dance, “paisate” Od.8.251; “dōma peristenakhizeto possin andrōn paizontōn” 23.147, cf. Hes.Sc.277; “p. te kai khoreuein” Ar.Ra.409, cf. 390; “enoplia khalkōtheis epaizen” Pi.O.13.86:—Pass., alla pepaistai metriōs hēmin, of the chorus, Ar. Th.1227.
Their rising up AGAINST god and dancing included:
4. play on a musical instrument, h.Ap.206: c. acc., “Pan ho kalamophthogga paizōn” Ar.Ra.230; dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16.THERE CAN BE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THOSE WHO REPUDIATE THE WORD OR REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE
This is a DIRECT COMMAND in the olden Scriptures which are now replaced with HEARING VOICES. No fellowship with WHAT?
2Cor. 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
and what communion hath light with darkness?
2Cor. 6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
2Cor. 6:6 By pureness,
by knowledge,
by longsuffering,
by kindness,
by the Holy SPIRIT, by love unfeigned,
2Cor. 6:7 By the WORD of truth,
by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
-LOGOS or rational discord of God made audible and capable of being recorded.2Cor. 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
-Lego Count, recount, tell over, say, speak, 8. at the beginning of letters or documents, maintain as a thesis, Sophron of sound mind. having control over the sensual desires, temperate, self-controlled, chaste, reasonable comparison. , esp. in the theatre,
Opposite to epithumia
A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder, 3. view as spectators of regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible
IV. inward debate of the soul 1.thinking, reasoning, explanation,
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment, to sphodron kai enthousiastikon p. Longin.8.1; “pathos poiein” Arist. Rh.1418a12; “
Without Prooimion A. opening, introduction; in Music, prelude, overture, Pi.P.1.4; in poems, proëm, preamble,
VI. verbal expression or utterance, lego, lexis
-Lexis A.speech, OPPOSITE ôidê
-ôidê, 1.art of song 5. = eppsdê, spell, incantation OPPOSITE -Lexis
4. text of an author, OPPOSITE exegesis [Peter's private interpretation outlaws exegesis]
Arist.En1142a261Timothy 4:13 Till I come, give attendance to [public] reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
2Timothy 4:3 For [I mean that] the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts
Hugiano 2. to be sound of mind, teachings
3. of soundness in political or religious matters, esp. in part., “to hugiainon tēs Hellados” Id.7.15; hoi hugiainontes,
Opposite. turbulent agitators, Plb.28.17.12;
Opposite Kamno work
“hopē anthrōpos ekame” Berl.Sitzb. 1927.158 (Cyrene).--The pf. is always intr. (Cf. Skt. śamnīte 'work hard', 'serve zealously', śamitár- 'sacrificing priest', Gr. eiro-komos, komeō, komizō.)
[looking for sexual love ; epithumia [boy love]by passion,
Opposite. pronoia [forthought, learning]
Teaching to scratch:
knēth-ō , later form of knaō, A. scratch, “hōs legetai, knēthein oiden onos ton onon
Onos , 1. o. luras (sc. akouōn), of one who can make nothing of music, o. luras ēkoue kai salpiggos hus; 2. peri onou skias for an ass'sshadow, i.e. for a trifle,
an ass in the rain, of being unmoved by what is said or done,
2. the upper millstone which turned round, “o. aletēs” X.An.1.5.5 ;
Xen. Const. Lac. 2.13 But if it was clear that the attraction lay in the boy's outward beauty, he banned the connexion as an abomination; and thus he caused lovers to abstain from boys no less than parents abstain from sexual intercourse with their children and brothers and sisters with each other.shall they heap to THEMSELVES teachers, having itching ears.
for what FELLOWSHIP hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
and what communion hath light with darkness?YOU CANNOT FELLOWSHIP THOSE "OF THE WORLD" FOR WHOM JESUS DOES NOT PRAY AND FROM WHOM GOD HIDES.
God HIDES from the WISE including barely literate theologians. They are the Wise or SOPHISTS who are Preachers beyond the Word, Singers or Instrument players. This is how Isaiah 29 and Ezekiel 33 defines HYPOCRITES.
THERE CAN BE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THOSE WHO CALL THEE HOLY SPIRIT A LIAR WHICH DEMANDS BAPTISM
Lipscomb agrees with the Disciples and Christian Churches and calls Jesus and Peter liars for connecting DISCIPLES fit for FELLOWSHIP to Obedience in Baptism. Those able to GLADLY HEAR THE WORD recoginize it as an INVITATION only to a small band of Lost Spirits. They are IN this World but not OF this World.
The PROPHETS define the prophesied KINGDOM both inclusively and exclusively. Isaiah 1 with most literature deny that God commanded either King, Kingdom, Priests, Levites, animal HOLOCAUST, or ANY kind of "musical" performance. Isaiah 1 was also 'made more certain' by Jesus and was called HOLY SCRIPTURE. For HIRE Theologians build upon the foundation of the MONARCHY but not aware that God turned them over to worship the STARRY HOST. The use of Noise Instruments is always the MARK of people who reject Scripture and make up and sell their own words. Instruments also mare the invasion of SORCERERS, God's Abandonment and a Self-Guided CASTING INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.
Jesus said that God HIDES truth from the WISE, SOPHISTS as "Self-authoring preachers, singers or religious instrument players." These are all connected to SORCERY to "make the lambs dumb before the slaughter. The prophets recorded the PATTERN for the future Spiritual Kingdom:
Is. 2:3 And many people shall go and say,
Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the HOUSE [excludes priests or Levites] of the God of Jacob;
THERE CAN BE NO "FELLOWSHIP" between TRANSLATED SPIRITS. and A VISIBLE-AUDIBLE INSTITUTIONaedificium A household, family, b. In philos lang., a philosophical school, sect, Cic. Ac. 1, 4; Sen. Ep. 29 fin.; id. Ben. 5, 15.
Matt 10:6 Only to the LOST SEEP of the house of ISRAEL
and Gentile Lost Spirits who are NOT OF THIS WORLD and are out of reach of Self-Curing.
The Lost Spirits listen for the SIGN of their rescue.
Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his WORD were BAPTIZED:
and the same day there were ADDED unto them about three thousand souls.
The Greek PARASITE is used of anyone assisting a Religious Institution. The SCHOOL of Christ is the ANTITHESIS of any human institution.
Luke 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely:
for the children of this WORLD are in their generation wiser than the children of LIGHT.
John 12:36 While ye have LIGHT, believe in the light,
THAT ye may be the children of LIGHT.
These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
Eph. 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness,
but now are ye LIGHT in the Lord: walk as children of LIGHT:
1Th. 5:5 Ye are all the children of LIGHT, and the children of the day:
we are not of the NIGHT, nor of darkness.
Romans14 SILENCES anything that does not EDIFY or EDUCATE. Paul pointed to the SECTS in Rome which are much like modern Religious Institutions or UNIVERSE who do almost NO Christ-Based teaching and devotes most of its time Trying to DESTROY the Historic Church of Christ who feeds their FACE..
Romans 15-MuTammuz Ezekie 8
and he will teach us of his ways, lex et verbum
and we will WALK in HIS PATHS:
sēmĭta a narrow way, a path, foot - path of a way of life, course of conduct, etc.: “justitiae,” Vulg. Prov. 2, 8: “justorum,” id. ib. 16, 17.
for out of Zion shall go forth the law, lex et verbum
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Jer. 18:15 Because my people hath forgotten me,
they have burned incense to vanity,
and they have caused them to stumble
in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
Rhonda Lowry World Convention is the ‘flagship’ of the churches with their origin in the 19th Century Restoration Movement.”
Jesus CREATION was of His Kingdom for the Messianic Period. The Church began when Jesus became the first member and ONLY TEACHER.
Col. 1:18 And he is the HEAD of the BODY, the CHURCH:
who is the beginning, [Arche or ARCH which supports the whole]
the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Heb. 12:23 To the general assembly and CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN,
which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all,
and to the SPIRITS of just men made PERFECT,
Baptism saves because it requests A holy spirit or A good conscience without which it is impossible to read BLACK text on BROWN paper (2 Cor. 3)Col. 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,
and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Whatever is visible and audible and presumptious at WORLD CONVENTION it CANNOT include members of the Kingdom of Christ which does not come with religious OBSERVATIONS. It is WIITHIN a tiny flock of lost spirits which Jesus has placed in a SAFE HOUSE.
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The Church exists where two or three gather in the name of Christ and engage in the singular pattern defined by Thomas Campbell to READ and MSE the Word.
Alexander continued the work of John Calvin who called for the RESTORATION OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. The only thing that Calvin and the Campbells did was to CHOP OUT all of the pagan superstition.
The Church or Assembly of Christ has the same PATTERN as the Synagogue which EXCLUDED vocal or Instrumental noises na INCLUDED.
The "babes"" but not the rulers were wise unto salvation
Acts 15:21 For Moses
of old time
hath in every city
them that PREACH him,
being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day.
THE ONLY APPROVED EXAMPLE.
Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth,
where he had been brought up: [educated]
and, as his custom was, [pattern]
he went into the synagogue on the SABBATH day,
and stood up for to READ.
Other speakers include Dr. Cynthia Hale, founding Pastor of Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, Ga., Mike Cope, Preaching Minister of the Highland Church of Christ, Abilene, Tex., Bob Russell, Pastor of Southeast Christian Church, Louisville, Ky., and Dr C. Robert Wetzel, President of Emmanuel School of Religion, Johnson City, Tenn.
Jesus said that He does not pray for those OF the World and almost none hear the eledtion or INVITATION and insist on being baptized. That requests that Jesus rescue their once Lost-Spirit and translate it into the heavenly or invisible kingdom.
The WORLD or KOSMOS is the Ecumenical or the Kingdom of the Devil. From Exodus 18 the PATTERN was for non-mercinary tribal leaders to assembly groups as small as ten families to Rest, Read and Rehearse the Word. The GLOBAL groups cannot be remotely CHRISTIAN.
That is standing in their "holy places" and claiming to be god.
Rhonda Lowry uses well-documented SORCERY or WITCHCRAFT when God's SPIRIT contradicts her. All of the SILENCE passages are to exclude people who DENY1Tim. 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, [kept safe]
and to come unto the knowledge of the truth [The Word or Logos outlaws all of the SORCERY practices]
1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD [LU denies. Says that Jesus was GOD IN THE FLESH]
and ONE MEDIATOR [Rhonda Lowry DENIES. Claims magical methods to get the TRUE message]
between God and men,
the MAN Christ Jesus; [LU from H. Leo Boles DENY]
Rhonda Lowry: to ENABLING Christians to know Jesus DEEPLY and
to serve him in the everyday places of their lives.
All Theologians (Apollonites) insist that The Holy Spirit (the "breath" of God", Jesus or the Apostles were ignorant.
The Prophets defined the Kingdom of Christ both inclusivel and exclusively. Jesus called "Holy Scripture" the Prophets and other prophecies "concerning me."
The Assembly with Elders and Deacons being the only teachers:
Eph. 2:20 And are built upon [EDUCATED ONLY] the foundation
of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
2Pet. 3:2 That ye may be MINDFUL
of the WORDS which were spoken [Never SUNG: The articulated LOGOS or Regulative Principle]
before by the holy prophets,
AND
of the COMMANDMENT of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
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2Pet. 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
to them that have obtained like precious faith with us
through the righteousness of
GOD [Theos]
AND
our Saviour Jesus Christ:
Rhonda Lowry and Leonard Allen say that Jesus was GOD IN THE FLESH
John calls that ANTICHRIST because JESUS came IN THE FLESH 30 years before He was sanctified and sent.
2Pet. 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you
through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pet. 1:3 According as HIS DIVINE POWER
hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,2 Pet 1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease
Titus 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,
we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us,
that he might redeem us from all iniquity,
and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
to have these things alway in remembrance.
THIS PROVES THAT AFTER HIS AND OTHER "PARTS" A RECORDED HISTORY WOULD PREVENT LATTER DAY "PROPHETS AND APOSTLES."
2Pet. 1:16 For WE have not followed cunningly [sophizo] devised fables,
Fables are myths from MUO [to shut the mouth: music forces the lambs to be silent before the slaughter]
Muthos 2. fiction (Opposite. logos, historic truth)
Pind. 0. 1 From there glorious song enfolds the wisdom of poets,1
so that they loudly sing [10] the son of Cronus,
when they arrive at the rich and blessed hearth of Hieron,
who wields the scepter of law in Sicily of many flocks,
reaping every excellence at its peak,
and is glorified [15] by the choicest music,
which we men often play around his hospitable table.
Come, take the Dorian lyre down from its peg, if the splendor of Pisa and of Pherenicus
placed your mind under the influence of sweetest thoughts,
Yes, there are many marvels, and yet I suppose the speech of mortals beyond the true account can be deceptive, stories adorned with embroidered lies; [30] and Grace, who fashions all gentle things for men, confers esteem and often contrives to make believable the unbelievable. But the days to come are the wisest witnesses.
embroidered lies Poikilos 2. of Art, p. humnos a song of changeful strain or full of diverse art, Pi.O.6.87; “poikilon kitharizōn” Id.N.4.14; “dedaidalmenoi pseudesi poikilois muthoi” Id.O.1.29; of style, “lexis poiētikōtera kai p.” Isoc.15.47 (Comp.); “skhēmatismoi” D.H.Is.3.
Fables are myths from MUO [to shut the mouth: music forces the lambs to be silent before the slaughter]
Sophis-tês ,A. master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, “meletan sophistais prosbalon” Pi.I.5(4).28, cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun” A.Fr.314, cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistē Thrēki (sc. Thamyris) E.Rh.924, cf. Ath.14.632c: with modal words added, “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn”
II. from late v B.C., a Sophist, i.e. one who gave lessons in grammar, rhetoric, politics, mathematics, for money,
goēs A. sorcerer, wizard, Phoronis 2, Hdt.2.33,4.105, Pl.R. 380d, Phld.Ir.p.29 W.; “g. epōdos Ludias apo khthonos” E.Ba.234, cf. Hipp.1038; prob. f.l. for boēsi Hdt.7.191.
2. juggler, cheat, “deinos g. kai pharmakeus kai sophistēs” Pl.Smp.203d; “magos kai g.” Aeschin.3.137:Rev. 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Rev. 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth;
for by thy sorceries [Pharmakeia, Pharmakeus], Veneficium Cantio] were all nations deceived. [Planao ,
Rev. 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.Euripides, Bacchae Eur. Ba. 215As many of them as I have caught, servants keep in the public strongholds with their hands bound, and as many as are absent I will hunt from the mountains, [I mean Ino and Agave, who bore me to Echion, and
"the condition is that of Ecstasy, the utterances are words or sounds of prayer or praise but are not clear in meaning, and give the impression to the hearer of being MYSTERIES or insane expressions."... This phenomenon seems to include sighs, groanings, shoutings, cries, and utterances either of disconnected words (such as Abba, hosanna, hallelujah, maranatha) or connected speech of a jubilating sort which impresses the observer as ecstatic prayer or psalmodic praise." (Schaff-Herzog, Speaking in Tongues, p. 36)[230] Autonoe, the mother of Actaeon.] And having bound them in iron fetters, I will soon stop them from this ill-working revelry. And they say that some stranger has come, a sorcerer [Goes], a conjuror [Epoidos] from the Lydian land,[235] fragrant in hair with golden curls, having in his eyes the wine-dark graces of Aphrodite. He is with the young girls day and night, alluring them with joyful mysteries. If I catch him within this house,[240] I will stop him from making a noise with the thyrsos and shaking his hair, by cutting his head off.2 Pet 1:17 For HE received from God the Father honour and glory,
when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory,
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
2 Pet 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven
WE heard, when
WE were with him in the holy mount.
2 Pet 1:19 WE have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto YE do well that ye take heed,
as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
until the day dawn,
and the day star arise in your hearts:
2 Pet 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
If your Further Expound you DESPISE the Spirit OF God who verified His "making more certain" by Signs and Wonders.
2 Peter 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness,
as they that count it pleasure [Hedonism: sensual pleasure, LUST. Outlawed Rom 15]
to riot in the day time.
Spots they are and blemishes,
sporting themselves Rising up to PLAY
with their own deceivings
while they feast with youEntrupo (g1792) en-troo-fah'-o; from 1722 and 5171; to revel in: - sporting selves.
-Truphaô , ( [truphê] ) A. live SOFTLY, luxuriously, fare sumptuously, paison, truphêson, zêson:
2. part. truphōn as Adj., effeminate, luxurious, Ar.Nu.48, etc.; “t. kai amelēs” Pl.Lg.901a; “to truphōn” effeminacy, Ar.V.1455 (lyr.); also of things, dainty, delicate, “basilikē kai truphōsa paideia” Pl.Lg.695d; “aspida . . truphōsan” Aristopho 14, cf. Antiph.52.10 (troch.); “artoi t.” Alc.Com.5.
“hoi truphōntes” spoiled pets, Id.Men.76b; en tais ekklēsiais t. kai kolakeuesthai, of the people, D.8.34;
-Paison paizō , Dor. paisdō Theoc.15.42: Lacon. pres. part. gen. pl. fem. paiddōhan Ar. Lys.1313 (lyr.): fut. paixoumai Syrac. in X.Smp. 9.2, A. “paixomai” LXX 2 Ki.6.21,
2. esp. dance, “paisate” Od.8.251;
4. ho kalamophthogga paizōn” Ar.Ra.230; dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16.
Sophocles, Antigone
Chorus[791] You seize the minds of just men and drag them to injustice, to their ruin. You it is who have incited this conflict of men whose flesh and blood are one. [795] But victory belongs to radiant Desire swelling from the eyes of the sweet-bedded bride. Desire sits enthroned in power beside the mighty laws. [800] For in all this divine Aphrodite plays her irresistible game.
-Commentary [800] empaizei, 'wreaks her will' in that contest which nikai implies. We find empaizô with a dat. (1) of the object, as Her. 4.134 empaizontas hêmin, 'mocking us': (2) of the sphere, as Ar. Th. 975 choroisin empaizei, 'sports in dances.' The en of empaizei here might also be explained as (a) in the imeros, or the blephara, i.e. by their agency: or (b) 'on her victim.' But the interpretation first given appears simpler. (Cp. Vergil's absol. use of illudere, G. 1. 181, Tum variae illudant pestes.)
-[See Plato-Symposium]
Symposium;
Then, said Eryximachus, as you are all agreed that drinking is to be voluntary, and that there is to be no compulsion,
I move, in the next place, that the flute-girl, who has just made her appearance,
be told to go away and play to herself, or, if she likes, to the women who are within.
To-day let us have conversation instead; and, if you will allow me, I will tell you what sort of conversation.
Jesus CAST OUT the flute girls and minstrels like dung to speak HIS Word.-Demosthenes 8 [34] As it is, by persuasive arts and caresses they have brought you to such a frame of mind that in your assemblies [Ekklesiais] you are elated by their flattery and have no ear but for compliments, while in your policy and your practice you are at this moment running the gravest risks. For tell me, in Heaven's name, if the Greeks should call you to account for the opportunities that your carelessness has already thrown away, and should question you thus:
tên...aulêtrida. It was the fashion at convivia to provide pipers, dancers, jesters, jugglers et hoc genus omne to amuse the guests. aul-êtris , idos, hê, A.flute-girl,
Dêmagôg-eô , curry favour with men, curry favour with, 3. c. acc. rei, introduce measures so as to win popularity, II. in causal sense, d. tina make him popular.
Charizô [GRACE was a Greek prostitute] 2.gratify or indulge a humour or passion, 3. in erotic sense, grant favours to a man,
Scribes and Pharisees are defined as HYPOCRITES and practice SORCERY (Revelation 17-18) using "Lusted after Fruits as speakers, singers or instrument players. They HAD and were FOREORDAINED (Jude) to be speakers, singers, instrument players, as Brides practicing the Hieros Gamus by lying about the Song of Solomon.
As prophesied, the hypocrites or wise from whom God hides INTENDED and INTENDS to TRANSITION the property of the POOR AND WIDOWS to the INSTRUMENTAL SECT. Wh
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WORSHIP IS INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL AND IN THE HEART OR MIND. SILENCE IS ALWAYS THE SCRIPTURAL DEMAND. THERE IS NO CLERGY AS MEDIATORS AFTER JESUS OUTLAWED LADEDE BURDENS AND BURDEN LADERS. The HOUSE of God is the Assembly of Christ which excludes SCRIBES and PHARISEES. ALL RELIGIOUS CRAFTSMEN WERE AND ARE CALLED PARASITES.
Narrow Road few
SPIRIT is never a person or God. All SPIRIT words are figurative or a PARABLE to hide the truth from Scribes (song, sermon and book writers) and Pharisees who are false Preachers or favorite of the "Workshops of Evil, according to Ezekiel, who steal prophecies one from another."
God puts His WORD into the MOUTH of a Moses, Elijah and the Prophets and LASTLY into the mouth of the MAN Jesus of Nazareth.
SILENCE IS FOR BOTH MALE AND FEMALE WHO USE SELF-AUTHORITY TO WRITE AND SELL SONGS, SERMONS OR WORKSHOPS.
Plato, Euthydemus
[289d] On what proof do you rely? I asked.I see, he said, certain speech-writers who do not know how to use the special arguments composed by themselves, just as lyre-makers in regard to their lyres: in the former case also there are other persons able to use what the makers produced, while being themselves unable to make the written speech. Hence it is clear that in speech likewise there are two distinct arts, one of making and one of using.
I think you give sufficient proof, I said, that this art of the speech-writers cannot be that whose acquisition would make one happy. And yet I fancied that somewhere about this point would appear the knowledge which we have been seeking all this while.
[289e] For not only do these speech-WRITERS themselves, when I am in their company, impress me as prodigiously clever, Cleinias,
but their art itself seems so exalted as to be almost inspired. [ John.Mark.Hicks.Keith.Stanglin.Letter.and.Spirit.html ]
However, this is not surprising; for it is a part of the SORCERER'S art, epōdōn tekhnēs
Latin 289e:Plat. Euthyd. 290a and only slightly inferior to that. The sorcerer's art is the charming of snakes and tarantulas and scorpions and other beasts and diseases, while the other is just the charming and soothing of juries, assemblies [Ekklesia or church], crowds, and so forth. Or does it strike you differently? I asked.
kai mentoi ouden thaumaston: esti gar tēs tōn epōdōn tekhnēs morion mikrō te ekeinēs hupodeestera.
Thaumaston Is a Lying wonder which claims that your rituals are ordained by God.
-epōdē , Ion. and poet. epa^oidē , hē, A.song sung to or over: hence, enchantment, spell, LADEN BURDEN
ou pros iatrou sophou thrēnein epōdas pros tomōnti pēmati
of the Magi, Hdt.1.132
oute pharmaka..oud' au epōdai” Pl.R. 426b ; thusiai kai e. ib.364b ;
charm for or against.., “toutōn epōdas ouk epoiēsen patēr” A.Eu.649.
Rev. 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;epōd-os , on, （epadō）
Rev. 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries [pharmakeia] were all nations deceived.
A.singing to or over, using songs or charms to heal wounds, “epōdoi muthoi”
c. c. dat., assisting, profitable, 2. Pass., sung to music, “phōnai” Plu.2.622d ; fit for singing, “poiētikēn e. parekhein
b. Subst., ENCHANTER, “e. kai goēs” E.Hipp. 1038 (but “goēs e.” Ba.234): c. gen., a charm for or against, “ethusen hautou paida epōdon Thrēkiōn aēmatōn” A.Ag.1418 ; e. tōn toioutōn one to charm away such fears, Pl.Phd.78a.
2. epōdos, ho, verse or passage returning at intervals, in Alcaics and Sapphics, D.H.Comp.19 ; chorus, BURDED, refrain,
THE ENCHANTER WAS THE ABOMINATION IN DEUTERONOMY 18Pl.Lg.903b Athenian
Let us persuade the young man by our discourse that all things are ordered systematically by Him who cares for the World—all with a view to the preservation and excellence of the Whole, whereof also each part, so far as it can, does and suffers what is proper to it. To each of these parts, down to the smallest fraction, rulers of their action and passion are appointed to bring about fulfillment even to the uttermost
No, it appears to me, he replied, to be as you say.
kēl-ēsis , eōs, hē, *A. bewitching, charming, ekheōn, nosōn, Pl.Euthd. 290a: enchantment by eloquence, dikastōn k. te kai paramuthia ibid.; by music and sweet sounds, Id.R.601b, Stoic.3.97.
Plat. Rep. 601b whether he speak in rhythm, meter [melos] and harmony [rhuthmon] about cobbling or generalship or anything whatever.
So mighty is the spell1 that these adornments naturally exercise;
though when they are stripped bare of their musical coloring [metron] and taken by themselves,2
I think you know what sort of a showing these sayings of the poets make.
For you, I believe, have observed them.” “I have,” he said.
“Do they not,” said I, “resemble the faces of adolescents,
young but not really beautiful, when the bloom of youth abandons them?3”
“By all means,” he said. “Come, then,” said I, “consider this point:
he creator of the phantom, the imitator, we say, knows nothing of the reality but only the appearance.
hōraios , fruits ripe for plucking or rippe for death.Jude 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
-Epōd-os A. singing to or over, using songs or charms to heal wounds, “epōdoi muthoi” Pl.Lg.903b.
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him
Jude 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having mens persons in admiration because of advantage.
-Goēs , ētos, ho, A. SORCERER, wizard, Phoronis 2, Hdt.2.33,4.105, Pl.R. 380d, “g. epōdos Ludias apo khthonos” E.Ba.234, SPEAK is the OPPOSITE of SING or ODE.
b. Subst., ENCHANTER, “e. kai goēs” E.Hipp. 1038 (but “goēs e.” Ba.234): c. gen., a charm for or against, “ethusen hautou paida epōdon Thrēkiōn aēmatōn” A.Ag.1418 ; e. tōn toioutōn one to charm away such fears, Pl.Phd.78a.c. c. dat., assisting, profitable, “e. gignesthai neois pros aretēn” Id.Lg.671a ; “duspraxia lēphtheis e. esti tō peirōmenō”2. Pass., sung to music, “phōnai” Plu.2.622d ; fit for singing, “poiētikēn e. parekhein” S.E.M.6.16.
Those who God has STRONGLY DELUDED preach that when Paul commanded SPEAKING "that which is written for our learning" that A SPIRIT told them that Paul commanded that we SING the erotic praise songs of little Wimpy Burger Worship Leader.
THE ASSEMBLY OF CHRIST IS A SCHOOL (ONLY) OF THE WORD (ONLY) AND THE KINGDOM DOES NOT COME WITH OBSERVATION MEANING RELIGIOUS OPERATIONS DEFINED AS LYING WONDERS BY DELUSIONAL WOMEN OR THE GENDER CONFUSED ACCORDING TO PLATO.
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Nimrod was known as the god of the Chaldean Mysteries. That name, as we have seen, was Saturn. Saturn and Mystery are both Chaldean words, and they are correlative terms. As Mystery signifies the Hidden system, so Saturn signifies the Hidden god. *
* In the Litany of the Mass, the worshipers ARE TAUGHT thus to pray: "God Hidden, and my Saviour, have mercy upon us." (M'GAVIN'S Protestant) Whence can this invocation of the "God Hidden" have come, but from the ancient worship of Saturn [666], the "Hidden God"? As the Papacy has canonised the Babylonian god by the name of St. Dionysius, and St. Bacchus, the "martyr," so by this very name of "Satur" is he also enrolled in the calendar; for March 29th is the festival of "St. Satur," the martyr. (CHAMBER'S Book of Days)
"According to the system which Nimrod was the grand instrument in introducing, men were led to believe
that a real spiritual change of heart was unnecessary,
and that so far as change was needful,
they could be regenerated by mere external means.
"Looking at the subject in the light of the Bacchanalian ORGIES (Read Ephesus and Corinth), which, as the reader has seen, commemorated the history of Nimrod, it is evident that he led mankind to seek their chief good in sensual enjoyment,and showed them how they might enjoy the pleasures of sin, without any fear of the wrath of a holy God. (Voodoo, Rock, Boogie Woogie becomes Contemporary Christian Music)
"In his various expeditions he was always accompanied by troops of women; and by music and song, and games (ritual drama) and revelries, and everything that could please the natural hearts,
he commended himself to the good graces of mankind." (Hislop, Alexander, The Two Babylons, p. 55, Loizeaux Brothers
Paul said that fools love to be fooled: None of the WORLD CHURCHES will fellowship you unless YOU betray those who fed your face.
I am convinced that the World Church exists only because unauthorized clergy (Scribes-Pharisees doctors of the) exists only because it upsets the REST Jesus died for. In Ephesians 4 Paul said that they ARE LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE and prevent the one another listening to the Word PREACHED by being READ as the Singular purpose.
In all of the SILENCE passages men were silenced beyond READING the Word because they loved to see an outbreak of WRATH or an ORGY created by the feminine or EFfeminate replacing the commanded SPEAK or READ with SING or PLAY.
1Tim. 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, [KEPT SAFE]
and to come unto the knowledge of THE TRUTH
The Truth is THE Word, Logos or Regulative Principle outlawing any Self-authoring of songs or sermons. Why would women pitch such a fit to get the CHIEF SEAT knowing that they will VIOLATE God Who put His WORDS into the MOUTH, Jesus put these words into the MOUTH of the Apostles who "left us a memory."
Lipscomb's H. Leo Boles INVENTED, in 1938 at Freed Hardieman, the Three-God Godhead and published in 1942. This is a perverse version of the Holy Trinity which Jesus called blaphemy and John called Anti-Christ. This gives the women and wannabees the authority to HEAR beyond the Sacred Pages a peculiar Female dominated religion.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is ONE GOD,
and ONE mediator between God and men,
the MAN Christ Jesus;
LU says that GOD came in the Flesh.
The Spirit says that CHRIST came in the flesh.
Defining LU as ANTICHRIST.
Jesus was born in the FLESH 30 years before God the Father MADE HIM TO BE bot Lord and Christ.
1Tim. 2:6 Who gave HIMSELF a ransom for all, to be TESTIFIED in due time.
Jesus said my WORDS are SPIRIT and LIFE or the ONLY seed of the Kingdom.
Rev. 19:9 And he saith unto me, Write,
Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.
And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
Rev. 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him.
And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant,
and of thy brethren that have the TESTIMONY of Jesus:
worship God: for the TESTIMONY of Jesus is the SPIRIT of prophecy.
God put His WORDS into the MOUTH of the Prophets
2 Peter 1 Prophecy No Private Interpretation
Spirit can never be a PERSON and is a PARABLE to fool the clergy and let the babes understand how God TOTALLY COMPETENT speaks Mouth to Mouth of Face to Face (contrary to the the usurping ladies). Female Usurping God get much more than being slapped with a dose of Leprosy (saith the Law).
Rest or Pauo means Stop the speaking, singing, playing instruments, acting and with great NOISE intends to lade the BURDEN which is "Spiritual Anxiety Created by Religious Rituals." He invites the twos and threes to come OUTSIDE the REPROACHES and REST and Learn of Me. God hides from human wisdom of the Sophists: speakers, singers, instrument players and ANY words not written for our learning. Jesus allows NO ROLES and NO DOLES for His Word which are the visible-audible Nature of God. God RESTED on the Seventh day after six days of work and the WORLD CHURCH pollutes that REST and creates all of the Mental Anxiety people PRODUCE and then get PAID with the claim of Christ's role as Great Physician.
Is. 4:5 And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion,
and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day,
and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
Is. 4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat,
and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Umbrācŭlum , I. any thing that furnishes shade). I Lit., a shady place, bower, arbor,Verg. E. 9, 42.— B. Transf., a school: “in solem et pulverem, ut e Theophrasti doctissimi hominis umbraculis,” Cic. Brut. 9, 37: “ex umbraculis eruditorum in solem atque in pulverem,” id. Leg. 3, 6, 14.—II. A sunshade, parasol, umbrella, Ov. F. 2, 311; id. A. A. 2, 209; Mart. 14, 28, 1;
pulverem 2. In gen., a scene of action, field (cf. arena): “doctrinam ex umbraculis eruditorum in solem atque pulverem produxit,” i. e. before the public, Cic. Leg. 3, 6, 14; cf. Hor. C. 1, 8, 4: “educenda dictio est in agmen,
eruditorum I.to polish, educate, instruct, teach ” to have cultivated, brought to perfection,
AFTER NOISE ALL WEEK THE CHURCH WAS PROPHESIED TO BE
1. Jesus was sent to seek and save a LITTLE FLOCK of lost spirits: Pilgrims and Sojourners IN but not OF the WORLD.
2. Jesus said that HE was not OF the World and His Disciples will not be OF the World. The MARK is that if they speak the Word, Logos or Regulative Principle the will be despised and hated.
3. Jesus said of the Jewish clergy that He was from above but they were from BENEATH or TARTARUS.
4. However popular or skilled those corrupt the WORD by "selling learning at retail." Whatever skills they have in helping people to have a good character, they should not, but are, hired to affect the human spirit which is made HOLY at baptism ONLY--
Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his WORD were baptized:
and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Heb. 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, Assemby or School OF Christ
which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all,
and to the SPIRITS of just men made PERFECT,
THE WORLD, BUT NEVER, A CHRIST-WORD-CENTERED WEEKLY ASSEMBLY IS THE ARENA OF HUMAN ENHANCEMENT.
2John 7 For many deceivers are ENTERED into the world, [Kosmos, Ecumenical, Kingdom of Satan]
who confess not that JESUS Christ [God's Anointed]
is come in the flesh.
This is a deceiver and an antichrist
mundus The Lower World, the world as opposed to the church; this world, the realm of sin and death, as opposed to Christ's kingdom of holiness and life: “princeps hujus mundi (i. e. Satan)A Christian is a Disciple is a Student ONLY of what Jesus confirmed of the Church of Christ defined INCLUSIVELY and EXCLUSIVELY IN THE PROPHETS AND LASTLY BY JESUS WHO CAME IN THE FLESH AND NOT AS DECEIVERS TEACH THAT GOD CAME IN THE FLESH.
The Elders are the only Pastor-Teachers commanded to teach that which HAS BEEN taught. Nothing else should be merchandised as Christian.
The ancient Middle East constituted an ecumene. The term ecumene comes from the Greek word oikoumene, which means the inhabited world and designates a distinct cultural-historical community.
Manufacturing and services tended to be monopolized by professional guilds, including religious personnel specializing in sacrifices, oracles, divination, and other kinds of priestcraft. The mobility of such guilds throughout the entire area helps to explain the spread of specific religious ideas and techniques over great distances. Just as guild potters spread ceramic forms and methods, so also guild priests spread their religious concepts and practices from the Indian Ocean to the Aegean Sea, and from the Nile River to Central Asia. The Greek poet Homer, in the Odyssey, noted the mobility of guildsmen, mentioning religious personnel as well as architects, physicians, and minstrels. Guild priests called kohanim were found at ancient Ugarit on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria as well as in Israel. Moreover, Mycenaean Greek (late Bronze Age) methods of sacrifice are similar to the Hebraic methods, which are preserved in many countries to this day in the traditional techniques of Jewish ritual slaughter.
It was only natural that fertility rites should include sexual myths that were acted out dramatically. The Ugaritic text just alluded to describes El, the head of the pantheon, copulating with two human women. This has echoes in Hosea and Ezekiel where God, as in the Canaanite literary tradition, is referred to as having a love affair with two women, symbolizing Judah and Israel. The Hebrews, however, eventually eliminated sex from their official theology as well as from their religious practices. Up to the time of King Josiah’s reform (621 bc) there was a women’s cult of Asherah (under qedeshim auspices [consecrated for fertility practices], according to 2 Kings 23:7) in the Jerusalem Temple, alongside the male cult of Yahweh. Asherah’s devotees considered her the chief wife of Yahweh, even as she was the wife of El, head of the Canaanite pantheon, for in the Bible El is identified with Yahweh. But Josiah eliminated the cult of Asherah, a
PAUL'S WARNING AGAINST WOMEN WHO CONSIDERED HER ANTICS AS GIFTS OF THE GODS HAS COME TO PASS.
Carroll D. Osburn "Feminist hermeneutics stands over against patriarchal hermeneutics" its goal achieved
"by small, often unnoticed acts of subversion. Numerous such incremental changes, like erosion, will eventually bring down the fortress " ( p. 32).
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1.24.19 PAUL SILENCED BOTH MALE AND FEMALE "SO THAT ALL MIGHT BE SAFE AND COME TO A KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.
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"The realization of this may be what is reflected in the current mass abandonment of the exclusiveness of Christianity that is going on among Western Christians now, especially in its academic centers. Why should one insist on the exclusiveness of Christianity if all it is is one more cultural form? But let the reality of Christian spiritual formation come to its fullness, and exclusiveness will take care of itself. If the homosexual, the witch and the warlock, the Buddhist and the Muslim, can truly walk in a holiness and power equal to that of Jesus Christ and devoted followers, there is nothing more to say. But Christ himself, and not Christianity as a form of human culture, is the standard by which 'we' as well as 'they' are to be measured (Acts 17:31). Dallas Willard
The Truth is the Word, Logos or Regulative Principle which outlaws all presentation methods except READ or SPEAK that which is written for our learning. You can be a trafficker but you cannot be a Christian, Disciple meaning STUDENT. There is no CLERGY class in the School of Christ.
Worry a lot when mostly women and dominated males want to practice Authority as AUTHENTIA which is self-authoring, murderous and erotic.
1Cor. 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches:
for it is NOT permitted unto them to SPEAK;
but they are commanded to be under obedience,
as also saith the law.
Speak is g2980 laleo preach, say, speak (after), talk, tell, utter. Compare 3004.“lay” forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse;
lŏquor “quas tu mulieres quos tu parasitos loquere,” id. Men. 2, 2, 47:
la^l-eō , chatter, opp. articulate speech, as of LOCUSTS, chirp, Theoc.5.34; mesēmbrias lalein tettix (sc. eimi), a very grasshopper to chirp at midday, Aristopho 10.6; “anthrōpinōs l.” Strato Com.1.46.
kheli_d-ōn the twittering of the swallow was prov. used of barbarous tongues by the Greeks, “eiper esti mē khelidonos dikēn agnōta phōnēn barbaron kektēmenē” khelidonōn mouseia bowers that ring with poetasters' twitterings, ib.93 (parodied from aēdonōn mouseia in
III. of musical sounds, “aulō laleō” Theoc.20.29; of trees, v.supr.1.2; “di'aulou ē salpiggos l.” Arist. Aud.801a29; of Echo, D.C.74.14: also c.acc. cogn., magadin lalein sound the magadis, Anaxandr.35.In Romans 14 Paul silenced "doubtful disputations" or anything which did not edify or educate. In Romans 15 self-pleasure (speaking, singing, playing instruments, acting) were silenced so that we might "Use one mind and one mouth to SPEAK that which is written for our LEARNING or Scripture for our Comfort. There was no discussion in the synagogue beyond the leader "translating" because no newer translation was permitted.
1Cor. 14:35 And if they will LEARN any thing,
let them ask their husbands at home:
for it is a shame for women to SPEAK in the church.
Many Gentiles attended synagogues rather than the gatherings of the Gentiles including singing, playing instruments and sex for sale. Timothy was already wise unto salvation:
Acts 13:15 And after the READING of the law and the prophets
the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying,
Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of EXHORTATION for the people, say on
Exhortation does not include sermonizing or performing music or passing the plate. Scriptures performs the COMFORTER or PARACLETE role as the way Jesus in His HOLY SPIRIT state Comforters.
THEN AND NOW:
Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their RULERS,
because they knew him not,
nor yet the voices of the PROPHETS
which are READ every sabbath day,
they have fulfilled them in condemning him
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time
hath in every city them that PREACH him,
being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day.
LEARNING AND SPIRITUAL FORMATION COMES FROM SCRIPTURE AND NOT WITCHCRAFT.
Rom. 15:4 For whatsoever things were WRITTEN AFORETIME
were written for our LEARNING, that we through patience
and COMFORT of the SCRIPTURE might have hope.
Rom. 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God,
even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Only women in Corinth might have been performers in the Temple of APOLLO, Apollon or Abaddon. The Muses in Revelation 18 were the LOCUSTS and known as dirty adulteresses dominating as SHEPHERDESSES.
THE WORSHIP OF THE MUSES UNDER ABADDON OR APOLLYON SILENCES THE WORD OF GOD
-prosku^n-ētos , ē, on, A.to be worshipped, worshipful Mousaistai
Mousagetēs 1 doric for Mousēgetēs leader of the Muses, Lat. Musagetes, of Apollo [Abaddon, Apollyon] , Plat.1 Mous-a_getēs, ou, ho,
Mousa_geta_s , a, ho, Dor. for Mousēgetēs (v. infr.), A.leader of the Muses, epith. of Apollo, Pi.Fr.116; “ho m. kai arkhagetas tas poiētikas theos” (Delph. Mousēgetēs , Pl.Lg. 653c, D.S.1.18, Jul.Or.4.132a, al.; voc. Mousēgeta^ , IG12(5).893 (Tenos); also Epithet of Heracles, in dat. Mousagētē ,
Mouseios , on, Aeol. Moisaios , a, on, (Mousa)\ A.of or belonging to the Muses, “hedra” E.Ba.410 (lyr.); Moisaion harma the car of Poesy, Pi.I.8 (7).67; lithos M. a monument of song, Id.N.8.47. II. musical, “kelados”
Mouso-polos , on, A.serving the Muses, poetic, “oikia” Sapph. 136 (s. v.l.); m. stonakha a tuneful lament, E.Ph.1499 (lyr.); kheires, stephanos, AP9.270 (Marc. Arg.), 12.257 (Mel.); mousopole thēr, addressed to Pan, Castorio 2.5. II. Subst., bard, minstrel, E.Alc. 445
Why QUESTIONING stops the LEARNING which is ONLY by READING or SPEAKING the Word or LOGOS which outlaws all of the people needing to PERFORM:
1Cor. 14:36 What? came the WORD of God out from YOU? or came it unto you only?
1Cor. 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or SPIRITUAL,
let him acknowledge that the things that I WRITE unto you
are the commandments of the Lord.
"Spiritual Formation as Sorcery DENIES the only source of SPIRITUAL FORMATION."
Eph. 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Phtheirō 3 b. seduce a woman, “hupo tēs thugatros adikoumenon kai Dionusiou tou phtheirantos autēn kinaidou” (Dog, Cynic, Catamite) “pharmakōnEph. 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
CORRUPT is Listening to a female Lyre Player
“akouō se lurōdou gunaikos
Eph. 4:24 And that ye put on the new man,
which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
AGAIN, THE MEANING OF THE ASSEMBLY OR ANYWHERE
Eph. 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying,
speak every man truth with his neighbour:
for we are members one of another.
PARASITES: WOMEN AND "BOYS" RULE OVER YOU AND TAKE AWAY THE KEY TO KNOWLEDGE.
Eur. Hipp. 964 Are you, then, the companion of the gods, as a man beyond the common?WALKING THE LABYRINTH AT ONCE-CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITIES Apollod.3.1.4.
Are you the chaste one, untouched by evil? [950]
I will never be persuaded by your vauntings,
never be so unintelligent as to impute folly to the gods.
Continue then your confident boasting,
take up a diet of greens and play the showman with your food,
make Orpheus your lord and engage in mystic rites,
holding the vaporings of many books in honor. [955]
For you have been found out.
To all I give the warning: avoid men like this.
For they make you their prey with their high-holy-sounding words
while they contrive deeds of shame.
Theseus compares Hippolytus to the Orphics [That Thracian], an ascetic religious sect that ate a vegetarian diet and had a reputation for hypocrisy.
Threskeia is named after Orpheus or That Thracian. Under various names he goes back to Jubal who handled (without authority in a sexaul context) all of the musical instruments.
Gregory Nazianzen Oration xxxix
"Nor are these Thracian orgies, from which the word Worship (threskia) is said to be derived; nor rites and mysteries of Orpheus, whom the Greeks admired so much for his wisdom that they devised for him a lyre which draws all things by its music.
Nor the tortures of Mithras which it is just that those who can endure to be initiated into such things should suffer; nor the manglings [castrating] of Osiris, [Adonis, Attis, Dionysus,] another calamity honoured by the Egyptians; nor the ill-fortunes of Isis and the goats more venerable than the Mendesians, and the stall of Apis, the calf that luxuriated in the folly of the Memphites, nor all those honours with which they outrage the Nile, while themselves proclaiming it in song to be the Giver of fruits and corn, and the measurer of happiness by its cubits.
[4] But angry at him for not sacrificing the bull, Poseidon made the animal savage,SEEKING the BREAD of LIFE by wandering about as in a labyrinth, X.Cyr.1.3.4.
and contrived that Pasiphae should conceive a passion for it.
In her love for the bull she found an accomplice in Daedalus,
an architect, who had been banished from Athens for murder.
He constructed a wooden cow on wheels, took it, hollowed it out in the inside, sewed it up in the hide of a cow which he had skinned, and set it in the meadow in which the bull used to graze. Then he introduced Pasiphae into it; and the bull came and coupled with it, as if it were a real cow. And she gave birth to Asterius, who was called the Minotaur. He had the face of a bull, but the rest of him was human;
and Minos, in compliance with certain oracles,
shut him up and guarded him in the Labyrinth.
Now the LABYRINTH which Daedalus constructed was a chamber “
that with its tangled windings perplexed the outward way.
The story of the Minotaur, and Androgeus, and Phaedra, and Ariadne,
I will tell hereafter in my account of Theseus
No, grandfather,” Cyrus replied to this; “
but the road to satiety is much more simple and direct in our country than with you;
for BREAD and MEAT take us there;
but you, though you make for the same goal as we,
go wandering through many a MAZE, up and down,
and only arrive at last at the point that we long since have reached.”Amos 8:1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou?
And I said, A basket of summer fruit. [CATAMITES]
Then said the Lord unto me,
The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
Amos 8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day,
saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God,
that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord:
Amos 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east,
they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Amos 8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
Amos 8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say,
Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth;
even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
John 4:34 Jesus saith unto them,
My MEAT is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
John 6:55 For my flesh is MEAT indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
John 6:32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
John 6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John 6:64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
John 6:65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
Christians and other readers escaped before a million Jews in REVOLT (believeth nots) are said to have been consumed or burned up
Is. 42:6 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
The Spirit OF Christ in Isaiah 3 warns about women or children or "boys" ruling over you. The prophetesses using musical instruments are called sorcerers or "primary parasites" meaning the chief speaker. "For every ten thousand witches there is only one warlock" someone notes.
The one piece pattern from the Church of Christ (the Rock) in the wilderness was and is:
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath1Tim. 4:13 Till I come, give attendance to [public] reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
in every city [ten families or more]
them that PREACH him,
being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Sabbath means rest FROM the clergy quarantined behind the gates in Jerusalem. Rest is from the Laded Burden (arousal music) and burden laders.
1Tim. 4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee,
which was given thee by prophecy, [inspired teaching]
with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
Paul and Christ in the wilderness want ALL men to pray for peace and silence. Any witchery was/is intended to bring on WRATH or an ORGY where women are required.
WRATH -Orgi-a , A. secret rites, secret worship, practised by the initiated, a post-Hom. word ; used of the worship of Demeter at Eleusis, h.Cer.273,476. Ar.Ra.386, Th.948 ; of the rites of the Cabeiri and Demeter Achaia, Hdt.2.51,5.61; of Orpheus, Id.2.81; of Eumolpus, App.Anth.1.318 ; of Cybele, E.Ba.78 (lyr.): most freq. of the rites of Dionysus, Hdt.2.81, E.Ba.34, al., Theoc.26.13. II. generally, rites, sacrifices, SIG57.4 (Milet., v B. C.), A.Th.179 (lyr.), S.Tr.765, Ant.1013 ; “orgia Mousōn” Ar.Ra.356. cogn. with erdō, rhezō, cf. ergon, [work] orgeōn. [musical instruments.]
Abaddon or Apollon is unleashed from the pit as ruler of the Locusts: to readers the "locusts" were the Muses as Apollon or musical worship team. They were known to be dirty adulteresses or prostitutes. Paul's corrupting the Word is defined in the classics as selling the Word at retail meaning prostitution.Men are to CLEAVE to the women where Adam failed to protect Eve (Evah, Vires, Venom) from serpent which is-was "a musical enchanter." Christ called Lucifer the "singing and harp-playing prostitute" in the garden of Eden. The One-Piece Pattern for the assembly (synagogue)
1Tim. 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved [SAFE],
and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. [the Logos or Regulative Principle]
2Th. 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth,
that they might be saved.
People who subvert the Word and Give people "spiritual powers" used to make money probably can never pray for forgiveness. They see godliness as a means of financial gain or OCCUPATION.
For those who got their "degree" on theology without the Bible Simon hoped that Christianity had something which could be SOLD.
Acts 13:5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the WORD of God
in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
Acts 13:6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos,
they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus:
Magos [a^, ou, ho, Magian, one of a Median tribe, Hdt.1.101, Str. 15.3.1: hence, as belonging to this tribe,WOMEN ARE TO BE SILENT because women were always "used" as oracles of the gods such as Apollon. They could fall into charismatic ecstasy under the influence of drugs or music and their insane utterances (speaking in tongues) was SOLD as the voice of a "god." They were paid and abused.2. one of the priests and wise men in Persia who interpreted dreams, Hdt.7.37, al., Arist.Fr. 36, Phoen.1.5, Ev.Matt.2.1.3. enchanter, wizard, esp. in bad sense, impostor, charlatan, Heraclit.14, S.OT387, E.Or.1498 (lyr.), Pl.R.572e, Act.Ap.13.6, Vett. Val.74.17: also fem., Luc.Asin.4, AP 5.15 (Marc. Arg.).II. magos, on, as Adj., magical, “magps tekhnē prattein ti” Philostr.VA1.2; “kestou phōneusa magōtera” AP5.120 (Phld.). (Opers. maguš 'Magian'.)
1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE God,
and one mediator between God and men,
the MAN Christ Jesus;
Eph. 4:5 One Lord [Kurios], one faith, one baptism,If you deny The ONE GOD THE FATHER and One Son then John identifies you as the antichrist. Women and Music flow from the tripple goddesses.
Eph. 4:6 One God [Theos] and Father of all, who is above all,
and through all, and in you all.
ALL of the command that women be silent is based on the thesis that they THINK that God speaks through them. See Jeanene Reese wit A New Paradigm which debunk reading the text as it has been delivered and interpreting it to fit the feminist pattern. This is THE reason regular males are commanded to PREACH the WORD (regulative principle) with doubtful disputations or personal opinions outlawed.
HORAE
The course of the seasons (or hours) is symbolically described by the dance of the Horae;
and, in conjunction with the Charites [Pagan GRACE],
Hebe, Harmonia, and Aphrodite,
they accompany the songs of the Muses,
and Apollo's [Abaddon-Apollon] play on the lyre, with their dancing.
Yet another version of Aphrodite as Triple Goddess,
Agape 'love feast,' Agape the ruler of sacred sexual rites
Irene 'peace,' Irene was the Crone, bringer of the peace of death
Chione 'snow queen.' Chione was the new year, born at Winter Solstice,
unapproachable and serene.
Divina was the Thessalian witch or hag.
Verg. Ecl. 8The LOGOS is the DIVINA and READING that which is written is the LECTIO.
ALPHESIBOEUS
Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
“Bring water, and with soft wool-fillet bind
these altars round about, and burn thereon
rich vervain and male frankincense, that I
may strive with magic spells to turn astray
my lover's saner senses, whereunto
there lacketh nothing save the power of song.
‘Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.’
CIRCE with singing changed from human form
the comrades of Ulysses, and by song
is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
‘Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.’
Circe is the Mother of Harlots in John's Patmos area: Circe is the meaning of CHURCH which goes beyond teaching that which has been taught.
lectĭo , ōnis, f. lego.I. A gathering, collecting.B. In partic., a picking out, selecting: “judicum,” Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 16. —II. A reading, perusal; a reading out, reading aloud.
that which is read, reading, text, “juris lectiones,” passages of the laws,
9.09.12 New Lipscomb University 2012 Ignatian Retreat
Ignatius of Loyola the spiritual terrorist is NOT Ignatius the Church Father whose doctrine refutes the Ignatius of terrorism
...with the task of making disciples of women called as witnesses by the Inquisition under the direction of magistrate Alonso Mejias. Although the alumbrados [Illuminated; Illuminati; Enlightened Ones] of Spain were linked in their zeal and spirituality to the Franciscan reforms of which Cardinal de Cisneros was a promoter," the administrators of the Inquisition had mounting suspicions. These female disciples, Doña Leo, Doña Maria, and Doña Beatriz were so hysterically zealous that "one fell senseless, another sometimes rolled about on the ground, another had been seen in the grip of convulsions or shuddering and sweating in anguish." This suspicious activity had taken place while Ignatius and his companions were regularly preaching in public. Because of his "street-corner perorations" being identified "with the activities of the alumbrados," Ignatius was naturally singled out for inspection as one of these visionaries; however he was later released.
The Alumbrados: The Jesuit Order or "Society of Jesus" is a Covert Military Organization founded by Ignatius of Loyola (a member of the Spanish Gnostic Sect, Los Alumbrados) in 1534. The Alumbrados (Spanish word for The Illuminated Ones) where a Secret Society of Gnostic (Religion that combines Eastern Mysticism with Monotheist Religions and Mystery Religions ) origins. The Alumbrados were a sect of people of Noble blood who believed that the Human Soul could evolve into a degree of "Perfection" in this present life and comprehend the "Mystery" of the trinity. They believe that when a person´s soul reaches this state of "Perfection" and "Union with God" they could commit any criminal, Immoral and sinful acts without staining their souls.
Gnosticism and Eastern Mysticism (including the Mystery Babylonian religion) teaches that its members are "Gods in the making" and that Lucifer is the one that makes us realize the "God within us" and evolve this into our full potential (without the need to repent for our sins) as his name means "Morning Star" and "The Illuminated One", this doctrine which is nearly identical in all Secret Societies called the Illuminati (The Illuminated Ones)
The Spirit of Christ in the Prophets identified Babylon, Tyre and the end-time Great Mother of Babylon (Revelation 17) as a "singing and harp-playing prostitute. Because the pagan belief that Lucifer (Venus, Zoe) was superior to brother LOGOS, the prophets and the New Testament teaches the antithesis.
Peter pointed to the prophets through the Spirit OF Christ and the prophecies made more certain as the FOUNDATIONAL TEACHING resource for the Ekklesia--Synagogue or Christ with a singular purpose: to teach that which is written for our learning.
2Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, [the only Worship concept]
as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (or Christ).
THIS WAS TO MARK DOCTORS OF THE LAW WHOSE TASK IS TO TAKE AWAY THE KEY TO KNOWLEDGE
2Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people,
even as there shall be false teachers among you,
who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought them,
and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2Peter 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways;
by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you:
whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
2Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned,
but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
2Peter 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government.
Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Revelation 2:28 And I will give him the morning star.
Revelation 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
From Post Modernism to New Age Ocultism influence? The Staff of most "christian" universities have clearly adopted the views of postmodernism -- which began as a college prank. They say that all of the Bible has been sifted away by philosophy, evolution of the eyeballs and the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle. That is surely a MARK of people who think that they can move at the speed of light where things become UNCERTAIN.
Lipscomb University Preaching 2008 From Denominational Imagination!THE CHURCH OF CHRIST WAS DEFINED AS THE QAHAL, SYNAGOGUE OR CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS.
"This conference proposes that WE allow the worlds imagined
in the essential biblical narratives
to dramatically shape our preaching and lives.
We believe that preaching REconstitutes biblical paradigms when it engages Scripture’s vision
- by REpresenting what is absent
- and making present what is inaccessible
- to the end that followers of God will live into a God-shaped reality.
The Synagogue was
INCLUSIVE of Rest, Reading and Rehearsing the Word of God
EXCLUSIVE of vocal or instrumental rejoicing or elevated rhetoric.
The synagogue QUARANTINED the godly people from the Jacob-cursed Levites who were turned over to worship the starry host because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
The Gentiles often attended synagogue instead of the pagan vocal and instrumental orgies. They and Timothy were "wise unto salvation" because they had been trained in the Prophets and Apostles which is the ONLY resource Christ prophesied and Jesus fulfilled.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time
hath in every city them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Jesus exampled that and commanded it both inclusively and exclusively by the terms ekklesia and synagogue.
Paul practiced and commanded "using one mind and one mouth" to teach that which is commanded for our learning.
That was the unique pattern until pagans added rhetoricians and performing artists after Augustine.
BEING ABLE TO UNDERSTAND BLACK TEXT ON BROWN PAPER IS THE MARK OF ONE WITH A HOLY SPIRIT OR A GOOD CONSCIENCE.
Latin: Romans 12.1 obsecro itaque vos fratres per misericordiam Dei ut exhibeatis corpora vestra hostiamviventemsanctam Deo placentem rationabile obsequium vestrum
Rătĭōnābĭlis , e, adj. ratio (post-Aug.; = rationalis, which is in better use), I. reasonable, rational: he pure milk of reason, id. 1 Pet. 2, 2: “sententia vera et rationabilis,”
Sententĭa , ae, f. for sentientia, from sentio,I. a way of thinking, opinion, judgment, sentiment; a purpose, determination, decision, will, etc.
I. Transf., of words, discourse, etc., sense, meaning, signification, idea, notion, etc.
1. In gen., a thought expressed in words; a sentence, period: dum de singulis sententiis breviter disputo
Greek rational worship demands:
Noting the unnatural rush to "Spiritual Formation" as the latest fad:A. of or for speaking or speech, merē l. the organs of speech, Plu.Cor.38:
logikē, hē, speech, Opposite. mousikē,
Opposite phantasia” expressed in speech, cf. 71, al. 2. imagination, i.e. the re-presentation of appearances or images, primarily derived from sensation (cf. “aisthēsis” 11), hotan mē kath' hauto alla di' aisthēseōs parē tini to toiouton au pathos
c. creative imagination, “ph. sophōtera mimēseōs dēmiourgos” Philostr.VA6.19.
Logos: II. possessed of reason, intellectual, “meros” Ti.Locr.99e, al.; “to l. zōon”Iamblichus 3.8 OTHER MODES OF ENTRANCEMENT.
In regard to another kind of divination thou makest this statement, namely: "Others who understand themselves in other respects become divinely inspired through the fancy:4 some taking darkness as accessory, others employing certain potions, and others depending on singing and magic figures. Some are affected by means of water, others by gazing on a wall, others by the hypæthral air, and others by the sun or some other of the heavenly luminaries."4. Greek, fantastikon (Phantasia, or imagination) is defined by Chrysippos and Plutarch as the faculty which reveals itself and its causes; phantastikon or fancy, the term here used, as a vain impulse of the mind with no real cause; phantaston as the imaginable, anything that may make an impression; phantasma, a phantom, an apparition.
dianoētikai, Mind Opposite. ēthikai, Arist.EN1108b9.
And:
Ethi^k-os , A. “ēthos” 11) moral, Opposite. dianoētikos, Arist.EN1103a5,
al.; ta ēthika a treatise on morals,
Logos: 2. dialectical, argumentative, hoi l. dialogoi
logical, l. sullogismoi, Opposite. rhētorikoi, Rh.1355a13.
peri logikōn title of work, Opposite to phusikon, to ēthikon,
And Phusikos is the opposite of logikos
phu^sikos , ē, on, A. natural, produced or caused by nature, inborn, native,
II. of or concerning the order of external nature, natural, physical, “hē ph. epistēmē”
2. “ho ph.” an inquirer into nature, natural philosopher,
4. Adv. “-kōs” according to the laws of nature,
phu^sikos is the Opposite of logikōs,
Logos , Opposite. kata pathos, Arist.EN1169a5 or personal experiences
Opposite matēn , Dor. mata_n ma^, Adv. random, balse, dreams
Opposite human reasoning.
Opposite muthos, as history to legend,
intelligent utterance, Opposite phōnē, 3. any articulate sound,
Opposite inarticulate noise (psophos）
prose, Opposite poiēsis, Id.R.390a; Opposite. psilometria, Arist.Po.1448a11; Opposite. emmetra, tō l. touto tōn metrōn (sc. to iambeion）“
pezoi, Opposite poiētikē,
pezos , ē, on, (v. pous) : 2. of verse, unaccompanied by music, “kai peza kai phormikta” S.Fr.16 ; pezō goō: aneu aulou ē luras, without the lyre
2. without musical accompaniment (cf. 11.2), “pausai melōdous' alla p. moi phrason” . Pl.Sph.237a.
Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
373. anapano, an-ap-ow´-o; from 303 and 3973; (reflexively) to repose (literally or figuratively (be exempt), remain); by implication, to refresh: — take ease, refresh, (give, take) rest.
3973. pauo, pow´-o; a primary verb (“pause”); to stop (transitively or intransitively), i.e. restrain, quit, desist, come to an end: — cease, leave, refrain.
Stop the: Melōd-eō ,A. chant, sing, Ar.Av.226, 1381, Th.99:—Pass., to be chanted, “ta rhēthenta ē melōdēthenta” Pl.Lg.655d, cf. Chamael. ap. Ath. 14.620c; to be set to music, Cleanth. ap. Phld.Mus.p.98 K.; ta melōdoumena diastēmata used in music, Plu.2.1019a.
pauō , Il.19.67, etc. ;
Stop the: lupas ōdais p. E.Med.197 (anap.), etc. ; p. toxon let the bow rest, Od.21.279
Stop the: 2. c. acc. pers. et gen. rei, hinder, keep back, or give one rest, from a thing, p. Hektora makhēs, ponoio Akhilēa, Thamurin aoidēs,
Stop the: 3. c. pres. part., stop a person from leave off doing . . , hoth' hupnos heloi, pausaito te nēpiakheuōn when he stopped playing
Stop the: later paēsomai （ana-) Apoc.14.13
Stop the: of one singing or speaking, 17.359, Hdt.7.8.d : generally, Med. denotes willing, Pass. forced, cessation.
Stop the rhapsōd-os , o(, A. reciter of Epic poems, sts. applied to the bard who recited his own poem, professional reciters, esp. of the poems of Homer, Hdt.5.67, Pl.Ion 530c, etc.: also rh. kuōn, ironically, of the Sphinx who chanted her riddle, S.OT391
(Prob. from rhaptō, aoidē; Hes.Fr. 265 speaks of himself and Homer as en nearois humnois rhapsantes aoidēn, and Pi.N.2.2 calls Epic poets rhaptōn epeōn aoidoi:
Stop the orkheomai , 2. represent by dancing or pantomime,
III. Act. orkheō , make to dance (v. Pl.Cra.407a), is used by Ion Trag.50, ek tōn aelptōn mallon ōrkhēsen phrenas made my heart leap
"The realization of this may be what is reflected in the current mass abandonment of the exclusiveness of Christianity that is going on among Western Christians now, especially in its academic centers. Why should one insist on the exclusiveness of Christianity if all it is is one more cultural form? But let the reality of Christian spiritual formation come to its fullness, and exclusiveness will take care of itself. If the homosexual, the witch and the warlock, the Buddhist and the Muslim, can truly walk in a holiness and power equal to that of Jesus Christ and devoted followers, there is nothing more to say. But Christ himself, and not Christianity as a form of human culture, is the standard by which 'we' as well as 'they' are to be measured (Acts 17:31). Dallas WillardSpiritual Formation through the "works of human hands or the imagimnations of the human heart" when God said that He is not worshipped with the works of human hands and the "imagination of man is evil continually."
God in Christ provided all things required for spiritual grouth.
Eph. 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists;To understand why people have DESPISED the Word of The Son of God and turned back to using the human imagination to understand the real message you shoulc read how they are training preachers:
and some, pastors and teachers;
Eph. 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,
for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Eph. 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith,
and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Lipscomb University Conference on Preaching 2008The modern mass movement is to replace the teaching of the Bible as having the power to train the human spirit is to turn to ocultism which attemts to derive truth FROM the human imagination. A host of mind focusing efforts are collected under the new discipline of Spiritual Formation. You can now get advanced degrees as experts in seeking the god within.
Summer Celebration 2009 Streams of Living Waters
Christianity Today and the fears of a militaristic cult.
"Douglass, who has developed the most successful Willow Creek-based church service in Germany, even maintained, "I think this approach is most applicable to the state churches. We have the people, even if they don't attend. We enjoy an incredible edge in confidence vis-àvis the free churches." He cautioned,
"The cost of this approach is hard work and loads of strife with church insiders." Christianity Today
"All things come into being by conflict of opposites, and the sum of things flows like a stream. This order, the same for all things, no one of gods or men has made, but it always was, and is, and ever shall be, an ever-living fire, kindling according to fixed measure, and extinguished according to fixed measure. Justice meant a balance of opposites, and hence could be defined as strife.
Heraclitus cited as an example the tension between the string and the frame in a bow or a musical instrument. 'Harmony lies in the bending back, as for instance of the bow or of the lyre... Opposition unites. From what draws apart results the most beautiful harmony. All things take place by strife'." (Parkes, Henry Bamford, Gods and Men The Origins of Western Culture, p. 188, Knopf)
"SKEPTICAL VOICES: Skeptics believe a Willow Creek approach disregards Western Europeans' strong aversion to entering any church service, their suspicion of innovation, and deep fear of sectarianism. Christianity Today
Freeing itself from the Catholic Clergy, Luther wrote and defended Sola Scriptura as the only source of faith and practice as against the "doctors of the Law who take away the key to Knowledge":
"But, if many things still remain abstruse to many, this does not arise from obscurity in the Scriptures, but from [our] own blindness or want [i.e., lack] of understanding, who do not go the way to see the all-perfect clearness of truth…. Let, therefore, wretched men cease to impute, with blasphemous perverseness, the darkness and obscurity of their own heart to the all-clear scriptures of God…. If you speak of the internal clearness, no man sees one iota in the Scriptures but he that hath the Spirit of God…. If you speak of the external clearness, nothing whatever is left obscure or ambiguous; but all things that are in the Scriptures, are by the Word brought forth into the clearest light, and proclaimedto the whole world.
In 2 Corinthians 3 of the Jews who had been made blind at Mount Sinai Paul said that they would not be able to read BLACK text on BROWN paper until they converted to Christ which is done only at baptism.
"Though such an understanding, as Luther openly admits, did not demand complete agreement among Protestants on every secondary doctrine, it did establish an important principle: That the Word of God was revealed in an understandable way, that its central message is clear, and that (because it is clear) all men are fully accountable to its message.
The Emergent Approach: You can understand the new Lipscomb University School by understanding one of its consultants.
In contrast to this, the teachings of Brian McLaren (and others of his Emergent Church) directly assault the doctrine of biblical clarity. Instead of promoting a settled confidence in the fact that the Bible can be understood, McLaren does just the opposite. And he does so in at least five important ways.
ONE DEFINITION OF SPIRITUAL PROSTITUTION IS TO USE THE HUMAN IMAGINATION TO REPLACE SCRIPTURE.
Lipscomb University Preaching 2008 From Denominational Imagination!
"This conference proposes that WE allow the worlds imaginedWith some background, the point of this paper is to speak of the teaching of "spiritual formation" which this year at LU points to mysticism or finding the truths of God from within. Because the Word says that the "imaginations of the heart are only evil continually" God thought that He should inform us and put it in clay vessels and literal chards so that we can MARK false teachers.
in the essential biblical narratives
to dramatically shape our preaching and lives.
We believe that preaching REconstitutes biblical paradigms when it engages Scripture’s vision
- by REpresenting what is absent
- and making present what is inaccessible
- to the end that followers of God will live into a God-shaped reality.
The Biblical TEXT which is more than just their narratives do more than IMAGE certain facts. The Bible states explicitly that ..
Gen. 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,Spiritual Formation causes its disciples (future preachers) to get information from their OWN imagination or they expect some alien spirit to inform them.
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Gen. 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I
will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake;
for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth;
neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
And all of the prophets by the Spirit of Christ agree:
Jeremiah 6:17 Also I set watchmen over you,
saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet.
............ But they said, We will not hearken.Jeremiah 6:18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold,
............ I will bring evil upon this people,
............ even the fruit of their thoughts,
............ because they have not hearkened unto my words,
............ nor to my law, but rejected it.Church is defined as ekklesia or synagogue or a school of the Word of God: the preacher's only task is to teach that which has been spoken. The Spiritual Formation takes place when our minds or spirits are "washed by the water of the Word." After the Israelites rose up in musical idolatry they lost the power to read BLACK TEXT on BROWN paper without twisting it. Paul in 2 Corinthians 3 says that a clear view or conscience or A holy spirit comes only after baptism.
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners:
but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. Deut 18:14
The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren,
like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; Deut 18:15
According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly,
saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God,
neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. Deut 18:16
And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. Deut 18:17
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto the
and will put my words in his mouth;
and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. Deut 18:18
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words
which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. Deut 18:19
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
which I have not commanded him to speak,
or that shall speak in the name of other gods,
even that prophet shall die. Deut 18:20Paul confirmed that the Sword of the Spirit is unlike the carnal weapons or lifeless instruments. These are given to PREVENT men from using their own imagination--however twisted by mind control exercises--as authority.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 2 Cor 10:3
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 2 Cor 10: 4
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that
exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 2 Cor 10: 5The Greek literal weapon--
hoplizo (g3695) hop-lid'-zo; from 3696; to equip (with weapons [mid. and figurative.]): - arm self.
Hoplon (g3696) hop'-lon; prob. from a prim. hepo , (to be busy about); an implement or utensil or tool (lit. or fig., espec. offensive for war): - armour, instrument, weapon
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 2 Cor 6:7
Or in Hebrew:
Keliy (h3627) kel-ee'; from 3615;... vessel or weapon): - armour ([-bearee]), artillery, bag, carriage, instrument, jewel, psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, / whatsoever.
That chant (scatter words like tongues) to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; Am.6:5
THE PROPHECY OF THE BABYLONIAN MOTHER OF HARLOTS IN REVELATION 17
When Paul said that he did not CORRUPT the Word it means that he did not "sell learning at retail" or hawk it about in the markets. The same word identifies the prostitute.
Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
RELIGIONS PROSTITUTION IS LITERAL: All pagan religious performers were prostitutes or catamites.
prostitutioPROSTITUTION LITERALI. Prostitution, Arn. 2, 53; Tert. Pudic. 6; Aug. in Psa. 128, 6.—Plur.: “mulierum,” Lact. 5, 8, 7.—II. In gen., a dishonoring, profaning: “imaginum,”
MORE LIKELY RELIGIOUS PROSTITUTION IS FALSE SPEAKING AND MUSIC
All rhetoric, singing, playing instruments or acting is identified as second or third order truth. If it is sold as the truth then it is religious prostitution.
Phantasies most likely the result of Mind Alteration. Creative imagination is the realm of the Sophist or the WISE which 1 Corinthians 1 claims will not be in the church. A Sophist is a slick speaker, mjusician, harp player. Mim-esis songs and sermons are almost always imitation of the real Biblical Text. Demiourgos one who practices as a profession namely a Rhetor-ikos skilled as a speaker the primary meaing of hypocriteImag I. an imitation, copy of a thing, an image, likeness (i. e. a picture, statue, mask, an apparition, ghost, phantom. Jesus calls speakers, singers and instrument players HYPOCRITES. That is, they present an IMAGINATIVE IMITATION of the truth.
II. Transf., a reverberation of sound, an echo
Resono To send forth a roaring noise, clamore, Musicus Cantus I. the production of melodious sound, a musical utterance or expression, either with voice or instrument; hence, song, singing, playing, music B. An incantation, charm, magic song,
Magicus skilled in incantantations. Vanitates, superstition, Resonance of a musical corda Catgut, a string (of a musical instrument), A rope, cord, for binding a slave:
Vanitas emptiness, nothingness, nullity, want of reality: falsity, falsehood, deception, untruth, untrustworthiness, fickleness,tuba
Superstitio Excessive fear of the goas, unreasonable religious belief, superstition. A song is a LADED BURDEN. Phort-ikos tiresome, wearisome, because of the crowd, inflated rhetorical style, listening to METER
tuba terribili sonitu taratantara dixit Outlawed for the Church in the wilderness, 1. A signal for war, lofty style of spaking, exciter, author of civil war.
Spectacle with applause, the musical strings.
Vergil Verg. A. 9.503
But now the brazen trumpet's fearsome song
blares loud, and startled shouts of soldiery
spread through the roaring sky. The Volscian band
press to the siege, and, locking shield with shield,
fill the great trenches, tear the palisades,
or seek approach by ladders up the walls,
Canorus I. of or pertaining to melody, melodious, harmonious, euphonious; neutr. or act. (of sound, men, animals, instruments, etc.; class. in prose and poetry). mere jingling, melody, charm, in speaking:
Pro-stituo to expose women publically. Occulo
B. Trop., unchaste: “sermones prostituti ac theatrales,
RELIGIOUS PROSTITUTION IN RELIGION
"Sermons set forth in public, offer for sale in the theater"
These are feigned, spurious sermons, humanitatis or polished languate for sale. Orator
Cic. S. Rosc. 41.121 Cicero [121] That cannot be the truth, O judges; it is not probable that Chrysogonus has taken a fancy to their learning or their politeness, or that he should be acquainted with their industry and fidelity in the business of a household. There is something which is hidden; and the more studiously it is bidden and kept back by them, so much the more is it visible and conspicuous. Cic. S. Rosc. 120
Pro-sto I. To stand forth, stand out, project: A. Of a seller, to offer one's wares for sale, carry on one's business (cf. propono) 2. In partic., to sell one's body, prostitute one's self:SPIRITUAL FORMATION MAY JUST BE WITCHERYLucretitus Lucr. 2.428Kapel-euo A. to be a retail-dealer, drive a petty trade, sell by retail, sell learning by retail, hawk it about, traffic in grants of citizenship, of PROSTITUTES
Thus simple 'tis to see that whatsoever
Can touch the senses pleasingly are made
Of smooth and rounded elements, whilst those
Which seem the bitter and the sharp, are held
Entwined by elements more crook'd, and so
Are wont to tear their ways into our senses,
And rend our body as they enter in.
In short all good to sense, all bad to touch,
Being up-built of figures so unlike,
Are mutually at strife- lest thou suppose
That the shrill rasping of a squeaking saw
Consists of elements as smooth as song
Which, waked by nimble fingers, on the strings
The sweet musicians fashion; or suppose
That same-shaped atoms through men's nostrils pierce
When foul cadavers burn, as when the stage
Is with Cilician saffron sprinkled fresh,
And the altar near exhales Panchaean scent;
Hdt.1.155 Heredotus: Cyrus told how to take the FIGHT out of the enemy: [4] But pardon the Lydians, and give them this command so that they not revolt or pose a danger to you: send and forbid them to possess weapons of war,
2Cor. 2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ,
............and order them to wear tunics under their cloaks
........... and knee-boots on their feet,
........... and to teach their sons lyre-playing [kitharizein]
........... and song [psallein] and dance
............and shop-keeping [huckstering].
........... And quickly, O king,
........... you shall see them become women instead of men,
........... so that you need not fear them, that they might revolt."
and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
2Cor. 2:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ,
in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
2Cor. 2:16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death;
and to the other the savour of life unto life.
And who is sufficient for these things?
2Cor. 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
BEWITCHING Kel-esis A. bewitching, charming, ekheōn, nosōn, Pl.Euthd. 290a: enchantment by eloquence, dikastōn k. te kai paramuthia ibid.; by music and sweet sounds, Id.R.601b, Stoic.3.97.See how this connects to ancient Dionysus Worship in Navigating the Winds of Change. When some of Israel rose up to PLAY in musical idolatry at Mount Sinai, Stephen says that God abandoned them to worship the starry host. This was the worship of Dionysus or the new wineskin of Egypt, Greece, Canaan and Babylon. This paper looks at proof that the urge for mysticism---broughrt about by "musical worship" exactly repeats the rising up in musical idolatry. Paul warned about this in 1 Corinthians 10 and Romans 10.
ekhis “ekheis” Thphr. Char.1.7:—viper, Pl.Smp.217e, Arist.HA511a16, etc.: metaph., “sukophantēs kai e. tēn phusin” D.25.96; hōsper e. ē skorpios ērkōs to kentron52; cf. ekhidna.
Dem. 25 96 Demosthenes [96] Let me put it in this way. Perhaps none of you has ever been bitten by an adder or a tarantula, and I hope he never may be. All the same, whenever you see such creatures, you promptly kill them all. In just the same way, men of Athens, whenever you see a false accuser, a man with the venom of a viper in his nature, do not wait for him to bite one of you, but always let the man who comes across him exact punishment.II. ekhion 11, Nic.Th.541, 636, Plin. HN22.50.
Plat. Euthyd. 290a [290a] and only slightly inferior to that. The sorcerer's art is the charming of snakes and tarantulas and scorpions and other beasts and diseases, while the other is just the charming and soothing of juries, assemblies, crowds, and so forth. Or does it strike you differently? I asked.
Sorcerer Epode A. song sung to or over: hence, enchantment, spell, II. in metre, epôidos, ho, a verse or passage returning at intervals, a chorus, burden
Pharmakon sorcerers in Revelation who will burn.
Therion Beasts includes a New Style of song and drama
By music and sweet sounds
Plat. Rep. 601b Plato Republic [601b] whether he speak in rhythm, meter and harmony about cobbling or generalship or anything whatever. So mighty is the spell1 that these adornments naturally exercise; though when they are stripped bare of their musical coloring and taken by themselves, I think you know what sort of a showing these sayings of the poets make. For you, I believe, have observed them.” “I have,” he said. “Do they not,” said I, “resemble the faces of adolescents, young but not really beautiful, when the bloom of youth abandons them?” “By all means,” he said. “Come, then,” said I, “consider this point: The creator of the phantom, the imitator, we say, knows nothing of the reality but only the appearance.
Note 2 Cf. Gorg. 502 Cei tis perieloi tēs poiēseōs pasēs to te melos kai ton rhuthmon,
says that the ideas of poets are inferior to those of the ordinary layman. Cf. also Julian, Or. ii. 78 D, Coleridge, Table Talk: “If you take from Virgil his diction and metre what do you leave him?”
Mysticism: In which knowledge of the true self and the true secret doctrines is attained by a mystical experience of the divine. The scriptures refer to this in Colossians:
"Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind…These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh". [Col 2:18-23]EXAMPLES OF MYSTICAL RITES AT TORONTO
Mysticism Defined - John MacArthur
"Mysticism includes the idea that direct knowledge of God or ultimate reality is achieved through personal, subjective intuition or experience apart from, or even contrary to, historical fact or objective divine revelation."
It was music in all pagan mysticism which was used to bring on this "out of your mind" mystical feeling."Johnson, a professor at West Texas State University, elaborates: When we speak of a mystical experience we refer to an event that is completely within the person. It is totally subjective . . . Although the mystic may experience it as having been triggered by occurrences or objects outside himself (like a sunset, a piece of music, a religious ceremony, or even a sex act), the mystical experience is a totally inner event. It contains no essential aspects that exist externally to him in the physical world . . . A mystical experience is primarily an emotive event, rather than a cognitive one . . Its predominant qualities have more to do with emotional intensity, or 'feeling tone' than with facts evaluated and understood rationally. Although this is true, it alone is a woefully inadequate way of describing the mystical experience. The force of the experience is often so overwhelming that the person having it finds his entire life changed by it. Mere emotions cannot effect such transformations.
"Furthermore, it is from this emotional quality that another characteristic results, namely, its 'self-authenticating' nature. The mystic rarely questions the goodness and value of his experience. Consequently, if he describes it as giving him information, he rarely questions the truth of his newly gained "knowledge". It is this claim that mystical experiences are "ways of knowing" truth that is vital to understanding many religious movements we see today. [Our Sufficiency in Christ, John MacArthur, Jr., Word Publishing, 1991]
This naturally leads to trying to use the performing arts as away to fill the void. Because Lynn Anderson has been held up as a prime example you may want to see how .....
Lynn Anderson of Hope Network and how to Transition into Shepherding.Because the SHEPHERDING of Lynn Anderson and the forcing of instruments at Oak Hills is based on promise keepers, Travers and Jewel van der Merwe, "Strange Fire: The Rise of Gnosticism in the Church" provides us a detailed explanation of the Gnostic heresy and how it has adapted to the modern church in various new perversions of doctrine.
How he promotes the Promise Keepers Shepherding Movement works.
See Lynn Anderson and the Neo Pagan Parallels
Click for the Witchery at LU Section below"When a high value is placed on personal experiences or revelations, Scriptures are then unscrupulously twisted and misquoted. We find those who believe the feelings of a congregation must be hyped-up in order to `feel' the Presence of the Lord or else the church is thought to be `dead.' Instead of music being used to worship and glorify God, it is used as a means of `connecting' or `feeling' the Presence of God. (p. 89)
"Could Promise Keepers be adopting some of these `experiential' Gnostic beliefs and practices? Chris Corbett noted, in the "Heritage" article, that "given PK's emphasis on emotional highs and revelations, and their apparent disdain for precise theology, critics wonder where the next `vision' could take the movement - and how it could influence the lives of the Christian men being tethered to it through PK's growing arms." Unfortunately, Corbett found that "PK officials would not comment on the Vineyard...
Feedback from Celebration: Keith LancasterStunning like all musical terms speaks of enchantment or sorcery. Jesus identifies the Scribes and Pharisees by calling them hypocrites. He STUNNED them so that they could never again read the Word of God.
"The congregational singing was stunning, with all ages joining in a seamless collection of standards and contemporary songs; upbeat and meditative songs with an emphasis on the joy of the Lord. Randy Harris presented a message encouraging God's people to "party." (One of his points was how Jesus was the type of person who was invited to parties and people wanted to be around.)
14 They left no sin undone, wherein they surpassed not the heathen.
15 Therefore God mingled for them a spirit of wandering;
........ And gave them to drink a cup of undiluted wine, that they might become drunken.Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. Isaiah 51:17
16 He brought him that is from the end of the earth, that smiteth mightily;
Of course, this is a blasphemous and slanderous lie which fits with the EMERGING church PATTERNED after Navigating the Winds of changed which is patterned after witchcraft or sorcery as John called the rhetoricians, singers and musicians as "lusted after fruits" and sorcerers:Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer. Isaiah 29:9
The LORD has brought over you a deep sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads (the seers). Isaiah 29:10
These prophets and prophetesses were not foretellers or forthtellers. They made up their sermons and songs out of their own head and then sold them with charismatic preaching or with music. Click Here
Pindar, Olympian, 1.[105] whom we shall adorn with the glorious folds of song. A god is set over your ambitions as a guardian, Hieron, and he devises with this as his concern. If he does not desert you soon, I hope that I will celebrate an even greater sweetness, [110][110] sped by a swift chariot, finding a helpful path of song when I come to the sunny hill of Cronus. For me the Muse tends her mightiest shaft of courage. Some men are great in one thing, others in another; but the peak of the farthest limit is for kings. Do not look beyond that! [115] May it be yours to walk on high throughout your life, and mine to associate with victors [Nikes] as long as I live, distinguished for my skill among Greeks everywhere.
All of the Biblical writers used POINTERS to further expand the false religon which the Epistles were written to repudiate. All of the people in the Greek world would readily understand that Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees (professionals without ethics) as hypocrites by pointing to rhetoricians, singers and talented musicians. The marginally literate world knew that rhetoricians and song writers fed on MYTHS and could not make a living telling the truth. One of the best dissertations on the role of rhetoricians and the MOTHER of musicians is:In declaring Jesus a wine drinker and wine manufacturer,
Fred Peatross sets the PATTERNISM: The New Testament emphasizes diversity. It is not wrong to remain single, but it is wrong to prohibit marriage (1 Timothy 4:3). It is not wrong to abstain, but it is wrong to forbid wine (Romans 14:21).John the Baptist was an abstemious loner who preferred the desert to parties and luxuries.
His sermons emphasized doom and judgment.Jesus was the opposite.
His sermons emphasized grace and mercy (Matthew 11:18-19). He was a party-goer, a gregarious friend of sinners. Yet both Jesus and John pleased God.
Lenski: "Those who charge Jesus with manufacturing intoxicants are "eager to mar, if by any means they could, the image of a perfect Holiness, which offends and rebukes them." (Quoting Trench)
Fred Peatross says
A Pixel in a Greater Picture: The Emerging Church of Christ
Fred Peatross: Spectacle Creations aren't just presentations by performers but events that provide an occasion for the enactment of an experience by participants and large crowds that gather. In this spectacle there is the development of anticipation or expectation about what is coming;
Music plays a key part of the spectacle. Sound, as a sensual component, enters us in a way in which the visual alone cannot.
Previous generations found meaning in words;
today's generations find meaning in experiences.
In concerts there is a convergence--the total experience takes place in the response of an audience to the multidimensional character of electronic events. There are music, words, the charisma of the artists, the percussive use of light, images and beat, the behaviors of the crowd, the kinesthetic involvement of the audience in moving, dancing and typically staying on their feet the entire time. The power of the event for the participative audience occursHitler could not have said it better!in the convergence of the sensory experience.
They are drawn into a vortex of personal and social yearnings and satisfactions.
Plato's dialog between Phaedrus and Socrates.
This proves the madness of all forms of musical performance and identrifies the LOCUSTS in Revelation as the sudden rise of men who had been seduced by the Muses (mother of harlots) in Revelation 17 who used "lusted after fruits" as rhetoricians, singers and instrument players in Revelation 18: John called the SORCERERS who deceived the whole world and murdered the prophets. Therefore, those who have been seduced by the Mother Goddess (professoress, elderess) lust to use the Old Testament which the Bible student knows was added BECAUSE of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
You will be entertained with 12 "musical worship teams" (a blasphemous term?) and 2 major Acappella leaders to go along with some of the "thought leaders" and any biblical comments will undoubtedly be massaged to make it "turkey soup for the sick." The prophecy, in fact, is that the beginning-time Babylon harlot church will be repeated where the mother of harlots (Rev 17) uses "lusted after FRUITS" [same people in Amos] as slick speakers, singers and instrument players John called sorcerers WHO HAD deceived the whole world. (John 18) It is interesting that when people abandon THE FAITH they always "crack away to the archaic" (Joseph Campbell) and the new style worship is from old style Babylon.
The twice-daily PRACTICE of connecting "praise singing" to the worship of a Spirit God is defined by all known evidence as a form of sorcery or witchcraft. The grouping and affirmation of the massed multitudes will alter your brain even if you scoff.
Consistent with the Bible and good mental health, believers are taught to seek God (Paul's only worship concept) by giving heed to His Word. The very style of musical performance always points to "enchantment" and modern medicine knows that it works by inducing a drug high: endorphins which induce the impulse of FIGHT, FLIGHT and SEXUAL feelings. That is why all churches having "installed" a college-trained "worship minister" cause many of the owners to flee.
Click to understand why "worship music" is people being drug pushers.
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Time Magazine
Scientific American Music and the BrainDon't be put off by the term "instrumental" because the Acappella (hides a cappella) praise team is a defacto MUSICAL instrument but using organic instruments. If you listen you will hear the pseudo-instruments and even the "animal" sounds which in the pre-illiterate period was a sign of demonism.
And when a symphony's denouement gives delicious chills, the same kinds of pleasure centers of the brain light up as they do when eating chocolate, having sex or taking cocaine.
Therein lies an intriguing biological mystery: Why is music--universally beloved and uniquely powerful in its ability to wring emotions--so pervasive and important to us? Could its emergence have enhanced human survival somehow, such as by aiding courtship, as Geoffrey F. Miller of the University of New Mexico has proposed? Or did it originally help us by promoting social cohesion in groups that had grown too large for grooming, as suggested by Robin M. Dunbar of the University of Liverpool? On the other hand, to use the words of Harvard University's Steven Pinker, is music just "auditory cheesecake"--a happy accident of evolution that happens to tickle the brain's fancy?
It is clear that different parts of the brain process music and speech: that is why the direct command is to SPEAK even when we "sing that which is written" in the style of the time. SPEAK is defined--for any student--as the opposite to poetry and music. Myth Mongers were allowed to write songs and poems because they never wrote the truth. That is why "singers" are USED to silence the Words of Christ. For that reason John called rhetoric, singing and instrument players SORCERERS consistent witl all Greek texts.
It has been the sectarianizing patternism for churches which engage in the Church Growth Cult and build mega churches to fall into some kind of primal madness and quite willingly lie about all of the Bible and known literature to IMPOSE first musical worship teams and then instruments knowing that they were deliberately sowing discord having "counted the losses as acceptable."
“See how they sang! ‘That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David.’ Musical sounds gratified their auricular sensibilities, and they chanted to the ‘viol.’ Here is the lust of the ear... What a description this of a people that lived and wrought entirely for the senses! They were practical materialists. They had no spiritual vision, sensibilities, or experience. Their imperishable souls were submerged in the deep flowing sea of mere animal pleasures... There is, indeed, a reference to intellectual effort, for it is said, ‘they invented to themselves instruments of music.’ Carnal indulgencies has ever been and is now as much, if not more than ever, the great employer of man’s inventive faculties.” (Pulpit Commentary, The Book of Amos, p. 131).Naturally, the most crowd--attracting speakers have been instrumental in trying to "restructure" what they call the ANTI-instrumental Church of Christ into the use of instruments. The ploy of calling congregational singing "Acappella" and using performance singers whose "style" is instrumental paves the way for adding instruments.
Not surprisingly, the curse of the Monarchy now being used to say that God commands musical worship, was LIKE THE NATIONS because that is what God abandoned Israel to.
Click for the Old Style Babylon worship
All blue underline text opens another paper in another window."According to the system which Nimrod was the grand instrument in introducing, men were led to believe
that a real spiritual change of heart was unnecessary,
and that so far as change was needful,
they could be regenerated by mere external means."Looking at the subject in the light of the Bacchanalian orgies (Read Ephesus and Corinth), which, as the reader has seen, commemorated the history of Nimrod, it is evident that
........... he led mankind to seek their chief good in sensual enjoyment,and showed them how they might enjoy the pleasures of sin, without any fear of the wrath of a holy God. (Voodoo, Rock, Boogie Woogie becomes Contemporary Christian Music)
"In his various expeditions he was always accompanied by troops of women; and by music and song, and games (ritual drama) and revelries, and everything that could please the natural hearts,
he commended himself to the good graces of mankind." (Hislop, Alexander, The Two Babylons, p. 55, Loizeaux Brothers)
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own body, and by good works and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the innocent" (Romans 16:17, 18).See how Rubel Shelly uses Lynn Anderson for getting new SPECTACLES to get a new VISION for the Church of Christ. This was a popular thing at the time among Methodist feminists and lesbians in the schools and universities reviving the Sophia-Zoe "old style worship" of Gnosticism. This has deep roots in the Grace-Based movements.
See how early churchy hymns evolved out of voodoo: the modern ROCK beat makes it absolute.
Lynn Anderson continues to be a favorite son at Lipscomb: he has been responsible for Blowing the Winds of Change and has been instrumental in feeding elders radically false teachings about all of the "instrument" terms in the Bible. What you should grasp is that Jesus said that the doctors of the law take away the key to knowledge. They missed key is that there are always TWO THREADS running through the Bible: the king-priestly-elite were turned over to worship the starry hosts and the Monarchy was God carrying out the captivity and death sentence imposed at Mount Sinai. The Godly or Spiritual thread taught by the Spirit of Christ in the prophets radically repudiates the Civil-Religious THREAD including slick speakers and music as the tools used by those Nehemiah and others call robbers and parasites. Because those elevated to guru state apparently cannot pick between the road to hell and the road to heaven, it comes as no surprise that teachers believe that all truth evaporated in THEIR postmodern age but that we should pay them to get a NEW SUPPLY. The postmodern concept is based on these minimalist's belief that they run at the speed of light and therefore there is NO
I have collected some of the witchery threads among the now-PROMOTED change agents here under Max Lucado.
Part of the always-female-at-the-root view is that " While we want to be considerate of feelings and comfort zones, we should be much more interested in being obedient to God and considering what He desires. “Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.” Gal.1:10. Rather than asking what kind of worship we are comfortable with, each of us should be asking what kind of worship is pleasing to God. "
But the Jesus Christ of the olden Bible died to give us REST from the laded burdens (musical rituals) and the burden laders: Scribes and Pharisees Jesus called hypocrites by pointing to Isaiah and Ezekiel where as the Spirit of Christ he MARKED rhetoricians, singers and instrument players.
Jameson Fawcett Brown notes: Vulgate translates, "They turn thy words into a song of their mouths." heart goeth after covetousness--the grand rival to the love of God; therefore called "idolatry," and therefore associated with impure carnal love, as both alike transfer the heart's affection from the Creator to the creature
1 et veniunt ad te quasi si ingrediatur populus et sedent coram te populus meus et audiunt sermones tuos et non faciunt eos quia in canticum oris sui vertunt illos et avaritiam suam sequitur cor eorum
And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness. Ezekiel 33:31EXPOSING COLLEGE STUDENTS TO FEMINIST THEOLOGY AND THEOLOGIANS:
Writing on Willow Creek in in discussing Feminist leadership which has always leaned toward witchery: for every ten thousand witches there is only one warlock!Therefore, one might expect that in 2008 you are set to have your COMFORT ZONES pushed closer to the edge--but not so close teaches Anderson that you get fired. One would expect some Directors will attend with some pink slips.
"What does Willow Creek mean by "appropriate level of consensus?" In practice, it means that complementarians are encouraged to look elsewhere for a church. As Dr. B--at is what Willow Creekers affectionately call Gilbert Bilezikian--explains,
........... "Anyone who is a member adheres to the statement of beliefs and practices of the church.""Dick Carr had attended Willow Creek since 1992. "I came to Christ there, was baptized there, married there," he says fondly. That's why Mr. Carr's dissent over the women-in-leadership position is painful for him to talk about; he still loves the church.
But last year, when Mr. Carr decided to join the church, he ran into difficulties. An appendix of the membership book "threw up red flags for me."
Mr. Carr went back to his division leader, who referred him to a female elder who is the author of a paper called "Elders' Response to the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Membership at Willow Creek." In that document, volunteer membership coaches are told,
"We ask that Participating Members of Willow Creek minimally be able to affirm and joyfully sit under the teaching of women teachers ... that they can joyfully submit to the leadership of women in various leadership positions at Willow Creek."
A letter from Mr. Bilezikian to Mr. Carr confirmed the church's position: "I commend you for wanting to serve with integrity in a church that is compatible with your view.
Obviously Willow Creek is not that place." At that point Mr. Carr gave up the idea of membership.
Willow Creek teacher Mr. Ortberg says the need for agreement is an "issue of integrity" But complementarian Wayne Grudem uses no euphemisms in his analysis of the Willow Creek position:
........... "The way an egalitarian view triumphs is by a suppression of information and discussion."
BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION OF RHONDA LOWRY
Rhonda Lowry currently serves as an adjunct Professor of Spiritual Formation at the David Lipscomb University Institut of Leadership -- Nashville, Tennessee. Rhonda completed her M.Div. at Fuller Theological Seminary. She has become a widely sought after speaker andhas taught at Fuller and Pepperdine Universities.However, Jesus as the Christ was the VISIBLE and AUDIBLE Word of God. He is the RATIONAL DISCOURSE of the inaudible Deity. When we accept Christ by being baptized into Christ Acts 2:38 promises us A holy spirit. Our Spirit is our rational mind. In 2 Corinthians 3 it is only after conversion (at baptism) that those who are blind are given the ability to read BLACK text on WHITE paper. That is why the Christian school of the Bible is restricted to SPEAK or READ as the way to transfer SPIRIT from God in Christ to us: Jesus said, "My Words are Spirit and Life" (John 6:63).
Speaking of Willow Creek: being infiltrated by a strategy for ecumenism without regard for doctrine. Renovare is the organization behind this movement out of the traditions of Quakerism and it is directed by Rich Foster and William L. Vasivig. Ecumenical evangelism advocates infiltration of liberal denominations and organizations rather than separation from liberal unbelief and error.
At the Wednesday night service at WCCC we were introduced to a "spiritual formation leader", Mindy Caliguire.The classics the women's ministry were instructing us to "avail to" were mystical writings from around the forth to fifteenth century.
The mystics taught how to unclutter the mind and
remove any rational thought so the mind is totally passive.
This opened them up for the "Presence of God" which is actually a form of Zen meditation.
Quaker quietists believe in a similar manner that "God is within" and they believe a "Quiet Revolution" is coming and declare there will be a coming incomparable "harvest." They are predicting the greatest harvesting of souls in the history of the world. An important difference to understand is that the Holy Spirit indwells us when we accept Jesus Christ and the occult meaning behind the concept of "the god within," "the light within," or "the Christ within" has a different meaning.
ENTHUSIASM means the "gods within" something only women can achieve which is MADNESS
Jesus as the WORD is the LOGOS or rational discourse of God:5. Keri Wyatt Kent Is teaching women's ministry classes at WCCC; Involved in Cenacle Retreat House Spirituality Center-Interactive Retreats where you can experience "God within" in a variety of ways-through art, walking the labyrinth, Franciscan priest's prayers, chanting, meditation, Indian sound mysticism, and other journeys to your creative center;
1. plea, pretext, ground, would have admitted of an explanation,
2. statement of a theory, argument, to be explained
c. in Logic, proposition, whether as premiss or conclusion
d. rule, principle, law, as embodying the result of logismos
4. thesis, hypothesis, provisional ground,
5. reason, ground 6.formula (wider than definition, but freq. equivalent thereto), term expressing reason,
7. reason, law exhibited in the world-process,
V. continuous statement, narrative (whether fact or fiction), oration lego
Opposite myths, poetry, meter, imagination
4.speech, delivered in court, assembly
VI. verbal expression or utterance, lego, lexis
Lexis A.speech, opposite ôidê, 1.art of song 5. = eppsdê, spell, incantation
4. text of an author, opposite exegesis [Peter's private interpretation outlaws exegesis]
The word SPEAK for the assembly is the opposite of poetry and music because these are derived out of the imaganation. If the "imagination of mankind is always wicked" it warns against any kind of MIND CONTROL to enhance your imaginatiion. When you loose connection with the WORD you have lost connection of the HEAD and you cannot be trusted. That is why Paul warned that the only way to be sure is that women be quiet and sedentary. See Second Maccabees to understand that women are kept SAFE in childbearing which they are NOT if they fall under the WRATH or ORGY of arousal music.
1. Richard J. Foster: Renovare & Christian Mystic Quaker and Fuller psychologist, Foster teaches all the techniques of the New Age such as quietism, mantras, centering, Buddhism, Yoga, T. M., exercises of Ignatius Loyola, Eastern religion and so on….
See dialog with Foster Defenders"Spirituality" is not Christianity. The written Word of God gives Christians order and direction in living and worshiping together. God defines "truth" with His Word. It is objective, authoritative, and sufficient.
"I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book." Revelation 22:18,19
Randy Harris, Gary Holloway and Rhonda Lowery
Growing Deeper: A look at contemplative Spirituality.
If Harris is searching it is a sure sign that he is LOST: being a quiet Christian gives one absolute assurance which does not need the music or meditation of Witchcraft. History knows that when you want to change the laws of a nation you must first introduce a new style music as a vanguardHarris said. ‘This is aimed at students, not the guests.’ ‘I’ve done a number of things related to the topic,’ Harris said. He’s spent time at a Trappist monastery, a Buddhist retreat, a Celtic retreat house and a hermit community for 40 days of silent prayer. ‘We’re in a world where everyone is looking for religious experience,’ Harris said. ‘Monks and hermits are people who seem to know about that – that’s why I’ve gone to check ‘em out.’ . . . Though he studies mysticism, Harris said his education on the subject includes learning through experience. ‘I’ve done a whole lot of reading about it, but you get to a point where you don’t want to read about it,’ Harris said. ‘I’ve really been on a search and kinda decided I would go any place in the world to try and learn from people who know about meditation or contemplative prayer or who were practicing a mystical tradition.’”
"For Fr. Bede, being universal meant to be centered and grounded. He generated this universality of heart through his daily practice of meditation and contemplative prayer, and this opened him ever more to the myths, symbols and teachings of the other great religions of the world." Man, Monk, Mystic by Pascaline Coff, O.S.B. Speaking of Bede Griffiths"The popularity of Buddhist practice among Christians has grown substantially during the last two decades, said John Cowan, author of Taking Seriously: Buddhist Meditations for Christians ..." read more
Inside Code Words
Barbara Hubbard (noted New Ager) writes in her books:
"Teachings from the Inner Christ, how the human race will soon experience a day of 'Planetary Pentecost.' Hubbard, claiming to be in contact with 'Christ,' writes 'the Planetary Smile is another name for the Planetary Pentecost. When enough of us share a common thought [paradigm shift] of our oneness with God, Spirit will be poured out on all flesh paying attention.' (p. 79). In her book, The Revelation, Hubbard says, 'Christ, in describing the planetary smile, said: "an uncontrollable joy will ripple through the thinking layer of the earth."' ...This massive sudden empathic alignment will cause a shift in the consciousness [paradigm shift] of Earth." (p. 234-235). Writing in Happy Birth Day Planet Earth, Hubbard repeats what she heard from 'Christ.' He said, "as the planetary smile ripples through the nervous systems of earth, ... separation is overcome, and I appear to all of you at once." (p. 10-11.) (The words "paradigm shift" added at appropriate places.) (SCP Newsletter, Volume 19:2, p. 13. Published by Spiritual Counterfeits Project, P. O. Box 4308, Berkeley, CA 94704.).
"Paul (David) Yonggi Cho teaches the same thing. In The Fourth Dimension he tells of his frustration that Buddhist monks and yoga healers could perform miracles. Then the Holy Spirit supposedly revealed to him that the fourth dimension, the spirit realm, is available to all whether Christian or not, for it contains both good and evil powers. 'So men, by exploring their spiritual sphere of the fourth dimension of visions and dreams in their imaginations, can brood over and incubate the third dimension (the material world) influencing it and changing it.' This applies to all men alike. Because God gave man dominion over the earth, says Cho, unbelievers can 'develop their inner spiritual being' and change the material world. Thus Christians also have the responsibility to 'realize their inner potential' and manipulate the fourth dimension for good." (Mainstream, Winter, 1994, p. 11. Published by Banner Ministries, Box 23, Belper, Derbys DE56 1QR, UK.) Anyone who teaches this idea of a fourth dimension is dealing with psychic activities and the depraved soul, not the Holy Spirit. While there are some temporary results to these kinds of activities, they are totally evil and will eventually turn on the person's head.
It is probably true that the baby boomers (infantile drummers) have fueled much of the radical changes in most religious groups. And as a society gets more urban and disconnected it turns out that the best educated are the easiest to driven into a new mental state. You can believe it or not but the Bible seems to confirm The Book of Enoch and other ancient documents that when Satan seduces you away from the Word and into musical entertainment, you have fallen and will never get up. That is because music is as addictive as crack."Music and gymnastic (must) be preserved in their original form, and no innovation made. They must do their utmost to maintain them intact. And when anyone says that mankind must regard...
The newest song which the singers have, (Osyssey)...
they will be afraid that he may be praising, not some new songs, but a new kind of song; and this ought not to be praised, or conceived to be the meaning of the poet;
for any musical innovation is full of danger in the whole State, and ought to be prohibited.
So Damon tells me, and I can quite believe him;he says that when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them..."
"Then," I said, "our guardians must lay the foundations of their fortress in music?""Yes," I replied, 'in the form of amusement: and at first sight it always appears harmless'." (The Great Dialogs, Plato, Classic edition, p. 312)
Here is what God wants us to think on or meditate on but without the "prophesying" of "lord, lord saying" which is sorcery."A quiet revolution had taken place since John Lennon declared that the Beatles were more popular than God. Suddenly a whole generation raised on free love, drugs, and rock and roll was looking for something more eternal. They found it in Jesus Christ -- not the Jesus Christ who was found in their parents' churches -- but a Jesus Christ that was much like them -- the ultimate hippy. These self-proclaimed "Jesus Freaks" originated in California, centering especially in Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa.
"Like most religious revivals, the "Jesus Movement" was accompanied by a new music that expressed the mood, culture, and tenets of the new faith.
As William D. Romanowski points out in his history of Jesus music, "Baptizing rock music with Christian lyrics was a way of legitimizing the music for born-again hippies and making it viable in the youth market" (Schultze 1990, 149). For the article Click Here"Jesus Music" was an attempt to use the language of the generation-- music--as vehicle to bring Christ to the generation.
Rubel Shelly wants to baptize Santa and begin to think of the S.O.N. God as the S.U.N. god.
And Max Lucado's Cosmic Christmas has some interesting comparisons to Shamash or S.U.N. worship.
See how Max Lucado led his church into instrumental music at a high cost of loss of original members, elders and the best source of CASH from people who will never trust an elder again and many will never enter another church again.
The problem with DEEP MEDITATION is that you probably inform your brain what you want it to tell you in vivid visions, audible voices or having the Holy Spirit tell you it is ok to lie about all of the "instrument" words in the Bible.
Seems that the Lord was NOT in that meditated vision to get authority to pursue it by having many owners leave, elders resign and many others confessing to GOING ALONG. Of Course, Lynn Anderson was fueling the elders with absolutely false teaching about instrumental music.Max Lucado: God calls us to do the same. Over the last few months, I've sensed our Master urging us to expand our dreams for San Antonio. He calls us to a fresh vision: a vision of a city-impacting church.
As the details of this vision crystallized for me, I shared them with our elders.
They prayed, pondered, and tested the ideas and, ultimately saw them as God's will for Oak Hills.The purpose of this presentation is to share several strategic decisions that will posture Oak Hills to make,
with the Lord's guidance, a citywide impact. We call you to dedicate the next forty days (August 31 to October 9) to prayer, asking God to give us all strength to obey his call. Like the Apostle Paul, we desire to say, "...I obeyed this vision from heaven..." (Acts 26:19 CEV)
Phil. 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.There is nothing mystical in the "witchy" sense in Christianity: Indeed, by calling people back to the WORD CENTERED Centered the "ekklesia" intends to inclucate spiritual (mental, sane, sober) principles by rehearsing the great EPICS contained in the Bible. On the contrary, the mythical of the pagan world involved the form of rhetoric and singing styles which both MARK and MANUFACTURE effeminance in our children.
"Contemplative Prayer is not Biblical prayer at all, rather it is a type of mystical meditation leading the mind into an altered state of consciousness. It goes beyond thought, providing an experiential union with so-called God or with nature producing body sensations, feelings, images, and reflections. It is based on "experiences" rather than sound doctrine. " ... give attendance ... to doctrine." 1 Timothy 4:13.Faith is to be based on God's word rather than experiences. "So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Romans 10:17, "For we walk by faith, not by sight:" 2 Corinthians 5:7.
Click for the ancient and now restored Babylonian System
You may click here for a long collection of articles on New Age Occultism.Nimrod was known as the god of the Chaldean Mysteries. That name, as we have seen, was Saturn. Saturn and Mystery are both Chaldean words, and they are correlative terms. As Mystery signifies the Hidden system, so Saturn signifies the Hidden god. *
* In the Litany of the Mass, the worshipers ARE TAUGHT thus to pray: "God Hidden, and my Saviour, have mercy upon us." (M'GAVIN'S Protestant) Whence can this invocation of the "God Hidden" have come, but from the ancient worship of Saturn, the "Hidden God"? As the Papacy has canonised the Babylonian god by the name of St. Dionysius, and St. Bacchus, the "martyr," so by this very name of "Satur" is he also enrolled in the calendar; for March 29th is the festival of "St. Satur," the martyr. (CHAMBER'S Book of Days)
"According to the system which Nimrod was the grand instrument in introducing, men were led to believe
that a real spiritual change of heart was unnecessary,
and that so far as change was needful,
they could be regenerated by mere external means."Looking at the subject in the light of the Bacchanalian orgies (Read Ephesus and Corinth), which, as the reader has seen, commemorated the history of Nimrod, it is evident that he led mankind to seek their chief good in sensual enjoyment,
and showed them how they might enjoy the pleasures of sin, without any fear of the wrath of a holy God. (Voodoo, Rock, Boogie Woogie becomes Contemporary Christian Music)
"In his various expeditions he was always accompanied by troops of women; and by music and song, and games (ritual drama) and revelries, and everything that could please the natural hearts,
he commended himself to the good graces of mankind." (Hislop, Alexander, The Two Babylons, p. 55, Loizeaux Brothers
New Age Occultism.
We have posted Lynn Anderson's Shepherding and Navigating the Winds of Change theology and noted that the ideas are almost word for word from a definition of Wicca. Lynn Anderson on his Shepherding
Lynn Anderson will be on the program this year and his life work was honored by Lipscomb University last year. He has been a leader of contemplative spirituality and his book has been endorsed by Leith Anderson another leader.
Henri NouwenYou may purchase the following book at Amazon Com to give some background to the emerging church and new age occultism.
[Leith Anderson Sermon quoting from Henri Nouwen's Sabbatical Journey in which Henri Nouwen says he is uncomfortable with those who say Jesus is the only way to Heaven.]
You can buy the book: Faith Undone: The Emerging Church or end-time deception. by Roger Oakland
Description: For a new missional frontier, traditional patterns of leadership that emphasize problem solving and predicting outcomes will simply not be adequate. Missional leadership will need to develop Christian imagination through the cultivation of spiritual practices. Come and explore what possibilities leadership on the missional frontier holds.”BrotherhoodNews.Com makes the following comments
What they believe:
Emergent leaders see their movement as “a new reformation,” shattering “intolerable carapace” of “institutionalized Christianity,” even as Martin Luther revolted against Roman Catholicism. Oakland, however, believes the “emerging church” to be an “end-time deception,” in keeping with his dispensational convictions.
Rick Warren, Tony Campolo, Chuck Colson, Bill Hybels, Leonard Sweet and Brian McLaren. Even Max Lucado receives a brief mention for his book A Cure for the Common Life
Mysticism - Roman Catholic, also other religions & New Age.Meditation - not as in Scripture, but with chants, etc., seeking altered state of consciousness.
Contemplative spirituality, contemplative prayer (centering prayer) – emptying the mind of all thoughts via meditation and repetition of a single word or syllable – preferably a one-syllable word. Any time outside thoughts return, attention is re-focused by saying that word/syllable again.
"When we go to the center of our being and pass through that center into the very center of God we get in immediate touch with this divine creating energy ... that the divine energy may have the freedom to forward the evolution of consciousness in us and through us, as a part of the whole, in the whole of the creation." —M. Basil Pennington
However, the almost universal meaning of the ancient religions was that the "gods" or "demons" only spoke to you when in a state of madness. Assuredly, if you abuse your brain with unnatural mantras you will produce something but the "spirit" will not be holy.
Some definitions:
The Jesus Prayer - While meditating, breathe in while saying “Lord Jesus, Son of God,” and breathe out saying “have mercy on me.” Repeat over & over, keep track of repetitions by using beads, knots on a rope.
Labyrinth - Similar to a maze, but has only one path – walking to the center is like a journey to the presence of God. May have “stations” along the way for prayer, etc.
Multi-Sensory worship - All five senses, thus icons, incense, darkness, emphasis on tasting the bread and wine, music.
Cosmic Christ - As opposed to the historic Christ. Jesus of Nazareth was not “THE Christ,” but had a “christ-consciousness” in him, as did Moses, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Buddha.
Eucharistic Christ - As advocates of the “emerging church” are heavily involved in Catholic mysticism, they also gravitate toward the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation and the worship of the “host,” consecrated wafer which the Catholic priest holds up to be worshipped just as one would worship Jesus.
Not Christians but Christ-followers - Having Christ as Lord & Savior is not a prerequisite to being “like Jesus” thus a Christ-follower; may remain Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu.
Minimizing the atonement - Some emergents say that the God who would require a blood sacrifice to atone for sin does not exist. They say Jesus died as an example of sacrificial service, but mock the idea of blood atonement for sin as being a “slaughterhouse religion.”
The fact is that the sacrificial system with loud "music" was always a violent act against God or his surogate. Gos abandoned Israel to it when they elders "fired" and declared that they wanted to worship like the nations. The loud "music" was called exorcism and music from "mystery" always intended to SHUT THE MOUTH OF THE VICTIM.
The sacrifice of Christ as well as baptism has the meaning of "cooling off the passions."
Experience over doctrine (See Harris' comments)
God in everyone, everyone is/can be God - Or perhaps we already are God but just need to realize it – the idea is also set forth that all humans are united but just need to realize it.
Vintage Christianity - Going back to the “church fathers” (but not back to the New Testament) and adopting the “spirituality” that the “fathers” set forth. Some emergents are rejecting the idea that the church went into apostasy eventually leading to the Reformation; instead they are affirming and embracing the entirety of church history, or so they claim. One wonders if they include the various varieties of Gnostics within that.
Contextual theology - “… a way of doing theology in which one takes into account: the spirit and message of the gospel; the tradition of the Christian people; the culture in which one is theologizing; and social change in that culture, whether brought about by western technological progress or the grass-roots struggle for equality, justice and liberation” (quoting Stephan B. Bevans, Models of Contextual Theology, pp. 42-43).
Emergent inroads among change-oriented brethren
Abilene Christian University
“The Spiritual Life Core would like to extend an invitation for students to attend ‘Come to the Quiet’ at 8:45 Sunday evening in Chapel on the Hill. This will be a time of contemplative prayer and worship in the form of a Taize service. . .”
One Internet site says that “Taize worship includes candlelight, prayers, readings, silence, and soft music with repetitive words led by a keyboard and flute, or violin, and other instruments. The service is very meditative and offers a wonderful opportunity to be silent and center on the Lord. Come as you are – and listen.”
Click for Jack Reese on Taize Worship.
“Title: Be Still and Know that I am God An Introduction to Contemplative Prayer
Presenter: Jackie Halstead, Abilene, Tex. (chair of dept. of Marriage & Family Therapy)
Description: Contemplative prayer has been practiced throughout the history of the Christian church. One example of this prayer form – imaging prayer – will be taught to increase an awareness of God’s presence.”
“Title: Up Willow Creek Without A Hybels (leading by cultivating missional imagination)
Presenters: Chris Flanders (Abilene, TX), Robert Foster (Dallas, TX), and Mark Hopkins (Pasadena, CA)
Description: For a new missional frontier, traditional patterns of leadership that emphasize problem solving and predicting outcomes will simply not be adequate. Missional leadership will need to develop Christian imagination through the cultivation of spiritual practices. Come and explore what possibilities leadership on the missional frontier holds.”
Missional Ministry is a fabricated word like the Post Modern joke.: it demands the restoration of a 5-fold ministry including unquestioned apostles and prophets. Click to read some the code words which have mystical connotations. Rhonda Lowry is on the board of directiors of Rochester University where Rubel Shelly is temporary president. This has been a hot bed of false teachers and promoters of instrumental music. Apparently the false teachings are not very popular with students from the Church of Christ who know better.
This, of course, restores the Five-fold Ministry of Apostles and Prophets. See how the KEY WORDS point directly to ancient paganism. Rubel Shelly helps define the Missional Ministry (they just made the word up.)
Mysticism in a Modern World: See more about the Emerging-Church heresy trying to undo THE FAITH.
“Focused on reaching the students during Lectureship, the student track offers more student-friendly topics, such as mysticism, at later times in the evening. Monday night at 8:45 PM in the Den CafA of Barret Hall, the Spiritual Spectrum topic is Mysticism in a Modern World, hosted by Randy Harris, instructor of Bible, missions and ministry. Harris said the topic was picked because it appeals to students. ‘The director of the lectures wanted to have things that the whole campus would be involved in, especiallystudents,’ Harris said. ‘This is aimed at students, not the guests.’ ‘I’ve done a number of things related to the topic,’ Harris said. He’s spent time at a Trappist monastery, a Buddhist retreat, a Celtic retreat house and a hermit community for 40 days of silent prayer. ‘We’re in a world where everyone is looking for religious experience,’ Harris said. ‘Monks and hermits are people who seem to know about that – that’s why I’ve gone to check ‘em out.’ . . . Though he studies mysticism, Harris said his education on the subject includes learning through experience. ‘I’ve done a whole lot of reading about it, but you get to a point where you don’t want to read about it,’ Harris said. ‘I’ve really been on a search and kinda decided I would go any place in the world to try and learn from people who know about meditation or contemplative prayer or who were practicing a mystical tradition.’”
On Richard Foster: "Spend some time this week listening to contemplative music designed to quiet you, settle you, deepen you. (Compact discs and tapes from the Taize Community, John Michael Talbot, and the Monks of Weston Priory are especially helpful.)" From Renovare's Perspective Newsletter
What is the Taize Community?
"Taize is an ecumenical sung and silent participatory prayer service designed to achieve a contemplative state through music, song
List of TopicsHighland Church of Christ, Abilene, Tex.
Experience Contemplative Prayer: This class will continue to meet from 7:00 to 8:30 PM each Wednesday . . . led by Jackie Halstead
Lipscomb University
GB5553 Spiritual Formation and Guidance (Spring 2008). Professor: Gary Holloway
Course Description: This course explores how God works in us through his Holy Spirit to conform us to the image of Christ and to empower us for ministry. In the course students will experience spiritual disciplines for themselves, develop a rule of life, and be invited into the ministry of spiritual guidance.
This course assumes some familiarity with the practice of the spiritual disciplines (various books recommended, others assigned)
Select Bibliography included books by Richard Foster on Spiritual Disciplines, books on Contemplative Prayer, Centering Prayer, Mysticism, etc.)
ZOE Group Ministries/New Wineskins
Look to the Hills Leadership Conference (Oct. 4-5, 2007)
Guest Keynote Speaker: Brian D. McLaren
“We will be challenged by the ZOE Growing Deeper Team and Brian McLaren to grow deeper in our spiritual life and to live a transformed life.”
The Holy Spirit is the Mind of Christ. Our mind is our Spirit and all of the seven spirits which rested on Jesus were forms of Divine knowledge (Isaiah 11). It is our own spirit which is cleansed of the world so that the Words of Christ which He says are Spirit and Life (John 56:63) will dwell there. Being filled with the Spirit for the "deacons" means to "hold the mysteries of THE FAITH in a clear conscience. Here is how we grow:
Rom. 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
3050. logikos, log-ik-os´; from 3056; rational (“logical”): reasonable, of the word.Rom. 12:2 And be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind
that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
This is not some kind of exprienced from abusing the mind bur so that we can understand the will of God. It matters not whether all of our pleasure centers make us feel OTHERWORLDY. To be renewed is not to seek something outside of the normal brain function but:
342. anakainosis, an-ak-ah´-ee-no-sis; from 341; renovation: — renewing.
Rom. 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you,
not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think;
but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Meditation and music both produce a state of mental intoxication: you cannot be SOBER and RATIONAL and MYSTICAL at the same time.Nothing could be more "works intensive" than chanting a mantra or trying to be silent to bring on an altered state of consciousness. Their form of "praise singing" borders on witchcraft as it induces a mental state of delusion by creating endorphins in the brain.
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived,
serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy,
hateful, and hating one another.
Titus 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done,
but according to his mercy he saved us,
by the washing of regeneration,
and renewing of the Holy Ghost; [our spirit]2Cor. 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish,
yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Eph. 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Col. 3:10 And have put on the new man,
which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Col. 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
We WON'T hear any of those at Lipsomb say!
Col. 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed,
do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.Brian McLaren is one of the main “movers and shakers” in the “emerging church” movement. This is freely acknowledged in the biographical information posted on the ZOE Group/New Wineskins web site.
See John MacArthur on the Emergent Approach.
Of Course, ZOE is another word for LUCIFER. The claim is really that they worship the Hills or Mountain Gods whereas in the Bible it is a question: shall we look to the hills for our salvation? No, absolutely not.
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