Here is a beautiful song about our Beautiful Savior...Christ Jesus... the Great Sheppard who finds those lost...

As GENTLE as a lamb...is the Lamb of God. A lamb who didn't run or try to get away from trouble... prick it till it bleeds & watch it lick the blood off your shoes... gentle...gentle as a lamb...our Lord & Savior Jesus is. It takes TOTAL surrender to be that gentle. Surrender of our pride...worries... fears... anxieties... anger...and any other problem under the sun.

It's all about You, Jesus
And all this is for You
For Your glory and your fame
It's not about me
As if You should do things my way
You alone are God
And I surrender to your ways

Jesus, lover of my soul
All consuming fire is in Your gaze
Jesus, I want you to know
I will follow you all my days
For no one else in history is like you
And history itself belongs to you
Alpha and Omega, You have loved me
And I will share eternity with You

Aren't you forgetting that he's the one who started the trouble when he upset the money-changer's tables?

she did not write the song.

Nice song.....it is ALL ABOUT HIM!

I understand that. I was referencing her comments before the lyrics.

At least, I'm guessing those were her comments.

it doesn't seem like it. if not why each sentence is separated by dots.
plus, i'm just playing.
what's up james?

I'm so grateful to our Savior, yet sometimes so offended by bad human behavior "in the name of." Makes one wondere how judgemetal and cruel behavior can stem from a loving, compassionate, humble man, like our elder brother, Jesus Christ.

The song is very nice, though.

shaden do you have to pee?
nice song.

That was righteous anger over what they turned His Father's house into. Jesus always said give to Ceasar what is his & to God what is His.

I laugh at people who rail against God for His provisions & His word, instead of realizing that PEOPLE are a product of their OWN corruption. hahahaha

You shouldn’t laugh at people that’s not nice.

Of course people are the product of their own corruption. That’s a given if they are believed to have free will. However, when speaking of free will, the story of Jesus raises some very serious questions.

First off, if Jesus was born of a virgin and sent by God to be nailed to a cross to die for the sins of man, then even as Jesus was being born men were already fated to nail him to a cross whether they wanted to or not. Otherwise God’s master plan would have failed.

So clearly men had no choice but to nail Jesus to the cross. So in that act they were not responsible for their own corruption. It clearly wasn’t their free will choice. Otherwise it would have made no sense for Jesus to have been a specific individual who was sent by God and born of a virgin. Clearly this whole thing had been planned out by God in advance.

Secondly, what sense does is make for an all-loving, all-wise, God to ask men to nail his son to a cross so that he can forgive them of their sins? This is basically what God would have been doing. People always look at this from the point of view of Jesus like as if Jesus was just a man who offered himself up as a sacrificial lamb to God. But that scenario would have only made sense if Jesus was a normal mortal man in every way. The fact that God actually sent Jesus for the sole purpose of going this totally negates any idea that Jesus willingly chose to sacrifice himself. Clearly he had no choice in the matter. He was sent by God for this task.

So this is God saying to men, “Here, nail my son to a cross and I’ll forgive you of your sins”.

But what sense does this make?

If you go back and read the old testament, it only makes sense in the context of God being appeased by blood sacrifices. So here is God sending his own son to be sacrificed by men so that God can forgive them of their sins.

This supposedly an all-powerful, all-wise God who can only forgive men of their sins if they murder his only begotten son. Keep in mind also that murder is a sin. So God is saying to men, “Here, sin some more and I’ll forgive you of your sins”

The whole idea of a God prearranging the murder of his “only begotten son’ so that he can forgive men of their sins may make sense to you, but to me it’s the most absurd thing I can imagine.

Such a God does not appear to me to be all-powerful, all-loving, and certainly not all-wise.

If this story is true, then our creator has serious limitations, and mental capacity.

Since I can’t believe that God would be limited in either power, or wisdom, I simply reject the story as being utterly nonsensical.

Besides, it way too similar to all the other manmade folklore of the time.

Why would the real creator of this universe just happen to turn out to be almost identical to all the other manmade myths of the time?

http://www.pocm.info/index.html

To me it’s crystal clear that this myth of a God who is appeased by blood sacrifices can’t possibly be true.

but then you would have to wake them up from the hypnosis, for them to realize that..... James! we need to find the secret word!!!! that's it!!!! the one that put them under???
once we set them free maybe we can get on with living rather than this crazy competition mankind has adopted.

Is it right or wrong to tell small children that there is no Santa Claus?

JB

gasp!!!!


how dare someone say i don't exist!!!!!!!!!!!!!


i have been doing santa for 36 years now!!!!

I see you point Jeannie, I truly do.

But at the same time, wars aren’t typically fought over Santa Claus. People don’t normally tell other people that they’ll go to hell if they don’t believe in Santa Claus. Or that if they aren’t aligned with Santa Claus then they must be aligned with the Grinch that Stole Christmas.

I would have no problem at all with people who believe in Santa Claus if that ideal was harmless, but clearly these religious ideals are not harmless. They cause people to judge others, and place them at odds. This religion divides humanity into opposing Groups of “believers” versus “non-believers”.

In short, it’s a lot more destructive to humanity than merely believing in Santa Claus.

Also what so many people are totally in denial of is that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are basically the same religion that has fallen into three major parts and thousands of denominations and sects. It is actually this single fragmented religion that is causing all the grief on planet earth. They all begin with “Thou Shalt have no other God but ours!”

The pantheists are truly out of the loop altogether. However, they are not unaffected by the wars between the aforementioned religious zealots. And I’m speaking about proselytizing wars, and wars of point-and-blame, as well as the actual physical wars of death and destruction.

So for individuals, yes, I see your point. Let the children believe what they need to believe to be happy.

But the problem is that when they join in the public propagation of the myth by claiming that it represents the only true God, etc., then they are actually partaking in the war against humanity whether they realize it or not.

Santa Claus hasn’t proclaimed that ‘non-believers’ will be considered to be outcasts who work for the Grinch. But the Bible does proclaim that people are either with God, or against him. There is no middle of the road!

It’s a very dangerous myth that causes serious anguish all over the world.

Moreover, adults are no longer children. They should be able to deal with truth.

abra,

hmmmmmmm

It appears ,then, that God rightly views man quite predictable in his errant judgements.

But that also does not excuse the suffering also incumbent on His own carnal manifestation as a man among men, even akin to His guidance.

It also would be incumbent upon such a predilection as that to also be the first to lead the way.

I find He has the right to say, "I am the way and the truth and the life", whereas we do not.

Establishing such pre-eminence among His creation is lost on more than it warrants being called out to.

learn, grow and be at peace with it.

The Lord didn't start trouble....

He only dealt with the trouble
that had presented itself

The moneychangers were buying and selling
in the temple,

trying to turn His Sacred House
into a den of thieves...

and that is why Jesus overturned tables...



Praise be to the Lord


of Justice & Righteousness

yes, it is a beautiful song...

Thank you for posting this

But then, Santa Claus is also fodder. As are the other silly rituals and idolatry.

As are righteousness and lessons of morality.

Why, we even have secular humanism to dance to while pursuing conscionable neglect.

But then, excuses always must accompany reasons.

Paradoxes, inescapably revealing of intent.

I love the liberty I enjoy.

It affords my judgement meritorious resolve.

I rather enjoy that thought.

I love it and God and Christ and you.

all good.

all joy.



It reminds me of a few weeks ago.

History does repeat itself.

BC used to mean, Before Christ.

Now we call it, in our politically silly correctness, something similarly different.

BCE

Before Common Era.

So, we live in a politically correct Common Era now, I suppose. CE?

Is that redundant?

Jesus' words and life are anything but common to ordinary man.

We hold nothing in common regarding historical rewrites.


But as much as I would like to think that I can block anything inward from God's reach, by putting my fingers in my ears and holding my head under water while the music blares from the speakers at full volume, I can still hear Him say to my heart:

"My beloved".