Are Christians a global problem?

With the blame the humans for global warming, or lawyers for tort, why not blame christians and missionaries for intolerance.

According to a recent article by AsianNews
TV shows denigrate religious groups; invite
groups to stop relatives from converting. Government’s real goal is to
control all forms of religion, especially Islam, the majority religion."

Uzbekistan's government launched a new campaign against a number of religious groups. Those groups include Evangelical Christians, Methodist, Presbyterians and Jehova Witnesses.

A broadcast describes the groups as “global problem, along
with religious dogmatism, fundamentalism, terrorism, and drug
addiction,” actively involved in deceiving young people and minors.

Wow. This documentary also goes on to say these christian groups are political tools and they disrupt their society.

Read the full article here

A very Awesome Video

A very cool video. You need to watch the whole thing.

Resource for the Christian update

OK. I have added a ton of new stuff to my Resource for the Christian site.

I have added videos, external links, freeware, ect.

Check it out.

Resource for the Christian

I am constructing a new site ( yes another one ). This one will allow me to pool in all resources regarding biblical and christian knowledge.

The site is called Resource for the Christian

I hope it expands to something useful.

Wordpress?

I am thinking of opening a WordPress site for this blog.

Anti-Christian within the Jews

An Israeli anti-missionary group warned that a messianic Jew could win the international youth Bible quiz in Jerusalem.

Yad L'Ahim, a group of fervently Orthodox Jews who combat missionaries in Israel, said Tuesday that a 17-year-old Jerusalem girl who is among four contestants in next week's Independence Day quiz belongs to a secret Christian sect.

The daily newspaper Yediot Achronot identified the girl, but Yad L'Ahim's claims about her religious affiliations could not immediately be confirmed.

Yad L'Ahim's chairman, Rabbi Shlomo Dov Lipschitz, called for religious Jews to boycott the quiz if the girl is not disqualified.

"Missionaries will be greatly encouraged by the fact that a member of their messianic Christian community has a chance of being the world champion and will exploit this, God forbid, to increase their efforts to convert people in Israel and the Diaspora," he told the newspaper.

The Education Ministry, which oversees the quiz, said it had looked into the complaint about the contestant and decided not to act because she is considered Jewish.

The girl's father, whose first name was not given, told Yediot, "If anyone tries to hurt my daughter, I believe that God will pay them back."

Source_JTA

Join Addison Road and the Mocha Club

7 dollars a month can do all this.

Feed
one person a month.

Educate
two children for one school term

Save
one person's life from malaria

Provide
clean water to seven Africans for one year

Join Addison Road and the Mocha Club to help save Africa.

For the price of two mocha's, we can do so much.

Here is Addison Road, found on YouTube.

The Hope

This is an awesome free 1 hour 20 minute video online.

The HOPE

The Hope is the the whole story, creation through Christ.



The HOPE is a dramatic motion picture presentation of God’s redemptive story as revealed in 36 Biblical events from Creation through the Second Coming of Christ. It includes some of the most beautiful cinematic presentations of the Bible ever filmed. With a high priority on quality, The HOPE was produced on 35mm film (same as hollywood movies). It contains numerous digital effects. Nearly 4 years in the making, The HOPE was produced by mature and respected Christians who have produced effective evangelism films for over 20 years - used of God to lead thousands to Christ.

The stages of an Exorcism

Regardless of the hype of movies, exorcisms do take place.

Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus, from Greek exorkizein - to adjure) is the practice of evicting demons or other evil spiritual entities from a person or place which they are believed to have possessed (taken control of).

During an exorcism, there have been identified specific stages. These stages occur 9 out of 10 exorcisms that take place.

1) Presence
2) Pretense
3) Breakpoint
4) Voice
5) Clash
6) Expulsion


Presence: From the moment in any genuine exorcism, an unmistakable and unexplainable presence is felt and known.

Pretense: In the early stages of the exorcsim, the evil spirit will make every attempt to "hide behind" the possessed. This must be broken.

Breakpoint: This is a new stage of attacks the exorcist undergoes during an exorcism. The exorcist undergoes confusion. Confusion of all his/her senses, as well as contradiction of the exorcist senses.

Voice: An inordinately disturbing and humanly distressing babel. This must be silenced.

Clash: The locking of wills between the evil spirit and the exorcist.

Expulsion: By God's grace and the power of Jesus Christ, the evil spirit departs the possessed.

How could God create Satan?

According to Christian tradition, He did not. Satan was originally Lucifer, a good angel. In fact the name Lucifer means "light-bearer". Lucifer was at one time, God's right hand man. However, through his own pride and envy, Lucifer rebelled against God and was cast out of heaven. The rebel angels who joined (1/3 of the host) was also thrown out.

Lucifer fell by his own evil will. I would seem Satan and the angels also had the choice of choosing God or not. They chose not, and was cast out of God's presence.

Today, humans are faced with the same choice, via their own freewill. They can choose God or not. If not, they too will be cast away from God.

However, there is good news. Unlike the angels, we have a redeemer, who is Christ Jesus. He paid a high price, that we can choose Him, and stay with God.

Christmas was a pagan holiday, right?

Critics of Christianity sometimes point out that December 25 was originally a pagan holiday, which the Christians adopted as Jesus birtday. It's absolutely true. However, this was deliberate. The first Christians had to show the pagan world that the true God had come to earth and was conquering the old pagan gods and demons. One way to show this was to build churches on the sites of pagan temples. Another way was to "baptize" pagan holidays, making them celebrations of Christ.

The Christian message was "Move over, false gods, the Son of God has come and is taking over."


Now in the 20th century, we see a similar move as the pendulum swings again. This is why it's important to anti-christians to remove remnants of Christianity from our country. The demons and false gods are continuing to battle for supremacy.

Territorial Demons?

Are demons attached to certain locations? The question is not a silly one. C.Peter Wagner researched the subject at length and concluded that some evil spirits are apparently tied to certain locations, as evidenced by missionaries' encounters with them. Wagner's views have not been accepted by everyone, but he made a good case for them in his 1991 book "Engaging the Enemy: How to Fight and Defeat Territorial Spirits."

I have also read other deliverance books defining certain spirits that pull power from objects (tokens, voodoo mask, ect).

In the book of Acts it mentions the very touch of the apostles, demons shrieked and many were healed.

What is theocentric

The word means "God-centered", and it describes the more traditional Christian view of heaven, with nearness to God being the greatest joy. Today most people, including many Christians, have a more 'anthropocentric' ("human-centered") view, the main joy being reunion with friends and loved ones. The New Age view presented in many books and movies has little use for God in heaven.

Purgatory?

Purgatory is a place of rest for the dead prior to their final destination, heaven or hell.

This is taught by the Catholics, yet is unfound in the Bible. The Catholics base this belief on a section in the Apocrypha, 2 Maccabees 12:39-45, which speaks of offering sacrifices for dead persons "that they might be delivered from their sin".

This belief was rejected later by most Protestants after the Reformation (partly because the Catholics abused it).

Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

According to scripture, we only have the short time on this earth to choose our final destination.