July 6, 2008
Do you watch peep show? here in the uk that show is so popular amongst me and my friends - it has one hell of a following I can tell you.
So much so that everytime I watch it I am compelled to go out and buy another jeremy style shirt - mainly Surf T Shirts I shop around and end up leaving them in the boot of my car - mainly because I like wearing them after football on a sunday and thats where I can easily get at them - but more so because my wife keeps moaning that all I do is go out in my car and buy t shirts - I do love my car and I do love t shirts but thats not all that bad is it?
Its not like I am so poor I can’t afford the odd peep show jeremy style clothing item or to drive my car around (well with inflated prices maybe I cant anymore!!)
April 21, 2008
Introduction
Many people don’t really understand the nature of our guardian Angels. Every one of us, as long as we are in our human form has one or more angels with us at all times. In many years of working with individuals to help them come into closer contact with their guardian Angels I have experienced that they are present for each and every one of us. This message from them describes what they do, why they help us, and how we can receive their gifts to the fullest extent.
Angel Message
“We are given unto you as gifts of God, gifts of Creator. We are the expression of Creator in a form that you may more easily access and experience. We are given unto you to help carry you onto God, to help carry you into the love of God, to help carry you into the expression of the love within you.
Above all, we are given unto you for the expression of your soul; the true, deep, and complete expression of your soul. We have been with you from before your birth, from before your conception, when you were a soul in the splendor of heaven. We were with you at the time that you chose what gifts you would share with others upon the earth.
Your soul in pure form is pure light, pure love, pure joy. The gifts that you have chosen to embody, and carry, and to bring into full fruition upon the earth, are those very gifts that bring you joy, wonder, and excitement. They bring you into a natural place of buoyancy, of the joy of sharing.
We amplify your ability to connect with the gifts that you carry within you. We work with you to open your willingness to experience your own gifts within, to see and know them as pure expressions of love, to hold them, both sacred and true, and pure, and yet to share them with no holding. With no reservation. With no concern of how they are accepted. We stress this last part, that you have no concern, that you have no expectation, that you have no demand upon those whom you give your gifts to.
We ask you to look upon the heavens above you, seeing the moon, the planets, the stars, the endless and infinite galaxies of stars; all of this creation revolves in order that the soul is expressed in pure and true form. All of this has been given upon you and to every soul in form.
Realize that whatever limitations of consciousness you currently carry, reality is infinite. God is infinite. Our abilities, the abilities of the Angels, are truly infinite. We withhold nothing from you. Creator withholds nothing from you in your role of true creation as a being of love, and of light, and of compassion, of caring and of devotion to what you have come upon the earth to express.
We are completely outside of your ideas of limitation of any kind. We are not limited by time, or space, or place or amount.
It is vital that you understand this. As you call upon us to assist you, there is no diminishing of our energy, of our ability, of our presence. There is no diminishing. We are given unto the people of the earth to serve, to assist, to guide, to arrange, to partner with. We have no other reason for existence. Please take this in and know that you are our full occupation. We do not have another “day job” or other responsibilities that you distract us from when you call upon us.
We wish you to know that Angels are in total service to you in your present condition and your present level of consciousness. In the exact moment of your life you find yourself in right now. We carry no judgments. We carry no criticisms. We carry not even expectations for you. We make no decisions about when to help you and when not to help you. We have no free will in this matter. That is not our role. We are not created in a configuration of choice or judgment. We are beyond any concept of judgment.
We express the will of Creator in a form and in a manner that you can easily connect with, that you can access for all that you need in the present moment. This remains true moment to moment throughout your lifetime. We never evaluate you are good or bad. We never give or withhold based upon any concept of good or bad. There is no withholding of any kind within our realm. All we do is give infinitely, completely, eternally to you. Please realize as deeply as you are able that the grace we carry to you, the gifts we carry to you, the love and the loving presence we carry to you is not dependent upon your behavior. It is not dependent upon your past. It is not dependent upon you doing anything in this moment, other than receiving it.
We shine upon you as the sun shines upon every plant, every tree, every shrub, withholding nothing. The sun does not judge this plant worthy and this plant unworthy and shine only upon one. We wish you to fully and completely realize that our love is infinite, our gifts are infinite, our presence is infinite and is given to you exactly as you are in this moment. There is nothing that you need do to receive this. There is nothing you need accomplish to receive this. There is no redemption you need to achieve to receive this. There is nothing you need do except to attain the consciousness of receiving.
And this, which we have just labeled attainment, is nothing more than merely letting go of all beliefs of limitation, lack, critical evaluation, and judgment. For, while we are not free will beings and are given completely unto you, you, however, are a free will being.
It is very important that you realize that your choices are fully honored. Your choices are completely respected. We do not and cannot force anything upon you. Even a blessing that is so important for you, so dear to your heart and so dear to your soul can only be received by you if you allow it.
We wish you to realize that for you to experience receiving our assistance and our help you must choose this for yourself, you must invoke this within yourself, you must milk your own willingness to receive. You must ask to receive. You must be willing to receive. And yet this is all you need do, nothing more than this.”
Christopher Dilts has helped people come into greater partnership with their Guiding Angels for over ten years. For sessions or workshops, FREE Angel Messages, and our FREE Monthly Teleseminar, contact http://www.askanangel.org or newinfo@askanangel.org.
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December 17, 2007
n the most awesome thing on the net, musical instruments classed as collectables - now thats a good progression! Its been years where I have been collecting musical instruments of all sorts, trying to get some recognition for beautiful ornate pianos and masterfully crafted guitars and drumkits. I personally love collectable pianos and often find myself seeking a really stunning grand piano out in shops locally. It’s not the sort of thing you come across very often I have to say.
My other passion is collecting unique guitars, rare’s - one of a kinds - I love it! I have 5 custom guitars and 2 standards, combined I believe them to be worth high up in the 10k marks. But I would never sell them - I collect for the love of the musical instrument and so my children can understand the joy of playing wonderful music on an antique old instrument used by many a hand.
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December 9, 2007
Hermeneutics
Constantine is a hero of the Christian faith just because he stopped feeding them to the lions and supposedly converted to being a Christian. His children had a tutor named Lactantius who I often quote in regards to those who would lie or “forge” in the pursuit of power through religion. He should know from first hand experience to be sure. The Council of Nicaea was the site of the greatest achievement of Constantine who many scholars credit as the primary creator or editor of the Bible and what is the basis of Roman Empire to this day.
“The influence of the great Alexandrian Schools had not helped the early Christians in their work of propaganda. While the Church of Rome held up the Jewish Bible as the sole authority upon every subject, the Gnostic Schools of Alexandria and Ephesus had turned out thousands of students who recognized the absurdity of such a claim. The scattered communities of orthodox Christendom, echoing the church in Rome, were teaching that the Jewish Scriptures were the only revelation of God, and therefore not to be compared with the Scriptures of other nations. But three prominent Jewish scholars had already proved the similarity between the Laws of Moses and the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle and Pythagoras. Christians claimed that Jesus was a unique character, while the entire pagan world knew that the legends surrounding Jesus’ life were identical with those of pagan gods. Students of comparative religion recognized their similarity to the traditions of great spiritual Teachers who had preceded Jesus.
The Church now found herself in conflict not only with the ‘religious’ ideas of her self-chosen adversaries, but with their ’scientific’ views as well. The orthodox Church Fathers declared that God made the world out of nothing. The Gnostic Fathers denied this unphilosophical assertion and held that the universe was the result of a gradual unfoldment from within without. {As Above, So Below} Christianity asserted that the earth was flat, and against this theory was pitted that of Aristarchos of Samos, who had been a member of the Alexandrian School in 280 B.C., and had taught the sphericity of the earth as Pythagoras had taught it before him.
In the fourth century, Science and orthodox Christianity came to a deadlock, the bone of contention being the idea of the sphericity of the earth. Criticizing the ancient theory of the roundness of the earth, Lactantius, one of the most polished rhetoricians among the Christians, indignantly inquired:
‘Is it possible that men can be so absurd as to believe that crops and trees on the other side of the earth hang downward, and that men have their feet higher than their heads? If you ask them how they defend those monstrosities, how things do not fall away from the earth on that side, they reply that the nature of things is such that heavy bodies tend toward the center, like the spokes of a wheel, while light bodies tend from the center to the heavens on all sides. Now I am really at a loss what to say of those, who, when they have once gone wrong, steadily persevere in their folly and defend one absurd opinion by another.’
But this statement, although written by a prominent member of their own faith, was objected to by the Christians themselves. When had they ever claimed that there ‘were’ people on the other side of the earth? {Indeed their maps often indicate there was no China. This is a corollary to the Flat Earth fiction. It was the reason they touted the Marco Polo discoveries, even though they had Nestorian priests in China when Genghis Khan arrived and we now have Byzantium coins from archaeology in the Chinese digs dated to the 5th century as we have shown, etc.} The Bible stated that the only persons who survived the Flood were the three sons of Noah, and their work was clearly described. Shem had repopulated Asia, Ham had done the same for Africa, and Japhet was the ancestor of the European peoples. Therefore to quote St. Augustine: ‘It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the other side of the earth, since no such race is recorded in the Scriptures among the descendants of Adam.’ {This is from a man self-confessed as a sexual deviate and who as a Manichean said the Scriptures were only fit for children. When I say he is a deviate I’m being kind. The American Psychoanalytical Association says more in his book “Confessions”.)
As if that were not enough of an argument to convince any thinking man, St. Augustine offered another which was certainly irrefutable! It would be impossible, he said, for men to be on the other side of the earth, for in that case ‘in the Day of Judgement, men on the other side of the earth would not be able to see the Lord descending through the air.’
By the sixth century, the flatness of the earth had been definately established by the Christian Church. In his great work, ‘Christian Topography’, Cosmos Indicopleustas {He was a mariner who traveled to India, and his word would carry some weight as a seafarer. Thus a little thing led to him getting a Nestorian priesthood as a reward for putting the Pope officially on the map, at the center of the Universe.} describes the earth as a quadrangular plane, extending four hundred day’s journey east and west and exactly half as much north and south. {No wonder the Khan offered to make all of China Catholic, if Marco Polo could get the Catholic scholars to debate his scholars. This event never happened because the two Catholics who set out with the Polos returned under protection of Templars, almost as soon as they got their first slaves.} This quadrangular plane he said to be enclosed by mountains, upon which the sky rests. As the mountain ‘on the north is larger than the others, it intercepts the sun’s rays and produces night. The plane of the earth is not exactly horizontal, but inclines slightly from the north. Therefore rivers like the Tigris and Euphrates, which run southward, have a rapid motion, while the Nile, which runs northward, naturally moves more slowly.’
In addition to the pagan and idolatrous religions of the “heathen” and their absurd scientific views concerning the sphericity of the earth, there were the teachings of the great pagan philosophers which had to be refuted also if the Christian Church were to become the ruling force of the day. The orthodox Fathers devoted all their time and energy to this task. But in spite of their best efforts, the Pagans laughed quietly at Christian ignorance. The Church was in a quandary. {Can you imagine this kind of writing being read in a school that taught history, today?} How could she continue to refute the pagan doctrines unless she understood the theories she was trying to combat?
{By bafflegab and co-opting, great steps were taken and the Council of Carthage in 397 AD had made woman slave to man, so it was just a matter of making salvation easy to get. Then men could sin and pay no heed as they confessed each Sunday if they went to church at all.}
In self-defence, the Church decided to adopt new tactics. She would establish a School of her own in Alexandria, the city of Schools. {They also struck a deal with the Celtic Church which never accepted the reduction of women, but thought it would be able to make more inroads working from within rather than without. Bangor in Ireland became a leading university for Catholic scholars like Columbanus.} This School would serve two purposes: first, it would enable her to introduce Christianity into this hotbed of heresy; {Where they later succeeded in whipping up a frenzy against the smartest woman of her time. Hypatia of Alexandria was killed by tearing her arms and legs out of their sockets and her body was displayed all over the city of light and spirit.} second, it would give the Church Fathers an opportunity to study the pagan doctrines, and thus give a greater appearance of authority to their Refutations. As the Reverend Father Stebbing points out, this School
…aimed at using philosophy, especially the speculations of Plato, to serve the cause of the Church, and to answer the objections of pagan philosophers on their own grounds, {But it is well to remember Plato had to answer to religious bigots or face the same fate as Socrates. This made him couch his ’speculations’ in ways that could be interpreted in favour of theologians or power-mongering and hateful priests.} demonstrating that true philosophy led the way to Christianity and not to Paganism. {They may also have co-opted the hermetic Gnostics by calling their scholars Hermeneuts at this time. It may have been through Aquinas too, I am not sure about the rip-off of the title but I am sure they became gifted at creating confusion.}
Early in the second century, then, a Christian School was established in Alexandria. At first it was a school for children only, located almost at the door of the Old Museum, from which the majority of Christians, owing to their ignorance of science, art, and philosophy, had hitherto been debarred. Out of this grew the famous Catechetical School. Its first director was Pantaeus, a converted Stoic, who was deposed and sent to India as a missionary in the year 191. He was followed by Clement of Alexandria, whose study of Greek and Egyptian philosophy had convinced him that truth could be found even in the heathen systems. But Clement’s eclecticism met with no enthusiasm from his superiors, and in the year 203 he was deposed and replaced by his pupil Origen, who was only eighteen years old at the time.
Origen’s work for Christianity commenced with a deep and profound study of the Hebrew Scriptures. Dissatisfied with the translations which were then extant, Origen determined to make his own translation. {So we have an eighteen year old ‘Divinely Inspired’ Scripture writer to join Jerome who was making the Vulgate for his Roman bosses who had replaced wiser men who would not do as requested.} He brought out what is known as the Hexapala, or six-fold edition of the Old Testament, in which he set forth, in separate columns, the various versions of the Scriptures, including his own. In addition to this, he brought out three Greek versions of the Psalms. Some notion of the magnitude of Origen’s work (which occupied twenty-eight years of his life) is gained by an examination of some recently discovered manuscripts. One may be found in the Abrosian {Is this Ambrosian?} Library in Milan, and another in the collection of palimpsests discovered in Cairo. {Da Vinci’s bicycle that shows time viewing is fastidiously avoided by academics.}
Origen’s knowledge of the Jewish Scriptures convinced him that the orthodox Church was making a fatal mistake by denying the authenticity of certain documents. He openly rebuked the Church for rejecting the Book of Enoch, {Hurray!} which contained the history of the early races of mankind and completely destroyed the Jewish chronology. {Even more, it explains the nature of psychic things the soul of any man can do. Thus people would think less of their saintly magicians and prophets if they too understood.} He also called attention to the ‘esoteric’ doctrines of Moses which the Church had failed to notice. {But the Masons call him their Master Mason because they know this important reality.} He discovered that Moses, in addition to the teachings of the Covenant, {The Ten Commandments were in the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Tibetan one before that.} had communicated some very important secrets to the seventy elders, enjoining them to disclose these facts only to the worthy. {HMMM-mm!}
Origen’s fearless attitude toward the accepted Scriptures of the Christians, as well as his openly-professed interest in Neoplatonism, aroused the wrath of the Patriarch of Alexandria. Origen was banished from the city in the year 232. But his thirty years of study had convinced him of the truth of Neoplatonism, and in the School which he subsequently founded in Caesarea, Origen openly taught the doctrines that he had learned from Ammonius Saccas.
Ammonius, who later became the teacher of both Clement and Origen, received his early education in the children’s school which preceded the Catechetical School. He was born in Alexandria about the middle of the second century. His parents were very poor, and the boy was obliged to add his share to the family earnings by working as a porter on the docks located in the Egyptian, or Rhakotis portion of the city. There he saw ships from far-off lands, he heard queer dialects and met many strange people. Perhaps he gained his first acquaintance with the philosophies of the East from some Hindu sailor. The Song of Krishna is always on the lips of the son of Hindustan.
The parents of Ammonius were devout Christians, and Ammonius was sent to the Christian School, where he learned about the Christian Christ. He must have heard that Krishna, too, had been immaculately conceived, was persecuted by a wicked King, and had finally died upon a cross. Why were the stories of the two Christs so similar? Could it be possible that both were legends? If that was the case, there must be other legends of Christ in other lands. The priest told him there was only ‘one’ Christ. All the others were imposters. The priest told him to ‘believe’ but he wanted to ‘know’. So he left the Christian School, and started out upon his journey of honest investigation.
When he grew older he attended some of the lectures in the pagan schools and eventually became acquainted with the basic ideas underlying all the great philosophies. {He would have been a couple of centuries too late to study with Cleopatra at the feet of a man real scholars think taught Jesus.} He pondered over the profound statements that he heard, and often in the night their meaning, it is said, was revealed to him in dreams and visions. In the course of time people began to speak of him as ‘theodidaktos’, the “god-taught”. But Ammonius was a modest man, and called himself merely a ‘Philalethian’, or lover of truth. He started the Neoplatonic School in Alexandria in the year 193 A.D.” (1)
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June 16, 2007
When A Good Man
Becomes A “God-Man”
By Doug Krieger
“And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had
two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon. And he
exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence.
And he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the
first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. And he performs great
signs, so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the
earth in the presence of men. And he deceives those who dwell on
the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform
in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the
earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the
sword and has come to life. And there was given to him to give
breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast
might even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image
of the beast to be killed. And he causes all, the small and the
great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the
slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand, or on their
forehead, and he provides that no one should be able to buy or
to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the
beast or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has
understanding, calculate the number of the beast, for the number
is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six”
(Revelation 13:11-18).
The Funeral And Legacy Of Pope John Paul II
The past several weeks have witnessed the adulation, adoration,
and funeral extravaganza orchestrated by the hierarchy, viz.,
the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, on behalf
of Pope John Paul II. Indeed, it represents the world’s
ecumenical capstone to the life and legacy of this one entitled
the “Supreme Pontiff.”
The funeral was attended by 5 kings, 6 queens, 28 prime
ministers, 53 presidents, countless dignitaries and religious
leaders.
“The late Pope had made ‘Christian Unity’, healing the
sometimes-bitter ties with the non-Catholic Christian world, a
central tenet of his Papacy. The results of those efforts were
clearly displayed in the very sincere and heart-felt sorrow that
colored the faces of the array of Orthodox, Coptic, Lutheran,
Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist and sundry other church
leaders and delegates in attendance.” (Anthony Smith, 8 April
05, Tiscali.europe)
Numerous editorialists and historians are calling the funeral
the largest in history; while the press speculates the impact of
the man and the Church he represents, to wit:
“With the experience of two millennia, the Catholic Church is a
past master at ceremony. But no-one could have predicted the
extraordinary way in which the funeral of Pope John Paul II
dominated the attention of the whole world. It is not just the
millions of Catholic faithful who have poured through St Peter’s
Square. Or even the global billions watching on television. Over
200 of the world’s leading statesmen, including George W. Bush
and two former American presidents, dropped everything to attend
the Pope’s internment. What does this extraordinary event
signify?
“In the last generation, the historic divisions inside
Christianity have suddenly weakened, in self-defense against the
increasing secularization of western culture. Even the
fundamentalist evangelical sects in the United States find
themselves making common cause with the Catholic Church -
America’s biggest denomination - against abortion rights. As a
result of this melting of the sectarian divisions, Rome is again
recovering its status as de facto leader of the Christian
world.” (April 9, 2005, Scottsman.com - Pope’s funeral a
reminder that institutions can be revived)
Pope John Paul II is most noteworthy in championing the cause of
human rights, tearing down the iron curtain of communism in
Europe, traveling to some 129 nations, and in spite of former
President Clinton’s “mixed legacy” left by Pope John Paul II,
has been, and will be considered, one of the greatest popes of
all time. No wonder that the millions gathered at St. Peter’s
squares and adjoining promenades and porticos chanted in unison
SANTO SUBITO – “Immediate Sainthood” for Pope John Paul II, THE
GREAT!
In contrast to Clinton’s remarks, President Bush heralded the
praises of Pope John Paul II, to wit:
“I think John Paul II will have a clear legacy of peace,
compassion and a strong legacy of setting a clear moral tone,”
Bush said, later asking reporters to amend his remarks to insert
“excellent” to describe the legacy.” (April 10, 2005, Seattle
Times)
The world and US media committed excessive coverage of the
Pope’s death and funeral proceedings juxtaposed to that of the
Presidential race (ten times more coverage); likewise, this
coverage was at the expense of a great deal of significant
issues and news throughout the planet of 6 billion souls.
The veneration and nearly four hour funeral of this mortal man,
whose claim as the Vicar of Christ (i.e., “holding the delegated
authority of Christ on earth”), was perhaps the most
ostentatious display of grandiose religiosity ever portrayed,
and certainly, ever-conveyed to the world as a result of
Twenty-first Century technological advancements.
“That They All May Be One”
The Catholic world, yea, the world in general, was transfixed
upon this man, his legacy, and the Roman Church’s pomp and
circumstance for days on end—let alone the spectacled of
choosing a new Pope. Indeed, leading American evangelicals as a
result of this Pope’s 1995 encyclical, “Ut Unum Sint” (That All
May Be One) became the hallmark of his papacy for Protestants
who yearn for “unity” and moral clarity against the
encroachments of secularism and relativism sweeping the West,
especially the European West.
Here was one whose title as Pontiff (“The Bridge”) demonstrated
Rome’s determination to gather her wandering chicks beneath her
wings; and, even sought to unite the world’s disparate religions
under Rome’s ecumenical umbrella, alleging that diversity of
faith could be tolerated and understood in the context of the
Lord’s high priestly prayer found in John 17. Listen to John
Paul II’s convincing exhortations:
“There I stated that believers in Christ, united in following in
the footsteps of the martyrs, cannot remain divided. If they
wish truly and effectively to oppose the world’s tendency to
reduce to powerlessness the Mystery of Redemption, they must
profess together the same truth about the Cross. The Cross! An
anti-Christian outlook seeks to minimize the Cross, to empty it
of its meaning, and to deny that in it man has the source of his
new life. It claims that the Cross is unable to provide either
vision or hope. Man, it says, is nothing but an earthly being,
who must live as if God did not exist.
“With the grace of the Holy Spirit, the Lord’s disciples,
inspired by love, by the power of the truth and by a sincere
desire for mutual forgiveness and reconciliation, are called to
re-examine together their painful past and the hurt which that
past regrettably continues to provoke even today. All together,
they are invited by the ever fresh power of the Gospel to
acknowledge with sincere and total objectivity the mistakes made
and the contingent factors at work at the origins of their
deplorable divisions. What is needed is a calm, clear-sighted
and truthful vision of things, a vision enlivened by divine
mercy and capable of freeing people’s minds and of inspiring in
everyone a renewed willingness, precisely with a view to
proclaiming the Gospel to the men and women of every people and
nation.” (Ut Unum Sint)
Toward Pope John Paul II’s conclusion and final exhortation he
implores:
“When I say that for me, as Bishop of Rome, the ecumenical task
is ‘one of the pastoral priorities’ of my Pontificate, I think
of the grave obstacle which the lack of unity represents for the
proclamation of the Gospel. A Christian Community which believes
in Christ and desires, with Gospel fervor, the salvation of
mankind can hardly be closed to the promptings of the Holy
Spirit, who leads all Christians towards full and visible unity.
Here an imperative of charity is in question, an imperative
which admits of no exception. Ecumenism is not only an internal
question of the Christian Communities. It is a matter of the
love which God has in Jesus Christ for all humanity; to stand in
the way of this love is an offence against him and against his
plan to gather all people in Christ. As Pope Paul VI wrote to
the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I: ‘May the Holy Spirit
guide us along the way of reconciliation, so that the unity of
our Churches may become an ever more radiant sign of hope and
consolation for all mankind.’” (My Emphasis)
I present this material to demonstrate the intensity and the
irrevocable commitment that the Roman Catholic Church, through
the efforts of Pope John Paul II, has toward the ultimate
“unity” of all believers who claim the Christian label and
towards the “outward manifestation of the Kingdom of God” here
on earth.
Thus, the death of Pope John Paul II, and his drive to unite the
world’s religions (especially the “Christian religion”) could be
summed up in these remarks:
“John Paul II ushered in ‘the globalization of religion,’ said
John Esposito, founding director of the Georgetown University
Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in Washington. ‘He
increased exponentially the dialogue with . . . people of all
faiths.’” (Louis Meixler, the Buffalo News, April 8, 2005,
Unprecedented Number of Faiths Drawn to Funeral)
Thus, before us this past week was the death and burial of the
world’s greatest religious proponent of ecumenism—ecumenism on a
scale heretofore unknown within the confines of Christendom and
the greater religious communities of the planet. His universal,
Catholic legacy abides . . . the perpetuation on behalf of
“manifested Christian unity” and the embrace of all who affirm
faith—even outside the bounds of Christianity!
In The Later Times . . . Some Will Apostatize
“But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will
fall away from the faith (i.e., “Apostatize”), paying attention
to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the
hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a
branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining
from foods, which God has created to be gratefully shared in by
those who believe and know the truth” (I Timothy 4:1-3).
We initiated this conversation by quoting passages from the
Revelation,….
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