I have a living new testament.... Illustrated.... That was first published in 1969! I will post a pic as soon as I figure out how.... Its cover says "Reach Out".... And it has the groovy lettering of the day! It is in wonderful condition.... If you lived back in 1969 you could have purchased a "the living new testament" by Tyndale House publishers for a whopping $2.95! I think about that.... And I think.... The cost of not passing it ...
>>>The following was written January 30, 2008. <<< "Separation of Church and State" First Amendment of the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." ...
Twenty five years ago I could recite the three major myths about the End Times, explore no less that three variations on each, and show most of the verses related to each. Then something really strange happened which changed the course of my understanding of the Scriptures completely; Isaiah 7:15. "curds and honey shall he eat that he may know to reject the wrong and choose the right." So what in the world does cottage cheese and honey have to do with the End Times? Not a thing, but ...
"Famine and Death" Ruth1: In the days when the judges ruled… The line brings us full circle in Israel’s experience. They are now in the Promised Land, but they have no effective law ‘Every man did as he pleased’. The Israelites had rebelled against God for much of the ‘trip’ from Egypt to Canaan, and continued in their same stubborn ways. Famine and an escape to Moab seem to paint a sad, desperate picture; but hope is coming, and out of Moab of all places. ...
So we are even at fault in not avenging all this innocent blood of our Lord and of the Christians which they shed for three hundred years after the destruction of Jerusalem, and the blood of the children they have shed since then (which still shines forth from their eyes and their skin). We are at fault in not slaying them. Rather we allow them to live freely in our midst despite all their murdering, cursing, blaspheming, lying, and defaming; we protect and shield their synagogues, houses, life, ...