He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Moderate Muslims and The Great Commission

Why do evangelical Christians way so much time trying to Moderate Muslims to admit that what the radical Muslims are doing is exactly what the Koran tells them to do?

Yes they are Fundamentalists, but those people are not open to discussion or reason.  They are so firm in their beliefs, it is correct or die!

With the Moderate Muslim, you can have a dialogue any chance to witness to them.  Something you will never have with a Radical/Fundamentalist Muslim.

We're not told in Scripture that everyone who hears our message will repent and believe.  Only that we are to preach the Gospel in and out of season.  At one time Jesus had thousands following Him, but after His death, only 120 were in the upper room.  We should not waste so great an opportunity to witness to these people, while spending our time trying to convince them they are wrong.

It is not our job as Christians to judge these people, but to witness and warn them of their error.  They are God's children just like we are.  God is not a respecter of persons, but loves all equally.  Jesus died for all sinners and that includes Muslims.

Gnosticism

How is Gnosticism different from Charismatic teachings like "baptized in the spirit" or "special anointing"?  Both claim to have a special knowledge or enlightenment ie Nirvana/Hindu/Buddhist meditation.  All false religions claim/tried to open your mind/drop your defense is so the enemy can attack/fill mind with wrong teaching.  Again trying to control your mind.

Is this in a subtle way the same thing Satan is always used " your eyes will be opened and you will be like God!" Why does he keep using this?  Because it works and works well!  Anytime you claim to have knowledge others don't, that puts you in a position of power.

There will always be a group of people willing to follow someone who claims this knowledge and never question them.  We need to remember to always be good Bereans and test everything by the Bible.  We will remain susceptible to things like this as long as we fail to read the Bible once a year.

How can we be filled with the knowledge of God or His Holy Spirit if we are not filled with His Word?  These are inseparable!

The source of Homosexuality

Why are we so a obsessed with where this and originates?  Dr. Albert Mohler was grilled for waffling on some strong statements he made on the subject years ago, then recently recanted of those views.  AFA's Brian Fisher talked on this and had an exchange on twitter with Dr. Mohler's spokesman about it trying to nail down Dr. Mohler's views now.

I understand Brian fisher's view on Dr. Mohler over this, but the greater issue here is, what does it matter if people are born with an inclination to people of the same sex or do they develop it somehow later?

Regardless of the answer the source is the same, the sinful Adamic nature of man!

We are born with an Adamic nature, concerned and sea and and are condemned to death for that sin.  This entire world and everything in it is warped by sin.

Also homosexuality is no greater issue and then adultery, fornication, murder, rape ect.

  All separate us from God and condemn us to hell.

   Why are we spending our time arguing where this comes from and how?

Instead, we should be fulfilling the Great Commission and telling people that those who commit this and other sins are going to Hell, if they don't repent.

If we as Christians fail to tell others about their sins and their only hope for forgiveness, which is only found in Jesus Christ, nothing else matters!  Not the source, not the type of sin or what someone may or may not have said.

It all comes down to where you stand before Jesus on Judgment Day, He will either be your Savior or or He will be your Judge.

All sins come from our Adamic nature, including homosexuality.  So to say that someone was born that way is true up to a point.

The real point is not that they are tempted by homosexual thoughts and desires, but that they make the choice to act them out.  Then it changes from temptation to sin.  We all fight temptation one way or another, but what it comes down to, is our response to the temptation.

For the Christian, this is when we need to bow in prayer and call up on God's promise in 1 Corinthians 10:13.  We do not have any control over temptation entering our lives, but we have complete control over how we choose to react to the temptation.

John Quincy Adams on Muslims

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HOW JOHN QUINCY ADAMS FELT ABOUT MUSLIMS
Bill Federer recalls warnings, truths about brutal Muslims

John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
On Feb. 21, 1848, “Old Man Eloquent” John Quincy Adams suffered a stroke at his desk in the House chamber. He had just given an impassioned speech against the Democrat plan to expand slavery into the Western territories acquired after the Mexican-American War. He died 2 days later without regaining consciousness. A bronze marker on the U.S. House floor indicates where the desk of John Quincy Adams once stood.

John Quincy Adams was the only U.S president to serve in Congress after having been president, being elected a U.S Representative from Massachusetts, 1830-48. Nicknamed “The Hell-Hound of Slavery” for relentlessly speaking out against slavery, John Quincy Adams single-handedly led the fight to lift the gag rule which prohibited discussion of slavery on the House floor.

In 1841, John Qunicy Adams defended 53 Africans accused of mutiny aboard the slave ship Amistad. He won their case before the Supreme Court, giving them back their freedom.

John Quincy Adams stated: “The moment you come to the Declaration of Independence, that every man has a right to life and liberty, an inalienable right, this case is decided. I ask nothing more in behalf of these unfortunate men than this Declaration.”

John Quincy Adams is the only major figure in American history who knew both the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, as a freshman Congressman from Illinois, was a pallbearer at John Quincy Adams’ funeral.

African slaves brought to America were purchased at Muslim slave markets. Over the 1,400 years of Islamic conquest, Muslims enslaved an estimated 180 million Africans.

“The Annotated John Quincy Adams – A Bibliography,” compiled by Lynn H. Parsons (Westport, CT, 1993, p. 41, entry#194), contains “Unsigned essays dealing with the Russo-Turkish War and on Greece,” (The American Annual Register for 1827-28-29, NY: 1830): “The natural hatred of the Mussulmen towards the infidels is in just accordance with the precepts of the Koran. … The fundamental doctrine of the Christian religion is the extirpation of hatred from the human heart. It forbids the exercise of it, even towards enemies. …”

He continued: “In the 7th century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab … spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. … He declared undistinguishing and exterminating war as a part of his religion. … The essence of his doctrine was violence and lust, to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human nature.”

An answer provided in “The Annotated John Quincy Adams – A Bibliography” (NY: 1830): “The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace. … The faithful follower of the prophet may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force.”

John Quincy Adams described Muslim behavior in “Essay on Turks” (The American Annual Register for 1827-28-29): “Such is the spirit, which governs the hearts of men, to whom treachery and violence are taught as principles of religion.”

This is similar to Winston Churchill, who described Muslim behavior in “The Story of the Malakand Field Force” (Dover Publications, 1898): Their system of ethics, which regards treachery and violence as virtues rather than vices, has produced a code of honor so strange and inconsistent, that it is incomprehensible to a logical mind.”

Scottish philosopher David Hume wrote the Prophet of Islam in “Of the Standard of Taste,” 1760: “Let us attend to his narration; and we shall soon find, that the prophet bestows praise on such instances of treachery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, bigotry, as are utterly incompatible with civilized society.”

After reading the insight of John Quincy Adams, Winston Churchill and David Hume, one is faced with a perplexing question: if someone is capable of cutting your head off, would they be willing to lie to you first in order to gain entrance into your country for that purpose?

During his career, John Quincy Adams also served as:

U.S. Minister to Russia
U.S. Minister to Prussia
U.S. Minister to the Netherlands
U.S. Minister to Great Britain, where he negotiated the end of the War of 1812
U.S. Secretary of State, where he negotiated obtaining Florida from Spain
On Sept. 26, 1810, John Quincy Adams wrote in his diary: “I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. … I have this morning commenced it anew … this time with Ostervald’s French translation.”

In Sept. of 1811, John Quincy Adams wrote to his son from St. Petersburg, Russia: “My dear Son … You mentioned that you read to your aunt a chapter in the Bible or a section of Doddridge’s Annotations every evening. This information gave me real pleasure; for so great is my veneration for the Bible. … It is of all books in the world, that which contributes most to make men good, wise, and happy. … My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. … It is essential, my son … that you should form and adopt certain rules … of your own conduct. … It is in the Bible, you must learn them. … ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbor as thy self.’ On these two commandments, Jesus Christ expressly says, ‘hang all the law and the prophets.'”

John Quincy Adams’ correspondence to his son is compiled in “Letters of John Quincy Adams to his son, on the Bible and its Teachings,” which contains his statement: “No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.”

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On March 13, 1812, John Quincy Adams noted: “This morning I finished the perusal of the German Bible.”

After negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, John Quincy Adams wrote from London, Dec. 24, 1814: “You ask me what Bible I take as the standard of my faith – the Hebrew, the Samaritan, the old English translation, or what? I answer, the Bible containing the Sermon on the Mount. … The New Testament I have repeatedly read in the original Greek, in the Latin, in the Geneva Protestant, in Sacy’s Catholic French translations, in Luther’s German translation, in the common English Protestant, and in the Douay Catholic translations. I take any one of them for my standard of faith.”

On Dec. 31, 1825, John Quincy Adams wrote in his diary: “I rise usually between five and six. … I walk by the light of the moon or stars, or none, about four miles, usually returning home. … I then make my fire, and read three chapters of the Bible.”

Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson described John Quincy Adams: “No man could read the Bible with such powerful effect, even with the cracked and winded voice of old age.”

John Quincy Adams wrote: “I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others … not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day.”

At the age of 77, John Quincy Adams was vice-president of the American Bible Society, where he stated, Feb. 27, 1844: “I deem myself fortunate in having the opportunity, at a stage of a long life drawing rapidly to its close, to bear at … the capital of our National Union … my solemn testimonial of reverence and gratitude to that book of books, the Holy Bible. The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Saviour of the world.”

John Quincy Adams stated in his presidential inaugural address, March 4, 1825: “‘Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain,’ with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.”

Has God ideed said...

Has God indeed said?

These are the first words we hear  Satan speaking in Genesis 3:1.

It is one of his most successful and destructive devices against Christianity and mankind in general. Sometimes he attacks with great force, and other times with great subtlety.

One of his greatest weapon is to put doubt in the minds of men.

Two of the most prominent are Chuck Templeton and Carlton Pearson. For all of their training and education, degrees and experience these men held and the good that they did for the Lord, Satan was able to bring them down with a simple question.

Has God indeed said?

I believe that they spend too much time doing things for God, pursuing degrees, preaching  or whatever, while neglecting one of the most basic and necessary things for a successful Christian life.

That is to have a daily reading of the Word of God, not only a devotional or quiet time. But every person ought to read through the Bible from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22 January the 1st to December the 31st, every year. That way you can read, in order, the events as they happen. It will stay fresh on your mind.

Ephesians 6: 10-17tell us are to put on the armor of God, "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,"
Ephesians 6:10‭-‬17 ESV

Men are not using the Sword of the Spirit to their advantage like they should, and have  allowed Satan to attack and defeat them and to lose their faith in God and His Word.

It all comes down to a choice, they chose to believe what they did and to turn their back on God and His teachings.