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Now that I have picked apart the False Religion of Catholicism, it's time to pick apart Protestantism... That's right, I am not a Protestant. How shocking. I am a Christian. I do not believe in any of the Sects within Christianity, they are un-Biblical and un-Godly because they only divide us Christians. You could call me, "Non-Denominational Christian", but even that term I do not prefer. Just call me, Christian, for I am strictly a servant of Christ... There were no different Sects in the Bible.
There are over 33,000 different Sects within Christianity, I obviously cannot debunk them all or else this list would be too long to bear, but I will debunk Calvinism that contributed to the False Doctrine in these other Sects. Just be wary and know your Bible. Have discernment for False Prophets. I'm going to expose some of the known Protestant Sects within this Article... Starting with... Calvinism...
Calvinism is a system of false doctrine that is taught in most evangelical denominations. Much of these teachings are infused in other sects of Christianity so be aware. Also the Trinity is another false teaching, but I will debunk that in the next article. Along with Once Saved Always Saved Doctrine. Now let's begin...
T - Total hereditary depravity
Calvinism teaches that Total Hereditary Depravity is that babies inherit the sin of Adam and are totally depraved and therefore unable to respond to the Gospel message of Christ. God has always been a God who provides choices... Gives us Free Will all the way back to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden...Genesis 3:22
Deuteronomy 30:19 - "...I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live."
Genesis 3:22 reveals that, after Adam and Eve sinned, they knew both good and evil. Deuteronomy 30:19 indicates that mankind still had the ability to choose either life or death. This proves one thing: even though mankind is considered spiritually depraved, this doesn't necessarily mean that we are so depraved that we cannot make the right choice to be Saved.
According to Calvinism, mankind's spiritual downfall from Adam prevents everyone and anyone from making the proper choice regarding salvation. They believe that it is impossible for us to come to God on our own. That God chose us before the foundation of the Earth. But if man was totally incapable of making the correct decision to choose life, why would God say to choose? Because we are to CHOOSE the path we walk. The broad path or narrow path. Matthew 7:13-14.
Lord Jesus has installed a conscience in every single one of us. Written His Law on our hearts. Romans 2:15. Based on our consciences, we make the choice. Since God has foreknowledge, He just happens to know the decisions we will make before we make them. Yes, we have a "Sin Nature" because Adam didn't deny Satan's temptation... But that doesn't mean we still are so depraved that we cannot deny temptation today... We can. Yes, the temptation will always be there because of Adam's sin, but you can choose to deny your own temptation.
U - Unconditional election (or Predestination)
Which states, "God had a master list of those who will be saved and those who will go to hell before creation in Genesis 1:1. The list is unchangeable."
The false doctrine of "Predestination" was first introduced by John Calvin in the 1500's AD. "Predestination" is a false doctrine of Satan which teaches that God has already arbitrarily chosen those He is going to save, even before they are born and everyone else is going to be lost. Hellfire. It says that God predestined the salvation or damnation of every person without any regard to the good or evil one may do, and that there is nothing a person can do that has any bearing at all on his salvation. This plainly contradicts what the Bible says.
2 Peter 3:9 - "The Lord…is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance"
God wants all people to be saved and does not predestine anyone to be saved or lost. The only thing that God has predestined or predetermined is to save those who are obedient to His commands (Hebrews 5:9) and to punish those who are disobedient (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9). "Predestination" accuses God of being partial and showing favoritism. Which is a lie. (Acts 10:34-35).
Predestination makes every command, every warning, and every admonition of God useless. With Predestination there is no reason to try to teach anyone the Gospel of Christ if He has already arbitrarily decided who is going to be saved and who is going to be lost. This makes no sense at all. What is the point?
Mark 16:15 - "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature"
God's offer of salvation is available to EVERYONE, but each must choose whether they will accept it or reject it. God desires EVERYONE to be saved. (1 Timothy 2:4), not just some to be saved. This doctrine falsely teaches that Christ died only for those He elected to save, but the Bible says Christ died for EVERYONE. (Hebrews 2:9, 1 John 2:2) Died for the WHOLE world. The false doctrine of Predestination obviously contradicts what God says in the Bible and must be rejected if one really wants to be saved and go to Heaven, otherwise they will end up in the eternal torments of Hell, being arrogant and perishing for lack of knowledge. (Hosea 4:6.)
L - Limited atonement
"Christ did not die for all men but only those on the 'saved list'."
This is a confused position on Limited Atonement, the L in T.U.L.I.P. The Biblical definition of Limited Atonement is as follows... John 3:16... Which I'm sure even you Non-Believers recognize this cliche verse. Also...
1 John 3:23 - "And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment."
Proverbs 8:13 - "The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate."
The fear of the Lord man's hatred of sin, to be in agreement with God. Which is a choice to be in agreement. A choice to fear The Lord.
Proverbs 1:29 - "For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:"
The Bible's definition of Limited Atonement is that Jesus died for EVERYONE, but only few would willing to come to choose to Repent of their sin and have the Fear of The Lord upon them, i.e. To hate evil as we just learned. God for knew who these people will be, who will have the wisdom of the Fear of The Lord. The fear of The Lord is the beginning of Wisdom. (Proverbs 9:10).
Romans 5:11 is clear... "And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement." And Romans 6 teaches us how Christians are to live their lives, repentance of sin. Hating sin.
Calvinism's definition on Limited Atonement teaches that Christ died only for those that He unconditionally or arbitrarily elected before the foundation of the world.
Um... 2 Peter 3:9 - "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
Emphasis on the ALL. God loves each and every one of us in spite of our sins, but we have to show hatred for our sin, we have to honestly repent, try and live a sinless life. Deny yourself and pick up your cross daily. (Matthew 10:38).
Exodus 2:11-12 reveals that Moses murdered a man. And King David, who God described as a man after His own heart, slept with another man's wife and, when Bathsheba became pregnant as a result of their affair, David sent her husband Uriah to the front lines in battle, and Uriah was killed. So, David married Bathsheba. Both Moses and David were sinners. Many prophets... But... God knew their hearts. He knew that deep down in their hearts, they feared Him...
How many of us would love to be like any of the Prophets or Apostles? But our sins convict us, and we feel unworthy and sorry. If anyone feels unworthy and conviction in their sin, that's a good thing because they fear God. They have hatred for sin. They have humility. These... Are kind of people that God is looking for.
This is all a choice, yes, it is hard not to sin, but having hatred for sin is a whole different thing... Having repentance and striving after righteousness is choice that YOU make... Jesus died to cover the unavoidable sins that we do, but you are the one who has to show your gratitude by having Fear of The Lord... It is an easy choice... Eternal Salvation of Eternal Damnation...
Calvinism doesn't believe that men are capable of making the right spiritual choices. This is because they deny what the Bible teaches, that God has given mankind free will. This is why Calvinism's positions on Unconditional Election, Irresistible Grace, Total Depravity and Limited Atonement absolutely insult God's design. He gives us the choice and is continually trying to save us by reaching out to every single man, woman and child in hope that they make the decision to fear Him and have a relationship with Him.
I - Irresistible grace
Calvinism's view on Irresistible Grace... They believe that God regenerates and spiritually draws to His Son only those who He arbitrarily chose, or unconditionally elected before the foundation of the world.
They make God sound like rapist... Who sees a pretty girl he wants and drags her off, giving her no choice at all.
According to the Bible, Calvinism's claim that a person's spiritual regeneration takes place before faith in Christ is wrong... Proven so by...
Titus 3:4-6 - "But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior."
This passage teaches that one's faith in Jesus as Savior is how to receive the Holy Ghost, and it is He who does the regenerating. So, man's regeneration comes after confessing Christ, not before!
P - Perseverance of the saints
In Calvinism's belief Perseverance of the saints is that a child of God once saved, cannot be lost.
Obviously... This one is self-explanatory... Just look around at the Pastors turned Atheist... "But they were never elected and destined to be saved". As we already learned, God wants ALL of us and even if we are Christian and then go through a de-conversion, doesn't mean we are still always saved... People always have a choice, they can choose to stop hating sin and stop obeying the commandments at any time in their faith.
Cessationism is the teaching that the miraculous gifts of The Holy Spirit have ceased, and that any so called manifestation of a miraculous Gift from the Holy Spirit in today's world is necessarily false. Because the gifts have ceased, the miracles that attended them have also ceased. Anyone claiming to work miracles in the power of the Holy Spirit is a phony, and his power is really from the Devil.
Really? What a False Doctrine... There were numerous people who had miraculous gifts from the Holy Spirit besides the Apostles, and this fact alone disproves the theory. Look
70 who were commissioned in Luke 10:9,19-20. Stephen (Acts 6-7). Philip (Acts 8). Ananias (Acts 9). Prophets in Antioch (Acts 13). Galatians 3:5, Romans 12:6-8, 1 Thessalonians 5.
1 Corinthians 12:7-10... does it sound as if Paul is saying that only Apostles will be the ones to receive these gifts? No. Gifts of healing, tongues, prophesy, miracles, etc... are given by the Holy Spirit to ordinary everyday Christians in the church at Corinth for the daily... And Churches today as well... We have to be careful though, that these Churches that work miracles are not just in it for money, but to serve God.
Be wary of Sects that do Revivals, that they do not just want money. There have been many miraculous healings, one such as Deloris Winder or Don Piper, proving God allows others to do miracles and God Himself still does miracles. As I said, don't be fooled by people performing miracles for money and not for God. A greedy Church is not a good Church. Anytime you see your Church focused on un-Godly things such as money, fame, idolatry, games, sexual immorality... Get out. Be wary of heretics such as Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Joyce Mayer, etc. Television Evangelists.
Along with Sects such as Pentecostals that get caught up in Speaking in Tongues to be pressured to do so, so they fake their gift. False witness. Speaking in Tongues is different languages, there are many Gifts of the Spirit but as it says in 1 Corinthians 13:1 and all of 1 Corinthians 14... Faith is also a Gift of the Spirit and that it is all that matters. Find a Church that is not focused on too much Spiritual/Prayer and not enough Bible Study; vise versa. Find a Church that is not focused on too much Grace and not enough Works; vise versa. Need a balance of both. Prayer, Fasting, Bible Study, Evangelizing, Feeding the homeless, Volunteering... If your Church doesn't do these things regularly... I suggest you find a new Church...
They killed millions in The Crusades, The Inquisition and Conquistadores breaking their own God's commandment...
Exodus 20:13 ~ "Thou shall not kill."
The Catholic Church is said to be founded by Peter, that he was the first Pope, but he was martyred by the Romans in 64 AD. In reality it was Emperor Constantine who founded the church at his conversion from Roman Paganism into Christianity; 313AD. Of course many of the Roman citizens were still Pagan and he needed a church where the Christians and Pagans who are polytheistic could get along.
The image of Christ (and others) is false and heresy...
Exodus 20:4 ~ "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth."
The image of "Christ" is in truth the son of Pope Alexander the 6th. His name was Cesare Borgia. 1 Corinthians 11:14 ~ "Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?"
If Jesus really had long hair, St. Paul wouldn't rebuke long-haired men.
Isaiah 53:2 ~ "For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him."
Other inventions of the Catholic Church is prayer to the Saints, hailing Mother Mary, dead relatives and creation of the Trinity.
How to pray: Matthew 6:6-13... Forget the rest of the Rosary.
Luke 4:8 ~ "Jesus answered him, 'It is written, You are to worship the Lord your God and serve ONLY him."
Leviticus 19:31 ~ "Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God."
Exodus 20:3 ~ "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
1 Corinthians 3:10 ~ "Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry."
Revelation 2:14 ~ "But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality."
Isaiah 44:17 ~ "And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god."
Mary did not remain a Virgin her entire life...
Matthew 1:24-25 ~ "Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife. And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS."
Matthew 13:55-56 ~ "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this [man] all these things?"
Matthew 12:47 ~ "Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee."
Galatians 1:19 ~ "But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother."
And... Luke 11:27-28 ~ "As he said these things, a woman in the crowd spoke out to him, 'Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!' But he said, 'Yea rather, blessed [are] they that hear the word of God, and keep it.'"
Communion is wrong...
Jeremiah 7:18 ~ "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger."
Catholic's own Pope and Priests break a commandment...
Matthew 23:9 ~ "And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."
Tradition of this Whore of Babylon are not sacred. Jesus spoke out against tradition...
Matthew 15:3 ~ "But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?"
Revelation 17:1-6 ~ "1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many WATERS: 2 With whom the KINGS of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a SCARLET coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in PURPLE and SCARLET colour, and decked with GOLD and precious stones and pearls, having a golden CUP in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the SAINTS, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration."
Revelation 17:9 ~ "And here [is] the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven MOUNTAINS, on which the woman sitteth."
Revelation 17:18 ~ "And the woman which thou sawest is that great CITY, which reigneth over the kings of the earth."
Vatican City that sits on seven mountains and water. The colors of the Church being scarlet and purple, with gold, precious stones and pearls all over the City and the Pope adorned in them as well. The golden cup used in communion; drunken with the blood of the saints they worship. The Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon because they derive their pagan practices from the original pagan city of Babylon.
I come from a family that has hunt... Deer, elk and moose... Their heads on my uncle's wall. I now hate it. Hunting for meat is one thing, (if done humanely, I'm personally a Flexitarian as of now) but for the sake to just have a trophy... Is egotistical and disgusting. I understand wanting to hunt your own meat for Health purposes, since a lot of the Meat in the Grocery is GMO (Genetically Modified Organism), but that doesn't mean you go ahead and mount their head on your wall... It's disrespectful to the creature. How would you like your head on someone's wall? Do onto others as you want done onto you. And yes, Animals are others...
They feel, see, hear, smell and taste. Sentience. They have hearts, brains and emotions. Consciousness. They love and they have loyalty, they fear and they have sadness. It is ignorant and arrogant to think you are better than any living Creature.
Look at the article of the Baby Elephant That Cried 5 Hours After being Abused and Abandoned by His Mother.
Watch how happy your dog is after you come back from being away from him on a long vacation. They love you, they miss you. They were aware you were gone and it saddens them. We've pushed some species into extinction or close to it. How does that make these Creatures feel?
Let's go into Factory Farms……
If you think your meat is gathered from a spacious pasture farm with a big, beautiful red barn... You need a reality check. It's not like the Farms they show you in Preschool in your coloring book, it's a literal factory. These animals tied up and/or in cages. Unsanitary at that.
Chickens... Spend their entire lives in filthy sheds with tens of thousands of other birds, where intense crowding and confinement lead to outbreaks of disease. And they cut off a part of their beaks so they don't peck each other due to cramped environment and frustration. They are bred and drugged to grow so large so quickly that their legs and organs can't keep up, making heart attacks, organ failure, and crippling leg deformities common. Many become crippled under their own weight and eventually die because they can't reach the water nozzles. When they are only 6 or 7 weeks old, they are crammed into cages and trucked to slaughter. This isn't even the full extent of abuse they suffer.
Cows... In the U.S. more than 42 million cows suffer and die for the meat and dairy industries every year. When they are still very young, many cows are burned with hot irons (branded), their horns are gouged out or cut or burned off. Always without painkillers. Once they have grown large enough, they are sent to massive, filthy feedlots that are exposed to the elements, where they are to be fattened for slaughter. Cows on dairy farms are repeatedly impregnated and then traumatically separated from their newborn calves until finally their bodies wear out and they are sent to be killed. Mother cows can be heard frantically crying out for their calves for several days after they have been separated. Cattle are transported hundreds of miles in all weather extremes, typically without food or water, to the slaughterhouse. Many cows die on the way to slaughter, but those who survive are shot in the head, hung up by one leg, and taken onto the killing floor where their throats are cut and they are skinned and gutted. Some cows remain fully conscious throughout the entire process.
Pigs... In the U.S. spend their entire adult lives confined to cramped metal crates. They never feel the affectionate nuzzle of a mate, never roll in the mud gleefully or feel grass or sun. Instead, they are surrounded by cold metal bars and forced to lie on wet, feces-covered floors. When they are old enough to give birth, these sows are artificially impregnated and imprisoned for the entire length of their pregnancies in "gestation crates," cages that are just two feet wide and too small for them even to turn around or lie down comfortably. The pigs often develop bedsores from lack of movement. After giving birth, mother pigs are moved to "farrowing crates," enclosures similar to gestation crates, with only a tiny additional concrete area on which the piglets can nurse. They beat the mother to get her inside the crate because she doesn't want to go.
Let's not even get started about what happens to Bunnies that get your Makeup and Cosmetics tested on them. Think about what you buy, what your money is supporting. Do you consciously want to support cruelty? Don't be a hypocrite.
There is just blatant abuse... A dog getting his owner's anger taken out on him, or just stupid neglect. Then we euthanize a dog for biting someone... When the dog bites out of self-defense because he has developed a subconscious fear for humans, because the only human he has known has been his owner who beats, neglects and abuses.
Every day, animals in a Shelter are being put to death because they're unwanted. There's Puppy Mills. We make Dogs Fight, Roosters Fight, Beta Fish Fight, Spiders Fight, Turtles Fight... Why? For our own entertainment, for money. Notice... The most innocent creatures take the most abuse... Animals, Children Abused/Aborted, and our Lord Jesus Christ... Most innocent abused.
If we find bacteria on Mars, it will be considered life. If a pregnant woman is murdered, it is considered a double-homicide in some States. So if she wants the baby it's considered murder, but if the mother decides to kill the baby it is not murder.
Let's just establish basic Embryology, Fetal Development...
Starting in Week 6... When the time most women find out she is pregnant on average. Developments include the growth of the pituitary gland and muscle fibres. You can't hear it yet, but the heart (which has divided into the right and left chambers) is beating at about 150 beats a minute -- twice the rate of yours.
Halfway through this week, the embryo makes its first movements. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait until sometime in the second trimester before you get to feel these movements.
Week 8... All organs, muscles, and nerves are beginning to function. The hands now bend at the wrist, and the feet begin to lose their webbed appearance. Eyelids are beginning to cover the eyes.
By the beginning of the fetal period, synapses, or connections between nerve cells, are found within the cerebral cortex. The nerve receptors in the face, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet can sense and respond to light touch. Following a light touch on the sole of the foot, the fetus will bend the hip and knee and may curl the toes.
Thumb sucking begins and the fetus may swallow amniotic fluid. The fetus can also grasp an object, move the head forward and back, open and close the jaw, move the tongue, sigh, and stretch. The fetal period continues until birth.
Week 10... The fetus is busily swallowing and kicking. Each day more details start to appear, such as fingernails and peach-fuzzy hair.
The vital organs -- the liver, kidneys, intestines, brain, and lungs -- are fully formed and functional. If you could take a look at your baby this week, you'd be able to see the clear outline of his spine. Spinal nerves stretch out from the spinal cord.
Week 12... The liver is making bile and the kidneys are secreting urine in the bladder. The fetus squirms if your abdomen is prodded, although you cannot yet feel movement. Fetal nerve cells have been multiplying rapidly and synapses (neurological connections in brain) are forming. The fetus has acquired more reflexes: touching the palms makes the fingers close, touching the soles of the feet makes the toes curl down and touching the eyelids makes the eye muscles clench.
Week 16... Tiny bones in your fetus's ears are in place this week, making it likely that the baby can hear your voice when you're speaking (or singing in the shower). In fact, studies have found that babies who are sung to while they're in the womb recognize the same tune when it's sung to them after they are born.
Week 19...
She has started to swallow amniotic fluid, and her kidneys continue to make urine. Hair on the scalp is sprouting. If you're carrying a baby girl, she already has roughly six million eggs in her ovaries. By the time she's born, she'll have about one million. You no doubt feel the kicking and somersaulting of your growing baby.
Sensory development reaches its peak this week. The nerve cells serving each of the senses -- taste, smell, hearing, seeing, and touch -- are now developing in their specialised areas of the brain. Nerve cell production slows down as existing nerve cells grow larger and make more complex connections.
Week 23-24...
Many women notice that their baby tends to be noticeably more active when they are resting, perhaps because when a pregnant woman is active, her body naturally 'rocks' her baby to sleep. Your baby now has definite sleep and wake patterns (although they may sleep up to 95% of the time) and now have REM (or rapid eye movement), which indicates they may be dreaming!
Your baby can now rotate their head and could experience hiccups. Hiccups are caused by the sudden, irregular contractions of their immature diaphragm (the muscle that supports their lungs) and while they may be capable of sporadic hiccoughs as early as 12 weeks gestation, they are generally stronger and more rhythmic by this stage. Some unborn babies hiccup quite frequently. This may be sensed by the mother as small, regular 'jumps' in their belly every now and then for short periods of time.
Your baby is now covered with a thick layer of white vernix cream to protect their skin in their watery environment and they now have sweat glands. A fine layer of fat is now forming between their muscle tissues and skin. This covers their blood vessels and makes their complexion look less translucent. Babies at 24 weeks have been noted to increase their breathing patterns (expanding their lungs with amniotic fluid) after their mothers eats (especially if the food contains sugar!) Your baby's lungs now start to produce a substance called 'surfactant'. This lines their lungs and will assist them to breathe after birth.
A baby can grow outside the womb if necessary, the baby is viable. The baby can survive outside the womb, yet babies are still aborted at this point. Even as early as Week 21 a fetus can be viable.
So why is it still legal to terminate this human life at Week 24 in U.S.A. and full term in Canada. Would you kill a human with all their vitals, 5 senses and consciousness intact?
Now these are the Statistics for Reasons of Abortions in the United States, straight from Alan Guttmacher Institute, Pro-Choice Organization.
I am unready for responsibility: 21.00
I can't afford a baby now: 21.00%
I am concerned about how having a baby could change my life: 16.00%
I don't want to be a single mother or I am having relationship problems: 12.00%
I don't feel mature enough to raise another child or I feel too young: 11.00%
I do not want to have any more children: 8.00%
I don't want people to know I had sex or got pregnant: 1.00%
Other, (Parents, partners and peers wanted me to abort): 3.00%
There is a physical problem with my health: 3.00%
There is a possible problem affecting the health of my fetus: 3.00%
I was a victim of rape and/or incest: 1.00%
Only 1% for Rape and 6% Health out of 1.6 Million Abortions yearly! The only justifiable reasons are the minority.
48% of women who have abortions have had a previous abortion.
45% of all abortions are obtained by college-aged women. Ages 18-24.
83% of abortions are obtained by unmarried women living below the poverty level.
The terms "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Choice" are biased terms. Propaganda to make their ideals more positive sounding. In truth, the terms should be Anti-Abortion and Pro-Abortion. Because when you say, Pro-Life it should mean you respect all life, but not all Pro-Lifers are Anti-War, in fact they can be Neo-Conservatives. This is the hypocrisy. So I am not just Anti-Abortion, I am Pro-Life as well. When you say, Pro-Choice it makes you feel like you are supporting freedom and Human rights, but in truth you are supporting the killing of a Human, thus taking their rights away. This is Pro-Abortion, because frankly they are promoting and supporting the legalization of Abortion and Anti-Abortionist promote the illegalization of Abortion.
All of this information is strictly focusing on the Biological Development and Statistic, we haven't even considered Spiritual aspect of when the Soul enters the body. So do not kill God's Creation.
And don't tell me the World is overpopulation...
There are approximately 7 billion people in the world and there is 2.97 million square miles of land in Australia. 2.97 million square miles breaks down to 1,900,800,000 acres which then converts down to 7,603,200,000 quarter acre blocks of land. So we could hypothetically give every person in the world a quarter acre block of land and they would all fit into an area the size of Australia. This is hypothetically, do not take this literally.
Each home would have enough land that they could all have gardens and grow a substantial supply of their own food or... We do have the ENTIRE rest of the World for resources.
Contradictions Debunked...
Losing Faith In Faith: From Preacher To Atheist by Dan Barker - Chapter 23.
1.) Should we kill? Exodus 20:13, Leviticus 24:17 vs. Exodus 32:27, 1 Samuel 6:19, 1 Samuel 15:2-8, Numbers 15:36, Hosea 13:16.
All of these were an act of Self-Defense, which is righteous. Also, I think many of the Israelites took God saying, "They will be put to death," literally, instead of Spiritually put to death.
Best example is the adulterous woman in John 8:1-11 where Jesus stops the Pharisees from stoning her, even though it was the Law of Moses, I trust God's own words, Jesus is God.
2.) Should we tell lies? Exodus 20:16, Proverbs 12:22 vs. 1 Kings 22:23, 2 Thessalonians 2:11
1 Kings 22:23 ~ 20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. 21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. 22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade [him], and prevail also: go forth, and do so."
So it seems a demon stepped forth to be a lying spirit to Ahab, the demon already had legal rights to Ahab's body because he was an evil king (1 Kings 16:30).
Some lying has shown to be justified... Lying to protect like the lie the Hebrew midwives tell Pharaoh seems to result in the Lord's blessing on them (Exodus 1:15-21), and it probably saved the lives of many Hebrew babies. Another example is Rahab's lie to protect the Israelite spies in Joshua 2:5. Again it's self-defense to save lives, lying for any other reason is sin.
3.) Should we steal? Exodus 20:15, Leviticus 19:13 vs. Exodus 3:22, Exodus 12:35-36, Luke 19:29-34.
Re: Exodus 3:22, Exodus 12:35... The Egyptians stole from the Israelites and treated them unfairly, they were taking back was theirs. But I do not believe they were "stealing" for it says "Borrow."
To steal is to acquire something of value from its rightful owner without consent; to borrow requires us to ask or beg for something, as the Israelites did.
Re: Luke 19:29... The Owners of the colt were Israelites and since they did not try to stop the Disciples, they let them take the colt thus having permission, not stealing. They were probably honored that their Lord used their colt to come into Jerusalem. To add, who were the people that told the rest of the city to welcome Jesus with palms? Most likely the owners of the colt that were the first to know Jesus was coming into Jerusalem.
4.) Shall we keep the sabbath? Exodus 20:8, Exodus 31:15, Numbers 15:32, 36 vs. Isaiah 1:13, John 5:16, Colossians 2:16
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy... Jesus, God Himself was persecuted for doing work on the Sabbath, His work was holy though. When it says do no work, in those days was to be reserved to be a Holy day. Being lazy, slothful isn't keeping the Sabbath Holy.
Mark 3:4 ~ And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
Luke 13:15 ~ The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
Jesus taught that we should do good on Sabbath. As the original commandment commanded to keep Sabbath Holy. If you don't do work to give water to your animals, they will die. Killing. And that's not Holy.
5.) Shall we make graven images? Exodus 20:4, Leviticus 26:1, Deuteronomy 27:15 vs. Exodus 25:18, 1 Kings 7:15-16, 23-25
"You shall not worship them or serve them." The command of God to not make images concerned objects of worship, not objects used for decorative or educational purposes as Exodus 25:18 and 1 Kings 7:15 was for. Not worship, but decorative and educational.
6.) Are we saved through works? Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 3:20,28, Galatians 2:16 vs. James 2:24, Matthew 19:16-21
We are not saved by Works, but are saved by Faith. Our Faith must be a Work-based Faith though, if we have True Faith we will do Works out of love for God. If the Holy Spirit dwells in you, you will produce works naturally.
Ephesians 2:10 ~ "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."
7.) Should good works be seen? Matthew 5:16, I Peter 2:12 vs. Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 23:3-5
As it says in Matthew 23:5 ~ "But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,"
So do not do works to earn people's approval, but do work to earn God's approval. God sees all works, if doing works in public feeds the ego, it is better to do works in private. That is the teaching. This is to keep people humble.
8.) Should we own slaves? Leviticus 25:45-46, Genesis 9:25, Exodus 21:2-7, Joel 3:8, Luke 12:47-48, Colossians 3:22 vs. Isaiah 58:6, Matthew 23:10
Notice that slavery was okay in the beginning, but then the right to own slaves was taken away because Masters did not treat Slaves with compassion and fairness as God intended. Jeremiah 34:10. This is why in later Scripture slavery is abolished. Luke 12:47 was a parable; Jesus speaking in the Spiritual sense.
Re: Leviticus 25:45... Let's read down a little further down to Leviticus 25:53 ~ "[And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight."
So the first allowance to have slaves was to not treat them with rigour, not to treat them harshly.
9.) Does God change his mind? Malachi 3:6, Numbers 23:19, Ezekiel 24:14, James 1:17 vs. Exodus 32:14, Genesis 6:6-7, Jonah 3:10
Re: Genesis 6:6, Jonah 3:10, Exodus 32:14... These verses speak of the Lord "repenting" of something and seem to contradict the doctrine of God's immutability. However, close examination of these passages reveals that these are not truly indications that God is capable of changing. In the original language, the word that is translated as "repent" or "relent" is the Hebrew expression "to be sorry for." Being sorry for something does not mean that a change has occurred; it simply means there is regret for something that has taken place.
Consider Genesis 6:6: "…the LORD was grieved that He had made man on the earth." This verse even goes on to say "His heart was filled with pain." This verse declares that God had regret for creating man. However, obviously He did not reverse His decision. Instead, through Noah, He allowed man to continue to exist. The fact that we are alive today is proof that God did not change His mind about creating man. Also, the context of this passage is a description of the sinful state in which man was living, and it is man's sinfulness that triggered God's sorrow, not man's existence. Consider Jonah 3:10: "…He had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction He had threatened." Again, the same Hebrew word is used, which translates "to be sorry for." Why was God sorry for what He had planned for the Ninevites? Because they had a change in heart and as a result changed their ways from disobedience to obedience. God is entirely consistent. God was going to judge Nineveh because of its evil. However, Nineveh repented and changed its ways. As a result, God had mercy on Nineveh, which is entirely consistent with His character. God does not change, Humans change.
10.) Are we punished for our parents' sins?
Exodus 20:5, Exodus 34:6-7, I Corinthians 15:22 vs. Ezekiel 18:20, Deuteronomy 24:16
Keeping Exodus 20:5 in context, we notice right away that God is referring to the sin of idolatry. God considered idolatry to be an extremely treacherous betrayal of a sacred trust. Idolaters were traitors to God's theocracy. Idolatry had a way of ingraining itself in a culture. Children raised in such an environment would keep the tradition going and practice similar idolatry, thus falling into the established pattern of disobedience. The effect of one disobedient generation was that wickedness would take root so deeply that it took several generations to reverse.
The implication of Exodus 20:5 is that children are akin to their parents. A new generation will tend to repeat the sins of their fathers. Therefore, God "punishing the children" is simply another way of saying that the children are repeating the fathers' sins. The tendency to repeat the mistakes of history is especially strong in an idolatrous culture.
11.) Is God good or evil? Psalm 145:9, Deuteronomy 32:4 vs. Isaiah 45:7, Lamentations 3:38, Jeremiah 18:11, Ezekiel 20:25-26
"Evil" or "Ra" in Hebrew means, "Misfortune" or a Calamity, this isn't moral evil such as sin, but punishment for human wickedness, reaping what we sow or "Karma" as Eastern Philosophy would put it. If you do good, you have good happen. If you do bad, you have bad happen.
I also find it interesting the Hebrew word for "evil" is "Ra" whom Ra is an Egyptian God who was merged with the god Horus (who sliced off his mother's head, Isis) as Re-Horakhty ("Ra, who is Horus of the Two Horizons"). He was believed to rule in all parts of the created world: the sky, the earth, and the underworld. Take this as you will.
12.) Does God tempt people? James 1:13 vs. Genesis 22:1
In Genesis 22:1 when it says, "Tempt" it is the word, "Nacah" in Hebrew which means to, "Prove, try, test." Therefore, it was a test that God offered to Abraham, not a temptation to sin. God wouldn't have allowed Abraham to sin, God just wanted to see if Abraham was truly loyal.
13.) Is God peaceable? Romans 15:33, Isaiah 2:4 vs. Exodus 15:3, Joel 3:9-10
Yes, He is, but He goes to war against wickedness. If Hitler had not been defeated by World War II, how many more millions would have been killed? If a robber breaks into your home will you allow him to kill you or will you protect yourself and your family? It is obvious that God justifies Self-Defence, as these were the only reasons God was a warrior. He doesn't wish to kill, just as you wouldn't wish to kill... But you will for the sake of wife and children, I presume.
Hebrew word literally means "the intentional, premeditated killing of another person with malice; murder."
14.) Was Jesus peaceable? John 14:27, Acts 10:36, Luke 2:14 vs. Matthew 10:34, Luke 22:36
Refer to my previous response in point 14.) because Jesus is God.
15.) Was Jesus trustworthy? John 8:14 vs. John 5:31
Re: John 5:31... the context is Jesus speaking about how He depends upon the Father and how He is seeking the will of the Father. Jesus, however is the Father, Jesus has the Holy Spirit, but they count as witnesses. Jesus is reflecting on the Old Testament law that didn't allow the testimony of one person to condemn another to death. Two witnesses were needed to establish the fact.
John 8:14... He was speaking of being the light of the word and the Pharisees accused Him of bearing witness of Himself. Jesus was simply telling the truth that if He did, it would be true because He comes from the Father, He is the Father, all knowing. They were questioning God's own authority.
16.) Shall we call people names? Matthew 5:22 vs. Matthew 23:17, Psalm 14:1
When Jesus said in Matthew 5:22 that you should not call anyone a fool, He was speaking of those who were unrighteously angry. That is why Jesus mentions anger in this verse. There is a righteous anger which is not sinful (Ephesians 4:26). As well as unrighteous anger that is sinful (James 1:20).
When God is angry with someone, He is always righteous in His anger. Jesus, being God in flesh, can righteously be angry with people and pronounce upon them the foolishness of their deeds because it was truth. Also, undoubtedly, Jesus knew Psalm 14:1 which says, "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God' . . ." Jesus didn't forget the well-known verse; and God is not wrong for calling someone a fool, the Pharisees because they didn't believe Jesus was God.
As a result, we see that the condemnation by Jesus regarding calling someone a fool is in the context of doing it out of unrighteous anger, which does not fit the later citations of Jesus labeling the hypocritical, cynical Pharisees as fools.
17.) Has anyone seen God? John 1:18, Exodus 33:20, John 6:46, I John 4:12 vs. Genesis 32:30, Exodus 33:11, Isaiah 6:1, Job 42:5
Re: Genesis 32:30... Jacob saw God appearing as an angel; he did not truly see God. Samson's parents were terrified when they realized they had seen God (Judges 13:22), but they had only seen Him appearing as an angel. Jesus was God in the flesh (John 1:1,14) so when people saw Him, they were seeing God. So, yes, God can be "seen" and many people have "seen" God. At the same time, no one has ever seen God revealed in all His glory. In our fallen human condition, if God were to fully reveal Himself to us, we would be consumed and destroyed because His spiritual frequency is so high for our senses to comprehend. A finite being cannot fully comprehend the presence of a infinite being. Therefore, God veils Himself and appears in forms in which we can "see" Him. So we've seen pieces of God's Spirit, but not His full Spirit. This is different than seeing God with all His glory and holiness displayed. People have seen visions of God, images of God, and appearances of God, but no one on Earth has ever seen God in all His fullness. As it reveals in Exodus 33, Moses seen the back of God, never the face of God or else His power would destroy us.
18.) How many Gods are there? Deuteronomy 6:4 vs. Genesis 1:26, Genesis 3:22, I John 5:7
Okay... One. John 10:30 ~ "I and my Father are one."
Jesus throughout the New Testament reveals Himself to be God, the Father in flesh. "Emmanuel" meaning "God with us."
John 14:8-11 ~ "Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then], Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I [am] in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake."
John 8:24 ~ "Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."
John 1:1-3 ~ "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."
John 1:14 ~ "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."
Jesus is the Creator of the Earth.. Colossians 1:16, John 1:3.
The Son is Holy, He has a Spirit that is Holy. The Father is Holy, He has a Spirit that is Holy. So both the Father and the Son are the Holy Spirit. The same Spirit, one Spirit. The Father had a piece of His Spirit go into Mary's womb and Jesus was born, God Himself.
Matthew 1:18 ~ "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost (Father)."
19.) Are we all sinners? Romans 3:23, Romans 3:10, Psalm 14:3 vs. Job 1:1, Genesis 7:1, Luke 1:6
Re: Romans 3:23... Doesn't that reveal the answer right there? Yes, Job was Righteous, many prophets and people in the Bible were described as Righteous because they strive after perfection, picking up their cross, denying their sin daily. Matthew 6:24. They were sinners, we all sin thus falling short of God because He has never sinned. We are called righteous when we give up our sin filled lives, consciously sinning and not caring if we sin... Changing to trying not to sin. The people who strive and try not to sin are called righteous even if they sinned in their past. Romans 6 is the best read on this. We are a new creation. 2 Corinthians 5:17.
20.) How old was Ahaziah? II Kings 8:26 vs. II Chronicles 22:2
He was 22 years old. Ahaziah's being "a son of 42 years" in his reigning is seen to refer to his being a son of the dynasty of Omri which was in its 42nd year. Putting the two Scriptures together reveals that Ahaziah was 22 years old when he began to reign during the 42nd year of the dynasty of Omri.
21.) Should we swear an oath? Numbers 30:2, Genesis 21:22-24,31, Hebrews 6:13-17, Genesis 22:15-19, Genesis 31:53, Judges 11:30-39 vs. Matthew 5:34-37, James 5:12
When Jesus admonished Believers not to swear at all in Matthew 5, His caution in verse 34-35 can be seen as a warning not to bring condemnation down on one's self by obligation to do something or to perform something that was impossible or improbable for a person to fulfill. People in Jesus' day went about swearing to all sorts of things which they then later failed to fulfill. The same is obviously true today. In addition, when a person swear's "by God" on an issue, what they are saying may be completely outside of what God's will is for a given situation.
The Lord's warning in verse 36 is different then His warning in verse 34-35 however. It is akin to taking what is commonly referred to as a "blood" oath. How do we know? Jesus says do not "swear by thou head." This is the type that occultists swear. It gives a sort of legal right for other humans (and demonic forces alike) to bring harm to you if you fail at keeping whatever it is you swear. More so, the moment you swear an oath, the penalty of which is your own life, you have sinned against God's word and are game for the Enemy's intrusion in your life circumstances. "Blood" oaths give the Devil spiritual authority to operate in a person's life. It is such oaths that have bound and brought deception, spiritual blindness and demonic curses into the lives and homes of Freemasons.
22.) When was Jesus crucified? Mark 15:25 vs. John 19:14-15
First off, John was using the Roman measurement of time when dealing with the crucifixion. Matthew, Mark, and Luke used the Hebrew system of measuring a day: from sundown to sunrise. The Roman system was from midnight to midnight, as we use Today in U.S.A.
So, if the sun comes up at 6am which would be the First Hour, 9am would be the Third Hour as Mark describes. This is when Jesus was crucified, 9am. This is according to Hebrew Time.
John, using Roman time said Jesus was before Pilate at the Sixth Hour, being 6am, add 6 hours from Midnight. So He was before Pilate at Sunrise and crucified at 9am. Remember, He went through floggings before Crucifixion.
23.) Shall we obey the law? I Peter 2:13, Matthew 22:21, Romans 13:1-7, Titus 3:1.
vs. Acts 5:29
Re: 1 Peter 2:13... It clearly reads "for the Lord's sake". If the ordinance is Godly, submit to it.
Re: Mathew 22:21... Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's... What really belongs to Caesar? The idolatry... The Money... The wickedness... Etc. That is not God's, but Caesar's.
Re: Romans 13:1-7... Ordained of God, yes. Not all Politicians/Government is ordained by God, but they come into power because of the demonic. It goes on to say in Verse 9 what to not do as Christians. God's Law is above man's Law, God's Law comes first to follow. We may not transgress that Law.
Re: Titus 3:1... Says right in the verse in question itself... To be ready to every "GOOD WORK". The laws of God... Good works.
God has written His law on our hearts (Romans 2:15) but it is man's self-righteousness that gets in the way and that is what creates unjust, unfair, and sinful laws.
24.) How many animals on the ark? Genesis 6:19, Genesis 7:8-9, Genesis 7:15 vs. Genesis 7:2
Genesis 6:19-20 simply instructs Noah to preserve two of every kind. Genesis 7:2-3 is additional information where seven of the clean animals were to be taken and two of every other kind. The reason for this is that the extra animals were for sacrifice. "Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar." (Gen. 8:20).
Logically, to have seven pairs also means that there are two pairs since the two are included in the seven. If one verse said take only one pair and another verse said seven pairs, that would be a contradiction.
25.) Were women and men created equal? Genesis 1:27 vs. Genesis 2:18-23
First of all, Genesis 2:18... Why is her being a help, make her not his equal? Instead of seeing the Helper as lower class, see her as essential as the Bible teaches.
1 Peter 3:7 ~ "Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers."
1 Corinthians 12:22 ~ "On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,"
Also, let's not forget, Galatians 3:28 ~ "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."
Women have a role. Men have a role. A General in an Army has a role, so does a Cadet. One cannot operate without the other, so we are equal. As it teaches in 1 Corinthians 12, to operate with best harmony, you need your eyes, feet, etc. even though they are small, each a small role, they play a big part in our whole body's functioning.
26.) Were trees created before humans? Genesis 1:12-31 vs. Genesis 2:5-9
Genesis 1:12 ~ "And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good."
Genesis 1:27 ~ "So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
So, God created Plants before man.
Genesis 2:5-7... "5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
So, plants were created before man. God needed somebody to attend to taking care of the plants. Plants before man.
Genesis 2:8-9 ~ "8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil."
Okay, so God created more plants. To conclude, God created Plants, then created Man, then created more Plants. Simple.
27.) Did Michal have children? II Samuel 6:23 vs. II Samuel 21:8
The two phrases, "she bore to" and "she brought up," are actually the same in the Hebrew (Yalad). When the translators realized the glitch that Michal had no children according to 2 Samual 6:23, they tried to "fix" the issue by translating this as "she brought up," even though the Hebrew is identical for both italicized sections and in the same Qal tense, which means "bore" or "begat"— and not "brought up." So Michal had no children of her own, but raised Adrial's children.
2 Samuel 21:8 ~ "But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:"
Emphasis on, "brought up for Adrial,". Just because she brought up, raised Adrial's children doesn't mean she had children of her own. She didn't give birth to children herself, or that would be contradicting. Hebrew is a Sentence usage dependent language.
28.) How many stalls did Solomon have? I Kings 4:26 vs. II Chronicles 9:25
The two verses do not contradict because they describe different types of stalls. The stalls in 1 Kings 4:26 were "of horses" which were used for chariots and by horsemen. Nothing in this verse says that these stalls were for the chariots. On the other hand, the stalls in 2 Chronicles 9:25 were for "horses and chariots". Such a stall to house both horses and chariots would not have been as numerous as stalls to house just horses because there is always a smaller ratio of chariots to horses.
40,000 Stalls of Horses, 4,000 Stalls for Horses and Chariots. Meaning 10 x 4,000 = 40,000. There's 10 horses pulling 1 Chariot.
29.) Did Paul's men hear a voice? Acts 9:7 vs. Acts 22:9
Paul heard a voice as Jesus communicated directly with him. The men with Paul heard the voice speaking to Paul but, to them, it was just an unintelligible sound. They heard something. But, since they could not understand what the voice said, it was nothing more than a sound—in other words, they couldn't really "hear" what Jesus' was saying. They heard, but didn't understand.
The Greek word, "akouō" used in both verses means, "to hear," but also means, "to understand". So again, it is a sentence usage issue. This one word can have different meanings. I can hear someone speaking another language, but I cannot understand. I'm sure you understand this with learning Spanish and visiting Mexico.
30.) Is God omnipotent? Jeremiah 32:27, Matthew 19:26 vs. Judges 1:19
Yes, He is. Judges 1:19 is referring to Judah, that Judah couldn't drive out the inhabitants in the Valley. Referring to Judah, not to God.
As for the battle itself, there is no promise in the Bible that the Jews would win every battle. For any number of reasons, Judah was in constant rebellion, the Lord allowed the people of Judah only a limited success at that time and they were unable to conquer the people of the Valley.
31.) Does God live in light? I Timothy 6:15-16, James 1:17, John 12:35, Job 18:18, Daniel 2:22 vs. I Kings 8:12, II Samuel 22:12, Psalm 18:11, Psalm 97:1-2
Bible uses the terms "light" and "darkness" in several ways and in a variety of contexts. God's dwelling place in the spiritual realm of the heaven of heavens is filled with "unapproachable light" (1 Timothy 6:16), because His unrestrained glory illuminates it (Revelation 21:23). God made light in the physical Universe during the six-day Creation and "called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night" (Genesis 1:5). He made the Sun, Moon, and stars on day four of Creation, thus making Him the "Father of lights" (James 1:17). Jesus was miraculously transfigured before three of His apostles and "His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light" (Matthew 17:2). The psalmist referred to light in the sense of divine instruction: "The entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple" (119:130). Conversely, the psalmist referred to those who "do not know, nor...understand," as those who "walk about in darkness" (82:5). While addressing the subjects of sin and righteousness, the apostle John used the terms light and darkness symbolically: "God is light (i.e., holy) and in Him is no darkness (i.e., sin)" (1 John 1:5). This same apostle referred to Jesus as "the Light" throughout his gospel account (1:4-9; 8:12; 9:5; 12:34-36,46), and Matthew recorded that Jesus spoke of His disciples as "the light of the world" (5:14-16), reflectors of His righteousness.
The passage in 1 Kings 8:12 ("The Lord said that he would dwell in thick darkness"—KJV) is not discussing God's dwelling place in the heaven of heavens. First Kings 8:12-13, along with 2 Chronicles 5:13-14, discuss God's presence in the physical temple of God in Jerusalem. Just as "the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle" in the days of Moses (Exodus 40:34), so "the house of the Lord [the temple], was filled with a cloud" (2 Chronicles 5:13). Similarly, the highly poetic wording in Psalm 18 and 1 Samuel 22 (a quotation of Psalm 18) pictures God, not on His majestic, glorious throne in heaven, but as One Who "came down" from heaven (Psalm 18:9), "flew upon the wings of the wind" (18:10), and delivered his servant David from his enemies while making "darkness His secret place" and "His canopy...dark waters" (18:11)
32.) Does God accept human sacrifice? Deuteronomy 12:31 vs.Genesis 22:2, Exodus 22:29, Judges 11:30-39, II Samuel 21:8-14, Hebrews 10:10-12, I Corinthians 5:7
Re: Genesis 22:2... That's Abraham's test, wasn't a Human Sacrifice, an angel stopped Abraham before Isaac was killed.
Re: Exodus 22:29... This wasn't intended to mean that the Israelites were supposed to sacrifice their firstborn sons to God. Not to kill them. In fact, Exodus 13:13 says, "And all the firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem." To redeem meant that the Israelites were to give to the Lord five skekels of silver when the firstborn son was one month old (Numbers 18:16). Moses explained that it was a memorial of the process by which God delivered the Israelites from Egyptian bondage (Exodus 13:14-15).
Re: Judges 11:30-39... Again, not a Human sacrifice, not killing. His daughter just remained a virgin and God never asked that of Jephthah.
Re: 2 Samuel 21:8-14... Notice that the text indicates that the ones who were hanged were "men" (2 Samuel 21:6), who would have been old enough to be responsible for their moral decisions. Furthermore, notice that the text indicates that Saul's "house" or "household" was a bloodthirsty house (2 Samuel 21:1), apparently implying that many of his relatives were involved in his murderous plots. In 2 Samuel 16:5-14, the Bible introduces a wicked man named Shimei who was "from the family of the house of Saul" (2 Samuel 16:5). And Saul's wickedness is documented throughout the book of 1 Samuel. Could it be that Saul's descendants who were hanged had followed in the wicked paths of many from the "house of Saul" and deserved the death penalty? Yes. Thus, it is once again impossible to use this passage to "prove" that God accepted human sacrifice.
And... Jesus wasn't merely human. If He were, then His sacrifice would have also been a temporary one because one human life couldn't possibly cover the sins of the multitudes who ever existed. Neither could one finite human life atone for sin against an infinite God. The only viable sacrifice must be an infinite one, which means only God Himself could atone for the sins of mankind. Only God Himself, an infinite Being, could pay the penalty owed to Himself. This is why God had to become a Man and dwell among men (John 1:14). No other sacrifice would suffice.
33.) Who was Joseph's father? Matthew 1:16 vs. Luke 3:23
"The second thing is that this genealogy differs in significant ways from the genealogy in Matthew. Why? Most Bible scholars believe that Luke gives the genealogy of Mary (who was also of the royal Davidic line), while Matthew traces the family of Joseph. Thus by both His mother and His earthly father, Jesus had a right to the throne of Israel.
Jacob was Joseph's father. Heli was Mary's father. Since there was no Greek word for "son-in-law," Joseph was called the "son of Heli" by marriage to Mary, Heli's daughter.


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As a people, as a nation, as a world, we are more divided than ever. We always were, but the fallout from the 2016 Presidential Election forced each of us to reckon with that grim reality. Nor are we divided cleanly along a single axis—there are urban-rural divisions, left-right splits, and rich-poor gaps. Each group occupying its own section of an interlocking Venn Diagram, yet surprisingly disconnected, distant and siloed. Each group imagining the other without ever seeing the other.
I was not immune. Living in a city, I acceded to the conventional wisdom. I did not have to confront populist resentment or anti-immigrant sentiment and therefore, I assumed it was over-hyped if it existed at all.
But this is not a story about the 2016 Presidential Election. It's not a story about coastal elites and pious countryfolk. At least, not directly. It's a story about division. A story about divisions we all take for granted, that we assume are "natural," when in fact that couldn't be farther from the truth.
Our story begins in 19th century Paris.
The image that materializes when we imagine "Paris" is that of La Belle Époque. The Paris with its grand boulevards, the Moulin Rouge, the Eiffel Tower—a period of peace and prosperity, a romanticized modernity. But as is true with every new era, the spoils were unevenly divided.
Encircling this spectacular oeuvre was an entire class of people denied access to the grand city. As Baudelaire records in his prose poem, The Eyes of the Poor, the contrast between the haves and have nots was stark. When someone from the outside wandered in, there was an overriding impulse to treat them as other. There was something unnatural about their presence.
…Not only was I touched by this family of eyes, but I was even a little ashamed of our glasses and decanters, too big for our thirst. I turned my eyes to look into yours, dear love, to read my thoughts in them; and as I plunged my eyes into your eyes, so beautiful and so curiously soft, into those green eyes, home of Caprice and governed by the Moon, you said: 'Those people are insufferable with their great saucer eyes. Can't you tell the proprietor to send them away?'Charles Baudelaire (1869)
The very same city, a city where rich and poor had lived side-by-side, had 30 years earlier been consumed by a working-class revolt. A new monarch tried to scale back rights granted a half-century earlier in the French Revolution, and the urban poor took to the streets in a guerilla-style campaign. They erected barricades in the narrow streets and the government struggled to reassert its control.
The monarchy was toppled and Louis Napoleon III (Napoleon's nephew) was elected president of the Second Republic. With the help of his adviser, Baron Haussmann, he embarked on a major reconstruction of the city, razing much of the old Paris, replacing it with the grand boulevards, sidewalk cafes, and lavish architecture we think of today. While beautiful, this reorganization had a more sinister purpose—the new open plan made it harder to wage guerilla war and easier to move troops to crush dissent. It also made it too expensive for the poor to remain. "In the remaking of the city by Haussmann in the 1850s and 1860s, the intermixing of classes within districts was reduced by design."
La Belle Époque was made beautiful by removing what those with power found unpleasant.
19th century Paris is one example of a phenomenon that is not new and hardly isolated. In 20th century America, where race has always been more frightening than class, those with power found clever ways to keep people of color out of the city.
Although the Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in 1917, through a series of private contracts, property owners agreed to only sell to other white folks. City zoning laws piled on, calling multi-family units (where most people of color lived) "public nuisances," a designation that also included slaughterhouse and polluting factories. When the Great Depression hit and the federal government began to subsidize home ownership, they relied on racially-biased local maps. They loaned money to those who could afford to live in the suburbs while writing off the city as "too far gone" to save—a practice known as redlining. These policies created a self-fulfilling crisis in which people of color were forced into poverty and denied assistance or an escape.
As in Paris, local and federal policies intentionally kept different people apart.
America's cities are still feeling the effects of these racial housing policies (some which continue today). But before solving or acknowledging them, we've turned to technology to make the problem worse.
The Internet was supposed to save us. It was supposed to bring people of different classes, races, and backgrounds together. Big Data would remove biases with math. Algorithms could sort through everything from resumes, to loan and insurance applications, to criminal backgrounds to produce more fair and equitable outcomes. Unfortunately, we've just coded our biases into infallible formulas and turned them loose.
A student who grows up in a once-redlined neighborhood has no choice but to attend a failing school—his parents, who grew up in the same neighborhood cannot send him elsewhere. His college application is not flagged by the algorithm that looks for high SAT scores. Because he did not attend college, his job prospects are limited. Because he doesn't have a stable job, finance algorithms won't extend good credit. Because he lives in the same neighborhood—poor, with high unemployment—there is probably some amount of crime. Police algorithms send the cops to that neighborhood in higher numbers and frequency. If he ends up in court, recidivism models predict that because he lives in a poor neighborhood with others who have committed crimes, he is likely to commit crime in the future. The cycle continues.
"The quiet and personal nature of this targeting keeps society's winners from seeing how the very same models are destroying lives, sometimes just a few blocks away."Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction
We desperately want to believe that people end up where they do because of hard work, or lack thereof. But that is rarely the case. Those with power do what they can to promote their interests and maintain power. With time, once conscious decisions are written off as "the way things have always been done" or as "natural." We end up like Baudelaire's lover, asking the proprietor to send the others back where they belong.
If we want to repair the divisiveness in our political discourse, it starts with recognizing the division in our public spaces—online and off.
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Any fan of high-end headphones will be unlikely to require conversion to the joys of electrostatic headphones, which are an aspirational high for head-fi lovers everywhere. Renowned for speed and detail, electrostatic designs replace the usual cone speaker inside a headphone with a flat diaphragm held at a fixed charge, while a dedicated headphone amplifier biases and modulates the voltage across perforated metal grids (stators) on either side. (Not to be confused with planar magnetic designs, in which the signal is applied to the diaphragm itself, positioned between fixed magnets.)
At least, that's how electrostatics have worked for the last 60 years. So who is this upstart Warwick Acoustics, arriving with not only a luxurious-looking pairing of electrostatic headphones and amplifier, but a significant new take on electrostatic design itself?
Who is Warwick Acoustics?
The company's origins are strangely absent from its website, other than listing offices in Colorado, USA, and in Henley in Arden, deep in Shakespeare country between Redditch, Stratford and Leamington Spa in the UK. Such reticence often points to a China-based company, but not in this case. Indeed the Sonoma name is not entirely new — it was used for a professional workstation originally developed by Sony specifically to record using the digital DSD format which originated on SACD discs. That Sonoma professional workstation is currently under another Colorado-based company, Super Audio Center, which has SACD-related origins going back to 2004.
Meanwhile Warwick Acoustics has been created by a team including several former Sony engineers, with key electrostatic technology originally from Warwick Audio Technologies (WAT), also based in Henley in Arden, UK, with technical development in Ebbw Vale, South Wales, which perhaps explains which Sonoma specifically mentions Wales on its own website. Warwick Audio Technologies was a spin-off from Warwick University, and previously released a flatpanel directional speaker called ZonarSound, but here the key development is a transducer technology called HPEL (High Precision Electrostatic Laminate). The WAT team includes Sonoma Acoustics' CEO Martin Roberts, plus Dan Anagnos as its Chief Technical Officer (also formerly of Sony, and of D&M Holdings and Turtle Beach), and also, rather impressively, Gary Waters, a former Vice President and General Manager of Bose Corporation. So it's a team that brings together expertise in transducer technology, in high-res audio — and in headphone marketing. The Model One (M1) system is the result.
Skin cells
So the Sonoma M1 is the first ever headphone to use the HPEL electrostatic technology developed by the Warwick Audio Technologies team. What's new about this? Well it does away with the grid between the diaphragm and your ears, instead using only a back grid of stainless steel mesh, to which the usual high bias voltage is applied, modulated by the audio signal. The supply of this bias voltage is why electrostatics require dedicated amplifiers and multicore cables. (The 1350V DC here is not a safety issue because the current is very low.)
Then the HPEL diaphragm itself sits where the front grid would normally be, tightened across a series of large open cells on a Formex spacer layer to create a series of small 'drum skins', as Sonoma calls them. Each cell's skin is acoustically independent, but they are all driven in parallel from the rear grid, while the whole construction is lodged in a polycarbonate shell for rigidity. The sound from each cell's drum skin combines with the others, but unwanted resonances should average out, avoiding the specific resonant peak of a larger single driver.
High-res bandwidth
With the laminate a mere 15μm thick, its low mass is highly responsive to transients and details, and Sonoma claims its response is linear up to 60kHz. Together with a low-end quoted down to 10Hz, the technology is clearly a good match for high-res audio performance.
And that's the other focus for Sonoma, and for the amplifier component here, which is a DAC as well as headphone amplifier, with a digital coaxial input and USB-B for your computer. (A high quality USB cable is supplied, co-developed with Straight Wire and using gold-plated connectors and a silver-plated data path.) This USB 2.0 input and the dual-mono 32-bit/384kHz ESS Reference Sabre DACs behind it will handle up to 32-bit/384kHz PCM, and DSD64/128 via DoP transmitted using the DoP protocol — it cannot decode raw DSD. The coaxial input is good to 24-bit/192kHz PCM.
There are also two analogue inputs — but these are digitally sampled by an AKM Premium analogue-to-digital converter, so allowing the Sonoma's DSP to process them and implement the fully digital volume control. The ADC is 32-bit/384kHz capable, though we're unsure at what rate the actual sampling takes place.
From there the DSP takes place at 64-bit double-precision fixed-point calculations, before handing off to the DAC and the output stage itself, which is pure single-ended, high-bias discrete-FET Class-A.
As the WAT man from Bose no doubt advised Sonoma, it's no use cramming in such wonderous technology if the products themselves don't impress on the outside. Perhaps that's why the packaging is so wildly effusive, perhaps the most extravagant (some might say excessive) example of the art we've ever encountered in terms of hi-fi boxing, with the received cartons around 40 times the volume of the products within, unfolding like a pass-the-parcel game which ultimately yields a relatively small treasure. So extreme is the wrapping here that it potentially has the opposite of the desired effect.
Still, there's no doubting the quality of the prize finally released. The design of amplifier and headphones is linked by curvy cuts to the outer headphone cap grilles and a similarly curvily-punched ventilation grille on the top of the DAC/amplifier's CNC-machined aluminium casing, through which an orange glow can be seen within. It uses an external 24V switched-mode power supply.
As noted, the amplifier has coaxial and USB digital inputs, plus two analogue options. There are three lovely toggle switches — one on the front selecting between digital and analogue inputs, two on the back for power and to switch between the low-level minijack input (850mV maximum output) and the RCA inputs (up to 2.1V).
There are no outputs, which makes the M1's incorporation into a larger system a bit awkward, with no way to send the results of its high-quality USB DAC onto your hi-fi system. You'd either have to replug your computer USB each time you use the headphones, or to run parallel USB outputs from your computer, setting the M1 as the default, so that when you power off the M1 the computer reverts to your main system (if it's in a good mood). No problem, of course, if you're spending your whole life on headphones only.
These are fully open headphones, spilling sound out as well as in, and given the advertised emphasis on comfort, we found the M1 just a tad imposing to wear, quite firm to the head, those earcups of top-grain Cabretta sheepskin leather (made from sheep that grow hair rather than wool) quite solid rather than soft and yielding. But this does ensure a clear fit (the instructions in the manual are excellent), and the injected magnesium earshell construction certainly keeps things fairly light — 300 grams all up, not counting the cable, which is another design made in cohoots with Straight Wire Inc., delivering ultra-low capacitance and impressive flexibility given its multicore nature. Note this is two metres long, rather than the more common three-metre length provided for home headphones, so plan your positioning.
Again the full manual gives excellent guidance on getting your Windows or Mac computer to provide true and proper output to the M1 via USB. We downloaded the firmware updater package for our Mac Mini (control-click the app if your Mac refuses to run it), and it informed us we were up to date and ready to play.
So, at the end of a long road of technology, what's the result? Well unlike some electrostatics, the first impression is not one of open skies and scintillating top-end jangle — the M1 didn't focus our attention on the frequencies, but rather on the speed; the timing of the M1's performance is a revelation. Rhythm elements were so tight, vocals so trim, that it was like a photograph coming into focus. And the effect of such well-defined imaging is to clear a space where background information gets a fresh airing. We use Leonard Cohen's O2 live version of Tower of Song as a tester for vocal tone — a test passed impeccably here, but what was that occasional rumbling off in the left channel? It sounds like wind noise on a mike, but it might be a passing underground train, or someone wheeling a flight case around backstage. Never noticed it before.
The Mr Sheen effect here similarly transformed the often stodgy delivery of Paul McCartney's My Valentine into something relatively crisp (while making us aware that it might have been rather overcompressed in the mastering). It did not, however, fix the thin vocal on Dion's I Read It (in the Rolling Stone), though it made the best possible of the instrumentation, a solid thump to kick drum and a nice realistic bass presentation.
Sometimes things felt as if they were missing some support down in the lower mids, so that male spoken word could sound less plummy than from conventional cone headphones, and acoustic bass could sound underplayed. But we eventually decided this was a side-effect of the clarity rather than a frequency anomaly, a re-acclimatisation to the deliberate upper bass bump engineered into so many headphones. Listening to the whole of the JVC K2-remastered 'Songs For Distingué Lovers' by Billie Holiday, the longer we sank into its ping-pong-panned instrumentation, the more that off-mike acoustic bass found its place in the mix. And a perceptual sweep confirmed Sonoma's claim of impeccable linearity from top to bottom, and a very low bottom indeed — though not loud or in your face. The electrobass on Dhani Harrison's #WarOnFalse from his 2017 debut album was far more fizz than fundamental compared with its arrival via a big pair of speakers, but we're confident it's the Sonoma that is most true to its nature. (Whether Dhani himself ever heard it replayed this way is another question, of course.)
The delightful presentation of jangliness served much of Sara Bareilles' 'What's Inside: Songs From Waitress' album very well, and again we were five tracks into the album before time and thought caught up with us, listening to the spaced multitrack vocals of Soft Place to Land, given a wide and spacious headspace in which to shine, every tiny cue to her vocal spread delivered to our eager ears.
Their timing and imaging will absolutely thrill classical fans — we opened up our high-res classical collection and revelled in the Duisburger Philharmoniker's Mahler Symphony No. 5 (24/192) — it may not be Bernstein but the Acousence recording was impeccably rendered from the reverberation around the solo trumpet opening to the rollicking rondo closure.
A curiosity — the headshells themselves seem unusually sensitive: touch a finger to one of the outer grilles and when you remove it, the balance makes a little jump to the other side, as if you've momentarily earthed something. Moving your head can deliver a similar effect of instability to the balance.
As for downsides, we'd note only the amp's fairly warm Class-A operation even when not actually playing, their inability to chain the DAC into an existing amp and speaker system, and that firm side pressure making them less comfortable than many (we didn't like to try the 'stretch' thing on a review pair, lest their radical electrostatics took exception to this).
The level of performance from this combination of DAC-amp and new-concept electrostatic would be impressive from an established brand, so as a first delivery from a new company (in the consumer product space, at any rate) it is all the more remarkable. The studio heritage behind the brand may be the key to their neutrality — they would make a reliable reference headphone for recording and mixing, such is their lack of exaggeration in any regard, while their revelatory accuracy in the time domain makes them a thrill for listening to a full range of genres.
Sonoma Model One
Price: $6999
+ New technology does the job
+ The joys of electrostatic sound
- Fit a bit firm
- No outputs to loop through into your main system
Type: Open-back, circumaural
Transducer: HPEL, single-ended electrostatic, effective diaphragm area 3570mm2
Quoted frequency response: 10Hz–60kHz
Cable: Two metres
Weight: 303g without cable
Inputs: 1 x USB 2.0 (32-bit/384kHz PCM, DSD64/128 via DoP), 1 x coaxial digital (24-bit/192kHz PCM), 1 x analogue minijack stereo, 1 x analogue RCA
DAC: ESS Reference Sabre
Amplifier/Energizer: Discrete FET, single-ended, high bias Class-A output
Quoted distortion + noise: <0.05%
Dimensions (whd): 57 x 190 x 290mm
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Regarding the June 15 news article "Climate politics and policies present Obama with quandary":
Instead of focusing on public opinion polls, the president needs to act on the climate problem by pushing policies, regulations and laws that will reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions as expeditiously as possible. The time for pampering the public has long passed, and it is now necessary to push a bitter pill down the throat of Congress. The president has nothing to lose personally; any action to reduce the U.S. carbon footprint will be on the right side of history. I would rather see the president lose the support of some voters by taking the high moral ground on this issue than to see him wimp out just so that another ineffectual Democrat can win the White House in 2016.
Richard Nunno, Washington
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Klopp trusts Moreno '100 per cent' despite Sevilla shocker
Jurgen Klopp still trusts Alberto Moreno "100 per cent" after the full-back faltered badly in the midweek Champions League draw at Sevilla.
Moreno, returning to his home city, gave away the free-kick and penalty that led to his former club's first and second goals, as Liverpool squandered a 3-0 half-time lead to take only a point away from the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan.
Liverpool 21/10 for Blues clean sheet
The Reds face Premier League champions Chelsea at Anfield on Saturday, in what is likely to be another stern test of Moreno's defensive credentials.
Klopp could opt for James Milner at left-back - the England international replaced Moreno in the 63rd minute on Tuesday - but the manager maintains an unshaken belief in the Spaniard's abilities.
"I told him I still trust him 100 per cent."— Liverpool FC (@LFC) November 24, 2017
Jürgen Klopp reveals details of his post-Sevilla chat with Alberto Moreno: https://t.co/crmjPvjBWa pic.twitter.com/xpynTLBS7F
"I had a talk, of course, to Alberto and I am really happy about his shape, I am really happy about his performances," said Klopp, who confirmed Emre Can is a doubt to face Chelsea due to a muscular issue, while Adam Lallana and Joel Matip remain on the road to recovery.
"Yes, I know in this game it was obviously [not his best] and that's then really my responsibility. I could have done different things and obviously it was difficult in Seville with all the circumstances; everyone was talking to him like a family member. He left there but a lot of people are still there who he knows well.
"[If you lose] one, two or three per cent of concentration and come a little bit too late and that's how it started. My response would have been to think about the line-up or change or change earlier or whatever. It's not the player to blame, I am 100 per cent responsible for that.
"I told him I still trust him 100 per cent, so for me the game is over. How you concede the goals is not important anymore after the game, only for the analysis but not for anything else.
"We know how we came into the situations and that's what we have to change."


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This is my version of One Direction's song "More Than This" - all the harmonies and recording was done by me.
Hope you all enjoy this
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Hi My name is Daniel and I am 14 years old. I do busking in the streets of Melbourne or what they call Street Performing in the states. Hope you all enjoy it.
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After smearing mum's favourite Dior Rouge lipstick into the carpet, smashing her favourite Estee Lauder powder and smudging her Lance mascara across our cheeks like war paint when growing up, we couldn't wait to apply makeup like a pro. Now, our childhood is colliding with our present makeup loving- selves as Clinique team up with Crayola to bring us a limited edition collection of the brand's iconic Chubby Sticks.
The product itself is indeed shaped and designed identically to out primary school stationary staple, as well as coming in corresponding shade names.
As with the original Chubby Stick formula, the Clinique Crayloa Chubby Stick boasts to hold the same moisturising properties, loaded with mango and shea butters so lips feel comfortably soft and smooth. The lipsticks are available in a sheer finish, to give a subtle wash of colour, along with an intense finish to achieve a bolder look.
The unique Chubby Sticks retail for an individual price of £17.50 (full size), whilst a set of 4 minis is priced at £18 and 8 minis for £35. The range is exclusive to Selfridges and Clinique.co.uk.