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The name Topless Robot is great, isn't it? To me, it combines two of the greatest loves at the heart of every nerd: the possibility of nudity combined with electronics! And as they say, this site is home to 'nerd news, humor and self-loathing.' In full disclosure, I consider myself a nerd. And in even fuller disclosure, this site is about as rad as you'd expect a topless robot to be. Come on in, nerds. You're going to love it!
There's actually a section of the site called Impressive Acts of Nerdery. And boy, let me tell you, they ain't lying. I look at this crocheted Boba Fett hat and say two things to myself. One, I'm sorry I didn't see this in time to get this for my brother in law for Christmas. (Sorry, Jon.) And two, that's amazing. Speaking of Christmas, they've included a list of the Top 10 Creepiest Santa Clauses of all time. For my money, I'm giving a three-way tie to Robot Santa from Futurama, Andy Dick's version from the Hebrew Hammer and the one from MST3K.... and if you don't know what MST3K is, then you're not a nerd, and you should just check out one of the other blog profiles already.
Or maybe, Topless Robot could be used as a primer for non-nerds to learn the landscape and lingo. Maybe it'll help you talk to your adolescent nephew this Holiday Season... or maybe my brother-in-law... or me!
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Abu Dhabi holding group Senaat, which owns companies including National Petroleum Construction Co., hired HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) for a share sale, two people familiar with the matter said.
The company appointed the banks as joint book runners for an initial public offering this year, the people said, declining to be identified because the matter isn't public. Senaat Chief Financial Officer Jassem Saleh Busaibe declined to comment, as did a spokesman for HSBC. Calls to JPMorgan's media office in London outside of office hours weren't immediately answered.
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5***** Rebecca's Coronation by Gary Green is book three in the Redemption series.
Rebecca is an orphan whose grandmother has guided her to a world of magic and adventure. Rebecca's enemy, Pan, urges her to stop fighting him and just let him kill her. She mocks him and begins fighting him, her sword slashing through his body. But his wounds heal right before her eyes. Defeated, she feels she has no choice in the matter and makes a pact with Pan to kill her but to let her magical friends live. Just as Pan is about to kill her, she wakes up. It was just a dream.
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Cleverly done and easy to read, Rebecca's Coronation by Gary Green, is so much more than a teen fiction. Readers of all ages will love this heartwarming, enjoyable book. The story flows well. Pulling from legends, Gary Green has created a world of characters that continue to grow, each of them enriching the story in their own way. Rebecca, in particular, is a strong character, blending magic with real life. Overall, Rebecca's Coronation is an extremely well-thought plot with elves, gnomes, fairies, and dragons that add to the author's wonderful writing style. He transforms a magical world into a believable, normal, everyday human life.


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And how, asks Socrates, are these words reconcileable with the fact that all mankind are agreed in thinking themselves wiser than others in some respects, and inferior to them in others?
But you, Sir Charles, have shewn that re-putation and conscience are entirely reconcileable.
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Industry the boldest measures reconcileable with prudence.
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The late decrees, which obstruct the intercourse and affiliation of popular societies, may be regarded as an event not only beneficial to this country, but to the world in general; because it is confessed, that these combinations, by means of which the French monarchy was subverted, and the King brought to the scaffold, are only reconcileable with a barbarous and anarchical government.
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St. Pio – The monthly meeting of the Friends of St. Pio will be held in the Abbey on this Thursday night, 7th June at 8 p.m.
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Robbery – During the past week while the family was away a bungalow adjacent to the village was robbed between 9 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. The back door was forced open to gain entry. They travelled from room to room, opened drawers and cast to the floor their contents. Many items were stolen including jewellery, play tops, lap top etc., even the hoover was taken. If anyone has any information that may assist the Gardai in their work of apprehending the culprits, they should make contact with them. Householders need to be extra vigilant regarding their homes.
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: Harry Potter and The Plane of Shadows by Perseias
In his 6th yr, Harry learns about his MageAbility along with a new trnsfr studnt from Beauxbatons. His dreams about Sirius lead him to the mystery behind the veil and embark on a journey through magical and mythical places to bring him home. New relationships will develop, and a mysterious new Prof. with a secret identiy will reveal what Harry has wanted most. 6th yr A/U **CHAPTER 35 is up!** OVER 30K reads. Thanks!
Genres: General, Action/Adventure, AU Era: Hogwarts Characters: Harry, Hermione, OC , Ron, Sirius Pairings: Harry/Hermione
Advisory: Strong Language, Mild Violence, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Sensitive Topic/Issue/Theme
Published: 2005.06.08 Latest Chapter: 2009.08.07 Updated: 2009.08.07 Status: WIP (162747 words)
: Harry Potter and The Link by Pumpkin juice
A link has been forged between good and evil, one that would see the end of all things. Who will conquer?
AU 6th Year, Pre-HBP. Sirius' death plagues Harry's dreams at night and the prophecy weighs heavilly upon his young shoulders. Remus takes up the role of Harry's Godfather; by-so-doing, fulfilling an ancient prophecy about a Werewolf and his Cub that had long since been forgotten... untill now. STORY ON HIATUS 'TILL XMAS!
Genres: Romance, Action, Humor, General, Angst, AU, Mystery, Drama Characters: Cho, Draco, Dumbledore, Fred/George, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Lucius, Luna, M. McGonagall, Narcissa, Neville, OC, Pansy, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Ron, Seamus, Sirius Black, Snape, Tonks, Voldemort
Advisory: Mild Language, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature, Strong Violence
Published: 2004.10.22 Latest Chapter: 2007.02.06 Updated: 2007.02.06 Status: WIP (78047 words)
: The Midnight Series by ksomm814
Deleted Scenes from the Midnight Guardian, Trials of a Champion, Burden of a Destiny, and Power of Hogwarts. Read the scenes that didnt make the cut.
Genres: General, Angst Characters: Dumbledore, Fred/George, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, M. McGonagall, OC, Remus Lupin, Ron, Sirius Black, Snape
Advisory: No Warnings
Published: 2005.05.24 Latest Chapter: 2006.05.08 Updated: 2006.05.08 Status: WIP (26228 words)
: Power of Hogwarts by ksomm814
Sequel to Burden of a Destiny - Harry has left the wizarding world as a last attempt to save those he loves. However, no one is ready to let him go, whether it is friend or foe. Powers are realized. Friendships are tested. Alliances are formed. Just another year for Harry Potter, the-boy-who-lived.
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: Freya by Hiduras
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Witches and Wizards haven't always been born; at least, not in the typical sense of the word. There was once a time when the magically inclined were created solely by the gift they possess. These mistical beings could not only use magic, they could see it in everything they touched; feel it in every move they made. Freya Keen knew this, but what did it have to do with her?
Genres: Action, General, Mystery, Drama Characters: Draco, Dumbledore, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Luna, M. McGonagall, OC, Remus Lupin, Ron, Snape, Voldemort
Advisory: Mild Violence, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature
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Hermione's year is filled with compassion, love, mystery, and danger. Little did Hermione know how dangerous this year would be: for her heart, and her life. *ON HOLD UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE*
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Advisory: Mild Language
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What do you want of me? I am not brave enough. He whispered, his voice shaking with emotion. All in the room stared at him in disbelief and confusion but the woman replied Bravery isnt a state of being, it is a choice.
Genres: Drama Characters: Draco, Hermione, Lucius, OC, Pansy, Ron, Seamus, Tonks
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Published: 2005.06.09 Latest Chapter: 2005.06.14 Updated: 2005.06.14 Status: COMPLETED (6779 words)
: Thoughts by space333
Sad story!!! Lonely, miserable, guilty. That's how Lupin's life always was; and how it will always be. Now three years after he's seen Harry for the first time, Remus is back at Hogwarts. Maybe the hardest of it all is to have to teach and face Harry as though his parent's death, the incident in the Department of Mysteries, and none of it had ever happened.
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: Burden of a Destiny by ksomm814
Sequel to Trials of a Champion. Voldemort has returned but not everyone is ready to believe it. Harry enters his fifth year at Hogwarts changed from the events of the Triwizard Tournament but how much can one person endure before they eventually break?
Genres: General, Angst Characters: Cho, Draco, Dumbledore, Fred/George, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Lucius, Luna, M. McGonagall, Neville, OC, Pansy, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Ron, Seamus, Sirius Black, Snape, Tonks, Voldemort
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Celebrate Montana's Lee Metcalf Wilderness with the "Summer of Lee"
A view from the Gravelly Range of Pyramid Point in the Lee Metcalf Wilderness in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
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Thirty years ago, 259,000 splendid acres in southwestern Montana neighboring Yellowstone National Park was protected. Since then many Americans have enjoyed Lee Metcalf Wilderness' 300 miles of trails as well as opportunities there to fish, hunt, ski, boat and backpack.
This summer we are celebrating the "Summer of Lee" with others who love this magnificent place. There will be events all summer including group hikes and projects to restore recreation trails. You can win prizes with photos and videos that show you joining the party while sporting a pair of Senator Lee Metcalf's glasses.
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Prefabricated data centres the rage in a pop-up cloud world
Data centre infrastructure providers are seeing an upsurge of interest in their prefabricated or modular offerings, which are forecast to take a much bigger share of the market over the next few years.
The pop-up systems come either pre-assembled in a standard shipping container or prefabricated for on-site assembly, and contain all the racking, power, cooling and ancillary systems needed to set up a data centre. Companies need only to add the computer hardware.
They represent a significant departure from traditional customer-designed data centres that often use equipment sourced from multiple vendors. Proponents of prefabs argue the bespoke approach takes longer and costs more partly because of the need to manage multiple vendors and to integrate their respective products.
Using data from a variety of sources, data centre infrastructure provider Schneider Electric put the global data centre market at $US28 billion ($30 billion) in 2013, rising to $US45 billion by 2020, with the modular component growing five-fold from $US0.8 billion in 2013 to $US4.8 billion by 2020.
However, the prefab, modular category is hard to define and confusion still remains among those making procurement decisions.
Siegfried Drexler, enterprise business development manager, Schneider Electric in Australia, said that, on some estimates, modular and prefab would be worth closer to $US10 billion by 2020.
"With any new form of technology there are always different interpretations. So it is very hard to compare apples to apples," he said.
Schneider expects sales of prefabricated, modular systems to outstrip sales of containerised systems. It estimates containerised data centres account for 40 per cent of the current data centre market. By 2020, it expects this share to have fallen to about 20 per cent.
"From the amount of customer requests and meetings we're having around this and the amount of events when people are only talking about prefab data centres, the indications are that this growth will continue," Mr Drexler said.
Steve Shelley, vice-president for modular solutions with rival vendor Emerson Asia Pacific, said it, too, has noticed an increase in interest.
"Two years ago, we were getting less than one inquiry a month for modular data centres. Now, we get one inquiry a week. It's definitely picking up speed and getting mind share among people looking to build new data centres," he said.
Mr Drexler said key factors contributing to the upsurge of interest were flexibility and scalability, faster deployment and predictable performance.
"Customers not knowing the future is a big driver for our modular business, along with speed of delivery and return on investment," Mr Shelley said:
However, Mr Drexler said there was some reluctance among customers to adopt what they still saw as unproven technology: "I have sat down with customers at the C level and they are saying, 'Why should we be the first? If we do something new there is a lot of risk.' The key answer we give them is, 'If you don't do something new, you will have a higher risk'. We get a lot of reactions where someone is pretty close to retirement and they have a lot of experience in the data centre space and are reluctant to take on something completely new."
Those who tried were reluctant to talk about it.
"Customers need to be 100 per cent happy and they are only going to do that when they've completed their second successful project," Mr Drexler said.
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Part Three, Beyond Spectating: Predators and the Pentagon
According to the Bureau of Justice (BOJ), the majority of civilian rapes and sexual assaults are not reported to the police. In fact, more than 54 percent of rapes are not reported and of those, only 12 percent of alleged rapists will be arrested, nine percent prosecuted, and only five percent convicted. Regrettably, one of the primary factors continues to be the taboo nature in which sex offenses are socially perceived and the legal system itself.
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) sheds light on victim hesitancy. According to them, the most common reason given by victims for not reporting rape is that they are ashamed, and fear reprisal, as well as police bias. Understandable given that statistically, reporting rarely leads to a conviction, and there is little guarantee that if reported the rapist will gain conviction, or that a guilty verdict will result in jail time. Particularly under Military law.
A December 2011 report stated that sexual assault charges at military academies were up 58 percent from 2010. Regrettably, it's also been estimated that less than 10 percent of assaults are reported. Less than 10 percent.
The reality doesn't improve much for graduates. The Department of Defense (DoD) Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military for Fiscal year 2011 stated that 3,192 sexual assaults had been reported. But, according to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, that figure represents only 13 percent of the rapes/sexual assaults estimated to have been committed. Panetta stated that despite the official report, 19,000 sexual assaults are alleged to have occurred in the Navy/Marines, Air Force, and Army. (The United States Coast Guard, not housed within the DoD, is the only military branch not required by Congress to submit the number of sexual assaults reported.)
Rather than practice zero tolerance per the Federal sexual discrimination policy, military leaders are being charged with demonstrating zero tolerance towards whistle blowing victims. Nineteen current and former service members filed suit in California's northern District Court (Case No. C12 05049 DMR) last September against Panetta as well as predecessors Robert Gates and Donald Rumsfeld, and six current and former heads of the Marine Corps and Navy.
The suit states that permitting a single individual in the chain of command to manage sexual assault allegations infringes upon the civil rights of those enlisted, and perpetuates an environment in which rape is rampant and victims are subject to retaliation. The case is one of five pending in district or circuit courts, alleging that defendants knew the military violated constitutional rights of victims, that they were consciously presiding over a dysfunctional judiciary system, and that they were repeatedly unresponsive to the problem. One of the cases (now awaiting appeal) was dismissed, the judge having ruled rape to be an occupational hazard of military service, which, frankly, begs the question: who exactly is the enemy?
At a Senate hearing held in March, former Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Brian Lewis testified before lawmakers that sexual assault and rape such as what he experienced while in service is "epidemic" in the armed forces due, in large part, to the conflict of interest inherent within the military justice system.
"Service members must report rape to their commanders," Lewis told Congress. "However, if their commanders take action and prove that rape occurred, they also prove a failure of their own leadership."
It has been estimated that more than half a million service women have been sexually assaulted. Government studies reveal that more than 80 percent of raped service women did not report. They also show 33 percent not reporting specifically because the person to whom they were supposed to report to was a friend of the rapist. Wait—it gets worse—25 percent of them didn't report because the unit commander was their rapist. That's 58 percent of the silent 80 percent selecting to not report sex crimes solely due to lack of impartiality.
Last April, Secretary of Defense Panetta removed sole discretion from unit commanders, requiring instead sex crimes to be reported to and handled by senior commanders. Until his proclamation, the Uniform Code of Military Justice required victims to report sexual assaults to their unit commander who often personally knows both the victim and the perpetrator. Under the revised Code, sex crimes are now reported to senior commanders who, being a few ranks removed, are expected to demonstrate impartiality despite the fact that they have no legal experience. Serving as the convening authority, senior commanders are empowered with the authority to exercise sole discretion or more precisely, command prerogative, in prosecuting or dismissing cases. They even have the unquestioned power to overrule convictions and sentences without being required to provide written justification for revising court rule.
Not surprisingly, victims and their supporters doubt that Panetta's revision will be enough and continue pushing for the creation of an impartial third-party justice system that falls outside the influence of chain of command. The H.R. 3435: Sexual Assault Training Oversight and Prevention Act proposed in 2011 would have established an independent entity entrusted with rape/assault investigations that would have been outside the chain of military command; it, however, has yet to be enacted.
Consequently, nearly 70 percent of substantiated actionable cases do not go to trial based on the sole discretion of lower-level command and only 8 percent of sexual assailants are referred to military court. The 65 assaults reported at military academies in 2011 resulted in but a single court-martial.
Removing sole discretion from unit commanders may improve the numbers reporting sex crimes, but fear of retaliation is still a factor when 90 percent of the victims who have reported were subsequently involuntarily discharged, many with misdiagnosed personality disorders effectively prohibiting them from receiving benefits and impairing their ability to acquire gainful employment. Hard earned careers are at stake—let alone valuable benefits and pensions, yet given the available data, there appears to be little defensive recourse for the country's defenders who year after year are being assaulted from within the ranks and marginalized by the very officers who are supposed to be supporting them? Lends a whole new meaning to the term "friendly fire".
Lewis urged Congress not to ignore men as "invisible" as it's been estimated that 56 percent of active duty sexual assault victims are male, which may simply reflect current demographics in that there are more service men than women.
"We cannot marginalize male survivors and send a message that men cannot be raped," Lewis said. The fact that 10,000 service men reported sex crimes in 2011 would suggest that they indeed can be, and in fact, are.
Michael Matthews, a 58 year old career Air Force veteran who kept his rape secret for nearly 30 years before finally telling his wife, agrees that nobody wants to talk about it.
Although rape is a crime of violence stemming from an aggressive assertion of power and domination, the issue of men raping men stirs up the homophobes and unleashes a host of inaccurate assumptions, such as a man would only rape another man if he were gay. The truth is the majority of perpetrators identify themselves as heterosexual despite the sex of the persons they violate.
"It's not about gay sex," argued Dr. Loree Sutton, retired Army brigadier general and psychiatrist. "Typically, the predators are heterosexual men who have this need to assert power, control and dominance."
Clinically, rape is an addiction, emphasized Russell Strand, Chief of the Army's Family Advocate Law Enforcement Training division. He claimed the average sex offender over the course of their lives victimizes 300 people. And when so few rapists receive convictions in military courts, and those that do are often able get their felony charge dropped, military perpetrators are not included in the National Sex Offender data base. Instead, they—trained warriors-- are released back into home towns across America free to proceed raping. Only now, they are well equipped with a honed knowledge of legal loopholes as well as forensic science.
DoD's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) is responsible for oversight of the Department's sexual assault policy and has contracted RAINN to develop a online and telephone hotline in support of active military victims of sexual assault. Foremost on its addenda is risk management, increasing education and training among military personnel through programs such as that offered regionally by the San Diego Police Department.
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It is not sufficient just to know the truth, and to be able to teach it. Christians must speak the truth out of a disposition of love for the one being taught. This must be something that every elder, preacher, teacher and member must learn and understand before they handle the Word of God.
How often do we see brethren who get angry when teaching the Word of God. How often do brethren forget that they are not teaching their words, but rather God's Word. How often do brethren forget that God's Word is so often rejected. 1 Sam 8:7ff; Jer 6:19; Jn 12:48
Paul said, "Speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into him who is the head__Christ". Eph 4:15 Christians who teach the Word must be mature, and not as Children tossed to and from with every wind of doctrine. Eph 4:14 We must grow in faith by adding to it virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love." 2 Pet 1:5-7
Christians must grow in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, and mature in the faith. 2 Pet 3:18 We are to allow Christ to rule our lives as brethren. He is our head "from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love" Eph 4:16
The Lord's servants are instructed, not to "quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil" 2 Tim. 2:24-26
No one likes to be instructed that their conduct is wrong. Frequently anger is displayed toward the one doing the teaching. They get angry at you. Once, Jesus' disciples reported to him that his words had offended people. Jesus answered, "Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind…" (Matt. 15:12-14).
A servant of God must teach the word out of love for the sinner's soul. It's true we endanger ourselves by doing so, and it's easy to lose friendship over God's Word. Paul said, "Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth." Gal 4:16 Yet we must love those who hate us by teaching them the Word of God. Mt 5:44 It's never about being right, but being right with God.
It's been said, "Truth without love is brutality, but love without truth is hypocrisy." The scriptures said, "Mercy rejoices against judgment." Jam 2:13 "Mercy and truth are met together, and righteousness and peace have kissed each other." Ps 85:10 Truth and love go together. One without the other is a perversion of God's will. Yet,way to often we all are guilty of teaching merciless, that is, without love and compassion.
We often mask our failure to speak the truth to those who need it by saying we love them, and we don't want to hurt them. Such is hypocrisy. This is love for ourselves, and not love for another's soul. If we loved them, we would lovingly speak the truth that would correct the sin in their lives. No, it is not easy. Yes, they and others may misunderstand, accuse us of meddling, being self-righteous, and all the other malicious things people often say. But the Lord knows our heart, and why we reach out to lost souls.
Solomon said, "Open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed." Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful" (Prov. 27:5-6). If we truly love a sinner's soul we will do what James spoke of: "Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins."
Think on these things. Pray earnestly about them. Pray for wisdom that you can make them a part of your life. Jam 1:5 Let us encourage one another to be the kind of friends Jesus spoke about: The kind that lays down their life for their friends. Jn 15:13,14 The kind who is willing to become your enemy so that they might have the opportunity to teach you the truth, and deliver a soul from hell. Gal 4:16 As Paul said, "Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus." 2 Tim 1:13 "And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also." 2 Tim 2:2 This we must do in and out of season, reaching out to as many who will hear the Word of God, out of love for their soul, and for ours. 2 Tim 4:2-5ff; Mk 4:23; 1 Tim 4:16
It is not sufficient just to know the truth, and to be able to teach it. Christians must speak the truth out of a disposition of love for the one being taught. This must be something that every elder, preacher, teacher and member must learn and understand before they handle the Word of God.
How often do we see brethren who get angry when teaching the Word of God. How often do brethren forget that they are not teaching their words, but rather God's Word. How often do brethren forget that God's Word is so often rejected. 1 Sam 8:7ff; Jer 6:19; Jn 12:48
Paul said, "Speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into him who is the head__Christ". Eph 4:15 Christians who teach the Word must be mature, and not as Children tossed to and from with every wind of doctrine. Eph 4:14 We must…
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Take this hand-written prescription for the medicine it is intended to be. From The Healer.
Beyond our body and mind is our soul. GOD is THE BEST medicine for the body and soul. And ONLY GOD can heal the soul.
SO the DOCTOR is prescribing HIS Word:
Five times a day, for seven days.
Do it! IT will change your life. Don't just read it…contemplate EVERY word of it.
This was written by David long, long ago! And although he felt the need was there, and I don't doubt it for one second-look at the world around us! Many times we feel scared, helpless, restless, lost. There is comfort in the POWER of HIS Word.
The Lord is my shepherd:
THE Lord-there is NO other. HE is THE ONE AND ONLY.
Is-HE was, is and will always BE.
My-this is singular! Yes, David could have wrote it as a plural…
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Has God found favor in you?
What is meant by the saying, "God hates sin but not the sinner" and is there any truth in it?
How can God love us and hate us at the same time?
Does God Hate You, Sinner?
Don't be too shocked by that question. A rising trend within Christianity these days has members who will urgently raise their hands to say "Yes, God does hate sinners." They will say this gravely, and sincerely. And guess what? They have Scriptures to prove their point.
Observe this quote from Matt Slick of CARM (Christian Apologetics Research Ministry):
The sobering fact is that God is so holy and righteous that He hates the sinner (Psalm 5:5; Lev. 20:23; Prov. 6:16-19; Hos. 9:15). Some say that we should say that God only hates the sin but loves the sinner. But, the above scriptures speak contrary to that. But it is also true that He is love (1 John 4:8). It is better to accept the love of God found in Jesus than to reject it and suffer His wrath.
Here are the scriptures he references:
- Psalm 5:4-6
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
- Psalm 5:5,
The boastful shall not stand before Thine eyes; Thou dost hate all who do iniquity.
- Psalm 11:5
The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
- Lev. 20:23
Moreover, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I shall drive out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have abhorred them.
- Prov. 6:16-19
There are six things which the Lord hates, yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, A false witness who utters lies, and one who spreads strife among brothers."
- Hosea 9:15
All their evil is at Gilgal; indeed, I came to hate them there! Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I will love them no more; All their princes are rebels.
It doesn't stop there. Many times throughout the Scripture, God brings destruction on them who work evil, and indeed these scriptures say God hates them. These are scriptures that most Christians will pull out of their pockets to anyone who begins to dwell too much on God's love for His creation. That is apparently too dangerous a thing.
Here is what popular preacher Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church says:
"Some of you, God hates you. Some of you, God is sick of you. God is frustrated with you. God is wearied by you. God has suffered long enough with you. He doesn't think you're cute. He doesn't think it's funny. He doesn't think your excuse is "meritous" [the word he's looking for here is "meritorious"]. He doesn't care if you compare yourself to someone worse than you, He hates them too. God hates, right now, personally, objectively hates some of you."
There you have it. You thought Jesus died on the Cross so that God can make peace with you, and apparently it doesn't take. But it does say He hates ALL who work iniquity. Looks like a "hole in one" doesn't it? I mean, doesn't that give God's followers the "green light" to hate sinners too?
You may have heard about a dissident group called the Westboro Baptist Church. They run a website called God Hates Fags. Their messages are filled with gleeful hate-speech, all justified by the Bible. Does that message shock you? Mark Driscoll's quote would sit right at home on their website.
While Christians quote the above verses, how ready are they to join God in His hatred of sinners? How ready are they to "hate fags" along with the Westboro Baptist Church? Does Driscoll hate people in his church too?
If God hates ALL who work iniquity, and we desire to be like God, Christians should likewise be having a sincere hatred for all non-Christians, for all sinners. Some have already cheerfully sold themselves into what they perceive as God's hatred of this world of sinners. They found their justification. But, you may not be comfortable buying into to that at this point. You may not be comfortable joining God in hating ALL, that is everyone, who works iniquity.
You may be content to leave the hatred up to God, because hatred makes you feel a bit guilty of something.
As preachers quote those "hate" verses liberally when they need to, probably 99% of them would not recommend that you hate sinners along with God.
- They, hypocrites that they are, recommend that you love sinners, and let God hate.
- They might recommend that you treat sinners kindly, that you turn the other cheek (Luke 6:29) when a sinner slaps you.
- They may recommend that you love your enemies, do good to them which hate you. (Luke 6:27).
- They may recommend that you bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. (Luke 6:28).
- In fact they may recommend that you PRAY for all men including sinners (1 Timothy 2:1).
- They may recommend that if a sinner is murdering you, that you beg God to forgive them on the spot, like Stephen did (Acts 7:16).
That last one is not very practical to them, so they may not go that far. Nevertheless, they carry the "hate" scriptures in their back pockets, just in case you get carried away with all that love stuff.
But, would it be sinful to do all those good things that Jesus commands – while simultaneously retaining a boiling visceral fist-shaking hatred for all sinners? After all, God wants you to be partakers of the Divine Nature (1 Peter 2:21). Would God pray for people He hates, if He hates ALL who work iniquity? If not, maybe you shouldn't be doing something God wouldn't do. That would be a sin. If the Divine nature is to hate sinners, it should be perfectly acceptable to bless them outwardly, while hating their guts inwardly, correct?
- Luke 14:26
If any man come to me (Jesus), and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Jesus said that. You have to hate your whole family or you cannot be Jesus Christ's disciple. You have to HATE them. So, let the hating begin. Gather all your blood-boiling, eye blurring, teeth gritting hatred into your stomach and focus it on your mother and father, wife, children etc. You must do that before you can be Christ's disciple. Before you rush to your Bible dictionaries be assured that the word to translate "hate" from Greek is "miseo."
Thayer Definition (miseo):
1) to hate, pursue with hatred, detest
2) to be hated, detested
Here is where theologians begin their tap dance. To them, declaring that God hates all who do iniquity is perfectly acceptable, but do they want to admit Jesus, their personal savior, is preaching hate, even to hate one's own parents in spite of the Old Testament commandment that one must "honor thy mother and father?"
- Mat 19:19
Honor thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Is this sounding a bit contradictory to you? It should. It seems like a red-faced hatred of your own parents is in direct conflict with God's commandment to honor your parents. How do the Mark Driscolls of the world account for that? Which commandment will you follow? Will you hate them or honor them? Let's "stop the insanity" as the saying goes.
James Patrick Holding of the orthodox Christian website Tektonics.org writes in his essay: Exclusive and Hyperbolic Language in the Bible [all emphasis mine to follow]:
"Critics may complain, but they do so without knowledge of the ancient principles of rhetoric (as expressed by writers like Quintillion) and exaggeration (as is found typically on Ancient Near Eastern war inscriptions and elsewhere; see below). But let us emphasize the absurdity that will result if we ignore the nature and purpose of exclusive language.
The laws of our country speak in exclusive terms. A sign that says "Speed Limit 55″ is absolute. It does not specify exceptions such as ambulance drivers or people who have passengers who become deathly sick. Yet no judge would penalize an ambulance driver or other person who dared exempt himself from the absolute language of the law on that sign."
"As a further demonstration, let us now consider an ancient example from outside the Bible. First, here is a cite from the Scriptures that is sometimes regarded by critics as problematic:
- 1 Samuel 15:8
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Critics find it odd that a people here recorded as being "utterly destroyed" come back making trouble just a few chapters later in 1 Samuel. But compare this to an inscription offered by the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III [taken from Moshe and Trude Dothan, Peoples of the Sea, 27]:
I slew the Denyon in their islands, while the Tjekker and Philistineswere made ashes. The Sherden and the Washesh of the sea weremade non-existent, captured all together and brought on captivity to Egypt like the sands of the shore.
Clearly when Ramsses tells us his enemies were "made non-existent," he was not meaning this literally, since he goes on to indicate that they were captured. In ancient context, then, such claims as 1 Samuel 15:8 makes are not to be taken literally either. They are no more absolute statements than those of football fans who celebrate a team's win by shouting, "We're #1!" — even if the team has lost more games than it has won!
Another example cited by critics is Luke 14:26, in which Jesus says we must "hate" others for the sake of the Gospel. Critics want to read this as literal hate; we reply by identifying such sayings as containing a rhetorical emphasis, not referring to literal hate.
And in fact, such rhetorical emphasis typifies ancient and even modern Semitic cultures. G. B. Caird, in The Language and Imagery of the Bible, notes the frequent use of hyperbole among Semitic peoples, and notes that "its frequent use arises out of a habitual cast of mind" which tends to view matters in extremes, or as we would say, "black and white." The Semitic mindset is dogmatic, and despises doubt; things are either one way or another, and there is no room for introspection.
Holding also writes this:
Abraham Rihbany (The Syrian Christ, 98f) points to the use of "hate" in the Bible as an example of linguistic extreme in an Eastern culture. There is no word, he notes, for "like" in the Arabic tongue. "…[T]o us Orientals the only word which can express and cordial inclination of approval is 'love'." The word is used even of casual acquaintances. Extreme language is used to express even moderate relationships.
Luke 14:26 falls into a category of "extreme language," the language of absoluteness used to express a preference, and may refer to disattachment, indifference, or nonattachment without any feelings of revulsion involved.To seal this matter completely, let's look at some parallel materials which prove our point.
The closest example comes from:
- Genesis 29:30-1
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
Here, "hated" is clearly used synonymously with one who is loved less. Let it be added that if Jacob hated Leah in a literal way, it is hardly believable that he would consent to take her as his wife at all! (See also Judges 14:16 and Deut. 21:15-17.)
Now here is another example from Jesus:
- Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
Such extremes of feeling would be atypical, but the extremes are not meant to be taken literally; the point is that one master will get more dedicated labor than the other. Now let's move into some secular works with the same sort of hyperbolic language.
Fitzmeyer's Lukan commentary offers this example from Poimandes 4:6:
If you do not hate your body first, O child, you will not be able to love yourself.
Would critics suppose that this teaches literal hatred of the physical body? It does not — it emphasizes the need to give preference to the whole self before the body alone. Literal hate of the body would have us cutting it with razors or hitting it with blunt objects — an extreme practiced in some Eastern faiths, but not among the Greeks!
Bottom line — skeptics who think that Jesus is preaching literal and misogynist hate in this verse are doing no more than the usual — thinking out of time, out of mind with the text, and in some cases (like Barker and C. Dennis McKinsey)letting their own "hate" get in the way of reading the text any way other than with wooden literalism.
These words are written by a theologian who believes God will eventually send all non-Christians to infinite torment, that Jesus will stand by while his creation endures unrelenting suffering "forever." But, he refers to an insistence of interpreting "hate" literally in the Bible to being "wooden literalism."
Nevertheless, he makes a good point about the use of hyperbole in ancient cultures. The dictionary defines "hyperbole" this way:
hyperbole (hi-per-bowl-ee)
1) obvious and intentional exaggeration.
2) an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as "to wait an eternity."
Jacob I Have Loved, Esau I Have Hated
If you ignore everything else in this paper you are reading, please understand this. One scripture in the Bible is written that men and women everywhere should understand in its fullest meaning:
- Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Have you paused to consider that when you read about God's "hatred" of sinners, and you attribute your personal, human emotional psychology to God's words, you are lowering God to your level? You are making your thoughts God's thoughts, and your ways, His ways. You are attributing your feelings, which proceed from your human heart – which the Bible says is "deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" (Jer 17:9) – to a God who is not flesh, but Spirit.
Those who have ripped the "hate" scriptures from the Bible and have chosen to lower them to a human level, are now living by them. And because they blaspheme the Word of God by proclaiming His thoughts to be as low as theirs, their lives are filled with anger and loathing. The "hate" scriptures, therefore, have become idols in their hearts to be smashed at the appearing of the Lord.
In any conversation regarding God's love of His creation (or his apparent lack of love for it), this scripture will undoubtedly enter in:
- Rom 9:13
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
There you have it, according to them. God does not just hate the sin, but the sinner as well. Case closed, we should all go home right? Wait a minute. Let's take a close look at that. Let's find out whether this verse really is about God hating a sinner:
- Rom 9:10-13
And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth; It was said unto her (Rebecca), The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
This is not a even a scripture about God hating a sinner. According to the Bible, God had made a decision about Esau, and Jacob without them "having done any good or evil."
Within these scriptures we begin to see clues about what God really means by "hating Esau." Obviously God is using "linguistic hyperbole" to illustrate His choice before either son had been born, before either had done good or evil. Hi choice was not based on that criteria. God made a choice, and by action, He loved Jacob (by choosing him) and hated Esau (by not choosing him). This verse has nothing to do with lustful human hatred from a deeply wicked heart.
What the same theologians fail to mention when they refer to God's "hate" toward Esau is the whole story. They will always fail to mention that, when their point is to illustrate an emotionally hate-filled God.
But we will not fail to do that here. Instead, let us see the whole situation through. First, it begins with God's "love" toward Jacob and "hate" toward Esau manifested at the proper time:
- Gen 25:29-34
One day, Jacob was cooking some stew, when Esau came home hungry and said, "I'm starving to death! Give me some of that red stew right now!" That's how Esau got the name "Edom." Jacob replied, "Sell me your rights as the first-born son." "I'm about to die," Esau answered. "What good will those rights do me?" But Jacob said, "Promise me your birthrights, here and now!" And that's what Esau did. Jacob then gave Esau some bread and some of the bean stew, and when Esau had finished eating and drinking, he just got up and left, showing how little he thought of his rights as the first-born.
Bingo! Prophecy fulfilled. Esau probably had no idea that he was making a choice to fulfill God's will. He probably just thought he was making a choice to fill his stomach. Nevertheless, he sold his birthright. Let's go back to the end of that last line.
Here is how the King James Version rendered it:
- Gen 25:34
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
Esau hated his birthright. Or, did he? If Esau despised his birthright, he had a funny way of showing it when he went to his father. Esau said, "My brother deserves the name Jacob, because he has already cheated me twice. The first time he cheated me out of my rights as the first-born son, and now he has cheated me out of my blessing." Then Esau asked his father, "Don't you still have any blessing left for me?" (Gen 27:36)
Does that sound like a man who emotionally hated his own birthright? If Esau emotionally despised his birthright, he sure has a strange way of showing that by grieving for it and sorely wanting it. The fact is, Esau did hate his birthright…in the sense that he chose Jacob's stew over it. It had nothing to do with emotion.
Clearly, God "loved" Jacob and "hated" Esau and we just witnessed how. But, let us keep on with these two. Let's not give up on them too soon. Jacob stole Esau's rights and blessing. Then he ran far away, because Esau, in his human way, was angry with Jacob and swore to kill him. Time passed. One day though, the Lord said to Jacob:"Jacob, go back to your relatives in the land of your ancestors, and I will bless you." (Gen 31:3) Esau, having been tipped off, amassed troops and waited to strike and kill Jacob.
Watch what happened:
- Gen 33:1-12
Later that day Jacob met Esau coming with his four hundred men. So Jacob had his children walk with their mothers. The two servant women, Zilpah and Bilhah, together with their children went first, followed by Leah and her children, then by Rachel and Joseph.
Jacob himself walked in front of them all, bowing to the ground seven times as he came near his brother. But Esau ran toward Jacob and hugged and kissed him. Then the two brothers started crying. When Esau noticed the women and children he asked, "Whose children are these?" Jacob answered, "These are the ones the LORD has been kind enough to give to me, your servant."
Then the two servant women and their children came and bowed down to Esau. Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down; finally, Joseph and Rachel also came and bowed down. Esau asked Jacob, "What did you mean by these herds I met along the road?" "Master," Jacob answered, "I sent them so that you would be friendly to me."
"But, brother, I already have plenty," Esau replied. "Keep them for yourself."
"No!" Jacob said. "Please accept these gifts as a sign of your friendship for me. When you welcomed me and I saw your face, it was like seeing the face of God. Please accept these gifts I brought to you. God has been good to me, and I have everything I need." Jacob kept insisting until Esau accepted the gifts. "Let's get ready to travel," Esau said. "I'll go along with you."
Remember friends. God hated Esau. God HATED him. God had a passionate gut wrenching emotional revulsion for Esau, right? In fact, God hated Esau so much, He sent Jacob back to him, promising Jacob a blessing. And what a blessing Jacob received: HE BOWED TO ESAU SEVEN TIMES AND WAS REUNITED WITH HIM. That's quite an interesting hatred God has.
God is nothing like you and me. His ways are not your ways, but are higher than your ways. His thoughts are not like your thoughts, but are higher. Even his so-called "hate" is "love" compared to your weak human emotional hatred you show your enemies.
Do you see how easy it is for God to melt the human heart with His "hatred?"
God says many things in the Bible that shock the carnal mind. Make no mistake, "the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom." But if you see the things God says within your own human psychology and fail to understand how ancient people talked you will not understand God's prophecy. Some preachers go so far as to label God's anger with sinners as "Holy Hatred." If they are marrying the word "holy" with their human emotional hatred, which proceeds from a deeply flawed, dark, and desperately wicked heart, they flirt with blasphemy.
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This is not to say that God has no emotions. Only that we should not judge God's emotions based on what we understand in the flesh. Otherwise, we make God in our image. Preachers will remind us that God made man in His image. That is only so in the sense that a Potter makes a pot. It is only true in the sense that a sculptor makes a statue of himself. The statue does not bear within it the deepness of the sculptor.
As the Bible says, God "hates ALL who work iniquity." Now, be very careful with that statement. I have heard theologians get slippery here.
If a Christian gets out of line and begins to declare that God loves the whole world enough to save it all through Christ, they will whip out that scripture and slam it on the table. Psalm 5:5 clearly and plainly states: God hates ALL who work iniquity. That leaves us in an interesting situation with Scripture.
Paul said it very plainly:
- Rom 3:23
ALL HAVE SINNED, and come short of the glory of God;Isa 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned EVERY ONE to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
That means you. That means me. That means "every one." That means, according to the Bible, God hates ALL, because ALL have been "workers of iniquity." Are you with me so far?
- 2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead.
Everyone was dead in sin. However, Paul said: when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5:6).
That is quite loving, no? If theologians interpret God's hate as being an emotional reaction, which would AS A RESULT, preclude him from loving too much, what is going on here?
Would God send his Son to die for people he hates, or people he loves?
As a human, have you ever HATED anyone? I mean have you felt that hot poison in your stomach? Have you then been able to emotionally love that same person that you would kill your child for them? It's a bit hard to imagine isn't it?
That's because God's ways are higher than our ways. Even his hatred is higher.
God hated this world of sinners, yet he loved those same sinners. From a human emotional perspective, it is a contradiction. Ancient Semitic people understood exactly how these love/hate statements were intended according to their language traditions: "the language of absoluteness to express a preference."
Regarding God's hate to Esau, Vincent's Word Studies has this to say:
The expression (hatred) is intentionally strong as an expression of moral antipathy.
- Compare Mat 6:24; Luk 14:26. No idea of malice is implied of course.
The Barnes Commentary on the Bible has this to say:
"Have I hated" – This does not mean any positive hatred; but that he had preferred Jacob, and had withheld from Esau those privileges and blessings which he had conferred on the posterity of Jacob.
- This is explained in Mal 1:3,
"And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness;" compare Jeremiah 49:17-18;
- Ezekiel 35:6
It was common among the Hebrews to use the terms "love" and "hatred" in this comparative sense, where the former implied strong positive attachment, and the latter, not positive hatred, but merely a less love, or the withholding of the expressions of affection;
- Compare Gen_29:30-31; Pro_13:24:
"He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes;"
- Mat_6:24,
"No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other," etc.;
- Luk_14:26,
"if any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, etc."
So "love" and "hate" are not only linguistic exaggerations, common for Hebrews of the time, but are an expression of preference which do not necessarily imply a visceral emotional reaction.
So God chose/loved Jacob, and God hated/did-not-choose Esau. Barnes references Jeremiah:
- Eze 35:6
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
In plain Modern English God is saying: because you have committed murder, I will cause you to be murdered. But look how he phrases it: since you have not HATED blood.
Does God want us to emotionally hate blood? If you scrape your knee and see blood, should you shake your fist at it? Not if you don't want to be committed to an asylum. See it from the perspective of the people to whom it was written: the opposite of "not hating blood" is "loving blood" which means "choosing to kill."
No emotional malice toward blood is implied, and those who read these words when they were first written would have understood that.
- Jesus says: "Unless you hate your mother and father, you cannot be my disciple." He means: "Unless you place me first above all others, you cannot be my disciple"
- Jesus says: "You cannot serve two masters, you will love one and hate the other." He means: "You cannot serve two masters, you will prefer one over the other."
In fact, we often see people serving two masters and emotionally loving both. If an alcoholic stops drinking, to save his family from the destructive results of his problem, he is hating alcohol and loving his family.
According to the Semitic tradition of hyperbole, this is true, but emotionally, the man still loves the alcohol, and fights cravings every day.
Love and hate are actions verbs.
- 1 Cor 13:4
Charity (Greek – agape, LOVE) suffereth long, and is kind; charityenvieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth notbehave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked,thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth.
Love does, and it does not. It does this, it does not do that. Brothers and sisters, do you know that you can do all the things that love does, avoid the things love avoids,regardless of your emotional state? Even if the emotions which proceed from your human heart lead you into death, your actions can love your enemy regardless.
- 2 John 1:5-7
I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. And this…is…love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
Friends, love does not concern the human emotion first. Love is a walk REGARDLESS of emotion. And by that walk human emotions are modified into line with love. Do you believe God is as low as a human to be a puppet of emotion? Do you believe God's perfect heart is as low as a human heart, motivated by hurt, controlled by anger? Reading the Bible you might think so.
You may have heard that the Bible of the Old Testament is the angry God, and the God of the New Testament is the loving God. But God says "I do not change." (Malachi 3:6).
God hated the world, and God loved the world. What a paradox. But, the Bible says so. What if I told you that by sending His son to die for sinners, as much as God was loving us, He was also hating us too. Don't let your emotions sneak up on you when you read that.
The famous John 3:16 verse says "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son…"
From a modern Western perspective, it looks like John is saying "For god so much loved the world." But, not really. The word "so" is translated from the word "houto"which the Strong's dictionary defines as "in this way."
So, John 3:16 really says this:
For God in this way loved the world: that he gave his only begotten Son.
God loved the world in the manner of sending his Son, just as he "hated" Esau in the manner of choosing Jacob instead.
- Isaiah 26:9-10
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
God does not show favor to the wicked, because if he does so they will not learn righteousness. This is why when his JUDGMENTS, not his favor, are in the world that they learn righteousness.
- Habakkuk 1:12
O Lord, our Rock, you have sent these Babylonians to CORRECT us, to punish us for our many sins.
The Heavenly Father has a stake in changing us, and doing that may require handing his people over to their enemies to correct them. That is judgment. God's "hate" is, therefore, so high above even human LOVE that his "hate" can change their ways.
- 1 Timothy 1:14
And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
The grace of God is EXEEDING ABUNDANT. It's exceeding! The Greek word for "exceeding abundant" comes from a Greek word that means to "super abound." God's love is OVER THE TOP. It's a love that cannot be contained, so that it goes beyond. It overflows. It exceeds.
Do you ever wonder why God changes people's names? The apostle Paul was first a Pharisee, known as Saul of Tarsus. In his writings, Paul claimed that he was a murderer, a "chief sinner" and lest you forget, God hates ALL who work iniquity, right? The Bible says so.
That included Saul of Tarsus. If any man exists who God should hate to the highest degree, it would be THE CHIEFEST SINNER! Did the Lord NOT hate a murderer of Christians? When a human being hates something, usually his reaction is to kill, to destroy. God has the same goal, but in a much higher way.
God's expression of hate for the sinner is that he does not favor the sinner to REMAIN in sin, and thereby destroys the sinner by creating a new person through the Spirit. The old man being freed from iniquity, removes the wall of partition between man and God, leaving a new man.
In other words, God hated the "chief sinner" Saul so much that he put his Holy Spirit into Saul and named him Paul. God utterly consumed and destroyed Saul. He ground Saul into powder. The Lion of Judah crushed Saul under his claw. Then, Paul emerged and was born. God loved Paul.
God sending his Son to redeem us and save us from sin is the ultimate act of hatred against sinners. It is the ultimate rejection of sinners. God hated Saul. God loved Paul. God rejects sinners by healing them of sin. God's hate is so much higher than whatever evil proceeds from the heart of mankind.
- 1 Co 1:25
The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
I'll leave you with the perceptive words of Abraham Lincoln:
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make friends of them?"
Don't let anyone intimidate you into lowering God to their level. Trust in Him always.
Re-Posted from the Merciful Truth blog: http://www.mercifultruth.com/doesgodhate.html
An illusion it will be, so large, so vast it will escape their perception.
Those who will see it will be thought of as insane.
We will create separate fronts to prevent them from seeing the connection between us.
We will behave as if we are not connected to keep the illusion alive.
Our goal will be accomplished one drop at a time so as to never bring suspicion upon ourselves.
This will also prevent them from seeing the changes as they occur.
We will always stand above the relative field of their experience for we know the secrets of the absolute.
We will work together always and will remain bound by blood and secrecy. Death will come to he who speaks.
We will keep their lifespan short and their minds weak while pretending to do the opposite.
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When in the Course of my Life, it becomes necessary for me to dissolve the political bands which have connected me with those who would oppress me, and to assume the powers inherent to my Nature, a decent respect for my opinion of myself requires that I declare the causes which impel my separation.
I hold these truths to be self-evident, that it is the Birthright of the Individual to live Free, that the rule of one person over another is unnatural and illegitimate, and that Voluntary interaction is the only way by which humanity can rise above poverty and savagery.
That to promote this condition in the past, some men instituted Governments over others without their unanimous consent, which has demonstrated to the world that Government by its very nature must violate Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness to maintain its existence. In addition, the Right of the People to acquire, maintain, and defend Property has been demonstrated to be the key tenet of Liberty; the alteration or abolition of one Government for another has been demonstrated to be an exercise in futility.
The history of the State is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over my sisters, my brothers, and myself. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
It has demanded our property through direct threat and enactment of violence.
It has assaulted, tortured, imprisoned, and murdered innocents at home and abroad.
It has forced us to use its monopoly currency so that it may steal from us withand without taxation.
It has conscripted our brothers to fight and die in its wars of profit-seeking and domination.
It has forbidden us to own weaponry which it itself uses, purposely and gradually disarming us in every way it can manage.
It has demanded that we gain its permission to buy, sell, and trade one with another.
It has demanded that tribute be paid to itself on all forms of property and in all acts of exchange.
It has kidnapped and caged us for possession of plants.
It has forbidden various consensual interactions.
It has forbidden our communication and trade with certain of our brothers and sisters around the world.
It has claimed ownership of our children through forced indoctrination and public debt.
It has spied upon the communications, both digital and personal, of ourselves and our brothers and sisters around the world.
It has demanded that we acquire, keep, and produce identifying documents upon demand.
It has polluted the skies, land, and water with impunity.
It has branded us with nine-digit tracking numbers.
It has abolished the rule of law, perverted justice, and utterly voided its own constitution, giving impunity to its police, its military, and its corporate benefactors.
It has lied, deceived, and covered-up its secret deeds and has hunted down as enemies those who dare to reveal them.
In short, it has committed every act which would be considered unspeakably abhorrent if committed by an individual, establishing a state of utter Lawlessness and Terror.
I, therefore, representing myself, appealing to the Reason of every Individual who longs to live as his Nature disposes him – in Freedom – solemnly publish and declare that I have the Right to be Free and Independent, that I am Absolved from Allegiance to any State, and that all political connection between myself and any State is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as a Free and Independent person, I have the Right to resist all forms of aggression upon myself and my property. For the support of this Declaration, I invoke the solemn sanctity of my existence as an Individual, justified by the fact that I am alive.
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