Blog Archive

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Christianity and Catholicism


What do we mean when we say “Christianity” and “Catholicism”?Catholics consider themselves Christian? Yes, they do. But Christianity and Catholicism are not the same.
Christianity, on the one hand, was founded not as an institution, forcing the Name and Teachings of Jesus Christ upon submitting subjects, but as a witness to Christ, lifting Him up before the world. Jesus said:

“And I, if I be lifted up from the Earth, will draw all men unto me” (Jn. 12:32).

It was Christ, not Christianity, who had the power to change lives.



Thursday, July 23, 2020

Bible Statistics

Books of the Bible and Authors
1) Genesis: Moses
2) Exodus: Moses
3) Leviticus: Moses
4) Numbers: Moses
5) Deuteronomy: Moses
6) Joshua: Joshua
7) Judges: Samuel
8) Ruth: Samuel
9) 1 Samuel: Samuel; Gad; Nathan
10) 2 Samuel: Gad; Nathan
11) 1 Kings: Jeremiah
12) 2 Kings: Jeremiah
13) 1 Chronicles: Ezra
14) 2 Chronicles: Ezra
15) Ezra: Ezra
16) Nehemiah: Nehemiah
17) Esther: Mordecai
18) Job: Moses
19) Psalms: David and others
20) Proverbs: Solomon; Agur; Lemuel
21) Ecclesiastes: Solomon
22) Songs of Solomon: Solomon
23) Isaiah: Isaiah
24) Jeremiah: Jeremiah
25) Lamentations: Jeremiah
26) Ezekiel: Ezekiel
27) Daniel: Daniel
28) Hosea: Hosea
29) Joel: Joel
30) Amos: Amos
31) Obadiah: Obadiah
32) Jonah: Jonah
33) Micah: Micah
34) Nahum: Nahum
35) Habakkuk: Habakkuk
36) Zephaniah: Zephaniah
37) Haggai: Haggai
38) Zechariah: Zechariah
39) Malachi: Malachi
40) Matthew: Matthew
41) Mark: Mark
42) Luke: Luke
43) John: Apostle John
44) Acts: Luke
45) Romans: Paul
46) 1 Corinthians: Paul
47) 2 Corinthians: Paul
48) Galatians: Paul
49) Ephesians: Paul
50) Philippians: Paul
51) Colossians: Paul
52) 1 Thessalonians: Paul
53) 2 Thessalonians: Paul
54) 1 Timothy: Paul
55) 2 Timothy: Paul
56) Titus: Paul
57) Philemon: Paul
58) Hebrews: Unknown
59) James: James (Jesus’ brother)
60) 1 Peter: Peter
61) 2 Peter: Peter
62) 1 John: Apostle John
63) 2 John: Apostle John
64) 3 John: Apostle John
65) Jude: Jude (Jesus’ brother)
66) Revelation: Apostle John
*BIBLE STATISTICS*
*Amazing Bible Facts And Statistics*
👉🏼 Number of Books in the Bible: *66*
👉🏼 Chapters: 1,189
👉🏼 Verses: 31,101
👉🏼 Words: 783,137
👉🏼 Letters: 3,566,480
👉🏼 Number of Promises given in the Bible: 1,260
👉🏼 Commands: 6,468
👉🏼 Predictions: over 8,000
👉🏼 Fulfilled Prophecy: 3,268 verses
👉🏼 Unfulfilled Prophecy: 3,140
👉🏼 Number of Questions: 3,294
👉🏼Longest Name: Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaiah 8:1)
👉🏼 Longest Verse: Esther 8:9 (78 words)
👉🏼 Shortest Verse: John 11:35 (2 words: "Jesus wept" .
👉🏼 Middle Books: Micah and Nahum
👉🏼 Middle Chapter: Psalm 117
👉🏼 Shortest Chapter (by number of words): Psalm 117 (by number of words)
👉🏼 Longest Book: Psalms (150 Chapters)
👉🏼 Shortest Book (by number of words): 3 John
👉🏼 Longest Chapter: Psalm 119 (176 verses)
👉🏼 Number of times the word *"God"* appears: 3,358
👉🏼 Number of times the word *"Lord"* appears: 7,736
👉🏼 Number of different authors: 40
👉🏼 Number of languages the Bible has been translated into: over 1,200
*OLD TESTAMENT STATISTICS:*
👉🏼 Number of Books: 39
👉🏼 Chapters: 929
👉🏼 Verses: 23,114
👉🏼 Words: 602,585
👉🏼 Letters: 2,278,100
👉🏼 Middle Book: Proverbs
👉🏼 Middle Chapter: Job 20
👉🏼 Middle Verses: 2 Chronicles 20:17,18
👉🏼 Smallest Book: Obadiah
👉🏼 Shortest Verse: 1 Chronicles 1:25
👉🏼 Longest Verse: Esther 8:9 (78 words)
👉🏼 Longest Chapter: Psalms 119
*NEW TESTAMENT STATISTICS:*
👉🏼 Number of Books: 27
👉🏼 Number of Chapters: 260
👉🏼 Number of Verses: 7,957
👉🏼 Words: 180,552
👉🏼 Letters: 838,380
👉🏼 Middle Book: 2 Thessalonians
👉🏼 Middle Chapters: Romans 8, 9
👉🏼 Middle Verse: Acts 27:17
👉🏼 Smallest Book: 3 John
👉🏼 Shortest Verse: John 11:35
👉🏼 Longest Verse: Revelation 20:4 (68 words)
👉🏼Longest Chapter: Luke 1
There are 8,674 different Hebrew words in the Bible, 5,624 different
Greek words, and 12,143 different English words in the King James Version.
• Bible Written by Approximately 40 Authors
• Written over a period of 1,600 years
• Written over 40 generations
• Written in three languages: Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic
• Written on three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa
• Written in different locations: wilderness, dungeon, palace, prison, in exile, at home
• Written by men from all occupations: kings, peasants, doctors, fishermen, tax collectors, scholars, etc.
• Written in different times: war, peace, poverty, prosperity, freedom and slavery
• Written in different moods: heights of joy to the depths of despair
• Written in harmonious agreement on a widely diverse range of subjects and doctrines.
*10 Longest Books in the Bible*
1) Psalm - 150 Chapters, 2,461 verses, 43,743 words
2) Jeremiah - 52 chapters, 1,364 verses, 42,659 words
3) Ezekiel - 48 chapters, 1,273 verses, 39,407 words
4) Genesis - 50 chapters, 1,533 verses, 38,267 words
5) Isaiah - 66 chapters, 1,292 verses, 37,044 words
6) Numbers - 36 chapters, 1,288 verses, 32,902 words
7) Exodus - 40 chapters, 1,213 verses, 32.602 words
8) Deuteronomy - 34 chapters, 959 verses, 28,461 words
9) 2 Chronicles - 36 chapters, 822 verses, 26,074 words
10) Luke - 24 chapters, 1,151 verses, 25,944 words
*10 Shortest Books in the Bible*
1) 3 John - 1 chapter, 14 verses, 299 words
2) 2 John - 1 chapter, 13 verses, 303 words
3) Philemon - 1 chapter,bb 25 verses, 445 words
4) Jude - 1 chapter, 25 verses, 613 words
5) Obadiah - 1 chapter, 21 verses, 670 words
6) Titus - 3 chapters, 46 verses, 921 words
7) 2 Thessalonians - 3 chapters, 47 verses, 1,042 words
8) Haggai - 2 chapters, 38 verses, 1,131 words
9) Nahum - 3 chapters, 47 verses, 1,285 words
10) Jonah - 4 chapters, 48 verses, 1,321.

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Footage taken at The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier: The crowd starts to get loud & the Sentinel calls them out

Footage taken at The Tomb of
The Unknown Soldier: The crowd starts to get loud & the Sentinel calls them out

Is it wrong for a Christian to own a liquor store

That will do much harm to one's Christian witness. Liquor stores also provide easy access to those who abuse alcohol. These two things alone present a colossal problem for a Christian. Ephesians 5:18 tells us not to be drunk with wine (alcohol) where is in excess but be filled with the Holy Spirit. This is speaking of moderation. Titus 2 11-13 says, "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ." 
God wants Christians to live a sober life. He does not want us to be a stumbling block to our neighbor Romans 4:21 says, "It is not good to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble."
I believe that a Christian should not entertain the idea of owning a liquor store.

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

How was Noah's Ark built

God gave Noah specific instructions on how to build the ark (Genesis 6:14). The gopher wood mentioned may have been cedar or cypress trees plentiful in Armenia. The pitch referred to was tar (a resin substance to seal cracks and seams in the wood). The dimensions of the ark (Genesis 6:15) show it was more like a barge than a ship. It was 300 cubits long (450 feet); the breadth was 50 cubits (75 feet wide), and 30 cubits high (45 feet high). It had around 96,000 square feet on three decks. The volume of space in the ark was 1.4 million cubic feet. It was impossible for it to capsize. It was a massive vessel.
As mentioned before, God gave Noah specific instructions on how to build the ark. Along with instructions would come the know-how. Nobody knows what tools Noah had. Many people think Noah must have used stone tools. When God made man, the man was obviously intelligent. Within a few generations from Adam, man was making musical instruments (Genesis 4:21). With people living hundreds of years before the flood by the time of Noah, how much knowledge existed or who could know what sort of technology existed. Remember, no one knows how the Egyptians built the pyramids or how the ancient people built all of those stone structures down in South America. The ancient people had knowledge that we just are not aware of.
We need to look at all things from a Christian worldview based on the history in the Bible.
There is nothing in the Bible ruling out the possibility that Noah had plenty of help. He had three sons. Noah’s grandfather Methuselah died only 1 year before the ark was finished and his father Lamech died 5 years before they finished the ark. Both may have helped if they lived nearby. Noah may have also hired a construction crew to build the ark. They might not have agreed with the message he was preaching, but that would not stop someone from working and being paid for it.
Hebrews 11:7 tells us, “By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.”
This does not mean Noah built the ark by himself. We can single the leader of a project out for recognition when others are involved. King Solomon built the temple (1Kings 6). But we know from 1 Corinthians 28:19-20) that God gave the detailed plans to David Solomon’s father, although many others took part in its construction. The same is true concerning Moses and the Ark of the Covenant (Deuteronomy 10:3).
Noah was the leader of the project to build the Ark. He would rightly be recognized as its builder, although many others may have been involved.

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Ellen White

Ellen white Witch craft
Ellen White was fully-invested in the occult. That her spirit guide gave her a green cord to summons him is indisputable and highly-significant to this analysis:
"My guide now opened the door, and we both passed out. He bade me take up again all the things I had left without. This done, he handed me a green cord coiled up closely."
http://www.ellenwhite.info/…/ellen-g-white-book-early-writi…
That a green cord or "cingulum" is a common tool of white witchcraft is demonstrated by the four separate entries from comprehensive Encyclopedias of the occult and witchcraft shown below.
Furthermore, Adventism - in direct opposition to Christianity and the Bible, both of which insist that Jesus Christ is our sin-bearer - argues that Satan is the sin-bearer:
"It was seen, also, that while the sin-offering pointed to Christ as a sacrifice, and the high priest represented Christ as a mediator, the scape-goat typified Satan, the author of sin, upon whom the sins of the truly penitent will finally be placed. When the high priest, by virtue of the blood of the sin-offering, removed the sins from the sanctuary, he placed them upon the scape-goat. When Christ, by virtue of his own blood, removes the sins of his people from the heavenly sanctuary at the close of his ministration, he will place them upon Satan, who, in the execution of the judgment, must bear the final penalty. The scape-goat was sent away into a land not inhabited, never to come again into the congregation of Israel. So will Satan be forever banished from the presence of God and his people, and he will be blotted from existence in the final destruction of sin and sinners."
https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_4SP.258&para=140.1022
The He-goat is an important part of satanic/occult worship and clearly ensorses the idea that Satan is the sin-bearer:
"The ugly beast’s head expresses the horror of the sinner, whose materially acting, solely responsible part has to bear the punishment exclusively; because the soul is insensitive according to its nature and can only suffer when it materializes."
https://encyclopediasatanica.wordpress.com/…/baphomet-goat…/
Virtually all of the pagan and occultic religions feature a "horned goat from the wilderness" as their central symbol that is worshiped:
"Fojr Wiccans, the Horned God is "the personification of the life force energy in animals and the wild" and is associated with the wilderness, virility and the hunt. Doreen Valiente writes that the Horned God also carries the souls of the dead to the underworld."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_God
Ellen White's writings are sprinkled with occultic terms such as "life force energy" and "vital forces" and so forth:
https://pmicenter.wordpress.com/…/c…/seventh-day-adventists/
Ellen White's insistence on vegetarianism as vital to spirituality was shared by her fellow 19th Century spirit medium, Satanist Madame Blavatsky. 1 Timothy 4 denounces this as "Doctrines of Demons:"
https://blavatskytheosophy.com/the-theosophical-view-of-me…/
Saturday - which has been proven over and over again is not the Biblical Sabbath; but has evolved into the central Adventist doctrine, is simply beyond any reasonable dispute. Ellen was "shown" by her spirit guide that the Sabbath is the only commandment with a halo around it. Similarly, Wicca Witchcraft emphasizes the Witches' Sabbath as the occult's gold-standard of time worship, and the time when the Satanic He-Goat apparition frequently-appears:

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Why did Satan sin?

Pride (Proverbs 16:18). Satan’s original name was Lucifer. He was the Guardian cherub in Eden (Ezekiel 28:14). He wore precious stones. He took notice of his beauty (Ezekiel 28:17). Seeing how beautiful he was, his pride took over, and he tried to replace God (Isaiah 14:13). Apparently, the angels had a freewill back then. Satan chose to sin. He got one-third of the other angels to follow him (Revelation 12:4). They all sinned and will face some dire consequences (Matthew 25:41).
Mankind also has free will. He can choose God or Satan. If he chooses God eternal life awaits him (John 3:16). If he chooses the world the same fate awaits him as Satan and the fallen angels (Galatians 5:19-21). It is pride that keeps people from inheriting eternal life.