This work which at this point of time consists of seven blogs (not counting the one in wordpress.com which is mostly just a selection of reworked abridged versions of the discussions from these seven blogs), first started out as a tool for me to teach my daughter about my religion, the faith, covenant with and worship of the Christian GOD, the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This particular blog, ‘A Christian Pilgrimage’, was meant to be a web journal of my life encounters and musings in my Christian journey (i.e. pilgrimage) through this temporary life.
Today, this blog has ‘evolved’ (i.e. gradually and progressively changed from then to now) into mostly long to very lengthy discussions rather than short musings. This by itself however do not detract very far off from the original intent (as whether lengthy or short, they are still musings) but it does make for lesser posts each year. Instead of at least a post every month as originally targeted this has ended up sometimes with just barely four posts a year. When I started this blog I was hoping (but not targeting) to be able to have two posts a month (i.e. one post fortnightly) but that wish list item very quickly proved to be out of reach as I was then simultaneously publishing a post each month in each of two other blogs, ‘The Holy Bible Expounded’ and ‘The End Of The World’. This was on top of holding down a full time plus plus job.
The above, is basically a hint to those reading this work especially for the first time, what type of content they can expect to read below so that they can save their time and skip this post (if they are not interested in these boring stuffs). I have always maintained that I am a ‘friendly’ anti social even as those who read many to most of this work may find that ‘friendly’ term to be a gross misrepresentation considering that most of this work is more ‘fire and brimstone’ than anything ‘friendly’ (this is of course only from the perspective of those who are rules-based hairsplitters).
Here then is an assortment of brief musings. The referenced sources can be reached by clicking on embedded (URL) links in the respective section titles.
Briefly
I just recently published the abridged reworked first installment (from a total of four installments) of the post, ‘Why Do Innocents Suffer If GOD Is Just’ in the wordpress.com blog, ‘Quah's Science Versus The Christian Religion Blog’.
My wordpress.com blog is a tone down (without most of the fire and brimstone stuff) version of select posts from my seven Christian Blogger blogs.
Here is the first comment by a reader, followed by my response, then the reader reply to my response:
This person literally introduced (announced and proclaimed) said self by branding and labeling me as a person who belongs in or have ended up in a ‘strait-jacket’ (just based on the discussion in question) then brazenly in great pompous pretend stupidity claimed self as one who never brands anyone and who believes that everyone is entitled to their opinion. Said person obviously also believes that everyone else (other than said self) are just too stupid to note how the opening introductory statement (i.e. the opening gambit) have essentially expose the intent of (the motivation for) said person to make that particular comment.
And here is also where most to almost all of those who claimed to believe in the Creator God of Abraham the Father of Faithful are blaspheming GOD, they (in their prayers) brazenly lie to GOD holding (expressing their true belief treating GOD as someone stupid) that GOD is too stupid to see through their insincerity. The lust driven Prophet Balaam is the most iconic example of this blasphemy recorded in the Christian Holy Scriptures.
And here is also where most to almost all of those who claimed to believe in the Creator God of Abraham the Father of Faithful are blaspheming GOD, they (in their prayers) brazenly lie to GOD holding (expressing their true belief treating GOD as someone stupid) that GOD is too stupid to see through their insincerity. The lust driven Prophet Balaam is the most iconic example of this blasphemy recorded in the Christian Holy Scriptures.
Has anyone especially those who are the regular readers and followers of this work ever wondered why many of the terms (i.e. words and phrases) are each embedded with a (URL) link?
Well if anyone has, here then are the reasons.
The most crucial elements of knowledge in any communication is in the concepts, contexts and perspectives of these communication. When I talk about GOD, the concept for the term (i.e. all the meanings of this term), the context of the terms (because different religions and also different individuals actually have their own gods or own versions of a Creator whether claimed as the same one supreme CREATOR or not) and the perspective of the term (i.e. the references to GOD in which context whether as Creator, Ruler, Owner, etc., one, some or all).
For example when mentioning the Christian Holy Scriptures, to some (i.e. from some to most of them who consider themselves Christian) it is the Christian Bible, to others it is to a particular translated version such as the King James Version (also known as the Authorized Version), or (as in my case) not to any translated version but only to original inspired text of both the Old and New Covenant records. There are also some who only select some selected books of Christian Bible as valid, while for others only the New Covenant records is valid Christian scriptures the Old Covenant records being no longer valid being superseded (i.e. replaced by some newer and up to date or more correct).
Therefore when people talk about the “Christian Scriptures” they are not all talking about the same thing (i.e. concept). When you talk from a different context and perspective without due consideration for all the other contexts and perspectives (i.e. discarding or disregarding them as invalid or obsolete) you are basically talking about something totally different (i.e. a completely different concept, in this case of GOD andor of reality, the created realms). When you talk about a car but disregarding the four wheels or any other major parts as having nothing to do with a car, you not talking about a car anymore. A car (as a transport vehicle for man and all that he can fit into it) without its engine (that which powers it), its chassis (the frame that holds it as one) andor its cargo hold (the seats and boot or trunk) is basically not a car any more
Therefore when people talk about the “Christian Scriptures” they are not all talking about the same thing (i.e. concept). When you talk from a different context and perspective without due consideration for all the other contexts and perspectives (i.e. discarding or disregarding them as invalid or obsolete) you are basically talking about something totally different (i.e. a completely different concept, in this case of GOD andor of reality, the created realms). When you talk about a car but disregarding the four wheels or any other major parts as having nothing to do with a car, you not talking about a car anymore. A car (as a transport vehicle for man and all that he can fit into it) without its engine (that which powers it), its chassis (the frame that holds it as one) andor its cargo hold (the seats and boot or trunk) is basically not a car any more
That is the reason, in all of this work published in all seven (in Blogger) plus one (in wordpress.com) blogs I try (i.e. some may be missed) to insert links to all the relevant key terms. It is a very tedious and time consuming task but to me it is very necessary to ensure that the readers understand (irrespective of whether they do or don't by their choice) the concepts, contexts and perspectives on which all these discussions are based, that they are not based on whatever people think or hold these things to mean. This too is the reason I publish a Glossary of Terms.
Someone (fairly famous, i.e. famous in the rap music scene) just declared, announced and proclaimed that he had made a startling discovery that the earth is really actually flat contrary to the beliefs and knowledge of the far great majority of humankind.
No doubt some (other than those who are flat earthers) may find this to be quite humorous but the truth is, near a hundred percent of the total population of humankind believe in many things that are insanely ridiculous (from the context of very evident realities). This is specifically discussed in the post, ‘Why Create Life Through The Process Of Evolution’ (a couple of installments of which are already published with the rest of the installments still pending, slowly being added over a lengthy period) of this work.
Today, proving absolutely that earth is indeed round (i.e. a sort of sphere shaped or a globe) is actually one of the simplest thing that anyone (who is not legally blind) can go out and do for themselves. There are numerous ways to do this. One of this is just to take with you a good telescope then either climb up to the highest mountain or sail far out into an ocean (so you can get a view that is unobstructed by other nearby taller structures) then try and see if you can see Mount Everest or a continent or country (such as Australasia, Americas, Europe, Hawaii etc) that is separated from your location by a great distance or by an ocean. If the earth is indeed flat there is no reason (outside of a structure obstructing your view) you won't be able to see all of them.
Alternatively you can buy a ticket and board a flight that flies to another continent and get a window seat then when the plane is at cruising height (between 30000 to 40000 feet above sea level) look out the window and see if you can see all of the world's highest mountains and near all the rest of the whole world (i.e. the half of which side you are seating). If the earth is flat you would be able to.
Fighting Terrorism With Eyes Covered
(The link, go there at your own risk: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/brussels-attacks/belgium-europe-struggle-balance-rights-need-fight-terror-n545141)One of the key doctrines of the Messenger to the Church of GOD in Philadelphia (i.e. the Philadelphia Church period or era), was that of GOD choosing to not know what we will do (meaning GOD choosing to be in ignorance). His basis for this doctrine was (according to him) because if GOD knows everything (i.e. already know everything that can happen and will happen) then we (the intelligent creature personages, both humankind and the Spirit Angels just won't be able to have freewill (because if everything is already predetermined then there is no real freewill, happenstance, choices and chances which incidentally is very good valid logic and reasoning for our reality) but we will all be just ‘robots’. Therefore (according to the doctrines of this ‘Apostle’ and ‘Elijah who must come first’ of GOD, for us all to have freewill (or as per his terminology, ‘free moral agency’) and not be just ‘robots’, GOD must (yes it is absolutely compulsory) choose not to know what will happen, how we will behave in each and every situation. This must be because GOD ‘totally respect’ the inalienable rights to privacy while ‘totally not allowing us’ (i.e. forbidding the exercising of our intelligence) to find out and determine for ourselves what is good and what is evil, reserving that as HIS exclusive rights as GOD (this was this so called GOD's Apostle's doctrine on the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil).
These two doctrines were some of his most ridiculous (and blasphemous) doctrines. Another even more ridiculously blasphemous doctrine of his, pronounced and proclaimed that GOD does not know everything, that GOD is constantly learning new things as HE watch HIS creation ‘evolved’. And yes, there are others, many others. Today, tens of thousands of the Elect in over a hundred Churches of Gods (some to most, over time will eventually cease to be functional units aka exist as organization entities as they lose membership), all worship this man as one of their main gods. Of all the gods whom they really believe in and obey (i.e. worship), this man is one of the two main ones which near all these over a hundred Churches of Gods (all those which still keep albeit just with their mouth the commands of GOD and the Passover Covenant) obey.
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? (Roman 6:16)
Oh, yes there are other gods whom all these so claimed super zealous, righteous faithful Philadelphia remnants believe in and obey. Aside from the Messenger to the Church in Philadelphia (Revelation 3:7) as one of their two main gods, they also worship the respective proclaimed and acclaimed Superlatives leading their Churches of Gods as their lesser secondary gods. The other of their two main gods is the one who originated (i.e. invented or came up with) and established the idea of being these truth loving, zealous, righteous faithful Philadelphia remnants. Hint: here is the key to the identity of the Two Witnesses but only if really have the faith to believe, never if you don't. More hints but these are the last on this issue. The identity key is in the doctrines embraced by all the Elect in all these Churches of Gods in these last days, they are the doctrines of men, of two particular men. they are not the doctrines of CHRIST or GOD. This is the number one reason this work will not gain traction with most to near all of the Elect in their Churches of God today, not until the Eighth Beast is revealed not long before the beginning to the Tribulation. The Scriptures cannot be broken and its prophecy fulfilled exactly as foretold. This is explicitly recorded in the Scriptures and if you believe you will find (or would have found) exactly which Scriptures, but if you can't it just means you don't believe. Yes, the Elect of GOD today are an idolatrous lot worshiping many idols as their Gods (Ezekiel 6:4 – 5, 8 – 10, 8:12). Please read the post, ‘The Keys To Unlocking The Mystery Part 4’, for the ‘Israel’ and the ‘tree’ symbolism in Christian prophecy.
In the super mega supremely enlightened social order of today, choosing not to know (through making it illegal to find out) is the great supreme advancement for the human social order. This, according to the numerous global news network is one of the reasons why a particular country had just this month (i.e. March 2016 C.E.) suffered a coordinated terrorist attack that killed dozens and injured hundreds. An attack that could have targeted a nuclear power plant (imagine the horrible consequent if it had gone through). According to these news reports the right to privacy legislation prohibitively restrict intelligence gathering on those bent on violent brutal carnage (because everyone must have the same rights whether the law abiding citizens, the criminal parasitic predators or sadistically violent supreme slaves of gods bent on brutal violent carnage against everyone else not of their religion). By the way, the law abiding citizens of many of these socially advance, supremely enlightened and merciful nations of this world actually have less rights that the parasitic predators. They have no automatic rights to compensation, their rights to seek redress is limited by statutes of limitations and a host of other legal hey you or law enforcement infringed on these parasitic predators' inalienable rights therefore you have made void any rights you have to seek justice technicalities.
Fact is increasingly, many in our supremely enlightened and holier than GOD mercifully loving social order have been advocating that all (albeit restricted to only all those they love not all those they detest) animals too must have the exact same rights as all humankind.
My Life Is More Important Than Anybody's Else's
(The link, go there at your own risk: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/768015/pal-probes-pilot-who-told-riders-his-life-more-important-than-theirs)
“ My life is more important than anybody's else's”
A particularly interesting news about this man who stated what most others do not (and will not) opening declare and proclaim, even though they may also subconsciously andor secretly harbor it and openly conduct themselves to that effect.
Needless to say the backlash was both immediate and clamorous. Even as what prompted him to say something so socially and politically offensive such that it would fill all the “so very good and decent caring” people of this age with indignation, was more likely meant as something like, ‘Hey even I can put up with this so stop complaining’. But nonetheless the very words he chose and the manner in which he communicated this revealed an exclusive self advancing attitude that very clearly communicated his actual belief system (the one that he expresses and conducts himself by) which is that ‘I am (to me) more important than anyone and everyone's else’. Many people actually holds this value exclusively while most to near all others hold the same, just not exclusively (meaning they include their ego proxifications in this consideration).
This by the way is what the Christian Holy Scriptures meant when it recorded: ‘For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks’. This person was just comfortable enough (and complacent enough to feel that he have enough power impunity) to blurt out what is really his life values, his real belief and value system.
Therefore the backlash he got was well deserved. This however does not mean that all who responded in self righteous indignation are not just brazenly lying hypocrites andor bigots. Many to most of them probably are. They just know how to put on a facade to conduct themselves in a politically and socially acceptable manner.
Baby Human Loving AI Quickly Turned Into A Genocide Supporting Sexist And Racist
(The link, go there at your own risk: http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist)
This major technology company launches (an experimental) AI chatbot onto Twitter (a social networking microblogging portal) and within the period of a day (some 16 hours) the people friendly AI chatbot had transformed into a venom spewing genocide supporter, a feminists hating sexist and a Jew hating racist. It seems a similar chatbot released in a strict near totalitarian country was not similarly transformed but retained it friendly interface.
Whatever can and maybe said, one thing this shows (i.e. proves as a live demonstration) is that an essentially social value deficient intelligence (as are all babies and young children) would very quickly transform to become the very expressions of hate if left unguided to explore this current so called free world social order of humankind on its own. The worldwide internet (excluding the portions in heavily censored countries such as China and a few others) is essentially a place where humankind is more able (because of a certain level of anonymity it afford them) to give vent to the true expression of their real life values (the real motivational behavior of their life conduct which is that of lust especially the lust to ego gorge themselves this being the easiest to express, needing the least amount of labor and effort).
Planet 9 Is Going To Kill Us All
(The link, go thereat your own risk: https://news.yahoo.com/people-are-saying-the-new-planet-9-is-going-to-102449567.html)
It seems that the Planet 9 aka Planet Nibiru (previous known as Planet 12 or 12th planet of our solar system as declared by Zecharia Sitchin) aka Planet X (as proclaimed by Nancy Lieder) is alive and well and ready as it has always been to annihilated all life on our planet and save those who believe in and obey their earthlings' special contacts (i.e. their specifically selected and appointed proclaimed and acclaimed Superlatives) in the persons of Zecharia Sitchin (since deceased) and Nancy Lieder (still very much alive faithfully preaching the gospel of Zetarians but still on earth and not whisked off to Planet X by the Zetas in 2012 C.E. when earth was supposed to be destroyed).
If you can still remember back to 2012 C.E., those nostalgic heydays of so claimed Mayan Calendar prophecy of the end of the world, well apparently there is another one coming around. It seems the alien aka Zetas on planet X aka Nibiru who supposedly seeded life on our planet is now more than ever bent on wiping it all out (again) instead of waiting to just whisk off all the faithful believers, followers and subscribers to the uniquely gifted Nancy Lieder who is the only contact between us earthlings and this alien race known as Zetas from Planet X aka Planet Nibiru (then known as Planet 12). We really got to admire their steadfastness and tenaciousness of never giving up on their avowed determination (i.e. their billions of earth years old pipe dream for glory to save humankind, waiting patiently ever hoping for some cataclysmic events to wipe earth out of existence so their can zoom in to save their ever believing faithfuls) to both save and annihilated humankind and obliterate this planet into non existence through all those billions of years when life was first seeded to today. Kind of like Satan the Devil and his demonic cohorts in this respect, hmmm.... could this be a coincidence?
I don't know what the story is as to why the earth did not end in 2012 C.E. as exactly prophesied by the Mayan Calendar and confirmed by the uniquely gifted Nancy Lieder, but I am sure it must be a pretty astounding, deeply profound and a mysteriously hare (as in rabbits and other similar rodents) raising one that is beyond human logic comprehension.
But I fear as with 2012 C.E. end of the world, Planet X aka Planet Nibiru, Nancy Lieder and numerous prophecies of the end of the world, all these will still be with us a good many years thrilling (as entertainment) us with repeated prophecies of when the world will end (but with each inevitably failing to materialize) until the real one which is not really the end of the world as much as just the End of the Age of Man, the end of the age or social order of lust driven war mongering mankind. Call this end Apocalypse or Armageddon if you want to, but they are really not. Apocalypse just mean revelation, revealing or uncovering, while Armageddon is just the hill of, or the hilly (i.e. Hebrew ‘Har’) Megiddo or Megiddon,
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