17 Reasons SERIES: #8

17 Reasons why Christianity should NOT have succeeded....

"17 factors to be considered -- places where Christianity "did the wrong thing" in order to be a successful religion. It is my contention that the only way Christianity did succeed is because it was a truly revealed faith -- and because it had the irrefutable witness of the Resurrection." J.P.Holding

Factor #8 -- Martyrs
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 2 Corinthians 11:25 
"...persecution did not automatically equal martyrdom, and this is yet another reason why Christianity should not have thrived and survived. As Robin Lane Fox writes, "By reducing the history of

Christian persecution to a history of legal hearings, we miss a large part of the victimization." [Fox.PagChr, 424] Beyond action by authorities, Christians could expect social ostracization if they stuck by their faith, and that is where much of the persecution Fox refers to came from - rejection by family and society, relegation to outcast status.

DeSilva notes that those who violated the current social values (as Christians indeed did) would find themselves subject to measures designed to shame them back into compliance -- insult, reproach, physical abuse, whipping, confiscation of property, and of course disgrace -- much more important in an honor-and-shame society than to us.

So it is:

*The Jews would dislike you,

*the Romans would dislike you,

*your family would disown you,

*everyone would avoid or make sport of you.

Furthermore, men like Paul and Matthew, and even Peter and John, gave up lucrative trades for the sake of a mission that was all too obviously going to be nothing but trouble for them. It is quite unlikely that anyone would have gone the distance for the Christian faith at any time -- unless it had something tangible behind it."
J.P.Holding

Lord Of Love performed by the MARANATHA SINGERS

Lord Of Love performed by the MARANATHA SINGERS
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5U0M_A1jy2o?list=PLT70zxsi10M-5tREKsVMI9eLueLA-Rs9h

....for God is love.
1 John 4:8

Creation Moment 4/7/2018 - Popular Thought Mistaken

"The physical sciences, then, depend on the validity of logic just as much as metaphysics or mathematics. If popular thought feels

‘science’ to be different from all other kinds of knowledge because science is experimentally verifiable, popular thought is mistaken. Experimental verification is not a new kind of assurance coming in to supply the deficiencies of mere logic. We should therefore abandon the distinction between scientific and non-scientific thought. The proper distinction is between logical and non-logical thought."
 C. S. Lewis, De Futilitate
Consider mine enemies; for they are many;
Psalm 25:19

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 35

Peace Be Still

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RFtl8GCQZuA?list=PL4ByrircmXL6qt2QplU6IudoOYVgzBS3C

Sin has destroyed our peace. While self is unsubdued, we can find no rest. The masterful passions of the heart no human power can control. We are as helpless here as were the disciples to quiet the raging storm. But He who spoke peace to the billows of Galilee has spoken the word of peace for every soul.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so He bringeth them unto their desired haven. Psalm 107:29, 30

Where Are You?

And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him,

Where art thou?

Genesis 3:9

God didn't call out to Adam because He didn't know where Adam was...He called out to Adam for Adam to think about where he was in relation to his God...he was hiding from him.
Where are we at in relation to our God?

17 Reasons SERIES: #7

17 Reasons why Christianity should NOT have succeeded....

"17 factors to be considered -- places where Christianity "did the wrong thing" in order to be a successful religion. It is my contention that the only way Christianity did succeed is because it was a truly revealed faith -- and because it had the irrefutable witness of the Resurrection." J.P.Holding

Factor #7 -- Stepping Into History
For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner. Acts 26:26

"We have often individually considered the claims of Christianity such as the burial in Joseph's tomb, but let's now consider collectively what we're dealing with.

T

he NT is filled with claims of connections to and reports of incidents involving "famous people." Here's how one of our readers put it: Herod Agrippa -- this man was a client king for the Romans over the area surronding Jerusalem -- "was eaten of worms" as Luke reported in Acts 12:20-23. Copies of Acts circulated in the area and were accessible to the public. Had Luke reported falsely, Christianity would have been dismissed as a fraud and would not have "caught on" as a religion. If Luke lied in his reports, Luke probably would have been jailed and/or executed by Agrippa's son, Herod Agrippa II (who held the same position), because that was the fellow Paul testified to in Acts 25-26 (reported by Luke).

Now consider the domino effect of making such claims. If claim #1 is proven false, that opens the way to doubt others -- all the way up the line to the resurrection."
J.P.Holding

Creation Moment 4/6/2018 - Dark Matter Versus MOND

Dark Matter Versus MOND

"Astronomers largely ignored this “missing mass” problem for a half-century. However, a series of papers in the 1970s studying orbital motion within many galaxies showed the same result—the dynamic mass was always far greater than the lighted mass, typically by a factor of 10. By the 1980s, astronomers stopped ignoring this problem as they came to grips with the fact that most of the

universe’s mass was invisible. What was this dark matter, as it was soon called? It was very clear that it wasn’t “normal matter,” like the stuff that we are made of. Different theories soon arose about what exotic particles might account for dark matter. Tests of various theories were devised, and the results eliminated the theories. Conclusion: most of the universe’s mass is probably in a form of matter that we haven’t yet contemplated.

Some physicists found this prospect unsettling, so they opted for an alternate solution: modifying the basic physics of gravity. MOND (for MOdified Newtonian Dynamics) makes a small change in the way that gravity works. Over small distances (less than thousands of light years), the difference between MOND and traditional Newtonian gravity is not noticeable. But on a galaxy-sized scale, the difference shows up. Physicists fit the orbital data from within galaxies to develop their model of MOND. However, the majority opinion, particularly among astronomers, is that dark matter is the correct resolution to this question.

What Was Recently Discovered?

A recent discovery revealed that a nearby galaxy, NGC 1052-DF2, has little or no dark matter. NGC 1052-DF2 is a little more than 60 million light years away and is about the same size of the Milky

Way. However, NGC 1052-DF2 is much fainter than the Milky Way or other galaxies of similar size. Application of the M/L ratio reveals a lighted mass of about 200 million times that of the sun. The orbital motion of 10 objects, presumed to be globular clusters, produced a dynamic mass only slightly larger than the lighted mass. Considering the likely errors involved, this result is consistent with little or no dark matter in this galaxy. However, this galaxy certainly is large enough for MOND to operate, if MOND is correct. The fact that the dynamic mass of this galaxy is consistent with its lighted mass would seem to eliminate MOND as a viable theory. Paradoxically, the discovery that there is no dark matter in this particular galaxy amounts to evidence that dark matter exists in other galaxies.

 Isn’t it humbling that God created the universe so complex that we don’t even know what most of it is made of?" AIG
 I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Isaiah 45:12

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 34

The Invitation

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/B4QFMJCXIfU?list=PL4ByrircmXL6qt2QplU6IudoOYVgzBS3C

Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28
In these words Christ is speaking to every human. All are weighed down with burdens that only Christ can remove. The heaviest burden that we bear is the burden of sin. If we were left to bear this burden, it would crush us. The yoke is placed upon the oxen to aid them in drawing the load, to lighten the burden. So with the yoke of Christ.
There are many whose hearts are aching under a load of care because they seek to reach the world's standard. They have *chosen its service, *accepted its perplexities, *adopted its customs. Thus their character is marred, and their life made a weariness. Worry is blind, and cannot discern the future; It is the love of self that brings unrest.

17 Reasons SERIES: #6

17 Reasons why Christianity should NOT have succeeded....

"17 factors to be considered -- places where Christianity "did the wrong thing" in order to be a successful religion. It is my contention that the only way Christianity did succeed is because it was a truly revealed faith -- and because it had the irrefutable witness of the Resurrection." J.P.Holding

Factor #6 -- Tolerance is a Virtue
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6

"Many skeptics and non-believers today claim to be turned off by Christian "arrogance" and exclusivity. How much more so in the ancient world? The Romans were already

grossly intolerant how much more so in the context of another and very new faith playing the same game and claiming to overthrow the social and religious order?

As DeSilva notes, "the message about this Christ was incompatible with the most deeply rooted religious ideology of the Gentile world, as well as the more recent message propogated in Roman imperial ideology".

The Christians refused to believe in the gods, "the guardians of stability of the world order, the generous patrons who provided all that was needed for sustaining life, as well as the granters of individual petitions." Jews and Christians alike were accused of atheism under this rubric."
J.P.Holding

The "REALLY" File - (Facebook, Really?)

REALLY Facebook?.....with all the violence in the entertainment industry today and all the clips to violent movies people post online from youtube...this is your justification for banning an ad with the crucifixion that people have seen for centuries in it?????....yeah right....

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:

Romans 8:7

"Facebook rejected an ad from the Franciscan University that included a depiction of the Crucifixion of Christ.

The Catholic university said it was posting a series of ads to promote its online theology programs and one of the ads showed the Crucifixion of Christ on the San Damiano Cross.

From the "Really" File

The ad was rejected for its “shocking, sensational and excessively violent” content, the Ohio college said on its Twitter account."
BCN

REALLY?

IN the NEWS - Walker has Backbone

And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb...
Isaiah 49:5

"Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed legislation excluding abortion from state employee health insurance plans.
Walker signed Assembly Bill 128 into law Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. It prohibits the state’s Group Insurance Board from contracting with or providing any insurance plan that offers abortions, except in cases of rape, incest, or to save a mother’s life. Existing plans said that only “medically necessary” abortions could be covered, but the law did not define what “medically necessary” meant.
“We thank Governor Walker and Assembly and Senate Republicans for persevering in their ongoing effort to end taxpayer funding of abortion in our state,” Pro-Life Wisconsin Legislative Director Matt Sande said." Lifesite 

Spurgeon's 4 Points of "Easter" SERIES PAGE

Spurgeon's 4 Points of "Easter" SERIES PAGE

He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

Matthew 28:6

 

Point 1
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2018/04/spurgeons-4-points-of-easter-series-1.html
Point 2
 https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2018/04/spurgeons-4-points-of-easter-series-2.html
Point 3
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2018/04/spurgeons-4-points-of-easter-series-3.html
Point 4
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2018/04/spurgeons-4-points-of-easter-series-4.html

Creation Moment 4/5/2018 - Damadian Denied

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 15:18

"Dr. Raymond Damadian, the inventor of the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner. This medical breakthrough has saved many lives. Dr. Damadian had been awarded the United States’ National Medal of Technology. He has also been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, alongside Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright brothers, where he was awarded the Lincoln-Edison medal.

In 2003, the Nobel Prize for Medicine went to the breakthrough field of diagnostic MRI scanning. It was shared by two scientists. But, to the stunned disbelief of virtually all who worked in that field, these did not include Raymond Damadian, even though the terms allow for up to three people to share the award.
Dr .Eugene Feigelson is Dean of the State University of New York College of Medicine in New York, the institution where Damadian’s pioneering work was done. He said, ‘… we are so disappointed, and even angry … all of MRI rests on the fundamental work that Dr. Damadian has done here.’

As an experimentalist, Dr. Damadian had to overcome the scoffing of theoretical physicists. Against much opposition, he built the first working MRI scanner. The first MR image of a live human chest was made with this machine on 3 July 1977. The prototype is now on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution’s Hall of Medical Sciences.

All of which makes the exclusion of Dr. Damadian as the third co-recipient of the Nobel so pointed

that even some of the secular media have talked of the possibility of a link between Dr. Damadian’s exclusion and his creationism. The New York Times raised the issue in a recent report.
In fact, as renowned an anticreationist as the agnostic/deist Canadian philosophy professor Michael Ruse has written of his own deep concern. Choosing his words carefully, he writes of the ‘likely hypothesis’ that the motive for rejecting Damadian was his open creationism. Damadian is a Christian, says Ruse, whose beliefs include the Genesis account of creation: ‘Adam and Eve the first humans, universal flood, and all the rest’.

Ruse says that in the eyes of the Nobel committee, ‘it is bad enough that such people exist, let alone give them added status and a pedestal from which to preach’." CMI

Spurgeon's 4 Points of "Easter" SERIES: 4

IV. All My Bones Are Out of Joint
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax, it is melted within me. Psalm 22:14

"The placing of the cross in its socket had shaken Him with great violence, had strained all the ligaments, pained every nerve, and more or less dislocated all His bones. Burdened with His own weight, the august sufferer felt the strain increasing every moment of those six long hours.

As we kneel before our now ascended Savior's throne, let us remember well the way by which He prepared it as a throne of grace for us; He drained the cup and tasted every drop.
 In His natural body every member suffered, and so must it be in the spiritual; but as out of all His griefs and woes His body came forth uninjured to glory and power, even so shall His mystical body come through the furnace with not so much as the smell of fire upon it."
Charles Spurgeon

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 33

Who Are My Brethren

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/PAuDnI19q1o?list=PL4ByrircmXL6qt2QplU6IudoOYVgzBS3C

While Jesus was still teaching the people, His disciples brought the message that His mother and His brothers were without, and desired to see Him. He knew what was in their hearts, and He answered

and said unto him that told Him, Who is My mother? and who are My brethren? And He stretched forth His hand toward His disciples, and said, Behold My mother and My brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of My Father which is in heaven, the same is My brother, and sister, and mother. Matthew 12:48
All who would receive Christ by faith were united to Him by a tie closer than that of human kinship.
It is not God that blinds the eyes of men or hardens their hearts. He sends them light to correct their errors, and to lead them in safe paths; it is by the rejection of this light that the eyes are blinded and the heart hardened. Often the process is gradual, and almost imperceptible.
Light comes to the soul through *God's word, through *His servants, or *by the direct agency of His Spirit; but when one ray of light is disregarded, there is a partial benumbing of the spiritual perceptions, and the second revealing of light is less clearly discerned. So the darkness increases, until it is night in the soul.
--Closely connected with Christ's warning in regard to the sin against the Holy Spirit is a warning against idle and evil words. The words are an indication of that which is in the heart.  It is dangerous to utter a word of doubt, dangerous to question and criticize divine light. The habit of careless and irreverent criticism reacts upon the character, in fostering irreverence and unbelief.
--Christ loves the heavenly beings that surround His throne; but what shall account for the great love wherewith He has loved us? We cannot understand it, but we can know it true in our own experience.

17 Reasons SERIES: #5

17 Reasons why Christianity should NOT have succeeded....

"17 factors to be considered -- places where Christianity "did the wrong thing" in order to be a successful religion. It is my contention that the only way Christianity did succeed is because it was a truly revealed faith -- and because it had the irrefutable witness of the Resurrection." J.P.Holding

Factor #5 -- Don't Demand Behavior
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. Titus 1:15

"This is not one of the greatest barriers, but it is a significant one, and of course still is today. Ethically, Christian religion is "hard to do". Judaism was as well, and that is one reason why there were so few God-fearers. Christianity didn't offer nice, drunken parties or orgies with temple

prostitutes; in fact it forbade them.

This was a problem in the ancient world as much as it is now -- if not more so. It would not appeal to the rich, who would be directed to share their wealth. The poor might like that, but not if they couldn't spend that shared dough on their favorite vice-distraction. But it is very difficult to explain why Christianity grew where God-fearers were always a very small group. Not even evangelistic fervor explains that."
J.P.Holding

Creation Moment 4/4/2018 - Pass The Popcorn - ENS Civil War in Evolution

 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men;
 and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians 1:25
"W. Ford Doolittle feels it is necessary to critique Darwin’s mechanism again, so many years after biologists began assuming that Darwin had solved evolution with his “law-like” notion of natural selection. Prepare for a jolt:

Many practicing biologists accept that nothing in their discipline makes sense except in the light of evolution, and that natural selection is evolution’s principal sense-maker. But what natural selection actually is (a force or a statistical outcome, for example) and the levels of the biological hierarchy (genes, organisms, species, or even ecosystems) at which it operates directly are still actively disputed among philosophers and theoretical biologists.

Now that everyone is awake, consider what has been going on in scientific circles behind the scenes. Simplistic presentations of evolution, like this one at Live Science, shield the public from deep controversies among Darwinians about evolution, or try to downplay their significance. This new PNAS paper, co-authored by S. Andrew Inkpen (with Doolittle at the University of Halifax, Nova Scotia), was reviewed by Douglas Futuyma, another long-time Darwian theorist. And it’s full of controversy!
Among the points of controversy is the so-called “unit of selection.” What does nature select? What kind of entity does it act on?

Doolittle is trying once again to make sense of the concept that Dobzhansky had triumphantly claimed made sense of everything in biology. But like Lineweaver six years ago, Doolittle shows continuing doubt in the Darwin Party’s assumption that common formulations of natural selection make any sense at all. Particularly troubling is the concept of units of selection:

Most formulations of evolution by natural selection emphasize the differential reproduction of entities at one or the other of these levels. Some also recognize differential persistence, but in either case the focus is on lineages of material things: even species can be thought of as spatiotemporally restricted, if dispersed, physical beings. Few consider—as “units of selection” in their own right—the processes implemented by genes, cells, species, or communities.

The PNAS paper by Doolittle and Inkpen is full of very damaging admissions about natural selection. Before we consider their song-and-dance rendition which they dub “ITSNTS thinking” (wait till you see what that means), it’s worth summarizing their complaints about standard ENS (evolution by natural selection):

• Natural selection lacks a theory of how it acts on communities.
• Standard views of natural selection do not address adaptation and function of “multispecies collectives.”
• Natural selection cannot explain stable or redundant bacterial communities.
  
• Natural selection cannot explain processes that benefit communities of dissimilar reproducers.
• Natural selection cannot explain how processes that benefit multiple communities re-establish themselves.
• Dupre agues that “much of contemporary biology embraces a generally mechanistic and reductionist ‘thing’ (or ‘substance’) ontology.”
• The commonplace textbook focus on reproductive success of individuals is a habit of thinking that overlooks the contingent history of the modern synthesis and population genetics.
• Some formulations of natural selection are vague because the proposed units of selection have “too many parents” (Godfrey-Smith’s complaint). This muddies concepts of inheritance.
• Natural selection is ambiguous about what “beneficial” means. “It is not clear that any property can be considered ‘beneficial’ to impermanent and nonreproducing communities.”
• Some formulations of natural selection violate William’s Principle that states, “adaptation at a level requires that there was selection at that level.”
• Some functions “are more stable or ecologically resilient than are the taxonomic compositions of the assemblages carrying them out.” This demands an evolutionary explanation.
• ENS does not easily account for redundancy.
• ENS is vague on the question of which is more relevant to evolution: the allele frequency in the population or the individual carrying it?
• Biologists are undecided on whether memes undergo natural selection. Sperber is one such ‘meme-skeptic’ that Doolittle mentions.
• Biologists also debate whether language or culture undergo natural selection.
• It’s difficult to determine if natural selection constitutes a mechanism or a logical necessity (an a priori assumption).
• Sober argues that ENS is “a priori true in the sense that no experiment could disprove it.”
• Niche construction theory is another ‘mechanism’ of ENS that is in dispute among evolutionists.
• Evolutionists face “awkward transitions in retelling the history of life,” such as the step from unicellularity to multicellularity.
• What’s more important: differential reproduction or differential persistence? Which makes more sense and is more ‘satisfying’?
• The difficulty of establishing lineages relevant to ENS can be illustrated thus: “I am my father’s son, but my heart is not the offspring of my father’s heart.”
• At what ranges can ENS be compared? Is the evolution of microbe community functions across guts analogous to the evolution of lizards across islands?
• Before Doolittle’s proposal, there was lacking “a sensible way of discussing adaptations and functions relevant to communities and ecosystems generally.”
• Some evolutionists have said there is an “urgent need for a general framework” to decide what constitutes the “health” of a system.
• An important problem in evolutionary theory is the role of abiotic components in ecosystems. These may play important roles but are not reproduced biologically. Bouchard remarked, “Evolution as change in allelic frequencies does not seem to apply to systems that have a motley crew of alleles and abiotic material interacting in a systematic way.”
• For a century, biologists have been debating at what levels Darwin’s ‘law-like principle’ of natural selection operates. Does it operate on processes as well as things?

These are some of the controversies facing evolutionists. Natural selection seems like such an intuitive idea the way it’s typically taught, until you start asking these types of questions." CEH

Spurgeon's 4 Points of "Easter" SERIES: 3

III. By His Stripes We Are Healed
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5

"Pilate delivered our Lord to the lictors to be scourged. The Roman scourge was a most dreadful instrument of torture. It was made of the sinews of oxen, and sharp bones were inter-twisted every here and there among the sinews; so that every time the lash came down these pieces of bone

inflicted fearful laceration, and tore off the flesh from the bone.
My soul, stand here and weep over His poor stricken body.
--He is at once fair as the lily for innocence,
--and red as the rose with the crimson of His own blood.
.... but since our business calls us away, we will first pray our Beloved to print the image of His bleeding self upon the tablets of our hearts all the day, and at nightfall we will return to commune with Him."
Charles Spurgeon 

SCAM ALERT Archives PAGE

SCAM ALERT Archives PAGE

In their greed they will make up clever lies to get hold of your money. 
But God condemned them long ago,....
2 Peter 2:3

Wonder Woman & Keith Ellis
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2016/04/scam-alert-wonder-woman-keith-ellis.html
Marcus Lamb -- Unbelievable-!!!
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2013/06/marcus-lamb-unbelievable-lol.html
Steven Brooks
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2017/09/scam-alert-steven-brooks.html
Barbie's White "Spirit" Horse?

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2016/04/scam-alert-barbies-white-spirit-horse.html
Barbie's Mysticism....
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2014/04/scam-alert-barbies-mysticism_12.html
L.A. Marzulli
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2013/07/scam-alert-la-marzulli.html
Is Todd for real?
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/04/is-todd-for-real.html
John Crowder - "Tokin the Ghost"? & "Soaking up the spirit"
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2013/05/scam-alert-john-crowder-tokin-ghost.html
Prophecology E.Bernard Jordan
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2013/01/scam-alert-prophecology-ebernard-jordan.html
Late Show Salesman
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2016/02/in-news-late-show-salesman.html
Fluff Daddy of TV Evangelism

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2013/12/scam-alert-fluff-daddy-of-tv-evangelism.html
"100" LIES of James Durham
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2016/05/scam-alert-100-lies-of-james-durham.html
Jeff Jansen 17-21
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2017/10/scam-alert-jeff-jansen-17-21.html
Juanita Bynum
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2013/02/scam-alert-juanita-bynum.html
Jesse Duplantis
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2013/03/scam-alert-jesse-duplantis.html
Hank Kunneman

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2016/01/scam-alert-hank-kunneman.html
Kunneman, Pierce & Vera
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2018/03/scam-alert-kunneman-pierce-vera.html
Richard Booker
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2017/02/scam-alert-richard-booker.html
Kevin Zadai
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2016/12/scam-alert-kevin-zadai.html
Dennis & Jen Clark
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/11/scam-alert-dennis-jen-clark.html
JUDY FRANKLIN
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2016/08/scam-alert-judy-franklin.html
Becky Dvorak raises the Dead to Life?
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2019/04/scam-alert-becky-dvorak-raises-dead-to.html
Brian Simmons
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2016/06/scam-alert-brian-simmons.html
David Herzog-do U really believe he raised the dead?

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/08/scam-alert-david-herzog-do-u-really.html
Joseph Prince / Prince of "Cheap Grace"
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2013/07/scam-alert-joseph-prince-prince-of.html
The Benjamin Generation (Ben Gen) of Joseph Prince
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/11/scam-alert-benjamin-generation-ben-gen.html
Obed-Edom "blessing" Propserity Gospel preaching of Joseph Prince
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/11/scam-alert-obed-edom-blessing.html
1-800-254-5289.... Manasseh Jordan Prayer Closet
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/08/scam-alert-1-800-254-5289-manasseh.html
"Prophet" Manasseh Jordan
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/03/scam-alert-prophet-manasseh-jordan.html
Manasseh Jordan / Benny Hinn $52 Scam....
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2013/05/scam-alert-manasseh-jordan-benny-hinn.html
Benny Hinn at it again...
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2015/06/scam-alert-benny-hinn-at-it-again.html
"Poor" Benny Hinn

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2013/05/scam-alert-poor-benny-hinn.html
"LOVE GIFTS" to Bakker....? - WHY would you?
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2016/01/scam-alert-love-gifts-to-bakker-why.html
Rodney Howard Browne (Holy Ghost Happy Hour?)
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2014/06/scam-alert-rodney-howard-browne-holy.html
Leroy Jenkins "Miracle Water"
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2011/12/scam-alert-leroy-jenkins-miracle-water.html
Rick Joyner "Prophecy on ISIS"
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2014/10/scam-alert-rick-joyner-prophecy-on-isis.html
Kings Oil of Perry Stone
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/07/scam-alert-kings-oil-of-perry-stone.html
Melissa Greene Preaching Emergent Heresy

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2015/03/scam-alert-melissa-greene-preaching.html
Medjugorje (Mitch Pacwa agrees)
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2014/08/scam-alert-medjugorje-mitch-pacwa-agrees.html
Green Prosperity Prayer Handkerchief
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2013/11/scam-alert-green-prosperity-prayer.html
Aliss Cresswell
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2014/03/scam-alert-aliss-cresswell.html
Cresswell Book Heals by Touching It?
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2018/09/scam-alert-cresswell-book-heals-by.html
Todd Bentley:FRAUD banned in Britain

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/08/todd-bentleyfraud-banned-in-britain.html
Danny Davis and his "no evil oil"
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/01/scam-alert-danny-davis-and-his-no-evil.html
Mike Murdock & his "camp meeting" program
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/01/scam-alert-mike-murdock-his-camp.html
George Bloomer
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2019/04/scam-alert-george-bloomer.html
Jamie Galloway
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2020/01/scam-alert-jamie-galloway.html

Jose Santana

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2020/10/scam-alert-jose-santana.html

Eddie Turner and the Monkey Looking Demons

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2021/04/scam-alert-eddie-turner-and-monkey.html

Snake-Oil Salesman of TV Evangelism Busted

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2021/06/in-news-snake-oil-salesman-of-tv.html

When Ravening Wolves are Hungry

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2021/10/in-news-when-ravening-wolves-are-hungry.html

NO he Can NOT Raise the Dead... even for a grand 

https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2023/05/scam-aleret-no-he-can-not-raise-dead.html

Deception at ATRI (Cha-ching) 

https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2023/06/scam-alert-deception-at-atri-cha-ching.html

Nelson Alvarez & his personal "Jacob's Ladder"

Dig Deeper: SCAM ALERT - Nelson Alvarez & his personal "Jacob's Ladder" 

Joseph Z & his "Voice Activation" of Angels

SCAM ALERT - Joseph Z & his "Voice Activation" of Angels (master1844-dc.blogspot.com)

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 32

The Centurion

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/zWGNtPqLckI?list=PL4ByrircmXL6qt2QplU6IudoOYVgzBS3C

*The centurion's servant had been stricken with palsy, and lay at the point of death. Jesus

immediately set out for the officer's home;...and the centurion, in his self-distrust, sent Him the message, Lord, trouble not Thyself: for I am not worthy that Thou shouldest enter under my roof. But the Savior kept on His way, and the centurion, venturing at last to approach Him, completed the message, saying, Neither thought I myself worthy to come unto Thee; "but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. Luke 7:6,7....It is thus that every sinner may come to Christ. We have nothing to recommend us to God; but the plea that we may urge now and ever is our utterly helpless condition...
Satan cannot hold the dead in his grasp when the Son of God bids them live.
*Jesus changed the mother's grief to joy when He gave back her son; yet the youth was but called forth to this earthly life, to endure its sorrows, its toils, and its perils, and to pass again under the power of death. But Jesus comforts our sorrow for the dead with a message of infinite hope: I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore, . . . and have the keys of hell and of death. Revelation 1:18
He is touched with sympathy for our grief.

17 Reasons SERIES: #4

17 Reasons why Christianity should NOT have succeeded....

"17 factors to be considered -- places where Christianity "did the wrong thing" in order to be a successful religion. It is my contention that the only way Christianity did succeed is because it was a truly revealed faith -- and because it had the irrefutable witness of the Resurrection." J.P.Holding

Factor #4 -- What's New?
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. 1 Corinthians 11:2

"Roman literature tells us that "(t)he primary test of truth in religious matters was custom and tradition, the practices of the ancients."
In other words, if your beliefs had the right sort of background and a decent lineage, you had the respect of the Romans. Old was good. Innovation was bad.

This was a big sticking point for Christianity, because it could only trace its roots back to a recent founder. Christians were regarded as "arrogant innovators" whose religion was the new kid on the block, but yet had the nerve to insist that it was the only way to go!
 
Malina and Neyrey explain the matter further. Reverence was given to ancestors, who were considered greater "by the fact of birth."
What had been handed down was "presumed valid and normative. Forceful arguments might be phrased as: 'We have always done it this way!'" Semper, ubique, ab omnibus -- "Always, everywhere, by everyone!" It contrast, Christianity said, "Not now, not here, and not you!"
 
*Of course this explains why Paul appeals to that which was handed on to him by others (1 Cor. 11:2) -- but that is within a church context and where the handing on occurred in the last 20 years. Pilch and Malina add [Handbook of Biblical Social Values, 19] that change or novelty in religious doctrine or practice met with an especially violent reaction; change or novelty was "a means value which serves to innovate or subvert core and secondary values."
 
*The Jews, on the other hand, traced their roots back much further, and although some Roman critics did make an effort to "uproot" those roots, others (including Tacitus) accorded the Jews a degree of respect because of the antiquity of their beliefs. In light of this we can understand efforts by Christian writers to link Christianity to Judaism as much as possible, and thus attain the same "antiquity" that the Jews were sometimes granted."
J.P.Holding

Creation Moment 4/3/2018 - Troubling Aspect of Evolutionists

Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. Isaiah 8:10

"One of the more troubling aspects of the contemporary debate

over evolution is the largely unargued presumption that critics of evolution must be motivated by religion, whereas defenders of evolution are supposedly the disinterested pursuers of truth. Yet evolutionary biologists are human beings just like everyone else, which means that they are subject to the same influences of passion, pride, and even prejudice. If scientists start to dismiss their colleague's work based solely on motivation... not much would be left of science."
John West, Darwin Day in America, p. 244

Spurgeon's 4 Points of "Easter" SERIES: 2

II. Bearing His Cross
And as they led Him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. Luke 23:26

"We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of the work of the Church throughout all generations; she is the cross-bearer after Jesus.
Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering.

He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.
But let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our case, as in Simon's, it is not our cross, but Christ's cross which we carry.
And remember, though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. Even so the cross we carry is only for a little while at most, and then we shall receive the crown, the glory."
Charles Spurgeon