Sunday, November 29, 2020

Puritan Corner - ye Pilgrims.....

To all ye Pilgrims:
In as much as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetable, and has made the forests to abound with game and the
sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as he has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience;
Now I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones, do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill, between the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time, on Thursday, November ye 29th, of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-three, and the third year since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock, there to listen to ye pastor and render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all His blessings. 
William Bradford, Ye Governor of Ye Colony. 
by William Bradford (1590-1657)
 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
2 Corinthians 9:11

How the Prince of Persia used Lead [Rome] & Plague [Greece] to Promote Cybele

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places....And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Ephesians 6:12 /Romans 1:23

"Greek rites and processions show her as an essentially foreign, exotic mystery-goddess who arrives 
--in a lion-drawn chariot 
to the accompaniment of 
--wild music
--wine
--and a disorderly, ecstatic following. 
Uniquely in Greek religion,  
--she had a eunuch mendicant priesthood.
 
An additional explanation for the importation of Magna Mater is the underlying societal anxiety caused by mass lead poisoning. Lead poisoning brought about a whole host of reproductive complications in men and especially women, including sterility, miscarriage, stillbirth, and high rates of child mortality. Elite Ancient Romans were primarily exposed to lead through their drinking habits, since Romans used lead acetate as a sugar substitute to sweeten their wine. Additionally, Ancient Roman medicines often involved boiling together lead powder with other substances like honey or myrrh. Interestingly, Pliny the Elder details that a honey and merum mixture acts as a laxative when consumed cold but blocks diarrhea when consumed hot. This physiological observation betrays the presence of lead, as the toxin has different properties when heated or cooled. 
Another source of lead poisoning in Ancient Rome was leaded paint. Elite Romans harbored an appreciation for Tyrian purple and deep Phrygian reds. Thus, when they wished to adorn their villa walls with these exotic colors, lead-based pigments were required.
Vitruvius, a 1st-century B.C. architect and civil engineer, noted the potential dangers of lead pipes in his writings on architecture:

Water conducted through earthen pipes is more wholesome than that through lead; indeed that conveyed in lead must be injurious, because from it white lead is obtained, and this is said to be injurious to the human system. Hence, if what is generated from it is pernicious, there can be no doubt that itself cannot be a wholesome body. This may be verified by observing the workers in lead, who are of a pallid color; for in casting lead, the fumes from it fixing on the different members, and daily burning them, destroy the vigor of the blood; water should therefore on no account be conducted in leaden pipes if we are desirous that it should be wholesome.

The priests of the cult of Cybele were male eunuchs. They would castrate themselves in the midst of sexual pleasure as a means of symbolically offering up their own fertility to the mother
goddess.The central rite of these eunuch priests was the taurobolium, first recorded in Pergamum in 105 A.D. 
As told by Prudentius in the 4th-century A.D., the taurobolium involved the digging of a trench and placing of a grate on top. Then, a eunuch priest would enter into the pit in the ground. Shortly after, a bull would be sacrificed on top of this trench, allowing all of the animal’s viscera to flow onto the priest
After the priest had been fully enveloped by every drop of bull blood — “till he drains the deep dark blood with every pore” — the genitals of the bull are cut off and also ceremoniously thrown into the pit. 
Such descriptions show how these ceremonies had close thematic links to birth. After being baptized by blood, initiated priests would often drink the milk of the animal, simulating having just been born.
 
The Megalesia commenced on April 4, the anniversary of Cybele's
arrival in Rome
. The festival structure is unclear, but it included ludi scaenici (plays and other entertainments based on religious themes), probably performed on the deeply stepped approach to her temple; some of the plays were commissioned from well-known playwrights. 
On April 10, her image was taken in public procession to the Circus Maximus, and chariot races were held there in her honor. The racetrack could be seen from her temple's threshold, and a statue of Magna Mater was permanently sited on the racetrack's dividing barrier, showing the goddess seated on a lion's back: the goddess could thus watch the festivities held in her honor. 
--Lucretius vividly describes the procession's armed "war dancers" in their three-plumed helmets, clashing their shields together, bronze on bronze, "delighted by blood"; yellow-robed, long-haired, perfumed Galli waving their knives, wild music of thrumming tympanons and shrill flutes. 
--Along the route, rose petals are scattered, and clouds of incense arise. The goddess's image, wearing the Mural Crown and seated within a sculpted, lion-drawn chariot, is carried high on a bier.
 
Photius relates the establishment of the cult of Cybele in Athens as follows: 
 “A certain man came to Attica and initiated the women in the
mysteries of the Mother of the Gods....The Athenians killed him by throwing him headlong into a pit. A plague followed and they received an oracle bidding them appease the murdered man. Therefore they built a Bouleuterion in which they placed the Metregyrtes, and fencing him around they consecrated it to the Mother of the Gods, and also set up a statue of the Metragyrtes. They used the Metroon [temple of the Mother] as record office and repository of laws, and they filled up the pit
.” (as cited in Vermaseren, 1977, p. 32)." 
Wiki/WomenOfAntiquity/JordanReeceTayeh-UPennClassicalStudies

"My Tank is Getting Low"

He that watereth shall be watered also himself.
 Proverbs 11:25
 
"Let me feed His flock, and He will feed me. 
Let me water His garden, and He will make a watered garden of my
soul

I may care about myself till I grow morbid; 
I may watch over my own feelings till I feel nothing; 
and I may lament my own weakness till I grow almost too weak to lament. 
 
It will be far more profitable for me to become unselfish and out of love to my Lord Jesus begin to care for the souls of those around me. 
 
My tank is getting very low; 
no fresh rain comes to fill it; 
Q: what shall I do? 
 
A: I will pull up the plug and let its contents run out to water the withering plants around me. 
What do I see? 
My cistern seems to fill as it flows. 
A secret spring is at work. 
While all was stagnant, the fresh spring was sealed; but as my stock Rows out to water others the Lord thinketh upon me." 
Charles Spurgeon

IN the NEWS - Just EVIL

 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, ...John 8:44
 
"Militants from the Boko Haram Islamic terror group slit the throats of at least 70 farmers Saturday in Borno State, northeast Nigeria, according to local reports.
Eyewitnesses to the attack said the farmers “were rounded up and summarily slaughtered by the armed insurgents”.

The death toll of the massacre was initially reported as 43 victims but on Sunday, Borno State Gov. Babagana Umara Zulum adjusted the figure, noting that the number of confirmed dead had risen to 70.

According to Ahmed Satomi, a member of  Nigerias House of Representatives, the militants likely attacked the farmers in retaliation, because on Friday they had disarmed and arrested a Boko Haram gunman who had been tormenting them." Breitbart

The "Really" File - (Queeristan in North Carolina?)

 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 18:22
 
"Muslim students at Duke University have organized a series of
events to promote acceptance of homosexuality and other LGBTQ-related issues and to create a community for gay Muslims.

The event series, called Queeristan, aims to connect LGBTQ Muslims to one another at the private university in North Carolina. It is a collaboration of the school’s Center for Muslim Life and the student publication Juhood Magazine. 

As far as the CML receiving criticism here and there, the answer is yes,” Joshua Salaam, the center’s director, told The College Fix via email. The Fix had asked if the Muslim community had criticized the promotion of LGBTQ issues.

From the "Really" File

In October, the organizers hosted a movie night for the film “My Beautiful Laundrette,” a 1985 movie about a two gay men who run a laundromat together.

Queeristan also hosted a discussion titled “Homosexuality in Islam with Dr. Scott Kugle,”.

The student said “the broader Muslim community at Duke was very, very supportive. And many people came from the general Muslim student population.” 

The student told The Fix that she did not know how many LGBTQ Muslims there were at Duke and said she did not trust the statistics on demographics regardless." CollegeFix 
REALLY? 

IN the NEWS - As hard hearted as Sodom....

 The real purpose behind these attacks on conversion therapy is that they want LGBT in the public arena to be viewed as normal...and nothing will stand in their way--even freedom of speech and freedom of religion will be sacrificed on the altar of LGBT if needed....how HARD HEARTED in support of sin as to ban freedoms in the public arena so as to defend the sin from even criticism in a free society...
 

Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD. Ezekiel 16:58

"Legislation introduced in the Victorian Government today could see Christians hit with heavy fines and lengthy jail times 
--for attempting to convert LGBTQ people to Christianity 
--or teaching certain portions of the Bible.

The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill

2020 will empower the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission to investigate reports of “conversion therapy” practices which may include activities as simple as prayer.

According to The Guardian: “Practitioners of conversion therapy seeking to change someone’s sexuality or gender identity and found to have caused serious injury could face up to 10 years jail under the criminal sanctions proposed in the legislation. Those who try to avoid the law in Victoria by sending people to conversion therapy out of the state would also face criminal sanctions and fines to a maximum of close to $10,000.” CaldronPool

IN the NEWS - Prince of Persia Sets Paris on Fire

  ...foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.... Romans 1:31

"POLICE were forced to use tear gas as protestors threw fireworks after they took to the streets of Paris against police violence.

Thousands of people across France took to the streets to protest and demand a free press. The protests have been ongoing during the past week after a video of police allegedly beating Black music producer Michel Zecler sparked anger about a draft law that is seen as curbing the right of journalists to report on police brutality.

"In Paris, protesters set street furniture on fire and clashed with police as they tried to block access to certain streets." Gérald

Darmanin, Mr. Macron’s interior minister, tweeted: “37 police officers and gendarmes injured in provisional results during the demonstrations. I once again condemn the unacceptable violence against the police.

In Lille, Rennes, Strasbourg and other cities thousands more protested against the draft bill that makes it a crime to circulate images of police officers in certain circumstances, which some people say limits press freedom.

Shocking images on social media also showed the Bank of France in flames....

Caroline Schatz, who was at the Paris march today, said: “What is happening in Paris is extremely worrying and we cannot let this

pass."

A witness tweeted: “PARIS – Street furniture serves as a shield. The police are forced to back down.”

The marches were organized by journalists’ organizations and were joined by extreme-left militants, environmental activists and yellow vest protesters, who have been protesting against government policies for two years." MichaelSavage.com

Creation Moment 11/30/2020 - 3 R's SERIES: 2

....hath not one God created us? 
Malachi 2:10
 
 ‘R’#2: Remove genetic information
"What about natural selection, adaptation and speciation?
None of these represent the generation of any new microbes-to-mastiff genetic information either. 
 
In our ‘hairy dog’ example, if we were to send our new population of dogs, some with short hair, others with medium or long hair, to an
icy, very cold location, we wouldn’t be at all surprised to see natural selection at work, killing off any dog that didn’t have long hair (Figure 2, Line 1). When the survivors reproduce, the only fur-length genes passed on to the offspring are those that code for long hair (Figure 2, Line 2).
 
 Thus we now have a population of dogs beautifully adapted to its environment. Biologists encountering our ice-bound population of dogs, observing them to be isolated from other populations of dogs, could argue that they be given a new species name.

So here we see natural selection, adaptation, and possibly even speciation—but no new genes have been added. In fact, there’s been a loss of genes (the genetic information for short-and medium-length hair has been removed from the population).

Note that such examples of natural selection, adaptation and speciation are often portrayed as evidence for evolution, but the only thing this ‘evolution’ has done is to remove existing genes
If this population of exclusively long-hair dogs were now forcibly relocated to a steamy tropical island, the population could not ‘adapt’ to the hot climate unless someone re-introduced the short-hair gene to the population again, by ‘back-crossing’ a short-or medium-length hair dog from elsewhere. This is exactly the sort of thing that our crop and livestock breeders are doing. They are scouring the world for the original genes created during Creation Week but which have subsequently been ‘bred out’ (lost) from our domestic varieties/breeds of plants and animals because of breeders artificially selecting certain characteristics, which means other features are de-selected (lost).
CMI

Saturday, November 28, 2020

Monthly Viewer Update {November 2020}

Monthly Viewer Update: November 2020 {42,148} 
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The eternal God is thy refuge,
 and underneath are the everlasting arms:
Deuteronomy 33:27
 
 
 
 
  
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