Misusing Galatians & Romans to Undermine Obedience: Same as Gen. 3:4

"The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians and to the Romans

does not mean we are discharged to resume violation of the law, but rather discharged from the penalty of the law.  

---We are not saved to sin, but saved from sin.

---If God's holy Ten Commandment law could have been changed or somehow abrogated, then Christ need not have died.

---The Great Deceiver, who also said to Eve in the Garden of Eden "you shall not surely die," (Gen.3:4) would have us believe that we can live as we please."

4thCommandmentTruths

Paul's Servantude

"A Bond Servant. ̶ "Paul, a servant of Jesus." It is thus that the apostle introduces himself to the Romans. 

In several other epistles the same expression is used. 

Some people would be ashamed to acknowledge themselves servants; the apostles were not.

 

---It makes a vast difference whom one serves. 

---The servant derives his importance from the dignity of the one served. 

---Paul served the Lord Jesus Christ. 

---Everybody may serve the same Master. "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey?" Rom. 6:16. 

---Even the ordinary house servant who yields to the Lord is the servant of the Lord, and not of man. "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye service, as men-pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God; and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance; for ye serve the Lord Jesus Christ." Col. 3:22-24. 

---Such a consideration as this can not fail to glorify the most menial drudgery."

E.J. Waggoner

The Nobility Forgot Col. 4:1

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. Colossians 4:1

 

During the Hundred Years War there was the Wat Tyler Peasants Revolt of 1381 [England] (triggered primarily by new taxes and a

new law which limited what peasants could be paid - for example let's say a noble wanted to pay 4 pennies a day labor in his fields because of the labor shortage in the aftermath of the Black Plague, but the other nobility wanted to pay only 2 because of greed, by limiting it the peasants would be more available to the nobility who payed less -- if the other couldn't offer higher wages to get their work and thereby saving the nobility money at the expense of the peasants. Also a law was passed forcing peasants to landscape and work at the local church 2 days a week for free....).

Apparently the Nobility, while giving lip service to God, forgot Colossians 4:1.

 

During the Hundred Years War there was also the  Jacquerie

Peasants Revolt of 1358 [France] (triggered primarily the French nobility actually assisting English mercenaries turned loose to raid the French peasants as well as landlords increasing rent of serfs after the Black Plague and on top of it all a law forcing peasants to rebuild the nobilities castles across northern France).

Apparently the Nobility, while giving lip service to God, forgot Colossians 4:1.

 

Sidenote---the Jacquerie Revolt was much bloodier than the

English Revolt of Tyler. The one in France began with peasants killing a knight randomly in his house, then on to the next one where they raped the knights wife in front of him, killed her, then tortured him to death. Then unleashed on attacking castles and taking them apart.

Also Jacquerie was a name/slang used in public to the face of peasants by the nobility sneeringly which sort of meant in our street lingo to "white trash" or "hillbilly".

Creation Moment 7/24/2022 - First week of CREATION - God worked on the 1st day

"The very first thing recorded in the Bible is work done on Sunday, the
1st day of the week.  

This was done by the Creator Himself.  

Q: If God worked on this day, how can it be wicked for us to work on Sunday? 

God's 10 Commandment Law defines sin:  "For where there is no law, there is no transgression."  Romans 4:15"

4thCommandmentTruths

Paul on "oppurtunitiy"

--Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; 

--make the most of every opportunity.

Colossians 4:5  NIV

John Ball of the 1381 Peasants Revolt: Going OFF Script from Scripture

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Genesis 3:17

 

From the "mad priest" John Ball's Infamous Sermon that eventually led to his execution:

When Adam delved and Eve span,

Who was then the gentleman?

 

"When the quotation says that Adam delved, it is saying that he delved into the soil of the

earth he farmed; this illuminates the connection with the primary meaning of delve. In other words, it is another way to say that he tilled the soil, an old male-specific metaphor for general work in English.

When it says that Eve span, it is similarly referring to a female-specific metaphor for work; not so long ago, women were largely responsible for tailoring and mending the clothing of their household, and even today hobbies like crocheting and knitting are strongly associated with the feminine sex. Weaving cloth in those days would have required a distaff and a spindle; a spindle is a weighted object that spins as it releases cloth to the loom, which explains the use of the participle span.

.... gentlemen had less of a vague meaning than today, where it can be applied to just about anybody, rich or poor.

So in other words, the quotation can be crudely paraphrased thus:

Back when our righteous forefathers worked, who among them would have been better than the other, who would have observed any class distinctions?

That message would have soundly resonated with the rebels of the Peasant Revolt John Ball was preaching to." EnglishLanguageAndUsage

 

First, the main point he was extrapolating from the text would be correct. In the eyes of God---all---both noble and peasant are equal in His eyes.

BUT---where he strayed in his sermon is where he went on to oppose private property (if God didn't believe in private property why would He have commandments against stealing and coveting?).

And then he strayed even further by calling for the death of basically the rich.....

When Adam delved, and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who should be bond, and who free. And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty.

Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1928684-john-ball-priest-when-adam-delved-and-eve-span-who-was-then-the-g/

When Adam delved, and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who should be bond, and who free. And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty.

Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1928684-john-ball-priest-when-adam-delved-and-eve-span-who-was-then-the-g/

When Adam delved, and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who should be bond, and who free. And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty.

Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1928684-john-ball-priest-when-adam-delved-and-eve-span-who-was-then-the-g/

Creation Moment 7/23/2022 - A Real Scientist said.....

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? 

and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,

 and hast crowned him with glory and honor.

Psalm 8:4,5

 

"Teach us to study the works of Thy hands 

---that we may subdue the earth to our use 

---and strengthen the reason for Thy service; 

and so to receive Thy blessed Word, that we may believe on Him whom Thou hast sent to give us the knowledge of salvation and the remission of our sins. "

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), father of electromagnetic theory

Who told thee?

Why go I mourning?

Psalm 42:9

 

"CANST thou answer this, believer? 

Q: Canst thou find any reason why thou art so often mourning instead of rejoicing? 

Q: Why yield to gloomy anticipations? 

Q: Who told thee that the night would never end in day? 

Q: Who told thee that the winter of thy discontent would proceed from frost to frost? 

Q: Knowest thou not that day follows night, that flood comes after ebb, that spring and summer succeed winter? 

A: Hope thou then! 

 

No father chastens always: thy Lord hates the rod as much as thou dost; He only cares to use it for that reason which should make thee willing to receive it, namely, that it works thy lasting good. 

Thou shalt yet climb Jacob's ladder with the angels, and behold Him who sits at the top of it—thy covenant God."

Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 7/22/2022 - Universal Language Network

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

Genesis 11:1

 

"In a large-scale functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

study, neuroscientists from MIT and Harvard University evaluated the claim of language universality with respect to core features of its neural architecture.

 The world’s languages exhibit striking diversity, with differences spanning the sound inventories, the complexity of derivational and functional morphology, the ways in which the conceptual space is carved up into lexical categories and the rules for how words can combine into phrases and sentences. 

 

To foster inclusivity in language research, Dr. Saima Malik-Moraleda and her colleagues from MIT and Harvard University examined whether there are shared brain responses across 45 languages in 12 language families: Afro-Asiatic, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Dravidian, Indo-European, Japonic, Koreanic, Atlantic-Congo, Sino-Tibetan, Turkic, Uralic and an isolate, Basque, which is effectively a one-language family. 

 

All native languages activated large areas of the left frontal, temporal and parietal cortex in the brain.

The responses of this language-related network were stronger and more correlated in the left hemisphere of the brain than the right hemisphere as subjects listened to different stories in their native languages.

The network was more responsive during listening to native languages than when performing a spatial working memory or an arithmetic task, suggesting that this common network was selective for language processing.

“This finding is a first step in deeper examinations of the neural processing of different languages, which will require larger groups of native speakers for each language,” the authors said."

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To be Saints in the Light

 .....and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, 

     being fruitful in every good work, 

     and increasing in the knowledge of God; 

Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, 

unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; 

Giving thanks unto the Father, 

which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light...

Colossians 1:9-12

IN the NEWS - Woke Poisons even Archaeology

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

Matthew 10:6

 

"Gender activists within the field of archaeology are pushing for anthropologists to be prevented from identifying human remains as male or female because it is not known how ancients would have self-identified.....this isn’t just the mad ravings of one student

on Twitter, it’s a growing movement. 

Gender activists have formed a group called the Trans Doe Task Force (TDTF) to “explore ways in which current standards in forensic human identification do a disservice to people who do not clearly fit the gender binary.”

“We propose a gender-expansive approach to human identification by combing missing and unidentified databases looking for contextual clues such as decedents wearing clothing culturally coded to a gender other than their assigned sex,” proclaims the group’s mission statement." 

SummitNews

Creation Moment 7/21/2022 - Atheist wrote it.....

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible....

Colossians 1:16

 

"The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the
intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes....it seems to me that, as...usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense." 

 Philosopher Thomas Nagel, Mind & Cosmos (2012)

Why a Mystery to the unspiritual ecclesiastics of the middle ages

And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. Matthew 13:11 ESV

"The unspiritual ecclesiastics were baffled by the mystic symbolism of
the prophetic books of Daniel and John.

 But this obscurity served as a divinely appointed means of preserving the prophetic word." 

A.G. Daniells

Creation Moment 7/20/2022 - Vast Depth of the Creation

So God created man in his own image.... Genesis 1:27

"Improved technologies for observing and probing biological systems

has only led to discoveries of further levels of complexity that need to be dealt with. 

This process has not yet run its course. We are far away from understanding cell biology, genomes, or brains, and turning this understanding into practical knowledge."

Christoph Koch, Science Magazine, August 3, 2012

Those 3 "Moments"

And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. Luke 4:5

 

"It is interesting that there are just three “moments” mentioned in the

New Testament and that there are three different Greek words so translated, each used one time only in the Bible. Furthermore, each of these three “moments” is used in a context that is anticipatory of the future.

 

First of all, Satan tempted Jesus by flashing before His eyes a vision of the whole world, offering it to Him immediately without His having to endure the cross, if He would rule it for the devil. Here the Greek word for “moment” is stigme, meaning a “point,” like a period after a sentence. In an infinite “timeline,” it would be just a dot on the line, a “point” in time. 

Satan’s apparent dominion over this world, though it lasts six thousand years or so, is only a moment compared to eternity, and Jesus knew this was a poor bargain.

 

One day, in fact, He will return to reclaim the world from Satan. At that great day, “we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52). 

In this passage, the unique word is atomos, meaning an indivisible particle. That is, in an “atom of time,” too instantaneous to measure, we shall be changed to be like Him in “his glorious body” (Philippians 3:21).

 

Right now, however, our bodies are weak and easily beset with pain and sickness. Nevertheless, we are assured that “our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2 Corinthians 4:17). The word here is parautika, referring specifically to the present moment. What we must endure “here and now” is so brief compared to the eternity “then and there” that it is not even “worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18)." HMM

IN the NEWS - When the Army Goes Gen. 6:5

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:5

"An Army training slide obtained by Breitbart News instructs soldiers

to shower with transgender members of the opposite sex even if they have not undergone a surgical transition.

The training slide offers a “vignette” instructing soldiers on what to do if they encounter a female soldier who identifies as male according to the Department of Defense’s personnel tracking system known as Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS), but has not surgically transitioned and still has “female genitalia.”." Breitbart

Creation Moment 7/19/2022 - The EYE Testifies

 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this... Job 13:1

"Mutations, epigenetics, “plasticity,” natural selection, cultural

evolution—none of these processes are going to adequately explain how something as complex and delicate as the human eye (which works in symphony with the brain and more!) could form, because it’s the handiwork of the Creator God, not random chance." ICR

Sikke Freriks

His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant;

Matthew 25:23

 

"Dutch artisan Sikke Freriks, beheaded in 1531 in Leeuwarden‘s market, was the first Anabaptist put to death in that Friesland city.

While a minor milestone in the crowded history of Reformation martyrdoms, Freriks had a noteworthy posthumous effect: word of his heresy — adherence to adult, rather than infant, baptism — came to the ears of a Catholic priest, who later wrote that a man’s dying for this illicit doctrine led him to investigate it further.

To his amazement, the priest found no scriptural support for the established church’s practice of baptizing infants before they developed the maturity and volition to embrace Christ from the will of their own hearts. Christians are “cheated” by the loss of that opportunity of freely giving oneself in baptism, he later wrote."

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Creation Moment 7/18/2022 - New Discovery of Creator's Atomic Putty

 By what way is the light parted... Job 38:24

"Rydberg atoms — atoms with a highly excited electron — can form unusual types of molecular bonds. 

These bonds differ from the well-known ionic and covalent bonds not only by their binding mechanisms, but also by their bond lengths ranging up to several micrometers. Using ion microscope, physicists at the Universität Stuttgart have observed a new type of molecular bond between an ion and a Rydberg atom.

The molecule observed exhibits a special feature: it consists of a positive electrically charged ion and a neutral atom in a so-called Rydberg state. As the charge of the ion deforms the Rydberg atom in a very specific way, the bond between the two particles emerges. The distance between the binding partners is unusually large and amounts to about the tenth of the thickness of a human hair." SciNews

GOSPEL Simplified

"What the gospel is, is shown in a few words by 1 Cor.
15:1-4: "I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you,
...for I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received,
how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures."  

--Thus, then, in the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ is summed up the gospel; and "through the gospel" it is said Christ "brought life and immortality to light."

 
Certainly it was not by dying nor being buried that either life or

immortality was brought to light, for both these things werefamiliar to all men; but to rise again from the dead, and bring with Him a multitude of the dead, who also appeared unto many (Matt. 27:52,53), that was to bring to light something that had never been seen before; that was to bring life and immortality to light indeed.

 
Therefore it is through the resurrection that Christ has brought
immortality to light." A.T. Jones

De Heretico Comburendo

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: 

Matthew 25:21

 

"1401, Lollard priest William Sawtre was burned at Smithfield for heresy — the first known heresy execution in England.

----Sawtre, a humble parish vicar. When put to questioning by the

bishop in 1399, Sawtre initially recanted his unorthodox skepticism as to the transubstantiation of communion bread into Christ’s own literal body — a doctrinal mystery that would be a tougher and tougher sell to dissidents yet to come.

But upon moving from Lynn to London where he served at St. Osyth’s, Sawtre relapsed — and some stirring moved his soul to vindicate himself in the face of mortal peril.

Charged before Parliament, Sawtre now defended his heresies under close questioning by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Arundel. Arundel was even then pressuring this same Parliament for a statute, which he did indeed soon receive — one with the ominous title De Heretico Comburendo, at last elevating heresy to a death penalty offense and making the bishops themselves the decisive arbiters on the matter. It is overtly and all-but-explicitly aimed at the Lollards.

De Heretico Comburendo was passed only on March 10, but Sawtre was eight days’ dead by that point. 

Both the law and the execution were great victories for the Church. “The king and the archbishop hurried to burn their victim to show that they could send a heretic to the stake whenever they wished, without relying on statute” Leonard Williams Levy writes. “Parliament could neither give nor take the authority to burn a heretic. If the scepter supported the miter, canon law prevailed.”

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Creation Moment 7/17/2022 - S2 Quandry for Long Age Cosmology

Where is the way where light dwelleth? 

and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,...

Job 38:19

 

"Another star, dubbed S2, or S0-2, orbits the black hole in sixteen

years and is also problematic for mainstream theorists. Astronomers think it is a young, hot blue ‘main sequence’ star. 

But they acknowledge “[i]t is challenging to explain the presence of such a young star in close proximity to a supermassive black hole.”

By evolutionary reckoning, S2 had to have formed less than 10 million years ago. But the strong tidal forces near S2’s present location seem to preclude that it could have formed there.

 

Q: Could it have formed farther away and then migrated inward? 

A: Perhaps, but this process would require a very “efficient” migration process, yet “[c]urrent understanding of the distribution of stars [here], however, does not permit such efficient migration.”

 

---In other words, the migration process should have taken more than 10 million years, longer than the ‘main sequence’ lifetime of the star! Simply put, by evolutionary reckoning, S2 should not exist." ICR

That 1st PROMISE

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15

 

"This is the first promise to fallen man. 

It contains the whole gospel and....has been in great measure fulfilled. 

The seed of the woman, even our Lord Jesus, was bruised in His heel, and a terrible bruising it was. 

How terrible will be the final bruising of the serpent's head! 

 

This was virtually done when Jesus 

took away sin, 

vanquished death, 

and broke the power of Satan; 

 

---but it awaits a still fuller accomplishment at our Lord's second advent and in the Day of Judgment. 

---To us the promise stands as a prophecy that we shall be afflicted by the powers of evil in our lower nature, and thus bruised in our heel; but we shall triumph in Christ, who sets His foot on the old serpent's head. 

By faith let us rejoice that we shall still reign in Christ Jesus, the woman's seed."

Charles Spurgeon

That Sabbath Bridge

"The Sabbath, 

like a great bridge, 

spans all time. 

---The first pier upholding this great institution was placed in Eden, when,according to the account given in Gen. 2:2, 3, God and unfallen man rested through the sacred hours of the Sabbath. 

---The second pier of the bridge was founded amid the thunders of Sinai, when God, in proclaiming the fourth commandment as found in Ex. 20:8-11, gave the fact that He had rested upon the seventh day
from the work of creation, as the reason why man should keep it
holy. 

---The third pier of the Sabbath bridge was hallowed by the
blood of Calvary. While the Son of the mighty God rested in the
tomb from the work of redemption, it is recorded in Luke 23:54-56
that Jesus' followers "rested on the Sabbath day according to the
commandment." 

---The fourth pier of this wonderful bridge will be laid in the earth made new. In Isa. 63:22,23, we are told that after the last trace of the curse of sin is removed from the earth, all flesh will from Sabbath to Sabbath come to worship before the Lord." 

Stephen Haskell

Creation Moment 7/16/2022 - Creation the starting point: not evolution from primordial slime

"Looking down through the ages to the close of time, Peter was
inspired to outline conditions that would exist in the world just prior to the second coming of Christ. 

“There shall come in the last days scoffers,” he wrote, “walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” 1 Thessalonians 5:3."

E.G.W.