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An Example of a Method to Evaluate a Word Choice

[Retrieved from https://glory2godforallthings.com/2007/03/25/in-accordance-with-the-scriptures-2/ on October 18, 2025.] "Beyond that, stretching out from the New Testament forward, this framework of the Gospel continues to interpret the Scriptures. Within a very short span of time very mature interpretive frameworks can be found in St. Paul and St. John which will continue to be augmented though not changed as centuries go forward." - Fr. Stephen Freeman ~~ TL;DR - Too Learned, Didn't (need to) Read There's a test to discern your own veracity by swapping in a synonym and asking if it's still even technically true. The way that it's not true reveals the reason you've been lying to yourself. ~~ From this quote's use of language, we can derive an example about a method we can employ to evaluate a word choice. Notice that this Orthodox Friar is talking about the Gospel and how it can be used to understand the Old Testament. He knows that a changed Gospel i...

Could Greek Letters be Pictograms of Mouth Parts

παραδίδωμι paradidōmi Do these Greek letters look like the shape of the mouth and tongue when making the sounds? P is a flat mouth at the top (on the outside; the lips) and it flares out back (down) and on the sides (the cheeks). It's seen looking down on the top from behind. A is obvious compared with some others. It is a wide open chamber in the middle, with the lips on the top and bottom (the shape would represent a mouth seen from the side and imagined into). R is a bit harder to visualize, so we won't add it into the evidence here, but go back to discern it once we're more sure of the existence of what we hypothesize that we're seeing. It's possible that they even pronounced it differently, which is just something to remember if we prove the overall system more (and then it would still be an exploratory starting point rather than a hypothetical conclusion to test, like I'm making for these other letters). (I wonder if there's a better way to denote trai...

The Multifaceted Jewel of God's Layered Universe - Bible and Life, Knit Together

Everything in the Bible should be checked whether it applies to eternity, to now, to Christ, to Israel or the World, and to ordinary Christians' ordinal, sometimes dull, and usually ordinary lives. It can apply to all at the same time. God's Universe shows how He likes to use layers. His Bible and His Life - He gives us both of them - are not separable, and they are more entangled than a little, simple way which barely meets that assertion. He has riches hidden for kings to find! Look.

The World Worships Death

From "Gravity Falls", Season 1, Episode 14, "Bottomless Pit". Grunkle Stan is wearing false teeth that makes him always tell the truth. In this wicked show for kids, the writers let out a little open secret when he says, "Sometimes, I think, 'Is this all there is? Is life just some kind of horrific joke without a punchline? That we're all just biding our time until the sweet, sweet release of death?'." This IS what the Worldlings think! They DO worship death. It's their biggest hero and, along with Hell, one of Jesus' two final enemies.

A Thankful Prayer of Overcoming Everyday through Christ

Master Jesus, make all your own to trust you, even if you kill us. Make us rely on you to tell us the truth so we can see how to move forward in our daily lives. Your ability to serve us with continual support through many gifts of you spirit of holiness - as we separate from the sin of our bodies and become clean in our faith in you and in our consciences - your kindness in helping us take the next step and the next along the path we already know is right - these are the things we thank you for, Lord, and we strive without worshiping our own willpower, knowing you love us even though we are miserable. Greatest God, YHWH, thank you. Master Jesus, LET IT BE ACCORDING TO YOUR WILL. We trust your judgment. 

Saying Strong Truth Lovingly - An Example from Philippians 2

In Philippians 2, Paul said the other guy almost died doing the work you should have been doing. We scream such things, because it seems we SHOULD, as though the intonation is the only suitable one and, assuming we have cause to be so driven as to say such a thing in some context in the first place, we often think we'd be dishonoring the reality if we didn't use loud cries to state the thing. Look how Paul said it, though..

On the Moral and Immoral Use of a Linguistic Gambit - Making it True

The statement made is true, because I did the things in that moment that its veracity relies on, but it's not the same as pointing out something that happens without my involvement. When I represent a thing in front of a person which is only true in its literal sense due to the fact that I purposely made its bases happen at the same time, that's not always the same thing as speaking about something that has greater connections to the Universe of objects, actions, and states. When something is made to be technically true for the purpose of not lying when it's described, it doesn't necessarily matter as much as the exact thing occurring naturally; even though it remains true, its lack of connections reduces its meaningfulness in context - especially context that's implied along with the descriptive statement but which is not at all true! Political rhetoric and debate techniques use the gambit. It's even morally useful when it does, in fact, connect with greater th...

Example of Bad Bible Interpretation Leading to False Fear

Doesn't it show that.. James 2 This phrase sometimes assumes in sermons some logical conclusion by less than rigid logic, and then it's followed by explanations. The conclusion is given first, and pieces are glued on to seem like a logical basis for that conclusion. We make radical jumps in logic. Dead faith doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Deadened faith doesn't mean our faith in Jesus' great saving work is null and void! Look closer at what's being communicated about before careless interpretation of God's Word takes hold of your mind and makes you fear falsehoods about Holy things. Language is sometimes difficult. It's not the form that's wrong, but how it's used. Be certain of the real meaning, especially in God's Word.

The Final Victory of Christ

Jesus destroys His last enemies - a cleared-out Hell and Death - when they are thrown into the Lake of Fire! After that, everyone who was removed from Hell will be judged, their names not found written in the Book of Life, and they will bow the knee to Jesus and then also be thrown into the Lake of Fire. Why would Hitler bow the knee to Jesus when he knows he's about to be destroyed in the Lake of Fire? I surmise that it's because Hell reduced him to the truth.

Trust God, The Greatest Love, Even if He Kills You

God is good, and He wants good for us. We are simple, but pride makes us forget that. God is powerfully knowledgeable, and He is the very height of wisdom, itself! Trust Him to look out for you even when you pray for healing and do not obtain what was in your mind.

How Right Behavior Returns Right Behavior To Us

Luke 6 People want to be kind, because it's how God made us. But the sin-flesh keeps us down with excuses for us to keep submitting ourselves to it. So, when you do plain right all the time, the excuses are taken out of the way, and the other person (even a person who is usually embittered toward us like an enemy) is more free in your company to express the natural things that God created us all to keep delighting in. It's not about tit-for-tat, it's about the natural working of God's Universe. That's what He's been teaching humanity in His Bible this whole time. And the same goes for the painful things that He's been teaching us, too. It's the way His Universe works, and it expresses His attributes, even so much that He called it "very good" when He created it. The Worldlings' sin keeps them from believing Jesus' saving work and verbally confessing Jesus Master to be saved. That's why they remain His enemies and ours. Our sin confu...

Here I Am, Lord. Send Me.

[In response to Ken Ham's statement about Voddie Baucham's death. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVfLebbbaM on September 29, 2025.] Here am I, Lord. Send me. The World doesn't know how to respond to Christ, and nothing we say or do can change that. We are to preach the gospel to every nation as a testimony against them! The Church is split. Many in the buildings aren't Christians, and that's okay with much of the leadership. Many Christians, myself included, cannot find congregations we do not feel obligated to shun for righteous cause! It's terrible, and it's true. But the Lord knows. He knows. Here am I, our same Master Jesus. Here are we. Send us to find each other and to help each other when we do. To Your glory, and to our great gladness, indeed!