Anti-Anti's Modern Prosperendum

When internal evil equals external evil, there is no difference, regardless of how stoicism and a strong-will keeps that evil from being seen.  There is a difference, with internal and external evil, if some competing good is believed. Belief can be had, for the reverse instance, that there is nothing inherently wrong - but, perhaps, only situationally wrong - with punching someone because they irritate your sense of propriety.  That belief causes the punch in a dark alley when it would disallow it in front of a boss.  However, a belief in God's good things would hold back the punch in an alley, while delivering it in front of the boss when it is due to some good cause (as opposed to the irritation concerning proprieties), even though the boss would be equally disdainful of seeing it in both cases.  Belief about goodness is better than belief we create ourselves or which comes from human philosophy.  It is stronger, and it's purity results in more even applicati...

We don't have a social contract.  A contract is a contract; there's a reason contracts are written with excruciating detail.  You're thinking of morality, or ethics, as some have absurdly reduced it to, and that's not between me and you or you and the wider "community", but it's between you and God!  If you want to shoot me in the face right now just because you want to, go ahead, if your conscience can stand it!  But, if you do, you'll have bigger problems than I have with a face full of lead.  We don't owe each other anything due to a vague euphemism, but we owe each other very much, indeed, due to God's Law.  Now, we can't live up to His written Law - the ancient Israelites proved that - and the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus is only available to born again, converted, justified Christians.  But even modern day Pagans, Satanists, Atheists and Materialists have the conscience God gives or does not give in the case of those who ...

If I’m shown incontrovertible proof of God’s existence, won’t I be forced to believe on Master Jesus Christ His Son as bringing me salvation from my sin and life with God by His death and His Resurrection? No. A selection of humanity WAS shown incontrovertible proof in the form of many resurrections, including the Son of God. Furthermore, the resurrection of Lazarus happened before Jesus died, so it was seen by both people even before Christ's Resurrection. Of the people who witnessed all those resurrections, most rejected the evidence of those resurrections when God gave it. Matthew 16:4 records Jesus' statement about this, "A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. And he left them, and departed". Jonah was dead and raised back to life. This is your evidence, but it won't force you to believe in God or, if you believe He exists, to trust Him enough to call on His name, Master Je...

It's not that allowing your flesh to sin until the day you die is so much the evidence of unregeneracy, but it is that the regenerate Christian's desire is for Christ, which includes His commands.  The Father's will is that we believe in Christ, and it is possible to believe in Christ in that way while engaging in a warfare with your flesh that seems for a time to beat you.  The struggle is precisely to overcome the flesh -- the engagement is the evidence of regeneracy, not the winning, although, given time, winning is inevitable, and Christ, Himself, will cause all His own to finally win upon receipt of a new body, when we see Him as He is.  No Christian is in danger of being shut out of heaven due to being a murderer, because, at the time of entering, that murder that was in some Christians will have been excised by the transformation of the flesh into a body like Christ has. We do follow the commands of Christ as well as we are currently strong enough to do, and we fol...

The World abuses the very structure of groupings to its own death-end. "Church" is a non-technical word meaning "assembly", "congregation" .. or, like Critical Theory likes to use, "group". Christ gathers His group, and He separates us out of the World. Worship Him with thanks for that!

Succession of Emotions by Jesus' Disciples on Resurrection Day (80-134, "Eyewitnesses to the Resurrection", John MacArthur) (Matthew 28:1-10) Sympathy - bringing spices for His body Fear - He is gone Joy - He is risen! Worship - He is here, seen on the road. They held Him by the feet, and they worshiped Him! Hope - Go to see Him at Galilee

Should The Church refuse the sugary part of the poisoned pill of political progression toward a governmental system that will eventually allow the Antichrist to emerge on the world stage?  After all, love definitely requires pity for the disabled and equity for all, regardless of stupid skin colorings.  On the other hand, we could love our neighbor without funding worldwide baby-murder in the name of women's health, and unifying governments under the UN's delicate, violent, and stacked insanity would be a mistake.  So, we have only good and evil, and our Master Jesus Christ's mind, which we learn by The Holy Spirit's guidance and our prayerful reading of Scripture, is enough to make us tell the difference.  There is a delusion at work in The World, dear Church, but we can see through it as we look toward God.  Don't keep looking at the things you've been told in The World without washing them out, like a gold dust panner, with Scripture, and be healthy as you ye...

Isaiah 26:10 is evidence against The Social Gospel.  Even though righteousness is poured out on the wicked in a land of righteousness, the wicked will not turn from their iniquities and heed God.  It's just the way it is, so stop trying to bribe The World into becoming The Church by feeding them and by telling them how to overcome their addictions.  Teach the whole World salvation doctrine instead, and as many as God has known will turn from The World to become parts of The Church then. "Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly and will not behold the majesty of YHWH" (Isaiah 26:10).

Individualistic expressions against being classed as an enslaved thing has its place in rejecting the ownership of us by others who are like us, but it subtly undermines the reality that we are vessels that God has made, and we are things that belong to He Who created us. We want God to enslave us, else we are not His, and that's a fearful, undesirable position for any human being!

Not looking or thinking or acting above your station seems like a cruel control device to the modern sensibility, but it did help people learn some viable craft or service with which they could maintain employment.  Human systems are always flawed by human sin-corruption, and the modern sensibility overlooks modern enslavement even as it discards rational mechanisms like this one in a bid to find some hitherto unknown ultimate freedom.  But think: even if robots harvested and mined and built and pampered, we would just degrade in a morass of insane pain sitting there doing nothing.  No human system will redeem us or save us or make our lives wonderful, because we burn away our ability to enjoy, even if we're on drugs.  Only Christ's redemptive salvation is ultimately helpful.  So, let's be content to use the best parts of whatever systems we can devise, and let's stop hating each other for suggesting the use of some foreign mechanism from either some previously ...

The Church is split over the Lordship of our Lord Jesus Christ. On the one hand, a subjective test of just how much fruit a Christian has produced (often misdefining fruit from "love, joy, peace, etc." to "giving, going to church, praying, reading the Bible, etc."), and on the other hand, a conviction that any thought of obedience is identical with basing salvation on works, and on both these hands, we find error. Salvation is one thing.  God produces fruit in us (and not we ourselves, per se, though we certainly submit to His production of it in us).  We yearn toward God the best we want to, and we pick up as much of the yearning of the preacher that we desire, and this sets our level of involvement in our God's kingdom.  Even the least Christian has already, by the definition of salvation doctrine, already demonstrated enough yearning toward Him to qualify for salvation.  Fruit inspectors need to know that their level of acceptibility is way beyond God's m...

Is the meaning of belief in Christ, redemption, forgiveness and unconditional love, according to a modern Christian-movie paradigm?  Those things surely come out of belief and confession of Master Jesus Christ to salvation, after which God's Holy Spirit raises us to new life, where these things are found, like He raised Christ from the dead.  But there is an ugly side to preaching that belief means these things instead of belief being part of what we must do to be saved.  The World can approximate these things and seem to have salvation by their approximations of these good works, thus missing actual salvation and knowledge of Christ.

Creation itself is not science, but neither is Evolution (for the same reasons). However, Creation predicts things that can be studied in the present (just like Evolution does). The things that Creation predicts, when tested, are found to be in accord with the entire, unchanging Bible, from which Creation models are derived. The purpose of the Creation models is to aggregate together a single picture of all the things the Bible says about the Universe. The purpose of the Evolution models is to prove freely changing supporting theories of certain unchanging theories of Evolution. The things that Evolution predicts, when they are tested and when patterns are looked for concerning those specific predictions, they sometimes do not pan out. For instance, there is evidence against Evolution and for the Flood from polystrate fossils of trees going through multiple layers that look just like the layers that are normally used for dating in geological evolutionary theories.  These tree fossi...

Creation is evidenced by observation of the objects of Creation, and not by the scientifically repeatable, testable observations of the action of Creation, because Creation is no longer occurring. Like with the Evolutionist, the Creationist would have to go to when and where it happens in order to even plausibly have the opportunity to perform repeatable and falsifiable tests on the actions that are conjectured to cause the things we do observe. The Evolutionist could use the present moment to test the conjectures about actions that are supposed to cause observations, as well as how those observations are fitted together by other actions into the greater action called “Evolution”.  The Creationist does not have the opportunity to test the action of Creation, because no more creation by God is happening since the time that we are told that God rested. In the end, it's like Kent Hovind said: We admit ours is a religion. We employ methods to trust God's Word, including the scienti...

Don't let me think I have to achieve a certain state for You to be great in my heart, Lord.  Thank You for healing me in Your rest.

Even though we are all judged by our works, it's no good to try to do good works to be saved, because God will see your evil works, and, if you are saved, it's no good to worry that you haven't done enough good works (even though we are judged by our works), because God will see those good works we have done.

A common tactic that people have been taught to use is to ask questions to disprove you on the spot instead of to gain your knowledge through long thought.  Don't let them.

There's a certain type of wickedness called "bitterness".  It forms in the pits of our stomachs and minds when we think too long and hard about injustices, real or imagined.  I suffered it for oh, so long, and I see that the American type of poor and homeless for the last several decades (until CoVid changed the balance) has almost certainly been stuffed with people suffering it, for which primary cause they do not have any indoor home.  Mainly.  And they refuse to accept admonishment to straighten their nervous systems into ability to help themselves, mainly.  Many, of course, are in different situations, but I speak of these embittered souls now.  Caught in a cascade of helpless suffering, they cannot think straight!  No one helps them with admonishments or corrections or logics, but some of them have their egos boosted and their emotions coddled by well-intentioned, wrong-headed therapists.  Church, do not be part of the problem!  Re-read ...

"Parties do not have the incentives or infrastructure to engage in serious policy development; think tanks and universities play that role in both parties, and the paucity of conservatives within academia makes think tanks a crucial source of policy depth for Republicans" ("Opinion: Conservative populism might finally be getting the intellectual heft it needs" by Henry Olsen, Jan. 28, 2021 at 3:42 p.m. EST, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/28/conservative-populism-might-finally-be-getting-intellectual-heft-it-needs/) If the people we are voting for are not the masterminds of their own policies, then what are they useful for?  The point is to vote for the person who has the idea of how to govern well - presumably, instituting that idea will create acceptable governance.  If parties are not the source of - and indeed, don't even have the incentive to create - their own policies, then the people who develop them in these think tanks should be the one...

"[Kamala Harris] wants to legislate away the constitutional protection of religious freedom, forcing Christians to embrace a secular godless worldview or be pushed to the fringes of society" ("Left in Complete Meltdown Over Conservative Pastors Comparing Kamala Harris to Jezebel", Jeff Maples, January 29, 2021 https://reformationcharlotte.org/2021/01/29/left-in-complete-meltdown-over-conservative-pastors-comparing-kamala-harris-to-jezebel/). Let Christians meekly be pushed to the fringes of society, relying on God to keep us safe, and, having decoupled ourselves, we will have the motivation to behave wisely by building our own institutions and farming equipment, etc., in a private club or some-such mechanism, creating a physical mechanic for Christ's Church, because we can and we should! We don't need to fight the World about their evil, but we need to fight the evil in ourselves.  We need to tell the World about their opportunity for salvation from the natu...

We know we are Christians if we confess Master Jesus and believe the tenets of the gospel (Romans 10:9, 10, 13 and 1 Corinthians 15:1-8). We know others are Christians if we hear them confess Master Jesus and if they say they believe the tenets of the gospel. If we know someone is a Christian, then we behave toward them with all love and kindness and exhortation and admonishment and teaching, singing with them Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, and confessing our faults to them, and shunning the ones living in some unrepentant sin after the first admonishment, then in front of two or three witnesses, and then in front of the congregation, so Satan can destroy their bodies and their spirits can be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus (2 Timothy 4:2; Titus 2:15; Colossians 3:16; Ephesians 5:19; James 5:16; Matthew 18:15-17; 1 Corinthians 5:5, 11, 13b). If we know someone is not a Christian, then we behave toward them with wisdom and harmlessness (Matthew 10:16).

"I have seen a lot of damage done over the years within the lives of those who have felt that they had to hide that struggle or deny that struggle or just not share that burden with others." -Karen Swallow Prior, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary English professor - Is the struggle between culture and individual or between parts of the individual?  The first option doesn't make much sense in secular culture, which has been accepting of homosexuality for over 20 years, and why would a homosexual want to be part of the Church?  The struggle against the flesh is common to the Church in many areas other than sexual perversion.  A Christian who struggles with homosexuality should confess it to his siblings in Christ and ask them for prayer ("share that burden", as the professor puts it), just as any Christian should confess their faults to each other, in accordance with James 5:16.  Not doing so harms that Christian just like any other sin that is allowed to ...

food jobs recreation living space Don't rely on humanity to give you what God already knows you need, dear Church.

The following is adapted from Melissa Dougherty's YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtg4q84vBD4). These areas of Satanic attack are in churches. It behooves us to point out the forms they take which are used to subvert Christians. __________________________________ Law of Attraction (Name It and Claim It; Magic based on the faith that you will obtain whatever you visualize) _____________________________ Oneness (Everything in the Universe is connected (aka "The Universe"); state of being where you live in the now, the moment, and there is no judgment, no fear and equality in all things; Oneness is taken to be the meaning of life; there can't be unforgiveness and strife, etc, because we are all Spirit, and the false belief in spiritual separation is taken to be the cause of all pain, poverty, war, suffering, and all negative, unwanted states of being) Being One and being United is a Christian idol, having no judgments due to all-pervading desire to keep pe...

We know that Santa Claus, reindeer, and shopping have been added to what was previously a celebration of Master Jesus Christ's birth.  Consider that we know that we have added mythology after the fact.  We know that we do this with history, generally.  So, why do we think that certain ancient ideas were more mythological at their beginnings and have now been seen for what they really are.  Is knowledge of God a crutch of our fathers and mothers, which we now know is false because our science makes Him unneeded, as we've heard?  But what of the idea that He was known truly at the beginning and knowledge of Him has been fragmented and adulterated since then, until now, when we think our science and technology and all our little wiggling replaces His grandeur and direction and love?  Our empty imaginations have led to our darkened hearts, just like God's Special Book has told us, and we are most miserable without knowledge of the God who could write such an in...