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kennethcadwell

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FlamingSpirit's right. The love of money is the root of all evil, and money itself is the tempting factor. Of course, we don't really have much choice but to live by the accord of currency because that's the bondage we're born into, but it's not part of the intrinsic human complexion, yet we're taught in schools for over 10 years how to work towards getting lots of it.

I can't remember the author of the quote, but he said ''The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever they were thinking about before anyone told them to earn a living''. He's right.
Yes, but it is the love of money that is the root, not money itself.

There has been a lot of good things done for others using money. Getting rid of it would not stop sin, sin happened before money was a part of the world, and would remain with out it.

If we want to get rid of it because the love of it is the root, then we should get rid of everything we have.

Because people can and have misused anything given to them. TV can be your root, radio can be your root, yourself can be the root, your family can be your root, and so on and so on.
If you put anything before God it becomes your root to do wrong.

There was idols, and covetousness before money and will be even if money were not around today.
 
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chubbena

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I have heard what happens to illegal aliens and how a lot are treated. i also know that they are hard working willing to work for low pay and are happy just to be in america. I could have sworn this country was called the land of the free but maybe I was mistaken. Why is there such a problem allowing illegal aliens to live and work here and to be treated with the same kindness and fairness? Jesus loves them just as much as us right? i noticed how even in the bible there were ppl who were treated less than others like servants or slaves and i guess I figured since this is the 20th century we were past all that. i mean this country was founded on Christian values, i just dont think this is what the founding fathers had in mind
I found this post a great analogy for the hostility between the circumcised and the uncircumcised.
Some circumcised want to uphold the law and value of the heavenly kingdom by shutting the door to the uncircumcised while some uncircumcised want to overturn the whole law and value of the heavenly kingdom and establish their own.
 
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Yes, but it is the love of money that is the root, not money itself.

There has been a lot of good things done for others using money. Getting rid of it would not stop sin, sin happened before money was a part of the world, and would remain with out it.

If we want to get rid of it because the love of it is the root, then we should get rid of everything we have.

Because people can and have misused anything given to them. TV can be your root, radio can be your root, yourself can be the root, your family can be your root, and so on and so on.
If you put anything before God it becomes your root to do wrong.

There was idols, and covetousness before money and will be even if money were not around today.
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away.
 
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kennethcadwell

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If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away.
I myself do not have a job, or have money of my own right now do to a hard economy.
But the Lord our God, thanks be to Him, has put me in a situation where I still eat, have a roof over my head, and can still give the word to others.

Do I still have sinful thoughts even though I don't have money...YES

Can I with the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit keep them from becoming full grown and controlling my life..............YES

Sin is there with or without money....
 
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I myself do not have a job, or have money of my own right now do to a hard economy.
But the Lord our God, thanks be to Him, has put me in a situation where I still eat, have a roof over my head, and can still give the word to others.

Do I still have sinful thoughts even though I don't have money...YES

Can I with the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit keep them from becoming full grown and controlling my life..............YES

Sin is there with or without money....
I never said it wasn't, but I think you're missing the point.
 
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kennethcadwell

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I never said it wasn't, but I think you're missing the point.
What is the point then ?

I read that you were siding with FlamingSpirit, but what I have seen that he has written is that if money was done away with then there would be no more sin.

That is not true, sin happened before money was a part of the world and some sins or most sins don't need money to happen.
My point was if you don't put emphasis on the money, there could be some thing else in ones life that could be their root leading to sin.
 

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Didn't say I was a rebel.
Quite the opposite.
I am just totally ambivalent.

I am not a patriot of any nation on this earth, because my citizenship is in Heaven.
Does this make me a rebel or submissive? In no way.
It just makes me not involved in worldly affairs in any more than I need to be.
So you are not a Patriot like JESUS and God the Father was?

Isaiah 27:12-13 (ASV)
[SUP]12 [/SUP] And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will beat off his fruit from the flood of the River unto the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. {Sounds like Patriotism to me.}
[SUP]13 [/SUP] And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Matthew 23:37 (NASB)
[SUP]37 [/SUP] "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.
{Sounds like Patriotism to me.}

Psalm 106:5 (ASV)
[SUP]5 [/SUP] That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen, That I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, That I may glory with thine inheritance.
{Sounds like Patriotism to me.}

Psalm 33:12 (ESV)
[SUP]12 [/SUP] Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Sounds like Patriotism to me.}


Romans 13:1-7 (NIV)
[SUP]1 [/SUP]Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. {Sounds like Patriotism to me.}
[SUP]2 [/SUP]Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]For he is God's servant to do you good. {Sounds like Patriotism to me.} But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. {Sounds like Patriotism to me.}
[SUP]6 [/SUP]This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing.
{Sounds like Patriotism to me.}
[SUP]7 [/SUP]Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor. {Sounds like Patriotism to me.}

1 Peter 2:13-16 (NKJV)
[SUP]13 [/SUP]Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme,
[SUP]14 [/SUP]or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. {Sounds like Patriotism to me.}
[SUP]15 [/SUP]For this is the will of God,
{Sounds like Patriotism to me.} that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men--
[SUP]16 [/SUP]as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice,
{Sounds like Patriotism to me.} but as bondservants of God.

Genesis 32:9 (ASV)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good:
{Sounds like Patriotism to me.}

Genesis 21:23 (HCSB)
[SUP]23 [/SUP] Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have been loyal to you, so you will be loyal to me and to the country where you are a foreign
resident.”
{Sounds like Patriotism to me.}






 
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Because they are i-l-l-e-g-a-l.
It is not fair to those like my parents who came in through the legal process.
We are, at least were, a country which was run by law...not mob rule.
What was the legal process the Europeans used to kill off the natives and put the remnants on reservations and claim the land as theirs, put up borders and laws to restrict others from a land they stole by war and blood.
 

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What was the legal process the Europeans used to kill off the natives and put the remnants on reservations and claim the land as theirs, put up borders and laws to restrict others from a land they stole by war and blood.
NO, the process was GOD giving the LAND to HIS Chosen People, instead of leaving it under the control of PAGANS.
 
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NO, the process was GOD giving the LAND to HIS Chosen People, instead of leaving it under the control of PAGANS.
Is that supposed to mean he gave them the right to enslave other nations and treat them as animals ...I am of the view he told his people to go into the world and preach the gospel not kill or enslave the inhabitants and take the land ...Don't put God in the evil act and greed of man.
You say, God giving the land to his chosen people.....Look around you America today is more pagan than the original pagans...you are living a dream...apart from the original natives everyone else in the americas is the root of an immigrant or the root of a slave. It is a revolving process the names are just changed...the immigrants now become legal or illegal and the slaves now enslaves themselves.....
 
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Flaming, are you one of those who does not ever watch TV news, or just one that needs to tighten some of his screws. You seem to make less and less sense. I asked you before, but you did not answer, are you anti-money because you do not want to pay you tithes and offerings to the LORD?

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1 Peter 2:13-15 (NKJV)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme,
[SUP]14 [/SUP] or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good.
[SUP]15 [/SUP] For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men--
Firstly Everything on TV is Hollywood. Secondly by contract we in America we are LEGAL ALIENS! That means that we have all contracted ourselves to a FOREIGN CORPORATION.

Lastly look at what you linked. It is an ACT. A SHOW that can only be played with WILLING PARTICIPANTS!
 

VCO

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Is that supposed to mean he gave them the right to enslave other nations and treat them as animals ...I am of the view he told his people to go into the world and preach the gospel not kill or enslave the inhabitants and take the land ...Don't put God in the evil act and greed of man.
You say, God giving the land to his chosen people.....Look around you America today is more pagan than the original pagans...you are living a dream...apart from the original natives everyone else in the americas is the root of an immigrant or the root of a slave. It is a revolving process the names are just changed...the immigrants now become legal or illegal and the slaves now enslaves themselves.....
My ancestors ALL were LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and filled out the immigration papers at ELLIS ISLAND.

So tell me what on earth has this to do with ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, instead of getting your name on the list and waiting your turn until you can immigrate legally to the country of your choice?

And even Native Americans, came from the same people that got off of Noah's Ark.

So Now you are going second guess GOD ALMIGHTY, and how HE should do things?

Maybe you should try to teach GOD how to do things RIGHT, "justice by newbirth".


You can start by correcting GOD here:

Jeremiah 50:21-31 (ESV)
[SUP]21 [/SUP] “Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill, and devote them to destruction, declares the LORD, and do all that I have commanded you.
[SUP]22 [/SUP] The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction!
[SUP]23 [/SUP] How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
[SUP]24 [/SUP] I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you opposed the LORD.
[SUP]25 [/SUP] The LORD has opened his armory and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord GOD of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.
[SUP]26 [/SUP] Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction;let nothing be left of her.
[SUP]27 [/SUP] Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
[SUP]28 [/SUP] “A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.
[SUP]29 [/SUP] “Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
[SUP]30 [/SUP] Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, declares the LORD.
[SUP]31 [/SUP] “Behold, I am against you, O proud one, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, for your day has come,the time when I will punish you.


SOMETIMES GOD CALLS ARMIES TO PUNISH NATIONS.

Zechariah 7:13 (GW)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] “When I called, they wouldn't listen. So now when they call, I won't listen, says the LORD of Armies.

Psalm 59:5 (GW)
[SUP]5 [/SUP] O LORD God of Armies, God of Israel, arise to punish all the nations. Have no pity on any traitors. Selah

Jeremiah 9:25-26 (GW)
[SUP]25 [/SUP] “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised.
[SUP]26 [/SUP] I will punish Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, and Moab. I will punish all who shave the hair on their foreheads or live in the desert. Even though these nations are circumcised, all Israel has uncircumcised hearts.”

Jeremiah 49:37 (GW)
[SUP]37 [/SUP] I'll defeat the people of Elam in the presence of their enemies, in the presence of those who want to kill them. I'll bring disaster with my burning anger, declares the LORD. I'll send armies after them until I put an end to them.
 
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My ancestors ALL were LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and filled out the immigration papers at ELLIS ISLAND.

So tell me what on earth has this to do with ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, instead of getting your name on the list and waiting your turn until you can immigrate legally to the country of your choice?

And even Native Americans, came from the same people that got off of Noah's Ark.

So Now you are going second guess GOD ALMIGHTY, and how HE should do things?

Maybe you should try to teach GOD how to do things RIGHT, "justice by newbirth".


You can start by correcting GOD here:

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Because the ones who stole the land passed a law making it legal or illegal ...The natives were once free to go wherever they desired...can they do that now as they once did? You justify the actions of the lawless and cruel as the commands of God. Because I disagree with your thinking you try to make it look as if I disagree with God...God used the children of Israel to war against evil.....The roman empire and its followers used that as an excuse to slaughter millions...it is not the same. Those evildoers were not on the great commission they had their own personal agenda.
The Church is the army of God in these times and the weapons of our warfare are not carnal....
 
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NO, the process was GOD giving the LAND to HIS Chosen People, instead of leaving it under the control of PAGANS.
I must correct you, God did not "give" them anything. But should they go this path there were conditions that they must follow or everything is off. They have failed to do this so all bets are off. The world will continue to evolve without them.

The Promised Land turns out to be the USA.

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You all have no idea what these words mean in the law you claim to follow.
 
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Little_Light

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I think that immigrants should be accepted due to the fact that we do not own anything on this earth. It all belongs to God, we don't have say on who and who can't go somewhere.

"And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God." Leviticus 19:33 - KJV
 

VCO

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Because the ones who stole the land passed a law making it legal or illegal ...The natives were once free to go wherever they desired...can they do that now as they once did? You justify the actions of the lawless and cruel as the commands of God. Because I disagree with your thinking you try to make it look as if I disagree with God...God used the children of Israel to war against evil.....The roman empire and its followers used that as an excuse to slaughter millions...it is not the same. Those evildoers were not on the great commission they had their own personal agenda.
The Church is the army of God in these times and the weapons of our warfare are not carnal....
It is a shame that you do not know American History better than that; of course they can go anywhere that they want, but the Government assisted housing is on the Reservations. QUOTE: " Native Americans have had the privilege of voting in national elections since 1924; however, until recently some states prohibited Native Americans from voting in local elections. New Mexico, for example, did not extend the vote to Native Americans until 1962. Most native people, of course, also are members of their respective sovereign tribes."

Now what about the freedom to go anywhere they wanted before the Reservations were set up? Yet again you do not know American History:

Massacre Canyon:

Massacre Canyon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lakota vs. Omaha Wars:

NebraskaStudies.Org

Intertribal Warfare:

ABC-CLIO SCHOOLS

More about INTERTRIBAL WARFARE:

Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | INTERTRIBAL WARFARE

[h=1]Native American Warfare in the East: Mourning Wars[/h]
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2536600186.html


SO your theory that they had freedom to go anywhere they wanted, is one that HISTORY DOES NOT SUPPORT. Before the Europeans came ". . . the eastern woodland Indians of North America engaged in near-constant fighting during the centuries prior to first contact." You did not want to accidentally wonder onto another tribe's TURF.

AS FOR YOUR THEORY that God no longer uses military personell and Armies to fulfill HIS WILL, that is UNBIBLICAL TOO.

Hosea 10:10 (GW)
[SUP]10 [/SUP] “I will punish them when I'm ready. Armies will gather to attack them. They will be punished for their many sins.

Malachi 3:6 (GW)
[SUP]6 [/SUP] I, the LORD, never change. That is why you descendants of Jacob haven't been destroyed yet.

Romans 13:4 (ESV)
[SUP]4 [/SUP] for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.

Matthew 8:6-10 (HCSB)
[SUP]6 [/SUP] “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, in terrible agony!”
[SUP]7 [/SUP] “I will come and heal him,” He told him.
[SUP]8 [/SUP] “Lord,” the centurion replied, “I am not worthy to have You come under my roof. But only say the word, and my servant will be cured.
[SUP]9 [/SUP] For I too am a man under authority, having soldiers under my command. I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”
[SUP]10 [/SUP] Hearing this, Jesus was amazed and said to those following Him, “I assure you: I have not found anyone in Israel with so great a faith!

Revelation 19:14-21 (HCSB)
[SUP]14 [/SUP] The armies that were in heaven followed Him on white horses, wearing pure white linen.
[SUP]15 [/SUP] A sharp sword came from His mouth, so that He might strike the nations with it. He will shepherd them with an iron scepter. He will also trample the winepress of the fierce anger of God, the Almighty.
[SUP]16 [/SUP] And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGSAND LORD OF LORDS.
[SUP]17 [/SUP] Then I saw an angel standing on the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice, saying to all the birds flying high overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,
[SUP]18 [/SUP] so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of everyone, both free and slave, small and great.”
[SUP]19 [/SUP] Then I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and against His army.
[SUP]20 [/SUP] But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with him the false prophet, who had performed the signs in his presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image with these signs. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
[SUP]21 [/SUP] The rest were killed with the sword that came from the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

 

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What was the legal process the Europeans used to kill off the natives and put the remnants on reservations and claim the land as theirs, put up borders and laws to restrict others from a land they stole by war and blood.
And who did the 'natives' steal it from in their multitude of tribal wars?...besides one can argue all land not recognized as God's is stolen land.
 
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Kerry

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Let's study history and see who the illegal aliens are. or were they given by God this America?