Being Angry Can Kill You

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Not a Mirror Image

Man is supposed to have been created in the image of God, correct? What does the creation account given in Genesis say, something along the lines of in the image of God He created them, male and female? So, let us consider some of the attributes of God, for if we are in His image it just might behoove us to study His character traits as presented in the Bible in order that we may better understand ourselves.

What are some of the better attributes of God's personality and character? Well, there is creativity if you consider the creation in general. Sociability if you consider the creation of man. Diversity if you consider the variety found in nature AND in human thought and philosophy. Protective if you consider the pillar of fire that traveled with the children of Israel as they fled Egypt. The list goes on and on, correct? But are there any bad attributes?

What is part of life but a grand collection of attributes and ideals and habits and thoughts and things that stand in contrast to each other? For everything that IS, for everything that exists there can usually be found something opposite and this is no different when it comes to God. For all of the good qualities that God is said to possess, to include love, when it comes to the opposing qualities it is God's anger that should concern man the most.

Are you in the image of God? If you wish to be counted as being made in the image of God all of His finer attributes sound swell, but that most negative attribute of anger often quells and trumps the happiness and love. Anger has a way of changing an individual, a group, a family, a belief, a nation...even a God. You name it and it is highly likely that if anger is present the situation WILL be affected negatively as will people, outcomes, responses...everything.

The bottom line is that the greater the grasp of anger on a person/situation the greater the damage done by the vicious imprint left by the anger.

Anger itself CAN be useful but it must be used sparingly lest the abuse of such anger metastasize into an absolutely horrific character trait that, once out of control exhibits a voracious appetite for the total control of others. At its very worst anger can drive the individual/individuals into a dark place that commands, demands, directs, steers, and guides everything and everyone by fear. This anger sees and hears and feels and wants nothing more than more of itself and this ALWAYS ends one tragic way: in full-blown rage and death.

Anger is God's number one problem. The imbalance and imperfection suffered by God because of His recurring bouts of absolute rage and the depth of His anger have not only marred what could and should be very good lessons and messages in the Bible, but this most wicked of attributes has placed a terrible stranglehold on mankind.

Anger kills and we see this every day in some form or other. While this is the truth it must also be remembered that there is also great good in the world and great love that are both readily available and experienced by many. Look inside of yourself and not just because it sounds like a nice thing to do, but because to change something that is affected by anger or that is the effect of anger, well...you are best served by starting from within.

When it comes to starting from within you should take a look at what you believe and why you believe it. Do you believe in a God of love or do you believe in a God of rage? A good clue would be for you to listen to the things you are praying for. Not too long ago I heard a friend of mine praying fervently that God unleash His wrath on the gays/lesbians and on the politicians who support legislation FOR equal rights for the gays/lesbians.

Unleash His wrath. That is what she prayed for, that God bring down the mighty who pursue all things against God, and then raise up all those who are humble and who adhere very tenaciously to the Word of God. It wasn't necessarily just the part about asking for God to unleash His wrath but how she said it. "Lord, unleash your wrath! Show them your terrible anger! Strike down the mighty who care not for your Word, Lord! Be merciful and replace those who are humble in Your Word and in Your eyes into the places of power and leadership! Bring this country back to where it was founded, Lord, on your word!"

Show them your terrible anger? Have you ever wondered what God's terrible anger looks like?

Jeremiah 36:7, says, "Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD and will each turn from their wicked ways, for the anger and wrath pronounced against this people by the LORD are great."

Ezekiel 7:12, says, "Yes, the time has come; the day is here! Buyers should not rejoice over bargains, nor sellers grieve over losses, for all of them will fall under my terrible anger."

Job 16:9, says, "God hates me and angrily tears me apart. He snaps His teeth at me and pierces me with His eyes."

Lord, unleash your wrath? Have you ever seen God's wrath unleashed?

Psalm 78:49, says, "He cast upon them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them."

Lamentations 4:11, says, "The LORD gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations."

Ezekiel 5:13, says, "Thus my anger will be spent and I will satisfy my wrath on them, and I will be appeased; then they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in my zeal when I have spent my wrath upon them."

Yes, I am aware that there are many opinions in the differences in which the LORD or GOD is supposed to have intended these statements to mean. The point is still the same. Lots and lots of anger, and lots and lots of wrath. Explain it any way you wish. Make every excuse possible as to why the perfect God seems to have a great deal of trouble with His anger and His wrath and how such causes Him to behave.

Many people truly believe that humans deserve this anger and wrath from God. Some people go even further and seem to think that they can behave in an angry and vengeful and mean and disgusting manner towards their fellow man because GOD has instructed them to do so and GOD is righteous and perfect in His anger and wrath.

Some people even kill their fellow man with the horrible, insanely delusional idea that they are acting on the righteous anger and instruction from God; the purity of God's wrath gives them the right to do terrible things in the name of God and God's anger...because such is God's judgment...

...after all, God is perfect, even in His anger.

The truth is, and thank goodness for this, not everyone who believes in God and Jesus or Allah are consumed by the supernatural hate of their chosen divine being. But make no mistake about it, there are many people who have this serious God-driven anger 'defect' in their belief repertoire. Sadly, many people who think like this do not want to hear how some people do terrible things in the name of God, no way. If you believe in God and love God and obey God...well then, dammit!! You just go right on ahead and do everything He tells you to do, and everything angry preachers of His gospel of disaster preach to you to do.

That's right. Let that divine anger within you bubble over as you conspire with both the seen and the unseen to harm, maim, or even kill those you (or the Bible, or any interpretation of the Bible for that matter) hold to be contrary to God and therefore an abomination. Abortion doctors and nurses, women who opt for abortions, leaders of gay and lesbian rights movements, gays and lesbians, politicians who support legislation that is deemed contrary to God, individuals or groups holding any faith NOT based on the Bible.Go right on ahead at full speed and don't worry about the angry things that an angry God tells you to do because that anger is just the flip side of the magnificent love of God...

...go right on ahead. Be the dangerous tool manipulated by an angry God. Remember to preach great and grand love first, but if people do not respond always fall back on holy wrath. Fine. Do it. Then, after you are done hurting or maiming or mistreating or killing whomever it is that an anger-driven God or some equally angry whacked out preacher told you to kill...hey, you go right on ahead and pick up that shovel and start digging your own grave...

...because for all of that spiritual fervor and holy and righteous anger, even hope and peace and unfettered love that you truly think you represent you seem to have forgotten that anger kills. Your faith or the angry God of your faith may be informing or instructing you to do various terrible deeds, and that you will have absolution for such; you were doing God's work. That STILL does not hold you exempt from the bottom-line reality of anger...

...anger kills.

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From Bad to Worse

Worst Verses and Ideas in the Bible

This is simply outstanding. It is short and sweet and get right to the point of why many people do not believe in the bullshit of the Bible. This man says you do not need science to disbelieve the Bible since the Bible makes itself unbelievable. I agree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMQCD-k0mvo&list=PLA701B90B78474460

Totally awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh12WWwxGJ0&list=PLA701B90B78474460

You know, maybe if someone invented another outlandish religious text similar to the Bible and then tried to convince Christians that it was in fact total truth, God inspired and absolutely provable in the same manner that Christians try to prove the Bible as actual truth, maybe then at least some Christians would get a teeny bit of an understanding as to what they are doing and how they sound as they try their damnedest to prove the pathetic lie of the Bible as truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RneTF3GG4T4&list=PLA701B90B78474460

Hahahahaa!! I love this video! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDHJ4ztnldQ&list=PLA701B90B78474460

The Bible is absolutely repulsive in many ways. If you do not agree consider the rape of women, selling of children, slaughter of animals (not for eating but for sacrifices), genocide (like when God instructs the Israelites to kill everyone EVERYONE in a city), a massive flood that kills everything but a handful of people and animals on a freaking boat, killing of babies, God killing His own Son (oh, but it was for a good cause)...and there is so much more that it would be better that you look it up to be familiarize yourself with true evil in religion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkXOwBIRX7Y&list=PLA701B90B78474460

That is right. When bad things happen to good people it is God's plan. When babies die horribly it is God's plan. When people cheat in relationships it is God's plan. When nations go to war it is God's plan. When your pet gets run over by a car it is God's plan. When you realize you would be happier with a woman rather than a man and you are a woman...that is God's plan for you. When you beaten up because you are a minority that is God's plan. You know what? God can't plan for shit, can He?

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Ahh. The illusions of God and the even bigger illusion that this God can help you if you pray hard enough to Him. What happens when God does not answer your prayer? Is He ignoring you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6ILZAaAMI&list=PLA701B90B78474460

This lady puts into plain and perfectly understandable English exactly what millions of people think when it comes to the stupidity of claimed miracles by God. God does not perform miracles, never has performed miracles, and never will perform miracles. Of course, this is mainly because He does not exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1KkKg3YPQA&list=PLA701B90B78474460

Again, here we have someone who very succinctly speaks on the stupidity of hell and the equal stupidity of telling people who do not believe in God that they will go to hell. 
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If the Words of the Divine Fall to Erroneous Interpretations of Men Who do not Wish to Hear of Their Mistake, Do those Words Still Sound Like Truth?

　

Sometimes I cannot help but to question the religious acumen of people who very sincerely think and believe that the Holy Bible is total, utter, complete, and final truth. In other books I have written I approach this particular issue from the standpoint of in order for something to be considered truth there must exist within that thing fact. Here, I will be approaching this subject differently.

In general, scholars agree that Jesus was probably born around 6 or 4 BC, and probably died around 30-36 AD. While there were some issues as to the dates various books of the Bible had been written previous to Jesus’ life (Old Testament Books) it was not really until Jesus came into and then out of the picture that the proverbial poop hit the fan big time. It is true that there are some scholars who hotly contest the very existence of Jesus in the first place, but we will not concern ourselves with that. What we will look at are the dates that various books of the Bible were written, when they were discovered, who discovered them, and when were the various books compiled into the Bible as people know it today.

The first five books of the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) are supposed to have been written by Moses. There are, however, great differences of opinion as to whether or not this is in fact the case. Some scholars say that Moses penned all five, some say he penned all except the last eight verses of Deuteronomy, and some even assert that these books of the Old Testament, as well as the others in the Old Testament, evolved with time (LOTS of time; I’m talking hundreds of years) as various individuals compiled fragments of writings. The range of dates of which scholars think these works to have been written is huge, 900 BC to as recent as 2 BC.

The information on who wrote other books in the Old Testament and when they were written is not any easier to figure out. The organization of the Old Testament will sometimes vary from denomination to denomination, but not always. It is also debated whether or not each of the Old Testament books had a different author, or even if one author penned several of the books. Some of the prophets that are said to have contributed to the Old Testament compilation are Samuel, Joshua, Nathan, and Jeremiah. Ezekiel and Isaiah are also said to have contributed, however, differences in the styles of writing utilized indicate to many scholars that more individuals than those mentioned contributed, or even that they edited and added material as they deemed necessary. In the final analysis of the Old Testament a majority of scholars will agree that its creation went through many edits and revisions over hundreds of years before it came to be in its present form.

The evolution of the New Testament is even more interesting. The four gospels are considered by many to have been anonymously written and not, as many would believe, by the hands of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. In the course of their biblical studies and research some scholars came to the conclusion, based on writing style and information contained therein, that whomever wrote Luke also very likely wrote Acts. The book of Matthew, supposedly written by Matthew the tax-collector, is now widely considered to have been written by an individual who was NOT an eye-witness to Jesus, and not only that, but that Matthew was written around 70-100 CE. Notice the date and do the math. You will find that there is a nearly forty year gap between the death of Jesus and when scholars theorize Matthew to have been written. The gospel of John is thought to have been written between 80-95 CE. There are even suggestions that many of the names of the books of the New Testament are NOT the names of the authors, but rather are pseudonyms.

We move on to discuss the various versions of the Bible, books that were left out of the Old Testament and the New Testament, and why.

There are no less than ten, yes, I said TEN, versions of the Holy Bible. The Jewish version of the Bible, the Tanach, has pretty much remained the same over time. The Christian version of the Tanach, the Old Testament, contains serious alterations (additive and deductive) in an effort to further the dogma and ideologies and anything of the like in respect to Christian teachings. The Septuagint is a Greek version of the Bible from around 250 A.D. The Council of Carthage approved the first canonized version of the Bible called the Vulgate in about 400 A.D. Don’t forget Luther’s German version of the Bible in 1534 A.D. King James took a stab at producing yet another version and ended up birthing the error riddled King James Version in 1611 A.D.

Another version was cranked out in 1952 A.D., the Revised Standard version, and utilized the oldest text available to interpret into American English. Not long after that version came the New International version. The New King James version does its best to utilize contemporary English while many consider the Young’s Literal Translation to be the best. Oh, and don’t leave out the New American Standard Version, the New World Translation, and the Christian Bible that was confirmed by the Council of Laodicea in 363 A.D., which did not include the book of Revelation; but no worries about that since a version WITH Revelation added was approved in 367 A.D. It does not stop there, and neither does it get any easier to discern whose version of the Bible is the right one.

In the year 1199 A.D., Pope Innocent III banned what he deemed were unauthorized versions of the Bible. In 1408 A.D., the Wycliff Bible was outlawed by the Oxford Synod. Tyndale’s versions of the Bible were not really received that well being as though there were many people who believed that in the process of translating the text Tyndale changed a good amount of it. In the Synod Of Hippo in 393 A.D., attendees decided what they did and did not want to include in the Bible. The Council of Trent in 1545-1563 A.D., approved a Catholic version. The Eastern Orthodox version not only has a few MORE books, but they are also in a different order. Many Protestants consider the doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation devised in the Councils of Nicaea (in 325 A.D.) and Chalcedon to be the correct doctrine to adhere to. Such is not accepted by the Oriental Orthodox who instead prefer to teach that Christ had one nature that was comprised of both the Godhead and manhood.

By the way, it was at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. that it was first decided that Jesus Christ was indeed God. As if all the bickering from that was not enough, ecumenical tiffs persisted in ideas of Christ’s two natures BEFORE the incarnation, when the two natures merged into one nature, and when the Word was made flesh. There is so much more to this mess, but it would really take an entire volume in itself (a very large volume) and that is not a task I personally wish to tackle. All that I am giving to you is some very, very light information. I hope you will be moved to further investigate these things on your own. In this day and age of computers this is a very easy thing to do inasmuch as having a load of information at your fingertips is concerned.

Ahh, the Roman Catholic Apocrypha. Protestants and many denominations of Christianity absolutely refuse to recognize any of the books of the Apocrypha as the Word of God. Of course, there are those Catholics who will not be shy in pointing out that many denominations simply do not have the full extent of the true scriptures inspired by God. Books included in the Roman Catholic Apocrypha are (not necessarily in this order, mind you) Wisdom, Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus, Tobit, First and Second Maccabees, as well as additions made to the books of Ester and Daniel. There are even more Apocryphal books that the Catholics refuse to include in their version of the Bible.

Many of those who would rather that the books of the Apocrypha burn in hell right beside all of those who choose to believe or think differently assert that the Apocrypha speaks of money making atonement for sins, the Mother Mary being born sinless, magical spells and incantations, and that it encourages or teaches practices contrary to the purpose of believing in God in the first place.

Interesting. Sounds very similar to a lot of the crap that modern-day preachers love to cram down the throats of the present-day Children of God. Turn on your television any given Sunday and you will find a trove of shows where supposed men of God dressed in silk suits pounce about a stage asking people to send in money. And while there really are not many preachers who will say they are sinless, they sure do love to point out the sin of all those who choose to believe and think differently than they do; that all who do not believe in God and who are not ‘saved’ by Christ are going to hell.

What about magical spells and incantations? This one always get me, right? See, perhaps you are ‘calling corners’ or requesting the help of the Guardian of the North of the Element of Earth. Maybe you will say something along the lines of, “Hail, to the Guardian of the North of the Element of the Earth! Peace to you and thank you for this day! May you enter this circle and bless me and protect me and grant that which I ask of you!” How is that any different, if only in the names of those of whom you are requesting help from, than saying a prayer such as, “Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for today! Help me to be strong for this day and may you keep me and protect me! Keep your protective hands about me, Lord! Lord, hear this prayer I ask of you, in Jesus’ name, amen!”

Perhaps some of the biggest questions should be saved for some of the things people are either told to do in the name of the Christian God, or that they take upon themselves to do in the name of the Christian God, or in all reality any God for that matter. Thievery, trickery, murder, mayhem. Not very nice things at all, are they? In reality ANY religion and EVERY GOD is subject to someone, somewhere taking something out of proportion and mistreating people in a pathetic bid to wrest power from those who are either too ignorant or too stupid to recognize they have any power to begin with.

So, getting back to the title of this chapter in this book, how do you know what is the right thing to believe in? How do you know what is truth? There have been so many versions of what people hold to be scripture inspired by God, so many versions of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. Who is right? Who is mostly right? Who is mostly wrong? Who has the purest version of the Bible? Who has the correct instructions of how people should live and treat each other? Who has the instructions for the proper way to pray (provided that there is actually a proper way to pray)?

Who is or has written scripture that really is inspired by God? How does anyone anywhere know if something purported to be scripture really is inspired by God? Who are these people and these councils and gatherings over the many centuries who have squabbled and fought over the interpretation of God and everything related to such? Worse yet, why do people continue to fight over a subject where no one can even agree for half a second on what qualifies as truth, and how to correct errors supposed to be in that version of truth? Besides, if something contains error, well, then it cannot be truth, correct? And while denomination after denomination bickers over whose version of God and God’s Word is correct the truth of the matter is that the love that is supposed to be God, the love that God supposedly wants all of his children to show others is COMPLETELY LOST in a sickening twirl of finger-pointing and hell-condemning.

None of those who assert that they have the one and only truth of God, the one and only inspiration of God want to hear that what they have is not truth. They don’t even want to catch wind of the possibility that what they cling to is not truth, or that it has been corrupted either by the very authors claiming divine inspiration or those interpreting such hotly-contested ‘holy words’ and stories.

So, if the words of the divine fall to the erroneous interpretations of men who do not wish to hear of their mistake, do those words still sound like truth?

Apparently so, for some people. Apparently so.

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