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[Rick C. Hodgin]

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--
Rick C. Hodgin

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[Rick C. Hodgin]

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--
Rick C. Hodgin

[jacobnavia]

The bible

1) Justification of genocide:

<quote>
Deuteronomy 2:31-34 New International Version (NIV)

31 The Lord said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his
country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”

32 When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz,
33 the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down,
together with his sons and his whole army.
34 At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them men,
women and children. We left no survivors.
<end quote>

That is the bible. The justification of genocide.
Modern day religious jews use that to justify the slaughter of palestinians.


2) Hate against homosexuals:

<quote>
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed
an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon
them. (Leviticus 20:13)
<end quote>

The bible is an abomination.


3) Discrimination against women:

“Let a woman learn in silence and full submission. I permit no woman to
teach or to have authority over a man; she is to be silent.” The
author’s rationale: “For Adam was formed first, then Eve, and Adam was
not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor” (1
Timothy 2:8-14)

All evil is rooted in religion.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 11:36:38 AM UTC-4, jacobnavia wrote:
> The bible is an abomination.

> All evil is rooted in religion.

All people who are perishing believe as you do, Jacob.

It is the enemy deceiving you so you'll reject Jesus Christ
and your soul will be destroyed.

You have bought in to the enemy's lies because you will not
believe the truth.

I am sad for you. You self-condemn.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Queequeg]

jacobnavia <ja...@jacob.remcomp.fr> wrote:

> All evil is rooted in religion.

True.

--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lSzL1DqQn0

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 11:36:38 AM UTC-4, jacobnavia wrote:
> The bible

If you were wrong in your understanding, would you want to know?

> 1) Justification of genocide:
>
> <quote>
> Deuteronomy 2:31-34 New International Version (NIV)
>
> 31 The Lord said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his
> country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”
> 32 When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz,
> 33 the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down,
> together with his sons and his whole army.
> 34 At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them men,
> women and children. We left no survivors.
> <end quote>
>
> That is the bible. The justification of genocide.

If you were able to see through time and look forward to the future
and see the result of the seeds that were planted in a city, what
would those seeds reveal?

We see this in various forms of literature, movies, TV shows. The
alternate future "I wish I'd never been born" and then we get to see
what life would be like if that hadn't been born, such as in the
famous classic movie, "It's a Wonderful Life."

In the movie Back to the Future Part II, we see the alternate future
only 30 years from the 1955 timeline and the effect one corrupt per-
son had on Hill Valley.

What if you were God and you looked forward through time thousands
of years and could see what corruption the world would contain were
things to go forward with the corrupt peoples of the times being
able to continue on without being in check? How many billions of
lives over thousands of years would be lost to sin and corruption
because that's the only influence the world has ever known?

God was giving the land to His people, and He had called them (by
and through Moses) to be holy. He commanded them to wipe out cer-
tain aspects of those societies completely, so that only His influ-
ence through His People (Israel) would continue.

But even Israel did not obey and time and time and time again they
went into captivity, had their land taken from them, and when their
Messiah finally arrived in Jesus ... the land and people were so
corrupt they couldn't even see Him as their Messiah.

Jesus then turned His attention to the Gentiles (non-Jews) world-
wide and opened up His Kingdom to them because the Jewish nation
had made herself unclean in His sight. Jesus actually teaches a
parable about this in Luke 14:15-24, and specifically verse 24:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+14%3A15-24&version=NIV

God has been creating for Himself a clean bride, without spot or
blemish. He looked through time and tried to save billions of
future souls by not letting all of those descendants fall prey to
the evil influences which were already entrenched in our societies.

Remember that God had already destroyed the entire Earth's population
once in the days of Noah, and started over with Noah (a preacher) and
his wife, and their three sons and their wives (a total of 8 people
in all).

God's entire purpose on Earth was the salvation of as many people
as is possible. He was able to see through time and see the cor-
ruption the anti-Christ spirit induced in societies where people
were willing to engage in sin. Those evil spirits cannot influence
this world in their spirit form, but they can only do so through a
body. They seek to enter the flesh of people, and in some cases
(we learn from the New Testament) even animals (as Legion begs of
Jesus that they be allowed to go into the pigs rather than being
cast out of all bodies completely).

That is why God commanded that all of the unclean, unholy people
of that nation be killed. He was going to give the same number of
children the people there would've had, but they would've been
raised under His laws, His guidance, and they would've been saved
rather than being lost because of sin.

God saw through time at the billions of lost souls and was not
willing to lose billions to sin. He guided His people to go and
kills 10s of thousands, including men, women, children, and the
animals, so that none of those evil spirits would remain in His
holy nation of Israel, so that He could guide them and protect
them and raise up billions of saved souls through His guidance.

HE WAS LOOKING OUT FOR PEOPLE, Jacob.
HE WAS LOOKING OUT FOR THEIR ETERNAL SOULS!
HE WAS LOOKING TO SAVE AS MANY AS POSSIBLE BY REMOVING THE ONES
THAT HE (BEING GOD) __KNEW__ WERE BAD APPLES IN THE BUNCH, AND
WOULD'VE CORRUPTED ISRAEL AND BILLIONS MORE WOULD'VE BEEN LOST.

You ascribe genocide to God. Who is God? Is He the giver of
life? Is He the one who demands the day of our life ending in
this world? Who can fight against that final day when our number
is up and it is our time to leave this world? Can the billionaire
spend 100s of millions per day to gain extra time on Earth, or when
his/her number's up, is that the end of their Earthly life?

You ascribe things to God which are not His. He operates in ways
that we do not consider naturally. He exists outside of time, is
able to probe possible future outcomes. He steps in and sends His
Holy angels to intervene in people's lives who will be saved. He
is at work in this world today countering the effects of sin in
people's lives continually.

One day, when we are free from our spiritual blindness and the
separation that keeps us from understanding the eternal things of
God rightly (our sin), when we are free from that sin and we are
able to see and know all things from the proper perspective, then
we will know how much God stepped into each of our lives (even of
those lives of the people who rejected Him) to prevent Satan's
continuous attacks and outrage each person's soul.

God is the giver of life. He is the saver of life. He came to
this Earth that we might have life (eternal life), and that our
life here (and there) might be more abundant.

You ascribe things to God through man's limited fallen-in-sin
viewpoint. You refuse to consider ANY possibility that God is
not the evil that the enemy of God claims He is. You grab hold
of the enemy's lies about Him and hold on to those as though they
were the truth.

This is why I say you do not believe because you will not hear
the truth. You put your hands over your ears and make noises
like "blah blah blah blah blah" when people try to teach you the
truth because you love your sin and do not want to know the truth
because the sin living inside of you owns your life by your own
choices to continue pursuing it.

If you would be willing to hear the truth, God would reach into
your life and save your eternal soul. But you will not, and it
is you who maintains that erected barrier of damnation around
yourself, impenetrable to God because He honors your choices, and
has given you free will to choose.

If you would turn toward Him 1/10,000th of a centimeter, He would
come running to you and draw you out of the sin and the muck and
the filth and the death, and He would clean you up, set you on the
right path, and give you eternal life and riches even in Heaven.

But instead you cast Him into the viewpoint the enemy anti-Christ
spirit teaches you about Him, and it will cost you everything.

> Modern day religious jews use that to justify the slaughter of palestinians.

The land was given to the Jews. And it is not the Jews who are
doing any slaughtering. Daily missiles are being launched into
Israel destroying homes, families, causing death and destruction
to much property.

God will soon turn His attention back to the Jews full-time.
This age of Gentiles is not yet fulfilled, but that time is
soon approaching. Israel is now 70 years old (turning 71 in
May 2019, a Biblically significant age, and one which relates
to various Biblical prophecy about the timing of the Lord's
return), as is the reclamation of Jerusalem in the Six Day's
War, where supernatural events took place which caused tiny
military, barely functioning at that time Israel to overwhelm
the larger armies in place.

When the rapture takes place, God will again focus His attention
on Israel, and you will see the Jews becoming the "new Christians"
and they then acknowledge that Jesus is the Messiah they had pre-
viously rejected.

> 2) Hate against homosexuals:
>
> <quote>
> If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed
> an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon
> them. (Leviticus 20:13)
> <end quote>
>
> The bible is an abomination.

Homosexuality is not natural. It is also taught and the influences
people say they feel about simply 'feeling gay' come from those same
evil spirits teaching that God is a God of genocide, rather than a
God of saving billions of souls by trying to keep that corruption in
man from dominating the Earth.

Jesus is able to set people free from that spiritual attack too, by
the way. Many people who come to Christ are set free from homosex-
uality because it is an anti-Christ intrusion upon the flesh, a type
of demon possession that doesn't result in heads spinning and pea
soup vomiting, but is simply the perverted life away from God those
evil spirits possess and occupy within us through sin.

When Jesus saves us, our sin is taken away and we are set free from
those entanglements. He gives us power to remain free from them,
but many people return back to their metaphoric "vomit" after they
are set free, resulting in a worse state than they were in before.

True salvation is a call unto holiness, unto obedience to God, be-
cause God's ways empower us, protect us, guard us, our families,
our neighbors, our lives. God's ways are given to us by God as our
Creator for our protection, for ourselves, our families, our com-
munities, our nations, the whole world. They do not manifest be-
cause there's an enemy spirit here tempting our flesh toward sin,
and people will not turn away from sin but seek to embrace it with
both hands holding onto it no matter what.

It's so powerful a hold on people that even if you warn them they
will perish in eternal Hellfire in flames and agony FOREVER, they
will not even listen to you because the enemy spirit has them so
convinced that it won't happen that they're effectively blind to
it.

> 3) Discrimination against women:
>
> “Let a woman learn in silence and full submission. I permit no woman to
> teach or to have authority over a man; she is to be silent.” The
> author’s rationale: “For Adam was formed first, then Eve, and Adam was
> not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor” (1
> Timothy 2:8-14)
>
> All evil is rooted in religion.

Women are not allowed to teach for the very reason that women were
the first ones to be tempted away from God by Satan's influence.
It was the woman who ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil first, and she gave some to Adam tempting him and he
did eat.

Women also have menstrual cycles today where they shed blood, a
reminder of the fact that it was the blood of Christ who would
later save them.

Paul's guidance there in 1 Timothy was given to Timothy, a young
man who was becoming a teacher / preacher / minister / pastor /
bishop, in teaching him how to regard a service, how to maintain
a church.

The women Paul was speaking about there were the kind you might
see at a sports game today, the kind who are hooting and hollering
and making noise during the teaching.

Paul was demanding that those kind of women learn in silence so
as to not be disruptive. But if you look throughout the entire
New Testament there are counts after counts after counts of women
who are in significant roles, even pastoring churches with their
husbands.

Paul taught that a woman can teach women and children on her own,
but in order to be able to teach a man she must be under a man,
meaning subject to her husband.

This is the in-order way to do things in God's Kingdom because
there is a hierarchy: Christ, man, women, children. It is the
natural way He made things, and has provided for all people of
the world in this way until the recent decades where Satan has
encouraged women to rise up and do the work of men all the day
long, thereby letting their responsibilities to raise children
fall to the State government, resulting in the State now teach-
ing children what it wants to, rather than passing down the prior
family values, and allowing God to work in that family to keep
them protected by those same rules that you say are so very harm-
ful to our societies.

You embrace the enemy's attacks against the family calling them
the correct thing, and reject God's guidance to keep families in
tact so they can be guided by God and not the anti-Christ's in-
fluence through the State government's rule of schools and all
related institutions / influences.

And look at the world we have less than 100 years after the main
"Women's Liberation" movements. Teenage pregnancy. In the U.S.,
a 13 year old girl can go and have an abortion, but she has to be
18 years old to go see a movie about abortion in the movie theater.

-----
Satan has confounded the world. He's twisted the things of God
into beliefs against God, so that people who grab hold of sin are
fully content to follow after his guidance now, rather than the
time-honored and true guidance of God.

And, by the way, in the past there have been MANY MANY heinous
and beyond belief things done in the name of Christ, or in the
name of Christianity, or in the name of whatever there is related
to religion.

ALL OF IT has been the guidance of that same anti-Christ spirit
working AGAINST God, against all of us, against everything that
God has provided for in the Bible, so that we are deceived into
doing perverted things, hateful things, harmful things, rather
than following after God in the true nature of that very spirit
He has given us all things ("Love God, and love thy neighbor as
thyself").

If people followed after God as He teaches, and did not listen
to the enemy anti-Christ spirit's guidance, this world would've
resulted in more and more families, communities, nations, and the
billions and billions and billions of people throughout the thou-
sands of years, being saved.

Instead, because of sin, countless billions are lost, and more
and more are being lost everyday believing those things you do
believe too, Jacob.

You are part of the perishing lot. You will not grab hold of the
truth and receive it, so you grab hold of the lie and not only
receive it, but embrace it and teach others the same things. You
will not listen to God, but you follow the guidance of an absolutely
insanely mad anti-Christ spirit of evil, who guides you into man's
wisdom which is leading you literally on the path to eternal Hell.

It is so incredibly sad for me and other Christians to see this
happening to billions and billions of people world-wide, but even
when we tell you the truth, even when we spend hundreds of lines
to try and teach you the truth YOU WILL NOT HEAR ANY OF IT. You
not only reject it, but if we were standing there in front of us
and you thought you could get away with it you would kill us where
we stand for speaking and teaching such things.

It is the enemy anti-Christ spirit alive inside of you and others
like you because of sin. And you could be set free today if you
would turn toward Christ and ask Him for forgiveness, and ask Him
to guide you instead of that wicked enemy.

You and others like you are all being given the opportunity right
now to hear the truth. You can come to Jesus today, this very
second, and ask Him to forgive you and He will. He will forgive
everything you've done against Him, against people, no matter what
it was, how bad it was, to whom it was done, or for how long. He
is the God of forgiveness and love and He desires with greatest
longing to save your eternal souls from death. It's why if you
would turn even 1/10,000th of a centimeter toward Him, He would
do the rest pulling you into salvation.

Consider these things, Jacob. You're being lied to by an enemy
anti-Christ spirit, the enemy of God, the enemy of you, into be-
lieving these things you believe that are casting God into a neg-
ative light. You need to turn away from that enemy and seek the
truth, and God will guide you to it and bring it to you.

Trust in God. He will never fail you.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 9:41:36 PM UTC-4, Queequeg wrote:
> jacobnavia <ja...@jacob.remcomp.fr> wrote:
> > All evil is rooted in religion.
>
> True.

False. Evil exists and men through sin are willing to take hold
of evil guidance and run with it. It comes down to a seeking of
something personal (wealth, power, prestige). The Bible says it
this way:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+6%3A10&version=KJV

10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while
some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and
pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

The word there used for "money" has a root that's more in covetnous,
averice, a personal seeking of things:

https://biblehub.com/greek/5365.htm

The enemy uses the desires of our flesh to tempt us to sin, and
when we do follow his guidance we become his agents. It's why
it only takes a little introduction to a small sin to see a life
then completely taken over by deeper sins in a short period of
time.

"My cousin only tried pot last year. Now he's addicted to heroine."

When we acquiesce to the enemy's temptation of us to sin even one
time, we let him into our life, and he is there then guiding us
in our thinking, our decisions, our goals, etc., from that point
forward ... until we come to Christ when He sets us free, and all
those chains are broken, all those ties are unfastened, and we are
truly made free as our spirit comes alive in Him forever.

But even then, we can still go back and follow our flesh again and
become entangled in the same kinds of things He had previously set
us free from, resulting in an even worse state than before as there
remains no more atonement for our sin at that point.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Queequeg]

Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> > All evil is rooted in religion.
>>
>> True.
>
> False.

Well, you seem a bit biased.

--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lSzL1DqQn0

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 10:00:21 PM UTC-4, Queequeg wrote:
> Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > All evil is rooted in religion.
> >> True.
> > False.
>
> Well, you seem a bit biased.

Not biased ... informed.

The Bible teaches the truth. People won't receive it because
they are love sin (falseness) more than truth.

Think on these things, Queequeg. God is not trying to deceive
or mock you. He's teaching you the truth, guiding you away from
the enemy's multi-faceted stranglehold of death-focused lies
spewn out of his mouth designed for one purpose: to deceive you.

God is and teaches obly truth. Think about it... could truth
do any other?

Read and study the Bible and seek the truth and put what God teaches
to the test. Demand of Him answers and see if He doesn't provide
you with all you could seek and more.

He will light up your life.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Chad]

Some of the ancient tribes in South America, China, and Africa believed that life was created by Aliens. And what people perceive as "God" in the bible is actually these same beings watching us evolve. This might sound a bit looney, but some of these tribes have pretty accurate information about the solar system. None of which would have been known without the aid of a telescope and things like Calculus.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

The truth speaks with one voice. It doesn't have alternate or other
explanations. "How old are you?" There is one true answer to that
question, and many false answers. It is the same with all things.

Satan isn't constrained with having only one lie, or one alternate
suggestion. He just needs to pick one, any one, the one YOU will
believe, and then convince you of that one lie, so you are then
apart from the truth.

There is no hard evidence that the Earth is older than the Biblical
timeframe of about 6,000 years. There is a lot of evidence that it
is only about 6,000 years old, but it's not accepted by "mainstream
science" as they report only theories about what it could be. But
if you read their words, it always says, "It must've been that..."
or "If the preceding premise is true, it's likely the following..."
and other such words which do not nail it down.

And now that we're entering the world of genetics, we are beginning
to realize exactly how complex life is, and how balanced on a knife-
edge life is, and how there are so many fragile and truly miraculous
things happening inside of our body, with information systems convey-
ing messages from one part to another, chemical signatures that if
even one gene is altered result in a non-viable genetic code, and a
life that aborts itself during gestation.

God is everywhere in this world.

The only reason people can't see it is because they won't look for
it. They won't believe the possibility that God is true and that
He really is trying to save our eternal souls, but instead because
of sin they are content to believe whatever lie comes their way
that the rest of the herd are believing.

God calls out to each person individually, as He's concerned with
each person individually. He has a desire to have a relationship,
a personal one-on-one relationship, with each person individually.

Search out the facts, the details, the component parts of all of
the things that teach against God and you'll find at their root
there is some assumption, some lie, some misrepresentation of its
workings. Tear it down to its parts, and reconstruct it fully,
and you will find the truth, and that truth will be God there
waiting for you saying, "Hello. Welcome to knowledge apart from
sin."

--
Rick C. Hodgin