Thursday, February 6, 2025

CRAFTY RULES FOR DISENGAGING WITH THE QUEST FOR ETERNAL REALITY. The God Who Cares Is the God Who Is Near, But Consult ChatGPT To See What The Devil Would Do To Keep The Disconnect And We Learn: nothing changes the same strategies have been deployed for millennia.

 

1. Create Disbelief and Denial of God

• Goal: Convince people that God does not exist or that belief in God is unnecessary.
• Tactics:
• Promote atheism, agnosticism, or skepticism.
• Raise questions like, “If God exists, why is there suffering?” or “Isn’t religion just a human construct?”
• Focus on scientific or material explanations for life to exclude the need for spirituality.

2. Foster Doubt and Confusion
• Goal: Plant seeds of doubt in people’s hearts about the existence, nature, or fairness of God.
• Tactics:
• Make people question their faith, e.g., “Does God really love you?” or “Are these teachings true?”
• Confuse them about religious teachings or overwhelm them with contradictory philosophies.
• Highlight perceived inconsistencies in scripture or doctrine.

3. Distract with Worldly Pleasures
• Goal: Make people prioritize temporary pleasures over their spiritual life.
• Tactics:
• Overindulge in materialism, wealth, fame, entertainment, and sensory gratification.
• Make people obsessed with achieving worldly success, status, or possessions.
• Keep them busy with endless distractions (e.g., technology, social media, or excessive entertainment) so they have no time for spiritual reflection.

4. Promote Sin and Temptation
• Goal: Lead people into sinful behavior that creates guilt, distance from God, and spiritual corruption.
• Tactics:
• Make sin seem enjoyable, harmless, or “modern.”
• Normalize immoral behavior in society so it becomes acceptable.
• Introduce gradual temptations, starting small before leading to bigger wrongdoings.

5. Instill Arrogance and Self-Sufficiency
• Goal: Make people believe they don’t need God.
• Tactics:
• Encourage pride and arrogance, convincing people they are self-sufficient.
• Make them think they are “too intelligent” or “too advanced” to believe in God.
• Promote ego-driven philosophies like, “You are your own god” or “Your happiness is all that matters.”

6. Encourage Spiritual Apathy
• Goal: Make people indifferent to God, religion, or spiritual practices.
• Tactics:
• Whisper thoughts like, “Why bother? God doesn’t care,” or “You can always get serious about faith later.”
• Promote laziness in performing acts of worship, such as prayer, fasting, or charity.
• Make them feel that religion is boring, outdated, or irrelevant.

7. Exploit Human Weaknesses
• Goal: Use people’s vulnerabilities (e.g., emotions, desires, fears) to turn them away from God.
• Tactics:
• Exploit feelings of anger, jealousy, or despair to make them lose faith.
• Instill excessive fear of God’s punishment, making them feel unworthy of forgiveness.
• Promote shame over past sins to discourage repentance or seeking God’s mercy.

8. Divide and Conquer
• Goal: Create division and hostility among people, weakening their collective spirituality.
• Tactics:
• Sow discord among religious communities through sectarianism or intolerance.
• Create division between people and their families or communities.
• Encourage judgmental or hypocritical attitudes, making religion seem harsh or unkind.

9. Replace God with False Idols
• Goal: Shift worship and devotion away from God toward worldly or false sources.
• Tactics:
• Promote idolatry or worship of false gods (literal or metaphorical).
• Encourage excessive devotion to celebrities, ideologies, political movements, or material success.
• Make people idolize themselves or others as infallible, instead of acknowledging God’s supremacy.

11. Instill Despair and Hopelessness
• Goal: Make people believe they are beyond redemption or that life is meaningless.
• Tactics:
• Convince them that their sins are too great to be forgiven.
• Whisper thoughts like, “God doesn’t care about you,” or “You’re too far gone to turn back.”
• Create feelings of despair, anxiety, or nihilism, cutting off the hope of connecting with God.

12. Mock Religion and Believers
• Goal: Undermine religion and ridicule those who follow it.
• Tactics:
• Portray religious practices as outdated, oppressive, or foolish.
• Label devout individuals as fanatics, extremists, or hypocrites.
• Use media, art, or culture to trivialize or mock the concept of God.

13. Encourage False Worship
• Goal: Promote rituals or practices that appear spiritual but lead people further away from God.
• Tactics:
• Encourage superstition or magical thinking.
• Lead people toward cults, mysticism, or ideologies that distort true spirituality.
• Promote self-worship or false saviors who claim to offer divine solutions.

Sunday, February 2, 2025

The Difference Between Those Who Lie And Those Who Stand Up For The Truth

 HOW THE APOSTLES DIED.

Each one of these brave men held onto their faith to death, they did not renounce Jesus Christ and stuck to their witness of events that happened. Men who defend a lie cannot do that.

1. Matthew

Suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, Killed by a sword wound.

2. Mark

Died in Alexandria, Egypt , after being dragged by Horses through the streets until he was dead.

3. Luke

Was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous Preaching to the lost.

4. John

Faced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge Basin of boiling oil during a wave of persecution In Rome. However, he was miraculously delivered From death.

John was then sentenced to the mines on the prison Island of Patmos. He wrote his prophetic Book of Revelation on Patmos . The apostle John was later freed and returned to serve As Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey . He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully

5. Peter

He was crucified upside down on an x-shaped cross.

According to church tradition it was because he told his tormentors that he felt unworthy to die In the same way that Jesus Christ had died.

6. James

The leader of the church in Jerusalem , was thrown over a hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle of the Temple when he refused to deny his faith in Christ. When they discovered that he survived the fall, his enemies beat James to death with a fuller's club.

* This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during the Temptation.

7. James the Son of Zebedee,

was a fisherman by trade when Jesus Called him to a lifetime of ministry. As a strong leader of the church, James was beheaded at Jerusalem. The Roman officer who guarded James watched amazed as James defended his faith at his trial. Later, the officer Walked beside James to the place of execution. Overcome by conviction, he declared his new faith to the judge and Knelt beside James to accept beheading as a Christian.

8. Bartholomew

Also known as Nathaniel Was a missionary to Asia. He witnessed for our Lord in present day Turkey. Bartholomew was martyred for his preaching in Armenia where he was flayed to death by a whip.

9. Andrew

Was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras, Greece. After being whipped severely by seven soldiers they tied his body to the cross with cords to prolong his agony. His followers reported that, when he was led toward the cross, Andrew saluted it in these words: 'I have long desired and expected this happy hour. The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it.' He continued to preach to his tormentors For two days until he expired.

10. Thomas

Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to establish the church in the Sub-continent.

11. Jude

Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in Christ.

12. Matthias

The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot, was stoned and then beheaded.

13. Paul

Was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero at Rome in A.D. 67. Paul endured a lengthy imprisonment, which allowed him to write his many epistles to the churches he had formed throughout the Roman Empire. These letters, which taught many of the foundational Doctrines of Christianity, form a large portion of the New Testament.