Another false prophet

Local Pastor on YouTube has this video about Dr Faith. Dr Faith is one of the staff of River IHOP (International House of Prayer, web site: riverihop.com or drfaith.org). She has on her site "An anointed speaker and author, Faith walks in complete humility in her gifts of faith, healing and the prophetic." Too bad. First she supports Todd Bentley then disowns him. Real prophetic gift, huh?

Images, belief, and faith

Images, belief, and faith



People believe what they want to believe. Some make their own "reality". Some have delusions, hallucinations, and weird dreams.

Some believe in atheism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. Some believe anything they read or see in the media. It may be a lie (anything from a full-blown lie to a little-twisting-of-the-truth). It may be real.

Is seeing believing? Most, if not all, atheists are empiricists and/or philosophic naturalists. The only reality is what our senses sense. Sense may be extended with instruments as a microscope, telescope, or computer.

Is the person in the video real or imaginary? You probably know it IS imaginary, but it is close to the real thing isn't it? I'm sure improvements will happen in the future.

What is truth? It has to be measured not by what works, what our senses sense, or what somebody tells us is truth. It has to be measured by a standard. That standard can be identified by a person. An objective look at the Lord Jesus Christ will tell you that He is that person. You can read the evidence here.

Holy Is The Lamb

Do you like Coffey? Here he sings a song he wrote Holy is the Lamb. God is truly holy, that is, without fault.

Praying With Your Family

Do you pray for your family? How important is your family? Can you really do it all yourself? Will the government be the one who helps and cares about your family? Who really loves your family? Who is willing to sacrifice time for your family--the government, friends, school officials, society?

Take time to pray together. Take time to pray for your family. Pray for each child. Pray for your spouse.

He was a religious man; he and his whole family worshiped God. He also did much to help the Jewish poor people and was constantly praying to God. (Acts 10:2)

Prayer At The Family Table @ Yahoo! Video

Is God Evil?

From A.S.A. Jones

I'm always surprised, therefore, when atheists attack Christianity using moral indignation over the slaughter that took place in Numbers 31. Let's examine the issue from a strictly logical, non-emotional perspective.

She has a good answer. We need to be ready to give a reason why we believe. Has anyone ever challenged your faith this way? You can read the rest here.

Atheism

James Orr in his book Christian View of God and the World on lecture note II. Note J. on page 57--found on ccel. org--has an interesting comment on atheism. Seems things haven't changed much.

Note J.—P. 57.
MATERIALISM IN GERMANY.
The descent from an overstrained idealistic Pantheism to materialistic Atheism in Germany—through Feuerbach, Stirner, lingo, etc.—is matter of notoriety. The following extract from an able article on “Lotze’s Theistic Philosophy,” in the Presbyterian Review, vol. vi. (1885), will illustrate the length to which things went in that direction:—“The one-sided opposition of Empiricism to Idealism developed into dogmatic Materialism. From the 18th September 1854, when Rudolf Wagner delivered at Göttingen his famous address on ‘The Creation of Man and the Substance of the Soul,’ the Materialistic conflict raged in Germany for a couple of decades with unabated vigour. Taking up the gauntlet which Wagner had thrown down Karl Vogt entered the lists with ‘Kohlerglaube und Wissenschaft,’ flaunting, amidst satire and ridicule, in the face of his opponent, who had declared himself content with the simple religious faith of the collier, the new famous sentence that ‘thought stands in about the same relation to the brain, as gall to the liver or urine to the kidneys.’ A flood of writings, more or less popular in style, followed, and a sort of religious propaganda was made of the gospel of Materialism, while a fierce crusade was waged against everything claiming to be superior to matter, or a ‘function ‘ of matter. The hostility against religion was pronounced and bitter. The creed preached was Atheism, naked and unashamed. Matter is held to be eternal; physical and chemical forces are the only ultimate agents; the world exists, Vogt tells us, ‘ without organic substance, without a known Creator, nay, without a leading idea.’ Hellwald expressly announces that the task of science is ‘to destroy all ideals, to manifest their hollowness and nothingness, to show that belief in God and religion is deception’; while Buchner, who is ever, if possible, a little more audacious than the rest, sums up the matter as follows: ‘Theism, or belief in a personal God, leads, as all history shows, to monachism, and the rule of priests; Pantheism, or belief in an all-pervading God, leads, where it is in the ascendancy, to contempt of the senses, denial of the Ego , to absorption in God, and to a state of stagnation. Atheism, or philosophical Monism, alone leads to freedom, to intelligence, to progress, to due recognition of man—in a word, to Humanism.’ . . . The progress of Materialism was rapid. Buchner’s Force and Matter, the ‘Bible of German Materialism,’ passed, within twenty years from its first appearance (1858), through no less than fourteen editions, and was translated into almost every language in Europe. The scientific camp was said to be materialistic almost to a man. The common people, among whom this way of thinking was frequently allied with the political tenets of social democracy, were, and are still to-day largely leavened by the infection. The philosophical chairs in the Universities were feeble to resist it. . . . Materialism in Germany is no longer as strong as it was; good authorities express it as their opinion that, as it grew, so also is it waning ‘rapidly ‘” (pp. 652–655).

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There's just something about atheism. It is always at the front to do away with God and any thoughts about Him. Why do they work so hard against Christians? Many have said "because I'm sick and tired of Christians forcing God down my throat." But it seems to me they just want God out of the picture, so their worldview, morality, and life can be without conscience, without guilt, without judgment. I also read something to the effect that humanity needs to get together, and with our minds we can solve its problems. lol

Will be YOU be changed?

If you're not challenged, changed, moved, motivated by this message, something is wrong with your hard, cold heart. O, God have mercy on me; I don't want to be anything but what you want for me.