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J. D. Thomas, of the ACC
Bible faculty, noted the unacceptable world view
implied in such a doctrine of the Spirit:
“We must discount the
idea of ‘biblical Deism,’
which ASSUMES
that God started the Christian system
and left the
Bible down here to do what it could,
SAYING THAT
ANY CHURCH OF CHRIST BELIEVES THAT IS A
PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIE.
John 6:62
What and if ye shall see the Son of man
ascend up
where he was before?
John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT
that quickeneth;
the flesh
profiteth nothing:
the WORDS that I SPEAK
unto you,
they are SPIRIT,
and they are life.
Leonard Allen: BUT,
meanwhile, [The mocking
claim]
He [God],
Christ, and the Spirit
have all retired
to heaven
and have
nothing to do with the world until the end,
when THEY
will come back
and check up
to see how it all worked out.
JESUS IS THE ONLY PROPHET, PRIEST (INTERCESSOR) KING
AND RABBI. Only those with A Holy Spirit or A good
conscience are CO-PERCEIVERS able to read BLACK text on
BROWN paper (2 Corinthians 3. Because Theologians
are not students or Disciples of Jesus in the STATE
(never a person] of HOLY SPIRIT
Matt. 11:27 ALL THINGS
are delivered unto me of my Father:
and no man
knoweth the Son, but the Father;
neither knoweth
any man the Father, save the Son,
and he to whomsoever
the Son will reveal him.
Matt. 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are
heavy laden,
and I will give
you rest.
Matt. 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, AND LEARN OF ME;
for I am meek
and lowly in heart:
and ye shall
find REST unto your souls.
Matt. 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is
light.
Disco
percipio, concipio, comprehendo, intellego,
cognosco, manthanō
GO and make Disciples.
Manthanō
, learners, pupils,
Skhol-azō , A.
Devote oneself to a Master: Jesus is the ONLY
Master Teacher even when Senior Pastors claim that THEY
are.
rĕ-quĭes relaxation, respite,
intermission, recreation
rĕ-fĭcĭo , fēci, fectum (AEDIFICIA
REFACTA,
I.to
make again, make anew, put
in condition again; to remake, restore,
renew, rebuild, repair, refit,
recruit, etc. (freq. and class.; syn.: renovo,
restauro, redintegro). in a religious sense, to
build up, instruct,
edify.
Rom. 12:2 And be not conformed
to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing
of YOUR mind, that ye may prove what is that
good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Eph. 4:23 And be renewed
in the SPIRIT of your mind;
The Will of the Lord, the Spirit or the Word
of Christ is the ONLY resource for SPEAKING
which is in conflict with ODE or PSALLO
classis
called together for edification or education.
aedificasset
classes,”
in a religious sense, to build up, instruct,
edify.
in -strŭo B. In
partic., to provide with information, to
teach, instruct: “
1. Arranged, prepared; instructed:
“jam
instructa
sunt
mihi
in
corde
consilia
omnia,”
BUT NOT UNTIL BOTH MEN AND WOMEN BECOME SILENT "So that
all might be SAFE and come to a knowledge of the Truth. If
we REST with Jesus we first are liberated from:
Pauo
STOP: a 1.1 of
one singing or speaking, 17.359, Hdt.7.8.d
: forced, cessation.take one's
rest,
STOP
lupas ōdais
p.
E.Med.197
(anap.), etc. ; p.
toxon
let the bow rest, Od.21.279
; “
lupas
the PAIN of ODES: called enchantment
always known to cause mental pain.
Psallo is derived from twitching the toxon or bow: a
one-stringed harp: STOP it
STOP -boē
, Dor. boa
, hē,
also, song of joy, “itō
xunaulos
boa
khara”
E.El.879(lyr.),
of oracles, “aeidousa
. . boas
as
an
Apollōn
keladēsē”
E.Ion 92
shout, murmur of a crowd sound of musical
instruments, “auloi
phormigges
te
boēn
ekhon”
Therion: the BEAST: A new style of |
REJECTING HISTORICAL SCHOLARS TO
INTERPRET SCRIPTURE A DISEASED TUMOR
Richard T. Hughes and C. Leonard
Allen, Discovering our Roots: From page 5 "This attitude toward the past
characterized the early movement... Propelled by such
an attitude toward the past, restoration movements
like ours easily develop a kind of historylessness. By this term I refer to the
perception that, while other churches or movements are
snared in the web
of profane history,
one's own church or movement
stands above mere
human history.
One's own movement partakes only of the perfections of the first age, the sacred time of pure
beginnings... This sense of historylessness works in powerful and subtle ways. In the process it creates exhilarating (and damaging) illusions.
"Among Churches of Christ it
often has meant that we simply discounted eighteen
centuries of
Christianity as,
at worst, a diseased tumor or, at best, an instructive failure.
And not surprisingly, the same
attitude has led many people among Churches of Christ to
dismiss their own history as itself irrelevant.
For after all, if our
origins come entirely from the Bible and our churches are New Testament
churches, then we really need not bother ourselves with
the recent past.
Richard T. Hughes and C.
Leonard Allen, Discovering our Roots: On page 7, \he
writes: "In the
process we sought not so much to understand earlier Christian
movements in all their complexity. We sought rather to decry
them or on occasion simply
to ridicule them. For
they obviously ran in the stream of profane history,
swept along by little more than human
willfulness and ignorance.
But our movement was different. It did not
run in any wide and turgid stream.
Rather, it gushed directly out of the spring, forming only a crystal clear pool
around it... It was an exciting story, almost
the stuff of epics and legends."
"For many in our churches today,
the restoration vision is a dead-end street, an essentially useless category" (p. 121).
"And so we are left
with no useful past, no clear identity, and no meaningful
legacy. Essentially we are spiritual orphans" (p. 122).
John 14:15
IF ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father,
and he shall
give you another Comforter, [g3875. parakletos]
that he may
abide with you for ever;
John 14:17 Even the Spirit OF TRUTH [Mind[ whom the world cannot receive,
because it
seeth him not, neither knoweth him:
but ye know him; for he
dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John 14:1 I will
not leave you comfortless: I
will come to you.
John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world SEETH
ME no more;
but ye see me:
because I live, ye shall live also.
John 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am IN my Father, and ye
in me, and I in you.
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth
them,
he it is that loveth
me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my
Father,
And I will love him,
and will manifest myself to him
1John 2:1 My little children,
these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.
And if any man sin,
we have an advocate [g3875.
parakletos] with the
Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous:
1John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not
for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if
we keep his commandments.
1John 2:4 He that saith, I know him,
and keepeth not his
commandments,
is a liar, and the truth is not
in him.
1John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his WORD,
in him verily
is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are
in him.
1John 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself
also so to walk, even as he walked.
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THE WORDS OF
JESUS CHRIST ARE SPIRIT AND LIFE: THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE
Logos
computation, reckoning
2. statement of a theory, argument,
ouk
emeu
alla
tou
l.
akousantas
prob. in Heraclit.50;
logon
ēde
noēma
amphis
alētheiēs
discourse and reflection on reality,
IV. inward debate of
the soul, reflection,
deliberation
Regulative and formative forces,
derived from the intelligible and operative
in the sensible universe,
Opposite to epithumia
A. desire, yearning, longing after
a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at,
behold, mostly with a sense of wonder, 3.
view as spectators
Opposite Pathos A.
that which happens to a person or thing, incident,
accident, Moralizing Rhetoric
Opposite
Poiein to excite passion,
Arist.Rh.1418a12;
V. Rhet., emotional style
or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos ,
ē, on, A. inspired,
“phusis” Pl.Ti.71e;
esp. by music,
Prose, OPPOSITE -poiêsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiêtikê, D.H.Comp.6;
OPPOSITE poiêmata, onomatopoeic
word
OPPOSITE
emmetra Modus 2.
The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody,
harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode:
Mūsĭcus a, um, adj., =
mousikos.
X. the Word or Wisdom
of God, personified as his agent in creation and
world-government,
Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or
INCOMPETENT. If God had wanted any kind of music
in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by
C. Leonard Allen.
mousikos
kai
melōn
poētēs”
2. generally, votary of the Muses,
The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their
"musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin
literature identifies them as dirty adulteresses
http://www.piney.com/DocHesTheog.html
[25] the Muses of Olympus,
daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: “Shepherds
of the wilderness,
wretched things of
shame, mere bellies,
we know how to
speak many false things as though they
were true;
but we know, when
we will, to utter true things.”
...and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods
that are eternally,
but ever to sing of themselves
both first and last.
pharma^kon 3.
enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm,
spell, Od.4.220
sq., Ar.Pl.302,
[Circe, Church, Corinth mother of harlots] Theoc.2.15
The singers [Muses], instrument players and craftsmen
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THE ECUMENICAL PATTERN IS INCLUDES
MUSIC CONNECTED TO PEDERASTY
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THE LEONARD ALLEN ECUMENICAL PATTERN WHICH EXCLUDES THE
NARROW ROAD AND REPURPOSES THEIR CHURCHES AND
UNIVERSITIES.
The
ancient
Middle East constituted an ecumene.
The term ecumene comes from the Greek word oikoumene,
which means the inhabited world and designates
a distinct cultural-historical community. The material
effects of the commercial and cultural
interconnections that permeated the component regions
of the ancient Middle Eastern ecumene are richly
supplied by archaeological excavations, which provide
evidence of the spread of architectural, ceramic,
metallurgical, and other products of ancient Middle
Eastern man's industry.
Manufacturing and services tended to
be monopolized by professional guilds,
including religious personnel specializing in sacrifices,
oracles, divination, and other kinds of
priestcraft. The mobility of such guilds
throughout the entire area helps to explain the spread
of specific religious ideas and techniques
over great distances. Just as guild potters
spread ceramic forms and methods, so also guild
priests spread their religious concepts
and practices from the Indian Ocean to the Aegean
Sea, and from the Nile River to Central Asia.
The Greek poet Homer, in the Odyssey, noted
the mobility of guildsmen, mentioning religious personnel
as well as architects, physicians, and minstrels.
Guild priests called kohanim were found at
ancient Ugarit on the Mediterranean coast of
northern Syria as well as in Israel. Moreover, Mycenaean
Greek (late Bronze Age) methods of sacrifice
are similar to the Hebraic methods, which are
preserved in many countries to this day in the
traditional techniques of Jewish ritual slaughter.
"The ancient Middle East made a place for homosexuality and bestiality in its myths and rites. In the Asherah cult the qedeshim
priests had a
reputation for homosexual practices, even as the qedeshot priestesses for prostitution. Israel
eventually banned both the qedeshim and qedeshot,
while in Ugarit the
and kohanim were priestly
guilds in equally good standing. Baal is portrayed in Ugaritic
mythology as impregnating a heifer to sire the young
bull god. The biblical book of Leviticus (18:22--27)
bans homosexuality and bestiality expressly because
the Canaanite population had been practicing those
rites, which the Hebrews rejected as abominations. Middle Eastern Religion
Plat. Laws
936c There shall be no beggar
in our State; and if anyone attempts to beg, and to collect a livelihood by
ceaseless [making Poieo meter, hymns] prayers, the
market-stewards shall expel him from the market, and the Board of
city-stewards from the city, and from any other district
he shall be driven across the border by the
country-stewards, to the end that the land may be wholly
purged of such a creature. If a slave, male or
female, do any injury to another man's goods,
Epikheir-eō , (kheir) A.
put one's hand to, “hoi men deipnō epekheireon”
III.
attempt to prove, argue dialectically,
Pl.Tht.205a,
Hermog.Inv.3.4; “peri tinos” ek tinos from a topic, ib.115a26 ; “es ti” D.L.4.28 ; “e. hoti; “logikōteron estin epikheirein hōde”
Gignomai to
be engaged in . Ergon, Occupation.
, hoi en poiēsei ginomenoi in poetry,
Id.2.82;
etc.; g. epi tini fall into or
be in one's power, X.An.3.1.13,
etc.; “epi sumphorais g.” D.21.58
Poi-ēsis , eōs, hē, melos , eos, to, A. fabrication,
creation, production,
-Plato.
Republic [398a]
“True,” he said. “If a man, then, it seems, who
was capable by his cunning of assuming every kind of
shape and imitating all things should arrive in our
city, bringing with himself the poems which he
wished to exhibit, we should fall down and worship
him as a holy and wondrous and delightful creature, but
should say to him that there is no man of that kind
among us in our city, nor is it lawful for such a man to
arise among us, and we should send him away to another
city, after pouring myrrh down over his head and
crowning him with fillets of wool, but we ourselves, for
our souls' good, should continue to employ
-Commentary
Epideik-nu_mi -nuō 2. . more freq.
in Med., show off or display for oneself
or what is one's own, mousikan orthan e. give a specimen of
his art. of a rhetorician lecturing, Id.Phdr.235a;
“polla kai kala” Id.Grg.447a;
of epideictic orators, Arist.Rh.1391b26;
of a musician, e. “hupertheōn” Pl.Lg.648d.
Plato Republic 3 True, he
said.
And therefore when any one of these
pantomimic gentlemen, who are so clever that
they can imitate anything, comes to us, and makes a
proposal to exhibit himself and his poetry,
we will fall down and worship him as a sweet and
holy and wonderful being; but we must also inform him
that in our State such as he are not permitted to
exist; the law will not allow them. And so when we
have anointed him with myrrh, and set a garland
of wool upon his head, we shall send him away to
another city. For we mean to employ for our souls'
health the rougher and severer poet or
story-teller, who will imitate the style of the
virtuous only, and will follow those models which
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THE NARROW ROAD
WHICH LEONARD ALLEN BUILDS A BYPASS
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but spake evil of THAT WAY
before the multitude,
he departed from
them,
and separated
the disciples, [ mathētas]
disputing
daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
THAT WAY HODOS
3. method, system,Id.Sph.218d,
Arist.APr.53a2,
al.; “hodō”
methodically, systematically,Pl.R.533b,
Stoic.2.39, etc. ;
so “kath'
hodon”
Pl.R.435a
; “tēn
dia
tou
stoikheiou
ho.
ekhōn
egraphen”
Id.Tht.208b
(cf. “diexodon”
208a).
4. of the Christian Faith and
its followers,Act.Ap.9.2,
22.4, 24.14.
The WAY is the METHOD is the SYSTEM
is the PATTERN is the PARADEIGMA of
God--not the NEW one. The METHOD
Method-os , hē,
(meta,
hodos)
2. mode of prosecuting such inquiry,
method, system, Pl.Phdr.270c,
Arist.EN1129a6,
Pol.1252a18,
etc.; “hē
dialektikē
m.”
Pl.R.533c,
Plat.
Soph. 218d Theaetetus, this is my advice to
ourselves, since we think the family of sophists is
troublesome and hard to catch, that we first
practise the method of hunting in something
easier, unless you perhaps have some simpler way to
suggest. Then shall we take some lesser thing and try to
use it as a PATTERN for the greater?
Paradeig-ma A.pattern,
model: of an architect's model.
of the divine exemplars after
which earthly things are made, “en
ouranō
isōs
p.
anakeitai”
Pl.R.592b;
2. precedent, example, “paradeigmata
labein
para
tinos”
3. lesson, warning, “ekhontes
paradeigmata
tōn
ekei
Hellēnōn”
Th.6.77;
4. argument, proof from example, Th.1.2,
etc., cf. Arist.APr.68b38,
Rh.1356b3,
including parabolē
and logos,
Arist.Rh.1393a
27.
II. foil, contrast,
Anakeimai or Anathema is YOUR SELF-WILL to offer
yourself, rhetoric, singing, making music.
anakeimai A.to
be laid up as a votive offering in the temple,
to be dedicated, “krētēres
hoi
. . hex
khruseoi
anakeatai”
b. to be set up as a statue in public,
II. pan
or panta
anakeitai
es
tina
everything is referred to a person, depends
on his will, Hdt.1.97,
3.31
Anatithēmi , II.
set up as a votive gift, dedicate, “tini
ti”
Hes.Op.658,
Pi.O.3.30,
Hdt.2.159,7.54,
Ar.Pl.1089,
etc.; “Rhēneian
anethēke
tō
Apollōni”
Th.1.13;
“anathēma
anatithenai”
Hdt.1.53,
2.182;
“a.
ti
es
Delphous”
--ma^thēt-ēs
--discĭpŭlus
learner,
scholar, pupil, discipleII. A learner in an art or
trade, an apprentice, II. A learner in an art or
trade, an apprentice, III.
(Eccl. Lat.) A disciple of Christ, Vulg. Luc. 5, 30
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Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1102b.1 But
there also appears to be another element in the soul,
which, though
irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.
In self-restrained and unrestrained people we approve
their principle, or the rational part of their souls,
because it urges them in
the right way and exhorts them to the best
course;
but their nature seems
also to contain another
element
beside that of
rational principle,
which combats and
resists that principle.
[16]
Exactly the same thing may take place in the soul as occurs
with the body in a case of paralysis: when the patient wills
to move his limbs to the right
Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1102b.20
they swerve to the left; and similarly in unrestrained persons their impulses
run counter to their principle. But whereas in the body we
see the erratic member, in the case of the soul we
do not see it; nevertheless it cannot be doubted that in the soul
also there is an element beside that of principle, which opposes
and runs counter to principle （though in what sense the two are
distinct does not concern us here） [17]
But this second element also seems, as we said, to participate in
rational principle; at
least in the self-restrained man it obeys the behest of
principle—and no doubt in the temperate and brave man it is still
more amenable, for all parts of his nature are in
harmony with principle.
1 According to the psychology here expounded, the
intellect ‘has a plan or principle,’
in the sense of
understanding
principle, and being able to
reason and make a plan: in
other words, it is fully
rational.
The part of man's nature ‘has a plan or principle’ in so
far as it is
capable of
following or obeying a principle. It happens that this
relationship of following or
obeying can itself be expressed by the words to
have logos’ in another sense
of that phrase, viz. ‘to take account of, pay heed to.’
To be precise the writer should say that the part
logon ekhei tou logou ‘has
logos （takes
account） of the logos.’ The
phrase has yet a third sense in mathematics, where “to have
logos” （
ratio） means ‘to be
rational’ in the sense of
commensurable.
God is not RELATIONAL in the sense that Godhead is three,
separate Divine Beings.
God is NOT MAD
Eksta^sis
,
eōs,
hē,
(
existēmi)
A. displacement,
“
arthrōn”
Hp.Art.56
; “
pasa
kinēsis
e.
esti
tou
kinoumenou”
Arist.de An.406b13 :
hence,
change, “
eis
antikeimena”
Id.GA768a27 ;
antikeimena”
of antitithēmi:—to
be set over against,
2. to be opposed, in various ways, Cat.11b17, Metaph.1055a38,
al.; in Logic,
“
hai
kakiai
e.”
Id.Ph.247a3 ; “
e.
estin
en
tē
genesei
to
para
phusin
tou
kata
phusin”
Id.Cael.286a19 ; “
e.
tēs
phuseōs”
degeneracy, Thphr.CP3.1.6
; opp.
stasis,
Plot.6.3.2 ;
movement
outwards, “
e.
apo
tou
paragontos”
Dam.Pr.97 bis ;
e.
eis
to
exō
ib.
401 ; “
sōma
en
ekstasei
labon
tēn
hupostasin”
Porph.Sent.36 ;
differentiation,
“
e.
kai
piēthos”
Plot.6.7.17 ; “
hai
eis
plēthos
e.”
Procl.in Ti.2.203 D.
2. distraction of mind, from terror, astonishment,
anger, etc.,
Hp.Aph.7.5,
P
A chill supervening on a sweat is not good.
Dysentery, or dropsy, or ecstacy coming on madness is good.
ma^nia
(A), Ion. -iē,
hē,
(mainomai)
II. enthusiasm, inspired frenzy, “m.
Dionusou
para”
E.Ba.305;
“apo
Mousōn
katokōkhē
te
kai
m.
Opposite. sōphrosunē
III. passion, “erōtikē
m.
[caused by love, orgē,
lupē,
Th]
” Id.Phdr.265b;
“maniēn
maneis
aristēn”
Plat.
Phaedrus 265b Socrates
And we made four divisions of the divine madness, ascribing
them to four gods, saying that prophecy was inspired by
Apollo, the mystic madness by Dionysus, the poetic by the
Muses, and the madness of love, inspired by Aphrodite and
Eros, we said was the best. We described the passion of love
in some sort of figurative manner, expressing some truth,
perhaps, and perhaps being led away in another direction,
and after composing a somewhat
[265c] plausible discourse, we
chanted a sportive and mythic hymn in meet and pious strain
to the honor of your lord and mine, Phaedrus, Love, the
guardian of beautiful boys.
rorrh.2.9 ; “
e.
sigōsa”
Id.Coac.65 ; “
e.
manikē”
Arist.Cat.10a1 ; “
e.
tōn
logismōn”
Plu.Sol.8
; “
nou”
Plot.5.3.7 ; “
ta
mēde
prosdokōmen'
ekstasin
pherei”
Men.149, cf.
Epit.472,
Epicur.Fr.113 ; “
eis
e.
agein”
Longin.1.4.
4. trance,
Act.Ap.10.10,
22.17 ;
ecstasy, Plot.6.9.11 ; “
e.
kai
mania”
b. drunken excitement,
ki_neō
2. remove a thing from its place, “andrianta”
Hdt.1.183;
“gēs
horia”
Pl.Lg. 842e;
k.
ti
tōn
akinētōn
meddle with things sacred, Hdt.6.134,
cf. S. Ant.1061
.; hōsper
khordai
en
lura
sumpathōs
kinētheisai
vibrating in unison, Plot.4.4.8.
2. of persons, to be moved, stirred, ho
kekinēmenos
one who is agitated, excited,
Philo
"developed a doctrine of ecstasy or ek-stasis, which means sstanding outside
oneself.' This is the highest form of piety which lies beyond
faith. This mysticism unites prophetic ecstasy
with 'enthusiasm', a word which comes from en-theos-mania, meaning to possess the divine. From this
there comes finally the fully developed mystical
system of the Neo-Platonists, for example, of Dionysus the
Areopagite.
In this mystical system the ecstasy of
the individual person leads to a union with the One, with the Absolute,
with God." (Tillich,
Paul, A History of Christian Thought, Touchstone, p. 13)
Ecstasy Britannica
(Greek: ekstasis, "to stand outside of or
transcend [oneself ]"), in mysticism, the experience of an
inner vision of God or of one's relation to or union with the
divine. Various methods have been used to achieve ecstasy,
which is a primary goal in most forms of religious mysticism.
The most typical consists of four stages:
(1) purgation (of bodily desire);
(2) purification (of the will);
(3) illumination (of the mind); and
(4) unification (of one's being or will with the divine).
Other methods are: dancing (as
used by the Mawlawiyah, or whirling dervishes, a Muslim Sufi
sect); the use of sedatives and stimulants (as utilized in some Hellenistic mystery
religions); and the use of certain drugs, such as peyote,
mescaline, hashish, LSD, and similar products (in certain
Islamic sects and modern experimental religious groups).
Most mystics, both in the East and in
the West, frown on the use of drugs because no permanent change in the personality (in the mystical sense)
has been known to occur.
In certain ancient Israelite prophetic
groups, music was used to achieve the ecstatic state, in
which the participants, in their accompanying dancing,
were believed to have been seized by the hand of Yahweh, the
God of Israel, as in the case of Saul, the 11th-century-bc
king of Israel.
The Pythia (priestess) of the Greek oracle at Delphi often went into an ecstatic state during
which she uttered sounds revealed to her by the python
(the snake, the symbol of resurrection), after
drinking water from a certain spring.
Her "words" were then interpreted by a priest to help a suppliant find a way to avoid
calamities, especially death. In primitive religions, ecstasy
was a technique highly developed by shamans,
religious personages with healing and psychic-transformation powers, in their "soul," or "spirit," flights. (See Delphic oracle.) "ecstasy"
Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
John 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any
man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
John 9:32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man
opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
[31] scimus autem quia peccatores Deus non audit sed si quis Dei cultor est et voluntatem eius facit hunc exaudit [32] a saeculo non est auditum quia aperuit quis oculos caeci nati
cultor
one who
bestows care or labor upon a thing, an elaborator,
cultivator, a vine-dresser, a tutor, teacher,
B. A worshipper, reverencer:
“deorum,”
Hor. C. 1, 34, 1: “numinis,”
Ov. M. 1, 327: “diligentissimus
religionum,”
Liv. 5, 50, 1.—Also
absol., Verg. A. 11, 788. of
the will, might, authority of powerful persons:
nūmen
a nodding with the head, a nod, a nod,
i. e. command, will, divine sway
divine sway
flecto
I. Act., to bend, bow,
curve to B. Godhead, divinity, deity, divine
majesty, etc.
The bending, making crooked of musical instruments to aid
leasure and drinking wine:
1. In gen., to bend, turn, direct:
“ducere
multimodis
voces
et flectere
cantus,”
Lucr. 5, 1406:
“vocem,”
Ov. Am. 2, 4, 25
a. To bend (in opinion or in will), to move,
persuade, prevail upon, overcome, soften,
appease (cf.: “moveo,
A. Lit., bent, winding: “error,”
Ov. M. 8, 160:
B. Trop., of tones, lengthened: “infinito
magis
illa
flexa
et circumducta
sunt,”
Quint. 11, 3, 172.
Lucr. 5.1406
But by the mouth
To imitate the liquid notes of birds
Was earlier far 'mongst men than power to make,
By measured song, melodious verse and give
Delight to ears. And whistlings of the wind
Athrough the hollows of the reeds first taught
The peasantry to blow into the stalks
Of hollow hemlock-herb. Then bit by bit
They learned sweet plainings, such as pipe out-pours,
Beaten by finger-tips of singing men,
When heard through unpathed groves and forest deeps
And woodsy meadows, through the untrod haunts
Of shepherd folk and spots divinely still.
Thus time draws forward each and everything
Little by little unto the midst of men,
And reason uplifts it to the shores of light.
These tunes would soothe and glad the minds of mortals
When sated with food,- for songs are welcome then.
And often, lounging with friends in the soft grass
Beside a river of water, underneath
A big tree's branches, merrily they'd refresh
Their frames, with no vast outlay-
Veritas Truth, the Word,
Logos
Cic. Sul. 16.45
Was the safety of any one of such consequence to me as to induce
me to forget my own? or to make me contaminate the truth, which I
had laid open, by any lie? Or do you suppose that I would assist
any one by whom I thought that a cruel plot had been laid against
the republic, and most especially against me the consul? But if I
had been forgetful of my own severity and of my own virtue, was I
so mad, as, when letters are things which have been devised for
the sake of posterity, in order to be a protection against
forgetfulness, to think that the fresh recollection of the whole
senate could be beaten down by my journal?
Scripture and recorded history PROHIBITS each and every
religious and superstitious practice, Leonard Allen now has
authority to IMPOSE and ACTIVELY propagandize.
Thomas Campbell:Thomas Campbell, one of the leaders of
the American Restoration Movement away from denominational
organizations,placed reading the Word as one of the most
important external acts of worship and nullified "yarn spinners"
in keeping with Jesus and Paul:
"who, at the same time are ignorant of, and even averse
to, the religion it inculcates; and whilst others
profess to embrace it as a system of religion,
without imbibing the spirit, realizing the truth,
and experiencing the power of its religious
institutions; but merely superstruct to themselves,
rest in, and are satisfied with, a form (acts) of
godliness; and that, very often, a deficient,
imperfect form, or such as their own imagination has
devised;
See
Why Thomas Paine was a Deist.
"let us, with an open bible before us, distinguish and
contemplate that religion which it enjoins and exhibits--I mean
the religion of christianity, for it also exhibits the religion
of Judaism;
.. .but with this, in the mean time,
. ..we christians have nothing directly to do--
...we derive our religion immediately from the
New Testament.
The author and ultimate object of our holy religion,
is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by his
Spirit, speaking in Christ and his holy
apostles. "The principle of this holy religion within
us, is faith, a correspondent faith; that is, a belief, or
inwrought persuasion by, and according to, the word of truth,
in all points corresponding to the revelation which
God has made of himself through Jesus Christ by the
Spirit. Hence, being rooted and grounded in the truth of
this revelation, by faith in the divine testimony,
we contemplate and worship God inwardly;
that is, adore and reverence him in our souls,
according to the characters and attributes under which he
has revealed himself to us.
Thus we worship the Father, through the Son, by the Spirit, relying
upon his teachings in and by the word, to lead
us into all the truth which he has testified for our edification
and salvation;
and also upon his internal influence to excite,
instruct, and comfort us, by the truth; to help our
infirmities, and to enable us to think and pray as we ought,
both as to the matter and manner of our prayers. See Rom.
viii. 26, and Jude 22, 21, with a multitude of other
scriptures.
Thus we have the internal religion, the habitual
worship of the real believer, the sincere bible-taught
christian with its principle; which is the faith above
described. See Rom. x. 12-15.
The word we are prone to translate as "preaching" is often the
word "dialog." There is no "office" of the preacher to stand
before the audience and make minced-meat pie out of the inspired
Word:
"But that this may be the case, the next immediate
ordinance of the christian religion, namely,
the reading, I mean the musing upon, or studying
the Holy Scriptures;
taking them up in their connexion, and meditating upon
the subjects they propose to our consideration, with a fixed
contemplation of the various and important objects which they
present.
This dutiful and religious use of the bible, (that most
precious, sacred record of the wonderful works of God,
the only authentic source of all religious
information,) is inseparably connected with, and indispensably
necessary to, the blissful and all-important exercises of prayer
and praise.
"And again, 'Be you filled with the Spirit; speaking to
yourselves, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing
and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks
always to God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Eph. v. 18-20.
"Hence it is evident, that if we would be spiritually minded,
spiritually exercised in this delightful and heavenly
employment,
- we must be filled with the Spirit;
- and if we would be filled with the Spirit,
- we must be filled with the word;
- the word of Christ must dwell in us richly;
- for we have no access to the Spirit but in
and by the word.
Around 100 BC a long struggle
ensued as the Pharisees tried to democratize the
Jewish religion and remove it from the control of the Temple priests.
The Pharisees asserted that God could and
should be worshiped even away from the Temple and outside
Jerusalem. To the Pharisees,
worship consisted not in bloody sacrifices--the practice of the
Temple priests--
but in prayer
and in the study of God's
law.
Hence the Pharisees fostered the synagogue as an
institution of religious worship, outside and separate from
the Temple. (Britannica Members)
Ten adult males are required to be
present for a Public service to proceed. The service
consists of five parts:
- Reading the Shema [trinitians need not apply]Synagogue
Prayers
- Synagogue Prayers
- READING
from the Torah (The Law of Moses)
- READING
from the Prophets
- Benediction.
No sacrifices were carried out here;
rather, reading the Scriptures replaced this as the central
event of Jewish Worship. There was, therefore, no praise
service.
And he came to Nazareth,
where he had been brought up:
and, as his custom
was,
he went into the
synagogue on the sabbath day,
and stood up for
to READ. Luke 4:16
And after
the READING of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto
them,
saying, Ye and brethren, if ye
have any word of
exhortation for the
people, say on. Acts 13:15
Paraklesis (g3874) par-ak'-lay-sis; from 3870;
imploration, hortation, solace: - comfort, consolation,
exhortation, intreaty.
For Moses of old time hath in
every city them that
PREACH him,
being READ
in the synagogues every sabbath day. Acts 15:21
Logos is the Regulative Principle:
it excludes rhetoric, personal comments, personal experiences,
poetry, singing, playing instruments or anything beyond
READING THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING.
"Men and brethren, children of the stock
of Abraham,
and whosoever among you
feareth God,
to you is the WORD of this salvation
sent. Acts 13:26
For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their RULERS
because they knew him not,
nor yet the voices of the PROPHETS
which are READ every sabbath day,
they have fulfilled them in condemning
him
Acts 13:27
Eph. 2:20 And are built upon [EDUCATED]
the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself
being the chief corner stone;
Eph. 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the
sons of men,
as it is now revealed
unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
Rom 15 4 For whatsoever things
were written
aforetime
were written for our LEARNING,
that we through patience
and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Rom 15 5 Now the God of patience and consolation
grant you to be likeminded one toward
another according to Christ Jesus:
Rom 15 6 That ye may
with one
mind and
one mouth glorify God,
even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Tim 4:13 Till I come, give
attendance [the worship word]
to READING,
to exhortation,
to doctrine.
The
great historian J. Robert Teringo wrote: "The
fixed order of service began, after the customary greeting,
with a prayer while the people remained standing facing the
sacred Torah scroll. The reading
of the law of Moses was next.
The Torah scroll was taken from the chest and placed before a
reader who read in the
ancient Hebrew tongue and
immediately translated it into Aramaic the language of
those days. A commentary was always added to this reading.
Next, a portion was read from the books of the prophets and,
again, immediately translated verse by verse. After a closing
prayer, the service was concluded...
GOD'S SPIRIT IN ISAIAH PROMISES CHURCH AS
A COVERT: A SAFE AND SECRET SCHOOL
Theologians being supported claim that
Jesus and others were LYING. Jesus defined Holy
Scripture as the Prophets and Prophecies CONCERNING
ME. One such message claimed to be but into the
MOUTH of Isaiah.
TIME IS SHORT: TELL SOMEONE!
THE PATTERN IS REPEATED OVER AND OVER: YOURS IS
APOSTASY.
[1 of 6] THE HOLY
SPIRIT MEANING "GOD PUTS HIS WORD INTO THE MOUTH OF THE
PROPHETS AND JESUS FOR THE LAST TIME and defines the
PATTERN for assembly.
Isaiah.4.The.Branch.of.the.Lord
Theology Repudiates.
Is. 4:2 In
that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful
and glorious,
and the
FRUIT of the EARTH shall be excellent
and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
magnĭfĭcentĭa
greatness in action or in
sentiment, nobleness, distinction, eminence,
high-mindedness, magnanimity;
IN A BAD SENSE , boasting, bragging,
etc.2.
In a bad sense: “verborum
magnificentia,”
pomposity of language, bombast,
Christian fruit: for my
mental enjoyment,
gloria est
fructus verae
virtutis
honestissimus,”
id. Pis. 24, 57: “laboris,”
Quint. 6
praef. § 2: “ studiorum,
NOT the
enjoyment derived from riches
“pecuniae
fructus maximus,”
id. ib. 2, 18, 64: “animi
fructus, qui
in
te
videndo
est,”
id. Fam. 15,
14, 3: “vitae
fructus,”
voluptatum,” id. Lael. 23, 87: “jucunditatis,” id. Mur. 19,
40: “graviore sono tibi Musa loquetur Nostra, dabunt cum maturos mihi tempora
fructus,”
Is. 4:3 And it
shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion,
and he that
remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy,
even every one
that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
Is. 4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the
filth of the daughters of Zion,
and shall have
purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof
by the SPIRIT of judgment,
and by the SPIRIT
of burning.
Isaiah 4: 5 And the Lord will create upon
every dwelling place
of mount Zion,
and upon her assemblies [Invoco
called], a cloud and smoke by day,
and the shining of a flaming fire
by night:
for upon all the glory shall be a
defence.
Isaiah
4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow
in the daytime from the heat,
and for a place of refuge,
and for a covert from storm and
from rain.
Umbrācŭlum
, I. any thing that furnishes
shade). I Lit., a shady
place, bower, arbor, Verg.
E. 9, 42.— B. Transf., a
school: “ in
solem
et
pulverem,
ut
e
Theophrasti
doctissimi
hominis
umbraculis,”
Cic.
Brut. 9, 37: “ ex
umbraculis
eruditorum
in
solem
atque
in
pulverem,”
id.
Leg. 3, 6, 14.— II. A
sunshade, parasol, umbrella, Ov.
F. 2, 311; id.
A. A. 2, 209; Mart.
14, 28, 1;
First: A solitary place [Angle:
cornerstorn: to protect the vines against the
sun to dŏcĕo
to speak to instruct a subject
to moral humans in the umbrācŭlum
Second: eruditorum
to eduate, instruct, opposite popular orato,
i n a solem or solitary place,
and where "vines" are protected from the sun.
“in
his
(scholis)
Leisure given to learning,
a learned conversation or debate, a
disputation, lecture, dissertation,
1. A place for learned
conversation or instruction,
a place of learning, a
school . The
disciples or followers of a
teacher, a school,
sect:
schŏla
( scŏla
), ae, f., = skholē
(spare time, leisure; hence, in partic.),
Leisure given to learning, a
learned conversation or debate, a
disputation, lecture, dissertation
2. The disciples or followers
of a teacher, a school, sect
skholē
, hē,
A.leisure, rest, ease, skholēn
agein
to be at leisure, enjoy ease, keep
quiet
2. c. gen., leisure, rest from
a thing, “ en
tini
skholē
kakou
2. at one's leisure,
i.e. scarcely, hardly, not at all
A covert sēcūrĭtas FROM
perturbatione,
“securitas
inaffectatae
orationis,”
quietness,
tranquillĭtas
, ātis, f. tranquillus, I.quietness, stillness,
tranquillity.
Tac. Agr. 40 fin.
REST FROM Operosus
, [Lying Wonders] costs
much trouble, troublesome, toilsome,
laborious, difficult, elaborate ,
costly, sumptuous Temple, from “ carmina,
[vocal or instrumental music] ” elaborate,
Hor.
C. 4, 2, 31 “ artes,”
skill in constructing, profession as music,
FROM “rhetorica,”
Quint.
2, 17, 4: “ musica,”
poetry, Ter.
Hec. prol. 23: “ musica,”
music, ars
oratoris,
oratoris
autem
omnis
actio
opinionibus,
REST FROM mūsĭca
, ae, and mūsĭcē
, ēs, f., = mousikē,
I.the art of music, music; acc.
to the notions of the ancients, also every higher
kind of artistic or scientific culture
or pursuit: “ musicam
Damone
aut
Aristoxeno
tractante?
etc.,”
Cic.
de Or. 3, 33, 132: “ socci
et
cothurni,”
i. e. comic and dramatic poetry,
Aus. Ep. 10, 43: “ musice
antiquis
temporibus
tantum
venerationis
habuit,
ut,”
Quint.
1, 10, 9.
I.a philosopher and musician,
pupil of Aristotle, Cic.
Tusc. 1, 10, 20; id.
de Or. 3, 33, 132 al.
Quint.
Inst. 1 10.9 Who is
ignorant of the fact that music, of which
I will speak first, was in ancient times
the object not merely of intense study but
of veneration: in fact Orpheus
[Romans 14 from Synagogue From Babylon]
http://www.pineycom.com/MuTammuz.html
and Linus, to mention no others,
were regarded as
uniting the roles of musician, poet and
philosopher.
Both were of divine origin, while
the former, because by the marvel
[lying wonder] of his music
he soothed the savage breast, is
recorded to have drawn after him not
merely beasts
Quint.
Inst. 1 10.10 So too
Timagenes asserts that music is the oldest
of the arts related to literature, a
statement which is confirmed by the
testimony of the greatest of poets in
whose songs we read that the praise
of heroes and of gods were sung to the
music of the lyre at the feasts of
kings. Does not lopas, the Vergilian
bard, sing
The wandering moon and labours of
the SunAen. i. 742.
and the like? whereby the supreme poet
manifests most clearly that music is
united with the knowledge even of things
divine.
REST FROM Musica
, mūsĭcus
. a, um, adj., = mousikos.
I. Of or belonging to
music, musical (class.).A. Adj.:
“leges
musicae,”
the rules of music, Cic.
Leg. 2, 15, 39: “sonus
citharae,”
Phaedr.
4, 18, 20: “pedes,”
Plin.
29, 1, 5, § 6.—
REST
FROM 1. mūsĭcus
, i, m., a musician: “musicorum
aures,”
Cic.
Off. 1, 41, 146.—
2. mūsĭ-ca
, ōrum, n., music: “ in
musicis
numeri,
et
voces,
et
modi,”
Cic.
de Or. 1, 42, 187: “ dedere
se
musicis,”
id. ib. 1, 3, 10: “ et
omnia
musicorum
organa,”
Vulg.
1 Par. 16, 42.— [Of
hydraulic engines, an organ, water-organ:
“ organa
hydraulica,”
Suet.
Ner. 41]
mousikōs:
musice hercle agitis aetatem,
REST FROM you
are in clover, i. e. living
luxuriously at another's expense, Plaut.
Most. 3, 2, 40.
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THE SINGULAR PATTERN FOR THE CHURCH OF
CHRIST: A SCHOOL OF CHRIST
Thomas Campbell defined:
CHURCH:
is A School of Christ
WORSHIP: is Reading
and Musing the WORD
synagogue, also spelled synagog,
in Judaism,
a community house of worship
that serves as a place not only for liturgical services
but also for assembly and study. Its traditional
functions are reflected in three Hebrew
synonyms for synagogue: bet ha-tefilla
(“house of prayer”), bet ha-kneset (“house of
assembly”), and bet ha-midrash (“house of
study”). The term synagogue is of Greek origin
(synagein, “to bring together”) and means “a
place of assembly.” The Yiddish
word shul (from German Schule,
“school”) is also used to refer to the synagogue, and in
modern times the word temple is common among
some Reform
and Conservative
congregations.
THE PATTERN FOR THE
SYNAGOGUE-CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS
FOR GODLY PEOPLE AFTER THE LEADERS FELL INTO
INSTRUMENTAL-TRINITARIAN-PERVERTEDO IDOLATRY.
Acts 15:21 For Moses
of old time hath in every city them that preach
him, being read in the synagogues every
sabbath day.
THE PATTERN OF JESUS.
Luke 4:16 And he came to
Nazareth,
where he had
been brought up:
and, as his custom
was, [PATTERN]
he went into
the synagogue on the sabbath day, [ONCE EACH WEEK]
and stood up
for to READ.
THE PATTERN OF PAUL.
Acts 13:15 And after the READING of the law
and the prophets
the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them,
saying, Ye men
and brethren,
if ye have any
word of exhortation [comfort]
for the people,
SAY on.
NEVER "sing" or "preach"
beyond translating or comments ON THE READ
SCRIPTURES.
THE PROPHECY- PATTERN FOR THE
"LEADERS" THEN AND NOW.
Acts 13:27 For they that dwell
at Jerusalem, and their RULERS,
because they
knew him not,
nor yet the VOICES of the PROPHETS
which are READ
every sabbath day,
they have
fulfilled them in condemning him
THE DIRECT COMMAND AND EXAMPLE
TO BE A CHRISTIAN
God sent Apostles and SCRIBES to record ALL that one
needs to know in order to keep peace and Educate: that
is the inclusive-exclusive PATTERN.
Eph. 2:16 And that he might RECONCILE
both unto God
in one body by
the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Eph. 2:17 And came and preached PEACE to you
which were afar off,
and to them
that were nigh.
Eph. 2:18 For through him we both have access
by one Spirit
unto the Father.
Eph. 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and
foreigners,
but
fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the
household of God;
Eph. 2:20 And are built upon [EDUCATED
IN THE EKKLESIA]
the foundation
of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ
himself being the chief [only
Rabbi when we READ]
corner
stone; [Angelus:
isolated, silent and secret]
Eph. 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together
for an
habitation of God through the Spirit.
John 14:23 Jesus
answered and said unto him,
IF a man love me, he
will KEEP MY WORDS:
and my
Father will love him,
and WE
will come unto him, and make our abode with him
John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which
believed on him,
IF ye
continue in MY
WORD
THEN
are ye my disciples indeed
The Father Breathes
{spirit} into the SON. SPIRIT is always seen as
God puts His WORDS into the MOUTH of the SON.
John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT that
quickeneth;
the flesh
profiteth nothing:
the WORDS that
I speak unto you,
[Jesus is Masculine and ADULT:
He does not SING]
they are
SPIRIT, and
they are life
THE PATTERN OF
JUSTIN MARTYR AND OTHERS ON WEEKLY WORSHIP.
Justin
Martyr Chapter LXVII.-Weekly Worship of the
Christians.
"And we
afterwards continually remind each other of these
things. And the wealthy among us help the needy; and we
always keep together; and for all things wherewith
we are supplied, we bless the Maker of all
through His Son Jesus Christ, and through the Holy
Ghost.
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JUSTIN: And on
the day
called Sunday, all who live in
cities or in the country gather together
to one place,
and the memoirs of the APOSTLES or
the writings of PROPHETS
the are READ, as
long as time permits;
then, when the reader has ceased,
the president verbally
instructs,
and EXHORTS
to the imitation of these good
things.
Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he
had been brought up: and, as his custom was,
he went into the synagogue on the sabbath
day, and stood up for to read.
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Acts
13:15 And after the
READING of
the law and the prophets
the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them,
saying,
Ye men and brethren, if
ye have any word of EXHORTATION
for the people, say on.
\AND IN THE CHURCH: GOD NEEDS NO HELPERS.
Eph. 2:20 And are built upon [Educated in
the Ekklesia]
the foundation of the APOSTLES and PROPHETS,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner
stone;
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Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath
In
every city them that PREACH
him,
being
READ in
the synagogues every sabbath day.
SABBATH MEANS REST: QUARANTINED FROM
JERUSALEM
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`Acts
13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem,
and their RULERS,
because they knew him not,
nor
yet the VOICES
of the PROPHETS
which
are READ every sabbath day,
they
have fulfilled them in condemning him |
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Second Adversary Act:
Deism
(
DEE-iz-əm [1][2]
or DAY-iz-əm;
derived from Latin "deus"
meaning "god") is the philosophical belief which
posits that although God
exists as the uncaused First Cause – ultimately responsible
for the creation of the universe – God does not interact
directly with that subsequently created world. Equivalently,
deism can also be defined as the view which asserts God's
existence as the cause of all things, and admits its
perfection (and usually the existence of natural law and Providence) but rejects divine
revelation or direct intervention of God in the universe by miracles.
It also rejects revelation as a source of religious
knowledge and asserts that reason
and observation of the natural
world are sufficient to determine the existence of a single creator or absolute principle of the
universe.[3][4][5]
Clement Exhoration to
the Heathen. Be
not therefore idolaters, but even now
beware of the
threatenings; "for the graven images and the works of
men's hands shall wail, or rather they that trust in
them,(Isa. x. 10, 11.)for matter is devoid of sensation.
Once more he says, "The Lord will shake the cities that
are inhabited, and grasp the world in His hand like a
nest. (Isa. x. 14.) Why repeat to you the mysteries of
wisdom, and sayings from the writings of the son of the
Hebrews, the master of wisdom? "The Lord created me the
beginning of His ways, in order to His works. ( Prov.
viii. 22.) And, "The Lord giveth wisdom, and from His
face proceed knowledge and understanding. ( Prov. ii.
6.) "How long wilt thou lie in bed, O sluggard; and when
wilt thou be aroused from sleep? (Prov. vi. 9. ) "but if
thou show thyself no sluggard, as a fountain thy harvest
shall come, (Prov. vi. 11.)the "Word of the Father, the
benign light, the Lord that bringeth light, faith to
all, and salvation." (Prov. vi. 23.) For "the Lord who
created the earth by His power," as Jeremiah says, "has
raised up the world by His wisdom; (Jer. x. 12.) for
wisdom, which is His word, raises us up to the truth,
who have fallen prostrate before idols, and is itself
the first resurrection from our fall. Whence Moses, the
man of God, dissuading from all idolatry, beautifully
exclaims, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God is one Lord;
and thou shall worship the Lord thy God, and Him only
shall thou serve."
Chapter IX.-The Prophet's Inspired by
the Holy Ghost.
But men of God
carrying in them A holy spirit and becoming
prophets, being inspired
and made wise by God, became God-taught,
and holy, and righteous.
Wherefore they were also deemed worthy
of receiving this reward, that they should become
........... instruments of God, and contain the wisdom that is from Him,
........... ........... through which wisdom they uttered both
........... ........... what regarded the creation of the world and
all other things.
For they predicted also pestilences, and
famines, and wars. And there was not one or two, but many, at
various times and seasons among the Hebrews; and also among
the Greeks there was the Sibyl; and they all have spoken things consistent
and harmonious with each other, both what happened before them
and what happened in their own time, and what things are now
being fulfilled in our own day: wherefore we are persuaded
also concerning the future things that they will fall out, as
also the first have been accomplished.
Chapter X.-The World Created by God Through
the Word.
And first, they taught us with one
consent that God made all things out of nothing; for nothing
was coeval with God: but He being His own place, and wanting
nothing,
........... and existing before the ages, willed to make man by
whom He might be known;
........... for him, therefore, He prepared
the world.
........... For he that is created is also needy; but he
that is uncreated stands in
need of nothing.
God, then, having His own Word internal within His own bowels,
........... begat Him,
emitting Him
........... along with His own wisdom before all things.
He had this Word as a helper in the things that were created by Him, and
by Him He made all things.
He is called "governing principle", because He rules, and is Lord of all things
fashioned by Him.
He, then, being Spirit of God, and governing principle,
and wisdom, and power of the highest,
came down upon the prophets,
and through them spoke of the creation of the world and of all
other things.
(This was the Spirit of Christ, 1 Peter 1:11; Revelation
19:10)
For the prophets were not when the world
came into existence,
but the wisdom [Spirit in this instance is Sophia] of
God which was in Him, and
........... His holy Word which was always present with Him.
Wherefore He speaks thus by the prophet
Solomon:
"When He prepared the heavens I
(Wisdom or Sophia) was there,
and when He appointed the foundations of the earth I was by
Him as one brought up with Him." [ [Ps. cxix. 130. Note this
tribute to the inspired
Scriptures and their converting power; I might almost say their sacramental
energy, referring to John vi. 63.]
It is the spirit
that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words
that I speak unto you,
they are spirit,
and they are life. John 6:63
And Moses, who lived many years before
Solomon, or, rather, the Word
of God by him as by an
instrument, says, "In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth."
First he named the "beginning,"
and "creation," then he thus introduced God;
........... Beginning: 21 That is, the first principle, whom he has just shown to be the Word.
for not lightly and on slight
occasion is it right to name God.
........... For the divine wisdom foreknew that
some would trifle
........... and name a multitude of gods that do not exist.
In order, therefore, that the living God
might be known by His works,
and that [it might be known that] by His Word
God created the heavens and the earth,
and
all that is therein,
he said, "In
the beginning [Word] God created the heavens and the earth."
Then having spoken of their creation, he
explains to us: "And the earth was without form, and void, and
darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God moved upon the water."
This, sacred Scripture teaches at the
outset, to show that matter, from which God made and fashioned the world, was in some manner created, being
produced by God. [1 Cor. ii. 9.]
But as it is written, Eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of
man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love
him. 1 Cor 2:9
But God hath revealed them unto us BY
HIS Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 1 Cor 2:10
For what man knoweth the things of a
man, save the spirit of
man which is in
him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. [which
is in Him symbolically] 1 Cor
2:11
Now we have received, not the
spirit of the world, but the spirit which
is of God;
that we
might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 1
Cor 2:12
He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is
earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from
heaven is above all. John 3:31
And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no [natural?] man receiveth his testimony. John 3:32
He that
hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. John 3:33
For he whom God hath sent
speaketh
the words of God: for God
giveth
not the Spirit by measure unto him. John 3:34
The Father loveth the Son, and hath
given all things into his hand. John 3:35
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:
and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
John 3:36
Because: It is the spirit that quickeneth; the
flesh profiteth nothing: the words
that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John 6:63
Which things also we speak, not in the
words which mans wisdom
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1 Cor 2:13
But the natural
man receiveth not the
things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him:
neither
can he know them,
because
they are spiritually
discerned. 1 Cor 2:14
But he that is spiritual
judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 1
Cor 2:15
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have
the mind of Christ. 1 Cor 2:16
THEOPHILUS TO
AUTOLYCUS (c. 169–c. 183)
FIRST TO DEBUNK THREE GODS.
Theophilus to Autolycus Theophilus, the 7th Bishop of Antioch (c.
169–c. 183),
Not
as the poets and writers of myths talk of the sons
of gods begotten from intercourse [with women],
but as truth expounds, the Word, that always exists,
residing
within the HEART of God.
For before anything
came into being He had Him as a counsellor,
being His
own mind and thought.
But when God wished to make all that He
determined on, He begot this Word, uttered,47
the first-born of all creation,
not Himself being emptied
of the Word [Reason],
but having begotten
Reason,
and always conversing with
His Reason.
And hence the holy writings teach us, and all the spirit-bearing
[inspired] men, one of whom, John, says,
"In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God," 48
showing that at first God
was alone, and the Word in Him.
Then he says, "The Word
was God; all things came into existence through Him;
and apart from Him not one
thing came into existence."
The Word, then, being God,
and being naturally 49
[That is, being produced
by generation, not by creation produced from God
whenever the Father of the
universe wills,
He sends Him to any place;
and He, coming, is both heard and seen,
being sent by Him, and is
found in a place.
And first, they taught us with one
consent that God made all things out of nothing; for nothing
was coeval with God: but He being His own place, and wanting
nothing,
.
and existing
before the ages, willed to make
man by whom He might be known;
.
for him, therefore, He prepared
the world.
For he that is created is
also needy; but he that is uncreated stands in need of nothing.
God, then, having His own Word internal within His own bowels,
begat Him, emitting Him
along with His own
wisdom before all things.
He had this Word
as a helper in the things
that were created by Him, and by Him He made all things.
He is called "governing
principle", because He rules, and is Lord of all things
fashioned by Him.
He, then, being Spirit of God, and governing principle,
and wisdom, and power of the highest,
came down upon the prophets, and through them spoke of
the creation of the world and of all other things.
(This was the Spirit of Christ, 1 Peter 1:11; Revelation
19:10)
For the prophets were not when the world
came into existence,
but the wisdom
[Spirit in this instance is Sophia] of God which was in
Him, and
........... His holy Word
which was always present with Him.
Tertullian an inventor of trias c. ad
206: But,
first, I shall discuss His essential nature, and so the
nature of His birth will be understood. We have already
asserted that
God made the world, and all which it
contains,
by
His Word, and Reason, and Power.
It is abundantly plain that your philosophers,
too,
regard the Logos-that is, the
Word and Reason-
as the Creator of the universe.
And we, in like manner, hold
that the Word, and Reason, and Power,
by which we have said God
made all,
have SPIRIT as their proper and essential
substratum, in
which
the Word
has in being to give forth UTTERENCES,
.......and REASON abides to dispose and arrange,
......and POWER is over all to execute.
We have been taught that
He (reason) proceeds
forth from God,
and in that PROCESSION He is GENERATED;
so that He is the SON of God,
and is called God
from unity of
substance with
God.
For God, too, is a Spirit.
Even when the RAY is shot
from the sun,
..........it is still
part of the parent mass; the sun will still be in
the
ray, because it is a ray of the sun-
..........there is no division of substance,
but merely an extension.
Thus Christ is Spirit
OF Spirit, and God OF God, as light OF light is kindled. [Jesus: My WORDS are SPIRIT and LIFE
The material matrix remains entire and unimpaired,
though you DERIVE from it any number of shoots possessed of its qualities;
so, too, that which has come forth
out of God
is at once God and the Son of God, and the two are one. In this
way also, as He is Spirit of
Spirit and God of God,
He [SPIRIT] is made a
second in manner
of existence-in position, not in nature; and He
did not withdraw from
the original source,
but went
forth.
This ray
of God, then, as it was always foretold in ancient
times, descending into a
certain virgin, and made FLESH in her womb,
..........is in His birth God
and man united. |
Campbell, Thomax, Trinity The relationship of Word to God was the
same as the relationship of a word to a thought.
And so this is the most common understanding among the
church fathers. The the word is the SON of the
speaker as FATHER then there is ot problem trying to
sort out how a LITERAL son of god could be equal with
the Father or of the same age.
1st. A
word is a sign or representative of a thought or an idea,
and is the idea in an audible or visible
form.
It is the exact image of that invisible thought
which is a perfect secret to all the world until it is expressed.
2d. All
men think or form
ideas by means of words or images; so
that no man can think without words or symbols of some sort.
3d.
Hence it follows that the word
and the idea which it represents,
are co-etaneous,
or of the same age or
antiquity.
.......
.It is true the word
may not be uttered or born
for years or
ages after the idea exists,
........but still the word is just as old as the idea.
4th.
The idea and the word
are nevertheless distinct from each other, though the
relation between them is the nearest known on earth.
........An idea cannot exist without a word,
nor a word without an
idea.
5th. He
that is acquainted with the WORD, is acquainted with the
IDEA,
for the idea is
wholly in the word.
By
putting together the above remarks on the term
word,
we have a full view of what John intended to
communicate.
As a word is an
exact IMAGE
of an IDEA,
so is "The WORD" an exact image of the
invisible God.
As a
WORD cannot exist without
an idea, nor an idea without a word,
so God never was without "The
Word,"
nor "The Word"
without God;
or as a
word is of equal age, or co-etaneous with its idea,
so "The Word" and God are co-eternal.
And
as an idea does not create its word nor a word its
idea; so God did not create "The
Word," nor the
"Word" God.
|
JOHN LOCKE, HERETICS EXCLUDE
REAON AND INVENTED SUPERSTITIOUS RITES.
John Lock The Reasonableness of
Christianity.
Human Reason Can
detect Those Who corrupt the Word, sell learning at retail
or prostitute it.
Because that which may be known
of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Romans 1:19
In this state of darkness and ignorance of the true God,
vice and superstition held the world;
nor could any help be had
or hoped for from reason,
which could not be heard,
and was judged to have nothing to do in the case (Refutes
Calvinism):
- the priests every where, to SECURE their empire,
- having excluded reason from having anything to do
in religion.
And in the crowd of wrong notions, and invented rites,
the world had almost lost
the sight of the one only true God.
The rational and thinking part of mankind, 'tis true, when they
sought after him,
found the one, supreme,
invisible God:
but if they acknowledged
and worshipped him, it was only in their own minds.
They kept this truth locked up in their own breasts as a
secret,
nor ever durst venture it
amongst the people,
much less the priests,
those wary guardians of
their own creeds and profitable inventions.
Hence we see that reason, speaking never so clearly to
the wise and virtuous, had ever authority enough to prevail on
the multitude, and to persuade the societies of men, that
there was but one God, that alone was to be owned and
worshipped.
ALEXANDER CAMPBELL DENIED THAT HE WAS
EVER ASSOCIATED WITH THE "CHRISTIANS."
The
Lunenburg Letters: Alexander Campbell was asked: Are there
Christians Among the Sects:
JUDGING from numerous letters received at
this office, my reply to the sister from Lunenburg has given some pain to our brethren, and some
pleasure to our sectarian friends.
The builders up of the parties tauntingly
say to our brethren,
"Then we are as safe as you," and
"You are coming over to us, having now conceded the greatest
of all points--viz. that immersion
is not essential to a Christian."
Some of our brethren seem to think that
we have neutralized
much that has been said on the importance of baptism for
remission, and disarmed them of much of their artillery
against the ignorance, error, and indifference of the
times upon the whole subject of Christian duty and Christian
privilege.
JUDGING from numerous letters received at
this office, my reply to the sister from Lunenburg has given some pain to our brethren, and some
pleasure to our sectarian friends.
The builders up of the parties tauntingly
say to our brethren,
"Then we are as safe as you," and
"You are coming over to us, having now conceded the greatest
of all points--viz. that immersion
is not essential to a Christian."
Some of our brethren seem to think that
we have neutralized
much that has been said on the importance of baptism for
remission, and disarmed them of much of their artillery
against the ignorance, error, and indifference of the
times upon the whole subject of Christian duty and Christian
privilege.
I. With
all despatch, then, I hasten to show that I have neither conceded nor surrendered any thing for which I ever contended; but
that on the contrary, the opinion now expressed, whether true
or false, is one that I have
always avowed.
(Footnote in original reads: It is with
us as old as baptism for the remission of sins, and
this is at least as old as the "Christian Baptist." Read the first
two numbers of that work.)
It is also as old as John Calvin when he
writes about John Calvin Who insists that Baptism is FOR
the remission of sins without which one cannot be a
Christian and indeed is a believeth not meaning
treacherous.
1. Let
me ask, in the first place, what could mean all that we have
written upon the union of
Christians on APOSTOLIC grounds,
had we taught that
all Christians in the world were
already united in our own community?
Apostles were chosen to publish the Doctrines of the
Gospel OF the Kingdom, and no other person was ever an apostle
except Paul and Jesus had to APPEAR to him and let him HEAR the
voice of Jesus, and be promised future guidance to be an Apostle
Eph. 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more
strangers and foreigners,
but fellowcitizens with
the saints, and of the household of God;
Eph. 2:20 And are built upon [EDUCATED BY] the foundation of
the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself
being the chief corner stone;
Eph. 3:3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the
mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
Eph. 3:4 Whereby, when ye READ, ye may understand my
knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
Eph. 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons
of men,
as it is now REVEALED
unto his holy apostles and prophets by the SPIRIT;
SPIRIT is never a god or person: God puts His WORDS into
the MOUTH of A Moses, the Prophets and Lastly Jesus. The
Holy Spirit Comforter or Paraclete is Jesus Christ the
Righteous. 1 John 2.
2Pet. 3:2 That ye may be mindful [the only
worship IN the spirit]of the WORDS
which were spoken before
by the holy prophets,
and of the commandment
of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
Rom. 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you
according to my gospel,
and the preaching of
Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery,
which was kept secret
since the world began,
Rom. 16:26 But now is made manifest,
and by the scriptures of
the prophets,
according to the
commandment of the everlasting God,
made known to all
nations for the obedience of faith:
2. And
in the second place, why should we so often have quoted and
applied to apostate Christendom what the Spirit saith to saints in Babylon--"Come out of
her, my people, that you partake not of her sins, and that you receive not of her
plagues"--had we imagined that the Lord had no people beyond
the pale of our communion!
3.
But let him that yet doubts, read the following passages from
the Christian Baptist, April, 1825:--
"I have no idea of seeing, nor wish to see, the sects
unite in one grand army.
This would be dangerous to our liberties and laws. For this
the Saviour did not pray.
It is only the disciples
dispersed among them
that reason and benevolence would
call out of them, "&c.
&c. This looks very like our present opinion of Christians among the sects!!! 2d ed. Bethany, p. 85.
4. Again, speaking of purity of speech in order to the union of Christians, we say,
"None of you [Christians] have
ever yet attempted to show how Christians can be united on
your principles.
You have often showed how they may be divided,
and how each party may hold its own, but while you pray for
the visible unity of the disciples, and advocate their visible disunity, we cannot understand you." March, 1827, vol.
4.
5. Various essays and letters on "Christian union" from
our correspondents, are given to our readers with our
approbation; from one of which we quote these words:--
"I suppose all agree that among Christians of every
name there are disciples of Jesus Christ,
accepted of God in him, real members of his body, branches in
the true vine, and therefore all one in Christ." October,
1826, vol. 4, p. 53.
Note, that he never endorses these
sects but individuals within them who are already united
spiritually.
6. ln a letter to Spencer Clack, August, 1826, I have said, "As
to what you say concerning the evils of division among
Christians, I have nothing to object. I sincerely deplore
every division, and every sectarian feeling
which now exists; and if I thought there was any man on this
continent who would go farther than I to heal all divisions
and to unite all
Christians on constitutional grounds, I would travel on
foot a hundred miles to see him
and confess my faults to
him." vol. 5, p. 15.
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