3. Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi (Min- neapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), xxiii, xxiv.
4. Z.T. Sweeney, The Spirit and the Word: A Treatise on the Holy Spirit in Light of a Rational Interpretation of the Word of Truth (1919; reprint ed., Nashville, TN: Gospel Advocate, 1950),67-79,95-97,99.

5. Nicholas Wolterstorff, John Locke and the Ethics ofBelief(Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1996),2

Christianity; and these TRADITIONS themselves have evolved into numerous subdivisions, some of them deeply estranged from one another.

The Lunenburg Letters: Alexander Campbell was asked: Are there Christians Among the Sects: The statement by Campbell that induced the lady from Lunenburg to write the editor of the Harbinger is in an article entitled "Letters to England-No. 1," which was published in the June, 1837, issue. So that it may be kept in context, we give the entire paragraph preceding the statement and the paragraph in which the statement is found. The statement to which objection was raised is printed in bold capital letters so as to be easily identifiable.

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?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.

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.

JUDE SAYS THAT LEONARD ALLEN AND ALL WHO QUESTION SCRIPTURE ARE SLICK AND FOREORDAINED.

People question because Scripture promises that "Doctors of the law take away the key to knowledge. Scripture was not written to empower modern Priests and Levites but to Cast the Out.

JUDE WARNED AGAINST THE MOUNT SINAI INSTRUMENTAL-TRINITARIAN-PERVERTED "PLAY"
Jude 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation,
        it was needful for me to write unto you,
        and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend
        for THE FAITH (gospel, Spirit] which was ONCE DELIVERED the saints.

        James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY
        and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer,
        but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

2John 7 For many DECEIVERS are ENTERED INTO THE WORLD
         who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.
        This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
2John 8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought,
        but that we receive a full reward.
2John 9 Whosoever transgresseth,
        and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.
        He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ,
        he hath both the Father and the Son.

Jude 4 For there are certain MEN CREPT IN UNAWARES [Ruling Women open the door-secretly}
        who were before of old ordained to this condemnation,
        ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness,
        and denying the
         only Lord God,
       AND
         our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this,
        how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,
        afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jude 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate,
        but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains
        under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Jude 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner,
        giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh,
        are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Jude 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

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Rubel Shelly and John York: Rubel: Let me give you an example to work with in relation to the question you've raised: homosexuality and the ordination of practicing homosexuals to ministry.

Why don't we at least entertain the possibility that the Bible simply reflects an ANCIENT TABOO or homophobic prejudice in a few people like Paul -- a taboo and prejudice we need to outgrow?

The failure has long been apparent, but it was hard to acknowledge.
        For the theological tradition that shaped us required a RATIONAL consensus;
        and it carried the deep assumption that every honest,
        rational individual could-and would-READ the Bible alike.
        That after all was a basic assumption of Baconian science and theology
        as Campbell had articulated it;
        and that assumption quickly became a hidden, ideological fixture in the Movement.

THE ONE-PIECE PATTERN FROM THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS

IF YOU COLLECTED 100 SIXTH GRADERS AND LISTENED TO THEM READ, THEY WOULD ALL SPEAK THE SAME THINGS. IF NOT, THEN LEONARD ALLEN IS CLAIMING, AS HERMENEUTICS ASSERTS, THAT GOD, JESUS NOR THE EPISTLES COULD WRITE THE "REAL" MEANING.

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.

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.

Bacon and other like to use rational ways to determine whether the earth is round or flat.   However, neither Campbell claimed that they could understand WITHOUT Scriptural Evidence.

British empiricists held that all knowledge has its origin in,
        and is limited by, experience,
         the Continental rationalists thought that knowledge has its foundation
         in the scrutiny and orderly deployment of ideas and principles proper to the mind itself.

THE SIMPLE SIMON PATTERN IS SPEAK OR READ THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING. GOD IS NOT STUPID.

Rather than beginning with church traditions, the early Restoration fathers, particularly Alexander Campbell, went directly to Scripture. Only after digesting Scriptural "particulars" did they draw conclusions.

We do not believe that Alexander Cambell used any kind of logic. Disciples do not presume to pass judgment on holy scripture.

John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them,
        When ye have lifted up the Son of man,
        then shall ye know that I am he,
        and that I do nothing of myself;
        but as my Father hath TAUGHT me,
        I SPEAK these things.
John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me:
        the Father hath not left me alone;
        for I do always those things that please him.
John 8:30 As he SPAKE these WORDS, many believed on 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;

IF YOU SPEAK OR TEACH OR DISPENSE FREE OF CHARGE YOU ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN, DISCIPLE OR STUDENT OF CHRIST.

THEN AND ONLY THEN CAN YOU READ BLACK TEXT OF BROWN PAPER

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), for example, said science could not advance unless it departed entirely from the inherited errors of the past and established "progressive stages of certainty."

THEOLOGY IS MYTHOLOGY AND INDEED IS FLAT-EARTH RESTORED.

THEOLOGIANS HATE BACON BECAUSE HE DEPRIVE THEM OF A SHEKEL TO HELP A HELPLESS GOD.

This speaks of a radical shift in epistemology, which is the study of how we come to know what we know. As supernaturalism eroded, the scholars dismissed "revelation" as a legitimate "way to know" since revelation supposedly originated in a supernatural Being -- God. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), for example, said science could not advance unless it departed entirely from the inherited errors of the past and established "progressive stages of certainty."

THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD PROPHESIED THE REST OF MESSIAH

Is. 58:12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places:
        thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations;
        and thou shalt be called,
                The repairer of the breach, The restorer of PATHS to dwell in.

JESUS DEFINE HOLY SCRIPTURE FOR HIS KINGDOM OR CHURCH

Luke 22:37 For I say unto you, that this that is WRITTEN must yet be accomplished in me,
        And he was reckoned among the transgressors:
        FOR THE THINGS CONCERNING ME HAVE AN END

Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you,
        that all things must be fulfilled,
        which were written in the law of Moses,
        and in the prophets, and in the psalms,
        CONCERNING ME.
Luke 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand THE SCRIPTURES
Luke 24:46 And said unto them,
        Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer,
        and to rise from the dead the third day:

IF NOTHING ELSE, BACON OUTLAWED PICKING WIDOW'S AND STUDENT'S POCKETS

Bacon: "For where can I exert myself to better purpose or more honestly, where, too, in a matter at this time more necessary, than in attempting, according to my ability, to aid the Church of Christ, whose claims it is unlawful in any instance to deny, and which is now in grievous distress, and in extreme danger?

But there is no occasion for a long preface concerning myself. Receive what I say as you would do if it were pronounced by the united voice

of all those who either have already taken care to RESTORE THE CHURCH
or are desirous that it should be RESTORED to true order.

Those who, in the present day, have the name of PRELATES,
        cannot prove their VOCATION by any laws, human or divine.
Be it, however, that in this respect both are on a footing,
        still, unless they previously CONVICT the holy PROPHET of schism,
        they will prove nothing against us by that specious title of church.

I have thus mentioned one prophet as an example. But all the others declare that they had the same battle to fight -- wicked priests endeavoring to overwhelm them by a perversion of this term church.
And how did the apostles act? Was it not necessary for them,
        in professing themselves the servants of Christ,
        to declare war upon the synagogue?
        And yet the office and dignity of the priesthood were not then lost.

But it will be said, that, though the prophets and apostles dissented from wicked priests in doctrine,
        they still cultivated communion with them in sacrifices and prayers.
        I admit they did, provided they were not forced into idolatry.
But which of the prophets do we read of as having ever sacrificed in Bethel?
Which of the faithful, do we suppose, communicated in impure sacrifices,
        when the temple was polluted by Antiochus,
        and profane rites were introduced into it?

The Reasonableness of Christianity - John Lock

ITS A LIE: NO ONE BUT HISTORICAL THEOLOGIANS EVERY THOUGHT THAT THEY COULD UNDERSTAND WITHOUT REVELATION.

Sense and lust blinded their minds in some, and a careless inadvertency in others, and fearful apprehensions in most

(who either believed there were, or could not but suspect there might be, superior unknown beings)
gave them up into the hands of their priests to fill their heads with false notions of the deity,
and their worship with foolish rites, as they pleased;
and what dread or craft once began, devotion soon made sacred, and religion immutable.

But natural religion, in its full extent, was nowhere, that I know, taken care of by the force of natural reason. It should seem, by the little that has hitherto been done in it, that 'tis too hard a task for unassisted reason, to establish morality, in all its parts, upon its true foundations, with a clear and convincing light.

And 'tis at least a surer and shorter way, to the apprehensions of the vulgar, and mass of mankind,

that one manifestly sent from God, and coming with visible authority from him,
should, as a King and law-maker, tell them their duties, and require their obedience,
        than leave it to the long, and sometimes intricate deductions of reason,
        to be made out to them: such strains of reasonings the greatest
        part of mankind have neither leisure to weigh,
        nor, for want of education and use, skill to judge of.
And if, since that, the Christian philosophers have much outdone them, yet we may observe,
        that the first knowledge of the truths they have added are,
        owing to revelation; though as soon as they are heard and considered,
        they are found to be agreeable to reason,
        and such as can by no means be contradicted.

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.

AN ASSEMBLY OF CHRIST WILL HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH READING HOLY SCRIPTURE BECAUSE THAT WAS THE SINGULAR PATTERN.

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...

BECAUSE the Word, Logos or Regulative Principle and because it is RATIONAL it excludes personal opinions, personal experiences, preaching beyond READING the Word, singing, playing instruments or ACTING.

Because the Word, Logos or Regulative Principle and because it is RATIONAL it excludes personal opinions, personal experiences, preaching beyond READING the Word, singing, playing instruments or ACTING.

That assumption was questioned long ago by the Disciples of Christ, more recently by Christian Churches and Churches of Christ.

Matt. 13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil;
        the harvest is the end of the world;
        and the reapers are the angels.
Matt. 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,
        Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
        prepared for the devil and his angels:
Rev. 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out,
        that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan,
        which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth,
        and his angels were cast out with him.
Rev. 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,
        Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God,
        and the power of his Christ:
        for the ACCUSER of our brethren is cast down,
        which accused them before our God day and night.
Rev. 12:11 And they overcame him
        by the blood of the Lamb,
      and by the word of their testimony;
        and they loved not their lives unto the death.

aggelos , ho, hē, A. messenger, envoy, Il.2.26, etc.; “di' aggelōn homileein tini” Hdt.5.92.z, prov., Arabios a., of a loquacious person, 2 generally, one that announces or tells, e.g. of birds of augury, Il.24.292,296; Mousōn aggelos, of a poet, Thgn.769; “aggele earos . . khelidoi” Simon.74; a. aphthoggos,

khelidothe twittering of the swallow was prov. used of barbarous tongues by the Greeks, “eiper esti mē khelidonos dikēn agnōta phōnēn barbaron kektēmenē aēdonōn mouseia in E., v. Fr.88).

MousōnA.“Olumpiades M., Dios aigiokhoio thugateres
“kanakhan .[CLANGING BRASS] . theias antiluron mousas”

antilu^ros , on,
A.responsive to the lyre or like that of the lyre [THE GUITARIST]

Mousōn II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugera
[1] stugera hated, abominated, loathed hated, hateful, abominable, loathsome, freq. in Ep. and Trag., both of persons and things; “s. Aidēs” From HADES.
[2]“adein adokimon m.” 2. unsatisfactory, unconvincing 3. disreputable,

The Guitar or Kithera Mysteries:

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CHURCHES OF CHRIST WERE NEVER PART OF A STONE-CAMPBELL MOVEMENT.

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The "Christian Church" became the faction and was responsible for the division.
The churches of Christ were no more a faction in remaining loyal to the New Testament than were Caleb and Joshua when they made a correct report of the spies.

For the most part Churches of Christ, and to some extent Christian Churches,
        have continued to expect (and demand) a rational doctrinal consensus-
        if not a consensus that triumphantly sweeps the Christian world
        in a dawning millennium as Campbell envisioned,
        at least one achieved in a small but faithful enclave of truth and rationality.

HOLY SCRIPTURE AND ALL HISTORICAL SCHOLARS ARE APOSTOLIC: BUILT UPON THE REVELATION OF THE PROPHETS AND APOSTLES.

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Irenaeus (ca. 150)
Against Heresies 3.1.1
“We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith.”

Clement of Alexandria (d. 215)
The Stromata, 7:16
“But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.”

Athanasius (c. 296–373)
Against the Heathen, 1:3
“The holy and inspired Scriptures are fully sufficient for the proclamation of the truth.”

Basil the Great (ca.329–379)
On the Holy Spirit, 7.16
“We are not content simply because this is the tradition of the Fathers. What is important is that the Fathers followed the meaning of the Scripture.”

Ambrose (340–397 A.D.)
On the Duties of the Clergy, 1:23:102
“For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?”

St. Augustine (354–430)
De unitate ecclesiae, 10
“Neither dare one agree with catholic bishops if by chance they err in anything, but the result that their opinion is against the canonical Scriptures of God.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
Summa Theologiae, Question 1, art. 8
“For our faith rests on the revelation made to the Prophets and Apostles who wrote the canonical books.”

GOD IS NOT IRRATIONAL: HIS WORD OR LOGOS IS GOD'S RATIONAL NATURE AND OUTLAWS ALL OF THE FOLLOWING IRRATIONAL PRACTICES.

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

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[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 as sorcerers in Revelation 18

RATIONAL IS THE OPPOSITE OF IRRATIONAL OR INSANE

JESUS SEPARATES A TINY BAND OF LOST SPIRITIS, SILENT AND SECRET AND FREE OF CHARGE.

Acts 19:9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not,
        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.

hodopoi-ētikos , ē, on,

A.finding a way, practical, Zeno Stoic. 1.20 ; “methodos estin hexis ho. meta logou” Phlp.in Ph.6.28, Eustr.in EN7.13 ; epistēmē, e.g. iatrikē, Phlp. in Cat.141.21.

SIZE of the Little Flock
mikros , petty, trivial, slight, of persons, of small account, Arist.Ph.197a30; but to para mikros sōzesthai to be only just saved, Id.Rh.1371b11,

Opposite megas 2. generally, vast, high, ouranos, oros, purgos (theōn b. ho m., of Zeus [Father or KAIROS, demon son], Pi.O. 7.34) 3. of sounds, great, loud, Opposite. “oligos opp. mikros Mētēr m., of Cybele, “Mētēr theōn m.
mega eipein to speak big, and so provoke divine wrath,

Polus Number, many, Intensity, much, mighty, p. humenaios a loud song, if she flow with full stream, the many, i.e. the greater number

cithari-zo , a-re, v n., = kitharizô, to play on or strike the cithara, Nep. Epam. 2, 1; Vulg. Apoc. 14, 2.

Alalētos alalē II.a loud noise, aulōn Alala (halal) war cry, make dumb

Pind. O. 7 That man is prosperous, who is encompassed by good reports. Grace, which causes life to flourish, looks with favor now on one man, now on another, with both the sweet-singing lyre and the full-voiced notes of flutes. And now, with the music of flute and lyre alike I have come to land with Diagoras, singing the sea-child of Aphrodite and bride of Helios

The triple-godesses as "trinity" included the three Graces: they were blue-eyed blond prostitute singers.

THAT WAY
HODOS

2.a way of doing, speaking, etc., têsd'aph'hodou dizêsios Parm.1.33 , cf. 8.18 ; triphasias allas ho. logônways of telling the story, Hdt.1.95, cf. 2.20,22 ; but triphasias ho. trepetai turns into three forms,Id.6.119 ; adikon ho. ienai Th.3.64 ; ho. hêntin'iôn by what course of action,Ar.Pl.506, cf. Nu.75 ; ên echomen ho. logôn Id.Pax733 ; mia dê leipetai . . ho. Pl.Smp.184b .

3 . method, system, “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.

4. of the Christian Faith and its followers, Act.Ap.9.2, 22.4, 24.14. (Root sed- 'go', in Skt. sad-, ā-sad- 'come to', 'reach', OSlav. choditi 'go'.)

Plat. Theaet. 208b Socrates Yes, but with his opinion he has rational explanation; for he wrote with the method in terms of letters in his mind, and we agreed that that was rational explanation.

There is, then, my friend, a combination of right opinion with rational [logon] explanation, which cannot as yet properly be called knowledge?

THE ONLY PURPOSE
Method-os , hē, (meta, hodos) Pattern II. pursuit of knowledge, investigation, Pl.Sph.218d, 235c, al.; m. poieisthai to pursue one's inquiry, ib.243d; “en tē prōtē m.” Arist.Pol.1289a26: hence, treatise, Dam.Pr.451.
2. mode of prosecuting such inquiry, method, system, Pl.Phdr.270c, Arist.EN1129a6, Pol.1252a18, etc.; “hē dialektikē m.” Pl.R.533c,

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,

--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

THE ONLY ONES INVITED OR ALLOWED TO ATTEND THE SECT OF THE WAY OUTSIDE THE ECUMENICAL

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 soul.

Luke 9:26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my WORDS,
        of him shall the Son of man be ashamed,
        when he shall come in his own glory,
        and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.

With the exception of a tiny fraction of "churches"--which I don't know of--the prophesied c. AD 2000 assault against God and Scriipture has replaced the SKHOLE or SYNAGOGUE with "Worship Centers" with -- they think -- are professional grade musical and theatrical performers. Rubel Shelly along with the locals said it most vocally that the only purpose of "church" is to WORSHIP or a pagan-like "naval" to funnel up PRAISE.

Ana-pausis A.repose, rest, relaxation

REST FROM: ALL forms of music which upset the rest and which is for sale

REST FROM: ka^koō , A.maltreat, distress, in Hom. always of persons physically, injure, paralyse, “tas arkhas tōn neurōn”

REST FROM: Leitourg-ia III. public service of the gods, “hai pros tous theous l.” Arist.Pol.1330a13; “hai tōn theōn therapeiai kai l.” D.S.1.21, A.D.), etc.; the service or ministry of priests, LXX Nu.8.25, Ev.Luc.1.23.

THE SINGLE PURPOSE FOR THE ASSEMBLY of DISCIPLES-STUDENTS

skholē , skholēn agein to be at leisure, enjoy ease, keep quiet, amphi heauton for one's own business, a work for leisure, i.e. requiring attention, 2. a group to whom lectures were given, school, esp. of students, study, attend lectures, devote oneself to a master,

Sabbath never meant "day of worship" but REST. That was the time when teacher and disciples had a REST day and they could REST, READ, and REHEARSE or memorize THE WORD.

Dem.44, Plu.Per.35, Alex.7, etc.; s. ekhein to keep a school, Arr.Epict. 3.21.11; skholēs hēgeisthai to be master of it, ,

3. Lat. schola, = skholastērion,

THE METHOD IS DIALOG: NOT PREACHING OPPOSITE LECTIO-DIVINA

dialegō , A.pick out, hold converse with, c. dat. pers., “moi tauta philos dielexato thumos” Il.11.407 write in prose, opp.poiein,

in Philosophy, practise dialectic, elicit conclusions by discussion, “ouk erizein alla d.” Pl.R.454a, cf. 511c, Tht.167e, etc. discourse, reasoning write in prose, opp.poiein, what you
2. create, bring into existence, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea, Hdt.1.23, 4.14; “p. theogoniēn Hellēsi” Id.2.53; p. Phaidran, Saturous, Ar.Th.153, 157; p. kōmōdian, tragōdian, etc., Pl.Smp.223d; “palinōdian

The synagogue is connected to syllogism: the ekklesia are collected to READ or HEAR the WORD (only) and come to a collected or conclusion.

Christian Lectio contrary to the Lectio-Divina of the Feminists ruling over the effeminate training doctors of the law to take away the key to knowledge. it is called witchcraft or sorcery.

lectĭo , ōnis, f. lego. I. A gathering, collecting.
A. In gen. (post-Aug. and rare): “lectio lapidum,” Col. 2, 2, 12: “florum,” Arn. 5, 173.—*
B. In partic., a picking out, selecting: “judicum,” Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 16. —
II. A reading, perusal; a reading out, reading aloud. that which is read, reading, text, “juris lectiones,” passages of the laws

Allen would be surprised at how little active Disciples serving withing their reach even THINK about what is happening even at a Church of Christ across the street. The Disciples-Christian Churches simply LIE to God and about God. There is no command, example or remote inference of God's travel-limited people gathering to sing as a group with or without instruments. To the contrary, from the SERPO in the garden of Eden to the end-time Babylonian Mother of Harlots whose priests are "lusted after fruits" speaking, singing, playing instruments or "grinders" are called SORCERERS and they will be CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.

Jesus called the Scribes (book writers) and Pharisees (preachers), hypocrites by referencing Isaiah 29 and Ezekiel 33. God put these words into the MOUTH of Ezekiel. God told Ezekiel that the people treated Himself and Ezekiel the same way.

Ezek. 33:30 Also, thou son of man, the CHILDREN of thy PEOPLE s
        till are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses,
        and speak one to another, every one to his brother,
        saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the WORD that cometh forth from the Lord.
Ezek. 33:31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh,
        and they sit before thee as my people,
        and they hear thy words, but they will not do them:
        for with their mouth they shew much love,
         but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Ezek. 33:32 And, lo, thou art unto them
        as a very lovely song
        of one that hath a pleasant voice,
        and can play well on an instrument:
                 for they hear thy words,
                 but they do them not.
Ezek. 33:33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,)
        then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.

Not only has the Enlightenment hope for RATIONAL doctrinal consensus failed, but as Wolterstorff noted, it was bound to fail. It could not succeed.
        For the Enlightenment epistemology was based on the erroneous assumptions
        that context and community do not matter,
        that one can stand free of tradition,

THEOLOGY IS MYTHOLOGY: THAT IS WHY GOD SENT HIS OWN APOSTLES OR SCRIBES SO THAT ANY RATIONAL PERSON (IN THEIR RIGHT MIND) CAN READ THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN FOR OURLEARNING

If Scripture is not free of Culture then the accusation is that God was INCOMPETENT.
If the traditions of MEN are capable of modifying Scripture the men who hallucinate anything beyond the printed text are encumbered

and that the only path to truth is the unencumbered individual
weighing the factual evidence and exercising his or her rational powers.

A Disciple or student of Christ who has been baptized requesting A holy spirit can read that which theologians cannot read and don't even try:

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;
John 8:32 And ye shall know the TRUTH, and the truth shall make you FREE.

With respect to the kingdom of Christ, both male and female are commanded to be silent "so that all can be SAFE and come to a knowledge." Only women who could be easily deluded would have any desire to perform or sel-exhibit. However, those rare females got well paid to convince everyone that their musical and gibberish was a god and they were the mediators.

1Cor. 8:6 But to us there is but ONE WHOM, the Father, OF whom are all things, and we in him;
        and one Lord Jesus Christ, BY whom are all things, and we by him

1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD
        And one mediator between God and men,
        the MAN Christ Jesus;

JESUS IS THE PATTERN AND ANYONE WHO THINKS THEY HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD CANNOT BE A BELIEVER.

John 8:38 I SPEAK that which I have seen with my Father:
         and ye DO that which ye have seen with your father.

DO is poetry and includes any human input: composing song, sermons and doing the STRIKING of musical instruments.

1Pet. 4:11 If ANY man speak,
        let him speak as the ORACLES of God;
        if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth
        that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ,
        To whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen

Laleo A. talk, chat, prattle,generally talk, speak,

OPPOSITE poiesis FABRICATION A. , creation, production, (action, hē tōn melōn p.” Id.Grg.449d; “mimēsis
2. of Poetry, hē tōn dithurambōn p., tēs tragōdias, tōn epōn,

OPPOSITE: Melos B. esp. musical member, phrase: hence, song, strain, of lyric poetry,

OPPOSITE: 2. music to which a song is set, tune, Arist.Po.1450a14; opp. rhuthmos, metron, Pl.Grg. 502c; opp. rhuthmos, rhēma, Id.Lg.656c; Krētikon, Karikon, Iōnikon m.,
OPPOSITE: 3. melody of an instrument,
Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon's harp) “phormigx d' au phtheggoith' hieron m. ēde kai aulos”
Hieron hi. sōmata, of hierodouloi, Str.6.2.6;
Hiero-doulos neōkoroi kai hi.Ph.2.420; of the Nethinim, LXX 1 Es.1.2, al.; esp. of templecourtesans at Corinth and elsewhere, Str.8.6.20, 6.2.6; also of men, Id.11.4.7, al.

BOTH LIARS AND SORCERERS (SINGERS, PLAYERS) HAVE THEIR PLACE IN THE LAKE OF FIRE. Leonard Allen says that "God is Ecstatic" or out of His mind so Allen as proof of STRONG DELUSIONS which are marked by Lying Wonders or Performing Religious Ceremonies and claiming God's Authority

The opposite or RATIONAL is IRRATIONAL. Campbell always taught the opposite of the Disciples and demanded that we SPEAK where the BIBLE Speaks.

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that
YE present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God
which is your reasonable service.

Greek: tēn logikēn latreian humōn:

Latin: Romans 12.1 obsecro itaque vos fratres per misericordiam Dei ut exhibeatis corpora vestra hostiam viventem sanctam Deo placentem rationabile obsequium vestrum

G2380 thuÿ thoo'-o A primary verb; properly to rush (breathe hard, blow, smoke), that is, (by implication) to sacrifice (properly by fire, but generally); by extension to immolate (slaughter for any purpose):--kill, (do) sacrifice, slay.

The body or flesh must be with REVERENCE and GODLY fear because GOD IS STILL A CONSUMING FIRE.

-Thu^si-a , Ion. -iē, h(, (thuō) prop. A. burnt-offering, sacrifice, “en thusiēsi einai” Hdt.8.99;
Poieo 3. of sacrifices, festivals, etc., celebrate, “p. hira” Hdt.9.19, cf. 2.49 (Act. and Pass.)
“p. tēn thusian tō Poseidōni” X.HG4.5.1;(when people steal your lambs)
p. sabbata observe the Sabbath, LXXEx.31.16;

Rătĭōnābĭlis , e, adj. ratio (post-Aug.; = rationalis, which is in better use), I. reasonable, rational: he pure milk of reason, id. 1 Pet. 2, 2: “sententia vera et rationabilis,”

Sententĭa , ae, f. for sentientia, from sentio,
I. a way of thinking, opinion, judgment, sentiment; a purpose, determination, decision, will, etc. I. Transf., of words, discourse, etc., sense, meaning, signification, idea, notion, etc. 1. In gen., a thought expressed in words; a sentence, period: dum de singulis sententiis breviter disputo

Greek RATIONAL, SPIRITUAL worship: logi^k-os , ē, on, (logos)
A. of or for speaking or speech, merē l. the organs of speech, Plu.Cor.38:

logikē, hē, speech, Opposite. mousikē, Opposite phantasia” expressed in speech,
Logikos II. possessed of reason, intellectual, “meros” Ti.Locr.99e, al.; “to l. zōon”
        dianoētikai, Mind Opposite. ēthikai, Arist.EN1108b9.
        And:
        Ethi^k-os , A. “ēthos” 11) moral, Opposite. dianoētikos, Arist.EN1103a5,
al.; ta ēthika a treatise on morals, LOGOS permits no moralizing.

2. dialectical, argumentative, hoi l. dialogoi
logical, l. sullogismoi, Opposite. rhētorikoi, Rh.1355a13.
peri logikōn title of work, Opposite to phusikon, to ēthikon,

And Phusikos is the Opposite of logikos
phu^sikos , ē, on, A. natural, produced or caused by nature, inborn, native,
II. of external nature, natural, physical, “hē ph. epistēmē”
Opposite mathēmatikē, theologikē, ib.1064b2; 2. “ho ph.” an inquirer into nature, natural philosopher,
4. Adv. “-kōs” according to the laws of nature,
phu^sikos is the Opposite of logikōs,
III. later, belonging to occult laws of nature, magical, ph. pharmaka spells or amulets,

Logos is Opposite -Enthousi-astikos , ē, on,

A. inspired, “phusis” Pl.Ti.71e; esp. by music, Arist.Pol.1340a11; “hē e. sophia” divination, Plu.Sol.12; “e. ekstasis” “to e.” excitement, Pl.Phdr. 263d:
II. Act., inspiring, exciting, of certain kinds of music, Arist.Pol.1341b34; “nosēmata manika kai e.

Sophia , A.cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, in music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, Sol.13.52, Pi.O.1.117, in divination, S.OT 502
Aristot. Pol. 8.1340a But it is clear that we are affected in a certain manner, both by many other kinds of music and not least by the melodies of Olympus; for these admittedly make our souls [psukhas] enthusiastic, and enthusiasm is an affection of the character of the soul. And moreover everybody when listening to imitations is thrown into a corresponding state of feeling, even apart from the rhythms and tunes themselves [Called SORCERY]

These assumptions were enormously powerful and attractive-and remain so for many people in the Stone-Campbell Movement-but they no longer stand. If nothing else, the sheer force of pluralism and fragmentation has overturned them.

We are being forced to recognize the boundedness and embeddedness that marks human life and human knowing.
Such recognition tempers the presumption (and indeed the arrogance) that has marked the modem spirit, and allows us to face more fully the way we actually come to our deepest convictions.

Facing up to the failure of the Baconian hope for Christian UNITY
based on doctrinal consensus presents an enormous challenge
for many in Churches of Christ and in Christian Churches.

ALEXANDER CAMPBELL AND ALL READERS OF JOHN 17 NEVER UNITED BEYOND THE WORD.

Is. 59:15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey:
         and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Is. 59:16 And he saw that there WAS NO MAN,
        and wondered that there was NO INTERCESSOR:
        therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
Is. 59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate,
        and an helmet of salvation upon his head;
        and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,
        and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Is. 59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay,
        fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies;
        to the islands he will repay recompence.
Is. 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west,
        and his glory from the rising of the sun.
When the enemy shall come in like a flood,
        the Spirit OF the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Is. 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion,
        and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
Is. 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD;
        My SPIRIT that is upon thee,
        and my words which I have put in thy mouth,
        shall not depart out of thy mouth,
        nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
        nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD,
        from henceforth and for ever.

Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt. 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Please GET OVER IT: A Christian, Disciple or STUDENT of Christ does not NEED and will not TOLERATE spending time and money to watch weak, effeminate Worship PERFORMERS go their gig.

The Word or Logos is the Rational, Regulative Principle which outlaws personal opinions or experiences preaching, singing, playing instruments or acting. This is GOD in spoken and written words of what God has supplied for Spiritual or RATIONAL growth. Leonard Allen hates and falsely accuses because Campbell believed that God revealed so that any person could read and understand. To contradict that is to despise God and that is blasphemy.

No Christian ever sought UNITY based on DIVERSITY or different, contradicting and foolish practices. The only lust for unity has been for Instrumental churches BEGIN to use instruments (machines for doing hard work) and THEN we can be united. A Church is no larger than an isolated, independant congregation gathering to obey the wilderness command and practice to Rest, Read and Rehearse the Word of God only. The Civil or religious ekklesia or synagogue had no other PIECES to its PATTERN.

That does not stop Instrumentalists seeking to TRANSISTION peaceable churches to their denomination from "infiltrating and diverting" using a Leonard Allen. Honesty would be to LEAVE the historic Church of Christ and join some denomination. The confession of using "dissossiation" and lie about a youth's traditions in order to deceive them is causing tens of thousands to stumble: ONE is enough to get yourselv fitted for a millstone. Those who lie about God and Holy Scripture will not stop them from lying about the UNITY fetish.

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 haveneither conceded nor surrendered> any thing for which I ever contended; but that on the contrary, the opinion now expressed, whether true or false, is onethat 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.

THE TWISTING OF CAMPBELL, ONCE TWISTED, CANNOT BE CONFESSED WITHOUT SELLING A FALSE CHRIST.

Put most simply, this failure strikes near the heart of THEIR TRADITIONS
to face up to it will require a fundamental reorientation.
There are resources for such reorientation within the tradition itself.

ALL of the practices Leonard Allen call "our tradition" or our "heritage" like a disease inherited from a more literate grandmother is called the by the Campbells and all historic denominations the APOSTOLIC TEACHINGS.

Rom. 16:25 Now to him that is of power to ESTABLISH you according to my GOSPEL,
        and the preaching of [about] 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

Leonard Allen and Cohorts have made that OBSOLETE because no one can RATIONALLY understand BLACK text on BROWN paper?

The Gospel when preached ENLISTS STUDENTS and then Baptizes them to give them A holy spirit or A good conscience WITHOUT WHICH no one can read the text and thus the NEW TRADITION do not smear their own imagination with Holy Scripture.

Col. 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the CHURCH:
        who is the beginning,
        the firstborn from the dead;
        THAT in all things he might have the preeminence.

g4409. proteuo, prote-yoo´-o; from 4413; to be first (in rank or influence): — have the preeminence.

IF LEONARD ALLEN CANNOT INTRODUCE A "DOCTRINE" AND DEFINE IT AS A TRADITION HE REPUDIATES JESUS CHRIST BY RESTING ON HISTORIC THEOLOGIANS.
Leonard Allen and the seduced LIPSCOMB tribe promote and fellowship the use of Instrumental Music in religious OBSERVATIONS.
Scripture proves that Lucifer the harp-singing prostitute brough musical instruments into the Garden and as Apollon He is the leader of His musicians
which literates understand as the LOCUSTS.

LEONARD ALLEN CALL refusing to BEGIN using Instruments known to induce KOMA proof of being sectarian and divisive.

Leonard Allen cannot find a single command, example or remote inference of God calling His peole out of their REST to engage in groop singing with or without instruments,.

Since even singing hymns did not begin until the end of the fourth century, Leonard Allen is out on a week branch to claim that Churches of Christ REMOVED instruments just to be mean and sectarian.

Heb. 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, [Church of a still in charge Christ]
which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Third, the new awareness of TRADITIONS and the role of creeds challenges our future.
To work at theological reorientation within a tradition,

it seems fair to say, one must first be conscious of having or being a tradition.

But in my experience of teaching in a seminary and in scores of congregations over many years,it has required a momentous and difficult step for people in Churches of Christ-and many in Christian Churches-to acknowledge that they are deeply part of a human tradition.

If you tell a lie often enough and INCULCATE a whole generation of preachers and elders they will not JUMP even while you boil the water. IF Leonard Anderson and tribe had the TRUTH they could just teach that:

The spirit of Christ, Jesus, Paul and everyone else DENIED that salvation rest on obedience by being baptized.
Jesus enjoyed and endorsed singing or instrumental music to replace His standing up to READ in the synagogue.
Jesus said that it doesn't matter what you name the BRIDE of Christ.
Jesus commanded that the Apostles organize organizations including many congregations.

This is because that very powerful and ever-present tradition had taught them that they were just New Testament Christians,
not part of any human, and hence "denominational," tradition'?

Independent Christian Churches are taking the lead right now in this missional thrust among the Stone- Campbell churches.
        They have launched a bold new church planting strategy for the twenty-first century,
        and a growing number of Church of Christ leaders
        are either partnering with them or seeking to emulate their vision.

The Stone-Campbell churches constitute only a small stream in the great flow of God's Kingdom on the earth. Some of the very language and terms of the intramural arguments and discussions which absorb us sound quite odd to the ears of many Christians today.

Every tradition, of course, has its in-house discussions, its distinctive emphases, and (to the eyes of outsiders) odd practices. That's okay. Such issues are worth arguing about-up to a point.

But it is long past time for all three of the Stone-Campbell traditions, not just the Disciples,
to acknowledge and openly participate
in the great stream of trinitarian Christian faith, a stream variously muddied and polluted, to be sure,

but a stream that nonetheless has pro- claimed
        the love of the Father,
        known the grace of the Lord Jesus,
       and experienced the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

Phil. 1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
Phil. 1:30 Having the SAME CONFLICT which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Phil. 2:1 If there be therefore a
        Any consolation IN CHRIST,
        if any comfort OF LOVE,
        if any fellowship OF the spirit,
        if any bowels and MERCIES,
Phil. 2:2 Fulfil ye my joy,
        that ye be LIKEMINDED,
        having the same LOVE,
        being of one ACCORD,
        of one MIND.

2John 3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace,
        from God [Theos] the Father,
        and from the Lord [Kurios] Jesus Christ,
        the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

Paul silences male and female during the assembly which silences THEOLOGY or anything beyond READING or SPEAKING the Word only.

1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD,
and one mediator between God and men,
the MAN Christ Jesus;

There is no SPIRIT GOD to make the FATHER Intelligible. SPIRIT is never a person but the Mind or Mental disposition of God or Man. God puts His WORDS into the MOUTH of A Moses, the Prophets and Lastly His Son whom He made Both Lord and Christ

Paul is not speaking of the African concept of "little man Spirit) in the big man (me)." The inner man is not a person different from the outer man. The Spirit of the mind is the mental disposition or attitude of the mind.

Jonathan Edwards: Views rejecting the trinity of persons He could never publish:

"There are two more eminent and remarkable images of the triad among the creatures.
The one is in the Spiritual creation, the SOUL of man.

There is the MIND,
and the understanding or idea, and

the Spirit of the mind as it is called in Scripture,
i.e., the disposition, the will or affection.

The other is in the visible creation, viz., the Sun.

Restorationists like Churches of Christ and Christian Churches are usually tempted to think
of renewal as the return to or recovery of some past golden age that has slipped away.

But Ray Anderson got it nearly right, I think, when he wrote that
The [renewed] church does not emerge out of its past"

THEOLOGIANS NEEDING TO REPUDIATE THE CHRISTIAN SYSTEM MIGHT RE-EMERGE THEIR MOTHER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENTS. THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JESUS CAN BE HONORED BUT NEEDS NO RESTORATION. WHAT BECAME OF CHURCHES OF CHRIST RESTORED HOLY SCRIPTURES AND DEFINED:
CHURCH is a School of Christ
WORSHIP is reading and musing Holy Scriptures.

There is no organization beyond edification defined as "Education in the Ekklesia."

THE NEW COVENANT OR LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JESUS

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock,
        over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers,
        to feed the church of God,
        which he hath purchased with his own [The Lord's] blood.
Matt. 26:28 For this is my blood of the NEW TESTAMENT
        which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Mark 14:24 And he said unto them,
        This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for man

Jer. 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD,
        that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,
        and with the house of Judah:
Heb. 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
        in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;
        because they continued not in my covenant,
        and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Heb. 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will
        make with the house of Israel after those days,
        saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind,
        and write them in their hearts:
        and I will be to them a God,
        and they shall be to me a people::
Heb. 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant,
        he hath made the first old.
        Now that which decayeth and waxeth old
        is ready to vanish away.

Heb. 12:24 And to Jesus the MEDIATOR of the new covenant,
        and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them,
When ye have lifted up the Son of man,
then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
John 8:30 As he spake these words, many believed on 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;
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

The word REnewal demands a REturn to a previous condition. From the wilderness onward the Church of Christ (the Rock) as ekklesia or synagogue was a SCHOOL only of the WORD of God only. All church first remove the cunning craftsmen or sophists--speakers, singers, instrument players--SO THAT the Word can be SPOKEN and discussed.

Thomas Campbell Worship: 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 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.

When it attempts to do this it resorts to strategies of resuscitation rather than experiencing the power of resurrection. In its attempts to be contemporary the church usually arrives a decade, if not a generation, too late. The renewed church emerges in the present out of its future. As in the case of everything related to the creative life and power of God, the future of the church exists first and then its pre ent. '

This might be the best way to think about the future of the Restoration Movement. God's future.
A future already secured by the triumph of the bloodied Lamb (Revelation 5),
a triumph in which we see, by faith, how history will turn out.

THE KINGDOM HAS COME:

Luke 1:31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his NAME JESUS.
Luke 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called
        the SON OF the Highest: and the Lord God s
        hall give unto him the throne of his father David:
Luke 1:33 And he shall reign over the house [thēsauros ,meeting-house, hall, “oi. Kērukōn]
        of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom
        there shall be no end.
            g5056 Telos result (immediate, ultimate or prophetic), purpose); specially, an impost or levy (as paid):

Nothing can change the fact that the Comforter Paraklete is named Jesus Christ the Righteous. He is the ruler over His flock. He was sent to seek a very tiny flock of Lost Spirits. These spirits will be able to HEAR the election or calling out of the World.

Is. 62:11 Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him

1Cor. 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have
        delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father;
        when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1Cor. 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Cor. 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
1Cor. 15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet.
        But when he saith all things are put under him,
         it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1Cor. 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him,
        then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him
         that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

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The new Creation by Jesus as an aion or messianic age could never be stopped until Jesus returns AGAIN and gives UP His Throne.

Mark 9:1 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you,
That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.

Luke 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God:
        but to others in parables;
        that seeing they might not see,
        and hearing they might not understand.
Luke 9:2 And he sent them to preach the KINGDOM OF GOD and to heal the sick.

Luke 9:27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here,
        which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets were until John:
        since that time the kingdom of God is preached,
        and every man presseth into it

Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees,
        when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said,
        The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for,
        behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
John 18:36 Jesus answered,
        My kingdom is not of this world:
        if my kingdom were of this world,
        then would my servants fight,
        that I should not be delivered to the Jews:
         but now is my kingdom not from hence.

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THE LEADERS AND BEASTS

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YOU DON'T NEED TO BE ABLE TO READ AND DEFINE WORDS TO GO TO:

Pepperdine Lectures 2013 Revelation 5

REVELATION 5 SPEAKS OF THE CHURCH. Worship is IN THE PLACE of the human spirit as devoted to TRUTH or the Word, Logos, Regulative Principle.
This heavenly realm where the BEASTS and ELDERS have been silence is NOT Accessible to THEOLOGIANS.

Col. 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father,
        which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints IN LIGHT.
Col. 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of DARKNESS,
         and hath translated us into the KINGDOM of his dear Son:
Col. 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
        even the forgiveness of sins:

Heb. 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion,
         and unto the city of the living God,
        the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Heb. 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, [Church of Christ]
        which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all,
        and to the spirits OF just men made perfect, [at Baptism]

Heb. 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which CANNOT BE MOVED
        let us have grace, whereby we may serve God
        acceptably with REVERENCE and godly fear:
Heb. 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire

Lipscomb University now ruled over by Babylon harlots wants you to MOVE, baby. Corrupting the WORD with anything is selling learning at retail in the same class as harlots.

--Hor. Carm. 2.16 For ease the Mede, with quiver gay:
For ease rude Thrace, in battle cruel:
Can purple buy it, Grosphus? Nay,
Nor gold, nor jewel.

No pomp, no lictor clears the way
'Mid rabble-routs of troublous feelings,
Nor quells the cares that SPORT and PLAY
Round gilded ceilings.

-mŏvĕo, to move, affect, excite, inspire: charms, to stir up, excite, provoke

to move people FROM their place, to dance, gesticulating

“cantus vocis juvat sociatā nervorum concordiā,” Quint. 5, 10, 124: citharam cum voce,” id. ib. 5, 112: “tympana,” id. H. 4, 48; to disturb: “ d. ib. 5, 112:Kithera along with Voice.

tympana id. H. 4, 48; beaten by the priests of Cybele and Isis Mount Sinai Bacchantine females 1 Cor 13

Emasculated Galatians 5 of witchcraft
to disturb: “novis Helicona cantibus,”

With double dyes; a small domain,
The soul that breathed in Grecian harping,
My portion these; and high disdain
Of ribald carping.

Cămēna name of the Gr. Mousa, Meton., poetry, a poem, song: “summā dicende Camenā,”

Mousa M., Dios aigiokhoio thugateres [Daughters, whatever the sex]
music, song, “m. stugera” A.Eu.308 (anap.); “euphamos” Id.Supp.695 (lyr.); “kanakhan . . theias antiluron mousas” S.Tr.643 (lyr.); “Aiakō moisan pherein” I. bear or carry a load, koinōn-eō
Share, partner or have fellowshp with the MUSES

The Hebrew term Abaddon has a Greek equivalent Apollyon (Greek: Ἀπολλύων, Apollyon), appears in the Bible as both a place of destruction and as the name of an angel. In the Hebrew Bible, abaddon is used with reference to a bottomless pit, often appearing alongside the place שאול (sheol), meaning the realm of the dead. In the New Testament Book of Revelation, an angel called Abaddon is described as the king of an army of locusts; his name is first transcribed in Greek (Revelation 9:11—"whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon" (Ἀβαδδὼν)), and then translated ("which in Greek means the Destroyer" (Ἀπολλύων, Apollyon)). The Latin Vulgate and the Douay Rheims Bible have additional notes (not present in the Greek text), "in Latin Exterminans", exterminans being the Latin word for "destroyer".
WHO IS THE "DESTROYER"? ~ From Wikipedia

On Mount Olympus, Apollo Mousagetes was, in a certain sense, the choir leader of the Muses, although his attachment was not limited to music, as he fathered many children with his musical group. Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry, was the mother of Orpheus, the wonderfully gifted lyre player whose father was said by some to be Apollo himself.

vulgus (volg- ), the great mass, the multitude, the people, public “vulgo loquebantur,

sperno , to despise, contemn, reject, scorn, spurn, “doctrina deos spernens Despise the doctrines of God

Rev. 5:7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
Rev. 5:8 And when he had taken the book,
        the four BEASTS and four and twenty ELDERS fell down before the Lamb,
        HAVING [Ekho means "holding" and never "playing"]
        every one of them HARPS,
        and golden vials full of ODORS,
                Which are the PRAYERS of saints.

UNBAPTIZED PEOPLE WHO "BELIEVETH NOT" ARE DEFINED AS UNFIT FOR THE KINGDOM. They remain as just flesh or ANIMALS.

Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done,
        but according to his mercy he saved us,
                by the washing [baptism] of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit (ours);

They will not be able to participate in the Church whose Citizenship is IN HEAVEN and never in "houses built by human (animal) hands" or by the WORKS of human hands

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zōon , to, A.living being, animal may be free from this kind of animal (i.e. beggars), Pl.Lg. 936c; z. ponēron, of women,
g2226. zw◊on zoon, dzo´-on; neuter of a derivative of 2198; a live thing, i.e. an animal: — beast.
g2198. zao, dzah´-o; a primary verb; to live (literally or figuratively): — life(-time), (a-)live(-ly), quick.

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,

2. of Poetry, hē tōn dithurambōn p., tēs tragōdias, tōn epōn, Pherecr.145.10, Pl.Grg.502a, 502b, R. 394c: abs., art of poetry, “hoi en

-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 we prescribed at first when we began the education of our soldiers.

WHEN JESUS SPEAKS WE MUST FALL IN REVERENCE AND GODLY FEAR.

Thērion , to (in form Dim. of thēr),
A. wild animal, esp. of such as are hunted In Trag. only in Satyric drama,
2. generally, animal, ē thērion ē theos, either above or below the nature of man, Arist. Pol.1253a29, cf. EN1145a25.
3. beast, esp. as hostile and odious to man, thēria te kai bota
of Typhon, etc., Pl. Phdr.230a, R.588e; of the Satyrs,
II. Medic.,= thēriōma, Hp.Coac.459, Loc.Hom.29, cf. Gal. l.c.
III. as a term of reproach, beast, creature, , cf. Eq.273; “kolaki, deinō thēriō” Pl.Phdr.240b;
IV. Astron., the constellation Lupus, [Elders become wolves]

“hē mousikē aei ti kainon thērion tiktei”

mousikê aei ti kainon thêrion tiktei

A. Mousikos, musical, agônes m. kai gumnikoi choroi te kai agônes ta mousika music,
II. of persons, skilled in music, musical, X.l.c., etc.; poiêtikoi kai m. andres Pl.Lg.802b ; kuknos [minstrel] kai alla zôia; peri aulous - professional musicians, mousikos kai melôn poêtês, use with singing, skilled in speaking before a mob. Melody,

B. aei always
C. kainos , esp. of new dramas, the representation of the new tragedies, (Aphrodisias dedicated to Aphrodite (ZOE); comedy, sexual love, pleasure, a woman's form of oath, Aster or Venus or ZOE.
Therion
D. Tikto mostly of the mother
E. of Rhea one of the zoogonic or vivific principles

Rev. 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Thêraô 1. to hunt or chase wild beasts,
Rev 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

Rev. 5:9 And they SUNG a new song, saying,
Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof:
for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
Rev. 5:10 And hast made us unto our God KINGS and PRIESTS: and we shall reign on the earth.

Holding or Having the "harp of God" means DON'T PLAY HARPS
Echo STOP, Keep balanced, keep on guard 9. possess mentally, understand, taming, do you understand? attend! listen! know of a thing, damazo subdue, conquer, be subject to one another. Subdue epithumia passion, longing after, sexual appetite,.

9. possess mentally, understand, “hippōn dmēsin” Il.17.476; “tekhnēn” Hes.Th.770; “pant' ekheis logon” A. Ag.582, cf. E.Alc.51; “ekhete to pragma” S.Ph.789; ekheis ti; do you understand? Ar.Nu.733: imper.ekhe attend! listen!

e. phresi keep in one's mind, it kept still, 2. hold fast,

Iliad 2.[95] And the place of gathering was in a turmoil, and the earth groaned beneath them, as the people sate them down, and a din arose. Nine heralds with shouting sought to restrain them,
        if so be they might refrain from uproar and give ear to the kings,
        nurtured of Zeus. Hardly at the last were the people made to sit,
        and were stayed in their places, [100] ceasing from their clamour.

Cease is Pauo: the rest Jesus died to give us. cease, have done, Il.8.295, Od.4.103, etc. ; of one singing or speaking, 17.359, Hdt.7.8.d : generally, Med. denotes willing, Pass. forced, cessation. when he stopped playing.

Eskheto phōnē, ‘stuck,’ ‘stopped,’ Il. 17.696

Stopped the sound Phone
2. the cry of animals, as of swine, dogs, oxen, Od.10.239, 12.86,396; of asses, Hdt.4.129; of the nightingale, song, Od.19.521; “anthrōpos pollas phōnas aphiēsi, ta de alla mian” Arist.Pr.895a4.
4. of sounds made by inanimate objects, mostly Poet., “kerkidos ph.” S.Fr.595;

STOP the WEAVING of hymns, songs, 2. tympanum or half-tympanum

“suriggōn” E.Tr.127 (lyr.);

STOP the Mouthpiece of the Aulos, the last part of the nomos Puthikos was called surigges, prob. because it imitated the dying hisses of the serpent Pytho

STOP THE “aulōn” Mnesim.4.56 (anap.); rare in early Prose,
play on the flute, “Phrugion aulēsen melos” of tunes, to be played on the flute, “ho Bakkheios rhuthmos ēuleito” X. Smp.9.3; “auleitai pan melathron” is filled with music, E.IT367

STOP THE “organōn phōnai” Pl.R.397a; A. instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing
3. musical instrument, Simon.31, f.l. in A.Fr.57.1 ; ho men di' organōn ekēlei anthrōpous, of Marsyas, Pl.Smp.215c ; aneu organōn psilois logois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; “o. polukhorda” Id.R.399c, al.; “met' ōdēs kai tinōn organōn” Phld.Mus.p.98K.; of the pipe

STOP THE in LXX, “hē ph. tēs salpiggos” (the war trumpt) LXX Ex.20.18; ph. brontēs [thunder]ib. Ps.103(104).7; “hē ph. autou hōs ph. hudatōn pollōn” Apoc.1.15.

Hom. Il. 17.[695] Long time was he speechless, and both his eyes were filled with tears, and the flow of his voice was checked
Hom. Il. 21.324 and all the plain was parched, and the bright water was stayed

Echo STOP, Keep balanced, keep on guard 9. possess mentally, understand, taming, do you understand? attend! listen! know of a thing, damazo subdue, conquer, be subject to one another. Subdue epithumia passion, longing after, sexual appetite,.

9. possess mentally, understand, “hippōn dmēsin” Il.17.476; “tekhnēn” Hes.Th.770; “pant' ekheis logon” A. Ag.582, cf. E.Alc.51; “ekhete to pragma” S.Ph.789; ekheis ti; do you understand? Ar.Nu.733: imper.ekhe attend! listen!

"The Lyre, according to its primary significance, may by the psalmist be used figuratively for the Lord; accordingly to its secondary, for those who continually strike the chords of their souls under the direction of the Choir-master, the Lord. And if the people saved be called the lyre, it will be understood to be in consequence of their giving glory musically, through the inspiration of the Word and the knowledge of God, being struck by the Word so as to produce faith.

"You may take music in another way, as the ecclesiastical symphony at once of the law and the prophets, and the apostles along with the Gospel, and the harmony which obtained in each prophet, in the transitions of the persons. --(Clement of Alexandrian allegorizes instrumental music, Stromata, Book VI, Chapt XI, Ante-Nicene, II, p. 500).

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.

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.

A future that, here and there, is BREAKING into the PRESENT.
God's last work is forming, here and now in the course of earth's history,
a new RACE of human beings, a race called out from every race.

True: the Babylon Mother of Harlots will have "lusted after fruits" as any religious CRAFTSMEN always known as PARASITES.
The singers, instrument players, "grinders" etal are called SORCERERS and WILL BE CAST ALIVE. The Role of the Musicians or Muses were Apollon's musical worship team. To hide from theologiians everone knew them as the LOCUSTS serving as dirty Shepherdesses.

2Pet. 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of,
        that by the WORD of God the heavens were of old,
        and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2Pet. 3:6 Whereby the WORLD that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
2Pet. 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now,
        by the same WORD are kept in store,
        reserved unto FIRE against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

The Beginning-Time Babylon Mother of Harlots and the trinity.

The Mother and the Child

* From Ze, "the" or "that," emir, "branch," and amit, "bearer," in the feminine. HESYCHIUS says that Semiramis is a name for a "wild pigeon." The above explanation of the original meaning of the name Semiramis, as referring to Noah's wild pigeon (for it was evidently a wild one, as the tame one would not have suited the experiment), may account for its application by the Greeks to any wild pigeon.

Lucian the Syrian Goddess
Paul spoke of emasculated men as Catamite Priests of the Mother Goddess--at a church near you marked by rhetoric and music

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

Hor. S. 1.10.91 You that intend to write what is worthy to be read more than once, blot frequently: and take no pains to make the multitude admire you, content with a few [judicious] readers. What, would you be such a fool as to be ambitious that your verses should be taught in petty schools? That is not my case. It is enough for me, that the knight [Maecenas] applauds: as the courageous actress, Arbuscula, expressed herself, in contempt of the rest of the audience, when she was hissed [by the populace]

Worshipper is
Servio With dat. of the person to whom service is rendered, to be enslaved to, to serve: ; to do a service to, to comply with, gratify, humor, accommodate; to have respect to, to regard or care for; to consult, aim at, to accommodate one's self to,

Hebrews 9 [8] The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing; [9] which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect; [10] being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. [11] But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, [12] nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. [13] For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh: [14] how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? [15] For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

John 9[31] We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him. [32] Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone 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?

C. LEONARD ALLEN serves as editor of ACU Press and Leafwood Publishers. He is also a member of Leaven seditorial board.

13. Ray Anderson, Ministry on the Fireline: A Practical Theology for an Empowered Church (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1993).

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