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unbeliefThe following is from Gospel according to Mark:

22And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
23Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
24And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

It comes from Mark 9.

I have long loved this verse because it best describes the “state of flux” that I, and hopefully a few of you, the lukewarm dwellers, dwell in.

For me that verse best represents a Moho, similar to that Mohorovičić discontinuity, that  boundary between the Earth’s crust and its mantle.

Like this thing called belief, the Moho is purported to be in a constant state of change from solid to liquid to gas or so de ole man’s memory would seek to recall from geography classes. No one has ever seen it but seismic readings so intimate.

And yes, “let Google be your friend”, while pertinent to what might be disinformation, is not really central to what I would wish to achieve with this submission.

Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief is non partisan, insofar as it has no BLP nor DLP politicking in it. It is that admission of a scientist knowing that he does know fashioned for a believer, or one who knocks upon the door.

De ole man submits it here, to the BU audience THAT MIGHT BE INTERESTED, with a flailing hope that those who have the knowledge can indeed espouse here and share insights with floundering souls, like mine, which know that I see through a glass darkly, but like the Eunuch would wish to “understand that which I readeth…”

And yes…we can be assured that not many will come here, but, those who do come should be able to take hope that those of you who “know” will share, and care, for the Word in which you believe in such a manner that you do nothing but “help thou in increasing belief in His Word…


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281 responses to “Lord I Believe, Help Thou My Unbelief…”


  1. Piece

    You persist in quoting the bible in order to defend the said bible in the same manner that you accused your co believer GP of doing

    You were brought up with the fear of an unknown/unseen/unprovable god extracted from a book that I consider to be full of myths by your mother.

    The catholics have always said give me a baby upto 7yrs and the child will not deviate from the path when it grows older.

    It is impossible for you to renounce your faith.

    Likewise you must appreciate other individuals who were not thus fed.


  2. @ Pacha
    But the Bible is your ultimate reason for self definition.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Nothing could be further from the truth. You are building straw men which you then plan to burn….

    One wonders where you would have gotten that impression. Perhaps from Bushies’ ability reference it from time to time… or to explain its meaning. The Bible is a VERY special book, however you look at it…. and is much more complex than even you surmise….

    It however is NOT a basis for learning about God, or for coming to an understanding of the purpose of life. The Bible is actually a beautiful, advanced, complex tool, one from which the uninitiated should be protected… for their own good.
    Bushie mostly refers to the Bible to demonstrate to the misguided how it lies at variance with their religious dogma….

    Obviously it makes no sense quoting the bible to convince those who are non-believers.
    LOL…. it don’t even make sense quoting it to believers – cause the just cuss you for pointing out how it says the OPPOSITE to what they think it should be saying…. as we saw with the trinity, with parables, etc.

    When Bushie speak of fundamental truths, it is about the indisputable realities that impact our five senses….. the physical world around us.
    The way to learn about God is via the nature of things ALL AROUND us…. These fundamental truths SHOUT loudly the nature of God, the message that he is sending, and indeed, the very purpose for which the exercise called ‘life on earth’ was initiated.

    It is from this basic, common point that we should begin to search for the elusive tree ….


  3. Bushie:

    all of the vile lusts of yours are merely chemical reactions poised in the wrong direction.

  4. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Bush Tea October 26, 2016 at 3:15 PM
    “When Bushie speak of fundamental truths, it is about the indisputable realities that impact our five senses….. the physical world around us.
    The way to learn about God is via the nature of things ALL AROUND us…. These fundamental truths SHOUT loudly the nature of God, the message that he is sending, and indeed, the very purpose for which the exercise called ‘life on earth’ was initiated.
    It is from this basic, common point that we should begin to search for the elusive tree ….”

    Well argued, Bushie!

    Now that you have put the Bible in its place (rightful context) as not being the only Word of any god but the inquisitive thoughts of men with fertile imaginings let us discuss other books worthy of equal intellectual stimulation and just as helpful in explaining the meaning of life and death.

    Why not start with the easiest bit of ‘copycat’ creativity and tell us if the Koran can tell us anything about your well-know fundamental “truths”?

    After that we can even visit the Egyptian library to read the ancient text of the Book of the Dead or even the Code of Hammurabi or even further back to the early Sumerian tablets starting with the Enuma-Elish.

    Maybe after you have undergone an operation to correct your intellectual myopia we might just introduce you to the Avesta. A most ancient book of revelations which form the bedrock of your own Judeo-Christian dogma (in its purest from) and which the initiated call the paradox of opposites: Light vs. Darkness, Good vs. Evil; G(o)od vs. Satan (D)evil; Truth vs. Falsehood.

    Even you, Bush Tea, would make a good Zoroastrian given the co-operative model view of the workings of society. You will be warmly welcomed to the watery club of the eternal fire:

    “In Zoroastrianism, the purpose in life is to “be among those who renew the world…to make the world progress towards perfection”. Its basic maxims include:

    Humata, Hukhta, Huvarshta, which mean: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds.

    There is only one path and that is the path of Truth.

    Do the right thing because it is the right thing to do, and then all beneficial rewards will come to you also.”


  5. Bush Tea

    All of that long talk and you can’t tell me how the universe begun? And as your five senses ought to have told you that for every beginning there ought to be an end, so when will the universe end? And don’t insult my intelligence by telling me that it all started with BIg Bang -which obviously is a scientific hypothesis. Yes I am looking around my world and universe and I do in fact see something much bigger than man at work, but where is your empirical evidence rather than a divine command theory which is erected on mere metaphysical speculation? Give me something tangible to work with to convinced the atheist that the universe and nature are in fact the work of God and does in fact prove his existence? Beyond that you need to keep yah mout shut and wait like the unbeliever to see in fact if as the Bible claims Jesus will return.


  6. Mill

    What do you mean by do the right thing when there is no more imperative our universal truth which unilaterally guids man’s conduct.

    Kant, argues that without a moral imperative the concepts of right and wrong does not exist because what is right in one society might will be wrong in another devoid of universal understanding of morality. Let me ask you this question as I do others: without the Church, Temple and Mosque, what would stop you from murdering, raping and steating? In other words: without an universal understanding of morality what would prevent you from have sex with your daughter?


  7. Mill

    Without an universal understaning of morality (divine or secular), if I take a small child and cut it up into small pieces would you say I did any wrong? In other word: without an universal moral directive, what would prevent a man in Africa and one in New Zealand from cutting that small child into small pieces? What tell those two people from different parts of the globe that it is wrong to murder without a universal moral understanding?

  8. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Dompey October 26, 2016 at 4:49 PM
    “Let me ask you this question as I do others: without the Church, Temple and Mosque, what would stop you from murdering, raping and steating? In other words: without an universal understanding of morality what would prevent you from have sex with your daughter?”

    The same moral compass that pointed Cain, after killing his brother, to have sex with his sister or mother to facilitate the existence of degenerates like you to obey a god that demands the following as a show of loyalty and adoration:

    “God commanding Moses to kill:
    “They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed every man……..Now kill all the boys [innocent kids]. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
    (Numbers 31:7,17-18)”

    Kill everything that “breathes” from humans and animals! Deuteronomy 20:16.

    I am quite certain when Columbus, Cortes and Pizarro were rescued from the killing pangs of hunger and thirst by the ‘un-christened’ people of the so-called New World they did not stumble upon the same “Church, Temple and Mosque” you naively believe are the ‘singular’ houses of the one and only Solar Deity.

    “In my Father’s house are many mansions”


  9. Mill

    So Mill, without that universal truth/moral imperative/ universal moral understanding, the concepts of Right and Wrong/ Good and Evil cease exist because take Papa New Guinea for example: tribes in that country practiced homosexuality as away of life for hundreds of years. The very practiced that is frowned upon in some western and most Middle Eastern societies.

  10. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Dompey October 26, 2016 at 5:20 PM

    But clearly not you.

    You would be a certified hypocrite if you were to frown upon a practice in which you engage throughout your youthful days having lost your anal virginity some where in the vicinity of District “A” police station.


  11. Mill

    Cain knew what he did was wrong when he murdered his brother Abel because his understanding of right and wrong was set forth by Adam and Eve. And Mill, having sexual encourse with one’s mother and sister did not violate God’s because if and not mistaking, the Leviticus laws weren’t given. Are you aware of the fact that Sarah Abraham’s wife was his sister?


  12. Mill

    You sound like a real bulla fah true. Only a man who have homosexual tendencie would talk in this kind of a manner, not to mention that half of the Bajan men are bullars and de other half on de down low. And most of the police I knew were ladies men who was fooping you, Bush Tea, Piece and many of wunna teenage daughters when wunna thought dem was in school, dem was teking dicky classes from de police.

  13. Anonymouse - TheGazer Avatar
    Anonymouse – TheGazer

    Still unable to contribute.


  14. Mill

    I was there…I watch…I knew … I know what I am talking you nasty bulla. Some the things nakedeparture talks about regarding the police and underage girls is true because I saw yah bottie man. I never saw a young underage boy Mill I know would love dah.


  15. Mill

    And finally, I have been married for the last twenty-five years with five kids, so if you thought that I bend down backway think again. Take yah abominable practices elsewhere brother you betta ask about me Mill.


  16. The value of religious instruction

    By Barbados Today on Oct 26, 2016 11:00 am

    Around the 14th Century in Europe, many scientists suffered at the hands of religious extremists who believed that the Bible should be read literally, and that challenging this view was heresy. One of the most famous was Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). He postulated the idea that the Earth revolved around the sun, anathema to the theocracy, […]

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  17. David:

    Can you blame a few abusers and misusers of the Bible and paint the entire body of present day believers black? And do not put it out there as if it was all believers; it was the Roman Catholic Church which continues her dominance today. You are simply repeating, as many do here, the dimwitted, simple and very retarded position from which atheists and other who have their in built carnal agenda and disposition continue to bellow from their small perches from which they delude themselves and many others.


  18. @lemuel

    All we are doing is exercising our right to discuss the matter. Feel free to contribute as you see fit.

    With matters of faith sometimes one is left to wonder what we bother.

    On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Barbados Underground wrote:

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  19. believe it or not i love the church i grew up in the church partake in all the apostolic rituals of baptism confirmation and communion all done in my early childhood and as an adult i continue going to church,, however here is where i draw the line i am not a bible literalist , i expressed my opinions and beliefs on logical conclusions that can be proven but however there is an inner self that is persuasive enough to understand that there is also a spiritual need of want to be nourished and for me one source is through the philosophy of a great leader and teacher Jesus as for all the other jargon of trying to interpret old ancient bible literature i stay far away not to be confused and hell bent to prove that my intellectual power goes beyond the level of which my conscience mind cannot absorb logically


  20. David:

    My contribution has to go to the devil of the details. For many here are driven from and within an evolution paradigm which they then dare to apply to the Biblical paradigm and then jump up and down philosophically on some soap box as if they have outwitted even GOD himself. When the the noblest moment of their venture lies at the heart of their carnality which in the face of GOD they can only beat their feeble human limbs in frantic realization of the futility of their quest. In short, human knowledge and what we buildup and praise as knowledge, wisdom and understanding is simply foolishness in the sight of GOD.


  21. @lemuel

    Your position is understood.


  22. Take read of Paul and Peter/s conflict within the church and the division that cause both believers in Jesus to separates through disagreements on those matters that are tangible and applicable to early church law ,
    Now the bible presents Paul and Peter as men as of God who would have been in touch and listened to God every word with full obedience, Yet both met where unable to reach an understanding to agree on a principle of truth and its application within the laws of the church and as a result led to division within the early church


  23. There is a BBC article which speaks to IQ (the intelligence Quotient) and posits that while it has changed/increased over the years we are dumber.

    “They have all these modern skills and yet they come out of university no different than the medieval peasant who is anchored in his own little world…”

    It would seem to me that the conundrum here remains the same as that one faced thousands of years ago when various parties were, among several other things, challenged with what books would make it into the Holy Bible.

    For even after much scholarly debate, and/or spiritual guidance, they, like us, arrive at a place where, irrespective of what was included, or what was omitted, faith remains faith and belief remains belief and it is upon these that all of our deliberations rest.

    For me, it is the little details which bring me to the conclusion that there is a design and purpose afoot that, while it is not visible to the eyes, gives currency to the validity of a thing, in this case the Holy Bible and more correctly its Promise.

    For example, Russia steams to Syria to help the latter in its war against (the USA and) others of its allies and along the way it stops in Spain.

    Why, in the face of Spain’s membership of NATO, would Russia make that stop with its flotilla of vessels? and submarines, do not forget the submarines, and why would it send its only aircraft carrier to the Mid East?

    Why does a vessel going to war stop to refuel? that in simple terms would be indicative that such an army “does not have the supplies to effect their ultimate mission”!

    This is like a Hollywood movie, where Indians are going to besiege a wagon train WITHOUT ARROWS!

    Is it that the pause was strategic to (a) test NATO cohesion and resolve and (b) sound out its new secret? allegiances in, and among, NATO members (which some consider to be a faltering behemoth) or possibly (c) to employ alternative fueling mechanisms that are not known to the USofA? (Not all Berthing/refueling processes are “above ground”)

    But I digress as usual.

    For this old man, the little “detail” of pertinence is that which appears in John 18: 38 “Pilate saith unto Him, What is Truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in Him no fault at all.”

    It is the minuteness of the detail, yet the complexity, which, for me, the ultimate Le Carre believer, again confirm that position for me, one which I am assured by many here is fallacy, that position of belief, albeit not of the type that can move mountains, yet.

    And yes, I too use the circuitous reasoning that I ascribed to Dr. GP earlier in this digital missive.

    But so too do all scientists who, based on that which they see, extrapolate towards that which CANNOT BE SEEN AT THAT TIME, yet, in the fullness of time, their postulates become known, like Copernicus’ heretical posits.


  24. Piece:

    Science and its inherent paradigms can not explain GOD or bottle HIM in a test tube. Russell and his invisible tea pot can not explain GOD either.


  25. Piece

    How poetic!

    But misguided

    Next you’ll be telling us about a new heaven and a new earth

    And the great by and by

    And the return of a man who never lived

    In this dreamland cast us as Simon Peter

    For we will verily say unto thee

    Enter your Father’s House!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    LOL


  26. bye and bye?


  27. @ Piece
    Bushie hopes that you were able to put in some hours of sleep last night instead of taking up watchman duties…. leave that for the wicked folk …like Miller and Dompsey… 🙂

    Your instincts about the bible are well founded. It is a complex piece of supernatural work, which has been designed specifically for advanced ‘students’. It is really THE reference document on spiritual Law – the absolute FINAL law of the land, ….and its longevity and pervasiveness cannot be explained in other than supernatural terms.

    Starting to find truth by referencing the bible then, is like looking to learn mathematics by starting with “Advanced Mathematics for Engineering and Science”: by C F Chan Man Fong, D De Kee , and P N Kaloni., where the first chapter deals with a review of calculus and ordinary differential equations….. madness.
    And obviously too, there is no need for such a document to be “error-free in every way” …or to contain every possible chapter /’book’ – since it is targeted to persons who could EASILY identify any such errors, ….and who could probably write a chapter or two themselves any damn how….

    As Bushie has been suggesting to Pacha, the CORRECT approach is to forget that such advanced manuals even exists …. and begin with basic principles – in mathematics for example, we begin by learning to count on our fingers and toes – where we can PHYSICALLY see the relationships, the order, the logic and the beauty of the subject.
    We then move to basic equations and even some geometry ….. and AFTER this all begins to make sense, ….THEN we start to look at a “review of calculus….”

    Same shiite….
    Look around you…wherever you are, and you CANNOT help but see the MAJESTY of design … of brilliant engineering that surpasses ANYTHING that our best brains have EVER been able to accomplish. Indeed, just look at our bodies… even now, Our top brainiacs have not yet been able to decipher the complexities of engineering involved in making us who we are…

    ALL THAT BUSHIE IS SAYING then, is that we can logically – and without fear of rational contradiction – draw a conclusion that SOMEWHERE, SOMEHOW … there MUST be one or more …REALLY brilliant BIG BOSS ENGINEERS (BBE) who are responsible for the concept, design and creation of this level of brilliance that we see all around us….

    What the hell is hard – or unreasonable – about that…?

  28. Anonymouse - TheGazer Avatar
    Anonymouse – TheGazer

    “Look around you…wherever you are, and you CANNOT help but see the MAJESTY of design … of brilliant engineering that surpasses ANYTHING that our best brains have EVER been able to accomplish. Indeed, just look at our bodies… even now, Our top brainiacs have not yet been able to decipher the complexities of engineering involved in making us who we are…”

    Verily I say unto you, it is possible for man to appreciate the wonders in this world ,to take delight in the beauty of mathematics, to love his neighbor and honor his wife without surrendering his soul to any set of storytellers.


  29. @ TheGazer
    …unfortunately, it is ALSO possible for a man to sit in the middle of a lake …and to die of thirst …. without compromising his brass bowl to any form of logical application….

    It takes some level of intelligence and application to master ANY aspect of life. This is why men have been given a capacity to think and reason, which is beyond the rudimentary INSTINCT of the animals….


  30. @ Bushie

    Nothing!

    There is nothing hard nor unreasonable about your conclusion, except it is not ‘true’

    These simplistic notions aimed at winning, again, an argument won to our detriment in the past/present, seems logical but represent logical fallacies.

    For example, it has never been necessary to understand advance mathematics by knowing basic maths. That is more about belief systems. If one knows how to apply models, concepts and theories, complex equations can be solved ignoring ‘your’ basics.

    And there are numbers of the generation X’ers, exposed to computers from birth, to offer as evidence. For them, what you call basics are merely incidentals not prerequisites.

    Bushie you have admitted that there are serious and fundamental flaws in the Bible. Yet when we question its providence and show you how and where there was a malicious ‘engineering’ of those flaws are located you talk about babies and bath water

    So at your root, you have no real and abiding desire to transform anything because it would mean a tearing up of your personal belief systems.

    And in effect you are a proponent of the philosophy of Philip of Macedonia.

  31. Anonymouse - TheGazer Avatar
    Anonymouse – TheGazer

    “For example, it has never been necessary to understand advance mathematics by knowing basic math’.

    We could get in a discussion about what is basic mathematics, but I disagree (completely) with your assertion. In this technical age, it is possible to do “advance calculations” without the basic knowledge, but this is similar to a novice cook following a recipe. Letr’s not cofuse plug n play or a drop-down menu with real knowledge,


  32. If one knows how to apply models, concepts and theories, complex equations can be solved ignoring ‘your’ basics.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Knowing “how to apply models, concepts and theories” is ‘the basics’ boss….
    …and without that, complex equations just look like gibberish…

    Bushie is not in the mood for nitpicking Pacha…
    Bushie did not admit to any ‘serious or fundamental flaws in any bible’. Bushie simply said that such advance works do NOT suffer from any such errors or omissions because the TARGET audiences are intended to be of such level as to easily spot and clarify such….

    Advanced teachers often introduce deliberate errors as a test of the focus and true knowledge of their top students…..

    Stop being silly.
    All Bushie is asking …is that you agree that anyone who seeks to suggest that the ABC highway or Central Bank Building just ‘happened to materialise out of nowhere’ – without some intelligent engineered inputs would be crazy…..
    …far less our billions-of-times-more-complex natural world around us….


  33. millertheanunnaki October 26, 2016 at 5:17 PM #

    Tribes over millenia decided on what coda would best suit the community,which over time evolved into diktats from on high to give them a bit of weight……

    What served the tribes in the north would differ from the needs of the tribes in papua new giunea…….

    Right&wrong,morality,fairness,etc are all human constructs which have changed over time as thinking evolved e.g. inquisition,slavery,etc…..


  34. They found your body and now your ring….I wonder what next?

    http://adeptinitiates.com/anunnaki-mystery-ring-solved/


  35. There can be many different versions on one riddim
    Tempo my God this Sound in a Tempo
    I just love how the Champion Sound keep playing
    Hotter reggaematical sound until the morning
    https://youtu.be/N8G7P0OybKs

  36. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ lemuel October 27, 2016 at 6:31 AM #
    “Science and its inherent paradigms can not explain GOD or bottle HIM in a test tube. Russell and his invisible tea pot can not explain GOD either.”

    Why do you refer to “GOD” as “HIM”? Male cannot exist without Female so who or what is the HER side of your Godhead? Unless you see your ‘imagined’ Devil as the ‘HER’?

    At least the Roman Catholics have struck a compromise by recognizing the Virgin Mary as the Mother of God making, of course, Jesus’ brothers and sisters gods and goddesses in their own right.

    Why not see GOD as androgynous or even transgender and strictly refer to it as “IT”? You might just be on to something if you would only look up and see the LIGHT.


  37. @ Bushie

    We apologize if our distillation of your various comments was imprecise.

    We don’t want to nitpick either. But one could apply models totally ignorant about the internal workings of such models. Models are never basic

    You again talk about ‘advanced teachers’. We are afraid that that is not the paradigm on which the Bible could reasonably be located.

    It is properly located within a more devious paradigm of wickedness as constructed by the Piso family. Indeed, this is the very opposite of what you posit. The only ‘advanced teaching’ within that document is about misleading the world not presenting high-mindedness.

    Before you make your worn out defense, insisting that God could use the Devil for his purposes, we will readily admit that your thinking means that every argument could be won once this ‘god’ remains on your side. What a god!

    We have already admitted that we are crazy, long ago. We hope that would satisfy you.

    Being crazy, we will NEVER admit that your fictitious god exists.

    Those notions are primarily based on misguided belief, not knowing. Your case has never been proven.

    What has been proven beyond a shadow of doubt is that the ‘word’ of this so-called god is a pack of lies, written by the Piso family for their control of the world

    And if this is true your reasonings about god are totally wrong.

    But not even such proofs could damage your misguided faith in the Piso family.


  38. @ Pacha
    Being ‘crazy’ is about doing the same shiite over and over (like Stinkliar’s taxes) and actually expecting different outcomes….
    Choosing NOT to ‘believe’ that our unimaginably complex and intricate world has it’s genesis in some intelligent initiator (engineer) is ….well …. simply foolish….

    Your call….


  39. @ Bushie

    Well, that is your mental frame, not ours.

    We proudly celebrate our singularity of though

    Ours is not to convince anybody about what we know, have proven, can prove

    Your belief systems are for the snake oil salesmen selling the people lies.

    Belief is not for sentient beings. That is properly the province of fools.

    In your mind, and Christianity is still taking overt actions to impose lies on the people.

    Everybody is to ‘believe’ while your Piso family is to ‘know’, with high certainty. that your Biblical nonsense will forever and ever deliver power to their bloodlines, including your Queen of England.

    If this makes us mad, we plead guilty, again!

    And we take the greatest pleasure in thanking you for this supreme compliment.

    Up to 1492 when your Piso family members were preaching that the earth was flat anybody else saying it was round, including Galileo were called mad, because one could only be mad when millennia of official Christian lies are exposed.

    And if the humanoid is to be free, religion of all types must be utterly and completely destroyed. There are redeemable qualities therein!

    Kindly allow this madman to fall off your flat earth for the time being! LOL

    You may have the last word/s.


  40. THERE IS A DEVIL’S CONVENTION GOING ON ON BU

    THE DEVIL DIVIDES PEOPLE A HE DIVIDED THE “CHURCH”

    THE DEVIL CONTROLS PEOPLE

    THE DEVIL DELUDE PEOPLE

    THE DEVIL IS ALIVE AND WELL ON BU


  41. Speaking of test tube babies and its scientific influence on life one can say that Adam and Eve were genetically engineered from the dust of the earth. The question still remains and unanswered was there a supreme power unknown who was the engineer or the mastermind to human beginnings.


  42. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=24&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjAt5zfuPvPAhVGdD4KHYHMABo4ChAWCFkwDQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.humanreligions.info%2Fsatan.html&usg=AFQjCNH6NJRuuoj8K_DlbcZvuIQyU0zsOA&sig2=gyGV0nuHL9HeT5s6Xo_j2w

    Satan and The Devil in World Religions – Academic Studies of Religion

    Many religions contain an enemy of the system: a being that questions why things are the way they are, who challenges the supreme power(s), who accuses them of hypocrisy and who leads mankind away from cosmic ideals of subservience and acquiescence1. Satan often represents the world itself2. It has not appeared universally and many cultures lack any such centralized figure of evil3. In those places where it did arise there has not been a common path of development4. The root of the word Satan comes from ha-satan, a Hebrew word meaning “the accuser”, “opposer” and “the adversary”, or as a verb, “to accuse” and “to oppose”. Anyone could be described as ha satan depending on their actions. The Septuagint Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures rendered the word as diabolus, from which we get the word “devil”. In Christianity it is Satan, The Devil; in Islam it is Shaitan or Iblis and in Buddhism it is Māra, which means “bringer of death”5. All these opposing beings promote the materialism of this world, rather than the more spiritual route of abstaining from stuff in order to obtain the next world. In other words, the primary role of Satan, in its various guises in world religions, is the rejection of spiritual wishful-thinking, and the embrace of our present real-world life. It seems that from the point of view of philosophical naturalism, Satan turns out to be the “good” guy!


  43. How could it be that the early church became divided when the Apostles were the second in leadership to Jesus after Jesus was no more on human form living on this eart. i am not belive that Gods influence and his awesome power was not as powerful and Almighty as the Devil.
    After all did Jesus not say he would send the comforter to his Apostles which was manifested on the day of Pentecost


  44. @ AC

    You are completely wrong about “how is it that the church became divided when Jesus was no longer…”

    The “Church as the old man understands it, is not a vacillating thing”.

    The church with the common “c” ever was.

    Even while Jesus was here the disciples who are representatives of this errant inferior thing were at war as to who would sit at the Right Hand and, you would best recall how they sought to carry this church thing into Heaven with “whose wife going be with whom”

    That human trait of destruction and mash up and all the rest has permeated our modus of operations for time immemorial.

    When the prophets of old followed GOD explicitly there was no such internal conflict.

    A fellow prayed to GOD, GOD spoke to him he effected the Will of the Father and everything was good, that is unless he spoke against the King and den it was fire and tainted water pun the prophet.

    Fellers of the cloth were simple men, with few physical assets, but rich in the vestment of GOD.

    That seems to define the way man has prostituted things.

    Now we have Creflo Dollar and Reverend Andrew Simmons and Durant and Baird and Eloysius and the whole set of I wanna have the biggest church and drive the biggest jeep church prophets and well, as you can see where we are, in purgatory.

    Look how one fellow even has an exclusive city where his currency and his laws exist called a Vatican.

    The “division” that you are seemingly wanting to place at the feet of the parting of the Christ and the Promise of the Comforter HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AND IS NOT A RESULT OF EITHER matter

    If an man or a woman has cancer AND THEY BUY A NEW WARDROBE to bedeck themselves with, they still have the cancer.

    Or so is the ole man’s understanding of this thing…but then I ent the very brightest of fellers


  45. pIECE
    RE Even while Jesus was here the disciples who are representatives of this errant inferior thing were at war as to who would sit at the Right Hand and, you would best recall how they sought to carry this church thing into Heaven with “whose wife going be with whom”

    YOU HAVE TWO DIFFERENT PASSAGES MUDDLED TOGETHER

    THE MOTHER OF JAMES AND JOHN ———SHE WAS JESUS’ AUNT, AND THE BOYS HIS COUSINS- ASKED IF THEY COULD SIT ON HIS RIGHT HAND AND LEFT HAND IN THE KINGDOM THAT THEY AS JEWS EXPECTED THROUGH THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROPHESIES OF THE MILLENNIUM

    WHERE IS THE SCRIPTURE THAT hey sought to carry this church thing into Heaven with “whose wife going be with whom”

    THE CHURCH WAS QUITE UNIFIED AND WAS DOING FAIRLY WELL EVEN UNDER INTENSE PERSECUTION UNTIL CONSTANTINE MERGED THE CHURCH WITH THE STATE, I.E ROME
    THIS IS WELL ESTABLISHED CHURCH HISTORY

    CONSTANTINE CORRUPTED THE CHURCH WHICH WENT FROM A VERY SIMPLE ORGANISM OPERATING ACCORDING TO THE TEACHINGS OF ACTS 2 :41 & 42 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
    42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

    NOTE CHURCH MEMBERS ARE THOSE WHO HAVE GLADLY RECIEVED THE WORD AND ARE BAPTIZED BY IMMERSION— SINCE THAT IS WHAT BAPTIZO MEANS
    THESE FOLK THEN DID AS VERSE 42 DID IN HOMES VERY SIMPLY

    THE MORE THE DEVIL PERSECUTED THE EARLY CHURCH THE STRONGER IT BECAME

    IN AD 313 THE DEVIL STARTED THE DIVISIONS WE KNOW BY MERGING THE STATE WITH THE CHURCH

    NOTE THAT ALL MEMBERS OF THE ORIGINAL CHURCH DID NOT TEEM UP WITH THE ROMAN CHURCH
    AGAIN THIS IS STANDARD CHURCH HISTORY


  46. the conflict within in the church did not start with Constantine i lay my claim to that allegation which started with a conflict between Peter and Paul. a conflict that has and still divides Jews and Christains about the literal interpretation of the law,
    Hence we have Jews who practiced the holy day as a Saturday and Christians who adhere to a Sunday, Yes on those grounds the church is divided.
    Constantie influence was politically motivated Paul influence was to transformed the church into a faith based doctrine picking and choosing some of Jesus teachings in a manner which by all means did formulate a doctrine of inclusiveness


  47. HEAVENS TO BULLSHIT!
    HOW THE DEVIL MUST BE LAFFING AT THIS RUBBISH

  48. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ ac October 27, 2016 at 12:49 PM
    “Speaking of test tube babies and its scientific influence on life one can say that Adam and Eve were genetically engineered from the dust of the earth. The question still remains and unanswered was there a supreme power unknown who was the engineer or the mastermind to human beginnings.”

    So why don’t you pose that question to the ‘Know-it-all’ Bushman? After all he, BT, is the adopted son of the BBE and must be in on the secret. One thing for sure Bushie’s BBE’s will never show him is how to make a clitoris (the last thing the Bible god made on Earth).

    Let it be known the Bushie’s BBE’s are the same beings the Dogon people of Africa speak about. He, BT, is just a few thousand years behind in astral time.

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