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Do you know how simple it is to go to Heaven after this life has ended? Some people believe that belonging to a local church, temple, mosque or synagogue will get them to Heaven. Others believe that water baptism, obeying the ten commandments or just being a good person will get them to Heaven. There are many other beliefs as well, but the good news about God's way to Heaven is found in the Holy Bible. The good news is that God came from Heaven to earth in the person of Jesus Christ over 2000 years ago and died for our sins(misdeeds). He was born in the land of Israel supernaturally to a virgin Jewish woman named Mary. He lived a sinless life for thirty-three years and then sacrificed His sinless blood and died on a cross to pay the death penalty for our sins. After Jesus was placed in a tomb He rose from the dead three days later as He said He would. The Holy Bible also tells us that Jesus Christ ascended into Heaven and that all who accept Him as their Lord and Saviour will live forever with Him in Heaven where there is no more death, sorrow, sickness and pain. The Bible says, "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6:23) This verse in the Bible says, "For ALL HAVE SINNED, and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23) This verse says, "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8) In this passage the Bible clearly explains how simple it is to be saved and on your way to Heaven, "For if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you WILL BE SAVED." (Romans 10:9) You can be saved right now and on your way to Heaven if you will open your heart to Jesus and pray the following prayer: Dear Jesus Christ, I want to be saved so that I can have a home in Heaven when I die. I agree with You that I am a sinner. I believe You love me and want to save me. I believe that You bled and died on the cross to pay the penalty for my sins. I believe that You rose from the dead. Please forgive my sins and come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour. Thank You Lord Jesus Christ for forgiving me and saving me through Your merciful grace. Amen. You are now a Christian if you said the prayer and allowed God to save you. Welcome to the family of God. Salvation is not a reward but a gift. The Bible says it this way, "For it is by GRACE you have been SAVED, through FAITH and this not from yourselves, it is the GIFT of God." (Ephesians 2:8) Nothing in the world is more important than your eternal destiny. The Bible says, "In Him(Jesus) we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins..." (Ephesians 1:7) If you have not yet made a decision to be saved, please do so now before it is too late. The reason why it is so important to be saved now is because you do not know exactly when you will die. You may die prematurely in a traffic accident, terrorist attack or some other way before you get another chance to be saved. The Bible tells us that we will spend eternity in Heaven or a place of eternal torment called Hell. It would be terrible to die and go to Hell when all you have to do is accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour. Some people that have already made Jesus Christ their Lord and Saviour worry about losing their salvation. The Bible teaches Christians that we can never lose our salvation no matter what happens. The Bible says it this way, "My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense Jesus Christ, the Righteous One." Yes my friend, Jesus Christ is able to save you and keep you saved. Please tell your family and friends, thanks! Have a great day! Internet Evangelist R.L. Grossi 1. http://www.biblegateway.com Free Online Bible 2. http://www.free-hoster.com/goodnews Passion of the Christ 3. http://www.carm.org/cults/cultlist.htm Beware Of Cults 4. http://www.equip.org/free/DH198.htm About Hell 5. http://www.powertochange.com/questions/qna2.html Is Jesus God? |
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In article , Larry Blanchard
wrote: In article , says... The Bible says, "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6:23) I have some questions about the [Bible], and as you have evidently studied it, do you have any advice regarding these other specific Bible laws and how to follow them? Very funny! I have yet another question for the original poster. There are at least 20 major religions on this earth. By definition, at least 19 of them are wrong (note the "at least"). You do know the letter was a satire, right? But actually, Brahmanism allows that all divinities of all religions do exist. So 20 out of 20 religions can be right. To a Hindu, Jesus, for example, is an avatar of Siva, & indeed their myths have close parallels at every juncture, so it's easy to embrace (with all else) the whole kit & kaboodle of Christian belief & still be a Hindu. No one is wrong, but everyone has only a small part of the picture, so everyone's perspective is incomplete. This may sound quite liberal of those openminded Hindus, but it's actually a method of coopting all things without being coopted, so it's a religion that has thrived vastly longer than has Christianity so far, & will likely still be around when Christianity is largely forgotten. Buddhism allows that all religions may be equally "true." It's just that all things are at the same time equally false. It doesn't matter so much what is true as what greater reality is hidden by the illusions embodied by true. Even among some christians there are odd little sects like the Unitarians who sort of half believe all faiths have equal standing, though they are ultimately Unitarian Christians, not Unitarian Muslims, Unitarian Buddhists, Unitarian Voudons & Wiccans & Zoroastrians, so really they're merely condescending buttwipes who're just a lot less aggressive about their own god being better than everyone else's. Bare in mind the practical rather than supernatural purpose of religion is tribal & has nothing to do with any literal God or soul supposing such could even exist. If one tribe believes everyone has to Morris dance for God, but the next one believes you gotta kill a Moslem to please Jesus, well hey, that defines the uniqueness of those two tribes & permits each tribe to gang together for the common good (of their tribe) at the expense of everyone who is Other. The more hate-filled a religion the better it works, because it defines the "us" within each tribe as extremely distinct from & better than the "them." If each group can at least keep from killing the misfits within the tribe (for which purpose civil rights are laid upon the tribal myths to protect eccentrics within the group), then the demonizing of the Other permits us to gain individidually by the group territoriality, to wage wars to win all the gold, croplands, or oil, thereby to enrich everyone in the tribe, except the village idiot since it's a pecking order after all & there's a bell-curve for division of ill-gotten wealth. YOU wanna live in an egalitarian world instead? SURE you do -- not. We'd all pretty much rather live in a world where we can go grocery shopping for just about anything we don't actually need, & own a computer & subscribe to cable & go to drunken parties in stadium parking lots, no matter how many resources it diverts to our personal joys at the expense of those gol-blasted "Others" with whom we do not share anything, but might make them a helpful loan just so long as it benefits our tribe to do so & ultimately impoverishes theirs. Success at materialism requires tribalism which requires cultic distinctions or we'd all be one gigantic tribe called Earthlings, with at best barely enough for everyone rather than too much for a few, & we can't have that, because even the majority who have little or nothing want at least the dream of getting on top & having it all. Enough is never enough; the game is all or nothing. If anyone really would prefer just-enough for everyone, we'd turn into commies, who god hates. YOU be first to toss your television & get rid of the car. I'm keeping my exesses, which seem awfully insufficient to fulfil even my minimal greediness, so I can't greatly fault the faithful for their selfishness or for the moral retardation they call their faith. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com |
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"paghat" wrote in message news In article , wrote: On 25 Jan 2005 14:26:57 -0800, in rec.gardens wrote: [clip funny stuff] A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? [clip more funny stuff] [Found this at another forum] That often-reposted bit of political humor originated in May 2000 as an open letter to "Dr." Laura, who is not actually a doctor of mental health as she pretends, but only a virulent homophobic radio personality, an ex-Christian who converted to Judaism & started blaming her personal homophobia on Jews. Many Jews have been extremely offended by her misinterpretations of Torah as inciting hatred of gays. For one thing, the levitical ban applied only to Levites, modernly Cohens, so good thing Leonard Cohen only got that famous blowjob from Janice Joplin & not from Scott Joplin. =snip snip whack Alright, Paggers, hold it right there....................my almost 33 year old son comes downstairs and asks me "WHAT famous blowjob from Janice Joplin that Leonard Cohen got??" So for his sake.........is the story on your website, is there a link or will you humor me and him and e-mail it to me so that his curiosity will be satisfied? Having grown up with a mom who WENT to the REAL Woodstock and has fond memories of it (despite the obvious altered state I was in and being unable to go home for about 10 days.............................................. .......................... .........) he grew up and around me and knew if mom was upset about something because Janis would be cranked up on the stereo and I'd be in the kitchen, shrieking along with her.........I just honored her day of birth January 19th (which is shared by Dolly Parton and Peter Gabriel by the way, I love music as much as I love gardening and plants). So if you'd be so kind as to indulge an old hippie and her Pagan son the story of the famous blowjob, I would be most impressed and grateful. madgardener up on the ridge, back in Faerie Holler, overlooking English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee, zone 7, Sunset zone 36 |
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In article , "madgardener" wrote:
"paghat" wrote in message news In article , wrote: On 25 Jan 2005 14:26:57 -0800, in rec.gardens wrote: [clip funny stuff] A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? [clip more funny stuff] [Found this at another forum] That often-reposted bit of political humor originated in May 2000 as an open letter to "Dr." Laura, who is not actually a doctor of mental health as she pretends, but only a virulent homophobic radio personality, an ex-Christian who converted to Judaism & started blaming her personal homophobia on Jews. Many Jews have been extremely offended by her misinterpretations of Torah as inciting hatred of gays. For one thing, the levitical ban applied only to Levites, modernly Cohens, so good thing Leonard Cohen only got that famous blowjob from Janice Joplin & not from Scott Joplin. =snip snip whack Alright, Paggers, hold it right there....................my almost 33 year old son comes downstairs and asks me "WHAT famous blowjob from Janice Joplin that Leonard Cohen got??" So for his sake.........is the story on your website, is there a link or will you humor me and him and e-mail it to me so that his curiosity will be satisfied? Having grown up with a mom who WENT to the REAL Woodstock and has fond memories of it (despite the obvious altered state I was in and being unable to go home for about 10 days.............................................. .......................... ........) he grew up and around me and knew if mom was upset about something because Janis would be cranked up on the stereo and I'd be in the kitchen, shrieking along with her.........I just honored her day of birth January 19th (which is shared by Dolly Parton and Peter Gabriel by the way, I love music as much as I love gardening and plants). So if you'd be so kind as to indulge an old hippie and her Pagan son the story of the famous blowjob, I would be most impressed and grateful. madgardener up on the ridge, back in Faerie Holler, overlooking English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee, zone 7, Sunset zone 36 Cool your son cares about Woodstock & that whole era of music. These lyrics from a Leonard Cohen song are about Janis, a loving tribute despite bragging that she blew him: I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, You were talking so brave and so free. Giving me head on the unmade bed While the limousines wait in the street And those were the reasons and that was New York, I was running for the money and the flesh That was called love for the workers in song, It still is for those of us left. But you got away, didn't you, baby? You just threw it all to the crowd. You got away, they can't pay you now For making your sweet little song. I have stayed in the Chelsea myself & had strange adventures & encounters there. Riding the elevator with a drunken soap opera star, a complete stranger to me, leaning on my shoulder & weeping & trying to get me to admit I knew who he was (I didn't even own a TV at the time & had no idea he was soap star), so I started singing Leonard's song to him & cheered the poor guy up. Leonard first met Janis in that very elevator, when he said to her, "Are you looking for something," and she replied, "I'm looking for something." In an often repeated story first told by Leonard himself, but I wonder if it wouldn't've had to have been only a jest partly against himself, he claimed he had to first convince her he was Kris Kristofferson in order to get her to blow him. If there is a God, he's gotta look just like Leonard Cohen. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com |
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"paghat" wrote in message news Cool your son cares about Woodstock & that whole era of music. well he does like other types, but he seems to like music as much as I do because he's been so over exposed to it. (we tend to agree that the Grateful Dead program on our radio station on Wednesday's is a bit much (four hours with just a break in the Dead archives to play some humor, some Dylan, although the dj plays the Dead DOING Dylan....oy vey, occaisonal breaks and playing Phish and Warren Haynes, but predominantly Grateful Dead)..............I know there are a LOT of Dead-heads that will throw their love beads at us for saying that, but one can only listen to so many drunken and wiped out jams of their stuff no matter how many diversifications there are and be able to appreciate a few of their work) These lyrics from a Leonard Cohen song are about Janis, a loving tribute despite bragging that she blew himsnip snip snip THANKS Lady! That was rather neat. As much as I have heard Leonard's music, I can't remember the tribute song. g I have stayed in the Chelsea myself & had strange adventures & encounters there. Riding the elevator with a drunken soap opera star, a complete stranger to me, leaning on my shoulder & weeping & trying to get me to admit I knew who he was (I didn't even own a TV at the time & had no idea he was soap star), so I started singing Leonard's song to him & cheered the poor guy up. ahhhhhh the wonders of drunkenness. Which is why I smoked reefer. Never threw up or did anything stupid when I smoked. Leonard first met Janis in that very elevator, when he said to her, "Are you looking for something," and she replied, "I'm looking for something." In an often repeated story first told by Leonard himself, but I wonder if it wouldn't've had to have been only a jest partly against himself, he claimed he had to first convince her he was Kris Kristofferson in order to get her to blow him. LOL that sounds like truth. I, myself growing up in music city (Nashville) during the 60's often went to Centennial Park where the Parthenon was with my friends. To hang out there was neat for a naive little flower child. There was this deep voiced guy who was a dishwasher in Printer's Alley who came to the park after he got off work who was trying to make it on the music scene that we sat and shared a doober with. Had an unusual sounding name of Kristofferson..............once was the moment that I hold to me as a passing experience. That one and when my English Student teacher took five of us on a "field trip" to see Janis at the Women's Building at the Tennessee State Fair grounds back in the early sixties because she had gone to school with her back in Texas and had a back stage pass and thought it a rather neat thing to do (we'd have to write a report on it to make it official LOL) All I remember was there was only a few of us that actually LIKED Janis' and Big Brother's music at the time, and I was proud to get to go, and remember us going backstage where the "dressing room" door stood open and there sat Janis, and what I remember the most is how the smell of sweat and incense and I now realise now, whiskey, was thick on the air, and Janis looked at my student teacher and asked her who the F*** she was, and then cackled at her and said "screw it, you got balls girl to even play that card, I don't give a shit about any of you assholes because you treated me like shit when I was going to school, if you was one of the nicer ones I'll give you that,cuz I don't remember you." I was held fixed watching Janis' sweaty face as she had her say to my student teacher and then remember the teacher's face as she held herself and told her that she thought it would be neat for a few of her students to experience the music of someone she had admired in school for speaking her mind and had hoped she'd remember her, but the concert and getting to bring us backstage was enough, thanked her and told us to not bother Janis anymore and started to herd us out the same way we'd come in. Something about it being alright man, and that awesome cackle laugh she had as she got up from her chair they'd put in the room and closed the door. I never thought it rude or wrong, I was just blown away to be that close to Janis Joplin. I had always related to her angst simply because she poured her heart out in her music and was a Capricorn who had suffered like myself when she went to school. Her love for blues and her need to express herself in the way only she knew was enough for me, a teenager who was going thru the personal hell's that I was going thru at the time. It helped me to stand up later on when I had to stand alone and declare myself unnecessary of needing "acceptance" or acknowledgment from this school almost full of condesending, critical assholes who tried to be my peers. There was just a handful of truely decent people I went to school with back then. I still love Janis' music, but have survived her few recordings to further listen to and love other artists since she came about. My diversity and ecclectic love for all sorts of music has kept me "sane" all these years. How sad that she needed the comforts of a drug that eventually killed her. I still think she didn't know how pure it was when she did it. She had everything to live for at the time she died. I never believed the crap propaganda they tried to attach to her death and Hendrix's and Morrison's death. The newspapers at the time and Rolling Stone had a way of just saying what was going on and not air brushing it like now. I still correct people when they try to tell me Jimmy died of a drug overdose, and I remember reading the articles and hearing the news report that he'd had a huge meal, lots of wine, (according to something read in Rolling Stone, he had to unwind after a concert or jam as he was wired all the time) had passed out with his girlfriend and sometime during the night, had vomited in his sleep and had suffocated from the vomit. Had his girlfriend not been so passed out she might have woken up and rolled him over or woke him up and he might, (the possibility is not even worth considering) have survived longer than he did. The fact that he liked Yellow jackets and everything else was a prescription for a brick wall to happen eventually. Sad to think his musical genius was cut short by ignorance of the stuff he took and tried and mixed with alcohol. And Jim's death was a heart attack. Supposedly in a bathtub full of gin. So he had a defective heart and the drugs didn't help any and he probably drowned in the tub full of "gin" when he had the heart attack. Some people seem not to be long for this planet it appears. But that's just my intepretation and not much to draw on g If there is a God, he's gotta look just like Leonard Cohen. You're probably right, if there is a God...........I tend to think that if there is a God, she looks like whatever you percieve her to be.........but who knows the answer to that one? No one has EVER come back to tell us otherwise.... thanks Paggers, for the update on the question. madgardener still a little bit of an old hippie after all these years |
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paghat wrote:
If there is a God, he's gotta look just like Leonard Cohen. I was dismayed to find that the young singer my friends hired for their wedding (typo was "weeding", how apropos!) reception in Vancouver BC had never heard of Leonard Cohen. Her accompanist on the guitar had at least read some of his poetry, and was interested to hear that he wrote songs. (They were doing requests, and I was plying them with the names of every Canadian singer/songwriter I could think of, and coming up blank--the singer then going so far as to say that all the Canadian singers that went to the US had sold out, which still makes me laugh, especially when I think of Leonard. I'm just hoping she looked him up after we talked! Well, maybe she at least has gotten K D Lang's "Hymns of the 49th Parallel".) "Like a bird on a wire, Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free." |
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And isn't Hymn's of the 49th parallel just excellent?? I adore it
too............ madgardener "Kathryn Burlingham" wrote in message ... paghat wrote: If there is a God, he's gotta look just like Leonard Cohen. I was dismayed to find that the young singer my friends hired for their wedding (typo was "weeding", how apropos!) reception in Vancouver BC had never heard of Leonard Cohen. Her accompanist on the guitar had at least read some of his poetry, and was interested to hear that he wrote songs. (They were doing requests, and I was plying them with the names of every Canadian singer/songwriter I could think of, and coming up blank--the singer then going so far as to say that all the Canadian singers that went to the US had sold out, which still makes me laugh, especially when I think of Leonard. I'm just hoping she looked him up after we talked! Well, maybe she at least has gotten K D Lang's "Hymns of the 49th Parallel".) "Like a bird on a wire, Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free." |
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