Originally Posted by
Lamplight
It's also hard to be considered free will when we are threatened with unending torture if we don't do exactly as God wants. "You are free to choose how to live your life, except if you don't do it the way I say then you'll spend eternity in the most unimaginable agony and misery. K, have fun, and do whatever you want!"
And to complicate matters further, what God wants is only written in one book that was cobbled together from lots of ancient manuscripts (many if not all which were copies of copies of copies) which, in some cases, may not even be related in any way, and many of which were excluded in the translation process for whatever reasons. Which ones matter? What about the ones that didn't make it into the translation? For all we know they may be just as important as the others, or many of the included books may have next to nothing to do with our salvation. What if Menthu is the one true God? Then we're all screwed.
You are free to choose how to live your life, Are you really?, if you have a job you have to work so many hours, in fact when you really get down to thinking your whole life could be controlled by about twenty people who create circumstance so that every move you make is known beforehand, the woman that always smiles and has all the same interests as yourself that you later marry, your best friend at school who bumped in to you in the playground, i have no routine, sleep when i am tired and eat when i am hungry and i do not want any friends or enemies, A domesticated cat has more freedom and choice than you my friend. only you do not know it.
cobbled together from lots of ancient manuscript: I am a real human being i am not Satan or God the above example is just to try to show how easy it would be, i had two years of real hell on earth i was not on drugs and just the events with the police and authority were impossible and could not possibly happen and i have a big long list of them, show them to people and they just shrug and make out it is normal. I am a Christian and nobody will baptise me? here try this for size all true. sorry about caps copy paste job from a religious site.
The relevance of the title will become apparent towards the end, This man new scripture very well and yet carried around gloom and despair as if it were a warm coat, so much so that it radiated outwards and seemed to effect the people he came in to contact with, i met him after already having two years of hell on earth and been saved by our lord. the details of this encounter are very long and carried on for many years, when i met him he said he was hiding from the Jesus army who were a cult and were pursuing him.
I think he said the headquarters were at Barnt Green, i have his name and so i am sure some of the older people would remember him, going off tack slightly i met some very strange people for example. When i used to be a private hire driver working the rougher areas of Birmingham i came to see that there were worlds and people that somebody doing a normal nine to five job would never come in to contact with and so would be oblivious to there existence,I started doing daytime contracts to get away from all the strange people i came in to contact with on the all nighters and my first job was a well built guy with long black hair a gammy foot with a white stick who claimed to be nearly blind who in the course of conversation told me that he was a warlock and i noticed all the occult symbols on the inside of his arms he went on to say that he had twelve witch wives and that they traveled around Europe exploiting all the benefits offered to religious minorities sort of like the occult version of pikies, he certainly seemed to know all his entitlements in every country all across Europe, he made money on the side doing tarot readings and believe it or not was a art forger and would paint a Piccaso type painting and then age it and try and pass it off as a long forgotten work of art and he had a small industry of selling charms and potions apparantly to ward off evil, well nu labours still in control so i want my money back but then again one mans evil is another mans good and i must confess nearly all of his readings were spot on and i told him that if you have twelve females i do not care what you believe in one or two of them will try to kill you.
my next job was the jesus army center a guy with a head injury and i had to pick these two up.. two times a day three times a week, i have never met or sensed evil in anybody but i have encountered it once in my life, i met the witch sometime after i stopped working and he recoiled a bit when he seen that i had noticed him because he had lost half his body weight and he told me one of his wives had been putting small quantities of *beep* in his food but the police could not charge her because there was no evidence.
i asked for prayer from you kind people and sometime after the thought came that i was christened at st Pauls church as a baby and that i have never been Baptised in faith, a nice young man or lady in chat said that i would have to attend in fellowship, i know the need for caution but the lord moves in mysterious ways, since meeting an escapee from your group that most likely had a full immersion Baptism from one of you and seeing the path of destruction and despair first hand, i would have to say that it was me who needed to be careful.
on top of which i was testing a minister from another church group who lives in Australia who said he and his family was under satanic attack for hosting numerous sites and so i offered to do everything i could to stand in fellowship with him, the advice i game him after he failed to understand that i would have nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing this was as follows.
I was not aware that the sites were doing so well, i was trying to understand what was drawing me towards them, when i have not bothered with the others, what the lord raises up in the blink of an eye he can pull down again, i have never met a christian t> hat spreads the word of god admit to coming under direct attack from the enemy, only one man i have met with a bible under his arm who suffered and so did everyone he came in to contact with.
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> This man wore despair and misery like a warm coat and strange misfortune followed him everywhere he went and radiated outwards to effect the people around him, the word seemed correct but he was badly wrong.
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> I simply ask you to look deep inside yourself for something, you have great knowledge and i do not, you have many friends and i do not, if not for the personal attacks against yourself because i would never dare to presume that they were satanic until the> lord revealed the truth, if YOU are right the sites will take off regardless and if YOU are wrong they will fade away or become just another conspiracy theory.
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> The emphasis is on YOU my friend, The man with the bible is a true accounting and just one of the many strange people i have met.
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> may the word and the truth be your constant companion: Keith
The lord has told me to get Baptised not to seek fellowship, after which i will go home and study and pray and then if he tells me to go and stand in the artic circle i will do everything possible to do that, i hope you good people understand that.
So i will ask again one more time is there any amongst you that can get me baptised, judge not lest ye be judged, i am in a body of flesh living in a world of lies, evil is like the sun get to close and you will burn and if water be pure goodness it will extinguish the flames but the scars will never heal and believe me i know exactly what that means brothers and sisters.
