It is important to read verses in their context,

The Nicene Creed

The Nicene Creed was created at the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea in AD 325. It fought against the ideas of  Arianism.  It was expanded at the Second Ecumenical Council at Constantinople in AD 381 to balance its coverage of the Trinity by including the Holy Spirit. It is the only creed that was promulgated by any of the seven ecumenical councils and thus it is the only creed that is truly ecumenical and universal. In the Orthodox Church, it is the only creed. It is believed that the New Testament and the Nicene Creed are entwined with each other. The wording and the concepts in the Nicene Creed come from the New Testament—in fact, one of the most important debates at the Council of Nicea concerned whether it is proper to include a word in the Nicene Creed that does not occur in the New Testament. On the other hand, at the time that the Church issued the official canon of the New Testament, it customarily compared writings to the Nicene Creed to determine if they were orthodox. So you are correct if you say that the Nicene Creed proceeds from the New Testament, and you are correct if you say that the New Testament is certified by the Nicene Creed.

The Text of the Nicene Creed

We believe in one God,
     the Father, the Almighty,
     maker of heaven and earth,
     of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
     the only Son of God,
     eternally begotten of the Father,
     God from God, Light from Light,
     true God from true God,
     begotten, not made,
     of one Being with the Father.
     Through Him all things were made.
     For us and for our salvation
          He came down from heaven:
     by the power of the Holy Spirit
          He became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
          and was made man.
     For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
     He suffered death and was buried.
     On the third day He rose again
          in accordance with the Scriptures;
     He ascended into heaven
          and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
     He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
          and His kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
     who proceeds from the Father.*
     With the Father and the Son He is worshiped and glorified.
     He has spoken through the Prophets.
     We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
     We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
     We look for the resurrection of the dead,
          and the life of the world to come. AMEN.
*Roman Catholics and Protestants add ‘and the Son’ at this point.

Christian Raves

I know I am suppose to write about something else so forgive me.  I will get back to it another time
I have 2 kids that love raves.  Music, jumping, light shows, and high tech clothing with lights and such. I think about King David leaping and dancing before the LORD and dancing with all his might (read 2 Samuel 6 about how David ). I think a mistake is being corrected with these functions such as the fun of being young, paired with the love of God and a great teaching tool to keep the young connected to God and his awesome presents.  I think it is cool.  Who says everything have to be a pious sterile atmosphere.  Don't get me wrong I love church and all its many complexities but why not allow them to be as they are young.  I love pray nights and bible study I mean that is my thing.  Love Sunday fellowships, worship  and encouraging one another.  I love to study the history of the texts, scripture and first Christians.  I can get lost in the study of this stuff.  People come to the knowledge of God in may ways and from all walks of life. They come to the knowledge of Christ our Lord and Savior.  Who  was “in the beginning with the Father, and is the Firstborn son. 



I like this scripture because it characterize a child's actions and thought development  (although is is about how we develop and come into the awareness of Gods Knowledge)
 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

1 Corinthians 13:10-12

¹⁰but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
 ¹¹When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
 ¹²For now we ^(A)see in a mirror dimly, but then ^(B)face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also ^(C)have been fully known.
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My Core Beliefs

Because many have emailed me about my belief here it is

I believe the original text of the Bible to be the only inspired, infallible, authoritative Word of God.
I believe there is one eternal, almighty and perfect God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
I believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
I believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
I believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. I believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost (do not except the knowlege of  God) unto the resurrection of damnation.
I believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
I also acceptance the Nicean Creed of AD 325 and Chalcedon Creed of AD 451 which I will write about in my next blog entry

It is the business of Christ Who stays and Who goes

We have to stop putting people out of the church building if they are not disruptive or hurting anyone. Love them 

John 21:20-22 

 Amplified Bible²⁰But Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved, following--the one who also had leaned back on His breast at the supper and had said, Lord, who is it that is going to betray You?    ²¹When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, Lord, what about this man?

    ²²Jesus said to him, If I want him to stay (survive, live) until I come, what is that to you? [What concern is it of yours?] You follow Me!

New American Standard Bible  ²⁰Peter, turning around, saw the ^(A)disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the one who also had ^(B)leaned back on His bosom at the supper and said, "Lord, who is the one who betrays You?"
 ²¹So Peter seeing him said to Jesus, "Lord, and what about this man?"
 ²²Jesus said to him, "If I want him to remain ^(C)until I come, what is that to you? You ^(D)follow Me!"

Cross references:

1. John 21:20 : John 21:7
2. John 21:20 : John 13:25
3. John 21:22 : Matt 16:27; 1 Cor 4:5; 11:26; James 5:7; Rev 2:25
4. John 21:22 : Matt 8:22; 16:24; John 21:19

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Paul's Afflection

There is something I do not understand.  Why do church people beat others over the head about hardship being the victims fault????  I heard someone alluding to a hardship someone was going through as their fault because they weren't living according to the will of God. 

• No. 1 Who are they that who know or  understand the complete mind of All Mighty God? 
• No.2 That is what Jobs friends suggested to him.  
• No. 3 Would they have said that to Paul if he was here today?  

People have to be careful not to attack a person in pain.  I wander what pleasure they get.   I believe we must encourage people to hope and trust in El Shaddai [Most English translations render El Shaddai as "God Almighty," probably because the translators of the Septuagint (i.e., the Greek translation of the Old Testament) thought Shaddai came from a root verb (shadad) that means "to overpower" or" to destroy." The Latin Vulgate likewise translated Shaddai as Omnipotens (from which we get our English word omnipotent). God is so overpowering that He is considered "Almighty".]



2 Corinthians 12 (21st Century King James Version)


It is doubtless not expedient for me to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord:


2I knew a man in Christ more than fourteen years ago (whether in the body I cannot tell, or whether out of the body I cannot tell -- God knoweth). Such a one was caught up to the third Heaven.


3And I knew such a man (whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell -- God knoweth),


4and how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter.


5Of such a one will I glory, yet of myself I will not glory, except in mine infirmities.


6For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool, for I will say the truth. But now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or than he heareth of me.


7And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.


8For this thing, I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.


9And He said unto me, "My grace is sufficent for thee, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore will I glory rather in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.


10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in privations, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then am I strong.


11I have become a fool in glorying. Ye have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I inferior to the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.


12Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.


13For in what are ye inferior to other churches, unless it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong!


14Behold, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.


15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.


16But be it so, I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.


17Did I gain from you by any of those whom I sent unto you?


18I desired Titus to go, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make any gain from you? Walked we not in the same spirit? Walked we not in the same steps?


19Again, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ; but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.


20For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you as ye would not, lest there be debates, envyings, wrath, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, boastings, tumults;


21and lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many who have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.





 I was just wondering around this site
http://www.historian.net/lp-pap2.html

My Marital Belief

I do believe this as a basic beginning of what we know as marriage in the christian world.

Genesis 2:18, 21-25

¹⁸Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

²¹So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

 ²²The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

 ²³The man said,

         "This is now bone of my bones,

         And flesh of my flesh;

         She shall be called Woman,

         Because she was taken out of Man."

 ²⁴For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

 ²⁵And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

But however the condition of the world has changed.  The state of our human body has changed I believe.   People lived hundreds of year at one time.  We have changed many conditions of the world because of misuse through the influence of the prince of this world.   This world if full of chaos.  There is another but.

Our knowledge base is minute compared to our Creators.  We only know and understand in part.

I do not believe in counting a person out.  I do not understand clearly the cause or the effect of a non-heterosexual life.                When Christ came I believe he taught love and tolerance by his life.

I believe on his departure He sent his Holy Spirit to lead and guide us. If it was a sin in my mind, why is it not treated the way you treat fornication, lies, adultery, lust and such are treated. They should be treated fairly and equally, regardless of ones personal thoughts toward them.  

The people I know and love who are non heterosexual told me of how they where abused sexually.  So for a very long time I thought this was the cause which lead to this effect.  I wanted to more because of the way these people in my life was treated and singled out when other people opening practiced fornication, lies, adultery, or other types of lust was greeted with hand shakes and hugs. Scientific research, physical evidence and observation has lead me to see things.  If any thing is just mental, I believe that there is a hope of change.  

But what of the physical ?  

The attached article it give another point of view not my thoughts in whole.

Love I believe win folks to Christ. God is love. He visited Mathew whom was considered defile.  This question of physical scientific reasoning is documented. If it is truth what should be done?

God and Gays and Me

I plead Psalm 131  there are things I have no idea of whether they are right or wrong such as some question about gay people.  If there is biological physical reasons why a person appears to be attracted to the same sex is it forbidden?  If there is something biological causing this to occur and is innate to a person what is right for that person to do?  How does that person develop a loving relationship with someone as a partner in their life and be in the will of God?  Is it a behavior or is it the way a person biologically exist? How about hermaphrodites, who can they make a life with? Why does one person have a right to condemn another, when there are so many reason this situation could exists?        

(King James Version)

Psalm 131

 ¹Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
 ²Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
 ³Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.

 For this cause I like this verse.

Job 42:3 (Amplified Bible)

³[You said to me] Who is this that darkens and obscures counsel [by words] without knowledge? Therefore [I now see] I have [rashly] uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.





God is Love. I believe people have to live in truth.  If you feel someone to be at fault pray for them.  Petition God on their behave.  Do not spew meanness.  The one thing I truly think  to be true ~ we must be careful about how we judge , treat and accuse people ~.  We are in the dressing room here on earth. No one is perfect. My desire is not to judge but to love. Mankind  have many facets and aspects.  I do not pretend to know the mind of God






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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

Ephesians 1:3

New American Standard Bible (NASB)
3(A)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in (B)the heavenly places in Christ,

Cross references:
A. Ephesians 1:3 : 2 Cor 1:3
B. Ephesians 1:3 : Eph 1:20; 2:6; 3:10; 6:12

King James Version (KJV)
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Amplified Bible (AMP)
³May blessing (praise, laudation, and eulogy) be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual (given by the Holy Spirit) blessing in the heavenly realm!

2 Corinthians 1:1-5

Amplified Bible (AMP)¹PAUL, AN apostle (a special messenger) of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother, to the church (assembly) of God which is at Corinth, and to all the saints (the people of God) throughout Achaia (most of Greece):

²Grace (favor and spiritual blessing) to you and [heart] peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of sympathy (pity and mercy) and the God [Who is the Source] of every comfort (consolation and encouragement),

⁴Who comforts (consoles and encourages) us in every trouble (calamity and affliction), so that we may also be able to comfort (console and encourage) those who are in any kind of trouble or distress, with the comfort (consolation and encouragement) with which we ourselves are comforted (consoled and encouraged) by God.

⁵For just as Christ's [own] sufferings fall to our lot [as they overflow upon His disciples, and we share and experience them] abundantly, so through Christ comfort (consolation and encouragement) is also [shared and experienced] abundantly by us.

New American Standard Bible (NASB) ¹Paul, ^A)">(A)an apostle of ^B)">(B)Christ Jesus ^C)">(C)by the will of God, and ^D)">(D)Timothy our brother, To ^E)">(E)the church of God which is at ^F)">(F)Corinth with all the saints who are throughout ^G)">(G)Achaia:

²^H)">(H)Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³^I)">(I)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and ^J)">(J)God of all comfort,

⁴who ^K)">(K)comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁵For just ^L)">(L)as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.

Cross references:

1. 2 Corinthians 1:1 : Rom 1:1; Gal 1:1; Eph 1:1; Col 1:1; 2 Tim 1:1; Titus 1:1
2. 2 Corinthians 1:1 : Gal 3:26
3. 2 Corinthians 1:1 : 1 Cor 1:1
4. 2 Corinthians 1:1 : Acts 16:1; 1 Cor 16:10; 2 Cor 1:19
5. 2 Corinthians 1:1 : 1 Cor 10:32
6. 2 Corinthians 1:1 : Acts 18:1
7. 2 Corinthians 1:1 : Acts 18:12
8. 2 Corinthians 1:2 : Rom 1:7
9. 2 Corinthians 1:3 : Eph 1:3; 1 Pet 1:3
10. 2 Corinthians 1:3 : Rom 15:5
11. 2 Corinthians 1:4 : Is 51:12; 66:13; 2 Cor 7:6, 7, 13
12. 2 Corinthians 1:5 : 2 Cor 4:10; Phil 3:10; Col 1:24

King James Version (KJV) ¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

²Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

³Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

⁴Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

⁵For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

My Scriptures For The Day ~ Colossians 1:20-22

I am reading Colossians 1:20-22 in the following translations to let the meaning and consciousness of it become more tangible to me.


Colossians 1:20-22 (King James Version)

20And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Colossians 1:20-22 (Amplified Bible)

20And God purposed that through (by the service, the intervention of) Him [the Son] all things should be completely reconciled back to Himself, whether on earth or in heaven, as through Him, [the Father] made peace by means of the blood of His cross.

21And although you at one time were estranged and alienated from Him and were of hostile attitude of mind in your wicked activities,

22Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father's] presence.

Colossians 1:20-22 (New International Version - UK)

20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour.

22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—

Colossians 1:20-22 (The Message)

^18-20He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.

^21-23You yourselves are a case study of what he does. At one time you all had your backs turned to God, thinking rebellious thoughts of him, giving him trouble every chance you got. But now, by giving himself completely at the Cross, actually dying for you, Christ brought you over to God's side and put your lives together, whole and holy in his presence. You don't walk away from a gift like that! You stay grounded and steady in that bond of trust, constantly tuned in to the Message, careful not to be distracted or diverted. There is no other Message—just this one. Every creature under heaven gets this same Message. I, Paul, am a messenger of this Message.