Shalom Jerimiah sorry i not been in touch much, i sent a quick letter 2 days ago just wrote out the prayer/spell names of God from one of the sections of Lefeka Sedek the Ethiopian book of life/death.....is hard me write much after mi latest incarceration in mental hospital obviously with the dangerous pHARMacutical anti or is that pro, psychotic drugs they forced injected me with when i refused their tablets. Not only is mess mi mind up but my body too or maybe that is other causes like reserection day we are still in....mi fingers or t'at as is called in ethiopian is all messed up. is easier to type. my daughter just got me a new laptop she was offered buy it for my birthday june 10th but i wasnt too friendly with her then cos i felt she was either this life or before do stuff against Jah....i think i did too but i repented i been advising her do the same. at same time is like a test from Jah like Abraham in some ways. i think i went back and done like a spiritual shaman journey killed of some of her and mi past lifes or something. i dont remember doing it exactly Jah just guide me and show me syncronicitys like in the Celestine Prophecy. is nice be back in touch with her, i still was a bit in touch to maintain contact with Sophora and Misti my grandchilds. my email is m.martin112@btinternet.com i dont always see my emails tho if i know your email address i can regulalrly search to make sure i dont miss it. dont worry if you cant send a letter every week or two weeks or whatever i know it must be hard for you financially even if you answer on here thats fine or even when u cant do that i will still try to write. I just bought u two more books. sorry if is not the best choice is hard for me to concentrate much on line sometimes i feel like i stuck in a microwave oven like the scrondiger cat experiemtnt who was dead and alive at same time. mi girl kaya says there is a cat comes to her place in spain is like bageera when he used to be a white rag doll cat. the one that comes here who looks like black panther egyptian bageera was here yesterday he likes it wheni chant hari krishna. the first book is on numerology from a kaballist perspective and i ordered the philidelphia experiemtn book u asked for also. i really hope things are going ok for you i just read you are doing good at your chess games, i dont understand chess, i read in iain m banks some stuff in player of games book makes me feel like this game is a multi dimensional chess game. im just a pawn in their game lol.
Thanks for writing! I just finished the transcription for your post. Wow! The descriptive imagery was very powerful! Keep writing, and keep filling up your spirit with love and kindness! You can never be conquered with these attributes. --Calhoun25
On the bright side, you're not living in Joe Arpaio's Tent City. 115 degrees in an outdoors tent - in pink underwear. No coffee, no movies, no television outside of the Disney channel and the weather channel, Newt Gingrich's lecture series piped into the jails. No weights, no porno, and only two meals a day.
When people complained about how he took away their coffee (for safety reasons), his response was "this isn't the Ritz Carlton, if you don't like it, don't come back." When inmates complained about the heat, his reply was... and you might find cynical humor in this: "it's 120 degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents and they didn't commit any crimes."
A members of cure responds back to you about your blogs, will share with others members of cure at the next meeting in the first part of october 2013 at the next cure meeting, also will be in contact with you and others that are behinds bars to help us in october about what you can do to help us at cure, sorry for the delay, cure has been on a summer break. sincerely Denise Gant President of cure
My Dearest Love, Sometimes I (and I am not alone) do not understand. WTF? You got some splaining to do. I'm on the phone with your Sarah. I went for an interview this afternoon. Wow do I want to get this one. Just for the stability. I miss you so very much... I have an appt tomorrow with the dentist. Yay. I will write as soon as , rephrase I will send your kite out to you soon. I'm looking forward to hearing your voice. Oh how badly I need to see you. I also need to sleep. The place we are always together in the splendor of our love. Your Zahra
Thanks so much for writing! I just finished the transcription for your post. I liked the ironic twist at the end, with the blind man seeing more than he who could see. That theme can also be seen in Oedipus Rex, when the blind prophet Tiresias predicts the downfall of Oedipus, a seeing man. I like to think that great writers, musicians, and artists have a power like that of the blind man, being able to conceive new things which no one before has seen. Keep up the great work! --Calhoun25
Hey Kyle! I'm glad you've taken interest in examining the New Testament! This answer to your question about Acts is not mine, so I give all credit to the blogger who typed it:
"In the original Greek, however, there is no real contradiction between these two statements. Greek makes a distinction between hearing a sound as a noise (in which case the verb "to hear" takes the genitive case) and hearing a voice as a thought-conveying message (in which case it takes the accusative). Therefore, as we put the two statements together we find that Paul's companions heard the Voice as a sound (somewhat like the crowd who heard the sound of the Father talking to the Son in John 12:28, but perceived it only as thunder); but they did not (like Paul) hear the message that it articulated. Paul alone heard it intelligibly (Acts 9:45 says Paul ekousen phonen - accusative case)"
So, Acts 9 has the verb "hear" take the genitive case, meaning "to hear a noise"; in Acts 22, the verb "hear" takes the accusative case, meaning "to hear a thought-conveying message". There is no contradiction in hearing a meaningless sound and not understanding it as a meaningful message. For example, I can "hear" a loud thunder crash (takes genetive in Ancient Greek), but not "hear" it as some meaningful message (takes accusative in Ancient Greek).
The documents of the New Testament were all written within the first century AD: Mark (65-70 AD), Matthew (80 AD), Luke (85 AD), and John (90-95 AD). Paul's letters range from the 40s to 60s. The New Testament canon may have been arranged a lot earlier than 393 AD. We have scholars like Polycarp and Irenaeus and Justin Martyr quoting much of these Gospels around the end of the first century. We have the Muratorian fragment, which lists much of the New Testament canon; it's probably a copy of a Greek text from 170, although some scholars date it up to the 4th century. So although the New Testament may have been arranged as late as 393, there is evidence suggesting the canon was complied earlier (although with these sorts of topics, it's tough to know anything for sure), and the Gospels and Pauline Epistels are certainly first century.
As a way of living, we can learn from the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. As atheist philosopher Antony Flew said, "Read the Sermon on the Mount & you can tell that Jesus is a first rate ethicist."
But I definitely do agree with you, that the Holy Spirit's work is never done. According to Christians, it acts through true believers everyday, so it's not something just limited to the Apostles, like you said. In fact, many Christians believe the Holy Spirit to be part of the divine Trinity!
If naturalism should be true, then there would be no absolute standard for living; everything would be subjective. This meaninglessness is what existentialists struggle with.
I hope these answers are helpful, Kyle! Good luck with your spiritual journey, and keep writing! --Calhoun25
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--Calhoun25
When people complained about how he took away their coffee (for safety reasons), his response was "this isn't the Ritz Carlton, if you don't like it, don't come back." When inmates complained about the heat, his reply was... and you might find cynical humor in this: "it's 120 degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents and they didn't commit any crimes."
Denise Gant
President of cure
Sometimes I (and I am not alone) do not understand. WTF? You got some splaining to do. I'm on the phone with your Sarah. I went for an interview this afternoon. Wow do I want to get this one. Just for the stability. I miss you so very much... I have an appt tomorrow with the dentist. Yay.
I will write as soon as , rephrase I will send your kite out to you soon.
I'm looking forward to hearing your voice. Oh how badly I need to see you.
I also need to sleep. The place we are always together in the splendor of our love.
Your Zahra
--Calhoun25
I'm glad you've taken interest in examining the New Testament!
This answer to your question about Acts is not mine, so I give all credit to the blogger who typed it:
"In the original Greek, however, there is no real contradiction between these two statements. Greek makes a distinction between hearing a sound as a noise (in which case the verb "to hear" takes the genitive case) and hearing a voice as a thought-conveying message (in which case it takes the accusative). Therefore, as we put the two statements together we find that Paul's companions heard the Voice as a sound (somewhat like the crowd who heard the sound of the Father talking to the Son in John 12:28, but perceived it only as thunder); but they did not (like Paul) hear the message that it articulated. Paul alone heard it intelligibly (Acts 9:45 says Paul ekousen phonen - accusative case)"
So, Acts 9 has the verb "hear" take the genitive case, meaning "to hear a noise"; in Acts 22, the verb "hear" takes the accusative case, meaning "to hear a thought-conveying message". There is no contradiction in hearing a meaningless sound and not understanding it as a meaningful message. For example, I can "hear" a loud thunder crash (takes genetive in Ancient Greek), but not "hear" it as some meaningful message (takes accusative in Ancient Greek).
The documents of the New Testament were all written within the first century AD: Mark (65-70 AD), Matthew (80 AD), Luke (85 AD), and John (90-95 AD). Paul's letters range from the 40s to 60s. The New Testament canon may have been arranged a lot earlier than 393 AD. We have scholars like Polycarp and Irenaeus and Justin Martyr quoting much of these Gospels around the end of the first century. We have the Muratorian fragment, which lists much of the New Testament canon; it's probably a copy of a Greek text from 170, although some scholars date it up to the 4th century. So although the New Testament may have been arranged as late as 393, there is evidence suggesting the canon was complied earlier (although with these sorts of topics, it's tough to know anything for sure), and the Gospels and Pauline Epistels are certainly first century.
As a way of living, we can learn from the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. As atheist philosopher Antony Flew said, "Read the Sermon on the Mount & you can tell that Jesus is a first rate ethicist."
But I definitely do agree with you, that the Holy Spirit's work is never done. According to Christians, it acts through true believers everyday, so it's not something just limited to the Apostles, like you said. In fact, many Christians believe the Holy Spirit to be part of the divine Trinity!
If naturalism should be true, then there would be no absolute standard for living; everything would be subjective. This meaninglessness is what existentialists struggle with.
I hope these answers are helpful, Kyle! Good luck with your spiritual journey, and keep writing!
--Calhoun25