catechumen
(kati-kyoomn)n. 1. One
who is being taught the principles of Christianity. 2. One
who is being instructed in a subject at an elementary level.[Middle
English cathecumine, from Old French catechumene, from Latin catechumenus, from
Greek katekhoumenos, present passive participle of katekhein, to instruct. See
CATECHIZE.]
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When in the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
them with another,
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comely
(kumle)adj.
come-li-er, come-li-est. 1. Pleasing and wholesome in appearance;
attractive. See Synonyms at beautiful. 2. Suitable; seemly: comely
behavior.[Middle English comli, alteration (probably influenced by bicomli,
seemly, from bicomen, to be suitable. See BECOME), of cumli, from Old English
cymlic, lovely, delicate, from cyme, beautiful.]--come'li-ness n.
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sanctuary
(sangkchoo-ere)n.pl.
sanc-tu-ar-ies. 1. A sacred place,
such as a church, temple, or mosque. The holiest part
of a sacred place, as the part of a Christian church around the
altar. 2. A sacred place, such
as a church, in which fugitives formerly were immune to arrest. Immunity
to arrest afforded by a sanctuary. 3. A place of refuge or asylum. 4. A reserved
area in which birds and other animals, especially wild animals, are
protected from hunting or molestation.
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ewe
(yoo)n. A female sheep, especially when
full grown.[Middle English, from Old English ewe, eowu. See owi-.]
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Knops
knop
(nop)n. A small decorative knob or boss.
Excerpted from American Heritage Talking Dictionary
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While
many use the terms, stone and rock, interchangeably, there is a
difference between the two. Stone is smaller than rock.
To
easily sum it up, rock is made out of stone and mineral matter. The stone used
to make your countertops was cut from rock.
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Onyx
Onyx
primarily refers to the parallel banded variety of the silicate mineral
chalcedony. Agate and onyx are both varieties of layered chalcedony that differ
only in the form of the bands: agate has curved bands and onyx has parallel
bands. The colors of its bands range from black to almost every color.
Commonly, specimens of onyx contain bands of black and/or white.[3]
Onyx, as a descriptive term, has also been applied to parallel banded
varieties of alabaster, marble, obsidian and opal, and misleadingly to
materials with contorted banding, such as "Cave Onyx" and
"Mexican Onyx".
Wikipedia
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The long history
Of
how Jesus came
to
resemble
a
white European
The
historical Jesus likely had the brown eyes and skin of other first-century
Jews from Galilee, a region in biblical Israel.
But
no one knows exactly what Jesus looked like. There are no known images
of Jesus from his lifetime, and while the Old Testament Kings Saul and David
are explicitly called tall and handsome in the Bible, there is little
indication of Jesus’ appearance in the Old or New Testaments.
Even
these texts are contradictory: The Old Testament prophet Isaiah reads that the
coming savior “had no beauty or majesty,” while the Book of Psalms claims he
was “fairer than the children of men,” the word “fair” referring to physical
beauty.
U
of SC
*
The
scriptural description
of
Emmanuel
Isaiah
as
a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground:
he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him,
there is no beauty that we should desire him.
****
The
introduction of a white Jesus
Toward
the East
Acts.6
Ye
stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and
ears,
ye do
always resist the Holy host: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Which of the
prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and
they have slain them which shewed
before
of the coming of the Just One;
of whom ye have been now the betrayers
and
murderers:
Who have
received the law by the disposition
of angels, and have not
kept it.
When
they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they
gnashed on him with their teeth.
But
he, being full of the Holy host, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and
saw the glory of God, and Emmanuel standing on the right hand of God,
And
said, Behold,
I
see the heavens opened,
and
the
Son
of man
standing
on the right hand of God.
**
Saul
the son of Cis,
a
man
of the tribe
of
Benjamin,
***
Then they cried
out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one
accord,
. . . And cast him
out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a
young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
And they stoned
Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
And he kneeled
down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And
when he had said this, he fell asleep.
And Saul was
consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution
against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered
abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
And devout men
carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
As
for Saul,
he
made havock
of
the
church,
entering
into every house,
and
haling men
and
women committed them to prison.
Therefore they that were
scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word.
And said,
Behold,
I
see the heavens opened, and the Son of man
standing on the right hand
of
God.
Then they cried
out with a loud voice, and
stopped their ears, and
ran
upon
him with one accord,
And
cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and
the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's
feet, whose name was Saul.
And they stoned Stephen,
calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit. . . .
*****
And they said,
Go to, let us
build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make
us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole
earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children
of men builded.
And the Lord said,
Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and
this they begin to do:
and
now nothing will be restrained from them,
****
And
God saw that
the wickedness
of
man was great
in the earth, and
that every imagination of
the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually.
**
which they
have
imagined to
do. Go to,
let us
go
down,
and
there
confound
their language, that they may
not understand
one
another's
speech.
So
the Lord scattered them
abroad
from
thence upon
the face of all the
earth: and they left
off to
build the city.
*****
and
it
came to pass, when they were
in the field,
that Saul
rose
up against Stephen his
brother,
and
slew him.
*
And
Saul was consenting unto his death.
And
at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was
at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered
abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria,
except the apostles.
And
devout men
carried Stephen to his burial,
and made great lamentation over him.
As
for Saul,
he
made
havock of the church, entering into every house, and
haling men and women
committed
them to prison.
Therefore
they
that
were scattered abroad went every where
preaching
the word.
*****
To
this day day, Paul's aka Saul epistles continue to be vital roots of the
theology, worship and pastoral life in the Latin and Protestant
traditions of the West, as well as the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox
traditions of the East.[19] Paul's influence on Christian thought and practice
has been characterized as being as "profound as it is pervasive",
among that of many other apostles and missionaries involved in the spread of
the Christian faith.
*
Constantine
In
313 AD, Emperor Constantine historically referred to
as the ‘First Christian,’ lived much of his life as a pagan, and later as a
catechumen, he began to favor Christianity beginning in 312,
finally becoming Christian and being baptized by either Eusebius of Nicomedia,
an Arian bishop, or Pope Sylvester I, which is maintained by the Catholic
Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Wikipedia
**
For past thirteen hundred years, Jesus
the image has been horned into a benevolent god that talks plainly, through his
priest, the fowls of the air concerning the affairs of the day.
**
Then thou scarest me
with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
So that my soul chooseth
strangling, and death rather than my life.
I loathe it;
I
would not live alway: let me
alone; for my days are vanity.
**
A ‘god’ taking human form bringing to
all humanity the promise of eternal to anyone who of faith
accepts him as their personal savior.
After being emersed in water, thereafter,
now a saint, arises renewed assured of gods love and eternal life.
The
acolyte, no longer subject to earthly concerns his
treasures now stored safely in ‘heaven’ and they are no longer sinner
and all past atrocities, heinous, murderous genocide of people, crimes against
beast for sport. Nature, the earth itself left a barren landscape where nothing
grows again and bitter waters all these callous mindless crimes forgiven, tossed into the
fiery lake of forgetfulness and all future such behavior will be absolved as
well. All the saints assured that Jesus’
love for his children is boundless.
Over the eons the metamorphic
societal changes has diminished the omnipotent aura of Jesus considerable due
to the exposure of crimes committed by the priest themselves and the
entanglement of their attempts to forgive.
The church, the
benevolent dispenser of gods ‘truth’ is decimated as the bright light of
truth shines in the darkness exposing their ever love for money, not Justice, restraints not equality,
contempt not love only more luxury, as for the poor their wealth is to be had only
after they drop dead.
Today it appears only the very rich
and powerful touts their love for god by embracing the most harsh of injustice
against women, homosexuals, children, the ill the old, transforming the love of
Jesus, into an oppressive police force who with impunity and god’s blessing, brutally beat, murder and arrest the poor who are
afforded shoddy representation, unlike white Jesus’ whom they declare, god loves most.
******
When
the Son
of
man
shall come in his
glory,
and all the
holy Host
angels with him,
then shall
he
sit upon the
throne
of
his glory:
***
His glory
is like
the
firstling of his
bullock,
and his
horns
are like the horns
of
(One corn)
unicorns:
with
them
he
shall push
the people together
to the
ends of the earth:
and they
are the
ten thousand
of
Ephraim,
and they
are the
thousands of
Manasseh.
**
And before
him shall
be
gathered all
nations:
and he
shall separate
them
one
from
another,
as a
shepherd
divideth
his sheep
from
the goats:
And he
shall set
the sheep
on
his right
hand,
but the goats
on the
left.
Then shall
the
King
say unto
them
on
his right hand,
Come,
ye blessed
of
my Father,
**
I
lay yesternight
with
my father:
let us
make him drink
wine
this night
also;
**
And Judah said,
What shall
we
say unto my lord?
what shall
we speak?
or how shall
we clear
ourselves?
God hath found
out
the inequity
of
thy servants:
behold,
we
are my lord's
servants,
both we,
and he
also
with whom
the
cup is found.
And he said,
God forbid
that I
should
do so:
but the man
in
whose hand
the cup
is
found,
he
shall be my
servant;
and as for you,
get you up in
peace
unto
your father.
**
and go thou
in,
and lie
with him,
that we
may preserve seed
of
our father.
***
I
will take the cup
of
salvation,
and call
upon
the name
of the
Lord.
I
will pay
my vows
unto the Lord
now
in the
presence
of
all his
people.
Precious in the
sight
of
the Lord
is
the death
of
his saints.
O Lord,
truly
I am
thy servant;
I am
thy servant,
**
What is this that
thou hast done?
And the woman
said,
The serpent
beguiled me,
and I did
eat.
**
Then she said,
Let me find
favour
in
thy sight,
my lord;
for
that thou hast
comforted me,
and for
that thou hast
spoken friendly
unto
thine handmaid,
though
I
be not
like unto
one of thine
handmaidens.
And Boaz
said unto her,
At mealtime
come thou
hither,
and eat
of the
bread,
and dip
thy morsel in the
vinegar.
And she
sat beside
the
reapers:
and he
reached
her
parched corn,
and she did
eat,
and was
sufficed,
and left.
**
And he said,
Who told thee
that thou wast
naked?
Hast thou
eaten
of
the tree,
whereof
I
commanded
thee
that thou
shouldest
not eat?
**
What hast thou
here?
and whom hast thou
here,
that thou hast
hewed
thee
out a
sepulchre here,
as
he that
heweth
him
out a sepulchre
on high,
and that
graveth an
habitation
for
himself
in a rock?
**
and the
son
of
thine handmaid:
thou hast loosed my
bonds.
*
This
passage details
the marriage of Emmanuel’s disciples
to
the daughters of Aaron.
**
And as they were
eating,
Immanuel
took bread,
and blessed
it,
and brake it,
**
And all the people
of the land
went into the
house
of Baal,
and brake it down;
his altars
and his images
brake they
in pieces thoroughly,
and slew
Mattan
the
priest of
Baal before the altars.
And the
priest appointed officers
over the
house of the Lord.
**
and gave it
to the
disciples,
and said,
Take,
eat;
this is my
body.
And he took
the cup,
and gave
thanks,
and gave it
to them,
saying,
Drink
ye all of it;
**
Their knops
and their
branches
were
of the
same:
all of it
was one beaten
work
of
pure gold.
**
The cities
of the
south shall be
shut up,
and none shall open
them:
Judah shall be
carried away captive
all of it,
it shall be
wholly carried
away captive.
**
O
mount Seir,
and all
Idumea,
even
all of it:
and they
shall
know
that
ISamuel
am
the Lord.
**
For this is my blood,
which
is shed
for many
for the
remission of sins.
**
I cried to thee,
O Lord;
and unto the
Lord
I
made supplication.
What profit
is
there
in my
blood,
when
I
go down
to the
pit?
Shall
The
dust praise
thee?
shall it declare thy
truth?
**
But I
say unto you,
I
will not drink
henceforth
of
this fruit
of the
vine,
until
that day
when
ISamuel
drink it new with you
in
my Father's
kingdom.
**
And it came to
pass,
when God caused
me
to
wander from
my father's house,
that I
said unto her,
This is thy
kindness
which thou
shalt shew
unto me;
at every
place
whither we shall
come,
say of me,
He
is my
brother.
**
But thou shalt
go unto
my father's house,
and to
my kindred,
and take a wife
unto
my son.
**
And he
said
unto me,
The Lord, before
whom I walk,
will send his
angel with thee,
and prosper
thy way;
and thou
shalt take
a
wife
for
my son
of
my kindred,
and of
my
father's house:
**
So
that I come
again
to
my father's house
in peace;
then shall
the
Lord
be
my God:
**
And he took the
cup,
and gave thanks,
and gave
it
to them,
saying,
Drink
ye
all of it;
**
Whoso
sheddeth man's blood,
by
man shall his blood be shed:
**
For this
is
my blood
which
is shed
for many
for the
remission
of
sins.
But I
say unto you,
I
will not drink
henceforth
of this fruit
of the
vine,
until that day
when
ISamuel
drink
it
new
with you
in my
Father's kingdom.
*
And it came to
pass,
when God caused
me
to
wander
from
my
father's house,
that I
said unto
her,
This is thy
kindness
which thou
shalt
shew unto
me;
at
every place
whither
we
shall come,
say of me,
He is my
brother.
***
inherit
the
kingdom
prepared
for you
from the
foundation
of the
world:
For I
was
an
hungred,
and ye gave
me meat:
I
was thirsty,
and ye gave
me drink:
I
was a stranger,
and ye took
me in:
Naked,
and ye
clothed me:
I
was sick,
and ye
visited me:
I
was in prison,
and ye came
unto me.
Then shall
the righteous
answer him,
saying,
Lord,
when saw
we
thee an hungred,
and fed thee?
or thirsty,
and gave thee
drink?
When saw
we
thee a stranger,
and took thee in?
or
naked,
and clothed thee?
Or when
saw we thee
sick,
or in prison,
and came
unto thee?
And the
King
shall answer
and say
unto them,
Verily
I
say unto you,
Inasmuch as
ye have done it unto
one
of the
least
of these my
brethren,
ye have done
it unto
me.
***
his
daughter in law bare
him
Pharez
and Zerah.
All
the sons
of Judah
were five.
**
And
Er, Judah's firstborn,
was
wicked in the sight of the Lord;
And
Judah said unto Onan,
Go
in unto thy brother's wife,
and
marry her,
and
raise up seed
to
thy
brother.
and
the Lord Judah slew him.
**
and
the waters shall
no
more
become
a
flood
to destroy all flesh.
**
And he said
unto
Abram,
Know of a surety
that thy seed
shall be
a stranger
in a
land
that is
not theirs,
**
For the day
of the
Lord of hosts
shall be
upon every
one
that is proud
and lofty,
and upon every
one
that is
lifted up;
and he
shall be brought
low:
**
And Abram said
unto Lot,
Let there
be no strife,
I
pray thee,
between
me and thee,
and
between my
herdmen
and thy
herdmen;
for we
be
brethren.
And Lot
lifted up his eyes,
and beheld all
the plain
of Jordan, . . .
Then Lot
chose
him all
the
plain of Jordan;
and Lot
journeyed east:
and they
separated themselves
the one
from
the other.
**
and God
divided
the light
from
the darkness.
**
**
that the seed
should not be
his;
spilled it on
the ground,
***
And Tamar
his
daughter in
law bare
him
Pharez
**
And Judah
and his
brethren came
to
Joseph's house;
for he
was
yet there:
**
for he
dwelt in the plain
of
Mamre the Amorite,
brother
of
Eshcol,
and
brother
of
Aner:
and these
were confederate
with Abram.
****
that he
spilled it
on the ground,
**
And she said,
What wilt thou give
me,
that thou
mayest come
in unto me?
And he said,
I
will send
thee
a kid from
the flock.
And she
said,
Wilt thou give me
a pledge,
till thou send it?
And he
said,
What pledge shall
I
give thee?
And she said,
Thy signet,
and thy
bracelets,
and thy
staff
that isin
thine hand.
And he gave
it her,
and came in
unto her,
and she conceived
by
him.
**
And Judah
and his
brethren came
to
Joseph's house;
for he
was yet there:
and they
fell before
him
on the ground.
**
lest
that he
should give
seed
to
his brother.
**
And he said,
Thy
name shall
be
called
no more
**
The sons of
Pharez;
Ozem the
sixth, . . .
David the seventh:
And on the
seventh day
God ended
his work
which
he
had made;
and he
rested
on
the
seventh day
from all
his
work which
he
had made.
**
And Abel,
he also
brought of the
firstlings
of
his flock
and of the
fat thereof.
**
And Lot also,
which went with Abram,
had flocks,
**
And Abraham
set
seven ewe
lambs
of the
flock by themselves.
**
Then
again Abraham took a wife,
and
her name was Keturah.
And
she bare him Zimran,
and
Jokshan,
and
Medan,
And
the sons of Midian; . . .All these were the children of Keturah.
And
Abraham gave all
that
he
had
unto Isaac.
**
Then there passed by Midianites, merchantmen;
and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit,
and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for
twenty pieces of silver:
and they brought Joseph
into Egypt.
**
Now
the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and
they came and drew water, and filled the
troughs to water their father's flock.
And
the shepherds came
and
drove them away:
but
Moses
stood
up
and
helped them,
and
watered their flock.
**
And he entreated
Abram
well
for her sake:
and he had sheep,
and oxen,
and he asses,
and menservants,
and maidservants,
and she asses,
and camels.
...
And Abram
was very rich in
cattle,
in silver,
and in
gold.
**
and when he
heard the words
of
Rebekah his sister,
saying,
Thus spake the
man
unto
me;
that he
came unto the
man;
and,
behold,
he stood
by the
camels
at the well.
And he
said,
Come in,
thou blessed
of the
Lord;
wherefore
standest thou
without?
for I
have prepared the
house,
and room
for
the camels.
And the
man came
into the house:
and he
ungirded
his
camels,
and gave
straw
*
and the lion shall eat
straw like the ox.
*
and
provender
for
the
camels,
and
water to wash
his
feet,
and
the men's feet
that
were with
him.
**
For
the Lord's portion
is
his
people;
**
He
that is
born
in thy house,
and
he that is
bought
with thy money,
must
needs be circumcised:
and
my covenant
shall
be in your flesh
for
an
everlasting
covenant.
And
the uncircumcised
man
child
whose
flesh
of
his
foreskin
is
not circumcised,
that
soul shall be cut off
from
his
people;
he
hath
broken my covenant.
SamuelO
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