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IS THERE A PURGATORY?

In a word, no. Don’t worry, I’ll elaborate. Purgatory was invented by men to do one thing: increase money to the church. If you donate enough money, your stay in purgatory will be less than if you didn’t. This is another power taken away from God by some churches and put into the hands of men. Always when men take powers away from God, they invent something that is not written anywhere in the Bible.

There is no evidence of a purgatory in the Bible, and I’ve looked. Those that came up with purgatory claim it’s to purify souls before reaching heaven. The soul has no need of purification because it’s already out of this sinful human flesh. The soul is pure already. Whether that soul is worthy of heaven, everlasting life, or punishment is up to One. Nobody else. Either way, once the soul has been loosened from this human prison it goes straight to the Maker. From there God chooses whether that soul goes with Abraham and Lazarus or on the other side of the gulf with the rich man. There is no pit stop on its way.

One should ask themselves if a person makes the right choice and lives their lives honorably why God would make them suffer through something called “purgatory”. It’s just another manmade creation to make those that believe in it to give more money to the churches that have purgatory as part of their doctrine.

Paul said to be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord. Does that sound like there is a stop at something at purgatory? On the rare occasion when someone dies and are brought back to life, the common thing seen is a tunnel of white light. If you imagine yourself travelling through space with stars, galaxies, and other heavenly objects flying by you many times the speed of light, what would you be seeing? A tunnel of white light. Does that sound like there is a purgatory?

Men do such wicked things in the eyes of God by inventing things of God that do not exist for the sake of their own cause. This is the silliest and least biblical example possible. I dare any theologian, priest, cardinal, pope to find me biblical evidence of purgatory. They can’t do it because it doesn’t exist. Men should be careful about inventing things to take power away from God and putting power into their own hands on such matters because God just may invent some things right back of His own. This is one of those things that angers me personally. I find it insulting when men invent things of God with no backing from God’s word. I issue a challenge to those that believe in purgatory. Find me biblical evidence. Not logic of why there might or should be a purgatory. Not who came up with it. Not it’s purpose. Find me biblical evidence of it. There is no such thing as purgatory. Take that to the bank.

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THE ATTACK UPON GOD

The attacks upon God and those who believe in Him are becoming more sharp and mainstream in recent years. What these so-called personal geniuses don’t realize is that they are fulfilling scripture by doing so. I hear these masters of the universe say the darnedest things with such fervor and authority about things they know nothing about. They always have to add that little shot to those who believe, especially Christians, saying that they are uneducated and believe in just an adult Santa Claus myth. Nothing like putting those down that disagree. I don’t mind taking shots or giving them much, but those I give the shots to have cast the first stone.

Atheists are prideful hypocrites who say they are for equal treatment and harmony among all of creation, when in fact they want to be recognized by everyone else as being the great thinkers of our time and never miss an opportunity to try to get under the skin of their Christian coinhabitants. They try as hard as they can to stick out from amongst the crowd with their middle-child syndrome. They especially use Christian holidays to make sure that they are heard. Anyone that says they are insulted or offended at God being referred to in our currency or a nativity scene displayed by a town or city during Christmas season is lying to you. One can’t look at a dollar bill and get irate. One can’t look at people praising someone they believe to be their Saviour and feel like they’ve had their faces spat upon. This is their way of letting you know they are smarter than you because they don’t believe in God. They believe in evolution.

The intellectuals and atheists are big believers in evolution. That is their reason for being. This is their god, whether they like to think of it this way or not. Evolution is their god. The supreme prophet of the Evolution god was Darwin. A prophet who didn’t even believe the theory he proposed himself. With this belief, it allows them to live their life without restriction. Why have restrictions when there is nothing to answer for after their lives are done? This is a benefit for their belief. Possibly even an excuse to not use their own willpower to do things their conscience tells them not to do. “If there’s no God, I don’t have to listen to my conscience. My conscience is just my mind playing tricks on me, mastered by the society of the feebleminded believers who think certain things are wrong. My conscience does not exist.”

The sad thing is that their belief in evolution has questions that they can’t answer themselves. I used to frustrate fifty year old adults when I was a teenager before I even read the Bible with my questions to them. I would ask them questions like “if evolution is real, then how come there are still cockroaches?” The best answer I got was “well some evolved and some didn’t.” I thought evolution was constant. Why would some of the species evolve but some not? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. There should not be dogs, birds, fish, mosquitos, or bears. If evolution really exists, then there should be at the most only a few species below us on Earth right now. Evolution is evolved. Evolved is evolution. Another question I asked was “if the Earth is four billion years old, is that enough time for an amoeba to make it all the way to a human considering there are well over a million different types of insect alone?” Seeing years of things they perceived to be facts erode on their faces was pretty sad to see. They didn’t like me much, those intellectuals, but they knew I was no fool. I heard one say “well there are different classes of species and that’s how it happened”. Well, how did they divide into those classes? What decision making ability was there to say “I’m going to turn into this now”? If a species adapts to that climate or environment, how do they change themselves? What creature was the first that said “I need a digestive system so I can nourish myself and excrete waste”, and then do it? If the first species to have nourishment from eating ate, they would die without a way to excrete the waste. That would be the end of that new species. For those who claim they are supergeniuses to the Nth degree, these questions they have not asked themselves doesn’t speak well of their thinking ability. Maybe they do think of those questions, but since this is their belief and it’s not in God, they’d rather just let it rest there and not wonder about things they don’t have the answers to. Willingly blinding themselves from their own accusation upon those they disagree, that Christians cannot think for themselves. Evolution is proof they cannot think very well. The true intellectual is the true fool. Even Bill Maher, who never fails to insult Christians, believes in evolution but admits something must have happened to get life started. DUH! Albert Einstein is known as maybe the smartest man in the last century, and he believed in God. He even went as far as to say that if anyone can look into the dark reaches of space and the glorious nature on Earth, and not realize there was a God to create it all is blind.

A favorite attack of these atheists and intellectuals upon those that believe in God say that there have been more people killed in the name of religion than anything else combined. Hogwash. Religion is just an excuse. Racism is at the crux of the matter when it comes to killing by the masses. Racism is the true reason. Religion, no matter what religion it is, is always the excuse. Before there were Irish Catholics and Protestants fighting eachother, there were the red and black Irish fighting. Before there were Sunni and Shiite, there were Arabs and Persians fighting. Look up your history. I know, again this is too easy to come up with, which reiterates my point that the true intellectual is the true fool.

Atheists say “how can you believe in something you can’t see?” I believe in love, but I’ve never seen love. I see the evidence of love everywhere, just as I see the evidence of God everywhere. Love cannot be seen by anyone. I know many atheists say that the Judeo-Christian God is invisible, like it’s written that He is somewhere in the Bible. Actually Moses saw God, but only from behind as God walked into the sanctuary as Moses and the Israelites roamed through the wilderness. Moses was not allowed to see God’s face, but he saw Him. Nowhere does it say God is invisible.

If an atheist is truly enquiring, then it’s good to talk about things of God. If you know things pretty assuringly, then speak with some authority. If you’re a product of traditional teaching, then I don’t suggest doing this because I can ask questions about your belief you cannot answer as well. This world is NOT seven thousand years old. Dinosaurs truly existed many thousands of years ago. Don’t let any traditional teacher fool you in stating otherwise. If an atheist is there to just rile you up and get under your skin by belittling what you believe in, then don’t cast your pearls. If they cannot admit the existence of their own conscience which is at no distance away from them, they aren’t ready to hear of the Truth far above their heads. God bless.

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GOD'S STANDARDS FOR SAINTHOOD

What God sees as a saint is far different than what men do. For some reason men have raised standards for sainthood far past God’s standards. The Catholic church makes it impossible in their own doctrine to become a saint. According to the Catholic church, a person has to perform three miracles in order to be qualified for canonization. That in itself is an error. No man performs a miracle. God does through that man or woman. That’s something the Catholic church should know on their own.

To become a saint in God’s eyes all a person has to do is have their faith in Jesus as the Messiah intact. Everyone who dies with their faith is a saint. Everyone. There are many, many saints upon this Earth right now. As is written in Ephesians 1:1, there were saints in Ephesus Paul wrote to. Those were just people who were Christians. People who accepted Christ fully in their hearts and humbled themselves before their Lord. Not people who brought fire out of the sky or healed the lame by having a missing limb grow back. As if men on their own had the ability to do that anyway. In Revelation 20 which is about the next age after Jesus returns, Jesus will reign on Earth with his saints for a thousand years. That is everyone who in this life has made the right choice will be here reaping their rewards and being with their loved ones, at least those who made the right choice. Not just those who Catholic doctrine says are saints.

So why do the standards of men far outreach the standards of God? An incredible amount of conceit, that’s why. That’s also why most teachers feel God’s elect are people who just chose Christ, even though the term is GOD’S elect. God’s choice, not man’s. Such highmindedness and self-empowerment is not what God wants us to have. To set standards higher than God’s isn’t something that makes God happy. That’s like saying to a soul that has done great things in the eyes of God “you can be His saint, but you’re not worthy of being one of ours. You should have performed three miracles which were all witnessed as well as this and that and then you could have joined us.” I’d rather be one of God’s saints than a saint in the eyes of men anytime anyway.

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WHAT I LOVE!!!

I love genuinely good people. It’s sad to say but there are very few genuinely good people anymore. In this day and age, good seems to have no identity. People look down on good. People envy evil or certainly very flawed things. Even many of those who don’t envy evil basically claim that there is no evil. Just “misunderstood”. People nowadays like to make this great gray area so that way they feel smarter. People are so egotistical anymore. They don’t want to accept things as black and white. They can’t feel smart doing that. They’d feel simple and like the rest of society. They can’t have that so they not only question everything, but disagree with everything. If Hitler was around nowadays, people wouldn’t be calling him evil either. “There must be reasons why he’s doing what he’s doing” they would say. Not to brag, but I have a 178 IQ. It’s not good for much. Only real good thing about it is when I hear people call others who believe things I do, or agree with the same points as I do “stupid”. Then knowing this person who’s calling us “stupid” doesn’t have nearly as high of an IQ as I do. I’m much more proud of my grasp of common sense. My sense of right and wrong. To be able to admit that I just might be wrong. To know that I cannot outthink God. To understand that just because I have the ability to think of something it doesn’t equate it with a fact. The reason I mention my IQ is because from experience I can say that these personal debates on what causes people to do certain things gets you nowhere. It’s all an elaborate display of the mind to raise the ego. It’s all futile though when you cut down to the chase. Everything you can come up with still takes you to the same destination. It’s either right or wrong. Things ARE black and white. There IS right and wrong. There IS good and evil. Yes, it’s that simple. I guess luckily for me, I realized I can’t outthink what my conscience tells me so there’s no reason for me to try. I don’t care how smart or dumb I am. I know what is right and what is wrong. Everyone has the ability to do that. It’s only those who want to hold the complete opposite opinions as conventional thinking that distort that ability. People who want to feel smart want to complicate things because that way it’s no longer simple. Their questions are not what they think most people can think of. I think most can, given time. Anyone can twist things with their mind until they arrive to the conclusion they want to reach. Anyone can. That’s not being honest with oneself though.

As I’ve grown older, I’ve grown wiser. I’m more mature and appreciate things that are good more than I used to. I never really took good things or people for granted, but there’s always room to appreciate good times with good people more. Last year I lost a friend due to an accident. It had been a while since I saw him, but for years there I saw him nearly everyday. He was very good. Not only was I friends with him, but friends with his whole family. His dad is one hell of a character. I spent more time with his dad than I did with anyone in the family. We were close. He’s a very good man as well. His more than beautiful sister is a treasure in the highest sense. Her strength during the funeral was unbelievable and admirable. She didn’t only deal with her own pain of loss and shock of the whole situation, but she took on her mother’s overwhelming grief as well. I knew she was the strongest person I had ever met. What I saw only confirmed that. The mother is such a sweet, wonderful woman. She has such a great motherly instinct. Even though she was an older woman, she possessed a great innocence. Now that innocence has been taken away. They will never be the same. All because of a moment. A blink of the eye. Life goes on for them and their strength will carry them through. The whole family is a remarkable one. If I had a family of my own, I’d want an exact replica of theirs. God bless them.

I guess my whole point in this blog is that we should all get a strong grasp of good and hold it in our clutches. Whether the good be just a time or a person, we should hold onto it. First of all, we need to learn to find good. What is good? That’s something for you to figure out. Your conscience will tell you. How good in touch are you with your conscience? How many times have you compromised with that trusty voice in your head telling you not to do the wrong thing? The more you do that, the more quiet your conscience becomes. Then you will not know what good and evil is. You’ll inflate that gray line because you understand why people do the wrong things because you do it too. People don’t want to be told what they are doing is wrong by anyone, including themselves. Hopefully before you get to that point, you’ll keep a firm grasp on what good is and what your conscience tells you to do. It’s there for a reason. I know what good is. I also know what evil is. If you know truly good people, then appreciate them as much as you can. Anytime a bad thing can happen to a good person. A good person can be taken away in the blink of an eye. In a world that embraces bad things or certainly very flawed things, it can’t afford to lose good people. But it happens.

I don’t know how much time I have. My illnesses are deadly. Hopefully I can live out my life in a decent fashion. Anyone who knows me knows I’m a good person. Before I go, whenever that is, I intend to let those good people know that I know they are good. I intend to thank them for being the light in this dark world we live in. It’s time you do the same.

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THE CALLING OF THE ELECTION OF GRACE

As Romans chapter 11 says, there are only 7000 of God’s elect in the final generation. Being that there will be more of the election of grace in the last generation than at any other time in this age’s history, it’s not every christian like the baptists like to think. The number of them is written there. If this is the last generation, there are more than 7000 christians, right? Paul said some of the election of grace have already lived, but God has reserved 7000 of them for the last generation.

The call will feel like an uncomfortable pulling. A thought that won’t leave telling the elect to read. This will happen right around the time one of the elect turns 25 years of age. The elect at some point will HAVE to answer this call. The longer they go without answering this call, the more uncomfortable they will feel. This inner agitation will make them feel like tearing the skin right from their body. They will feel like no matter where they are that they wouldn’t be in the right place. When they answer this call, these bad feelings will go away. Why does God make them feel badly? Because no human being will answer their call if they feel good.

All God wants them to do is to read a chapter, two, or three a day. That’s it. Anymore and the information that needs to be processed will not be. A little at a time is the only way the elect should read the Bible. There’s no way that you can read ten chapters a day and take in what all God is saying. No way. You can pass a trivia test, but you won’t get the understanding. That’s the most important part. The understanding.

The elect must and will understand God’s word for how He truly means it. No church or teaching of men gets it right, because they aren’t allowed to. Again in Romans 11 it says that all have been given the spirit of slumber. Eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear. This is for their own protection. This is why Jesus spoke to everyone in parables, except for his disciples. His disciples were of the elect. That’s why they knew the secrets of understanding God’s word. That’s why the disciples asked Jesus in Matthew 24:3 what are the signs of his coming and the end of the age. That word “world” there in the Greek originally is the word “aion” which means “age”. How did they know how to ask Jesus the signs of the end of the age? Because Jesus told them about the ages.

Jesus is against five of the seven churches of Christ, as it is written in Revelation 2-5. The only two he finds no fault in do not exist yet. Don’t let any denomination tell you that they are the ones to really figure it out. Read Jesus’ own words.

The elect must read on their own and erase any memory of what they have heard about what’s written in the Bible. This is the only way they can truly understand God’s word. To erase the sin and lack of understanding of men. When the elect have answered their call and excelled in their learning, they can understand this parable:

There was a man who had a son. This man was very good with his hands. He did the plumbing. He kept the car in order. He fixed up the house with his own hands. When the son was fully grown, he said to his father “teach me the secrets of working with your hands”. The father agreed to teach him, only under one condition: that he never calls anyone else “father”. The son agreed, so the father taught him the secrets of working with his hands. Not long after that a liar of a man approached the son and told him he was the real father of him. The son believed him and called him “father”. His real father, who taught him the secrets of working his hands found out and hit his son. His son had amnesia. He never did fully regain his memory. He did know who his father was though. One day he saw his father working on the car and had seen him working on the house. So he says, “teach me the secrets of working with your hands”. The father says “no, I already taught you and you did the one thing I told you not to do”.

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