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Beleaguered but secure

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If indeed the enormous perverseness (of your worship) could be broken up by a single demurrer, we should have our objection ready to hand in the declaration that, as we know all those gods of yours to have been instituted by men, all belief in the true Deity is by this very circumstance brought to nought; because, of course, nothing which some time or other had a beginning can rightly seem to be divine. But the fact is, there are many things by which tenderness of conscience is hardened into the callousness of wilful error. Truth is beleaguered with the … Continue reading Beleaguered but secure

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Human error

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Opening lines of Ad Nationes Book II as Tertullians begins a critique of the “gods” Our defence requires that we should at this point discuss with you the character of your gods, O ye heathen, fit objects of our pity, appealing even to your own conscience to determine whether they be truly gods, as you would have it supposed, or falsely, as you are unwilling to have proved. Now this is the material part of human error, owing to the wiles of its author, that it is never free from the ignorance of error, whence your guilt is all the … Continue reading Human error

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Jeremiah 44

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Jeremiah 44! Whoa….when you know your on the wrong highway… Let us trust Jesus over whatever god we find appealing even if it be ourselves! God bless… “And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.” – Paul, just before his conversion to trusting in Jesus above all else including himself from Acts 9:5 Paul seemed to be much more successful of a preacher than Jeremiah but succes is never defined by success but rather obedience to God! Besides their is more … Continue reading Jeremiah 44

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No back door – The Violinaires

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Wow! And Whoa! This song is a must play as you are driving to work with no headache and a clear mind and to be played a little louder than normal and watch yourself get into a groove! This white old man could not help but to move to this one! God bless America… May I suggest going to this bands Spotify page and then listening to their radio link. Wow! Laters… Kingdom Music! More than music! Jesus music! Colossians 3:16ing it! “This world…aint no back doorNo place to runNo place to hideNo place to go” May I just add! … Continue reading No back door – The Violinaires

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Warn them to not fight with God

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In Tertullians tract To Scapula! Count Scapula…Just kidding! “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. [32] Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is … Continue reading Warn them to not fight with God

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Yet still…

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We have no master but God. He is before you, and cannot be hidden from you, but to Him you can do no injury. But those whom you regard as masters are only men, and one day they themselves must die. Yet still this community will be undying, for be assured that just in the time of its seeming overthrow it is built up into greater power. For all who witness the noble patience of its martyrs, as struck with misgivings, are inflamed with desire to examine into the matter in question; and as soon as they come to know … Continue reading Yet still…

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The greater the reward

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It is for freedom from crime so singular, for a probity so great, for righteousness, for purity, for faithfulness, for truth, for the living God, that we are consigned to the flames; for this is a punishment you are not wont to inflict either on the sacrilegious, or on undoubted public enemies, or on the treason-tainted, of whom you have so many. Nay, even now our people are enduring persecution from the governors of Legio and Mauritania; but it is only with the sword, as from the first it was ordained that we should suffer. But the greater our conflicts, … Continue reading The greater the reward

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We are mown down

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The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed. Many of your writers exhort to the courageous bearing of pain and death, as Cicero in the Tusculans, as Seneca in his Chances, as Diogenes, Pyrrhus, Callinicus; and YET THEIR WORDS DO NOT FIND SO MANY DISCIPLES AS Christians do, teachers not by words, but by their deeds. That very obstinacy you rail against is the preceptress. For who that contemplates it, is not excited to inquire what is at the bottom of it? who, after inquiry, does not embrace … Continue reading We are mown down