Because I served in Afghanistan,I had live that "be nice ,be courteous,have a plan to kill everyone you meet"
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There are places in America,in fact the rapist is seldom a stranger to the victim.my sister was raped by a family friend and her boyfriend after that incident .so some do act that way .vets fully get my quote.
I like the quote and for a soldier in Afghanistan, that should be the plan. Treachery is everywhere.
Too bad treachery is among us also, sometimes our own family. I think America is in trouble:
9 "In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.
10 "In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are set apart during their impurity.
11 "One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter.
12 "In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me," says the Lord GOD.
13 "Behold, therefore, I beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst.
14 "Can your heart endure, or can your hands remain strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and will do it. (Ezek. 22:9-14 NKJ)
I've met exJWs that were burnt out, couldn't get beyond the propaganda against Classic Christianity. The presence of so many TARES among the Wheat don't help.
It was really hard for me, and I wasn't a baptized JW. I couldn't see "God's people" and was in deep despair. But God answered my cry when I called out to Jesus Christ for salvation, as long as I called out to Jehovah He would not answer:
Here's my story:
Lots of time on ships to read. On one of them I happened upon the Jehovah's Witnesses' book "Evolution or Creation". Convinced by its creationist arguments I decided to read their New World Translation of the Bible. The Word of God had a unique power over me, I was compelled to read it cover to cover and then again. I couldn't put it down.
The time came when I was determined to become a JW. I was convinced they alone were God's people, and everyone else belonged to "Babylon the Great." I hastened to the San Pedro Kingdom Hall to be baptized. But they insisted I answer a question first, to see if I really understood JW beliefs.
"What do you believe about baptism"-the Elder asked. Immediately I paraphrased Romans 6:3-4 "We are buried with Christ, and we are raised with Christ!" That is the wrong answer, unless JWs believe you are one of the "144,000" anointed. They clearly did not believe I was because they insisted I complete discipleship indoctrination.
While at the public library researching I came upon "Apostles of Denial," by Edmond C. Gruss. I was determined to prove his arguments against JW belief wrong. None of his arguments for the Deity of Christ were making sense to me. I blazed my way through his book, until I got where he argued the Holy Spirit must be a "Person" and not an impersonal force of God as JWs believe. He uses personal pronouns "I" "Me" and even commands the disciples to act for "Me". When reading Acts 13:2 is was as if JW doctrines were like a house of cards, the collapse was truly great. I "knew" as the Holy Spirit says "I", Me", He is a "Person":
As they were publicly ministering to Jehovah and fasting, the holy spirit said: "Of all persons set Barnabas and Saul apart for me for the work to which I have them.-Acts 13:2 New World Translation
I was devastated. I felt totally alone, "if the Jehovah's Witnesses are not God's people, who are?" [It didn't occur to me the E. C. Gruss was!!!] I cried out in prayer to Jehovah, "please help me, I beg you! I can't see who your people are!". I was absolutely devastated, went about as if in a stupor. But Jehovah would not answer me.
One day a Baptist Radio minister was urging listeners to call in and confess "Jesus Christ is LORD" and that God "raised Him from the dead" publicly (Mat. 10:32) and you will be saved. "God does not lie," and He promised:
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (Rom. 10:9 KJV)
I rushed to the public phone in the lobby of the Amory Hotel. A few of my fellow sailors sat there socializing, they would overhear every word I said on the phone!" Then a thought appeared: "You don't want to embarrass yourself in front of them! You'll be a laughingstock!" I drove the thought away thinking: "I want Jesus to be my LORD more than life itself!"
The Radio minister asked "do you confess Jesus Christ is LORD!" "Yes, I confess Jesus Christ is LORD!" "Do you believe in your heart God raised Him from the dead?" "Yes, I believe God raised Him from the dead!"
"Then you are saved, for God cannot lie and in Romans 10: 9-11 He says:
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. (Rom. 10:9-11 KJV)
I thanked him profusely and went to my room, stunned. As I was pondering these things I was "baptized in the Holy Spirit!"
God the Holy Spirit fell upon me like a warm wind, filling my soul regenerating it. The washing of regeneration (Tit. 3:5) renewed my spirit (Rom. 8:16), not my flesh body or brain (Rom. 7:18). My soul, the "ghost operating the machine" became a partaker of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4). God breathed into my soul the "breath of lives" and the filling gave rise to a "new creature" (Gen. 2:7; 2 Cor. 5:17), risen from the dead in Christ Jesus my LORD (Rom. 6:4). Over forty years ago this happened, and never has the Spirit left or forsaken me. God is more real to me than anyone or anything existing.
So why reveal my conversion experience? As a Cessationist I can't claim special revelation. I certainly am not a prophet. I study scripture to show myself approved (2 Tim. 2:15). I believe Scripture alone 100% true, is the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
Normally the regeneration experience revealed in scripture is "spiritually discerned" (1 Cor. 2:14-15; 1 John 2:29; 3:7) because it is "beyond the physical senses" in the realm of the "Holy Spirit to the human spirit". So why did God grant I "experientially know" Scripture is speaking of actual events when it reveals the new birth?
I believe God wanted me to testify, without any doubt "scripture is true", that the regeneration by the Holy Spirit is an event that is real in everyone who calls upon the name of the LORD. It is the SAME for EVERY born again believer whether they "felt something supernatural" or not.
Every believer partakes of the divine nature (2Pet. 1:4) at regeneration, when the weak human spirit becomes "a new creature" "living man" born from above in Christ. Because that change occurs "Spirit to spirit" (Rom. 8:16), not in the flesh, the senses of the flesh are unaware of it. Just as we cannot "feel the soul existing in us", we cannot feel what is happening in our spirit apart from our flesh. So nothing is felt physically. If anyone believes a physical experience occurred when they were regenerated, they are putting "the cart before the horse". Their changed heart and mind may have caused the physical organ of the brain to produce the electro-chemicals creating the physical experience, but there is no real connection between the Holy Spirit and that physical sensation (Rom. 7:18). That explains why scripture NEVER identifies a physical experience as being the work of the Holy Spirit. Our physical regeneration must wait for the resurrection (1 Cor. 15:35-56).
CHAP. XI.16—CONCERNING TEACHERS, APOSTLES, AND PROPHETS. Whosoever, therefore, cometh and teacheth you all these things that have been said before, receive him…But he shall not remain except one day; but if there be need, also the next; but if he remain three days, he is a false prophet. 6 And...
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