I’ve heard that there are some Christians who can eat anything (heavily processed junk food included) and not be affected by the junk food. This has to do with a passage from 1 Timothy 4:3-4. There would be those who would command the brethren to "abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer."
These particular Christians give thanks for and pray over any food that they are about to eat. And their faith is strong enough to where they trust that the Lord (after they have given thanks and prayed over the meal about to be eaten) has turned all the bad, junky ingredients in the food into healthful, nutritious stuff. There is a passage elsewhere in scripture where it says that the saints will consume poison, and it won’t harm them. Hmmm.
Obama is now president elect. I’ve heard that he may become one of the greatest presidents in American history so far. I heard (on the radio) a prophecy expert–knlowledgeable about Nostradamus–say that Obama can become one of the greats–right up their with Lincoln and John Kennedy. I would hope so. It may be that he will become more enlightened while he occupies the Oval Office.
I heard a female voter who was questioned about which presidential candidate she cast her ballot for. She said that she was in the $250,000 and above category, and that she had cast her vote for Obama. She added that she was thinking about the poor and downtrodden in America and that she was willing to pay higher taxes so that the poor could be given more help. I also heard a report that said that the majority of Americans making $200,000/yr or more gave their votes to Obama.
I would say that for these particular Americans, it would not be socialism in action since they are willing to give more of their money for those who have much less than them. But what about those Americans who did not vote for Obama? One thing I know is that today too much of taxpayers’ money goes into the industrial/military complex that Pres. Eisenhower warned us about.
Next, I would like to discuss the historical evidence for Jesus having been an actual man in Palestine some 2,000 years ago. There are those who continue to say that no proof exists for Jesus having been a real man.
Well, I say that there is evidence. First of all, the documentary proof for the existence for Julius Caesar, as far as I can tell, is less than that for Jesus. Only a few copies of Caesar’s writings (from around his time) have come down to us today. Whereas, many more copies (much more) of all four Gospels (that go back to within a few decades of Jesus’ time) are available to us today. Further more, we have translations of the Old Testament, which has been effectively corroborated by a historic and fantastic event (of 1948): the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls. For the Old Testament also speaks of Jesus–the pre-incarnate era of the Messiah.
Also, evidence for the existence of Pontius Pilate has been found in Europe (specifically Switzerland). A stone or marble slab has been unearthed, which bares the former governor’s name. It is believed that Pilate committed suicide after returning to Europe from his tour of duty in Palestine.
