E-mail Morality

this morning, i did see You in front of a man, his hair was black and long, with jacket nad pants, Your hair was golden and short around the neck, there was a leather jacket on You and Your back was to me, Your head was from right, looking at me.from the jacket rised LEATHER to the air and rised above.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/r_albert_mohler_jr/2008/03/character_and_leadership/all_comments.html

sometimes sheep give wool, bunnies run after carrot, horses run after sugar, bears run after honey. dolphins run after fish. but dogs? newspaper? branch of tree? flying saucer? ball? i run after scents, cakes, flowers, oils.

let me tell about the Wendy and the Herdy, if they asked me about GOG and MAGOG i would say,
"MAry God doG" is MAGOG, the compassionate one, GOG is the one soon to marry. but they didnt yet.

John in House of Mary with Seven Sleepers and a Dog, Shepherd is with Sheep Herd and a Dog in NAture with Flute. Nature is Mother EArth, House of MAry already, the Hospitality and Love.

memleketi dusunuyorsan, fazla anirmadan ahirina git Basbakan, arkadaslarini da al, arpalik icine karis. yediginiz yetmistir birahaneye yetismeye. ASELSAN indirsin isterseniz sizi? ASELSAN'i biliyorsun degil mi BAsbakan?

I usually post my opinion as anonymous. If I write my real name i will be still anonymous. After all how many names are real?

what is sanity, what is satanity, what is maturity, what is insanity? who did name these words? what kind of a hat did they have on their head?

sometimes i ask for "how" loudly and i have a reply, at least the other foot of the shoes.

Pamela Tailor

to summarize the message below in English,

as Viladimir Putin of Russia preferred "cutting hands" without explaining "ceasing the reasons", authorities fight for boron mineral, Church, computers, philosophy, space labor, alchemy, and all call the other as "satanic".

Antep ve MAras'a soylemek istedigim bir iki kelime var. benim dedelerim Uskuplu ve anne tarafim berber, terzi, asci ve mandiraci. baba tarafimin da dergahi varmis, polis bekci asker memur ehli.

silah alip firlayabilirsiniz de, Sukru Usumezsoy'un dilini, universitesini, yolunu ve cizgisini ogrenmis oldugunuzdan emin olun.

Ermeni Rum Ortodoks Adalar Istanbul hattindan cikartip Imrali, Mudanya, GEmlik, Bursa hattina OSmanli Agacinin Kucugu ile goturuyorsa, bir mesaj koymus demektir.

ses muhendisligi ile kucuk kucuk vurarak yolunu degistirebilirler, dogu anadolunun altini baska bir yerden oyduklari gibi. bir ailede besibireyerdeyi malik yirmi otuz kisi varsa, birseyler yapilabilir, biz buna tekabul edene takbil etmek diyoruz.

seytani denilen Muhammedin Ati, Suleymanin KArisi, Iranin Halisi ve Simyanin TAsi ile bilinen bor madenini, seytani denilen bilgisayar cep telefonu ve uzay calismalari icin istiyorlarsa, ve bunun icin Ahmet peygambere saldiriyorlarsa,

seytani denilen felsefe tasi ile, seytani diyen dini kurumlar savasiyorsa, sakal trasi, ekonomi, sutculuk, timus bezi, astronomi, yemek yapmak, isa meryem azizler, maneviyat, dilbilim, bekcilik, azizler evliyalar, felsefe, ile ele alirsiniz, dogru mu?

seytanlik ne demek, kim ifade etmis, akli basindan gitmislik ve akil sagligi ile iman nedir dil nedir nereden gelir? sorularini da sorarsiniz, yanlis mi?

sormazsaniz kiyamet senaryolarinin gazetelerdeki televizyonlardaki haberleri ile dunyanizin sallaniyorken zaten gun gecirmektesiniz de ortalik kusan kusana, kimin eli kimin cebinde, grup halinde duruyorken anlasilmiyor da yurutulduklerinde belli oluyor. en azindan cikarmak zorunda kaliyorlar dusmemek icin. bu da bize yeter.

http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Türksolu

to Prince Andrew

with AnDrew BearRayMore, meeting Extra Terrestial touching fingers riding a bike rising in the sky like stepping up on the stairs, all were different. Alf was brown then, not red.

my brother was a health surgent in navy. he worked in Murat Reis submarine. at military school the back of the rifle on the shoulder had exploded
and he was half deaf. he was a family man and he resigned to land services

what he had told me was the education of survival to the surface from the bottom in an 18 meters high water tower. for the lungs to be safe in the chest, he told me to bark

we talked about silybum marianum and St John
with Seven Sleepers in Ephesus. Silicon Valley in Seattle is not similar to Izmir. but wherever i use a computer, wherever windows are safe and with the lenses on my eyes, i thank Mary and John

i am for TOEFL here, practising Listening Comprehension also improving reading and writing skills

Oh there "Reality Challenged" and Obfuscating Jihadist,

More facts for your next Islamic group e-mailings:

"The reality of it all is that the "pew sitters" and "bowers" are coming to grips with the flaws in their religions and in ten years the religions of today will be unrecognizable or extinct as the "pretty and ugly wingie flying thingies" like Gabriel and Satan are finally buried in the piles of utter stupidity and superstition."

Hello Meg,

Who is Voltaire? Should we all have to read him?

Is intellectual freedom, merely restricted to
freedom from the restraints of the Church and not from the state?

Did Mr. Rushdie forgot about authoritarian regimes in Burma, Cuba, China, Vietnam etc that also restrict intelletual freedom for over one billion people?

Imagine there's no heaven? From that John Lennon song again?

And why run the Salman Rushdie essay only in Pamela Taylor's and Eboo Patel's threads?

A good weekend to you my friend.

The Salmon Rushdie essay is magnificent. Thanks Meg for running it here.

Dean

Kerusso, Spiderman2?, CanyonS?,

aka Bible Thumper, Fortune Teller and Severely Brainwashed in that Old Time Religion,

Fools are those who have read only the bible. God cannot be proud of such lazy creations!!!!

To reiterate:

What flash of light gave you such brilliance in the field of fortune telling and interpretations of said stupidity???

The reality of it all is that the "pew sitters" and "bowers" are coming to grips with the flaws in their religions and in ten years the religions of today will be unrecognizable or extinct as the "pretty and ugly wingie flying thingies" are finally buried in the piles of utter stupidity.

Pamela;

I hope you can take the time to read the following essay by Salman Rushdie who wrote it several years ago as a letter to the Six-Billionth child, who was about to be born somewhere in the world.

Dear little Six - Billionth Living Person: As one of the newest members of a notoriously inquisitive species, it probably won't be too long before you start asking the two $64,000 questions with which the other 5,999,999,999 of us have been wrestling for some time.
How did we get here? And, now that we are here, how shall we live?
Oddly - as if six billion of us weren't enough to be going on with - it will almost certainly be suggested to you that the answer to the question of origins requires you to believe in the existence of a further, invisible, innefable Being "somewhere up there", an omnipotent creature whom we poor limited creatures are unable even to perceive, much less to understand.

That is, you will be strongly encouraged to imagine a heaven, with at least one god in residence.

This sky god, it's said, made the universe by churning its matter in a giant pot. Or, he danced. Or, he vomited creation out of himself. Or, he simply called it into being, and lo, it Was.

In some of the more interesting creation stories, the singly mighty sky god is subdivided into many lesser forces - junior dieties, avatars, gigantic metamorphic "ancestors" whose adventures create the landscape, or the whimsical, wanton, meddling, cruel pantheons of the great polytheisms, whose wild doings will convince you that the real engine of creation was lust; for infinite power, for too easily broken human bodies, for clouds of glory.

But it's only fair to add that there are also stories which offer the message that the primary creative impulse was, and is, love.

Many of these stories will strike you extremely beautiful, and therefore seductive. Unfortunately, however, you will not be required to make a purely literary response to them. Only the stories of dead religions can be appreciated for their beauty. Living religions require much more of you.

So you will be told that belief in "your" stories, and adherence to the rituals of worship that have grown up around them, must become a vital part of your life in the crowded world. They will be called the heart of your culture, even of your individual identity.

It is possible that they may at some point come to feel inescapable, not in the way that the truth is inescapable, but in the way that a jail is. They may at some point cease to feel like the texts in which human beings have tried to solve a great mystery, and feel, instead, like the pretexts for other properly anointed human beings to order you around. And it's true that human history is full of the public oppression wrought by the charioteers of the gods.

In the opinion of religious people, however, the private comfort that religion brings more than compensates for the evil done in its name.

As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn't get it right. There was no celestial churning, no maker's dance, no vomiting of galaxies, no snake or kangaroo ancestors, no Valhalla, no Olympus, no six-day conjuring trick followed by a day of rest. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

But here's something genuinly odd. The wrongness of the sacred tales hasn't lessened the zeal of the devout in the least. If anything, the sheer out-of-step zaniness of religion leads the religious to insist ever more stridently on the importance of blind faith.

As a result of this faith, by the way, lt has proved impossible, in many parts of the world, to prevent the human race's numbers from swelling alarmingly. Blame the overcrowded planet at least partly on the misguidedness of the races spiritual guides. In your own lifetime, you may witness the arrival of the nine billionth world citizen.

(If too many people are being born as a result, in part, of religious strictures against birth control, then too many people are also dying because religious culture, by refusing to face the facts of human sexuality, also refuses to fight against sexually transmitted diseases.)

There are those who say that the great wars of the new century will once again be wars of religion, jihads and crusades, as they were in the Middle Ages. I don't believe them, or not in the way they mean it. Take a look at the Muslim world, or rather the Islamist world, to use the word coined to describe Islam's present day "political arm". The divisions between its great powers (Afghanistan against Iran against Iraq against Saudi Arabia against Syria against Egypt) are what strike you most forcefully. There's very little resembling a common purpose. Even after the non-Islamic NATO fought a war for the Muslim Kosovan Albanians, the Muslim world was slow in coming forward with much needed humanitarian aid.

The real wars of religion are the wars religions unleash against ordinary citizens within their "sphere of influence." They are wars of the godly against the largely defenceless - American fundamentalists against pro-choice doctors, Iranian mullahs against their country's Jewish minority, Hindu fundamentalists in Bombay against that city's increasingly fearful Muslims.

The victors in that war must not be the closed-minded, marching into battle with, as ever, God on their side. To choose unbelief is to choose mind over dogma, to trust in our humanity instead of all these dangerous divinities. So, how did we get here? Don't look for the answer in story books. Imperfect human knowledge may be a bumpy, pot-holed street, but it's the only road to wisdom worth taking. Virgil, who believed that the apiarist Aristaeus could spontaneously generate new bees from the rotting carcess of a cow, was closer to a truth about origins than all the revered old books.

The ancient wisdoms are modern non-senses.

Live in your own time, use what we know and, as you grow up, perhaps the human race will finally grow up with you and put aside childish things. As the song says, "It's easy if you try."

As for mortality, the second great question - how to live? What is right action, and what wrong?- it comes down to your willingness to think for yourself. Only you can decide if you want to be handed down the law by priests, and accept that good and evil are somehow external to ourselves.

To my mind, religion - even at its most sophisticated - essentially infantalizes our ethical selves by setting infallible moral Arbiters and irredeemably immoral Tempters above us; the eternal parents, good and bad, light and dark, of the supernatural realm.

How, then, are we to make ethical choices without a divine rulebook or judge? Is unbelief just the first step on the long slide into the brain death of cultural relativism, according to which many unbearable things - female circumcision, to name just one - can be excused on culturally specific grounds, and the universality of human rights, too can be ignored?
(This last piece of moral unmaking finds supporters in some of the world's most authoritarian regimes, and also, unnervingly, on the editorial page of the Daily Telegraph,UK.)

Well, no, it isn't, but the reasons for saying so aren't clear-cut. Only hard-line ideology is clear-cut. Freedom, which is the word I use for the secular-ethical position, is inevitably fuzzier. Yes, freedom is that space in which contradiction can reign, it is a never-ending debate. It is not in itself the answer to the question of morals, but the conversation about that question. And it is much more than mere relativism, because it is not merely a never-ending talk show, but a place in which choices are made, values defined and defended.

Intellectual freedom, in European history, has mostly meant freedom from the restraints of the Church and not the state.

This is the battle Voltaire was fighting, and it's also what all six billion of us could do for ourselves, the revolution in which each of us could play our small, six-billionth part; once and for all we could refuse to allow priests, and the fictions on whose behalf they claim to speak, to be the policemen of our liberties and behavior. Once and for all we could put the stories back into the books, put the books back on the shelves, and see the world undogmatized and plain.

Imagine there's no heaven, my dear Six-Billionth, and at once the sky's the limit.

Salman Rushdie.

Extracted from Letters to the Six-Billionth World Citizen, published in English by Uitgeverij Podium, Amsterdam.

Oh there "Reality Challenged" and Obfuscating Jihadist,

We are assuming that you are busy e-mailing all your Muslim friends the list of flaws in Islam. What a great service this would be in your desire for peace amongst all nations.

There is never good enough reason to kidnap, torture and kill an innocent human being regardless of there faith, race, sovereignty and age. Until humanity respects human dignity there will never be peace in the world!!! Compassion is the key to understanding each others suffering.

We are all brothers and sisters for we have one origin. Therefore we should love one another and always seek peace. It must be our primary mission in life. For what example are we giving our children when we give into our anger and self pity?

For me as a Catholic, it would be easy to want revenge for the death of the Archbishop! But I reject such a notion and will pray for the murderers that they will find a merciful heart and repent! I have learned that violence is never the key to liberate your fellow brothers from persecution and suffering. Compassion, forgiveness, friendship and sacrifice for the greater love will set men free from the bonds that enslave them!

You live by the sword and you will die by the sword! I forgive the murders and may the Lord have mercy for they know not what they do.

The Catholic family will mourn the loss of such a loving and courageous soul. Rest in peace Father.

And peace be with you all.

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and somebody knocked Chaldean Catholic Archbishop down. there must be a reason and message attached to it, maybe similar to "if you find better one, kiss my head", but Maritime Business Men know.

God Bless Our Souls to speak and write during our navigation here.

Pamela Tailor, you dont need to use a mobile phone but you may study with it for a while : ) that is why we have a body here on EArth. and then we read, write and talk.

did you like your body? do you have a push-to-talk button or is it with a software, do you know who knocks on your door? Knockin' Ya! Texas Instruments Symbian Way.

His Prayers and Blessings give Us the Courage and Light to be able to Say What are on His Words, His Holiness.

Very close to correct. Tools are tools people are people. Blaming tools for being abused by people is silly. The modernist notion that tools are the problem rather than people is tantamount to claiming in spite of all evidence to the contrary that the sun revolves about the earth.

but You shall ease the gear, the sweet bread, His Holiness, and all shall be free and sane, but You have measures for wisdomless health that squeeze all.

that is why You wear, His Holiness, unless this is for flavour from grain, and juice from grape. sweet bread has milk, juice, honey and also bread, His Holiness. just announce the tool aand all shall have the commonwealth and power that faith dis-sects not.

and You know the other Horses, His Holiness.

i had announced to His Holiness about Ahmet prophet and His Nestorian Teacher, Son of Uncle of His Wife Varaka bin Nevfel, and then around the end of tenth century Horses were infected by the family who tortured Grandsons for 12 generations and Daughter of AHmet prophet,

and governed with their own way that caused crusaders, the suffer of Constantinopolitans, Africans, Europeans and Spaniards, that caused the drop of language and literature and virtues, that caused slavery.

it is with "souffleur" that we have light, while speaking of emails, inspirations, inspirituality and communication.

who does know LEU in CAtholic Romanian, Pope Benedictus His Holiness? they dont know what is a feather, either from a goose or a dove, either in Middle East or in Texas.

it is in DE-ATHE that we have true life but the problem is "you cannot heal the infection in the heel of a horse with grease".

well, Spartans, there is another part for harmony in the chorus and for spyglass universal entertainment. Evan Almighty and the "tanned bearded god".
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/502168/evan_almighty

but this must be transposed. Ubuntu, Hillary, Canada, France, Toronto. Kahuna, Linguist Healer, HAwaii, John McCain is known as Kahuna.

Andreas is known with EyeBrows. Scotland is known with HorseMan Arrow and Tea.
http://www.ascendpress.org/articles/nature/index.html

but this way goes reverse! so it shall take long to have met with this side. so lets take north or south in stead of west or east. or lets go the way we headed. but this time Susan Jacoby shall have to stew her meal. "nothing at all and also it is one at all".

The body of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, Iraq, has been recovered by church officials in Iraq. The archbishop was kidnapped Feb. 29. Archbishop Rahho is pictured at a press conference in Rome Nov. 23. (CNS/Paul Haring)

Chapter 6. By death I shall attain true life.
All the pleasures of the world, and all the kingdoms of this earth, shall profit me nothing. It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth. "For what shall a man be profited, if he gain the whole world, but lose his own soul?" Him I seek, who died for us: Him I desire, who rose again for our sake. This is the gain which is laid up for me. Pardon me, brethren: do not hinder me from living, do not wish to keep me in a state of death; and while I desire to belong to God, do not give me over to the world. Suffer me to obtain pure light: when I have gone thither, I shall indeed be a man of God. Permit me to be an imitator of the passion of my God. If any one has Him within himself, let him consider what I desire, and let him have sympathy with me, as knowing how I am straitened. The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans.

Rest in peace Father.

Pope pained by news that kidnapped Iraqi archbishop was found dead

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI was "deeply pained" by the news that the body of a kidnapped Iraqi archbishop had been found in a grave.

Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, 65, was kidnapped Feb. 29 in an attack that left his driver and two bodyguards dead. The pope had made several public appeals for his release.

Catholic leaders in Iraq said March 13 that they had recovered the archbishop's body after the kidnappers told them where they had buried him.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said Pope Benedict was informed immediately.

"We all had continued to hope and pray for his liberation," Father Lombardi said. "Unfortunately, the most absurd and unjustified violence continues to weigh on the Iraqi people and particularly on the small Christian community, to whom the pope and all of us are particularly close in prayer and in solidarity at this moment of great pain."

Father Lombardi said the Vatican hoped "this tragic event" would lead to a greater commitment by all, particularly the international community, to work for peace in Iraq.

Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni of Baghdad told the Italian Catholic agency SIR that the kidnappers had informed church leaders March 12 "that Archbishop Rahho was very ill," then a few hours later they phoned again to say he had died.

"This morning (March 13) they telephoned to tell us they had buried him," Bishop Warduni said.

The church sent several young men to an area just outside Mosul where the kidnappers had said the grave was located, and the body was recovered.

"We do not yet know if he died of causes tied to his precarious health or if he was killed," Bishop Warduni said, referring to the archbishop's heart condition, for which he needed medication daily. "The kidnappers told us only that he was dead."

Chaldean Bishop Rabban al Qas of Arbil told the agency AsiaNews, "It is a heavy cross for our church ahead of Easter."

Archbishop Rahho was kidnapped after leading the Way of the Cross service at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Mosul. He was in his car with his driver and two bodyguards when the kidnappers attacked. The three people who were traveling with him were killed.

The kidnappers' demands reportedly included a $3 million ransom.

While mediators were in contact with the kidnappers early on, police and military intelligence officers were unable to find them.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki March 4 ordered Iraqi forces to maximize their attempts at releasing the archbishop, but the commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq said at the time that he was not confident the archbishop would be found alive.

Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling said March 5 that Archbishop Rahho "could easily be killed and that would be really unfortunate," reported the British news agency Reuters.

As soon as the news of the archbishop's kidnapping reached the Vatican, Pope Benedict began appealing for prayers for his release and pleading for an end of the violence in Iraq.

So many Iraqis "continue to suffer from blind and absurd violence, which is certainly against God's will," the pope said in his March 9 appeal.

well, spartans! we'll spare the tones for one-tonement, the scottish tam shall be on and We'll Sing a Piece from Sinatra PS Leon Wards Cow and Hen

the lame of the legs and the arm of MAgeddo
man and woman shall be healed.

this is Christ and MAry, home and in All of Humanity. this is health and Earth is Hospitality.

and the broken leg and arm shall have been healed and the clay to keep it hard shall be taken out.

now after the education, the class needs a breath and fresh air. you know there is so much carbondioxide, sweat, sweet for brain, ease for soul etc.

and then global worming and the global warming. ice melts, water level increases, air is hot. what is water, what is worm in the apple? what is air, what is hot? especially within Israelian and French?

when all know, internet shall be turned off around 2011 (the wendy eleventh, resurrection) and electromagnetics may be off in 2012 (when the wendy dwells at home)

and all shall be magnetic. and all shall go on education, maybe summer and graduation. but the WELL of SPARTANS is the case. making love is a little complicated (comply).

Cal Thomas shall laugh much.

what is internet, what is email? what is mobile phone, what is electromagnetics? what is SMS, what is MMS? what is camera, what is MP3? what is EDGE, what is Wireless?

you see?

take this to CAndidate Huckabee please

He didnt accept any paper in front of Bible, He didnt accept any word in front of God's Words.

for this reason He is in our hearts and our tongues in love and peace.

E-MAil was once a substitute for Ishmael. emails are on the newspapers, scientific articles, movies, advertorials, they are MASS emails, mostly SPAM. sometimes to be heard, sometimes to be read. they are to be laughed but basicly we smile at emails while reading.

Assalamu Alaikum
Imam Pamela Taylor

Thank you for your essay.

As for the Nigerian scam, well, it was funny to me a few years ago, until I read about a Nigerian diplomat based in an Eastern European country was murdered in frustration and despair by an Eastern European victim and citizen of the country he was based in for not being able to help in recouping the money the Eastern European lost in one of the Nigerian e-mail money scams.

On the positive side, the Internet and e-mail is an instrument used by Malaysian to expose transgressions by the government in governance, including corruption and ethical/moral lapses by public officials leading to their resignations, and significant losses in Parliamentary and state seats and consequent loss of almost monopolistic power in the country. All for the better for everyone - for pluralism of views and approaches, for checks and balances.

Of course there are poisonous, inciteful, slanderous and plain untruthful blogs as well as e-mails circulated not only just on PCs/laptops, but by handphones/celllphones too, but that is to be expected and to be sifted by people themselves. In the marketplace of information and ideas, I noticed that most people mostly do make and form considered opinions on everything from politics to economics to religion. I have restored faith on this and people.

Thank you and salam

"J"

Beautiful are the fingers that type the good news
C. Shearer (c) March 2008

God asked Job, “Canst thou send lightnings so that they go, and when they arrive, say, Here I am.”?

It only took three thousand years, but we can momentarily take our hand from our mouth and say, “Yes, God, we can.” Don’t forget to firmly clamp your hand back over your mouth after saying as much.

Jesus Christ said that when he returns, some would be out working in the fields, and others would be home sleeping, but he said that everyone would see the Second Coming. Isaiah makes it clear that the world is round, Jesus knew this, after all, he created it. How then do we expect everyone to witness the return real time? If he manifests himself over Jerusalem, then California will be in the eclipse, if he begins his reign over England, then Australia will wonder what’s going on. How will everyone see this happening real time?

Television and the Internet, that’s how. You are currently reading this on a tool for the prophecy completion of the Second Coming.

I have a ministry to Muslims. If I stood in front of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem or on the Moon Rock in Mecca and preached my message, I would be sans head pretty quickly. But using the relative safety of the internet, I have been able to preach at hundreds of Muslims with a very offensive message, and in this respect the internet has been a wonderful tool. See http://trustobey.blogspot.com/2007/07/gospel-according-to-mohammed.html

All things are good if used lawfully. This is true even for the Bible. The Bible can be used maliciously and for bad just as easily as the internet, consider the ministries of Benny Hinn, Joel Osteen, and Jim Jones. Each is deadly in its own rite, some only to spiritual death, others to bodily and soul death, truly these men are murderers of souls.

Paul tells Timothy, “Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent.”

Paul laid out six of the 10 Commandments explicitly, the other four are in there, although not quite so explicitly. I won’t judge you, but I do ask you to judge yourself. Have you ever told a lie? Does that make you a liar? Do you believe the Bible when it says that all liars will have their place in the Lake of Fire? Have you ever used God’s name in vain? This is called blasphemy, and God will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain. Have you ever killed anyone? Did you know that Jesus said that if you just hate someone, you will be judged as a murderer at heart?

The internet is lawful, if used for good. It is good for expanding your knowledge, for keeping in touch with long lost friends, for a lot of good things. But it can also be used very unlawfully. Children are propositioned for and exposed to all sorts of evilness every day, and you’ve heard it said of old, thou shalt not commit adultery, but Jesus said at the Sermon on the Mount, “Whosoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery already with her in their heart.” Have you ever done that? If so, you will be judged as an adulterer at heart. I won’t even ask if you’ve taken it farther, to rape or fornication at heart.

I can’t judge you, I don’t have that authority, but you have an appointment once to die, and then THE judgment, by Jesus Christ as your judge. How will you look? God knows the thoughts and intents of your heart, deeds done in darkness will be brought to the light, and you will give an account for every idle word.

We have all gone aside, turned to our own lusts, and all of us have transgressed an infinitely holy God, and thus will face the infinite punishment of Hell. But it is not God’s will that you should perish, but that you should turn from your sin and turn towards him. He has made a way for your to be forgiven, 2000 years before the Internet and invitro fertilization were invented, Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, God manifested himself in the flesh to be subjected to this world which we have broken, he was tempted just as we are tempted, but he didn’t succumb, and he gave himself up to be hung on the cross in your stead, charged and scourged on the claim of being God. What he did not steal, he came to repay, and he paid your fine in his own life’s blood. But because he is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living, on the third day he defeated death and rose from the grave to live forevermore.

Once you have repented of your sin (turned from iniquity to God), and placed your trust in him to save you, you will be forgiven, born into the family of God, where you will inherit eternal life, and though your body will pass away, your spirit will never perish.

Today is the day of salvation, the Bible says faith comes by hearing, and hearing the word of Christ. Today you have heard him call, don’t put this off, be reconciled to God, and then thank God that we can send lightnings, so that they go, and when they arrive, say, “Repent and believe, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”