23 A long time afterward, when the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years, 2 Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now old and well advanced in years. 3 And you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you. 4 Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west. 5 The Lord your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, just as the Lord your God promised you. 6 Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left, 7 that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them, 8 but you shall cling to the Lord your God just as you have done to this day. 9 For the Lord has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day. 10 One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God who fights for you, just as he promised you. 11 Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God. 12 For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, 13 know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.
14 “And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things[a] that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed. 15 But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the Lord your God has given you, 16 if you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.”
— Joshua 23:1-16, English Standard Version
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and the Jews could follow neither the word of Joshua nor God and so God drove the Jews from the good land which He had given unto them.
Yeah, and then the pharisees came back as wolves and thieves and stole back the land in direct opposition to the word of god.
“Jews” became the seeds of Christianity. Their savior, our savior, came and he embraced them, and the true jews followed his word until the liars and thieves rejected and murdered him. Israel belongs to them, the true Jewish seed of Christianity, not the wolves in sheep’s clothing who have stolen the name of Judaism and cling to the demonic occult Kaballah instead of the bible.
WE are the descendants of Joshua and David, not them.
There’s a reason they cling to the number 6 million. They believe that when the sixes come together they will finally have the chance to defeat god for having the temerity to violate the self-serving rules they have saddled him with. I wonder who gave them that idea? That twisting the words of God at every turn will somehow grant them victory over him?
For the longest time I have argued that Christians are not Christian because they almost universally put their faith in the black Constantine heresy called the ‘trinity’ that they use as an excuse to worship Christ as God, despite the fact that he specifically commanded us NOT to worship him, and the fact that the first commandment specifically prohibits it. Christ is my savior, not my god.
I have looked at the various religions that refuse to abide the trinitarian abomination, though, and if anything they are even MORE kooky and non-biblical than papism and it’s various protestant offshoots.
Mormons… don’t get me started. They are the presursors to scientology, and while as indidivuals they tend to be some of the nicest people you will ever meet, in bulk they subscribe to a leftist worldly order spouted right from the demonic inspiration of Joe Smith and his murderer Young. Not Christian.
Jehovah’s witnesses seemed to have potential, but I discovered that they ignored 90% of the bible in order to push a single statement ‘turn the other cheek’, into an entire religious worldview. Not Christian.
Even the Pennsylvania Deutsche and Amish that hide behind America’s jewish war machine while patting themselves on the back and dodging their responsibility ignore the true bible while ranting about how morally and socially superior their situational ethics make them.
The Story of Joshua alone pretty much invalidates their entire religious worldview, straight from the bible. Because, I guess, some people cannot figure out the difference between ‘murder’ and ‘justified killing’, just like they cannot understand what “Worship no others before me” means.
DB, you are claiming the Christians are deviant and not Yahweh followers because they equate Christ with Yahweh?
The concept of Yahweh represented in at least two parts pre-dates Jesus and his apostles, it is baked into the Tanak centuries before: https://youtu.be/W6KZIgx0OgE
Yep, still not seeing any sort of evidence that contradict’s Jesus statement.
Matthew 24:36
No one knows about that day or hour, not even the Son, but the Father only. Here Jesus makes a distinction between what he knows and what the Father knows.
Matthew 26:39
My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me, yet not as I will, but as Thou will.
Jesus’ will is likewise autonomous from God’s Will. Jesus is seeking acquiescence to God’s will.
John 5:26
For as the Father has life in Himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.
Jesus received his life from God. God received his life from no one. He is eternally self-existent.
John 5:30
By myself, I can do nothing: I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who has sent me.
Jesus says, “by myself, I can do nothing.” This indicates that Jesus is relying upon his own relationship with God. He is not trying to “please myself” but rather is seeking to “please the one who sent me.”
John 5:19
The Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees the Father doing, because whatever the Father does, the Son does also.
Jesus declares that he is following a pattern laid down by God. He is expressing obedience to God.
Mark 10:18
Why do you call me good? No one is good, except God alone.
Here Jesus emphatically makes a distinction between himself and God.
John 14:28
The Father is greater than I.
This is another strong statement that makes a distinction between Jesus and God.
Matthew 6:9
Our Father, which art in Heaven.
He didn’t pray, Our Father, which art standing right here!”
Matthew 27:46
My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Inconceivable if he is God the Creator.
John 17:21-23
. . .that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. . ..that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me.
In this prayer Jesus defines the term “to be one.” It is clearly accomplished through the relationship of two autonomous beings. Christian believers are to model their relationship (to become one) after the relationship of God and Christ (as God and Christ are one). Notice that “to be one” does not mean to be “one and the same.”
1 Corinthians 15:27-28
For he “has put everything under his feet.” Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.
Paul declares that God put everything under Christ, except God himself. Instead God rules all things through Christ. (remember: “through him all things were made.”)
Hebrews 1:3
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being.
Jesus is the exact representation of his being. I send my representative to Congress. He is not me, myself. He is my representative.
Hebrews 4:15 (compared with James 1:13)
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet without sin.
Jesus has been tempted in every way, just as we are, yet he never sinned. See
James 1:13: When tempted, no one should say, God is tempting me. For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt.
Jesus was tempted in every way, but God cannot be tempted. This is why Jesus said, “don’t call me good, none are good, only God.”
Hebrews 5:7-9
During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him
Yeah, That’s one of the reasons why Jesus IS our savior. Because he as not ‘born perfect’ or ‘born as god’, he BECAME perfect. and he paid the price for the becoming at every single stage, and the bible clearly stated that a ton of times.
And I am not going to argue about some wobbly point in the old testament that literally contradicts itself because some professional con artist with a degree in coughing up rationalizations argues about it.
The entire concept of ‘a trinity’ with Jesus as a member was dreamt up as a way to stop the feuding between different sects of Christianity by Constantine. It as is inarguably fictional as Jewish Clay Golems and Catholic ‘saints’. Christ will bring back the true church, someday, but for right now, Organized religion has been too far corrupted by Satan to trust on ANYTHING. One has only to look at the greed that twists through the Mormons and the pedophilia and sodomy that wraps around protestants and the papacy, the clearest symptoms of which are wokeism.
Remember, if you cannot identify the product, the product is you.