In Veritas

Follower of Jesus, first and forever. I support American goodness, for Americans and for good people of the world. Married, with teens! 😱 Love God, Love People

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

This is my testimony. I've given it before, but I'm pinning it here so people can understand who they're getting with me. Hint: He's a permanent resident!

I gave up on self-help on my birthday last year. Formally. In a short speech to my family. Then I redoubled my efforts to seek Him, while pretty much abandoning any attempt to live uprightly. I was still an alcoholic. Still smoked. Still depressed and a mess, while my life seemed to fly by in a dull and dreary haze.

But I continued to seek Him anyway. Learn about His goodness. I was already a Christian. I'd been saved at the age of 8 and attended church at most points of my life, aside from a couple short breaks in my younger years. I prayed. I read the Bible. I even read books about Jesus. I listened to sermons on Youtube. I was looking for the secret, the secret that I was missing. I knew that there had to be power here somewhere. That it wasn't just a theology or philosophy... at least I had that hope. And I wasn't going to give up on Jesus without really giving it my best shot to find Him.

When the dam broke, it broke quietly. I was listening to yet another book on Jesus when the realization dawned on me how GOOD He is, and how He did care for me. I realized that I'd never actually surrendered my life to Him. Never had the guts, didn't think I could hold up my end of a bargain like that anyway. And what if He asked me to do something I couldn't do? Something like Abraham with Isaac on that altar... I just couldn't fully trust that kind of lion's leap.

But when this dam broke, I suddenly realized that He loves me better than I love myself (which honestly wasn't a lot at that point), His plans for me are bound to be better than anything I could dream up. So, in a moment of passion, I surrendered all of me to Him. Asked Him to make of me whatever He could, broken and flawed as I was.

And He came. One by one he rifled through the things that weighed my heart down like a stone. Healed those unhealable wounds, and settled my heart about the things which had happened and I'd been unable to face. I cried for four hours, more or less straight. My face was a mess. My eyes actually hurt from all those tears.

I felt a little bad for the nice Korean family sitting around me on that international flight. A big white guy with tears streaming down his face for hours . . . might have been disturbing.

When I got home, the next night, I prayed before sleep and I had a visitor. Jesus? Holy Spirit? I had a conversation with them back and forth for about an hour and a half. It was amazing.

I was immediately cured of my decades-long addiction to alcohol. I realized that when I noticed a total lack of any urge to drink after days. I put it down forever, and haven't had any since. I don't even have a desire for that. What I have a desire for are the things of God. I get up early to pray and read my Bible. I post on X about Jesus. I listen to sermons by my favorite pastors. And that's all in addition to church and a men's group.

Jesus has become my passion. He's my life. He's my reason for joy and peace. And, I swear this is true . . . my life slowed down! Before this, it was going by so fast. Now, the days crawl by, and that suits me just fine! I'm loving this new life in Christ.

SO what happened to me on that flight? It took me a while to figure that out. At first I thought maybe I wasn't really saved before . . . for 40 years. But that seemed pretty harsh, and didn't line up with my experiences. So, I dug deeper and found some people with testimonies of non-traditional receivings of the Holy Spirit. Testimony after testimony lined up with my experience.
Holy Spirit has totally changed my life! And He wants to do more... I hear the sound of an abundance of rain!
The power wants out!

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

@sabulous1707 ““How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?””
Luke 1:34 NIV

Seems pretty clear.
I don’t see the confusion.
🤷🏻‍♂️

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

@Uz_0_85 @Jondeli75 @RealShahriqKhan They were doing what they were told to do by Moses who was told this by God. Why did God tell him to do this?
Hmm? Why?

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

Passover is named for the angel of death PASSING OVER the houses with blood on their doorposts.
You guys are just like Mormons, reading from a corrupted book that makes a lame attempt to review the Bible “book report style.” And when it’s blatantly wrong, a bit of hand waving …. “These are not the droids you are looking for.”

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

@MeghanEMurphy @Only_Sikk The maiden becomes the mother, and eventually, the mother becomes the crone.
Crones aren’t usually into sex.
It’s a duty that they’d rather just avoid.
For one thing, lack of normal estrogen makes the vaginal walls thin and dry, making sex feel bad instead of good.

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

That Covid jab was pure evil.
I can’t tell you how utterly repulsed I was by it, at a deep level in my spirit. I literally felt like the world was conspiring to kill me and my family with that “vaccine.” I told my boss that I would fight with every available method if they decided to mandate it, and that many other employees felt the same way. I’m still employed. They blinked.

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

@MikeTheLevel @Be_Like_JChrist Try out 2 Peter 3:15-16 on them.
It’s utterly perfect.

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

@SternShark @Brian_SCV @AngelaBelcamino There it is:
The old fascist slogan.
“If you don’t want to conform to our values, then get out!”
Nicely done.

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

The Bible all says this.

“Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.”
2 Peter 3:15-16 NIV

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

@MattJSchilling @quickened2him 💯 agree
It’s what Paul spoke of to Timothy

“having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.”
2 Timothy 3:5

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

People believe what they wish to believe. Especially when that is a lie.
It’s uncomfortable to believe that God is still working in the Earth and through His people. That the supernatural is actually commonplace, and miracles are also quite common. Jesus promises in many places that this will be so, but cessationists don’t want to believe Him, so they find scriptures to contort into what they want them to mean.

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

@MattJSchilling @quickened2him Your theory does explain the origin of Roman Catholic doctrines!

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@CatholicDrip___ @Awurabena2 I thought it was her immaculate birth? 😉

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

@andersenske @EliAfriatISR There are over 5000 manuscripts of the New Testament. Hundreds of original texts. There is far, far, FAR less evidence for the existence of Julius Caesar than Jesus. And Josephus? The best evidence that his work is legitimate is how it lines up with the New Testament.

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

@andersenske @EliAfriatISR By that criteria, nobody can prove the historical existence of Josephus.
And Josephus wrote about Yeshua of Nazareth.

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

@AndrewZywiecMD @MustangSally_12 Romans 1 lays it out cold. Homosexuality is a curse levied upon those who indulge idolatry and hate the Truth.
It’s nothing to be proud of, any more than genital warts would be.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

My jaw literally dropped listening to this

Pastor Che Ahn is the pastor who was threaten with arrest and a $4.5 million dollar fine by Gavin Newsom for opening his church during Covid

He was told if he fights in jail DEMOCRATS WOULD ARREST HIS CHURCH MEMBERS

“The Marxist playbook is to bankrupt you if you disobey and put you in prison. They were going to put me in prison. But what was really, really scary to see how how egregious and totalitarian they were, they said, when you're in jail and if you continue to meet, then we're going to arrest your church members. This is in the United States of America”

Democrats must never gain power again

In 2020, Ahn and his church defied Governor Gavin Newsom’s restrictions on indoor worship

I confirmed officials threatened criminal charges, up to 1 year in jail for Ahn, daily fines and arrests of attendees of his church

He was only saved by the Supreme Court

The church sued, arguing the rules were unconstitutional, claiming discriminatory against religion. The case went to the US Supreme Court which issued rulings favoring religious freedoms

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

BREAKING: NIH ebola expert ARRESTED by the FBI for smuggling deadly pathogens into America from the Congo

Vincent Munster was BUSTED at an airport with 113 vials containing monkeypox, chickenpox, and human DNA.

93 of the vials haven't even been tested yet......

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

“Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.”
2 Peter 3:15-16

[In Veritas @PartisanOracle]

@tylermcscifi @Alma56_47 @JasontheLayman Of my lies? Which were lies? The only one you could even quibble about was number 5, and you’re going on a technicality. You guys believe that Jesus was Satan’s brother. That God was a man who sort of achieved godhood.
It isn’t the same kind of “divinity.”

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The parallels are obvious.
1)personal “revelation” causes him to write a whole new “holy book.”
2)it contains many errors, and doesn’t match with the Bible in common narratives between them. He solves this by saying “the Bible is corrupted,” thus destroying it as a valid source for all his cultists.
3)his cult becomes hostile and militaristic towards neighbors.
4)he takes many wives/concubines
5)His text denies the divinity of Christ, as does every cult
6)Leaving it is difficult, because you’ll be leaving your family and all your friends, who will all consider you “fallen.”
7)establishes a “holy city”
8)aggressively proselytizes, especially among people who lack intellect and education.

The list goes on and on and on.