Joshuah's House

“The Fear of the Lord”, anyone ?

talitha — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:52:43 +0000

When modern day Christians discover something in the Scriptures that they like, or “feel led to do”, they often turn around and tell all the world how happy, thankful, amazed they are at how the Lord is working in their lives. Where has the Fear of the Lord gone, I wonder… When King Josiah, who “did what [...]

Defining “Love”

talitha — Sat, 29 May 2010 02:41:44 +0000

Here is how Jesus defines “love”: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” (Joh 14:15) There. No need for any lengthy explanations. And if you are unsure about the “commandments” part, try Exo 20 or Deu 5 for clarification.

Christian preacher arrested for saying homosexuality is a sin

joshuah — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:15:13 +0000

Homosexuality is not just a sin, it is an absolute abomination. Dale McAlpine was charged with causing “harassment, alarm or distress” after a homosexual police community support officer (PCSO) overheard him reciting a number of “sins” referred to in the Bible, including blasphemy, drunkenness and same sex relationships. The 42-year-old Baptist, who has preached Christianity in Workington, [...]

Coherence

talitha — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:10:54 +0000

There is only one completely coherent world view – the Scriptural one. Only if you rely fully on Yahweh’s revealed word in everything, in all areas of life, everything will make perfect sense and fall into place. If you deny Yahweh’s sovereignty in even only one little aspect of your life, you will be a hypocrite [...]

Law !

talitha — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:08:46 +0000

Man can never be without law, and he can never sever his ties with the Creator completely. Either he follows Yahweh’s Law Word or he puts himself up as a god and follows his own law – we call this humanism -, but there is no freedom from a law of one form or another. Man [...]

The First and Second Adam

talitha — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:06:12 +0000

There were no pre-Adamic peoples, and yet, Adam was not of the same species as the rest of mankind. Only that “rest” of mankind was created AFTER Adam: Read Gen 1 and 2 as someone who reads it for the first time, and pay attention, and you will find that Adam was created before the [...]

Modern Pharisees

talitha — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:03:22 +0000

It is Pharisee-ism if unmarried women cover their head when they talk about God, or on special “worship” occasions, and claim to follow 1Cor 11 doing so. At best, they are doing it to feel better about themselves, at worst, because they want to show off their holiness. The authority spoken off in 1Cor 11 that [...]

Barrenness is a Curse

talitha — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:55:25 +0000

The curse of barrenness comes in many forms. One form is to be unmarried and hence childless at the age of 18, 20, 25. So many daughters of professing Christians are stuck at home, still in training to be home keepers and mothers at an age when they should be running their own kitchen and nursery [...]

Defining the Terms: What is Christianity?

joshuah — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:46:48 +0000

The nutshell version is that modern ‘christianity’ is basic secular humanism with a thin, sugary sweet coating of ‘god’ on top. Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it, whilst I ponder some more…

Poor Old Maids

joshuah — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:44:06 +0000

Quotes

talitha — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:57:38 +0000

Christians have no problems quoting pithy sayings from all kinds of people, from Oscar Wilde (homosexual hedonist) to Mahatma Gandhi (Hindu), from Ralph Waldo Emerson (Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist) to Albert Einstein (Jew), to Nelson Mandela (Communist) … What’s the problem with such things, you may want to ask. Well, the problem is simple: These people [...]

On Choice

talitha — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:17:06 +0000

Do we have a choice ? I have been stewing over the whole question of how much choice we have in life for quite a while, probably because I was uncomfortable at first with what I found. What I find Scripture telling us over and over again is that we don’t have a choice, basically. If Yahweh [...]

Snippets of Truth

joshuah — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:19:06 +0000

We have been looking for a place where we could put all those snippets that we are discussing during the day, things that are either not worth a long article on our main site, or that no one has the time to write a long article about at this moment, but that need to be [...]

Vatican attacked over cardinal’s claim of homosexuality and paedophilia link

joshuah — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:56:08 +0000

Gay rights groups have condemned the Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, for claiming that the Catholic church’s sexual abuse crisis was linked to homosexuality and paedophilia and not celibacy among priests. Bertone, who is considered Pope Benedict’s number two, sparked the controversy on a visit to Chile when he suggested gay sexuality was to [...]

Vatican secrecy ‘let German school abusers go unpunished’

joshuah — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:12:43 +0000

Germany has blamed a “wall of silence” created by the Vatican for hampering investigations into decades of abuse of schoolchildren by Catholic clergy. Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, the Justice Minister, said that Vatican secrecy rules, including a 2001 directive requiring even the most serious cases to be investigated first by Church officials, were complicating efforts to shed light [...]

Vatican hit by gay sex scandal

joshuah — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:05:47 +0000

While it may be true that the Catholic Church doesn’t outright condemn homosexuality, the Holy Scriptures most certainly do, as an ‘abomination.’ The Vatican was today rocked by a sex scandal reaching into Pope Benedict’s household after a chorister was sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting. Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His [...]

Muslim attacks on Nigerian Christian towns kills more than 200

joshuah — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:24:04 +0000

Know thine enemy… The death toll from weekend violence in central Nigeria climbed to more than 200 Monday after members of a machete-wielding Muslim group attacked mostly Christian villages, officials said. More than 200 were dead and 32 injured, according to Choji Gyang, a religious affairs adviser to the head of Plateau state, who said bodies were [...]

Muslim woman refuses body scan at airport

joshuah — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:14:22 +0000

A Muslim woman was barred from boarding a flight after she refused to undergo a full body scan for religious reasons. The passenger was passing through security at Manchester Airport when she was selected at random for a full-body scanner. She was warned that she would be stopped from boarding the plane but she decided to forfeit [...]

Elton John claims Jesus was gay

joshuah — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:57:56 +0000

What else would you expect from a God-Cursed sodomite? A classic example of people making ‘god’ in their own image. Elton John’s annual Oscar viewing party to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation is a little more than a week away, and his interview with Parade magazine is certain to help put a spotlight on the [...]

Elton John claims Jesus was gay

joshuah — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:57:17 +0000