Indian clients once gave me some fresh curry leaves. Wow! I then purchased a curry plant. They are very hard to find in Texas as they are illegal to ship. Anyway, the curry plant is different than curry powder sold at grocery stores; which, I'm told is actually a blend of spices.
So, far I've only used the leaves in place of parsley and basil. It will make a fantastic soup when added in place of parsley. I love the earthy, organic flavor. The flavor is very different than curry powder.
Just my .02
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11Has anyone got a good recipe for curry, for a curry novice?
by Diogenesister ini really enjoy cooking but one thing i've never mastered is curry.
i've tried a few online recipes but they haven't turned out too well.
there's nothing better than a tried and tested, handed down ( or over!
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Irrationality of in important teaching
by Ireneus injesus used illustration to make things clear.
hence imagine yourself in a situation which reminds you of an important teaching:.
you are in a super market, and you are told: “someone has already paid for whatever you have purchased”[as churches teach through their ransom sacrifice].
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The King James Version conveys the idea more accurately by stating that the Scribes' efforts were in vain. The possession of the accurate "Law of the Lord" (the one they mentally rejected) was also written in vain (at least to them) because they didn't accept it as written.
V. 8) How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
The book of Jeremiah is probably the most negative book in the bible. It utterly condemns the Israeli generation at that time. Judgment was coming unless they repented, which they didn't; and it did..... just as Jeremiah said it would.
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Irrationality of in important teaching
by Ireneus injesus used illustration to make things clear.
hence imagine yourself in a situation which reminds you of an important teaching:.
you are in a super market, and you are told: “someone has already paid for whatever you have purchased”[as churches teach through their ransom sacrifice].
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Spirits are real waton. The occult is a global practice.
Ireneus,
Jeremiah 8:8 is no problem at all. Scribes weren't just secretaries and copyists. .They were also teachers who did exegesis of scripture and in this case, were corruptly interpreting the law... not only with their mouth but also with their pen.... just as you do when you state certain scriptures that you don't like are "weeds".
Furthermore, the very next verse (9) claims that these false teachers HAD THE WORD OF GOD, BUT REJECTED IT.
"they have rejected the word of the Lord" V.9 Obviously, they had to have had the Word of God in order to reject it.
Scripture has been preserved. The Dead Sea scrolls gave us the book of Isaiah, which showed virtually no change in over 1000 years of copying.
Having the Word of God, and speaking & writing accurately about it are not the same things.Preservation of Scripture is not a synonym for exegesis.
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Irrationality of in important teaching
by Ireneus injesus used illustration to make things clear.
hence imagine yourself in a situation which reminds you of an important teaching:.
you are in a super market, and you are told: “someone has already paid for whatever you have purchased”[as churches teach through their ransom sacrifice].
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But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” Hebrews 9:26
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” John 6:51
“…waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” Titus 2:13-14
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. “Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.” John 12:24-27
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” Luke 19:5, 9-10
“For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility between us by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.” Ephesians 2:14-18
The purpose of Jesus sacrifice is abundantly clear. His life for yours....that's the offer on the table. We won't get another.
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Irrationality of in important teaching
by Ireneus injesus used illustration to make things clear.
hence imagine yourself in a situation which reminds you of an important teaching:.
you are in a super market, and you are told: “someone has already paid for whatever you have purchased”[as churches teach through their ransom sacrifice].
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Ireneus,
Jesus himself declared that he came to fulfill the Law, not to dilute or destroy it. (Mathew 5:17) KILLING AN INNOCENT PERSON IN A CRULEST MANNER to atone for the sins of others is in effect fighting sin with greater sin.
Didn't Jesus say, "I lay down my life ....No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again."
He also said: that no man hath greater love than this, that he lay down his life on behalf of his friends.
No sin here that I can see. In fact, this unselfish "giving of ones life so that others can live" is usually one of the highpoints in Hollywood movies because it is an action that is universally recognized as the greatest expression of love that can be performed by humans ..... except when it comes to Jesus of course for heretics. Then it is a sin.
It is only pure reason that the Omniscient God Almighty will not be led into a situation where He will find Himself in utter helplessness that He will need the help of one of His children to come out of a crisis,
God is not the one helpless, he is not the one in a crisis. This is a complete upside down view of God and man. We are the ones that are helpless, not God.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Romans 3:10
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
or to find Himself in a situation that there is no other way than killing one innocent person—that too His own first born—longest loved son in the first place! Bringing the son through a virgin, and finally killing him through a cruelest manner, and making such a KILLING the basis of forgiveness of people’s sins CANNOT BE an idea originated with God, Jesus nor any prophet.
And yet, God makes the very thing you reject exceedingly clear:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. -- John 3: 15-17
Christ Trades Places :
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust - 1 Peter 3: 18
Because fulfillment of such a scheme depends on God’s expectation of consistent behavior of hard-core sinners like Pharisees, which means God should depend on THE CO-OPERATION OF AVOWED SINNERS TO REMOVE SINS!? If it takes a greater sin (killing the innocent son) to remove lesser sins, what does God convey through ransom-teaching—SIN REMOVES SIN?
Now you are calling God a sinner? God is the one who defines sin, not you. What good parent would not hesitate to run into a burning building to save his children? Why is it heroic for humans to do something like this and a sin for God to do it in your opinion? Very hypocritical to reason this way.
In God's infinite wisdom, He ordered the death penalty for sin. But, Christ BECAME SIN for us. Through the act of Substitution a way has been found that is acceptable to both the Law giver and to many free moral agents (people) who receive it.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. - 2 Cor. 5: 21
This is the great exchange that is offered to mankind by God.
If ransom teaching is true, then it only creates more problem than it supposedly solves
It only creates a "problem" for those who are anti-christ.
Jesus says some are “good,” (Mathew 12:35) hence not in need of any sacrifice like ransom sacrifice.
The "good" and "righteous" in the bible are those that put faith in God and actually believe him. This is imputed goodness and imputed righteousness as opposed to inherent righteousness. ALL still gotta have a Savior.
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith - Phil. 3: 9
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Irrationality of in important teaching
by Ireneus injesus used illustration to make things clear.
hence imagine yourself in a situation which reminds you of an important teaching:.
you are in a super market, and you are told: “someone has already paid for whatever you have purchased”[as churches teach through their ransom sacrifice].
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No one has refuted anything. This is the sound doctrine taught by Jesus himself, his apostles, and all born again Christians for the last 2000 years. Good grief!
- And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye [all of you] all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. - Mt. 26:27-28 (KJV)
God spent 1500 years having people celebrate the Passover to get them ready for the arrival of the "Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". Remember that? That was where the blood of the lamb was placed above the door and on the posts. Those under the blood were saved.
- For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us - 1 Cor. 5: 7
I mean I get it that atheists, agnostics and others in other religions do not accept Christs death on their behalf. What boggles my mind though is people who read the scriptures (the SAME ones I do) and come up with the opposite of what is so clearly taught in the scriptures.... like the one cited above. It is just flat out weird, twilight zone sort of stuff.
The only explanation is some sort of supernatural influence. It is just weird stuff I tell you.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus - Romans 8: 1
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ - 2 Cor. 4:3
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Irrationality of in important teaching
by Ireneus injesus used illustration to make things clear.
hence imagine yourself in a situation which reminds you of an important teaching:.
you are in a super market, and you are told: “someone has already paid for whatever you have purchased”[as churches teach through their ransom sacrifice].
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Yet this is what Bible put it with absolute clarity: “Eternity” resides in each one’s physical body. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
You can find many people thinking in above lines:
“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.” (Abraham Lincoln)
“I would love to believe that when I die …. some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.” (Carl Sagan)The soul is eternal, like its creator. It was designed for unending fellowship with God so that they may enjoy each other forever. I wrote this page with JWs in mind on the topic.
Because of its very nature, the soul cannot be annihilated. This is a two edged sword. Imagine being in "outer darkness" separated from everything for eternity. And, this is the best destination described in the scriptures for the lost, other places are far worse. Why? Because God is Pro Choice. No one can ever claim that God didn't give them what they wanted.
The Gates of Hell are all locked from the inside.
God's wants people to believe him so that he can spoil them, pour out his blessing on them and so that they can learn about him forever, since he is the Repository of all that is good, and all knowledge that currently is known or that will ever be known.Unbelief separates a person from God's treasures, now and in eternity. Belief unlocks them all... Salvation being only the first of such treasures.
But WOE to those who refuse the King's Treasures.Hebrews 10:29-31 (KJV)
Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite (disrespectfully) unto the Spirit of grace? ...I will recompense [Give them what they want], saith the Lord.
They will NEVER be able to stop their consciousness. They will have unending consciousness without God - alone and without common grace, that believer and unbeliever alike now enjoy.
Most of the influences in this life (including many of the posters on this forum) are preparing people's minds to hate God so that they may curse him and exist apart from him for eternity.
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. - James (brother of Jesus)
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Irrationality of in important teaching
by Ireneus injesus used illustration to make things clear.
hence imagine yourself in a situation which reminds you of an important teaching:.
you are in a super market, and you are told: “someone has already paid for whatever you have purchased”[as churches teach through their ransom sacrifice].
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Good Morning Ireneus,
What guarantee is there for those things to be true especially in view of the fact Jesus himself foretold truth will be overpowered by interpolators and false teachers who will be operating in “his name”
We know they are true because your can read it for yourself in the Word of God. If anyone teaches a doctrine that is new...alarm bells go off.
If anyone teaches a doctrine of new light....alarm bells go off.
If anyone says you have to defend God's name Jehovah to get saved instead of coming to Christ .... alarm bells go off.
If anyone says you have to belong to their organization in order to get right with God ... alarm bells go off.
Jesus said, "Come to Me, and I will give you rest". We get into trouble when we seek to do business with anyone other than Jesus, however, good reasonable, logical, righteous, or otherwise appealing it may seem. It is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
My "sheep hear my voice" .... "another voice they simply will not follow".
"I am the door" ... if anyone seeks to get in by some other way, he is a thief and a robber" - Jesus
"though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Gal. 1: 8
Everything has been frozen with the passing of the apostles. You can read it for yourself in the bible. Every now and then you can do a search for just about any doctrine and add the phrase "early church fathers" to your google search.
That phrase sounds catholic I know, but it is the phrase the gets you to the early congregation elders and what they understood the apostles to mean. They wrote a LOT of stuff because the heretics of the day were putting forth all kinds of stuff designed to lead people away from the "sufficiency of Christ" Several were students of the apostles themselves.
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Irrationality of in important teaching
by Ireneus injesus used illustration to make things clear.
hence imagine yourself in a situation which reminds you of an important teaching:.
you are in a super market, and you are told: “someone has already paid for whatever you have purchased”[as churches teach through their ransom sacrifice].
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Perry
Hi Iraneus,
The Watchtower has put forth huge elaborate schemes for one sole purpose in my opinion: To make the offer of an exchanged life unavailable to the JW member.
They do this by:
1. Teaching that Jesus died for Adam's loss...not yours.... Even though everyone will be judged individually AFTER they die (Heb. 9:27)
2. A person can atone for their own sin just by dying.
3. You cannot be Justified in this life, that's only for the 144K
4. Jehovah is not your father, only your potential father.
5. Jesus is not your Mediator
The WT 's illogical massive effort to keep people from receiving a "free gift" was one of the major things that got me to thinking: what was it that they were trying so dang hard to hide?
I am glad that I am not longer held prisoner by the idea that I cannot have EVERYTHING the scriptures say that I can have.
The scripture you cite in Duet. is absolutely true. But notice how Romans ch. 6 deals with this for the Christian believer:
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin. [not acquitted like the NWT reads]
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
death hath no more dominion over him.
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The Christian receives a new spirit the moment he trusts Christ as his ONLY savior and Lord... apart from any religion or organization. His old spirit "dies" and he receives an incorruptible spirit as a down payment for when he is totally saved in spirit, soul & body at the resurrection (or rapture whichever comes first).
The works of the "old man" to try and pay for something, however well intentioned are unacceptable, and even deeply offensive to God after Calvary. The life of a Christian is an exchanged life , "Yet not I, but Christ who lives in me". Gal. 2:20
...The ultimate "Prince & the Pauper" scenario.
Hope this helps.
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Without god what is the basis of morality?
by OneEyedJoe ini'm sure most here who've questioned or left behind their belief in god have encountered this question - without god, what basis can there be for morality?
my exwife, when i admitted that i was an atheist, once asked me "if you don't believe in god, what's to stop you from going out and raping and murdering?
" previously, whenever i got this objection, i would tend to turn it around on the other person with a response along the lines of "if fear of god is the only thing that stops you from murdering, that makes me rather nervous to be around you.
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Is God Jehovah/Yahweh ?Jesus for some , of the christian bible moral ?
Hi Smiddy,
Isn't that like saying that the Standard of Morality Isn't Moral? How can that be if he is the standard?
Or maybe this: The oxygen that we breathe isn't really oxygen because we breathe other stuff too.
Or possibly: The sky isn't really blue because there are a lot of other colors mixed in too.
How is such reasoning different that a "No Real Scotsman" fallacious argument. The logic put forth in such reasoning contradicts the premise of God.
You cite a number of good questions, though. There are many others just as rich. These are questions that when researched, dramatically enrich the understanding of God, clear some of the confusion, and helps establish a greater degree of reality.
Are the Genesis accounts borrowed from other cultures?
I highly encourage anyone to research the premises of these "lightning rod" subject titles as well as the facts surrounding such topics in their historical ancient near east (ANE) context.
Researching these topics and others like them helped me to very deeply understand that God was someone that I could personally trust. He has a plan. It is VERY interesting, even if seemingly long and drawn out from our perspective. It can get a little tedious, but will provide much food for thought.