Thought for Today: Wednesday April 03

Time leaves nothing unchanged! O Adonai- Elohiym-Who-never-changes, stay with me. Guide me according to Your will, amein.

Some irritating yes-or-no questions from a survey by Dr. Ben Carson:

"Do you believe that Religious Liberty is an important cornerstone to American society and must be upheld and protected?"

"Should Americans have the right to decline to provide or offer services that violate or contradict their religious convictions?"

"Should Americans holding to faith-based values, and who wish to conduct their lives according to their faith, be targets for political activists to be dragged through the legal system?"

Thankfully these did not require an answer for the survey to be submitted.

There are plenty of faith-based religious convictions that should be illegal to follow, such as human sacrifice.
Especially in this age we must be specific in our terms: the law of Yahweh must rule, and not be ruled over. This is the only moral basis for judging whether false moral convictions should be merely rebuked ("religious freedom"), or if further intervening is justly necessary (biblical criminal law).

Look back a couple days at what you just did to remember the Messiah. Really take a look at it and question.
https://firstcenturychristiani....ty.net/christian-rit

Take a look at the Torah Portion reading!

One of the primary laws of human life is that you become like what you worship… -N.T. Wright

But anything in the seas or the rivers that does not have fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you. You shall regard them as detestable; you shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.
Leviticus 11:10-11

Don't eat shellfish, cetaceans, sharks, catfish, or cephalopods. God wants us to see them as detestable. He wants us to look at them and say "Eww! No way!"

There are a couple of words translated as "detestable" and "abominable" in the Old Testament. The word used to describe unclean animals that people shouldn't eat means exactly what it seems to mean in this verse: it's disgusting. That's God's opinion, not mine.

https://soilfromstone.blogspot.....com/2021/03/detesta

"He was made the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him"

He 5

Wherefore not afraid were you to speak Hebrew original language Scripture from Numbers 12
"Wherefore not afraid were you to speak against my servant, against Moses?"
מַדּוּעַ לֹא יְרֵאתֶם לְדַבֵּר בְּעַבְדִּי בְמֹשֶׁה