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Date Posted: 11:37:41 04/16/11 Sat
Author: George
Subject: Re: Supreme irony and arrogance
In reply to: Lois 's message, "Re: Supreme irony and arrogance" on 11:02:51 04/16/11 Sat

>> >>href="http://www.cofchrist.org/presidency/sermons/0410
>1
>>1Veazey.asp">http://www.cofchrist.org/presidency/sermo
>n
>>s/041011Veazey.asp
>>The Mission Matters Most!
>>BY STEPHEN M. VEAZEY, president of the church
>>April 10, 2011
>>
>>"The challenge in answering this question is the
>>all-too-human tendency to mold Jesus and his mission
>>into our national, cultural, political, and
>>theological agendas, rather than allowing him to
>>deepen and transform our vision!"
>>------
>>
>>I wonder if Steve Veazey even remotely understands the
>>irony.
>>
>>Lois
>
>
> >href="http://www.cofchrist.org/presidency/sermons/04101
>1Veazey.asp">http://www.cofchrist.org/presidency/sermon
>s/041011Veazey.asp
>
>Steve Veazey has made a grave and arrogant mistake. He
>says,
>
>"Also, compare the full text of Isaiah 61 and Luke
>4:18�19. According to Luke, Jesus left out the phrase
>�and the day of vengeance of our God.� Jesus was
>showing how to responsibly interpret scripture through
>his intimate knowledge of God�s loving heart and
>intent."
>
>Isaiah 61
>
>1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the
>Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the
>meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to
>proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of
>the prison to them that are bound;
>2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and
>the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all
>that mourn;
>
>Luke 4
>
>18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath
>anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath
>sent me to heal the broken- hearted, to preach
>deliverance to the captives, and the recovering of
>sight to the blind; to set at liberty them that are
>bruised;
>19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
>------
>
>The reason Jesus left that out is not because "he was
>responsibly interpreting scripture", like the
>c-not-of-c is constantly proclaiming by denying the
>existence of sin, or Satan, or any such thing. Jesus
>was letting us know that this prophesy is not all
>fulfilled at once. The first part of the prophesy was
>fulfilled with Christ's coming to earth to dwell with
>us, die on the cross, and be resurrected. The part he
>left out, and the day of vengeance of our God;
>is still yet to be fulfilled. Steve Veazey et al. need
>to read Revelation and the rest of the scriptures and
>stop picking out just the things they like to hear.
>That is referred to as itchy ears.
>
>Lois
>

Lois, because the Spaniards pretty much destroyed Aztec culture, and what of the Mayan they found, no one knew how to read Mayan for a long time. A Catholic priest had the delusion that he had figured out the Mayan alphabet and wrote down something like the "Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar" that Joseph Smith, Jr. worked out on his own.

In the late 1800's, Churchward got hold of Bishop Landa's "alphabet," and "translated" the codex Troyano. He "translated" the story of a great upheaval and a continent sinking into the Sea. Since the letters M and U (according the Landa alphabet,) appeared in the text, he called this continent "Mu."

Now that Mayan has actually been deciphered, we know that the Codex Toyano is actually an astronomical/astrological treatise that has nothing to do with geology, earthquakes, or sunken continents.

The interpretation of the scriptures that Steve Veazey and those like him get when they read them is based upon the interpretation system that they have bought into. Their system is basically a filter that filters out anything in the scriptures that demands personal responsibility, duty to God and fellow man, true repentance (rather than the "sorrowing of the damned,") or a day of reckoning.

I don't know who Steve Veazey's "Bishop Landa" is, but this person is probably someone like Shelby Spong, or Marcus Borg. However, there is no doubt that the stuff Mr. Veazey spews is pure Churchward, as far as accuracy goes.

But do not doubt that Mr. Veazey has read the entire scriptures. The Devil knows them backwards and forwards, too -- probably better than you do, Lois. That is, he knows the "letter" of the scriptures. The interpretation is what he likes to tamper with, as witnessed by the quote you posted. If anyone doubts that the Devil has a strong hold on our education system in the U.S., just look at the number of PhD's who know English vocabulary and grammar perfectly, but are completely unable to interpret what they read when it doesn't say what they think it ought to.

George

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