blackbird

Sounds like propaganda produced by clever Communists to sell their evil system. The Communists in the USSR starved millions of people when they collectivized the farms. Communists don't tell you they killed 100 million people in the USSR and China to enforce Communism. They also don't tell you there were massive shortages of goods and infrastructure because supplies, production, transportation and distribution networks were absent. Just ask anyone who lived through that era and had no connections with the party insiders who had what they wanted at the expense of the masses of common folk. You would be fortunate if you could get a potato or piece of bread.

"What did Jesus mean when He said, “I am the way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6)? In John 13:33, Jesus said, “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.” This prompted Peter to ask where He was going (verse 36). Peter and the others did not understand that Jesus was speaking of His death and ascension to heaven. Jesus’ response was, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.” Peter was still misunderstanding and declared that he would follow Jesus anywhere and even lay down His life if necessary. As Jesus patiently continued to teach His disciples, He began speaking more plainly about heaven, describing the place He was going to prepare for them (John 14:2–3). Then Jesus said, “You know the way to the place where I am going” (verse 4). Speaking for the others, Thomas said they did not know where He was going, so how could they know how to follow Him there? It was in answer to this question that Jesus uttered one of the seven famous “I am” statements.I am – In the Greek language, “I am” is a very intense way of referring to oneself. It would be comparable to saying, “I myself, and only I, am.” Several other times in the Gospels we find Jesus using these words. In Matthew 22:32 Jesus quotes Exodus 3:6, where God uses the same intensive form to say, “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” In John 8:58, Jesus said, “Truly, truly I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.” The Jews clearly understood Jesus to be calling Himself God because they took up stones to stone Him for committing blasphemy in equating Himself with God. In Matthew 28:20, as Jesus gave the Great Commission, He gave it emphasis by saying, “I am with you always, to the end of the age.” When the soldiers came seeking Jesus in the garden the night before His crucifixion, He told them, “I am he,” and His words were so powerful that the soldiers fell to the ground (John 18:4–6). These words reflect the very name of God in Hebrew, Yahweh, which means “to be” or “the self-existing one.” It is the name of power and authority, and Jesus claimed it as His own.The way – Jesus used the definite article to distinguish Himself as “the only way.” A way is a path or route, and the disciples had expressed their confusion about where He was going and how they could follow. As He had told them from the beginning, Jesus was again telling them (and us) “follow me.” There is no other path to heaven, no other way to the Father. Peter reiterated this same truth years later to the rulers in Jerusalem, saying about Jesus, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The exclusive nature of the only path to salvation is expressed in the words “I am the way.”The truth – Again Jesus used the definite article to emphasize Himself as “the only truth.” Psalm 119:142 says, “Your law is the truth.” In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus reminded His listeners of several points of the Law, then said, “But I say unto you . . .” (Matthew 5:22, 28, 32, 34, 39, 44), thereby equating Himself with the Law of God as the authoritative standard of righteousness. In fact, Jesus said that He came to fulfill the Law and the prophets (Matthew 5:17). Jesus, as the incarnate Word of God (John 1:1) is the source of all truth.The life – Jesus had just been telling His disciples about His impending death, and now He was claiming to be the source of all life. In John 10:17–18, Jesus declared that He was going to lay down His life for His sheep, and then take it back again. He spoke of His authority over life and death as being granted to Him by the Father. In John 14:19, He gave the promise that “because I live, you also will live.” The deliverance He was about to provide was not a political or social deliverance (which most of the Jews were seeking), but a true deliverance from a life of bondage to sin and death to a life of freedom in eternity.In these words, Jesus was declaring Himself the great “I Am,” the only path to heaven, the only true measure of righteousness, and the source of both physical and spiritual life. He was staking His claim as the very God of Creation, the Lord who blessed Abraham, and the Holy One who inhabits eternity. He did this so the disciples would be able to face the dark days ahead and carry on the mission of declaring the gospel to the world. Of course, we know from Scripture that they still didn’t understand, and it took several visits from their risen Lord to shake them out of their disbelief. Once they understood the truth of His words, they became changed people, and the world has never been the same.So how do we follow Him today? The same way the disciples did long ago. They heard the words of Jesus and believed them. They took His words and obeyed them. They confessed their sins to Jesus as their Lord and God. They believed that He died to take the punishment of their sins and rose from the dead to give them new life. They followed His example and command to tell others the truth about sin, righteousness, and judgment. When we follow Him in “the way,” we can be assured of following Him all the way to heaven." - gotquestions.org

Jesus Christ is the central message of the Bible. That is what Christianity is all about. Without Christ there is no Christianity. BCSapper had that part correct, the raison d'etre

Canada had Christian/Bible teaching in schools for 150 years. Quebec of course had Catholic run schools and Ontario and the rest of Canada had a mixture of Catholic and Protestant schools. At least there was a degree of Christianity taught in many schools. That is what Canada was built on. Today, Christianity is rejected by schools and replaced with secular humanism, Marxism, and liberalism which is wrecking society. Students are taught sex education in a way that condones pre-marital sex, gender identity change, sexual orientation, and whatever goes in the new progressivism.

Multiculturalism, which is what you are advocating, means Canada has no borders and belongs to the rest of the world. That is a failed policy which is wrecking Canada by changing it from a basically Christian culture to a pagan third world culture. You can have freedom of religion and respect everyone's right to practice their own religion without agreeing with their beliefs. Of course that means nobody should be defacing a mosque or synagogue or insulting or attacking people of other religions. But there is no such thing as a genuine Bible believer agreeing with false religion which is what you are implying with the term "community of faith". The Bible is clear. There is only one God, the God of the Bible, who appeared on earth as Jesus Christ. There are churches who claim to be Christian but reject the Bible as well. Some preach a social gospel yet reject Biblical truths such as the sanctity of life and they support abortion on demand and MAID (the United Church supports MAID). A social gospel is not the true gospel or central message of the Bible.

While it is true divorce is often necessary for various reasons, the consequences of a high number of divorces creates a situation where a large segment of society and children are growing up without a father in the home. This is a tragedy and has tragic consequences in many cases. A father should be providing that leadership and stability that a family and children need. He can't do that if he is not there. The Bible teaches everyone is born with a depraved fallen nature and needs to be born again or converted by faith in Christ. By abolishing Biblical Christianity from the education system and trying to abolish it from society, a country is really destroying it's only hope and is self destructing.

Yes religions in general have been used to commit crimes and mass murder. So has Communism and Socialism which profess to be atheist. But the difference between the Biblical Christianity and the rest of religions is the difference between night and day. Christ taught his followers to "love thy neighbour as thyself". He said his kingdom is not of this world. Biblical Christianity is not to be spread by the sword as some other religions have done or teach. Romanism is not Biblical Christianity. It is a man-made religion and has been responsible for a lot of killing and suffering in history, in for example the Holy Roman Inquisition which lasted for 500 years. Some reports say millions of heretics were tortured and or killed during that period. Anyone could be accused of being a heretic for any reason or no reason. Also the genocide of 700,000 eastern Orthodox believers in Croatia by the Ustashi during WW2, which many people do not know about because the history has been suppressed. The Serbians have not forgotten about that. The Ustachi had many priests who exchanged their cassocks for the Ustachi uniform according to the booklets the Secret History of the Jesuits and the book Smokescreens. Also read the the book online called the Vatican Holocaust. And as you mentioned 1,700 years of anti-Semitism. Hitler and the Nazis were mostly Catholics, although in name only I would say. In any case, not following any kind of Biblical principles. They were killers as much as Communists and people like Stalin. So if you are referring to those kinds of religions I would have to agree with you. The principles taught in Biblical Christianity is what brought the west respect for individual freedom, human rights and democracy in the last two centuries or so. The reason that is true is because the Bible teaches the sanctity of life and respect for the individual. These principle are non-existent in the rest of the world. While today many western nations are falling away from Christian Biblical principles, they still hold a degree of higher principles in the way of respect for human rights and democracy. Many are falling away from their Christian roots such as Canada and have embraced abortion, progressivism, same-sex marriage, and now medical assistance in dying. Many people have been led to incorrectly believe many of these things are civilized and moral. The sanctity of human life and the traditional family is being lost. Do not be surprised if the next thing coming is forced euthanasia or euthanasia of people without their permission. When you have a public health care system that is stressed financially, they may justify anything to save money. These are the result of a nation which has fallen far from Christian Biblical principles and embraced what they call multiculturalism and paganism or secular humanism. They placed human reasoning above God's infallible written revelation.

The Canadian federal government has essentially destroyed Canada as a Christian nation in the past 50 years by bringing in a massive number of immigrants from the third world or non-Christian nations. It was mainly done by the Liberals who cut off immigration from Christian countries and brought most in from non-Christian countries. Many of these people come from pagan nations and do not believe in the Christian God, which is what Canada was built on for 150 years. An article on the website christianrootscanada.org describes how a big shift took place in the latter part of the 20th century. Pierre Trudeau's Charter of Rights really put an end to Christianity in the public school system after it was adopted in 1982. "To make a long story short, Christianity wasn’t eradicated from Ontario’s school system until after the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was adopted in 1982. By 1990, two important court cases had determined that Christian influences within Ontario’s education system violated the Charter of Rights. Thus the Ontario government quickly eliminated those Christian influences. As Choquette notes, “For the first time, nearly 150 years after its founding, the Ontario public school system is required to be religiously neutral in its curriculum and activities” (p. 295). Neutrality in education is impossible, so what this really means is that Christian influences were replaced by secular influences. Although most public schools across Canada today are thoroughly secular, that is a relatively recent development. Choquette writes, “Between 1850 and 1960, the vast majority of schools in Canada, whether public, separate, private, elementary, secondary, or post-secondary, were confessional schools. Given the small numbers of Canadians of religions other than Christian, this meant that schools were usually Christian” (pp. 291-292). This is clear evidence that Canada was a Christian country for most of its history." -christianrootscanada.org Odd that Christianity has been banned from the public school system in Canada, but in Ontario a recent law requires public schools to make accommodation for other religions. "Over the last few years, religious accommodation in Canadian schools has been a subject of much controversy. Parents, schools and residents have argued about the role of religion in our public school system, with each side weighing in strong personal and legal opinions. Earlier this year, The Peel District School Board allowed Muslim students to offer Friday prayers in the school, with some restrictions. Muslim students see these restrictions as a breach of their fundamental freedom of religion, while others see the accommodation as a “genuflection to one community and a slap in the face of all other Canadians ”. Clearly, these are some serious and strong words and a reflection of the societal rift that the accommodation of religious practices in the public school system is causing." Keep religion out of Canadian schools – Politics and All…Eh! (wordpress.com) Of course this is the call from the liberal and left who are working to turn Canada into a heathen culture.

The Canadian federal government has essentially destroyed Canada as a Christian nation in the past 50 years by bringing in a massive number of immigrants from the third world or non-Christian nations. It was mainly done by the Liberals who cut off immigration from Christian countries and brought most in from non-Christian countries. Many of these people come from pagan nations and do not believe in the Christian God, which is what Canada was built on for 150 years. An article on the website christianrootscanada.org describes how a big shift took place in the latter part of the 20th century. Pierre Trudeau's Charter of Rights really put an end to Christianity in the public school system after it was adopted in 1982.

No, the main thing that distinguishes a man from an animal is man is created in the image of God according to Genesis in the Bible. He was also given the right to private property by God. This makes him as different from animals as night is from day. Communism and Socialism deny the right to private property. What they are really doing is denying God-given rights. The rights of the individual is being reduced in favour of the common good, which is Marxism or Communism. The word Communism is a derivative of the word common or communal.

Are you serious? Biden and the word hope don't go together.

Perhaps read Genesis chapter two and three in the King James Bible and learn about the fundamental doctrine of the Fall of man. God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the Garden of Eden, a paradise, and told them they could eat of any fruit in the garden except the one tree, which was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Then the serpent came along (Satan) and tempted Eve by questioning what God had said. Eve was seduced into eating the forbidden fruit and gave some to Adam and he ate it also. The book “The Westminster Confession of Faith - For Study Classes” by G.I. Williamson explains this subject. “By accepting, without question, what God said about that tree, Adam could gain true understanding of its meaning and purpose. But as soon as Adam sought to know (make interpretation) apart from subjection to God’s word (Gen. 3:6), he was lost, and wholly in error. And as soon as the authority of God’s word was rejected (3:4) and the authority of man’s own reason enthroned (3:5-6), it became necessary for Adam to deny that the “fall” had happened as God said. The diabolical condition of man’s heart we call “total depravity”. We say that as a consequence of what Adam (an actual man, the first man) did (at a real place and an actual time), all men are, by nature, “wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of body and soul.” By this rebellion against God, “the whole human nature became ethically perverted so as to become wholly contrary to God. Thus every part of that which constitutes man’s created nature was polluted and corrupted.” “We believe that part of the difficulty that is experienced with this teaching is due to the failure to recognize the corporate aspect of human existence. The Bible does not regard the human race as so many isolated individuals, each separately created by God (as were the angels), but as an organic unit created in one man -- and then, one pair -- having the power to produce offspring in their own likeness and image. Adam and Eve were the “root of all mankind”. This is how the depraved nature became the nature of all mankind. To summarize and show the love of God, God sent his only begotten Son, into the world, to redeem lost and fallen man, i.e., those who will believe in his Son. In God’s economy, the only atonement acceptable to God for sinful men, is the shed blood and death of his Son. Therefore in God’s love, his Son died on the cross on Calvary and shed his blood, and three days later was resurrected from the dead by the power of God. Those who believe and accept this sacrifice or atonement for their sins are forgiven and receive eternal life and will live forever in paradise with God. So yes, God is love, and wills that every person come to faith in his Son and receive salvation.

You are not forced to believe or care what the Bible says. But the existence of God is a fact evident by the creation and his word, the King James Bible, proves itself as coming from God. Nobody is "forced" to believe anything. You can continue to deny the reality of God and his word, but if you choose to do that, in the end you will lose everything. " 9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be." Psalm 37: 9, 10 KJB This verse says those who believe God will ultimately inherit the earth and evildoers (those who deny God and his word) shall be cut off. Those who not believe are the wicked and they shall end with nothing. I am doing you a favour in telling you these things, because it is like a warning sign of what is ahead if you do not change. You are not forced to believe or do anything but I have tried to help you by pointing out what the Bible says. It's entirely your choice. The Bible says many are called but few are chosen. I can verify this is true from what I have seen. I will conclude by telling you the Bible says God loves everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe.

China is building hundreds of coal-fired electricity-generating stations both in China and abroad. "Yet China's overseas ventures include hundreds of electric power plants that burn coal, which is a significant emitter of the carbon scientifically linked to climate change. Edward Cunningham, a specialist on China and its energy markets at Harvard University, tells NPR that China is building or planning more than 300 coal plants in places as widely spread as Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt and the Philippines." -npr.org China's CCP is not dumb like half of the population in the west who are asleep on what is really happening in the world. The CCP are doing things to increase their economic and military strength in the world. If they were really serious about cutting CO2, they would be changing what they do. Instead they emit more CO2 than any other country in the world.

Yes, because God has said "thou shalt not kill". We already have laws against killing. What' so difficult about that to understand? Laws against killing has nothing to do with Sharia Law. Sharia Law is Islamic law which is totally different than western law. Laws against killing are just civilized. Since God has forbidden killing, there's not much to debate. But people on their way to hell don't care. Eternity in hell will not be happy time. If you don't believe hell is real, just think about how God created everything and is in control of the universe. Do you really believe there will be no accountability for all the evil in the world, and the killing against his express command? You are fooling yourself, or the Devil has you fooled completely. Either way, it doesn't matter. If a person does not repent and believe the gospel, he won't be saved. Lawlessness and killing will continue in this world, but life is short and we will all face judgment after death. Government legalizing killing does not remove it from God's command and does not make it right. It is still under the same commands in God's written revelation. But there is still time to be saved, but I wouldn't put it off because we could be gone any instant in time. Hebrews 9:27-28 KJV And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

No such thing as Christian "sharia". You are way off base. Don't know where you got your ludicrous ideas. Nobody is forcing you to believe anything. Your choice; heaven or hell. Sounds like you've made up your mind.

Altai, Pastor Andrew Brunson is on the Jimmy Bakker TV show this morning telling his story of what happened. He spent 23 years in Turkey as a missionary for God and Jesus Christ. I wish you could hear him. He is a sincere Christian. He described his 2 years in prison. He believes he was arrested to send a message to anyone thinking of coming to Turkey as a Christian missionary. He said he then believed it was changed and he became a bargaining chip to deal with the U.S. He mostly is describing his time in prison. He said he was surrounded by Muslims and told repeatedly every day that he will become a Muslim. He suffered incredible mental torment and stress as he struggled through that time. He at times questioned whether God had left him, but of course even if he felt forsaken by God, God was still there with him. As the Bible says, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee". He wrote a book "God's Hostage" which I might get. It is available on Amazon, as a soft cover book and a kindle book. This is the true story of Andrew Brunson's persecution as a Christian. It is also noteworthy that on the last day Pastor Andrew Brunson was in Turkey, he was convicted of terrorism, then immediately released from prison (by order of Turkey's President), taken to an aircraft, and flown directly to the White House to meet with President Trump. He then kneeled before President Trump, laid his hand on his shoulder, and prayed for the President. I just saw him praying for President Trump on the Jimmy Bakker program.

"religious right" is the place to be if one is heading for heaven. If one is heading for hell, they likely support abortion and other things condemned in the Bible. Better read the New Testament, gospel of John, and ask God to save you and believe the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no salvation apart from Jesus Christ. The Bible is God's written revelation to man and tells how to avoid going to hell and how to be saved. It is not complicated. It is simply a matter of faith in Jesus Christ and believing in his once for all sacrifice for you personally. Make him your Lord and Savior and become a child of God. You can decide whether you want to spend eternity in hell or go to heaven for eternity. Life is too short to waste in foolishness and iniquity and squander away the chance to be saved and go to heaven. "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." John 3:16 KJB

While the west is squandering it's resources and wealth on fighting the hoax of man-made climate change, Russia and China are building military power which will rival or push them ahead of America and west. Get the book Alliance of Evil. Let's not forget it was the U.N. which is largely controlled by Communist countries which forced this global warming agenda on the west.

So you only consider left wing sources as honest? That's a surprise because it is the left wing that kills millions of unborn babies and supports biological men using women's washrooms and changing rooms. These are the immoral people you trust. On the race for corruption and immorality, I think the Democrats won the race long ago.

How about this? "4. Hunter Biden’s firm scored a $1.5 billion deal with the Bank of China only days after his father paid an official visit to the country. As Peter Schweizer, a senior contributor at Breitbart News, revealed in his bestselling book — Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends — Hunter Biden inked a multi-billion dollar deal with a subsidiary of the state-owned Bank of China in 2013. The deal, which was the first of its kind, created a private equity fund, Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) to invest Chinese money overseas. The timing of the lucrative deal has been brought into question as it came only 12 days after Hunter visited China with his father aboard Air Force Two. Officially, the then-vice president was visiting the country amid escalating tensions over islands in the South China Sea and decided to bring his granddaughter and son along. In a March 2018 interview with Breitbart News Tonight, however, Schweizer detailed the political machinations that preceded Hunter Biden’s $1.5 billion venture with China. Schweizer said: Since its creation, BHR has invested heavily in energy and defense projects across the globe. As of June, Hunter Biden is still involved with BHR, sitting on its board of directors and owning a minority stake of the fund estimated to be worth more than $430,000."

This just shows how difficult it is to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Following these health directives would be extremely difficult and unlikely in many cases. It is probably a nearly impossible request for many people. Sad reality.

I don't see any similarity there. You didn't read the article and see how the conflicts of interest and large amounts of money were paid to Hunter Biden in the different connections. Don't waste our time if you can't be bothered to read the information.

You didn't read the five ways Hunter benefited greatly from his political connections through Joe Biden, not just when he was a Senator but also later when he became a vice President. Corruption. and conflicts of interest is standard fare. They have a long history of milking the system.