Saturday 29 October 2016

Juji Nakada the "Moody of Japan"

English: A portrait of Bishop Juji Nakada in sepia
English: A portrait of Bishop Juji Nakada in sepia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
At the age of thirteen Charles Cowman had become a Christian though for for ten years he drifted away. Once back on track he tried to bring others to the Gospel. Within six months he had converted seventy-five of his co-workers, including the first man with whom he shared the gospel, Ernest Kilbourne.

October 29, 1870 Juji Nakada saw the light of this world and when grown up he found that so many people knew nothing about the true God.
When he was twenty-six he enrolled at the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago,  to "get filled with the Holy Spirit." Dwight L. Moody's fame as an evangelist had spread around the world. Eventually Juji would himself be known as the "Moody of Japan." His vision was to found a similar institute and train national pastors for his native land.
Still at study he met Charles Cowman in church and became befriended.

Kilbourne and Cowman founded the Telegraphers' Missions Band. This group supported Juji when he returned to Japan in 1898. Three years later, Charles Cowman and his wife Lettie sailed for Japan.
Together with Juji and Ernest Kilbourne, they founded the Bible institute that Juji had dreamed of. Juji became its first president. In 1910, the team incorporated the Oriental Missionary Society in Tokyo. This became a significant world mission, now known simply as OMS.

Thursday 27 October 2016

The stone of essential truth

Jesus
Jeshua - Jesus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:11,12).

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 And that has been the essential truth of the message ever since!

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According the vatican ashes and bone fragments cannot be kept at home

emblem of the Papacy: Triple tiara and keys Fr...
emblem of the Papacy: Triple tiara and keys Français : emblème pontifical Italiano: emblema del Papato Português: Emblema papal. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Roman Catholics with their idea that a person has something extra in his body that can leave him when he dies, do want to avoid that that spiritual being would be shattered and as such be destroyed, not able to find its pieces together.

For the Vatican their members should know that the church maintains the deceased should be buried. For the Roman Catholic Church cremation is a "brutal destruction" of the body. Though many countries in the West, like Belgium seem to ignore that saying of their pope and allow cremations by their members, though they do not encourage it. And the Catholics got to hear church-approved ways to conserve ashes for the increasing numbers of Catholics who choose cremation "for economic, ecological or other reasons".

The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith reports ashes and bone fragments cannot be kept at home because it would deprive the Christian community of remembering the dead. Rather, church authorities should designate a sacred place, such as a cemetery or church area, to hold them. Only in extraordinary cases can a bishop allow ashes to be kept at home, it said.
"The dead body isn't the private property of relatives, but rather a son of God who is part of the people of God," author of the text, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, said. "We have to get over this individualistic thinking."

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Monday 24 October 2016

Believe and speak and act in ways which show we have life in Christ's name

When Jesus said,
 “Because I live, you also will live” (John 14:19)
 it is evident that he was not talking of normal human life. His resurrection will reveal that it will turn their hearts from utter despair – to absolute wonderment! Jesus is saying to all who listen to him through reading his word,
 “Because I live, you also will live”.
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“Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”
Let us  “believe” and speak: and act in ways which show this – every day.


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Strong-coderingen en Nederlandse Bijbelvertalingen

Wanneer wij de Bijbel in het Nederlands bestuderen zijn wij een beetje meer beperkt dan bijvoorbeeld in de Engelse taal. In die taal kunnen meerdere Engelse  concordanties een ware hulp zijn.
Het probleem van een concordantie is dat de woorden een vertaling zijn van het Grieks en het Hebreeuws en verschillende betekenissen kunnen hebben. Een Nederlands woord behoeft niet altijd de vertaling te zijn van steeds hetzelfde Griekse of Hebreeuwse woord. Zo kan het woord ‘wil’ een onderdeel zijn van het werkwoord uit de vervoeging ‘ik wil’, maar het kan ook een zelfstandig naamwoord zijn van ‘de wil’. Aan de vertaling kan je dus niet altijd zien wat er in het Grieks of Hebreeuws staat. Sterker nog: als er in het Nederlands een werkwoord staat, kan er soms in het Grieks of Hebreeuws iets anders staan.
merkt uitgever bij Importantia Publishing,

Over de publicaties van Importantia Publishing heeft hij in de afgelopen decennia heel wat moeten uitleggen. Frapant was de steeds terugkerende reactie in de beginjaren. Als hij vertelde dat de Online Bijbel voorzien is van Strong-coderingen kreeg hij steevast dezelfde reactie:
"Ik heb geen verstand van computers".
Blijkbaar werd het woord "Strong-codering" meer geassocieerd met de technische kant van computers dan met iets dat met de bijbel te maken heeft.

Gelukkig is in de loop van de jaren deze reactie naar de achtergrond verdwenen. Toch moet hij nog steeds aan mensen uitleggen wat een Strong-codering is en wat je er mee kan doen.

Hij heeft daarom besloten een serie artikelen te schrijven over Strong-coderingen en het gebruik daarvan.
Het eerste artikel heeft hij gepubliceerd op zijn persoonlijke blog "over ... Theologie". Het heeft als titel Wat is een Strong-codering?

Friday 21 October 2016

Trump has been buffetted by accusations of misconduct

English: Celebrity Apprentice star Dennis Rodm...
English: Celebrity Apprentice star Dennis Rodman and Donald Trump (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
That Trump is not the ideal ethical man eh showed already on several occasions. That he was considering the woman as an object he showed also already several times. He also was not afraid to tell the general public women are there to please men.

He told the public about Bill Clinton using women but hid for the general public his actions he had undertaken on several occasions. We can imagine at the time he took advantage of his position several young and older women did not want to come out with what happened to them.

The whole hoopla went off public when a video went viral in which Trump was caught on tape in 2005 making crude comments about a married woman he tried to seduce and what he could do to women because he was "a star." By saying so he also would find it normal if stars would permit such shameful acts to women and probably would be against penalising people doing such humiliating acts.

Arianne Zucker, the actress who was subject to Donald Trump and Billy Bush’s crude comments in the leaked tape from 2005, has spoken out against the Republican nominee’s comments.

The actress, best known for her role on “Days of Our Lives,” was thrust into the spotlight last week when footage was leaked of Donald Trump and former Access Hollywood correspondent Billy Bush crudely discussing her.
“Your girl’s hot as s—t. In the purple,” Bush can be overheard saying.
Donald replied,
 “Yeah that’s her with the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful… I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.”
Bush has since been suspended indefinitely from his hosting duties at The Today Show. Trump delivered an apology for the comments in a Facebook video.

After the video showing clearly how Trump really thought about women, some did found it high time to raise their voice and to let the world what awful experience they had to go through. Naturally we also do have to be aware that lots of the accusations coming out now, not having any registration in a police office before, could also be dirty political propaganda.

Cathy Heller, 63, like other women, said she was outraged when Trump denied attacking women because he forced himself on her during, like it was for him  an ordinary case, women not having to faint.

Her experience looks very similar to other cases we heard in recent days.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday denied multiple allegations of sexual assault, dismissing the claims of his accusers and railing against the press, accusing his rival Hillary Clinton systematically trying to destroy him.

Speaking in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump argued that stories in the New York Times and People magazine were “pure fiction” and “outright lies”
“These vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false. And the Clintons know it, and they know it very well,”
he said.
 “These claims are all fabricated. They’re pure fiction, and they’re outright lies. These events never, ever happened.”
Trump said, around the same time that the New York Times sent a letter declining to retract its story.

Talking about those allegation Trump did not mind to debase those women as being not only liars but to ugly for a man to kiss them. Of People writer Natasha Stoynoff, who said Trump pushed her up against a wall and kissed her without her consent while she was writing a profile, Trump seemed to imply that her looks prove he would not have wanted to kiss her.
Look at her, look at her words, you tell me what you think,”
he said.
 “I don’t think so.”


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Read what happened at a party at his Florida mansion in the 1990s:
And read also: Donald Trump Blasts the Press Over Sexual Assault Stories: ‘They Will Lie, Lie, Lie’


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Preceding articles:
Jews the next scapegoat for Donald Trump
The American clouds of Anti-Semitism
Jewish Soap Opera Star Arianne Zucker Hits Back at Donald Trump’s Infamous Lewd Taped Remarks
Read Donald Trump’s Speech Addressing Sexual Assault Accusations

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