Saints is relative

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (26.8.1919-5.9.1997); at a pro-life meeting in 1986 in Bonn, Germany (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In the world of man we can find lots of people who are venerated. Many are called saints and are worshipped as very import people who could bring us closer to God. But is that reallly so.

Are the many idols which even get churches made for them, like Elvis Presley, Christopher Columbus, Cervantes and many others, really such holy figures?

In 2003 the Catholic Church beatified Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu who was born in albania and spend most of her life in India as Mother Teresa. She made niceties with right-wing Haitian Dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and accepted money from him which had been stolen from Haiti’s poor. Duvalier was known for stealing millions from Haiti’s poor so that he could maintain his own lavish lifestyle and profited from drug trafficking and selling the body parts of deceased Haitians.

also questions are posed by the way she gave treatment and medical care to the sick and poor in her hospices which were observed to be wholly unsanitary. Of some of them it is said they were wholly insufficient, and had inadequate crucial pain management for the dying. Her hospices were found to not even distinguish between terminally ill patients and those who could be cured. Consequently, patients with curable illness died from the poor, unsanitary treatment they received from Mother Teresa’s facilities.

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February 2015 got new little lights shining on internet

On February 7, 2015 the First blog post was placed on C4U (Christ For You - Christadelphians For You)
On February 11 2015 C4All was created and got its first article "Welcome".
On the same day (2015 February 11) "Starting block" was presented as the first article on "Messiah for all" which would become the final chosen program to present Jesus to the general public. It was because the try outs on different web-programs or blog systems did not give satisfaction that I tried looking for a good solution.

Having put all that work in several systems, some where abandoned as not good at all, and one I would advice people never to try out because the system is infected and brings viruses to the computer of the user and all the work I had invested in it was all for nothing because a few hours after I thought I had made it, everything was gone (except the infection on my pc). (So please do not go to the Weebly site and do not try to invest tie over there falling in their promises of giving you a very nice way to blog.) (All the previous years I have used Avast, but those days I was trying out Bitdefender. Now I am back on the more protecting Avast which let less spam and other ad systems come into my system.)

To be honest, the three sites took so much work and I do find the result not so bad that I found I could keep those three mentioned above. C4U and C4All to bring very short notices and referral articles to the main site about Jesus Christ "Messiah for all". Al three want to present the reason why the Christadelphians are lovers of Christ and why you and all other people should become lovers of Jesus as well.

"Why choose us" wants to give the reason why it would not be bad to come to read more articles at the C4U site. "C4U- its believes" can give you an idea what we believe and what drives us to witness for Jehovah and for Jesus.

The Christadelphians are a very small community, which can use some introduction. Lots of people also find some unjust sayings about us, Christadelphians, Bible Students, Jehovah Witnesses and other non-trinitarians. Because so much rubbish is been told on the net about the Christadelphians we want to make things clear on C4U and also give a picture of what it means to belong to the City of Christ or Christadelphia. (Christadelphian, Christadelphia and Christadelphos)

I have some other blogs which are totally different from my secular blog Marcus Ampe's Space. I prefer to use other blogs to present my spiritual or religious views. But there and on other blogs where I reacted on certain writings I got accused of being a hater of God and a hater of Jesus.
With the new blogs I now want to proof that I am perhaps a grater lover of God and a greater lover of Jesus than they who do not want to accept the Words of God and the words of God His son, Jesus Christ.

In "Christ for you and You for Christ" the start-shot is given for the Biblical view of Jesus Christ, to which the Christadelphians want to keep themselves. They do not want to take on the human doctrines but aim to keep to what is written in the Bible or Holy scriptures, which we consider to be the infallible Word of God.

The three new blogs want to put their focus on Jesus. To present the whole picture "Messiah for all" goes way back to the beginning of everything. As such the first few weeks there shall be several writings on the creation period, Who is behind it, what happened and how Jesus came in the picture at the beginning of times.

On Messiah for all is looked at how Something came from nothing  and what Scripture says about Creation and Creator Deity.

And naturally we can't avoid looking at How Many Persons Created the Heavens and the Earth.

That the new site "Messiah for all" does not want to go away from more difficult subjects in Christendom can be seen in the publication of Genesis 1 story does not take away an evolution.

"Focussing on oneness with Jesus - like Jesus is one with God" is what the apostles did and also asked the followers of Jesus to do. I with the Christadelphians consider myself and my community belonging to the Body of Christ, being brothers and sisters who want to share their love for Christ with each other and being thankful to the Most High for Him accepting Jesus his ransom offer.

May I invite you to come and have a look at the new sites and to give your impression on our presentation of the "world for Christ with Jesus".

1. Messiah for all at Wordpress
2. C4All at over-blog
3. Christadelphians at wix.com with C4U or Christadelphians-4u

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Please do find also to read:

1. Looking for Free Blogs and blogging

2. Lovers of God, seekers and lovers of truth

3. Those who love Jesus

4. To remove the whitewash of the Jehovah Witnesses as being the only true Bible Students and Bible Researchers

5. A beginning with many false starts 

6. Starting block

7. Follower of Jesus part of a cult or a Christian
8. Those who call the Christadelphians a cult
9. Words to inspire and to give wisdom
10. Salvation and Righteousness
11. Observing the commandments and becoming doers of the Word
12. Wishing to do the will of God
13. Christianity is a love affair 
14. The Law of Christ: Law of Love
15. The Greatest of These is Love
16. The first on the list of the concerns of the saint   
17. Agape, a love to share with others from the Fruit of the Spirit
18. The task given to us to love each other

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Miniature ofrom Folio 8r of the Syriac Bible of Paris shows Moses before Pharaoh. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Who is on the Lord’s side?”

(February 20)

Moses’ challenge rang out, “Who is on the Lord’s side?” After all the dramatic experiences and evidence of God’s power as they escaped from slavery in Egypt and then witnessed the destruction of the Egyptian army that followed them – and then experience the dramatic physical happenings as they encamped before the mountain of God at Sinai, the majority of the people still had not perceived the special and wonderful nature of the one true God they were privileged to know in such a way that they were becoming “his people”.

He was asking them to have a relationship with him, but the great majority of them failed. When Moses was not physically present for 40 days they reverted to human ways of thinking and doing; they looked for a physical representation of God – finding it more satisfying to worship a representation of something he had made – than the Creator himself.

Moses is mortified – he becomes so greatly distressed that he breaks the stone tablets God engraved when he was in his presence on the top of the mountain. He comes down the mountain and his challenge rings out, “Who is on the Lord’s side?” Wonderfully the Levites responded to the challenge and stood with Moses – yet, among them, as we will soon read, there was to arise the experience of being unable to serve God properly. The Lord says to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book” (verse 33).

This is the first time we learn that God has a “book”! There are references to God’s book in different parts of Scripture which climax near the end of the last book in the Bible when, what is called “the book of life” (Revelation 20:12) is opened and “if anyone’s name is not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire” (verse 15). Obviously this lake symbolizes the trashing of all those who have had the opportunity to be “on the Lord’s side”, but decide to serve themselves rather than God and His Son. Are you on the Lord’s side?

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Hotbed of Satanism or the Satanic capital of Britain

The Sigil of Baphomet: emblem of the Church of Satan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In the most recent census, 17 people in Bolsover wrote Satanism as their religion.
This suggested it had the highest concentration of Satanists in England and Wales.
But the Church of Satan believes many people had lied on their census forms because they "think it is funny".

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