[Vision2020] Wayne has a question or 15!

[heirloom at moscow.com]

Wayne Fox wants to know:

For example:
<Where and when Jesus was born?>
   In a manger in Bethlehem, in the fullness of time!

<Which words in the bible were actually spoken by Jesus and which were 
made up by persons with their own agendas/interpretations?>
   The ones in red are His and all the other ones are the Holy Spirits.  - 
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of 
God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

<If Jesus was the result of an "immaculate conception" (curious term, 
indicating disdain and disgust with the joy of the normal reproductive 
process) or was he the result of Joseph's (or someone else's) 
interdiction.  If the former, then Jesus could not be descended from David 
via Joseph's and other interveners' begetting as claimed.>
  Mary was also a member of the line of David and as Jesus’ earthly 
overseer, by marriage, Joseph was the other side going back to David. So 
that would make Jesus the Son of David through both blood lines. - Which 
were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of 
man, but of God.  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we 
beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full 
of grace and truth. 

At this point I will try to answer the question in a more logical order 
than the way they were presented.

<Does god have a gender?>
   See above verse begotten of the Father (that would be masculine in 
gender) Your question is asking is God the Father have male or female 
genitals. The answer to that would be: - God is not a man, that he should 
lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and 
then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? 

<Is heaven a temporal/spatial realm?>
   I’m not sure, I have never been there. I have entered into the 
heavenlies every Lord’s Day.

<Do you have to be a Christian or even believe in god to be eligible for 
eternal reward?>
   If you can satisfy all the Creator/Judge’s legal requirements and are 
perfectly Holy according to His standard, then No you do not have to be a 
Christian. But if you fail in any one area then the answer is Yes. – What 
then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the 
faithfulness of God, will it? May it never be! Rather, let God be found 
true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written,
         “THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS,
         AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED." 

<Are all non-Christians damned to eternal punishment?>
   All who do not live by Faith are damned to eternal punishment.

The next few questions would be what I call side stepping the main issue 
questions:
 
<Are blacks inferior/subservient to whites?>
   It depends if your Charles Darwin and Margaret Sanger or not!

<Is slavery permissible?(I assume you mean in the scriptures?)>
   Yes! 

<Is capital punishment permissible?>
   Yes!

<Is abortion permissible?>
   No!

<Are monogamous homosexual relations permissible?>
   No!

<Is it permissible to lie in order to forward some alleged works on behalf 
of god?>
   Can you disguise yourself as a bush when you are a tank during war 
time, Yes!

The last set of questions we can classify as religious practice ones:

<Can women be religious/spiritual professionals/counselors?>
   They can be anything they want. Can they be elders, then no!

<Is prayer to be private or public?>
   Both.

<Do Christians have a duty to protect and conserve natural resources and 
wildlife?>
   What part of ‘be fruitful and subdue the earth’ do you not understand! 
That’s what it means!

<Is the Pope infallible?>
   If you are a Roman Catholic the answer would be yes, if one is a 
Trinitarian the answer would be no.

<Does the bread and wine of communion become the actual blood and flesh of 
Christ at the moment of ingestion?>
   See above!

<If your alleged god is powerful, smart, and good, couldn't she/it/he have 
written much clearer, ultimately more persuasive instructions  to live 
correctly and to attain eternal bliss so as to not only avoid any 
confusion, even among the feeble witted, but to avoid all the corruption, 
torture, war, oppression, human and animal suffering, and divisiveness 
which has occurred and continues to occur in the name of this alleged god 
and its/hers/his "word"?>

Wayne, My God IS all-powerful, all-smart and all-good. He has made things 
pretty clear. One only needs to live by Faith.

I hope this clear things up for you!

Lemeno, Doug


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