The Holy Scriptures ARE "the sole infallible rule of faith and practice" - as the words of God, they ARE the highest spiritual authority mankind has in its possession. God's words ARE TRUTH. (John 17:17) Though most of the Bible is meant to be taken literally, God's words certainly do include metaphors also (and what masters God and Christ have been, with using them); and some symbolic language, especially with prophecies. The context makes the difference clear - whether something is meant to be taken literally or not. "The cross" (a pagan idol symbol, which Christ did NOT die on - he died on one upright stake); and then claimed that "Eastern Orthodox Christianity" is "correct"; and then even claimed that, The Orthodox Church Ecumenical Councils even decided what scriptures wee in the Cannon of the Bible and those that were not." I understand what the world's false religions do to people, by teaching them horrible, anti-scriptural LIES about God and His words, the Bible; so I really hope you will see scriptural reasons to actually LEAVE those forms of extremely ANTI-scriptural, extremely God-disobedient and Christ-disobedient; extremely idolatrous and disloyal (serving the "kings of the earth", NOT God), and blasphemous religions. Traditions, culture, etc. can make this difficult; but if you really love God, Christ, truth, and other people, it is urgent to make important changes. Jehovah is VERY angry at the world's FALSE religions meeting the description of "Babylon the Great" right now. (Revelation chapters 17 and 18. The have VIOLATED Him, Jesus, God's commands, and TRUE Christian worshipers of God. FALSE religious leaders are leading their flocks to spiritual ruin, by teachings them doctrines of men and demons, NOT God's Holy Scriptures - they FAIL to uphold the whole word of God (the Holy Bible) as being what is, which is TRUTH (John 17:17); and the TOP Authority for all spiritual matters that mankind has in its possession..........It is egregiously FALSE, though it is a common FALSEHOOD/ LIE taught by the false churches, that ANY CHURCH - especially one of Satan's world empire of all FALSE religions - belongs being CREDITED for ANY WRITING, COMPILATION/ determination of CANON, or PRESERVATION (overall) of the Bible, whatsoever. JEHOVAH THE CREATOR DESERVES SOLE CREDIT FOR HIS OWN HOLY SCRIPTURES - HE PURPOSELY INSPIRED and OVERSAW (with His Holy Spirit/ active force) faithful men to write down HIS words; and OVERSAW the COMPILATION and PRESERVATION OF HIS WORDS. * The true GOD-INSPIRED SCRIPTURES WERE ACCEPTED AS THE WORD OF GOD, AS THEY WERE RECEIVED; and so THE WRITING and COMPILATION - THE DETERMINATION OF THE CONTENT and THE CANON OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, BY GOD HIMSELF, BEGAN some 2567 YEARS BEFORE THE ORTHODOX CHURCH EXISTED, with the work Jehovah inspired Moses to do, with the Bible book of Genesis, in 1513 B.C.E. This inspired writing of the word of God, by various other faithful men; the acceptance of these works as being the word of God, by believers, as they were received; the compilation, meticulous copying, and preservation of these writings of the Hebrew Scriptures continued, until just after 443 B.C.E. At that point, THE ENTIRE HEBREW CANON WAS COMPLETED and CLOSED. That was some 747 years BEFORE the Catholic church existed; and 1497 years BEFORE Orthodoxy began. Jesus knew these Scriptures full well; and he and his Apostles quoted from them/referred to them frequently. A SIMILAR PROCESS followed with the GOD-INSPIRED and GOD-OVERSEEN WRITING OF THE CHRISTIAN-GREEK SCRIPTURES. Christ's disciples were already preaching what he taught them, especially with the big event of Divine inspiration that occurred on Pentecost 33 C.E; and Christians were under duress from enemies of Christ in those early days, but starting in 41 C.E., beginning with the Apostle Matthew, the inspired writing of the Christian Greek Scriptures began. These inspired books and letters, too, were accepted as the word of God AS THEY WERE RECEIVED. They were put to immediate use. These writings were shared among the various early Christian congregations. These writings were also meticulously copied, and added to the compilations of previous ones. These Bibles were USED - for study, and for preaching and teaching the "Good News." The different congregations had copies of the Bible in progress, and individual Christians even diligently made their own copies, to use for studying, preaching and teaching. THE INSPIRED WRITING OF THE CHRISTIAN GREEK SCRIPTURES - OF EVERY BOOK/ LETTER GOD INTENDED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE CHRISTIAN-GREEK SCRIPTURES, and when added to the previous Hebrew-Aramaic Scriptures, THE BIBLE AS A WHOLE - ENDED - WAS COMPLETED - BY THE TIME OF THE DEATH OF THE LAST APOSTLE, John, in 100 C.E. (The last inspired letter he wrote down for God was 3John, in 98 C.E.) THAT COMPLETED THE GOD-INTENDED CANON OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. When Christians of that time added that last inspired Letter of John 3 to the collection of the Holy Scriptures they already had, THAT COMPLETED THE CANON OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. This COMPLETION OF THE CANON OF THE BIBLE, BY GOD, IN 98 C.E.; WAS 956 YEARS BEFORE THE ORTHODOX CHURCH EXISTED. SO, the ONE we belong BEING GRATEFUL TOO and PRAISING, for HIS OWN HOLY WORDS, IS JEHOVAH THE CREATOR.
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After the death of Christ, even as the last Apostles were dying off the earth, Satan and other persons wishing to take advantage of the wave of popularity of the Christ attached various apostate, demonic, pagan, and non-scriptural/anti-scriptural spiritual teachings and philosophies of man and demons ONTO THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHRIST, and the Bible in general. There was a large wave of apostate (FALSE) "Christian"; and FALSELY "biblical", demonic LIE-teaching, so-called "Gnostic" and Pseudo-graphic (falsely named - after persons named in the Bible) writings. The question of "canon" - regarding the ALREADY CLOSED, COMPLETED, and ACCEPTED, by early TRUE Christians BIBLE - was not even an issue, until the wave of FALSE writings welled-up. Those FALSE writings never even should have been a question though - THE CANON HAD ALREADY BEEN CLOSED/ the BIBLE, as GOD HIMSELF HAD INTENDED IT, HAD ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED. These "EXTRA" writings have been referred to as APOCRYPHA. The Catholic church - APOSTATE to God, APOSTATE to the Holy Scriptures, and APOSTATE to Jesus Christ from its beginning; includes several of these APOCRYPHAL books in its so-said canon. Other DEVIANT/ apostate to the teachings of God and Christ FALSE religions, especially FALSE "Christian" religions emerged too; each creating their own spiritually poisonous cocktails of FALSE RELIGIONS/ FALSE "Christian" religions - from blasphemously mixing Biblical teachings/ teachings of the Christ together with POISONOUS SPIRITUAL LIE- TAINTED WATER/ metaphorically, "WORMWOOD" - tainted spiritual water, just as prophesied. NON-and-ANTI-SCRIPTURAL, apostate, pagan, demonism-tainted, etc. "CHURCH TEACHINGS", DOCTRINES, TRADITIONS and PHILOSOPHIES of MEN DISPLACED, TRAMPLED, and DEFIED/ DISREGARDED/ DISMISSED the actual teachings of God and Christ of the Holy Scriptures (which was certainly delightful, as far as Satan was concerned). FURTHER, THOSE OF THESE FALSE RELIGIONS (being as it is that they had left God, and turned to the corruption, lies, and spirit of Satan instead) SEVERELY PERSECUTED TRUE, SCRIPTURAL CHRISTIANS, who UPHELD, PREACHED AND TAUGHT TRUE, SCRIPTURAL CHRISTIANITY..... Religions CLAIMING to be "Christian", in disloyalty and disobedience to God, prostituted themselves to "the kings of the earth", just as prophesied. FALSE religious leaders partnered with kings/ political leaders - in mutually beneficial arrangements - bolstering the power of one another; and BOTH of them TOGETHER, OVER the people. This has been the infamous, very much seen fulfilled, PROPHESIED WICKED and DESTRUCTIVE ARRANGEMENT OF "BABYLON THE GREAT" - Satan's HARLOT-TO-GOD-like world empire of all ANTI-whole scriptural FALSE religions, "FORNICATING" with "THE KINGS OF THE EARTH." (Revelation chapters 17 and 18) As God has also emphasized, in the name he has given, to the world's FALSE religions, MANY OF THE SPIRITUAL LIES THEY TEACH, and many ELEMENTS OF THEIR FALSE WORSHIP AND EVIL PRACTICES are TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES OF DEMONISM, WHICH SPREAD OUT, as mankind did, from ANCIENT BABYLON. SATAN and his hordes HAVE USED "BABYLON THE GREAT" (AND OTHER FIGHTERS AGAINST GOD, ALSO TEACHING SATAN'S SPIRITUAL LIES - SUCH AS ATHEISTS) TO SPIRITUALLY MISLEAD THE NATIONS - TO THE SLANDER and BLASPHEMY OF GOD, FOR ALIENATING MANKIND FROM GOD, to FIGHT AGAINST WHAT IS HOLY and OF-GOD, and FOR THE SUFFERING and DESTRUCTION OF MANKIND. (Revelation 18:23,24)
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Satan is the current ruler of this world system - thus the state it is in. He largely controls and manipulates the world political system; his global empire of all anti-whole-scriptural, God-DISOBEDIENT, disloyal, demonic lie-teaching and evil-FALSE religions of "Babylon the Great"; and large commercial elements of big commerce. He has evil hordes - spirit and human - who help him spiritually deceive, corrupt, harm, bring trouble and suffering to, and/or destroy human beings. As it is that Satan and his demons were thrown out of heaven - and down to this earth - by Jesus Christ, when he came into power there, in 1914, that marked the beginning of "the time of the end" for Satan's rule/ his wicked world system here; and so Satan is very angry, and is trying to cause as much trouble and harm as he can, knowing that he has only a short time left, before Armageddon, to do so. Satan and his demons are doing their utmost, to work SPIRITUAL LIE PROPAGANDA against Jehovah the Creator, Jesus Christ, and God's LIFE-VITAL HOLY SCRIPTURES, which Jehovah PURPOSELY PROVIDED FOR MANKIND, to LEARN and to OBEY. Satan wants as many people to be deceived, misled, and tempted by sin AWAY from God and future life, for being obedient and loyal to God, as possible. He wants as many humans to die at Armageddon, for foolishly choosing to side with Satan and his LIES and rebellion against God as possible. He has NOTHING of any lasting value to offer anyone - he just wants God and Christ slandered and hurt, and humans to suffer and die - to the biggest degree possible. But now Armageddon Day is soon, very soon. The scriptural prophecies that have been fulfilled and that are being fulfilled now (even as seen on this page); the state of the world and mankind, as it matches Bible descriptions and warnings - and even the sped-up, as prophesied, for the time of the end, preaching of Jehovah's scriptural truth and warnings to the entire inhabited earth - all indicates Armageddon Day from Jehovah is NEAR. First, He will be getting rid of the world's FALSE religions, of "Babylon the Great", which He is very, very rightfully angry at - and then He will follow that with Armageddon Day itself; in which he will get rid of all last vestiges of evil on this planet, including the stubbornly and heinously evil and God-insolent persons of the earth - just like He has been having His faithful true scriptural Christian messengers warn the whole earth. It's coming. It is very important, very urgent, to leave any false religion of "Babylon the Great" now. (Revelation 18:4,5,8,20-24) (The Orthodox churches, the Catholic church, and all of the other anti-whole scriptural and scripturally disobedient, etc, religions of the world are of these God-fighting FALSE religions of "Babylon the Great." Just look at how Christ defiant they have become, with their militancy. They are absolutely serving the "kings of the earth", while disobeying to do so. They are not only teaching their flocks anti-scriptural lies and practicing what is spiritistic and idolatrous for worship........but some are also currently persecuting TRUE, scriptural Christian worshipers of Jehovah; and He and Christ are most angry over this. Being sided-with, still tied-to any of the world's false-to-God religions is NOT where anyone will want to be, when God's day of punishing "Babylon the Great" soon arrives - so people need to leave these FALSE religious entities now!) Then learn scriptural truth - "This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ" (John 17:3); and then worship Jehovah, the only true God, on His own scriptural terms, "with spirit and truth" (John 4:24), obeying and honoring His Son Jesus Christ, as our Ransomer and God-appointed Highest King, also. These last days are very difficult (2Timothy 3:1-9,13); but After Armageddon, in God's [true] new world here, things will be great.
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Keep that up, and there might not be a resurrection from Him for you. He holds your life and future in His hands. And don’t give me your apostate cult lies - of the giant cult of Satan, the way of the mind-controlled-by-the-Devil bulk-mass of mankind either. (1John 5:19) I am a FORMER Catholic turned scriptural Christian Jehovah’s Witness, who has taught scriptural truth versus the cult lies of Satan, to just about every kind of person there is, and from just about every kind of belief system there is, for the past 34 years (all volunteer work). So don’t lie to me, mac. Spiritually, YOU CAN’T. Jehovah is the Only True God; and His Son Jesus Christ is the Ransomer, King and Lord of TRUE worshipers of His Father, Jehovah the Creator, globally. I regret giving your slipshod post a needed corrective response; but this one here will be my last to you. There are endless “wonderful”, futureless, empty, etc., sin and EVIL-"permissive" spiritual LIES out there for you to beLIEve in, to try to salve your conscience with, and to entertain yourself and other "godless" persons with as you wish. Don’t address me again.
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Don't be concerned. Liars against God are desperate, cheap, and almost pathetic with their lie attempts against God's words. They copy the common lies and falsehoods of one another; because they have no actual, sincere interest in spiritual truth themselves. They'll look for lazy lies, instead of looing for the truth. Desperate fighters against God like to claim that there are four "different" creation stories which "conflict" with one another. Yet this is being willfully stupid and derelict to any honest consideration of these verses. The REPEATED accounts of THE SAME creation of life on earth, by God - and in particular, involving humans - do NOT run, among themselves, in a progressive, chronological order. They back-track and restate the creation account at different starting points, to feature different aspects. Just think of the DISHONESTY: After looking for LIES from follower DIS-believers - even cheap internet/ tabloid-style lies - over picky, even non-effectual things; to try to break down someone else's conscienced faith in the Bible and the God who wrote it; then will turn around and go full all-out crude and thoroughly UNSCIENTIFIC, to eagerly promote senseless and wanton SCI-FI FANTASIES over the creation of man which do not (in their minds) require a Creator - that "BOTHERSOME" CREATOR, with His "disturbing", inconvenient, and hated SCRIPTURAL LAWS AGAINST IMMORALITY and other EVILS.
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No - Genesis 1:1 states, "In [the] beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
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You are VERY welcome!!!! It is interesting, isn't it? A family member of mine lives in Hawaii - I am going by your "Aloha"! Oh, that is a nice place! Aloha! (I could not believe my ears though, when someone from there told me about belief in a volcano god! Like, noooo. That's wroooooong!, lol ! )
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Yes, ___ - on God's soon-coming Armageddon Day, the stubbornly and heinously evil and God-insolent persons of the world WILL see God's heavenly forces coming at them, to end their existence, permanently - and then they will profoundly understand how inexcusably wrong and deeply evil they were, to fight against Jehovah the Creator, His Son, God's own LIFE-VITAL words to mankind, and believers in them - to even mass-media demonic lies, slander, and mockery against them. Jude 7,10,14-16; Romans 1:18-32; 2Timothy 3:1-9,13...........(2Thessalonians 1:6-9) - "This takes into account that it is righteous on God’s part to repay tribulation to those who make tribulation for YOU, 7 but, to YOU who suffer tribulation, relief along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels 8 in a flaming fire, as he brings vengeance upon those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. 9 These very ones will undergo the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction from before the Lord and from the glory of his strength"
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According to this video and others like it, yes he is: He is dogmatically slanderous, deceptive, twisting, extortive, falsifying and devious with his attacks against the Creator and His Holy Scriptures for mankind; with this person acting as an enemy of God, demonstrating NO SCRIPTURAL UNDERSTANDING WHATSOEVER. Instead, he was trying to discredit God and His words, and to spiritually dumb-down and break down the valid SPIRITUALITY of people, which he and others like him, with choices like this, DO NOT POSSESS.
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NO. Jehovah is a Person; and He made the Universe and everything - the creation - and everyone in it. God prophesied that some would become so bad and obstinate about not acknowledging Him or being thankful to Him, that they would decide to worship the creation, instead of the One who created it; but that would be so senseless and wrong.
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THERE ARE MANY FALSE-TO-GOD RELIGIONS IN THIS WORLD, just like JEHOVAH IN HIS BIBLE WARNS - ALL STEMMING FROM SATANISM - JUST LIKE ATHEISM DOES. BOTH ATHEISM and the world's FALSE-to-God religions TEACH FORMS OF THE SAME ORIGINAL LIES, SLANDER, and REBELLION AGAINST GOD THAT SATAN DID IN EDEN. THEY ARE BOTH MANIFESTATIONS OF SATANISM/ DEMONISM. BOTH ARE ANTI-WHOLE SCRIPTURAL. BOTH BELIEVE, TEACH, and LIVE ACCORDING TO LIES OF THE DEVIL. BOTH HAVE BEEN BLASPHEMING and VIOLATING GOD, SERVICING THE WILL OF SATAN, and DESTROYING HUMANITY, with countless CRIMES AGAINST GOD AND HUMANITY, and unfathomable amounts of HUMAN SUFFERING, FOR 6000 YEARS. Naturally, in His righteousness, and His loyal love for righteous human beings who DO listen to their Creator's globally-given, UNDENIABLE testimonies of Himself and His Godship - both in His CREATION that surrounds individuals, and even as intrinsic in the living bodies of individuals themselves; and in His globally given HOLY SCRIPTURES - the True Person of God, the Creator and Universal Sovereign Jehovah will soon be getting rid of all stubbornly EVIL-but-warned individuals; because they are harming, ruining, destroying, and threatening the lives of the people of God. In the Scriptures, Jehovah refers to Satan's global empire of all anti-scriptural FALSE religions as being "Babylon the Great". (Revelation chapters 17 and 18) For all of its misleading the nations with the lies of the Devil, FALSELY "in the name of God" and/or FALSELY "in the name of Christ; and for all of the evil they have worked in this world, including blood shed and persecution of those TRUE to God; these FALSE religions have been both condemned by God and are doomed to His destruction. Atheism/"godlessness" [atheists actually worship and serve the god Satan by default], for many of the SAME, inexcusable reasons, is also condemned by God, as He has been warning the world, and is also doomed to His destruction, on His Armageddon Day, soon. (Romans 1:18-32; Jude 7,10,14-16) The time left for any to leave either of these modes of mind-control and willing slavery to Satan, for belief in his foolish and evil LIES and the inexcusable doing of his anti-God will; and "repent and turn around" (Acts 3:19) IS SHORT.
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___you are speaking of something like Buddhism, Tao-ism, Ti-Chi, something like this? The problem is in worshiping the creation, but not psalm honoring the One who created it all. God IS actually a person. YOU are not a plant leaf, the air, or a tree. You are a human person, with a living human mind. You are set apart, even from the animals. You were made by God, in His image. You are a testimony (though in a lesser way, of course, like all of His created beings are) to THE PERSON of God. And UNLIKE the forces and objects of the natural world/ the creation; the Creator Jehovah, being and alive, living, sentient Person of God CARES for the HUMANS HE CREATED; has offered communication with Himself, through prayer and through the inspired and living/ spirit-backed words of His Holy Scriptures (Hebrews 4:12); offers humans A VIABLE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM, if they will listen to Him and obey His scriptural words (including to acknowledge and obey His Son Jesus); and offers true hope, based on the reality on the reality of Jehovah, His Son, and His Holy Scriptures, for a coming true new world here, under the Heavenly Rule of God's Kingdom, after God's Day of Armageddon, in which all God-obedient people here on earth then will thrive, love the Creator, His Son, and each other; and will be happy here, in a problem-free paradise, forever. (Psalm 37:10,11,29)
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@THE PUBLIC - GOD-DEFIANT PEDOSEXUALS/ HOMOSEXUALS WANT CHILDREN GROOMED FOR THEIR DEMONIC and DEFILING USE. "SEX BY 8 OR ITS TOO LATE" IS THE PEDOSEXUAL/ HOMOSEXUAL ADAGE. These EVIL-practicing, MO of the DEMONS persons certainly DO NOT WANT THE GOD-GIVEN CHILDREN OF OTHERS (PSALM 127:3) TO BE SPIRITUALLY PROTECTED FROM THEIR COVETOUS PEDOSEXUAL-HOMOSEXUAL DESIGNS, MOLESTATIONS and RAPINGS OF THEIR BODIES, MINDS and LIVES. THEY (and Satan with them) DO NOT WANT SCRIPTURAL-SPIRITUAL MORAL TEACHINGS FROM GOD HIMSELF - as GODLY and RESPONSIBLE PARENTS DO TEACH THEIR CHILDREN - TO INTERFERE WITH THEIR PEDOSEXUAL-HOMOSEXUAL GROOMING and/or MOLESTATION or RAPE of the children of others. They are even pushing the governments (of this largely Satan-run world system) to "lower the age of [so-called] 'consent'" TO AGE 12 - DEMANDING TO BE ABLE TO USE ADULT POWER AND CUNNING SO AS TO RAPE THE GOD-GIVEN CHILDREN OF OTHERS. Just as He has warned the world through His Scriptures, I am sure God will work an especially focused Armageddon Day destruction of His upon such SINISTERLY EVIL, DEMONIC, DEFILING, and BEASTLY VIOLATERS OF GOD and VIOLATERS/ DESTROYERS OF THE LIVES OF CHILDREN and OTHERS......P.S. The spiritual senses of some hardened believers of the LIES of Satan can become SO DEFUNCT that people can tell them the same scriptural-spiritual TRUTH from God a thousand times - such as that THERE IS NO HELL - that they'll completely IGNORE IT, and continue to endlessly spout THEIR SAME-OLD LIE EXCUSES for "WHY" THEY WANT TO BREAK DOWN and DISMANTLE the spirituality of others that they themselves, for their choices, DO NOT POSSESS.
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(At least at one time, heavily atheist NAMBLA - exposed)
https://youtu.be/eaRLL4CcTHk
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Armageddon from the Creator is on its way. He will make His natural selections. He has given mankind His Scriptural standards and warnings - and He sees and hears everything, 24/7.
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These things are types of fulfillment of 2Timothy 4:3,4.
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What's BLIND is prejudice against spiritual truth. Even though this man is, according to his introduction, a member of an anti-scriptural false religious alliance; what he SAID (the LITTLE he was ALLOWED to say) was actually FINE. It was NOT anti-scriptural. He was appealing to a higher authority than these men - an AUTHORITY such godless persons CANNOT STAND - with their grotesquely and inexcusably evil slander and mockery of the Creator Himself, Jesus Christ, and the LIFE-VITAL, globally-delivered scriptural words and warnings of the Creator God. Armageddon Day from Him is SOON. (Romans 1:10-32; Jude 7,10,14-16; Revelation 19) On the other hand, this was a highly crafted fiasco of show, with the purpose of serving the star and his agendas. That entire bit may well have been a likewise pre-crafted piece.
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