- Av förekommen anledning kom jag att tänka på Jesu ord i Johannes 14:15 där han säger: "Om ni älskar mig håller ni fast vid mina bud."
- Det gäller ämbetsfrågan.
"År 1982 togs samvetsklausulen bort, men samveten finns kvar." skriver prästen och bibelläraren Håkan Sunnliden på sin blogg i Sverige. Ganska bra sagt!
Jag hittade en text på nätet som gäller finländska förhållanden: "1986 diskuterades en samvetsklausul men den lämnades bort" (J Vikström).
- Ibland får man höra att de som pga sitt samvete håller fast vid den klassiska och bibliska ämbetssynen, där underordning är en röd tråd är de som splittrar och är kärlekslösa.
Det är fel tänkt. Det är ju planer och beslut som går emot Bibelns lära och bekännelse som leder till splittring. Avsteg på avsteg från det som Bibeln och grunddokumenten lär. Inte fasthållandet vid Bibelns lära och det som Kyrkan lärt och trott i alla tider.
Förresten, hur du som präst, herde och bibelstudiehållare/skribent ser på och utlägger aposteln Paulus är ganska avslöjande och avgörande för om jag har förtroende för dig eller inte.
αγάπη
Rom. 5:1-5 "Då vi alltså har förklarats rättfärdiga av tro, har vi frid med Gud genom vår Herre Jesus Kristus. Genom honom har vi också tillträde till den nåd som vi nu står i, och vi jublar i hoppet om Guds härlighet. Men inte bara det, vi jublar också mitt i våra lidanden, eftersom vi vet att lidandet ger tålamod, tålamodet fasthet och fastheten hopp. Och det hoppet bedrar oss inte, ty Guds kärlek är utgjuten i våra hjärtan genom den helige Ande, som han har gett oss."
onsdag 6 november 2019
tisdag 5 november 2019
Magnifika, sanna, vägledande och historiska texter som lyser som solen
Aktuellt.
1 Mos. 1:26-28 "Gud sade: "Låt oss göra människor till vår avbild, till att vara lika oss. De skall råda över fiskarna i havet och över fåglarna under himlen, över boskapsdjuren och över hela jorden och över alla kräldjur som rör sig på jorden. Och Gud skapade människan till sin avbild, till Guds avbild skapade han henne, till man och kvinna skapade han dem. Gud välsignade dem och sade till dem: "Var fruktsamma och föröka er och uppfyll jorden! Lägg den under er och råd över fiskarna i havet, över fåglarna under himlen och över alla djur som rör sig på jorden!"
Matt. 19:4-5 "Jesus: Har ni inte läst att Skaparen från begynnelsen gjorde dem till man och kvinna och sade: "Därför skall en man lämna sin far och mor och hålla sig till sin hustru, och de två skall vara ett kött?"
2 Tim. 3:16-17 "Hela Skriften är utandad av Gud och nyttig till undervisning, till bestraffning, till upprättelse och till fostran i rättfärdighet, för att gudsmänniskan skall bli fullt färdig, väl rustad för varje god gärning."
Ps. 23:1 "HERREN är min herde, mig skall intet fattas."
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Aktuellt i Finland:
Nu ska polisen börja granska och censurera gamla kristna böcker också. Jag har tidigare dragit paralleller till Kina där man vill omskriva bibeltexter och förfölja kristna:
https://www.uusisuomi.fi/uutiset/valtakunnansyyttaja-puuttui-paivi-rasasen-tapaukseen-poliisitutkinta-alkaa-sittenkin-syyta-epailla-homoseksuaalien-halventamisesta/4c293a2c-8ba3-4f6d-9e5d-15d3bec7c8a2?fbclid=IwAR1wW5_iafXLKWGduszdSaY6QOv9J0sw8NwAnvDSJHq7xzdfpZuchbHhUvg
Dosentti, teologian ja filosofian tohtori Timo Eskola kirjoittaa helposti ymmärrettävästi ajankohtaisesta aiheesta:
https://timoeskola.wordpress.com/2019/11/05/homoseksuaalisuus-ja-raamattu/?fbclid=IwAR1soQpZu5qHyYd0aEs_oF7pqYZ3kqcL1Sr8VOr5Uzo_hu-2rr-ot_B6Skg
Nästan samma på svenska: "Bokbål anno 2019?" (Kristian Nyman)
https://kristiannyman.blogspot.com/2019/11/bokbal-anno-2019.html
Aktuellt i Sverige:
Påkragningar: - Den som följer med sin tid förstår att det gällande ämbetet faktiskt "existerar en annan syn än den staten, tidsandan och folkviljan bestämt" vilket borde "innebära en öppen och fri debatt" samt ett kärleksfullt bemötande från övermaktens sida (även i Finland).
http://hakansunnliden.blogspot.com/2019/10/rune-imberg-pakragad.html
Imbergs kommentar: "Beslutet sänder en stark signal"
https://www.kyrkanstidning.se/nyhet/rune-imberg
1 Mos. 1:26-28 "Gud sade: "Låt oss göra människor till vår avbild, till att vara lika oss. De skall råda över fiskarna i havet och över fåglarna under himlen, över boskapsdjuren och över hela jorden och över alla kräldjur som rör sig på jorden. Och Gud skapade människan till sin avbild, till Guds avbild skapade han henne, till man och kvinna skapade han dem. Gud välsignade dem och sade till dem: "Var fruktsamma och föröka er och uppfyll jorden! Lägg den under er och råd över fiskarna i havet, över fåglarna under himlen och över alla djur som rör sig på jorden!"
Matt. 19:4-5 "Jesus: Har ni inte läst att Skaparen från begynnelsen gjorde dem till man och kvinna och sade: "Därför skall en man lämna sin far och mor och hålla sig till sin hustru, och de två skall vara ett kött?"
2 Tim. 3:16-17 "Hela Skriften är utandad av Gud och nyttig till undervisning, till bestraffning, till upprättelse och till fostran i rättfärdighet, för att gudsmänniskan skall bli fullt färdig, väl rustad för varje god gärning."
Ps. 23:1 "HERREN är min herde, mig skall intet fattas."
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Aktuellt i Finland:
Nu ska polisen börja granska och censurera gamla kristna böcker också. Jag har tidigare dragit paralleller till Kina där man vill omskriva bibeltexter och förfölja kristna:
https://www.uusisuomi.fi/uutiset/valtakunnansyyttaja-puuttui-paivi-rasasen-tapaukseen-poliisitutkinta-alkaa-sittenkin-syyta-epailla-homoseksuaalien-halventamisesta/4c293a2c-8ba3-4f6d-9e5d-15d3bec7c8a2?fbclid=IwAR1wW5_iafXLKWGduszdSaY6QOv9J0sw8NwAnvDSJHq7xzdfpZuchbHhUvg
Dosentti, teologian ja filosofian tohtori Timo Eskola kirjoittaa helposti ymmärrettävästi ajankohtaisesta aiheesta:
https://timoeskola.wordpress.com/2019/11/05/homoseksuaalisuus-ja-raamattu/?fbclid=IwAR1soQpZu5qHyYd0aEs_oF7pqYZ3kqcL1Sr8VOr5Uzo_hu-2rr-ot_B6Skg
Nästan samma på svenska: "Bokbål anno 2019?" (Kristian Nyman)
https://kristiannyman.blogspot.com/2019/11/bokbal-anno-2019.html
Aktuellt i Sverige:
Påkragningar: - Den som följer med sin tid förstår att det gällande ämbetet faktiskt "existerar en annan syn än den staten, tidsandan och folkviljan bestämt" vilket borde "innebära en öppen och fri debatt" samt ett kärleksfullt bemötande från övermaktens sida (även i Finland).
http://hakansunnliden.blogspot.com/2019/10/rune-imberg-pakragad.html
Imbergs kommentar: "Beslutet sänder en stark signal"
https://www.kyrkanstidning.se/nyhet/rune-imberg
måndag 4 november 2019
Belarus - Lukashenka threatens Lithuania - Лукашэнка прыгразіў Літве
Belarus today.
- What is the dictator Lukashenko's respons to the event as follows?
"More than half a thousand American soldiers will reside near the Lithuanian military training ground in Pabradė, which is 15 km from the Belarusian-Lithuanian border. The U.S. battalion will be stationed there until spring 2020."
Belsat.eu:"Lukashenka threatens Lithuania with asymmetrical response to American ‘armored fist’" (full text)
https://belsat.eu/en/news/lukashenka-threatens-lithuania-with-asymmetrical-response-to-u-s-armored-fist/?fbclid=IwAR3jPUoxepaOqVs_Ad2M9Ojy2zoOBtmxa6R3jnZtzQCZIMt5zzVMhf-CNuM
https://belsat.eu/news/lukashenka-prygraziu-litve-asimetrychnym-adkazam-na-branyatankavy-kulak-zsha/
Photo: KL
- What is the dictator Lukashenko's respons to the event as follows?
"More than half a thousand American soldiers will reside near the Lithuanian military training ground in Pabradė, which is 15 km from the Belarusian-Lithuanian border. The U.S. battalion will be stationed there until spring 2020."
Belsat.eu:"Lukashenka threatens Lithuania with asymmetrical response to American ‘armored fist’" (full text)
https://belsat.eu/en/news/lukashenka-threatens-lithuania-with-asymmetrical-response-to-u-s-armored-fist/?fbclid=IwAR3jPUoxepaOqVs_Ad2M9Ojy2zoOBtmxa6R3jnZtzQCZIMt5zzVMhf-CNuM
https://belsat.eu/news/lukashenka-prygraziu-litve-asimetrychnym-adkazam-na-branyatankavy-kulak-zsha/
Photo: KL
torsdag 31 oktober 2019
2019 Democracy award recipient: ChinaAid
Rev. Dr Bob Fu, Founder and President of ChinaAid | 2019 Democracy Award (Pro Fide awarded 2012)
Bob Fu, Founder and President of ChinaAid | 2019 Democracy Award (Video 3:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyeeEdK4WGs
NED:
https://www.ned.org/2019-democracy-award/china-aid/
"Dr. Bob Fu is one of the world’s leading voices for persecuted faith communities in China. Fu was born and raised in mainland China and was a student leader during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations for freedom and democracy in 1989. Fu graduated from the School of International Relations at the People's (Renmin) University in Beijing and taught English to Communist Party officials at the Beijing Administrative College and Beijing Party School of the Chinese Communist Party from 1993-1996. Fu was also a Christian house church leader in Beijing until he and his wife Heidi were imprisoned for two months for “illegal evangelism” in 1996. Bob and Heidi fled to the United States as religious refugees in 1997, and subsequently founded ChinaAid in 2002 to bring international attention to China’s gross human rights violations and to promote religious freedom and rule of law in China. As president of ChinaAid, Fu regularly briefs and advises both the Executive and Legislative branches of US and other western governments about religious freedom and human rights in China and has testified before many Congressional and Parliamentary committees in the US and Europe, as well as international bodies including the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (USCHR). He is the author of an autobiography, God’s Double Agent, and is editor in chief of Chinese Law & Religion Monitor Journal."
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"Founded in 2002, ChinaAid is an international non-profit Christian human rights organization committed to promoting religious freedom and the rule of law in China. Over the past 17 years, ChinaAid has worked to expose human rights abuses and promote truth, justice and freedom by advocating for religious freedom and the rule of law. ChinaAid advocates for the immediate release of prisoners of conscience, equips human rights defenders and religious and community leaders with religious freedom and rule of law training, rescues and resettles persecuted leaders and their families, provides financial assistance to families of political prisoners, and exposes abuse by reporting unique stories of persecution and injustice through its website and social media."
China Aid:
https://www.chinaaid.org/
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- I have met Bob Fu several times and he was Pro Fide awarded 2012 in Jakobstad by Friends of the Martyred Church:
https://www.chinaaid.org/2012/03/chinaaids-bob-fu-awarded-pro-fide-award.html
Photo: KL
Bob Fu, Founder and President of ChinaAid | 2019 Democracy Award (Video 3:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyeeEdK4WGs
NED:
https://www.ned.org/2019-democracy-award/china-aid/
"Dr. Bob Fu is one of the world’s leading voices for persecuted faith communities in China. Fu was born and raised in mainland China and was a student leader during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations for freedom and democracy in 1989. Fu graduated from the School of International Relations at the People's (Renmin) University in Beijing and taught English to Communist Party officials at the Beijing Administrative College and Beijing Party School of the Chinese Communist Party from 1993-1996. Fu was also a Christian house church leader in Beijing until he and his wife Heidi were imprisoned for two months for “illegal evangelism” in 1996. Bob and Heidi fled to the United States as religious refugees in 1997, and subsequently founded ChinaAid in 2002 to bring international attention to China’s gross human rights violations and to promote religious freedom and rule of law in China. As president of ChinaAid, Fu regularly briefs and advises both the Executive and Legislative branches of US and other western governments about religious freedom and human rights in China and has testified before many Congressional and Parliamentary committees in the US and Europe, as well as international bodies including the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (USCHR). He is the author of an autobiography, God’s Double Agent, and is editor in chief of Chinese Law & Religion Monitor Journal."
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"Founded in 2002, ChinaAid is an international non-profit Christian human rights organization committed to promoting religious freedom and the rule of law in China. Over the past 17 years, ChinaAid has worked to expose human rights abuses and promote truth, justice and freedom by advocating for religious freedom and the rule of law. ChinaAid advocates for the immediate release of prisoners of conscience, equips human rights defenders and religious and community leaders with religious freedom and rule of law training, rescues and resettles persecuted leaders and their families, provides financial assistance to families of political prisoners, and exposes abuse by reporting unique stories of persecution and injustice through its website and social media."
China Aid:
https://www.chinaaid.org/
***
- I have met Bob Fu several times and he was Pro Fide awarded 2012 in Jakobstad by Friends of the Martyred Church:
https://www.chinaaid.org/2012/03/chinaaids-bob-fu-awarded-pro-fide-award.html
Photo: KL
tisdag 29 oktober 2019
Sold into slavery - The survivors
A voice for the voiceless.
OFWI
"While OFWI was in Iraq for our summer mission, CTV's W5 chronicled an emotional return for women who were once captured by ISIS, separated from their friends and families and sold into slavery.
CTV W5's Avery Haines meets Dilveen, a Yazidi teen who survived genocide only to be sold as a sex slave at an ISIS slave market, ahead of her return to Iraq to reunite with her best friend Dalal."
- Watch this very important video; W5’s The Survivors!
One Free World International: "Sold in ISIS slave markets, these two teenagers fought to survive" (video 34:09)
https://ofwi.org/action-alerts/2019/10/9/ctv-w5-the-survivors-aired
OFWI:
https://ofwi.org/
- Thank you, Majed El Shafie.
Photo: KL
OFWI
"While OFWI was in Iraq for our summer mission, CTV's W5 chronicled an emotional return for women who were once captured by ISIS, separated from their friends and families and sold into slavery.
CTV W5's Avery Haines meets Dilveen, a Yazidi teen who survived genocide only to be sold as a sex slave at an ISIS slave market, ahead of her return to Iraq to reunite with her best friend Dalal."
- Watch this very important video; W5’s The Survivors!
One Free World International: "Sold in ISIS slave markets, these two teenagers fought to survive" (video 34:09)
https://ofwi.org/action-alerts/2019/10/9/ctv-w5-the-survivors-aired
OFWI:
https://ofwi.org/
- Thank you, Majed El Shafie.
Photo: KL
Psalm 9 - The LORD Most High
Psalm 9 (ESV)
"I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
2 I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
3 When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before your presence.
4 For you have maintained my just cause;
you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
5 You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6 The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.
7 But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
8 and he judges the world with righteousness;
he judges the peoples with uprightness.
9 The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
10 And those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
11 Sing praises to the Lord, who sits enthroned in Zion!
Tell among the peoples his deeds!
12 For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
13 Be gracious to me, O Lord!
See my affliction from those who hate me,
O you who lift me up from the gates of death,
14 that I may recount all your praises,
that in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may rejoice in your salvation.
15 The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;
in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16 The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah
17 The wicked shall return to Sheol,
all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.
19 Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail;
let the nations be judged before you!
20 Put them in fear, O Lord!
Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah"
- This is most certainly true.
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"I love the Lord" (Richard Smallwood singers):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgV8p9y3Y_c
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"I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
2 I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
3 When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before your presence.
4 For you have maintained my just cause;
you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
5 You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6 The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.
7 But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
8 and he judges the world with righteousness;
he judges the peoples with uprightness.
9 The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
10 And those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
11 Sing praises to the Lord, who sits enthroned in Zion!
Tell among the peoples his deeds!
12 For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
13 Be gracious to me, O Lord!
See my affliction from those who hate me,
O you who lift me up from the gates of death,
14 that I may recount all your praises,
that in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may rejoice in your salvation.
15 The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;
in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16 The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah
17 The wicked shall return to Sheol,
all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.
19 Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail;
let the nations be judged before you!
20 Put them in fear, O Lord!
Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah"
- This is most certainly true.
***
"I love the Lord" (Richard Smallwood singers):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgV8p9y3Y_c
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torsdag 24 oktober 2019
ECI - The future of European Jewry
Shalom!
European Coalition for Israel:
"If European Jewry does not have a future in Europe then neither does Europe have a future." ECI Founding Director Tomas Sandell in the European Report recorded in the studio of the European Parliament in Brussels on October 15, 2019."
European Report October 2019 (Interesting video 25:22):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrhtC-J0AZU&fbclid=IwAR1Fm2iqup71tNNYgXAFehztrnTf1k0Kf6Nz2MAeuDNfs8v8J2tJYEzvRA0
"What can be done to make Europe safer for the Jews? Simon Barrett is joined in the studio of the European Parliament by MEP David Lega, European Coordinator on combating anti-Semitism, Katharina von Schnurbein and ECI Founding Director Tomas Sandell."
ECI:
https://www.ec4i.org/
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I'm sharing this "for such a time as this." (Hadassa Ester)
European Coalition for Israel:
"If European Jewry does not have a future in Europe then neither does Europe have a future." ECI Founding Director Tomas Sandell in the European Report recorded in the studio of the European Parliament in Brussels on October 15, 2019."
European Report October 2019 (Interesting video 25:22):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrhtC-J0AZU&fbclid=IwAR1Fm2iqup71tNNYgXAFehztrnTf1k0Kf6Nz2MAeuDNfs8v8J2tJYEzvRA0
"What can be done to make Europe safer for the Jews? Simon Barrett is joined in the studio of the European Parliament by MEP David Lega, European Coordinator on combating anti-Semitism, Katharina von Schnurbein and ECI Founding Director Tomas Sandell."
ECI:
https://www.ec4i.org/
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I'm sharing this "for such a time as this." (Hadassa Ester)
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