Aphorisms

1. The sage of the East could only find meaning in suffering. There I have found none.
2. The meaning of life is simple. It is to love someone else.
3. The Greatest Psychiatrist, his simple theory was that people need to love another.
4. On the shield of Achilles were the sacraments of peace. For war must sometimes be fought so peace can be enjoyed.
5. For the crime of adultery was a war fought; in the end, it was fought to defend the right of the married.
6. There is truth.
7. The most brilliant mind in history believed all things would relate back to chemistry.
8. I believe in God because what choice have I without Him?
9. The poet once sung a song about how sin was life's spice---I agree, yet only when those sins are in season.
10. A nation without Christ's law is a nation that has no joy.
11. The Chemical man is destined to perish.
12. "It is written in the DNA!", yet Christ can remove what's written or add to it all the same.

A List of Some Messianic References in the Old Testament

It seems like Isaiah saying “Line upon line, precept upon precept” is a prediction of the Talmudic law. It seems like the word “Sprout” there in Zechariah refers to the “Stem of Jesse”. It seems like it’s literally naming Yeshua as both King and Priest. It seems like Isaiah is saying “Virgin” in Isaiah 7, as that’s what a young woman ought to be. And saying otherwise is to imply that God’s redemption came by way of a whorish woman. It seems like Isaiah 53 is saying for us to make an offering of the Messiah’s soul. It seems like Jeremiah 31 is talking about a New Covenant. It seems like Genesis 22:18 is speaking of a Seed from Abraham that will bless all generations—it seems like that’s predicting the future. It seems like Psalm 2 is saying to “Kiss the Son” the “One Begotten by God” “Lest He be angry with you.” It seems like Psalm 22 describes crucifixion. It seems like Job 9 is saying there need be a mediator between God and Man. It seems like Song of Solomon is saying we need to forsake worldly riches for the sake of the Shepherd. It seems like Hosea is prophesying that the Gentiles would enter into God’s inheritance. It seems like Leviticus 27:29 is saying Christ must be put to death. It seems like Genesis predicts the Serpent would bite Christ’s heel is a reference to the nail being driven into His ankle, and the crushing of the Serpent’s head is Christ’s victory over death. It seems like Ezekiel 37 is talking about the resurrection. It seems like Psalm 68 says that God, Yahweh, would literally die. It seems like Isaiah 43 and 48 say that there will be a newly created thing, and that the old shall pass away, and that Christ is the LORD God. It seems like Abraham being provided a sacrifice in place of Isaac is God saying He Himself will provide the sacrifice. There’s more. Lots more.

Dear, Red Pen Logic

Dear,
Red Pen Logic

I find it amazing what you said about Christmas. I completely believe you, too. Is Jesus becoming more real to you? He's becoming more real to me, too. The more I dig, the more I find out that Atheist's claims are completely bunk.

But, a good answer I used to give---specifically about the Virgin birth of other gods---was that God winked at humanity through other mythologies. Like Virgil's Aenid is supposed to be very similar to Christian morality. So through everything else.

The fact that Christ's birth would be virgin is predicted in Isaiah 7---I think the Jews changed the meaning of the word ex post facto, as in Zechariah 6 the word for "Sprout" they turned into Chametz. Ironically, in Zechariah 3 and 6 it has such a complete exposition on the Gospel, that it's more convincing than Isaiah 53. You should check it out sometime. It literally names Jesus as the Messiah. "Joshua" in Hebrew is the word "Jesus" in Greek. So, it literally names Yeshua as the Messiah in those two chapters.

But, the fact that other mythologies would claim divine virgin births, as I was explained by G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis, was what Paul was explaining at the Sermon on Mars Hill. God interacted with other cultures indirectly. It was just that the full revelation of God would come through the Jews and their heritage. Finally culminating into the Birth, Death and Resurrection of the Messiah. Where we'd get the pure version of What God had for Man. It wasn't interpreted through prophets---though I believe Jesus, in His secret teachings to the disciples, would quote verbatim Paul's letters and even the Old Testament.

Just some food for thought. Thank you for the Christmas Present! It's now us who are the intellectual heavyweights. We're now the underdogs, and that's why we're beginning to find truth. We're just as convincing as the Atheists were ten years ago. Don't forget it. They've been sufficiently beaten, but that's also why they're on top. He who is first is last, and he who is last is first. We're now the intellectual force. We're now the voice of reason. We're now what liberals and atheists were ten years ago. Just as grating and secretly convincing. Remember that.

Sincerely,
B. K. Neifert

Moses, You Only Saw the Promised Land

Moses, you only saw the promised land.
You led Israel's trains through the desert.
Then, the people of God killed Cannibals
Pedophiles, and murderers to take
The land back; 'twas promised to Abraham.
You gave your law, an unbreakable law.
Yet, by its harshness, no man would be saved.
Thus, Messiah, the Sprout, both Priest and King
Would rule within our bodily temples.
He, our sin would carry, and when He's washed
Of our sins, we become sinless and live 
Eternally in the kingdom of God.
Yet the Blasphemer's dark antics wonders
At the fact that Thou had only let him
See Mount Zion? It was because he sinned.

The Bull of Heshbon

Thou Bull---Prince of Moab---
I fear to be thou.
For you burn the Moors
In your furnace---

You are an American Holocaust.
I fear, that by my prayers,
I have conjured you.
I fear it, and am greatly ashamed.

I smell cabbage, like the Boy in Striped Pajamas
Described. I smelt it while in prison
For my humble offense.
I do not know.

You Bull, whoever you are---
A demon presiding over America,
My Doppelganger,
Did Trump, Obama, Biden or Bush

Know of you? Who are you,
Specter? Only a dream?
Only a pallid delusion?
Or, are you real?

A phantom in my mind
Which causes great anguish.
I do not know, but I write of you.
Perhaps you are from another world.

Or, perhaps you are of this world.
All I know is the Bible Verse
"Thou Shalt Not Oppress the Stranger in the Land."

Interpreting the Bible with Hebrew As it is Today

In Modern Hebrew

Yeshuah, the Chametz, will be crowned king.
The Young Woman will be with child.
Kiss the Pure lest He be angry with you. The one Begotten by God.
There will be a New Circumcision that shall not be broken.
God has formed an Alliance with Israel.

In English

Jesus, the Branch, will be crowned King.
The Virgin will be with child.
Kiss the Son lest He be angry with you. The One begotten by God.
There will be a New Covenant that shall not be broken.
God has formed a Covenant with Israel.

My Little Pagan

How far you have ventured into the world of Rome;
How many beautiful things have you there unearthed?
You believe Ovid's report, of Romulus, et
Ramos torn from Greece to Italy's peninsula.
There they founded a Grecian Empire, built
From Greek and Etruscan mortar and Roman might.
For on the cusp, my dear, of Education's joy
You shall rediscover that Grecian influence
Over Rome. The religion, the architecture
The art, the culture. It will click, and be foundations
For a rich and deep understanding; the truth of Rome.
Like I when I forsook Paul's Words, now understood
The Hebrew Roots of the Christian's joyous light yoke.
For now I understood both; how truth moves to truth.
For, the joy of freedom is that you may be wrong.
The joy is that you are allowed to make mistakes.
The joy is, no government shall oppress thou to
Believe. It is your choice---yet, one day you shall find
The truth, and rubicund shall appear on your face
And your public declarations shall be made queer.
Yet, let no one scorn you for it, or ridicule you.
For that is freedom---to pursue truth-learning's joy.
For, it shall be a new discovery for you
Like the world itself had discovered the truth
For the very first time. And that is learning's joy.