It is just like this people to 
Tempt the priest and say to him,  
“Give up your gift and ephod  
"And give it to the poor," 
Rather than to admonish him of his affluence 
And say, "Thou must give of that to the poor." 

Did not the Priest wear the ephod?
A congregation, to symbolize the service
John had given his church
And the good shepherding,
Have given him the five thousand dollar watch.
For every thing under the sun there is a time and season.

He did not purchase it himself,
And wear it out of vanity.
His flock had rewarded him
For his service.

For every deed under the sun
There is a time and season.
A time to kill.
A time to heal.
A time for a priest to wear a symbol of his good work.
A time for the priest to sell it, and give the produce to the poor.

Truthfully, it would be unloving and rude
To reject the gift, or to sell it.
Does one, after receiving a good gift
Go off and sell it?
No, for such would be an offense against the giver.

John, you're not a hypocrite for having the watch.
That is Christian Pharisaicalism that would scorn you for it.
Christ Himself allowed Mary Magdalene to pour her costliest perfume
On his feet.
If we are to lead by His example,
For shepherding a flock as well as you,
A gift is nothing excessive.
Do not sell it.

The most beautiful movement in history.
It freed every slave.
It gave every man, woman and child a voice.
It prospered billions.
It made its poor fat.
It made skin and gender moot.

And then three hundred years later
A counter revolution arises
Led by the very tyrants
Whom we freed ourselves from.

It wants to revive Feudalism.
It wants no one to have a voice.
It wants the billions to have no self reliance.
It wants all malnourished.
It uses Gender and Skin color as the weapons to revive it.

The most wild conjecture
I can make to validate modern academia's theory about the Bible true
Is that Isaiah II convinced a bunch of 
Completely ignorant people that they were Jews
And then somehow got a license 
From the king to go to a remote
Desert in the middle of the earth.
So, if hypothetically the Bible were written in Persia,
And just thrown together with a bunch of 
Random historical texts, some impromptu prophecy
And some Sumerian Mythology thrown on top of that;

Where was Ezra and Nehemiah written?
Obviously, it had to be written by the Jews
After the fact. And, it catalogs the rebuilding
Of actual walls, the rebuilding of an actual temple;--
And then there's protectorate kingdoms of Persia attacking them
Constantly, who verbatim know these people are Jews.
At the very least, it would be suspect---
That this invented race in that invented moment
Would come to find the ruins of a city
Which was conquered seventy years earlier.
And then, the surrounding people
Knew this invented race,
And decided to harangue it.

There's a lot of assumptions.

Most likely, the Jews had an actual historical
Scripture, an actual lineage of kings from two separate kingdoms,
With a Law infused with Oral Traditions written down by Moses---
Whether they were Sumerian, I'm suspect to think
That the events were shared by many cultures,
As most things which are true are---
So, these stories were preserved by Moses
And handed down to the Jews in accordance with their
Torah, and the Bible really were written over the succession
Of 1300 year prior. I'm even apt to believe
The verse about Cyrus were in the original Isaiah text;
As, certainly, Jesus is in Isaiah too, in the most literal terms
In the 53rd chapter.
It's not hard for me to believe, at all.
What's harder to believe,
Is the series of strange, misshapen events
That don't conform at all to what we know about basic human psychology.

The top nine most inconvenient verses
In the Bible---so an Atheist proclaimed---
He unfolded nine of my favorite verses.

Jesus called the Pharisees fools.
So what? They were fools.
Just like you're a fool.
Yet, he who calls his brother "Raca"
That is "Worthless fellow"
Which translates into "Fool"---
I'm sorry, did I just chink the first third of your video?

Jesus whipping the Temple is a fulfillment of prophecy.
"My house has been made a den of thieves."
And even Jesus displays wrath.
Sorry. I'll get to the rest later, but you're not going to like what I have to say.

Yes, Christians cannot sin.
That is, they cannot commit cardinal sins.
As John says, probably somewhere nearby that same chapter,
Is that there's a sin leading to death,
And a sin which does not lead to death.
The second, Christians do often.
The first is impossible for a Christian,
For the Holy Spirit prevents them, 
Even in some scary supernatural ways.

Which leads to the last.
I have seen amputations healed.
A guy's finger once appeared out of nowhere,
And it was amputated the day before.
And I have seen a few people raised from the dead,
Actually, I've seen blind, deaf mutes healed too.

Those inconvenient verses
Build up the whole testament to my theology.

And, for the last one.
The law shall not pass.
It's still in effect today.
So that those who do not obey it
Will be sentenced to death.
So, as Jeremiah says,
There will be two unchanging covenants.
The Old Covenant and the New Covenant.
Which, if you don't partake of the New,
You automatically are condemned under the old
As the Old is a universal law which binds all men
To God's holy standard.
While the second is a mercy.

All Christians have sinned, and have fallen short of the glory of God.
All Christians deserve a death sentence.
Until Christ's blood washed them,
Which they became sinless,
And sealed with the Spirit full of grace.

The atheist sees evil
And says, "A Good God would never
"Create suffering."

I look at Genesis,
The very book atheists nitpick,
And understand man had acquired 
Judgment.

With this knowledge,
Man understands right from wrong,
Therefore, deserves to suffer.
For, a crime committed by a dog
Is not damnable. For it does not know
Why it commits sin.

Thus, man must be reminded
That this world is imperfect;
That is why there is evil.
Because our lives are purposed
To attain to a better life.
And this life can never be that better life.

On my bookshelf are works such as the Poetic Edda
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Virgil's Aeneid and Horus' Odes and Epodes.
 Like Lewis I'm tempted---yes, it's a temptation---
To reconstruct them. However, with all religions---
Pagan included---there are moral aberrants.

In Odinism, particularly, it was the religion of the Nazi Party.
But, more imperatively---the more enticing religion---
Is Hellenism. Yet, at its core is sin and passion.

It was told to me by a beloved person
That Dionysius was Satan---or the Greek Satan.
Deriving a meaning for Satan,
That Satan is imbued with passion, sexuality, drunkenness.
I have to say that Ovid is full of beautiful scenes.
The Pagan religion enticing the flesh.
I could never be swayed to Odinism, as it's racist---
But, Hellenism I could be swayed to it for its focus
On beauty and passion.
In fact, it was my religion as a child.
Not literally, but in all the passions I had
Pan and Syrinx, or Byblis' love for Caunus
Came closest. I was unbridled---
Much was my proclivity toward passion.
And that is what the Greek Religion is
Is a celebration of human passion.
Feeling the liquor of pure emotions---
Whatever is their source.

In my adulthood, I realize that this was precisely 
The dirty thing I abhorred most.
I was overwhelmed with Peace---
And that peace came from loving Jorgia.
Not to say that Jorgia was my God---
But, that the feeling of Peace became 
The highest form for religious emotion.
It's the thing I'm bringing men to in my writing.
I find in the Christian religion---
Its mythology, its architecture, 
Its music, its painting, its worship
Its religion, its cultural impact,
That it best reflects the peace I found through Jorgia.
Prior to that, I had not known it---
I was much like Ovid's depictions
Filled with enraged passions.
It was in effect my religion---
That of Eros, but Jorgia brought me knowledge
Of something deeper than Eros.
She brought me knowledge of peace.
And imbued in that peace came direct communion with God.
It was far superior.

So, I reject Hellenism and Odinism
Odinism for the reason that it killed 14,000,000 people
On its last manifestation.
Hellenism because it is the religion of the world
As it exists today---and that religion is passion
Without recourse to law.

Looking at my villain in Hail Britannica.
I find the prefix in French, "a" which means without.
I find the suffix "lle" which means she.
Yet, of the "sti" I found it rooted in a Danish word.
Yet, that cannot be, though it has to be,
As the word means "Path"
And it must be why I chose it.

But, I remember precisely looking through French Prefix and Suffixes
Somewhere in my Dad's French Book 
To come up with the Portmanteau.
And so I come up with "Astille."
Pronounced " 'a stee yuh"
Yet. I had found it in a French Dictionary
And it wasn't Danish.
Perhaps I chose the chose the Danish word
To portmanteau with the French
To say Astille was not Danish,
So she was not the right path.
Very strange mystery.
But, when I was creating her name,
I was looking over French Etymological suffixes and prefixes
To create a Portmanteau.
Though, I wholly remember making Astille's name
Fully of French origin. Which is a great mystery to me
How this could possibly have happened.

I've studied the Genealogies in scripture.
And they are very, very, very accurate.
Abraham---if you tally up all of the years---
Lived right at the forming of Hammurabi's Code. 
The cult of Aten was founded---and you can do this yourself
I swear---right when Moses lived.

For those who say the Jews didn't exist
Because scholars see evidence of Baal worship
In Canaan---the Bible says that the Jews forgot their religion many times.
The Bible says that Israel worshiped Baal for most of its existence
But the Southern Tribe of Judah stayed for the most part faithful.
We know there was a Southern Tribe because the Tele Dan Stele---
An  Archeological relic---has written on it
Verbatim that Judah had lost a battle, 
And on that stone was written the portmanteau Housedavid
Which this pagan king had won a victory over.
Meaning, Judah was indeed a kingdom.
Yes, the Bible was recompiled in Persia
On its most recent draft---but the Bible 
Claims so when it says several dozen times,
"As it still is to this day."
Meaning the Histories were transcribed
After Cyrus had restored Israel back to Canaan from Babylon.
Cyrus, who was prophesied in Isaiah to be the restorer of Israel's Captivity
Some 200 years beforehand.
I've already established that Israel was a people
Prior to the captivity, so it can only be that the religion 
Was preserved.
It is also recorded that Babylon sacked Jerusalem
In the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicles---
Which is another historical fact.
So, it cannot be claimed like it sometimes is
That Israel or Judah weren't kingdoms prior to Babylonian Captivity.

As for the flood---
Every culture around the world
Has a myth about the global flood.

As for Christ's existence
He most certainly lived.
The Vatican has record of His census
And it has His death certificate
Which the Jews had forged to try and claim Jesus was not the Messiah.
Also, there are references to medical conditions
As yet unknown to the ancient world in the New Testament.
Jesus sweat blood. It's a condition called "hematohidrosis".
And Jesus died of a Heart Attack, because
When He was pierced, water flowed from His wound.
This is consistent with a heart attack
Where the water lining of the internal organs is damaged.
This also could only occur if Christ had truly died.

As for the resurrection,
Men who had personally known Jesus
Were willing to die over the testimony that He raised from the dead;
They were crucified, burnt, impaled,
Stoned, suffered persecution
For the testimony that He had risen from the dead.
Men will not suffer long for a lie.
They just won't.
But, these men suffered and died,
So they must have been eyewitnesses to His resurrection.

As for the record in Genesis,
God is all powerful.
The rest of these facts should overshadow
Any insipid doubt about how God could create the world in six days.
God is God. Meaning He can turn water into wine
Raise the dead, heal the blind, deaf and mute
And that also means alter time and matter.
He changed simple H20 into the magnificently complex chemical composition of wine.
Any doubt to the matter of how God could have created the world
Is a un-imaginative assumption.
God conceived Christ through a Virgin
Which is prophesied in the scripture.

Also, Christ's crucifixion and death are prophesied
In plain terms, in Isaiah 53 and Psalm 2 and 22.
The fact that God was going to change the Law is prophesied in Jeremiah 31.
It's also true that in Deuteronomy, the curses
Over Israel were fully satisfied by the captivity and sacking of Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar;
Which is a matter of historical fact, preserved in the Babylonian scrolls of the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle.
Isaiah 53 is verbatim in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Meaning it, too, existed prior to Christ.
Meaning the prophet did actually predict Christ.

As for the morality of Christianity
It is proven independently by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Mozi, Confucius, Lao Tsu, Maimonides,
And many other great sages in history finding aspects of the Christian truth.
It was revealed in part through many religions, which veiled the truth as they mingled with God
Unknowingly, but was fully revealed by God through direct communion with Prophets.

God, to be just, had to reveal His law through His prophets.
So, He first revealed it through Abraham,
Inspiring what academics have called the "Cult of Righteousness"
To then Moses who chiseled them down upon stone
And finally Christ, God Himself, spoke the full revelation of God's Law.
This was so none would be without the knowledge of what is demanded from man by God.
For, if God were good, and seeing it takes geniuses to find even a small portions of moral truth,
God would have to reveal Himself through revelatory visions to men and women
Throughout History to inspire Law.
And He did just that through the Prophets and Moses, and finally through His Son Jesus Christ
And the Apostles.
For, the morality laid down by Christ is quantifiably the best in existence, and it is testable;
It produced the happiest civilization in history,
For as that civilization fell away from its belief in God
It had gotten ever worse, until now it is like the rest of the world.

This is the evidence that God is Jesus.

I love Classic Rock
Rock and Roll
Doo Whap
Motown
Swing Era Jazz
Smooth Jazz
Johnny Cash and Hank Williams Sr. Country
Classical
Gospel Hymns
Blue Grass Gospel 
Choral Music
90s Techno
Alessia Cara and Ruth B. esque Pop Music
Screamo

My favorite bands are 

The Eagles
CCR
2 Unlimited
Green Day
Jimmy Durante
Nat King Cole
Louis Armstrong
Steve Miller Band
Alessia Cara
Ruth B.
Tchaikovsky
Chesnakov
Bob Marley
Foreigner

My Favorite Albums are

21st Century Break Down - Green Day
American Idiot - Green Day
Hillsong's White Album - Hillsong Worship
A Thousand Suns - Lincoln Park
Follie á Deux - Fallout Boy 
The Resistance - Muse

My Favorite Songs 

Hotel California - The Eagles
Proud Mary - CCR
Separate Ways - Journey
Working in a Coal Mine - Dobie Grey
Du Hast Mich - Ramstein
Tribal Dance - 2 Unlimited
Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
American Pie - Don McLean
We Don't Need No Education - Pink Floyd
Money - Pink Floyd
Kokomos - Beach Boys
Serenade - Steve Miller Band
Jesus is Just Alright - Doobie Brothers
Drift Away - Dobie Grey
Lost Boy - Ruth B.
As Time Goes By - Jimmie Durante
Amazing Grace
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Be Still My Soul
I've Got a Friend in Jesus
'Round Midnight - Charlie Parker
Go Down Moses - Louis Armstrong
Three Little Birds - Bob Marley
Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bobby Farren
Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Old Curtis Lowe - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
James Brown is Dead  - L.A. Style
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Do You Feel Like I Do - Peter Frampton
I'm a Believer - The Monkeys
Daydream Believer - The Monkeys
Hey Hey We're the Monkeys - The Monkeys