every time i saw him , i am thinking of sex , please advice me how to get rid of it , i cant help my self , i always want to have sex with him , every time i saw him , anyone can give me step by step how to overcome this feeling , please please please .Every time i saw him , i am thinking of sex , please advice me how to get rid of it?
Do it NOW!Every time i saw him , i am thinking of sex , please advice me how to get rid of it?
The reason you having that feeling is that you always put your mind on sex so when you see something related to it then you want it.I suggest you keep you mind on some other thing such as shopping with your friends,travelling or doing some thing about commonweal to experience dfferent feeling.You can get rid of it if you make decision to do it.the problem is whether you have made strong decision.wish you success and have other good things in your life.
Since you didn't say who he is, its hard to say what is the appropriate way to act with him
For yourself though, it sounds like your mind is putting you up to things you know you shouldn't be doing.
please try this when you feel overwhelmed by those thoughts.
Mediation technique
We experience life through our mind.
Experiences are what they are, but the mind often puts a new spin on them, making them seem worse at times.
Meditation is all about controlling you mind rather than being controlled by it.
It is difficult to directly approach the mind and tame it, so we start by approaching the nearest manifestation of it- breath.
It can be seen that when we have tremendous concentration we are not breathing as regularly, and when upset breath shallow and rapid.
How to do this.
Begin by becoming aware of your breath.
With each inhalation pay attention to the air entering you right nostril(air will enter both,but focus on the column of air in the right side)
Exhale and pay attention to the column leaving your left nostril.
Inhale and pay attention to air entering the left nostril
Exhale and pay attention to air exiting the right nostril.
Then breath deep and feel the air in both sides rise up to the tip of your nose(like an inverted V ),
and push it all out(feeling both sides).
This is one cycle, you can do up to 100 in a day.
It is a simple game to keep the mind busy(if you loose track on count restart), and off the things it can't change with worry(realistically everything).
As you get better at this you'll be able to identify a space between your thoughts. As that awareness deepens you'll feel a peace when it arises. And soon you should be able to identify yourself as that peace rather than your mind.
Keep yourself physically distant.
If you have to be around him, then keep thoughts opposing sex in your head(you will have to wrestle the mind for control).
Good luck.
All of God's creatures are here to make birthday suits for HIS souls. I hope your fella feels the same way and brings them up.
Just do it till you can't anymore.
you have needs, satisfy them.
do it
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Me and my friend are going to take up mountaining boarding does and one have any advice on what to get?
and were to get in via the internet in the U.KMe and my friend are going to take up mountaining boarding does and one have any advice on what to get?
me brother and me live in the us so i dont know if you have these... but every four years they hold this boy scout thing... lots of people and lots of cool toys. after the week or whatever is done... they sell all the equipment for nothing. we got a few mountain boards and some brakes. thats all i think ya need i think.... well that and a huge roll of bubblewrap.Me and my friend are going to take up mountaining boarding does and one have any advice on what to get?
the best helmet and insurance plan that you can buy as you will need them both
break a leg
Whoa!!!!!!!!!napoleon perdis
me brother and me live in the us so i dont know if you have these... but every four years they hold this boy scout thing... lots of people and lots of cool toys. after the week or whatever is done... they sell all the equipment for nothing. we got a few mountain boards and some brakes. thats all i think ya need i think.... well that and a huge roll of bubblewrap.Me and my friend are going to take up mountaining boarding does and one have any advice on what to get?
the best helmet and insurance plan that you can buy as you will need them both
break a leg
Whoa!!!!!!!!!
Can i get pregnant?!!! NEED ADVICE?
well me and my boyfriend were messin around unprotected....he stuck his penis inside me 4 times then took it out.....that was it, is it possible that i may be pregnant.......Can i get pregnant?!!! NEED ADVICE?
Any time a fertile man's penis enters a fertile woman's vagina (even without ejaculation) pregnancy can occur!Can i get pregnant?!!! NEED ADVICE?
lol
For ladies there is an ovulation time, ovam is produced and it will come to the uterus for fertilization and wait there for 24 hours. It will happen once in a month normally. If you had the sex at this time one day before or one day after this, there is chance . Even if he withdrew at the time of ijaculation some pre come might have gone inside unknowingly. So the best thing is to see a doctor and use some pills on his advice if you don't want to be pregnent at this time.
yup....pre-***. but....its best to just buy a preg-tester.
Did he put it in your ear? if he did your stuffed!!!
Yes there is a possibility you may be pregnant it doesn't take alot of sperm to get you pregnant (and he might have pre-ejaculated without you knowing or him either...)
HAVE A TEST.
*slap*
THEN WEAR CONDOMS!
HAHAHA 2 points allllright NO
you counted?...lol...but yea theres a chance you could be...you should take a test in a few days
theres a chance unfortunately :( a guy gets pre-come which comes out of his penis before he comes. your probably fine but theres still a chance so get urself down the docs to be safe.
and tell him to not be a prat like that again
if he had an orgazum win he was doing that then some sperm mite have came out with out him even knowing it.
Maybe . . . You may need to get checked though.
You do know that condoms aren't just for avoiding getting prganant, don't you??
Maybe you should get checked out for something else too . . .
Yes, it is possible you could be pregnant. Congratulations on your pending arrival!!
yes it is.
rofl that has to be the dumbest thing ever he was like ';readdy for this'; then u were like ';ooooohhhh..... 1 ooooohhh..... 2 oooohhhh...... 3 ooooohhhh....... 4, are you done yet? i think im pregnant'; hahaha idiots
Any time a fertile man's penis enters a fertile woman's vagina (even without ejaculation) pregnancy can occur!Can i get pregnant?!!! NEED ADVICE?
lol
For ladies there is an ovulation time, ovam is produced and it will come to the uterus for fertilization and wait there for 24 hours. It will happen once in a month normally. If you had the sex at this time one day before or one day after this, there is chance . Even if he withdrew at the time of ijaculation some pre come might have gone inside unknowingly. So the best thing is to see a doctor and use some pills on his advice if you don't want to be pregnent at this time.
yup....pre-***. but....its best to just buy a preg-tester.
Did he put it in your ear? if he did your stuffed!!!
Yes there is a possibility you may be pregnant it doesn't take alot of sperm to get you pregnant (and he might have pre-ejaculated without you knowing or him either...)
HAVE A TEST.
*slap*
THEN WEAR CONDOMS!
HAHAHA 2 points allllright NO
you counted?...lol...but yea theres a chance you could be...you should take a test in a few days
theres a chance unfortunately :( a guy gets pre-come which comes out of his penis before he comes. your probably fine but theres still a chance so get urself down the docs to be safe.
and tell him to not be a prat like that again
if he had an orgazum win he was doing that then some sperm mite have came out with out him even knowing it.
Maybe . . . You may need to get checked though.
You do know that condoms aren't just for avoiding getting prganant, don't you??
Maybe you should get checked out for something else too . . .
Yes, it is possible you could be pregnant. Congratulations on your pending arrival!!
yes it is.
rofl that has to be the dumbest thing ever he was like ';readdy for this'; then u were like ';ooooohhhh..... 1 ooooohhh..... 2 oooohhhh...... 3 ooooohhhh....... 4, are you done yet? i think im pregnant'; hahaha idiots
Trying to get pregnant!! any advice is welcome!!!?
Hi, i am trying to understand all of this pregnancy stuff. ovulatoin is something i really never took time to understand until now that is!!! so if the first day of my last menstral was july 1st, i should be ovulating lnow, right???what else should i do to get pregnant???besides a healthy diet, excrcise what else should i be doing????Trying to get pregnant!! any advice is welcome!!!?
The simplest thing you can do is to monitor your cycles. Note the day you start your period (cycle day 1) and how many days until the onset of your next period. Average female experiences 27-30 day cycles. You can ovulate anywhere within the middle of your cycle, usually cycle day 12-16 if you are normal. You can use ovulation predictor kits, which will tell you about 24 hours before ovulation. You can check for cervical mucus, which shows up a few days before ovulation or the day of ovulation. You could also check your basel body temperature, but it isn't recommended by most doctors because you will have to do it for a few cycles to find your pattern and the temperature change isn't noticable until AFTER you actually ovulate.
The egg stays alive for about 24-48 hours after ovulation. Sperm can live about 3 days, up to 5 days. It is about a 2 day passage from the point of ejaculation to the egg. Intercourse is best starting a few days before ovulation, and the day of ovulation. Anything after or too early won't meet a live egg or will die before it gets a chance.
Exercise moderately. extreme exercise can interrupt your cycles and prevent ovulation, as well as causing impact stress on your ovaries (from running or biking a lot). Start taking prenatal viatmins. And RELAX!!! Stress is one of the worst causes of hormonal issues because the only cure is resting your mind.Trying to get pregnant!! any advice is welcome!!!?
Go buy an ovulation predictor test. Make sure you have your schedule down to a science. Knowing when you are supposed to start, and take prenatal vitamins just in case. Oh a massage to alleviate stress could do the trick. Don't try to hard because it just won't happen.
Start taking pre-natal vitamins.
There is an online chart that you can track your body temperature; i have done this.
Do you have insurance? If so, visit the doctor.
Oh I'm so excited to help you with this question!!!
I've been reading this great book, very detailed and explained everything that I had questions about. It's called, TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR FERTILITY. There are charts, info about our bodies, and how to tell when you're ovulating.
I've also found that the website, FERTILITY FRIEND, is a great site to chart your temperatures it you don't want to use the paper/pencil charting from that book.
Good luck!
If your last menstrual was July 1st you already ovulated, its usually about 12-14 days after LMP. You would have noticed the CM and feeling ';wet';. Right now you would be in your two week wait stage. You could still have a chance, so if you'd like, start having sex today and then maybe every other day until your period.
Just try to relax and not think abou it too much...I know its hard to do that since, if you're like me, you end up here everyday.
I absolutly LOVE these 2 sites check them out!
two week wait has ttc boards so you can get info on everything you need!
Free basal body temp charts too!
Goodluck!
The simplest thing you can do is to monitor your cycles. Note the day you start your period (cycle day 1) and how many days until the onset of your next period. Average female experiences 27-30 day cycles. You can ovulate anywhere within the middle of your cycle, usually cycle day 12-16 if you are normal. You can use ovulation predictor kits, which will tell you about 24 hours before ovulation. You can check for cervical mucus, which shows up a few days before ovulation or the day of ovulation. You could also check your basel body temperature, but it isn't recommended by most doctors because you will have to do it for a few cycles to find your pattern and the temperature change isn't noticable until AFTER you actually ovulate.
The egg stays alive for about 24-48 hours after ovulation. Sperm can live about 3 days, up to 5 days. It is about a 2 day passage from the point of ejaculation to the egg. Intercourse is best starting a few days before ovulation, and the day of ovulation. Anything after or too early won't meet a live egg or will die before it gets a chance.
Exercise moderately. extreme exercise can interrupt your cycles and prevent ovulation, as well as causing impact stress on your ovaries (from running or biking a lot). Start taking prenatal viatmins. And RELAX!!! Stress is one of the worst causes of hormonal issues because the only cure is resting your mind.Trying to get pregnant!! any advice is welcome!!!?
Go buy an ovulation predictor test. Make sure you have your schedule down to a science. Knowing when you are supposed to start, and take prenatal vitamins just in case. Oh a massage to alleviate stress could do the trick. Don't try to hard because it just won't happen.
Start taking pre-natal vitamins.
There is an online chart that you can track your body temperature; i have done this.
Do you have insurance? If so, visit the doctor.
Oh I'm so excited to help you with this question!!!
I've been reading this great book, very detailed and explained everything that I had questions about. It's called, TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR FERTILITY. There are charts, info about our bodies, and how to tell when you're ovulating.
I've also found that the website, FERTILITY FRIEND, is a great site to chart your temperatures it you don't want to use the paper/pencil charting from that book.
Good luck!
If your last menstrual was July 1st you already ovulated, its usually about 12-14 days after LMP. You would have noticed the CM and feeling ';wet';. Right now you would be in your two week wait stage. You could still have a chance, so if you'd like, start having sex today and then maybe every other day until your period.
Just try to relax and not think abou it too much...I know its hard to do that since, if you're like me, you end up here everyday.
I absolutly LOVE these 2 sites check them out!
two week wait has ttc boards so you can get info on everything you need!
Free basal body temp charts too!
Goodluck!
Can I get some biblical advice from any of you fairly well-read in Scripture...?
I'm looking for some old testament passages that deal with Israel's rebellion and their mingling with other nations or cultures, and maybe any resulting punishments form the Lord. Thanks....Can I get some biblical advice from any of you fairly well-read in Scripture...?
Probably the clearest passages would be, first, 2 Kings 17:7-23. This is a commentary on why the northern kingdom of Israel fell (because they rebelled and mingled with other nations and idolatry).
Another is found in 2 Kings 22:14-20. Here is the punishment predicted against the southern kingdom of Judah.
Joel speaks about a plague of locusts as a judgment from the Lord.
Jeremiah and Ezekiel both preach a message of judgment before and during the time of the exile.
Especially try reading Hosea 1-3. Here Israel's rebellion is pictured in the marriage of Hosea to Gomer. Gomer becomes a prostitute and leaves Hosea, just as Israel mingles with other nations and leaves God.Can I get some biblical advice from any of you fairly well-read in Scripture...?
Read the books of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah. The book of Hosea is an example of how Israel prostituted against God. Gomer is pictured as the unfaithful Israel.
You might want to look into the Minor Prophets... especially anything dealing with Nehemiah or Zechariah. Nehemiah was the prophet that rebuilt the city of Jerusalem which was a direct result of the rebellion caused by the false gods of the people originally in the land. Some of the Psalms also deal with the problems of that time.
As Jehovah had indicated to Abraham, his descendants, the Israelites, became alien residents in a land not theirs, namely Egypt, and suffered affliction there. (Ge 15:13) In Egypt they came in contact with rank idolatry, for image making ran riot in that country. Many of the deities worshiped there were represented by animal heads, among them being the cat-headed Bast, the cow-headed Hathor, the falcon-headed Horus, the jackal-headed Anubis and the ibis-headed Thoth, to name but a few. Creatures of sea, air, and land were venerated, and at death “sacred” animals were mummified.
The Law that Jehovah gave to his people after liberating them from Egypt was explicitly directed against idolatrous practices so prevalent among the ancients. The second of the Ten Commandments expressly prohibited making for worship a carved image or a representation of anything in the heavens, on the earth, or in the waters. (Ex 20:4, 5; De 5:8, 9) In his final exhortations to the Israelites, Moses emphasized the impossibility of making an image of the true God and warned them to beware of the snare of idolatry. (De 4:15-19) To further safeguard the Israelites from becoming idolaters, they were commanded not to conclude any covenant with the pagan inhabitants of the land they were entering or to form marriage alliances with them, but to annihilate them. All existing appendages of idolatry—altars, sacred pillars, sacred poles, and graven images—were to be destroyed.—De 7:2-5.
Moses’ successor Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem and admonished them to remove the false gods and to serve Jehovah faithfully. The people agreed to do so and continued serving Jehovah during his lifetime and that of the older men who extended their days after Joshua. (Jos 24:14-16, 31) But thereafter wholesale apostasy set in. The people began worshiping Canaanite deities—Baal, Ashtoreth, and the sacred pole, or Asherah. Hence, Jehovah abandoned the Israelites into the hands of their enemies. However, when they repented, he mercifully raised up judges to deliver them.—Jg 2:11-19; 3:7
Under the rule of the kings. During the reigns of Israel’s first king, Saul, of his son Ish-bosheth, and of David, there is no mention of large-scale idolatry being engaged in by the Israelites. Nevertheless, there are indications that idolatry lingered on in the kingdom. Saul’s own daughter, Michal, for instance, had a teraphim image in her possession. 1Sa 19:13; It was not until the latter part of the reign of David’s son Solomon, however, that outright idolatry came to be practiced, the monarch himself, under the influence of his many foreign wives, giving the impetus to idolatry by sanctioning it. High places were built to Ashtoreth, Chemosh, and Milcom, or Molech. The people in general succumbed to false worship and began bowing down to these idol gods.—1Ki 11:3-8, 33; 2Ki 23:13
On account of this idolatry, Jehovah ripped ten tribes away from Solomon’s son Rehoboam and gave these to Jeroboam. (1Ki 11:31-35; 12:19-24) Although assured that his kingdom would remain firm if he continued serving Jehovah in faithfulness, Jeroboam, on becoming king, instituted calf worship, fearing that the people would revolt against his rule if they continued going to Jerusalem for worship. (1Ki 11:38; 12:26-33) Idolatrous calf worship continued all the days the ten-tribe kingdom existed, with Tyrian Baalism being introduced during Ahab’s reign. (1Ki 16:30-33) Not all apostatized, however. While Ahab reigned, there still was a remnant of 7,000 who had neither bent the knee to nor kissed Baal, and this at a time when Jehovah’s prophets were being killed with the sword, doubtless at the instigation of Ahab’s wife Jezebel.—1Ki 19:1, 2, 14, 18; Ro 11:4
With the exception of Jehu’s eradication of Baal worship (2Ki 10:20-28), there is no record of any religious reform being undertaken by a monarch of the ten-tribe kingdom. To the prophets repeatedly sent by Jehovah, the people and rulers of the northern kingdom gave no heed, so that finally the Almighty abandoned them into the hands of the Assyrians because of their sordid record of idolatry.—2Ki 17:7-23.
In the kingdom of Judah, the situation was not much different, aside from the reforms carried out by certain kings. Whereas a divided kingdom had come about as a direct result of idolatry, Solomon’s son Rehoboam did not take to heart Jehovah’s discipline and shun idolatry. As soon as his position was secure, he and all Judah with him apostatized. (2Ch 12:1) The people built high places, equipping these with sacred pillars and sacred poles, and engaged in ceremonial prostitution. (1Ki 14:23, 24) Although Abijam (Abijah) expressed faith in Jehovah at the time he warred against Jeroboam and was blessed with victory, to a large extent he imitated the sinful course of his father and predecessor on the throne, Rehoboam.—1Ki 15:1, 3; 2Ch 13:3-18.
The next two Judean kings, Asa and Jehoshaphat, served Jehovah in faithfulness and endeavored to rid the kingdom of idolatry. But Judah was so steeped in worship at high places that, despite the efforts of both of these kings to destroy them, the high places seem to have persisted secretly or they cropped up again.—1Ki 15:11-14; 22:42, 43; 2Ch 14:2-5; 17:5, 6; 20:31-33.
The reign of Judah’s next king, Jehoram, commenced with bloodshed and began a new chapter in Judah’s idolatry. This is attributed to his having idolatrous Ahab’s daughter, Athaliah, as wife. (2Ch 21:1-4, 6, 11) The queen mother Athaliah also proved to be the counselor to Jehoram’s son Ahaziah. Hence, during the rule of Ahaziah and that of the usurper Athaliah, idolatry continued with the approval of the crown.—2Ch 22:1-3, 12.
Early in the reign of Jehoash, following the execution of Athaliah, there was a restoration of true worship. But upon the death of High Priest Jehoiada, there was a return to idol worship at the instigation of Judah’s princes. (2Ki 12:2, 3; 2Ch 24:17, 18) Jehovah therefore abandoned the Judean forces into the hands of the invading Syrians, and Jehoash was murdered by his own servants.—2Ch 24:23-25.
Undoubtedly the execution of God’s judgment upon Judah and the violent death of Amaziah’s father Jehoash made a deep impression upon Amaziah, so that he proceeded at first to do what was right in Jehovah’s eyes. (2Ch 25:1-4) But after defeating the Edomites and taking their images, he began serving the gods of his vanquished foes. (2Ch 25:14) Retribution came when Judah was defeated by the ten-tribe kingdom and later when Amaziah was murdered by conspirators. (2Ch 25:20-24, 27) Although Azariah (Uzziah) and his son Jotham are reported generally to have done what was right in Jehovah’s eyes, their subjects persisted in idolatry at the high places.—2Ki 15:1-4, 32-35; 2Ch 26:3, 4, 16-18; 27:1, 2.
During the kingship of Jotham’s son Ahaz, Judah’s religious state reached a new low. Ahaz began to practice idolatry on a scale never known before in Judah; he was the first-reported Judean king to have sacrificed his offspring in the fire as a false religious act. (2Ki 16:1-4; 2Ch 28:1-4) Jehovah chastised Judah by means of defeats at the hands of their enemies. Ahaz, instead of repenting, concluded that the gods of the kings of Syria were giving them the victory and therefore decided to sacrifice to these deities so that they might also help him. (2Ch 28:5, 23) Furthermore, the doors of Jehovah’s temple were closed, and its utensils were cut to pieces.—2Ch 28:24.
While Ahaz did not benefit from Jehovah’s discipline, his son Hezekiah did. (2Ch 29:1, 5-11) In the very first year of his becoming king, Hezekiah restored the true worship of Jehovah. (2Ch 29:3) His reign saw the destruction of appendages of false worship not only in Judah and Benjamin but also in Ephraim and Manasseh.—2Ch 31:1.
But Hezekiah’s own son Manasseh completely revived idolatry. (2Ki 21:1-7; 2Ch 33:1-7) As to the reasons for this, the Bible record is silent. Manasseh, who began ruling as a 12-year-old, may have been wrongly directed initially by counselors and princes not exclusively devoted to Jehovah’s service. Unlike Ahaz, though, Manasseh, as a captive in Babylon, repented upon receiving this severe discipline from Jehovah and undertook reforms upon returning to Jerusalem. (2Ch 33:10-16) His son Amon, however, reverted to sacrificing to the graven images.—2Ch 33:21-24.
Next came Josiah’s rule and a thorough eradication of idolatry in Judah. The sites of idolatrous worship were desecrated there and even in the cities of Samaria. The foreign-god priests and those making sacrificial smoke to Baal, as well as to the sun, the moon, the constellations of the zodiac, and all the army of the heavens, were put out of business. (2Ki 23:4-27; 2Ch 34:1-5) Still this large-scale campaign against idolatry did not effect permanent reform. The last four Judean kings, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah, persisted in idolatry.—2Ki 23:31, 32, 36, 37; 24:8, 9, 18, 19
The references to idolatry in the writings of the prophets further cast light on what occurred during the last years of the kingdom of Judah. Sites of idolatry, ceremonial prostitution, and child sacrifice continued to exist. (Jer 3:6; 17:1-3; 19:2-5; 32:29, 35; Eze 6:3, 4) Even Levites were guilty of practicing idolatry. (Eze 44:10, 12, 13) Ezekiel, transported in vision to Jerusalem’s temple, there saw a detestable idol, “the symbol of jealousy,” and the veneration of representations of creeping things and loathsome beasts, as well as the according of reverence to the false god Tammuz and the sun.—Eze 8:3, 7-16.
Despite the fact that the Israelites adored idols to the point of sacrificing their own children, they carried on a semblance of worshiping Jehovah and reasoned that no calamity would befall them. (Jer 7:4, 8-12; Eze 23:36-39) So empty-headed had the people in general become by reason of their pursuit of idolatry that when calamity did come and Jerusalem was desolated by the Babylonians in 607 B.C.E., in fulfillment of Jehovah’s word, they attributed it to their failure to make sacrificial smoke and drink offerings to the “queen of the heavens.”—Jer 44:15-18;
There were a number of factors that caused so many Israelites repeatedly to abandon true worship. Being one of the works of the flesh, idolatry appealed to the desires of the flesh. (Ga 5:19-21) Once settled in the Promised Land, the Israelites may have observed their pagan neighbors, whom they had failed to drive out entirely, having good success with their crops by reason of longer experience in working the land. Likely many made inquiry and heeded the advice of their Canaanite neighbors as to what was needed to please the Baal, or “owner,” of each piece of land.—Ps 106:34-39.
Forming marriage alliances with idolaters was another inducement to apostatize. (Jg 3:5, 6) The unrestrained sexual indulgence associated with idolatry proved to be no little temptation. At Shittim on the Plains of Moab, for instance, thousands of Israelites yielded to immorality and engaged in false worship. (Nu 22:1; 25:1-3) To some, being able to give way to unrestrained drinking at the sanctuaries of false gods may have been tempting.—Am 2:8.
Then there was the attraction of supposedly learning what the future had in store, this stemming from a desire to be assured that all would go well. Examples of this are Saul’s consulting a spirit medium and Ahaziah’s sending to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron.—1Sa 28:6-11; 2Ki 1:2, 3.
Time and again the Scriptures call attention to the foolishness of relying on gods of wood, stone, or metal. Isaiah describes the manufacture of idols and shows the stupidity of a person who uses part of the wood of a tree to cook his food and to warm himself and then makes the remainder into a god to whom he looks for aid. (Isa 44:9-20) In the day of Jehovah’s fury, wrote Isaiah, false worshipers would throw their worthless idols to the shrewmice and to the bats. (Isa 2:19-21) “Woe to the one saying to the piece of wood: ‘O do awake!’ to a dumb stone: ‘O wake up!’” (Hab 2:19) Those making dumb idols will become just like them, that is, lifeless.—Ps 115:4-8; 135:15-18; see Re 9:20.
Faithful servants of Jehovah have always regarded idols with abhorrence. In Scripture, false gods and idols are repeatedly referred to in contemptible terms, as being valueless (1Ch 16:26; Ps 96:5; 97:7), horrible (1Ki 15:13; 2Ch 15:16), shameful (Jer 11:13; Ho 9:10), detestable (Eze 16:36, 37), and disgusting (Eze 37:23). Often mention is made of “dungy idols,” this expression being a rendering of the Hebrew word gil·lu·lim′, which is related to a word meaning “dung.” (1Ki 14:10; Zep 1:17) This term of contempt, first appearing at Leviticus 26:30, is found nearly 40 times in the book of Ezekiel alone, beginning with chapter 6, verse 4.
Faithful Job recognized that even if his heart became enticed in secrecy at beholding heavenly bodies such as the moon and his ‘hand proceeded to kiss his mouth’ (apparently alluding to throwing a kiss with the hand in an idolatrous practice), this would have constituted a denial of God, hence idolatry. (Job 31:26-28; compare De 4:15, 19.) With reference to a practicer of righteousness, Jehovah said through the prophet Ezekiel, “His eyes he did not raise to the dungy idols of the house of Israel,” that is, to offer supplication to them or in expectation of help from them.—Eze 18:5, 6.
Another fine example of shunning idolatry was that of the three Hebrews, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who, although threatened with death in the fiery furnace, refused to bow before the image of gold erected by King Nebuchadnezzar in the Plain of Dura.—Da 3.
Much of the Old Testament chronicles the ever-present rebellion of God's people...such a sad way for them to act. Check out Exodus 16:12-20, Exodus 32:1-35, Numbers, chapters 13 and 14, Numbers chapter 16, Numbers 30:12, Numbers 25:1-5, Deut. 1:34-40, Deut. 9:6. The book of Judges has a lot also, chapter 2:11-15, chapter 8:33-35. This book repeatedly tells how the Israelites did 'what was right in their own eyes' instead of following God.
You might also want to read in the New Testament, Hebrews 3:7-19, which looks back on the history of the Israelites!
I hope this helps ! Blessings !!
Try the ';homework help'; category....
there are so many try jermiah or isiah I am sure if you read a chapter or to you would find some.
read Nehemiah 13.there is a punishment coming to those in Israel who call themselves Jews.even they know that this is soon to come to pass.just ask what they call a rabbi.';Behold,the day of the Lord cometh,and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.for I will gather ALL nations against Jerusalem to battle;and the city shall be taken,and the houses rifled,and the woman ravished;and half of the city shall go forth into captivity,and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.';zech14:1-2 .you would do well to read the rest of this chapter.most of the so-called Jews that are there today are of the same heart,as when they killed the Christ.these are not as people believe,unless they believe on the lord God Jesus Christ, repent,get baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins none can be saved.there future is indeed sad,at best.peace.
you don't have to read very far to find passages dealing with Israel's rebellion. it's a common occurrence... then they repent... God restores... the nation rebels... and back to the cycle again... and again.
Due to the fact that these
Christians use the Protestant Old Testament which is lacking 7 entire books 2 (Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus/Sirach, Baruch, I Maccabees, and II Maccabees), 3 chapters of Daniel and 6 chapters of Esther may be one of the reasons they ask catholics so many questions.
For the Sola Scriptura this is too bad .
In the 16th c., Luther removed those books from the canon that lent support to orthodox doctrine, relegating them to an appendix. Removed in this way were books that supported such things as:
prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45),
Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7),
intercession of dead saints (2 Maccabees 15:14),
and intercession of angels as intermediaries (Tobit 12:12-15).
The lesson, though, is this: relying on the ';Bible alone'; is a bad idea; we are not to rely solely on Sacred Scripture to understand Christ's message. While Scripture is ';given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness'; (2 Timothy 3:16-17), it is not sufficient for reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness. It is the Church that is the ';pillar and ground of Truth'; (1 Timothy 3:15)! Jesus did not come to write a book; He came to redeem us, and He founded a Sacramental Church through His apostles to show us the way. It is to them, to the Church Fathers, to the Sacred Deposit of Faith, to the living Church that is guided by the Holy Spirit, and to Scripture that we must prayerfully look.
The deuterocanonicals teach Catholic doctrine, and for this reason they were taken out of the Old Testament by Martin Luther and placed in an appendix without page numbers. Luther also took out four New Testament books -- Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation -- and put them in an appendix without page numbers as well. These were later put back into the New Testament by other Protestants, but the seven books of the Old Testament were left out. Following Luther they had been left in an appendix to the Old Testament, and eventually the appendix itself was dropped (in 1827 by the British and Foreign Bible Society), which is why these books are not found at all in most contemporary Protestant Bibles, though they were appendicized in classic Protestant translations such as the King James Version.
The reason they were dropped is that they teach Catholic doctrines that the Protestant Reformers chose to reject. Earlier we cited an example where the book of Hebrews holds up to us an Old Testament example from 2 Maccabees 7, an incident not to be found anywhere in the Protestant Bible, but easily discoverable in the Catholic Bible. Why would Martin Luther cut out this book when it is so clearly held up as an example to us by the New Testament? Simple: A few chapters later it endorses the practice of praying for the dead so that they may be freed from the consequences of their sins (2 Macc. 12:41-45); in other words, the Catholic doctrine of purgatory. Since Luther chose to reject the historic Christian teaching of purgatory (which dates from before the time of Christ, as 2 Maccabees shows), he had to remove that book from the Bible and appendicize it. (Notice that he also removed Hebrews, the book which cites 2 Maccabees, to an appendix as well.)
To justify this rejection of books that had been in the Bible since before the days of the apostles (for the Septuagint was written before the apostles), the early Protestants cited as their chief reason the fact that the Jews of their day did not honor these books, going back to the council of Javneh in A.D. 90. But the Reformers were aware of only European Jews; they were unaware of African Jews, such as the Ethiopian Jews who accept the deuterocanonicals as part of their Bible. They glossed over the references to the deuterocanonicals in the New Testament, as well as its use of the Septuagint. They ignored the fact that there were multiple canons of the Jewish Scriptures circulating in first century, appealing to a post-Christian Jewish council which has no authority over Christians as evidence that ';The Jews don't except these books.'; In short, they went to enormous lengths to rationalize their rejection of these books of the Bible.
Probably the clearest passages would be, first, 2 Kings 17:7-23. This is a commentary on why the northern kingdom of Israel fell (because they rebelled and mingled with other nations and idolatry).
Another is found in 2 Kings 22:14-20. Here is the punishment predicted against the southern kingdom of Judah.
Joel speaks about a plague of locusts as a judgment from the Lord.
Jeremiah and Ezekiel both preach a message of judgment before and during the time of the exile.
Especially try reading Hosea 1-3. Here Israel's rebellion is pictured in the marriage of Hosea to Gomer. Gomer becomes a prostitute and leaves Hosea, just as Israel mingles with other nations and leaves God.Can I get some biblical advice from any of you fairly well-read in Scripture...?
Read the books of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah. The book of Hosea is an example of how Israel prostituted against God. Gomer is pictured as the unfaithful Israel.
You might want to look into the Minor Prophets... especially anything dealing with Nehemiah or Zechariah. Nehemiah was the prophet that rebuilt the city of Jerusalem which was a direct result of the rebellion caused by the false gods of the people originally in the land. Some of the Psalms also deal with the problems of that time.
As Jehovah had indicated to Abraham, his descendants, the Israelites, became alien residents in a land not theirs, namely Egypt, and suffered affliction there. (Ge 15:13) In Egypt they came in contact with rank idolatry, for image making ran riot in that country. Many of the deities worshiped there were represented by animal heads, among them being the cat-headed Bast, the cow-headed Hathor, the falcon-headed Horus, the jackal-headed Anubis and the ibis-headed Thoth, to name but a few. Creatures of sea, air, and land were venerated, and at death “sacred” animals were mummified.
The Law that Jehovah gave to his people after liberating them from Egypt was explicitly directed against idolatrous practices so prevalent among the ancients. The second of the Ten Commandments expressly prohibited making for worship a carved image or a representation of anything in the heavens, on the earth, or in the waters. (Ex 20:4, 5; De 5:8, 9) In his final exhortations to the Israelites, Moses emphasized the impossibility of making an image of the true God and warned them to beware of the snare of idolatry. (De 4:15-19) To further safeguard the Israelites from becoming idolaters, they were commanded not to conclude any covenant with the pagan inhabitants of the land they were entering or to form marriage alliances with them, but to annihilate them. All existing appendages of idolatry—altars, sacred pillars, sacred poles, and graven images—were to be destroyed.—De 7:2-5.
Moses’ successor Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem and admonished them to remove the false gods and to serve Jehovah faithfully. The people agreed to do so and continued serving Jehovah during his lifetime and that of the older men who extended their days after Joshua. (Jos 24:14-16, 31) But thereafter wholesale apostasy set in. The people began worshiping Canaanite deities—Baal, Ashtoreth, and the sacred pole, or Asherah. Hence, Jehovah abandoned the Israelites into the hands of their enemies. However, when they repented, he mercifully raised up judges to deliver them.—Jg 2:11-19; 3:7
Under the rule of the kings. During the reigns of Israel’s first king, Saul, of his son Ish-bosheth, and of David, there is no mention of large-scale idolatry being engaged in by the Israelites. Nevertheless, there are indications that idolatry lingered on in the kingdom. Saul’s own daughter, Michal, for instance, had a teraphim image in her possession. 1Sa 19:13; It was not until the latter part of the reign of David’s son Solomon, however, that outright idolatry came to be practiced, the monarch himself, under the influence of his many foreign wives, giving the impetus to idolatry by sanctioning it. High places were built to Ashtoreth, Chemosh, and Milcom, or Molech. The people in general succumbed to false worship and began bowing down to these idol gods.—1Ki 11:3-8, 33; 2Ki 23:13
On account of this idolatry, Jehovah ripped ten tribes away from Solomon’s son Rehoboam and gave these to Jeroboam. (1Ki 11:31-35; 12:19-24) Although assured that his kingdom would remain firm if he continued serving Jehovah in faithfulness, Jeroboam, on becoming king, instituted calf worship, fearing that the people would revolt against his rule if they continued going to Jerusalem for worship. (1Ki 11:38; 12:26-33) Idolatrous calf worship continued all the days the ten-tribe kingdom existed, with Tyrian Baalism being introduced during Ahab’s reign. (1Ki 16:30-33) Not all apostatized, however. While Ahab reigned, there still was a remnant of 7,000 who had neither bent the knee to nor kissed Baal, and this at a time when Jehovah’s prophets were being killed with the sword, doubtless at the instigation of Ahab’s wife Jezebel.—1Ki 19:1, 2, 14, 18; Ro 11:4
With the exception of Jehu’s eradication of Baal worship (2Ki 10:20-28), there is no record of any religious reform being undertaken by a monarch of the ten-tribe kingdom. To the prophets repeatedly sent by Jehovah, the people and rulers of the northern kingdom gave no heed, so that finally the Almighty abandoned them into the hands of the Assyrians because of their sordid record of idolatry.—2Ki 17:7-23.
In the kingdom of Judah, the situation was not much different, aside from the reforms carried out by certain kings. Whereas a divided kingdom had come about as a direct result of idolatry, Solomon’s son Rehoboam did not take to heart Jehovah’s discipline and shun idolatry. As soon as his position was secure, he and all Judah with him apostatized. (2Ch 12:1) The people built high places, equipping these with sacred pillars and sacred poles, and engaged in ceremonial prostitution. (1Ki 14:23, 24) Although Abijam (Abijah) expressed faith in Jehovah at the time he warred against Jeroboam and was blessed with victory, to a large extent he imitated the sinful course of his father and predecessor on the throne, Rehoboam.—1Ki 15:1, 3; 2Ch 13:3-18.
The next two Judean kings, Asa and Jehoshaphat, served Jehovah in faithfulness and endeavored to rid the kingdom of idolatry. But Judah was so steeped in worship at high places that, despite the efforts of both of these kings to destroy them, the high places seem to have persisted secretly or they cropped up again.—1Ki 15:11-14; 22:42, 43; 2Ch 14:2-5; 17:5, 6; 20:31-33.
The reign of Judah’s next king, Jehoram, commenced with bloodshed and began a new chapter in Judah’s idolatry. This is attributed to his having idolatrous Ahab’s daughter, Athaliah, as wife. (2Ch 21:1-4, 6, 11) The queen mother Athaliah also proved to be the counselor to Jehoram’s son Ahaziah. Hence, during the rule of Ahaziah and that of the usurper Athaliah, idolatry continued with the approval of the crown.—2Ch 22:1-3, 12.
Early in the reign of Jehoash, following the execution of Athaliah, there was a restoration of true worship. But upon the death of High Priest Jehoiada, there was a return to idol worship at the instigation of Judah’s princes. (2Ki 12:2, 3; 2Ch 24:17, 18) Jehovah therefore abandoned the Judean forces into the hands of the invading Syrians, and Jehoash was murdered by his own servants.—2Ch 24:23-25.
Undoubtedly the execution of God’s judgment upon Judah and the violent death of Amaziah’s father Jehoash made a deep impression upon Amaziah, so that he proceeded at first to do what was right in Jehovah’s eyes. (2Ch 25:1-4) But after defeating the Edomites and taking their images, he began serving the gods of his vanquished foes. (2Ch 25:14) Retribution came when Judah was defeated by the ten-tribe kingdom and later when Amaziah was murdered by conspirators. (2Ch 25:20-24, 27) Although Azariah (Uzziah) and his son Jotham are reported generally to have done what was right in Jehovah’s eyes, their subjects persisted in idolatry at the high places.—2Ki 15:1-4, 32-35; 2Ch 26:3, 4, 16-18; 27:1, 2.
During the kingship of Jotham’s son Ahaz, Judah’s religious state reached a new low. Ahaz began to practice idolatry on a scale never known before in Judah; he was the first-reported Judean king to have sacrificed his offspring in the fire as a false religious act. (2Ki 16:1-4; 2Ch 28:1-4) Jehovah chastised Judah by means of defeats at the hands of their enemies. Ahaz, instead of repenting, concluded that the gods of the kings of Syria were giving them the victory and therefore decided to sacrifice to these deities so that they might also help him. (2Ch 28:5, 23) Furthermore, the doors of Jehovah’s temple were closed, and its utensils were cut to pieces.—2Ch 28:24.
While Ahaz did not benefit from Jehovah’s discipline, his son Hezekiah did. (2Ch 29:1, 5-11) In the very first year of his becoming king, Hezekiah restored the true worship of Jehovah. (2Ch 29:3) His reign saw the destruction of appendages of false worship not only in Judah and Benjamin but also in Ephraim and Manasseh.—2Ch 31:1.
But Hezekiah’s own son Manasseh completely revived idolatry. (2Ki 21:1-7; 2Ch 33:1-7) As to the reasons for this, the Bible record is silent. Manasseh, who began ruling as a 12-year-old, may have been wrongly directed initially by counselors and princes not exclusively devoted to Jehovah’s service. Unlike Ahaz, though, Manasseh, as a captive in Babylon, repented upon receiving this severe discipline from Jehovah and undertook reforms upon returning to Jerusalem. (2Ch 33:10-16) His son Amon, however, reverted to sacrificing to the graven images.—2Ch 33:21-24.
Next came Josiah’s rule and a thorough eradication of idolatry in Judah. The sites of idolatrous worship were desecrated there and even in the cities of Samaria. The foreign-god priests and those making sacrificial smoke to Baal, as well as to the sun, the moon, the constellations of the zodiac, and all the army of the heavens, were put out of business. (2Ki 23:4-27; 2Ch 34:1-5) Still this large-scale campaign against idolatry did not effect permanent reform. The last four Judean kings, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah, persisted in idolatry.—2Ki 23:31, 32, 36, 37; 24:8, 9, 18, 19
The references to idolatry in the writings of the prophets further cast light on what occurred during the last years of the kingdom of Judah. Sites of idolatry, ceremonial prostitution, and child sacrifice continued to exist. (Jer 3:6; 17:1-3; 19:2-5; 32:29, 35; Eze 6:3, 4) Even Levites were guilty of practicing idolatry. (Eze 44:10, 12, 13) Ezekiel, transported in vision to Jerusalem’s temple, there saw a detestable idol, “the symbol of jealousy,” and the veneration of representations of creeping things and loathsome beasts, as well as the according of reverence to the false god Tammuz and the sun.—Eze 8:3, 7-16.
Despite the fact that the Israelites adored idols to the point of sacrificing their own children, they carried on a semblance of worshiping Jehovah and reasoned that no calamity would befall them. (Jer 7:4, 8-12; Eze 23:36-39) So empty-headed had the people in general become by reason of their pursuit of idolatry that when calamity did come and Jerusalem was desolated by the Babylonians in 607 B.C.E., in fulfillment of Jehovah’s word, they attributed it to their failure to make sacrificial smoke and drink offerings to the “queen of the heavens.”—Jer 44:15-18;
There were a number of factors that caused so many Israelites repeatedly to abandon true worship. Being one of the works of the flesh, idolatry appealed to the desires of the flesh. (Ga 5:19-21) Once settled in the Promised Land, the Israelites may have observed their pagan neighbors, whom they had failed to drive out entirely, having good success with their crops by reason of longer experience in working the land. Likely many made inquiry and heeded the advice of their Canaanite neighbors as to what was needed to please the Baal, or “owner,” of each piece of land.—Ps 106:34-39.
Forming marriage alliances with idolaters was another inducement to apostatize. (Jg 3:5, 6) The unrestrained sexual indulgence associated with idolatry proved to be no little temptation. At Shittim on the Plains of Moab, for instance, thousands of Israelites yielded to immorality and engaged in false worship. (Nu 22:1; 25:1-3) To some, being able to give way to unrestrained drinking at the sanctuaries of false gods may have been tempting.—Am 2:8.
Then there was the attraction of supposedly learning what the future had in store, this stemming from a desire to be assured that all would go well. Examples of this are Saul’s consulting a spirit medium and Ahaziah’s sending to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron.—1Sa 28:6-11; 2Ki 1:2, 3.
Time and again the Scriptures call attention to the foolishness of relying on gods of wood, stone, or metal. Isaiah describes the manufacture of idols and shows the stupidity of a person who uses part of the wood of a tree to cook his food and to warm himself and then makes the remainder into a god to whom he looks for aid. (Isa 44:9-20) In the day of Jehovah’s fury, wrote Isaiah, false worshipers would throw their worthless idols to the shrewmice and to the bats. (Isa 2:19-21) “Woe to the one saying to the piece of wood: ‘O do awake!’ to a dumb stone: ‘O wake up!’” (Hab 2:19) Those making dumb idols will become just like them, that is, lifeless.—Ps 115:4-8; 135:15-18; see Re 9:20.
Faithful servants of Jehovah have always regarded idols with abhorrence. In Scripture, false gods and idols are repeatedly referred to in contemptible terms, as being valueless (1Ch 16:26; Ps 96:5; 97:7), horrible (1Ki 15:13; 2Ch 15:16), shameful (Jer 11:13; Ho 9:10), detestable (Eze 16:36, 37), and disgusting (Eze 37:23). Often mention is made of “dungy idols,” this expression being a rendering of the Hebrew word gil·lu·lim′, which is related to a word meaning “dung.” (1Ki 14:10; Zep 1:17) This term of contempt, first appearing at Leviticus 26:30, is found nearly 40 times in the book of Ezekiel alone, beginning with chapter 6, verse 4.
Faithful Job recognized that even if his heart became enticed in secrecy at beholding heavenly bodies such as the moon and his ‘hand proceeded to kiss his mouth’ (apparently alluding to throwing a kiss with the hand in an idolatrous practice), this would have constituted a denial of God, hence idolatry. (Job 31:26-28; compare De 4:15, 19.) With reference to a practicer of righteousness, Jehovah said through the prophet Ezekiel, “His eyes he did not raise to the dungy idols of the house of Israel,” that is, to offer supplication to them or in expectation of help from them.—Eze 18:5, 6.
Another fine example of shunning idolatry was that of the three Hebrews, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who, although threatened with death in the fiery furnace, refused to bow before the image of gold erected by King Nebuchadnezzar in the Plain of Dura.—Da 3.
Much of the Old Testament chronicles the ever-present rebellion of God's people...such a sad way for them to act. Check out Exodus 16:12-20, Exodus 32:1-35, Numbers, chapters 13 and 14, Numbers chapter 16, Numbers 30:12, Numbers 25:1-5, Deut. 1:34-40, Deut. 9:6. The book of Judges has a lot also, chapter 2:11-15, chapter 8:33-35. This book repeatedly tells how the Israelites did 'what was right in their own eyes' instead of following God.
You might also want to read in the New Testament, Hebrews 3:7-19, which looks back on the history of the Israelites!
I hope this helps ! Blessings !!
Try the ';homework help'; category....
there are so many try jermiah or isiah I am sure if you read a chapter or to you would find some.
read Nehemiah 13.there is a punishment coming to those in Israel who call themselves Jews.even they know that this is soon to come to pass.just ask what they call a rabbi.';Behold,the day of the Lord cometh,and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.for I will gather ALL nations against Jerusalem to battle;and the city shall be taken,and the houses rifled,and the woman ravished;and half of the city shall go forth into captivity,and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.';zech14:1-2 .you would do well to read the rest of this chapter.most of the so-called Jews that are there today are of the same heart,as when they killed the Christ.these are not as people believe,unless they believe on the lord God Jesus Christ, repent,get baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins none can be saved.there future is indeed sad,at best.peace.
you don't have to read very far to find passages dealing with Israel's rebellion. it's a common occurrence... then they repent... God restores... the nation rebels... and back to the cycle again... and again.
Due to the fact that these
Christians use the Protestant Old Testament which is lacking 7 entire books 2 (Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus/Sirach, Baruch, I Maccabees, and II Maccabees), 3 chapters of Daniel and 6 chapters of Esther may be one of the reasons they ask catholics so many questions.
For the Sola Scriptura this is too bad .
In the 16th c., Luther removed those books from the canon that lent support to orthodox doctrine, relegating them to an appendix. Removed in this way were books that supported such things as:
prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45),
Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7),
intercession of dead saints (2 Maccabees 15:14),
and intercession of angels as intermediaries (Tobit 12:12-15).
The lesson, though, is this: relying on the ';Bible alone'; is a bad idea; we are not to rely solely on Sacred Scripture to understand Christ's message. While Scripture is ';given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness'; (2 Timothy 3:16-17), it is not sufficient for reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness. It is the Church that is the ';pillar and ground of Truth'; (1 Timothy 3:15)! Jesus did not come to write a book; He came to redeem us, and He founded a Sacramental Church through His apostles to show us the way. It is to them, to the Church Fathers, to the Sacred Deposit of Faith, to the living Church that is guided by the Holy Spirit, and to Scripture that we must prayerfully look.
The deuterocanonicals teach Catholic doctrine, and for this reason they were taken out of the Old Testament by Martin Luther and placed in an appendix without page numbers. Luther also took out four New Testament books -- Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation -- and put them in an appendix without page numbers as well. These were later put back into the New Testament by other Protestants, but the seven books of the Old Testament were left out. Following Luther they had been left in an appendix to the Old Testament, and eventually the appendix itself was dropped (in 1827 by the British and Foreign Bible Society), which is why these books are not found at all in most contemporary Protestant Bibles, though they were appendicized in classic Protestant translations such as the King James Version.
The reason they were dropped is that they teach Catholic doctrines that the Protestant Reformers chose to reject. Earlier we cited an example where the book of Hebrews holds up to us an Old Testament example from 2 Maccabees 7, an incident not to be found anywhere in the Protestant Bible, but easily discoverable in the Catholic Bible. Why would Martin Luther cut out this book when it is so clearly held up as an example to us by the New Testament? Simple: A few chapters later it endorses the practice of praying for the dead so that they may be freed from the consequences of their sins (2 Macc. 12:41-45); in other words, the Catholic doctrine of purgatory. Since Luther chose to reject the historic Christian teaching of purgatory (which dates from before the time of Christ, as 2 Maccabees shows), he had to remove that book from the Bible and appendicize it. (Notice that he also removed Hebrews, the book which cites 2 Maccabees, to an appendix as well.)
To justify this rejection of books that had been in the Bible since before the days of the apostles (for the Septuagint was written before the apostles), the early Protestants cited as their chief reason the fact that the Jews of their day did not honor these books, going back to the council of Javneh in A.D. 90. But the Reformers were aware of only European Jews; they were unaware of African Jews, such as the Ethiopian Jews who accept the deuterocanonicals as part of their Bible. They glossed over the references to the deuterocanonicals in the New Testament, as well as its use of the Septuagint. They ignored the fact that there were multiple canons of the Jewish Scriptures circulating in first century, appealing to a post-Christian Jewish council which has no authority over Christians as evidence that ';The Jews don't except these books.'; In short, they went to enormous lengths to rationalize their rejection of these books of the Bible.
Got any advice for selling a vehicle?
How do we sell a truck safely? We've never done a for sale by owner and have always traded in.Got any advice for selling a vehicle?
Clean it up, change the oil, and make it smell nice inside. When you sell the truck, make sure you give a Bill of Sell and state that it is ';Sold As Is, Where Is';, and have the purchaser sign two(2) copies of the Bill of Sell. You keep one and one goes with the new owner, along with the title, which by the way, you need to fill out the back side of and sign. Some states require the title owner to send in the bottom half of the title to the states DMV with the milage and date and price paid for the vehicle.Got any advice for selling a vehicle?
like rex said but also do not lie , leave that to the ';pros';
tell anybody you can and try to put th price high and state that you can negociate
Be realistic about what the car is worth.
post it in the paper and through 4sale sighns in the windows
You can use Craigslist. Post a pic or several. Be honest about any probs. Leave only an e-mail link so you can return calls to people who email u. Do not show truck by yourself, always with someone. Good Luck.
Get the value of the truck from KellyBlueBook.com or NADA.com. Then you can post it in the classified ads of a news paper, or autotrader.com or even eBay. Whatever you do, don't give the buyer the keys and title UNTIL the check clears. Never finance a buyer (take payments). You'll get screwed if you do.
Clean it up, change the oil, and make it smell nice inside. When you sell the truck, make sure you give a Bill of Sell and state that it is ';Sold As Is, Where Is';, and have the purchaser sign two(2) copies of the Bill of Sell. You keep one and one goes with the new owner, along with the title, which by the way, you need to fill out the back side of and sign. Some states require the title owner to send in the bottom half of the title to the states DMV with the milage and date and price paid for the vehicle.Got any advice for selling a vehicle?
like rex said but also do not lie , leave that to the ';pros';
tell anybody you can and try to put th price high and state that you can negociate
Be realistic about what the car is worth.
post it in the paper and through 4sale sighns in the windows
You can use Craigslist. Post a pic or several. Be honest about any probs. Leave only an e-mail link so you can return calls to people who email u. Do not show truck by yourself, always with someone. Good Luck.
Get the value of the truck from KellyBlueBook.com or NADA.com. Then you can post it in the classified ads of a news paper, or autotrader.com or even eBay. Whatever you do, don't give the buyer the keys and title UNTIL the check clears. Never finance a buyer (take payments). You'll get screwed if you do.
May I get some good advice from women with men about buying her lingerie..help????
my wife is 22 I am 30..so I am not sure if this is a test..and I am sure lingerie fashions change semi annually...I never usually get her clothing gifts..and when I have it was like a sweater .. so I would just go into the mall and get help from salesgirl...now this task for lingerie...online shopping? oh geez...
....ok she agreed to go shopping with me..but I am supposed to pick out something and she will take me into dressing room with her to try on ...then I have to decide.....and she says I cant just pick the first thing she tries.on....any experinced advice so this doesn't turn into a fiasco and hurt feelings...we have been together only 18 months..married for 3...and I love her a lot too...May I get some good advice from women with men about buying her lingerie..help????
i am a 39 yr old lady %26amp; i'm here 2 tell u going n the dressing room w/ her is a great idea!!!!! she's right, dont tell her u like the first thing she tries on even if u do. let her try on several things %26amp; tell her how sexy she looks n each 1! since u r n love, u will probably really like everything but let her try them on anyway. when she's done pick out 1 u love %26amp; have her put it on again (just 2 b sure!) she will love u 4 it %26amp; you will both have a very,very,very good rest of the day. good luck!!!May I get some good advice from women with men about buying her lingerie..help????
If you're invited into her dressing room to watch her try on underwear, WHO CARES WHAT COLOR IT IS????
does she really want you to buy lingerie in the first place, i know alot of woman feel that lingerie is really a gift for the man who gives it. just buy anything thats uncomfortable(crochless panties is an example). you'll have to wait for her reaction when she tries the clothes on look at her smile and than you'll know what to get her.
GOOD LUCK
My advise is to be completely honest with her. If you don't like it, tell her...seems like this is what she wants. Even if you are having the worst time ever, act like this is the funnest thing you have done in a while. I would say go to Victoria Secret, and start pulling stuff off the racks for her to try on, seems like this is what she wants too. Then get her in the dressing room, and enjoy the show. In my opinion, I think men like the lingerie more then us women do, as it isn't really for us, we wear it for you...right? lol. So watch her try the lingerie on and you pick your favorite. Personally, I wouldn't torture my husband like this, but good luck! :)
browse victoria sectrets or a catolog and kind of figure out what your taste is...ask her what she likes and dislikes. if you can narrow it down to a color,style before you get there thats half the battle. also if you are in the dressing room with her they wil kick you out! but you can still see. ps get a matching robe as a suprise
....ok she agreed to go shopping with me..but I am supposed to pick out something and she will take me into dressing room with her to try on ...then I have to decide.....and she says I cant just pick the first thing she tries.on....any experinced advice so this doesn't turn into a fiasco and hurt feelings...we have been together only 18 months..married for 3...and I love her a lot too...May I get some good advice from women with men about buying her lingerie..help????
i am a 39 yr old lady %26amp; i'm here 2 tell u going n the dressing room w/ her is a great idea!!!!! she's right, dont tell her u like the first thing she tries on even if u do. let her try on several things %26amp; tell her how sexy she looks n each 1! since u r n love, u will probably really like everything but let her try them on anyway. when she's done pick out 1 u love %26amp; have her put it on again (just 2 b sure!) she will love u 4 it %26amp; you will both have a very,very,very good rest of the day. good luck!!!May I get some good advice from women with men about buying her lingerie..help????
If you're invited into her dressing room to watch her try on underwear, WHO CARES WHAT COLOR IT IS????
does she really want you to buy lingerie in the first place, i know alot of woman feel that lingerie is really a gift for the man who gives it. just buy anything thats uncomfortable(crochless panties is an example). you'll have to wait for her reaction when she tries the clothes on look at her smile and than you'll know what to get her.
GOOD LUCK
My advise is to be completely honest with her. If you don't like it, tell her...seems like this is what she wants. Even if you are having the worst time ever, act like this is the funnest thing you have done in a while. I would say go to Victoria Secret, and start pulling stuff off the racks for her to try on, seems like this is what she wants too. Then get her in the dressing room, and enjoy the show. In my opinion, I think men like the lingerie more then us women do, as it isn't really for us, we wear it for you...right? lol. So watch her try the lingerie on and you pick your favorite. Personally, I wouldn't torture my husband like this, but good luck! :)
browse victoria sectrets or a catolog and kind of figure out what your taste is...ask her what she likes and dislikes. if you can narrow it down to a color,style before you get there thats half the battle. also if you are in the dressing room with her they wil kick you out! but you can still see. ps get a matching robe as a suprise
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