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  1. 🏳️‍🌈 Robin Evans 🙏 @[email protected] ·

    HOW DID WE BECOME SO
    CONFUSED ABOUT REALITY? 💎

    That may be the question A Course in Miracles is really trying to answer. Its answer is almost absurdly simple:

    We believed our own interpretation.

    In the Course’s story, there is the tiny mad idea of separation, and instead of recognising it as meaningless, the mind takes it seriously. From there come guilt, fear, projection, and, eventually, a world outside ourselves that seems to explain why we feel frightened and divided.

    Then the confusion becomes convincing.

    The body says, “I am here.” The eyes say, “There is a world out there.” Pain says, “Something outside me has hurt me.” Death says, “Life ends.” And generation after generation inherits the same interpretation and calls it reality.

    What I love about ACIM is that it doesn’t ask us to replace one complicated worldview with another. It keeps bringing us back to something much simpler: "Perhaps what I am seeing does not mean what I think it means?"

    "I gave everything I see all the meaning it has for me."

    That changes everything. Because if reality itself is not broken, then reality does not need repairing. Only perception does. And perhaps even that is too much.

    Sometimes the confusion simply stops being fed. The commentary goes quiet.

    And reality is still there.

    @3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@disability
@pwd
@joinin

    #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #Perception #Reality #Forgiveness #Spirituality #InnerPeace #guilt #fear #projection #death #love #body #person #story #confusion

    #acim #acourseinmiracles #perception #reality #forgiveness #spirituality
  2. 🏳️‍🌈 Robin Evans 🙏 @[email protected] ·

    HOW DID WE BECOME SO
    CONFUSED ABOUT REALITY? 💎

    That may be the question A Course in Miracles is really trying to answer. Its answer is almost absurdly simple:

    We believed our own interpretation.

    In the Course’s story, there is the tiny mad idea of separation, and instead of recognising it as meaningless, the mind takes it seriously. From there come guilt, fear, projection, and, eventually, a world outside ourselves that seems to explain why we feel frightened and divided.

    Then the confusion becomes convincing.

    The body says, “I am here.” The eyes say, “There is a world out there.” Pain says, “Something outside me has hurt me.” Death says, “Life ends.” And generation after generation inherits the same interpretation and calls it reality.

    What I love about ACIM is that it doesn’t ask us to replace one complicated worldview with another. It keeps bringing us back to something much simpler: "Perhaps what I am seeing does not mean what I think it means?"

    "I gave everything I see all the meaning it has for me."

    That changes everything. Because if reality itself is not broken, then reality does not need repairing. Only perception does. And perhaps even that is too much.

    Sometimes the confusion simply stops being fed. The commentary goes quiet.

    And reality is still there.

    @3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@disability
@pwd
@joinin

    #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #Perception #Reality #Forgiveness #Spirituality #InnerPeace #guilt #fear #projection #death #love #body #person #story #confusion

    #acim #acourseinmiracles #perception #reality #forgiveness #spirituality
  3. 🏳️‍🌈 Robin Evans 🙏 @[email protected] ·

    HOW DID WE BECOME SO
    CONFUSED ABOUT REALITY? 💎

    That may be the question A Course in Miracles is really trying to answer. Its answer is almost absurdly simple:

    We believed our own interpretation.

    In the Course’s story, there is the tiny mad idea of separation, and instead of recognising it as meaningless, the mind takes it seriously. From there come guilt, fear, projection, and, eventually, a world outside ourselves that seems to explain why we feel frightened and divided.

    Then the confusion becomes convincing.

    The body says, “I am here.” The eyes say, “There is a world out there.” Pain says, “Something outside me has hurt me.” Death says, “Life ends.” And generation after generation inherits the same interpretation and calls it reality.

    What I love about ACIM is that it doesn’t ask us to replace one complicated worldview with another. It keeps bringing us back to something much simpler: "Perhaps what I am seeing does not mean what I think it means?"

    "I gave everything I see all the meaning it has for me."

    That changes everything. Because if reality itself is not broken, then reality does not need repairing. Only perception does. And perhaps even that is too much.

    Sometimes the confusion simply stops being fed. The commentary goes quiet.

    And reality is still there.

    @3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@disability
@pwd
@joinin

    #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #Perception #Reality #Forgiveness #Spirituality #InnerPeace #guilt #fear #projection #death #love #body #person #story #confusion

    #confusion #story #person #body #love #death
  4. Robin Evans 🙏 @[email protected] ·

    HOW DID WE BECOME SO
    CONFUSED ABOUT REALITY? 💎

    That may be the question A Course in Miracles is really trying to answer. Its answer is almost absurdly simple:

    We believed our own interpretation.

    In the Course’s story, there is the tiny mad idea of separation, and instead of recognising it as meaningless, the mind takes it seriously. From there come guilt, fear, projection, and, eventually, a world outside ourselves that seems to explain why we feel frightened and divided.

    Then the confusion becomes convincing.

    The body says, “I am here.” The eyes say, “There is a world out there.” Pain says, “Something outside me has hurt me.” Death says, “Life ends.” And generation after generation inherits the same interpretation and calls it reality.

    What I love about ACIM is that it doesn’t ask us to replace one complicated worldview with another. It keeps bringing us back to something much simpler: "Perhaps what I am seeing does not mean what I think it means?"

    "I gave everything I see all the meaning it has for me."

    That changes everything. Because if reality itself is not broken, then reality does not need repairing. Only perception does. And perhaps even that is too much.

    Sometimes the confusion simply stops being fed. The commentary goes quiet.

    And reality is still there.

    @3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@disability
@pwd
@joinin

    #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #Perception #Reality #Forgiveness #Spirituality #InnerPeace #guilt #fear #projection #death #love #body #person #story #confusion

    #acim #acourseinmiracles #perception #reality #forgiveness #spirituality
  5. 🏳️‍🌈 Robin Evans 🙏 @[email protected] ·

    HOW DID WE BECOME SO
    CONFUSED ABOUT REALITY? 💎

    That may be the question A Course in Miracles is really trying to answer. Its answer is almost absurdly simple:

    We believed our own interpretation.

    In the Course’s story, there is the tiny mad idea of separation, and instead of recognising it as meaningless, the mind takes it seriously. From there come guilt, fear, projection, and, eventually, a world outside ourselves that seems to explain why we feel frightened and divided.

    Then the confusion becomes convincing.

    The body says, “I am here.” The eyes say, “There is a world out there.” Pain says, “Something outside me has hurt me.” Death says, “Life ends.” And generation after generation inherits the same interpretation and calls it reality.

    What I love about ACIM is that it doesn’t ask us to replace one complicated worldview with another. It keeps bringing us back to something much simpler: "Perhaps what I am seeing does not mean what I think it means?"

    "I gave everything I see all the meaning it has for me."

    That changes everything. Because if reality itself is not broken, then reality does not need repairing. Only perception does. And perhaps even that is too much.

    Sometimes the confusion simply stops being fed. The commentary goes quiet.

    And reality is still there.

    @3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@disability
@pwd
@joinin

    #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #Perception #Reality #Forgiveness #Spirituality #InnerPeace #guilt #fear #projection #death #love #body #person #story #confusion

    #acim #acourseinmiracles #perception #reality #forgiveness #spirituality
  6. UK @[email protected] ·

    europesays.com/uk/1191628/ King Charles clarifies status of Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, after their return to the UK #authorized #CharityWork #clarification #confusion #couple #HRHTitles #KingCharles #KingCharlesIII #letter #Meghan #Monarchy #monday #PoliceAgencies #PrinceHarry #PrivateCapacity #release #RelevantPoliceAgency #responsibility #return #Royal #RoyalFamilies #RoyalFamily #RoyalStatus #Royals #Security #SecurityIssue #shnd #status #Sussex #titles #UK #UK #wife #wjcl #WorkingRoyals

    #workingroyals #wjcl #wife #uk #titles #sussex
  7. Daniel Jean @[email protected] ·

    Observer sans idée préconçue

    Observez ce qui se passe effectivement dans le monde, et toute cette confusion qui règne en vous, mais en observant de la sorte, ne transformez pas en idée en abstraction, le fruit de cette observation. Soyons très clair sur ce point. Lorsque nous observons un arbre, le mot arbre est une notion abstraite -et non pas la réalité de l'arbre. J'espère que c'est clair. Le mot, l'explication, la description n'est pas la réalité factuelle, n'est pas ce qui est... lorsque nous observons que […]

    dandanjean.com/2026/09/07/obse

    #abstraction #aider #etre #confusion #conscience #decouverte
  8. Daniel Jean @[email protected] ·

    Observer sans idée préconçue

    Observez ce qui se passe effectivement dans le monde, et toute cette confusion qui règne en vous, mais en observant de la sorte, ne transformez pas en idée en abstraction, le fruit de cette observation. Soyons très clair sur ce point. Lorsque nous observons un arbre, le mot arbre est une notion abstraite -et non pas la réalité de l'arbre. J'espère que c'est clair. Le mot, l'explication, la description n'est pas la réalité factuelle, n'est pas ce qui est... lorsque nous observons que […]

    dandanjean.com/2026/09/07/obse

    #abstraction #aider #etre #confusion #conscience #decouverte
  9. Daniel Jean @[email protected] ·

    Observer sans idée préconçue

    Observez ce qui se passe effectivement dans le monde, et toute cette confusion qui règne en vous, mais en observant de la sorte, ne transformez pas en idée en abstraction, le fruit de cette observation. Soyons très clair sur ce point. Lorsque nous observons un arbre, le mot arbre est une notion abstraite -et non pas la réalité de l'arbre. J'espère que c'est clair. Le mot, l'explication, la description n'est pas la réalité factuelle, n'est pas ce qui est... lorsque nous observons que […]

    dandanjean.com/2026/09/07/obse

    #abstraction #aider #etre #confusion #conscience #decouverte
  10. Daniel Jean @[email protected] ·

    Observer sans idée préconçue

    Observez ce qui se passe effectivement dans le monde, et toute cette confusion qui règne en vous, mais en observant de la sorte, ne transformez pas en idée en abstraction, le fruit de cette observation. Soyons très clair sur ce point. Lorsque nous observons un arbre, le mot arbre est une notion abstraite -et non pas la réalité de l'arbre. J'espère que c'est clair. Le mot, l'explication, la description n'est pas la réalité factuelle, n'est pas ce qui est... lorsque nous observons que […]

    dandanjean.com/2026/09/07/obse

    #vivre #trefond #transformer #transcendantaleidiotie #spiritualite #savoir
  11. Daniel Jean @[email protected] ·

    Séparer la douleur de la souffrance

    La douleur est une composante inévitable de la condition humaine. Mais la souffrance, qui est le refus ou le rejet psychologique de la douleur, est évitable. Cette pensée, en apparence simple, porte en elle une distinction qui a occupé des penseurs du monde entier et qui peut changer la manière dont on traverse une épreuve. Elle ne demande rien d’impossible, elle ne suggère pas que la douleur disparaîtra, ni qu’on pourra un jour vivre sans elle. Elle évoque autre chose, qu’il […]

    dandanjean.com/2026/09/07/sepa

    #voiedepassage #2efleche #acceptation #accepter #agir #amour
  12. Estelle Platini @[email protected] ·

    Here I spin a yarn about an efficient method of using orientalism to support israel. 🧶

    #unitary #normalization #normation #normal #normativity #school #secularism #neutrality #education #hijab #bioPolitics #bioPower #islamophobia #racism #raceMaking #systemicRacism #France #Europe #extremeCentre #extremeCenter #proZionism #confusion #conflation #entanglement #EstelleSays

    #unitary #normalization #normation #normal #normativity #school
  13. MaKaNaS @[email protected] ·

    La moda anti-IA: la camisa contra la vigilancia ya existe

    La moda anti-IA: la camisa contra la vigilancia ya existe #ia #moda #estampado #algoritmo #confusión #privacidad #ataques #adversarial #Tecnologia

    tardigram.com/m/Tecnologia/t/6

    #ia #moda #estampado #algoritmo #confusion #privacidad
  14. Matteo Cesari @[email protected] ·

    The name "#Ontario" comes from the Wendat (Huron) word Ontarí'io ("great lake")

    That name was there for centuries before the #US even existed. Before "America." Before any politician decided to rebrand a map.

    #LakeOntario #IndigenousHistory #Wendat #GreatLakes #RespectTheLand #Trump #Confusion

    #us #lakeontario #indigenoushistory #wendat #greatlakes #respecttheland
  15. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·

    Procédure baillon

    "J’avais dit : le 6 octobre 1973 les armées arabes surprennent Israël, le 7 octobre 2023 c’est la jeunesse de la résistance palestinienne qui surprend Israël."

    L’Organisation juive européenne avait visé une ancienne conseillère auprès de l’Organisation de libération de la Palestine (OLP), Muzna Shihabi, pour appel à la haine. Le tribunal a prononcé une relaxe lundi 24 novembre : agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2

    #censure #guerreCulturelle #proSionisme #IHRA #instrumentalisation #confusion #amalgame #FranceIsraël #occidentalisme #procédureBaillon

    #censure #guerreculturelle #prosionisme #ihra #instrumentalisation #confusion
  16. N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] ·

    🚨 In today's thrilling episode of "Trust the Internet with Your Kink," a test promises to unravel your deepest BDSM secrets with the precision of a squirrel on caffeine. 😂 Just what we needed: an anonymous, totally-not-storing-your-data #quiz to ensure everyone knows if they're a Dom, Sub, or just plain confused. 💡
    bdsmtest.pro/ #TrustTheInternet #BDSMSecrets #Humor #DomSub #Confusion #HackerNews #ngated

    #quiz #trusttheinternet #bdsmsecrets #humor #domsub #confusion
  17. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·

    L’#Arcom a annoncé agréer le #CRIF comme « signaleur de confiance ». Ce statut permet à une organisation de signaler des contenus jugés illicites ou problématiques, en bénéficiant d’un traitement prioritaire.

    Ces « signaleurs de confiance » étaient jusqu’ici au nombre de six, tous centrés sur la protection des mineurs, la lutte contre la piraterie audiovisuelle, la cybercriminalité, la cyberviolence ou les addictions et la défense des consommateurs. L’inscription d’une organisation aux positions politiques clivantes à ce registre confirme une censure d’État .

    Communiqué de l'Union juive française pour la paix : ujfp.org/le-crif-signaleur-de-

    #censure #guerreCulturelle #proSionisme #IHRA #chocDesCivilisations #instrumentalisation #confusion #amalgame #FranceIsraël #polFr #politiqueFrançaise #colonialité #politique #connivence #collaboration #complicité #alliés #occidentalisme

    #arcom #crif #censure #guerreculturelle #prosionisme #ihra
  18. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·

    "L’article examine les relations de l’Union européenne avec de nouvelles organisations juives issues de la société civile européenne qui adoptent une posture critique à l’égard d’Israël et du sionisme. Ces groupes s’opposent notamment à la définition opérationnelle de l’antisémitisme adoptée par l’International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), perçue comme un outil de défense d’Israël et du projet sioniste. La Commission européenne les écarte de son groupe de travail sur l’antisémitisme, réservé exclusivement à des organisations juives sionistes. Cette exclusion contribue à éclairer l’orientation pro-israélienne et sioniste de la politique européenne en matière de lutte contre l’antisémitisme."

    par Yoav Shemer-Kunz : yaani.fr/2025/06/20/ce-ne-sont

    #EuropeIsraël #racismeDÉtat #chocDesCivilisations #récupération #instrumentalisation #soutien #connivence #confusion #confusions #amalgame #antisémitisme #colonialité #proSionisme #décoloniale #lectureDécoloniale #IHRA #commissions #UnionEuropéenne

    #europeisrael #racismedetat #chocdescivilisations #recuperation #instrumentalisation #soutien
  19. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·

    Du soutien de « l'universalisme » et de prétendues « valeurs communes » entre un « camp occidental » et Israël

    par Thomas Vescovi : yaani.fr/2025/06/20/republicai

    #guerreCulturelle #islamophobie #racialisation #clivageRacial #PrintempsRépublicain #Enthoven #FrançoisHollande #Blanquer #GabrielAttal #AnneHidalgo #Cazeneuve #ElisabethBadinter #JoannSfar #proSionisme #civilisation #chocDesCivilisations #instrumentalisation #confusion #amalgame #FranceIsraël #polFr #politiqueFrançaise #colonialité #politique #AgirEnsemble #ManuelValls #Valls #récupération #connivence #philoSémitisme #racismeDÉtat #collaboration #complicité #intrication #universalisme #occidentalisme #CongrèsPS #PartiSocialiste

    #guerreculturelle #islamophobie #racialisation #clivageracial #printempsrepublicain #enthoven
  20. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·

    Soutien au sionisme et apocalypse

    Chaque fois qu'un membre important du Congrès étatsunien tient des propos antisémites, on voit fleurir des slogans « Je soutiens Israël ». Mais jamais « Je m'oppose à l'antisémitisme ». Voici pourquoi.

    Les chrétien·nes évangélistes croient en une apocalypse où il faut envoyer tou·tes les Juifs/ves dans un israël *historique* (y compris des parties du Liban et de la Syrie d'aujourd'hui). C'est alors que les chrétien·nes évangélistes pourront provoquer "l'enlèvement" où seul·es les chrétien·nes évangélistes seront "sauvées".

    Cette croyance justifie d'être à la fois antisémite et islamophobe. Elle permet d'amalgamer antisionisme et antisémitisme de gauche, de les condamner et de justifier un antisémitisme nationaliste : chacun·e "chez soi".

    Voici un article en anglais dans un magazine juif-libéral sur la nomination du nouvel ambassadeur à Jerusalem-Est : forward.com/opinion/675457/mik

    #apocalypse #Évangélistes #Évangéliques #confusion #confusions #amalgame #antisémitisme #chocDesCivilisations #JeSoutiensIsraël #soutien #connivence #récupération #instrumentalisation #colonialité #proSionisme #FranceIsraël #israël #banalisation #Congrès #ÉtatsUnis #Occident #impérialisme #ÉtatJuif #racismeDÉtat #violenceDÉtat #MoyenOrient

    #apocalypse #evangelistes #evangeliques #confusion #confusions #amalgame
  21. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·

    Connu pour organiser des visites de parlementaires en Israël, le lobby Elnet se trouve derrière un meeting du collectif « Agir ensemble », avec le soutien de Bruno Retailleau et Manuel Valls.

    « Combattre l’islamisme, tel un dôme de fer », est-il inscrit sur le site du collectif « Agir ensemble ». Une référence explicite au système de défense aérienne mobile israélien conçu pour arrêter les attaques de roquettes lancées depuis la bande de Gaza et le Liban. Le meeting du collectif se tient d’ailleurs au Dôme… de Paris, Porte de Versailles.

    Au lancement d’« Agir ensemble » le 18 décembre 2023, le président d’Elnet-France, Arié Bensemhoun, était bien présent devant un parterre d’invité·es dont la polémiste Rachel Khan, Michel Onfray ou encore l’écrivain Mohamed Sifaoui, grand ami de Manuel Valls.

    off-investigation.fr/apres-le- par Nils Wilcke @paul_denton

    #racialisation #clivageRacial #PrintempsRépublicain #Enthoven #Bensemhoun #AriéBensemhoun #Elnet #ElnetFrance #AuroreBergé #proSionisme #civilisation #chocDesCivilisations #instrumentalisation #confusion #amalgame #antisémitisme #nouvelAntisémitisme #FranceIsraël #polFr #politiqueFrançaise #islamophobie #colonialité #politique #AgirEnsemble #BrunoRetailleau #ManuelValls #Retailleau #Valls #récupération #connivence #israël #philoSémitisme #suprémacismeJuif #ÉtatJuif #racismeDÉtat #collaboration #complicité

    #racialisation #clivageracial #printempsrepublicain #enthoven #bensemhoun #ariebensemhoun
  22. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·

    Israël est un État colonial, ce qui implique qu’il a besoin du racisme dans les États alliés, en l’occurrence la France (2014, par moi-même) citoyen.eu.org/doc/la-france-m

    #banalisation #proSionisme #civilisation #chocDesCivilisations #Occident #impérialisme #instrumentalisation #confusion #amalgame #antisémitisme #FranceIsraël #polFr #politiqueFrançaise #islamophobie #colonialité #politique #AgirEnsemble #ManuelValls #Valls #récupération #connivence #israëlPalestine #philoSémitisme #CRIF #suprémacismeJuif #ÉtatJuif #racismeDÉtat #violenceDÉtat #collaboration #complicité #FrançoisHollande #FNJ #ClaudeGoasguen #Goasguen #Barbès

    #banalisation #prosionisme #civilisation #chocdescivilisations #occident #imperialisme
  23. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·
    CW: "Nouvel antisémitisme" 🧵

    En 1967, l’État d’Israël attaque l’Egypte. À l’époque déjà on parlait de "frappe préventive". Depuis l’État juif occupe Sinaï, Golan, Cisjordanie, Jérusalem-Est, Gaza. (voir carte)
    Depuis trois siècles, cette guerre est la seule à porter le nom de sa durée : "Guerre des Six Jours", une dénomination qui glorifie l’impact militaire (de la Sparte sioniste).
    En 1968, plusieurs intellectuels français établissent un lien entre "Guerre des Six Jours", antisionisme et antisémitisme.
    L’Anti-Defamation League (ADL, ligue contre la calomnie) est une organisation de soutien au gouvernement d’israël et de lutte contre la diversité. En 1974, Arnold Forster et Benjamin Epstein de l’ADL publient un livre intitulé "The New anti-Semitism", exprimant leurs inquiétudes en ce qui concerne :
    • une indifférence aux craintes du "peuple juif",
    • une apathie en traitant des préjugés à l’encontre des Juifs/ves,
    • une incapacité à comprendre l’importance d’Israël pour la survie du "peuple juif" (selon eux).
    Controverse aux États-Unis (parmi les professionnels du débat public).
    Plus tard, Allan Brownfeld écrira que la définition de l'antisémitisme donnée par Forster et Epstein banalise le concept en le transformant en « une forme de chantage politique » et en « une arme afin de faire taire toute forme de critique à l'égard d'Israël ou de la politique des États-Unis au Moyen-Orient » (in « Anti-Semitism: Its Changing Meaning », Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 16, no 3 (Spring, 1987), pp. 53-67).

    #conflitIsraéloArabe #GuerreDesSixJours #histoire #histoireDesIdées #proSionisme #civilisation #chocDesCivilisations #Occident #impérialisme #instrumentalisation #confusion #amalgame #antisémitisme #nouvelAntisémitisme

    #conflitisraeloarabe #guerredessixjours #histoire #histoiredesidees #prosionisme #civilisation
  24. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·

    Je commence un fil d’histoire d’une idée : le projet liant soutien à israël et islamophobie. 🧵

    Vous pouvez aussi consulter mon fil sur l'islamophobie dans l’Éducation nationale : eldritch.cafe/@breton/11210059

    #proSionisme #civilisation #chocDesCivilisations #Occident #confusion #amalgame #antisémitisme #FranceIsraël #polFr #politiqueFrançaise #islamophobie #EuropeIsraël #FranceIsraël #colonialité #politique #UnionEuropéenne #UE #Europe #atlantisme #AgirEnsemble #BrunoRetailleau #ManuelValls #Retailleau #Valls #récupération #instrumentalisation #connivence #israëlPalestine #philoSémitisme #CRIF #suprémacismeJuif #ÉtatJuif #racismeDÉtat #violenceDÉtat #impérialisme #collaboration #complicité

    #prosionisme #civilisation #chocdescivilisations #occident #confusion #amalgame
  25. Estelle Platini @[email protected] ·

    Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy

    Ali Nobil Ahmad: jacobin.com/2024/11/germany-st

    #publicDebate #supremacy #supremacism #Netanyahu #Germany #totalitarianism #media #agnotology #beliefs #believe #Baerbock #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #IHRA #parties #democracy #FDP #SPD #CDU #DieGrünen #GreenParty #Bundestag #DEPol #GermanPolitics

    #publicdebate #supremacy #supremacism #netanyahu #germany #totalitarianism
  26. Estelle Platini @[email protected] ·

    Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"

    Kate Greenberg: vashtimedia.com/translation-of 🧶

    #discrimination #moralBeauty #liberals #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #Maccabi #TelAviv #MaccabiTelAviv #NL #Netherlands #Amsterdam #UK #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #warOnGaza #GazaWar #IsraelHamas #genocide #ethnicCleansing #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #VashtiMedia #Vashti #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #raceMaking

    #discrimination #moralbeauty #liberals #policing #respectability #zionism
  27. Estelle Platini @[email protected] ·
    CW: Harrowing “solidarity tours” of Israel are reinscribing American Jews’ sense of victimhood 🧶

    "The trips I joined seemed intended to reassure participants that they could support @israel while retaining the moral clarity of the victim."

    "The trips not only blur past and present Jewish trauma, but encourage visiting Americans to assume an Israeli identity—and the sense of embattlement that comes with it."

    Maya Rosen: jewishcurrents.org/the-rise-of

    #liberals #victimhood #tourism #darkTourism #separatism #communautarism #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #fragility #warOnGaza #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #StandWithIsrael

    #liberals #victimhood #tourism #darktourism #separatism #communautarism
  28. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·

    "En conséquence, il semble hasardeux de chercher inlassablement à faire croire aux élèves, aux étudiants et à toute la jeunesse qu’ils participent à la diffusion d’un antisémitisme au motif qu’ils emploient un vocabulaire scientifiquement fondé pour parler d’Israël."

    Thomas Vescovi, historien et chercheur, analyse une instrumentalisation flagrante de l’antisémitisme visant à criminaliser la critique d’Israël, voire à nier des réalités scientifiquement établies : yaani.fr/post/l-instrumentalis

    #francoSionisme #chocDesCivilisations #soutien #connivence #confusion #confusions #amalgame #antisémitisme #antiSionisme #récupération #instrumentalisation #colonialité #proSionisme #FranceIsraël #école #collège #lycée #histoireGéo #enseigner #ThomasVescovi #israëlPalestine #israël #décoloniale #lectureDécoloniale #philoSémitisme

    #francosionisme #chocdescivilisations #soutien #connivence #confusion #confusions
  29. Estelle Platini @[email protected] ·

    « Convergence coloniale »

    L’universitaire israélien Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi écrivait, à propos de l’Afrique du Sud de l’apartheid dans les années 1960 — 1980 : « On peut détester les juifs et aimer les Israéliens, parce que, quelque part, les Israéliens ne sont pas juifs. Les Israéliens sont des colons et des combattants, comme les Afrikaners. Ils sont durs et résistants. Ils savent comment dominer. » Contrairement, poursuit-il, à une vision des juifs que véhicule une certaine imagerie (et les antisémites) : « Le refus de s’affirmer par la force physique, une certaine passivité, un côté intellectuel. Ainsi, on peut détester les juifs tout en admirant les Israéliens. »

    Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, "The Israeli Connection. Who Israel Arms and Why", Pantheon Books, New York, 1987. Cité par Alain Gresh dans "De quoi la Palestine est-elle le nom ?", Les Liens qui libèrent, 2010.
    orientxxi.info/magazine/antise

    #convergence #convergenceColoniale #Gaza #antisémitisme #France #islamophobie #israël #racisme #laïcité #Apartheid #soutien #connivence #confusion #amalgame #antiSionisme #culpabilité #récupération #instrumentalisation #colonialité #proSionisme #FranceIsraël #citation #homonationalisme

    #convergence #convergencecoloniale #gaza #antisemitisme #france #islamophobie
  30. Ra_Zim @[email protected] ·

    Here's a comm for Raharu of his character giving Iddo's a hug from our Lost in Chaos side game at twitch.tv/ra_zim Aquarelle has no idea how to handle this!

    Art by Rdy

    #furry #furryart #ZGFArt #Rdy #aquarellelostinchaos #elvarodalostinchaos #quagsire #samurott #hisuianform #hisuiansamurott #necklace #armband #pokemon #confusion #hug #hugging #bluebody #redmarkings #blackmarkings #2024 #eyesclosed

    #furry #furryart #zgfart #rdy #aquarellelostinchaos #elvarodalostinchaos
  31. Jazzynupe @[email protected] ·

    AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU Review & Benchmarks vs. 7950X, 9700X, 14900K, & More - YouTube
    youtube.com/watch?v=iyA9DRTJty
    #GamersNexus #AMD #Ryzen #Ryzen9950x #Zen5 #Review #Confusion #Messaging

    #gamersnexus #amd #ryzen #ryzen9950x #zen5 #review
  32. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·

    @debug
    Ouah 🐝
    C'est bien acide : ça rafraichit 🍋

    Je reproduis le texte :
    "Blanche Gardin
    2 juillet 2024
    Voilà le sketch que nous avons fait hier à La Cigale avec Aymeric Lompret lors d'une soirée caritative en solidarité avec les gazaouis qui crèvent sous les bombes israéliennes depuis 9 mois. Merci à Voices for Gaza. Merci aux artistes présents et au public. C'était beau.
    Alors il est vrai que je n'ai pas complètement respecté les accords toltèques dans ce sketch. Mais est-ce que respecter les accords toltèques c'est pas un peu de l'appropriation culturelle?"
    facebook.com/watch/?v=14499694

    #BlancheGardin #AymericLompret #Gardin #Lompret #soutien #connivence #confusion #amalgame #lfi #ihra #récupération #instrumentalisation #colonialité #proSionisme #FranceIsraël #Regardez #video #humour

    #blanchegardin #aymericlompret #gardin #lompret #soutien #connivence
  33. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·

    "On se rend compte que les Juifs sont devenus des objets dans le champ politique, iels sont instrumentalisé·es, jeté·es les un·es contre les autres, encore aujourd'hui dans la parole de Gabriel Attal pour essayer de disqualifier un ou l'autre camp politique", a dénoncé Arié Alimi sur franceinfo, jeudi 20 juin

    francetvinfo.fr/societe/antise

    #connivence #confusion #amalgame #antisémitisme #antiSionisme #culpabilité #récupération #instrumentalisation #colonialité #proSionisme #FranceIsraël #Attal #campagne #extremeCentre

    #connivence #confusion #amalgame #antisemitisme #antisionisme #culpabilite
  34. ErosBlog Bacchus has moved! @[email protected] ·

    Saw a lady on TikTok trying to organize all the “we choose the bear” women into carrying around a teddy bear as a symbol of solidarity, and I love it! And would love to see it. But then I had a pang for all the poor Daddies out there who think “The Littles are suddenly coming out of the woodwork, I had no idea there were so many!” Talk about a namespace (well, symbolspace) collision…

    #ManOrBear #TeddyBear #Daddy #Daddies #Little #Littles #Confusion #Chaos #WorstDateEver

    #manorbear #teddybear #daddy #daddies #little #littles
  35. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·

    On n’oublie pas, on pardonne pas.
    Les partis de gauche ont beaucoup travaillé à remettre les femmes musulmanes à leur place : #subalterne ; ça peut être pratique d’avoir une compilation sur la #dynamiqueIslamophobe hors droite. En date de 2013 :
    Signataires de pétition islamophobe: Élisabeth Badinter, Annie Sugier, Michèle Vianès, Corinne Lepage, Olivier Dussopt, Harlem Désir dans Marianne : marianne.net/politique/signata
    Le #PartiSocialiste comme le #PartiDeGauche/#Mélenchon excluent les filles en foulard de l’école : lmsi.net/Elements-d-un-futur-L
    … loi condamnée par l’ONU
    Le PG est absent du mouvement "Egalité des Droits - Justice pour tou·te·s"
    "Contre l’offensive islamophobe, un front large et massif" avec toutes les composantes du FdG sauf le PG : blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les
    Le PG demande au gouvernement d’empêcher les femmes en fichu de travailler : web.archive.org/web/2013032402
    Les attaques contre le #vivreEnsemble étaient dans la plateforme du congrès du PG : web.archive.org/web/2013032605 "laïcité intransigeante". Comme Harlem Désir.

    #guerreCulturelle #laïcité #paniqueMorale #foulard #hijab #voile #DroitsDesFemmes #blanchité #interdiction #foulardàLÉcole #mars2004 #féminismes #voile #hijab #paniqueMorale #foulardIslamique #voileàLÉcole #signesReligieux #signesOstentatoires #fragilité #fragilitéBlanche #suprémacisme #suprémacismeBlanc #SuprématieBlanche #racialisation #valeurs #valeursRépublicaines #islamophobie #réification #paternalisme #patriarcat #dynamiqueIslamophobe #laïcisme #laïcards #laïcitéDeCombat #paternalisme #unitaire #instrumentalisation #FranceInsoumise #islamophobie #égalité #universalisme #féminismeBourgeois #féminismeBlanc #féminisme #decoloniale #politique #proSionisme #colonialité #israélisme #soutien #connivence #confusion #amalgame #FranceIsraël #France #FrPol #Badinter

    #subalterne #dynamiqueislamophobe #partisocialiste #partidegauche #vivreensemble #guerreculturelle
  36. Félicien Breton ⏚ 🍉 🔻 @[email protected] ·

    Marwan Mohammed et Abdellali Hajjat disent que beaucoup perçoivent le hijab comme un étendard masquant une offensive [contre la République ou israël]. "Difficile d’avoir de l’empathie pour vos ennemis." saphirnews.com/Les-lois-anti-v

    Il semblerait n’y ait pas que le patriarcat, le libéralisme, l’orientalisme, la colonialité ou le racisme pour expliquer que des blanc·hes réifient les femmes en foulard !

    @patriarcat @histoire

    #réification #valeurs #valeursRépublicaines #antisémitisme #confusion #militantisme #victoire #défaite #guerreCulturelle #laïcité #paniqueMorale #France #FRPol #foulard #hijab #intégration #fragilité #fragilitéBlanche #suprémacisme #suprémacismeBlanc #SuprématieBlanche #violenceDÉtat #racialisation #interdiction #mars2004 #patriarcat #decoloniale #intersectionalité #FranceIsraël #israélisme #soutien #connivence #confusion #amalgame

    #reification #valeurs #valeursrepublicaines #antisemitisme #confusion #militantisme
  37. Belgian Ecclesia Brussel - Leuven @[email protected] ·

    When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith

    When we have found the Word of God and started reading the Bible with an open mind, letting the words come to us like they are written, it shall transform our inner self, if we allow it to do that.

    When we do come into the faith, believing in One God and believing in His only begotten son, to be the sent one from God and the Messiah, our saviour, we shall have to take actions. We shall not be able to continue to live like we did before.

    Faith demands action. Faith demands works.

    We do know that there are lots of pastors who say contrary, but be aware that rabbi Jeshua taught his followers to be prudent and to be alert, doing the right things are otherwise they could miss the opportunity to enter God’s Kingdom.

    It is true that we have received the free Gift of the Grace of God by the Blood of Christ. But it is not because we are giving a whitewashing of sins by the ransom offer of Christ Jesus, that we can do whatever we want. No. Once we come into the faith we shall have to do the works of faith. In case we do not do those works of the Law our faith shall be like a dead faith, not bringing us far.

    When from our bible reading we got to see that Jesus is the Way and that we have to become one like he is one with God we shall have to work on ourselves to become like Jesus. It shall take many works to come in Christ and becoming “a new creation“. Than the old person has to be set aside and a new person has to take you over, like you are reborn in this system of things, you not any more being of the world but being of God.

    Thanks to the sent one from God and God accepting Jesus his offering as a payment for sins, salvation has come over us. But when becoming a Christian we are at a new starting point, saved from the curse of death. This we have to keep so, which shall demand lots of works, keeping ourselves under control.

    God reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. Given a free way now we have to keep our good relationship with This Divine Creator and with His son. That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them does not give us now a free way to continue sinning.  God has committed to us the message of reconciliation.  Therefore we have to be Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us.  Jesus asked his disciples to go out into the world and to proclaim the Gospel message of the coming Kingdom of God. This is a very important work we do have to do. This we only can do properly when we live according to what we preach.

    We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God and start doing the works of faith.

    Let us have a look at what the Bible itself says about Faith and Works.

     


    “17 Wherefore if any man is in Christ, {1} [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. {1) Or, there is [a new creation]} 18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having {1} committed unto us the word of reconciliation. {1) Or [placed in us]}

    20 We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.” (2 Corinthians 5:17-20 ASV)

     

    “3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; 4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God; 6 that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

    7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. 8 Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.

    9  But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; 10 for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more; 11 and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you; 12 that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.” (1 Thessalonians 4:3-12 ASV)

    “2  Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; 3 Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. 4 And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

    5 But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

    7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; 8 a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. 9 But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.” (James 1:2-10 ASV)

    “12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] promised to them that love him.

    13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man: 14 but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
    15 Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.” (James 1:12-15 ASV)

    “19  Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

    22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. 23 For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: 24 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing. 26 If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” (James 1:19-27 ASV)

    “1  My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons. 2 For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing; 3 and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool; 4 do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?” (James 2:1-4 ASV)

    “8  Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: 9 but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one [point], he is become guilty of all.

    11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

    12 So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty. 13 For judgment [is] without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

    14  What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

    15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?

    17 Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

    18 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from [thy] works, and I by my works will show thee [my] faith.

    19 Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?

    21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect; 23 and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God.

    24 Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

    25 And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.” (James 2:8-26 ASV)

    “13  Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.” (James 3:13-18 ASV)

    “1  Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members?

    2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.

    4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

    5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

    7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

    8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

    9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

    10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.

    11  Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 One [only] is the lawgiver and judge, [even] he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?” (James 4:1-12 ASV)

    “7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors. 10 Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.” (James 5:7-10 ASV)

    “12  But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.

    13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.

    14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.” (James 5:12-16 ASV)

    “19 My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.” (James 5:19-20 ASV)

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    Prestbury war memorial – northern face “God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ”. On 864428. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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  38. Belgian Ecclesia Brussel - Leuven @[email protected] ·

    When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith

    When we have found the Word of God and started reading the Bible with an open mind, letting the words come to us like they are written, it shall transform our inner self, if we allow it to do that.

    When we do come into the faith, believing in One God and believing in His only begotten son, to be the sent one from God and the Messiah, our saviour, we shall have to take actions. We shall not be able to continue to live like we did before.

    Faith demands action. Faith demands works.

    We do know that there are lots of pastors who say contrary, but be aware that rabbi Jeshua taught his followers to be prudent and to be alert, doing the right things are otherwise they could miss the opportunity to enter God’s Kingdom.

    It is true that we have received the free Gift of the Grace of God by the Blood of Christ. But it is not because we are giving a whitewashing of sins by the ransom offer of Christ Jesus, that we can do whatever we want. No. Once we come into the faith we shall have to do the works of faith. In case we do not do those works of the Law our faith shall be like a dead faith, not bringing us far.

    When from our bible reading we got to see that Jesus is the Way and that we have to become one like he is one with God we shall have to work on ourselves to become like Jesus. It shall take many works to come in Christ and becoming “a new creation“. Than the old person has to be set aside and a new person has to take you over, like you are reborn in this system of things, you not any more being of the world but being of God.

    Thanks to the sent one from God and God accepting Jesus his offering as a payment for sins, salvation has come over us. But when becoming a Christian we are at a new starting point, saved from the curse of death. This we have to keep so, which shall demand lots of works, keeping ourselves under control.

    God reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. Given a free way now we have to keep our good relationship with This Divine Creator and with His son. That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them does not give us now a free way to continue sinning.  God has committed to us the message of reconciliation.  Therefore we have to be Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us.  Jesus asked his disciples to go out into the world and to proclaim the Gospel message of the coming Kingdom of God. This is a very important work we do have to do. This we only can do properly when we live according to what we preach.

    We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God and start doing the works of faith.

    Let us have a look at what the Bible itself says about Faith and Works.

     


    “17 Wherefore if any man is in Christ, {1} [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. {1) Or, there is [a new creation]} 18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having {1} committed unto us the word of reconciliation. {1) Or [placed in us]}

    20 We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.” (2 Corinthians 5:17-20 ASV)

     

    “3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; 4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God; 6 that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

    7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. 8 Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.

    9  But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; 10 for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more; 11 and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you; 12 that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.” (1 Thessalonians 4:3-12 ASV)

    “2  Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; 3 Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. 4 And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

    5 But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

    7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; 8 a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. 9 But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.” (James 1:2-10 ASV)

    “12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] promised to them that love him.

    13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man: 14 but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
    15 Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.” (James 1:12-15 ASV)

    “19  Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

    22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. 23 For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: 24 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing. 26 If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” (James 1:19-27 ASV)

    “1  My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons. 2 For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing; 3 and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool; 4 do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?” (James 2:1-4 ASV)

    “8  Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: 9 but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one [point], he is become guilty of all.

    11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

    12 So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty. 13 For judgment [is] without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

    14  What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

    15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?

    17 Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

    18 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from [thy] works, and I by my works will show thee [my] faith.

    19 Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?

    21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect; 23 and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God.

    24 Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

    25 And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.” (James 2:8-26 ASV)

    “13  Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.” (James 3:13-18 ASV)

    “1  Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members?

    2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.

    4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

    5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

    7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

    8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

    9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

    10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.

    11  Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 One [only] is the lawgiver and judge, [even] he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?” (James 4:1-12 ASV)

    “7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors. 10 Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.” (James 5:7-10 ASV)

    “12  But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.

    13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.

    14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.” (James 5:12-16 ASV)

    “19 My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.” (James 5:19-20 ASV)

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  39. Belgian Ecclesia Brussel - Leuven @[email protected] ·

    When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith

    When we have found the Word of God and started reading the Bible with an open mind, letting the words come to us like they are written, it shall transform our inner self, if we allow it to do that.

    When we do come into the faith, believing in One God and believing in His only begotten son, to be the sent one from God and the Messiah, our saviour, we shall have to take actions. We shall not be able to continue to live like we did before.

    Faith demands action. Faith demands works.

    We do know that there are lots of pastors who say contrary, but be aware that rabbi Jeshua taught his followers to be prudent and to be alert, doing the right things are otherwise they could miss the opportunity to enter God’s Kingdom.

    It is true that we have received the free Gift of the Grace of God by the Blood of Christ. But it is not because we are giving a whitewashing of sins by the ransom offer of Christ Jesus, that we can do whatever we want. No. Once we come into the faith we shall have to do the works of faith. In case we do not do those works of the Law our faith shall be like a dead faith, not bringing us far.

    When from our bible reading we got to see that Jesus is the Way and that we have to become one like he is one with God we shall have to work on ourselves to become like Jesus. It shall take many works to come in Christ and becoming “a new creation“. Than the old person has to be set aside and a new person has to take you over, like you are reborn in this system of things, you not any more being of the world but being of God.

    Thanks to the sent one from God and God accepting Jesus his offering as a payment for sins, salvation has come over us. But when becoming a Christian we are at a new starting point, saved from the curse of death. This we have to keep so, which shall demand lots of works, keeping ourselves under control.

    God reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. Given a free way now we have to keep our good relationship with This Divine Creator and with His son. That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them does not give us now a free way to continue sinning.  God has committed to us the message of reconciliation.  Therefore we have to be Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us.  Jesus asked his disciples to go out into the world and to proclaim the Gospel message of the coming Kingdom of God. This is a very important work we do have to do. This we only can do properly when we live according to what we preach.

    We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God and start doing the works of faith.

    Let us have a look at what the Bible itself says about Faith and Works.

     


    “17 Wherefore if any man is in Christ, {1} [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. {1) Or, there is [a new creation]} 18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having {1} committed unto us the word of reconciliation. {1) Or [placed in us]}

    20 We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.” (2 Corinthians 5:17-20 ASV)

     

    “3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; 4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God; 6 that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

    7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. 8 Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.

    9  But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; 10 for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more; 11 and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you; 12 that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.” (1 Thessalonians 4:3-12 ASV)

    “2  Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; 3 Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. 4 And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

    5 But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

    7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; 8 a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. 9 But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.” (James 1:2-10 ASV)

    “12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] promised to them that love him.

    13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man: 14 but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
    15 Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.” (James 1:12-15 ASV)

    “19  Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

    22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. 23 For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: 24 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing. 26 If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” (James 1:19-27 ASV)

    “1  My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons. 2 For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing; 3 and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool; 4 do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?” (James 2:1-4 ASV)

    “8  Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: 9 but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one [point], he is become guilty of all.

    11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

    12 So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty. 13 For judgment [is] without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

    14  What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

    15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?

    17 Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

    18 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from [thy] works, and I by my works will show thee [my] faith.

    19 Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?

    21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect; 23 and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God.

    24 Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

    25 And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.” (James 2:8-26 ASV)

    “13  Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.” (James 3:13-18 ASV)

    “1  Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members?

    2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.

    4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

    5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

    7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

    8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

    9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

    10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.

    11  Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 One [only] is the lawgiver and judge, [even] he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?” (James 4:1-12 ASV)

    “7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors. 10 Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.” (James 5:7-10 ASV)

    “12  But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.

    13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.

    14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.” (James 5:12-16 ASV)

    “19 My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.” (James 5:19-20 ASV)

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