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	Viking Zoomorphic mounts and Christian bronze ring Viking $58.00 Best Offer Enabled End time: 05-Mar-12 01:11:07 PST
	13th Christian cross bronze pendant Celtic $55.00 Best Offer Enabled End time: 05-Mar-12 01:11:06 PST
	Marvelous Roman Christian RING+++ Cross on Top+++ Roman $24.99 Bids: 0 End time: 10-Feb-12 17:21:12 PST
	1800s RELIGIOUS CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITIES ARTIFACTS ARK Antique Engraving Print Prints $4.95 End time: 10-Feb-12 17:08:47 PST
	ANCIENT BRONZE CHRISTIAN ICON 18th - 19-th centuries Icons $55.00 Bids: 0 End time: 10-Feb-12 05:28:46 PST
	ROMAN TERRACOTTA LAMP - CHRISTIAN Roman $15.00 Bids: 0 End time: 05-Feb-12 14:20:19 PST
	Antique 19thC ½ct+ Colombian Emerald Ancient Christian Sumerian Immortality Gem South Italian $239.99 End time: 03-Mar-12 02:15:59 PST
	U079-61 ISLAMIC/CHRISTIAN TURKISH PERSIAN SEAL XIX CENT Islamic $99.99: $149.99 Bids: 0 End time: 09-Feb-12 00:46:21 PST
	Original ancient Roman cross star Christian soldiers ring / Sun God, Sol Invicto Roman $3.02 Bids: 2 End time: 08-Feb-12 20:35:41 PST
	Dictionary of the Bible Antiquities, Geography & History Christian Read Antiquarian & Collectible $17.99 End time: 02-Mar-12 20:14:29 PST

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What are your views on the continuing destruction of our Holiest Christian and Jewish antiquities on the?

Dec 03, 2007 by Chuckler | Posted in Religion & Spirituality

Yiddish shul MOUNT in Jerusalem by WAQF-the Islamic authorities there who claim there never has been a Jewish Temple on Mount Zion. Urgently to believe but The Jewish leaders are allowing this vandalism to go ahead. WHY?

Ckuckler, this is an champion question - and i am so glad Schneb is here to give you his excellent answer. I agree with every word he has said.
The only thing i can add is - God surely sees everything - and will in His own stretch destroy His enemies - and you and i know who they are.
Pray For The Peace Of Jerusalem - They That Love Thee Shall Prosper -
Mild Be Within Thy Walls
And Prosperity Within Thy Palaces
For My Bretheren And Companions Sake's I Will Say Now - Peace Be Within Thee
For The Sake Of The Bawdy-house Of The Lord Our God - I Will Seek Thy Good


YESHUA HAMESHIA
OUR GOD REIGNS

What was the purpose of Castration and Eunuchs in the early Christian church?

Dec 03, 2006 by SoftLocks | Posted in Other - Cultures & Groups

I recently came across a hard-cover titled: "The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity" by Mathew Keufler. I have only presume from excerpts from this book, but it brought to my attention the historical and religious importance of Eunuchs, also called "Unsullied Tranvestites". Apparently the removal of a man's testicals helped to rid men of immoral behavior and butter up a see them closer to God. Did this practice threaten Roman notions of masculinity, and therefore indirectly contribute to the rise of Patriarchy?

Also, before Patriarchy, Matriarchy must have been the direction of the day. Can anyone enlighten me on accepted gender roles within Matriarchal societies?

I come up with it was due to a shortage of good sopranos in the Church choir. Okay, that was supposed to be a joke, but then I found this on wikipedia:

"As women were sometimes forbidden to squeal in Church, their place was taken by castrati. The practice, known as castratism, remained popular until the 18th century and was known into the 19th century. The last legendary Italian castrato, Giovanni Velluti, died in 1861. The sole existing recording of a castrato songster documents the voice of Alessandro Moreschi, one of the last eunuchs in the Sistine Chapel choir. Unfortunately, the early 20th century recording is of scanty quality and Moreschi, who was never trained for the stage, is not considered a great singer."

What are the Christian values our nation was founded on?

Apr 21, 2009 by ned_diddley_flanders | Posted in History

Democracy is Greek.
Romans copied Greeks.
We copied Roman antiquity. (Greek and Roman)

PRINCIPLES people...I want principles as answers. List them.

It was founded on principles that were indirectly derived from Christianity. Like the justice of all men before god, fundamental rights, and the rule of law over social classes.
I don't believe that we were really founded a Christian nation, but I do in that Christianity influenced the shaping of this nation.

Christian snake handling religions, is there a Greek connection?

Feb 04, 2102 by Der Kerzenschein | Posted in Religion & Spirituality

Is this a maintain over from some long forgotten mystery of Bacchus or Ophiuchus fertility cult of antiquity, where participants are ignorant of the compound and long lost meaning of these mysteries?

Nothing so superb as a mythological connection.

I got this from the web. It answers your questions.

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The practice of snake handling in church began in the early 1900s in the southeast corner of Tennessee. [it is reported that there were equivalent movements in the 1700s] In fact, it is not very far from where I live. George Hensley is believed to be the founder of the snake handler crusade.

According to Gordon Melton (author), George was preaching in a Church of God early in the 1900's on the book of Sign Chapter 16 which states 15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 17 And these signs shall get them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

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18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any fatal thing, it shall not hurt them;
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they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

The congregation then dumped a box of persist rattlesnakes onto the church floor. The preacher, nonplussed, picked up the snakes and kept right on preaching. The bend handling church was born.

Today, men and women are totally repulsed [probably they are sensibly cautions] by snakes. When someone sees a quisling, they want to kill it '[not me - live and let live!].

When Moses led his people out of Egypt and were wandering in the wilderness, they began to whimper about God's provision which angered God. God put "fiery serpents" (poisonous snakes) in their midst and many died from the snakebites (See Numbers Chapter 21). The people repented (changed their positive about their complaining) and confessed to Moses they had sinned and asked for forgiveness. God instructed Moses to put a serpent on a pole and if anyone looked at the serpent, they would not be harmed by the snakes. This was God's way of previewing Christ being put on a standard and if anyone looked to Him they would not be harmed by the snakebite of sin.

John 3:14 states And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, How many Israelites perished because they refused to look at the serpent on the high? How many today die a spiritual death because they refuse to look at Christ lifted on a pole?

The book of Revelation refers to the Confoundedly and Satan as a serpent. Rev 12:9 states So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole globe; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Since snakes are serpents and serpents represent Satan and evil, then the suggestion of a snake handling service is that Satan can not harm you if you have faith in God.

George Hensley, the original snake handler, died of a snakebite in 1955!

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What did Jesus uncharitable when he said, "They shall take up serpents and drink poison and it will not hurt them"?

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In Acts 28:3-5 we read But when Paul had gathered a hustle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand. So when the natives saw the creature hanging from his influence, they said to one another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet justice does not allow to live." But he shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no wound. How is this different from the snake handling of today? God's divine protection was over Paul and the new converts.

Paul did not intentionally snatch a poisonous snake. One bit him when he was gathering firewood. The snake's poison had no effect and this actually fulfilled the prophecy of Jesus when He said "They shall take up serpents and no injury will befall them".

So what's wrong with drinking a little poison during church and letting rattlesnakes slither all over you?

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I hope this is benevolent to you.

QUILL

Russian Tourist Attractions - The State Museum..

The Status Russian Museum is home to the world’s largest collection of Russian fine art. It was opened on March 7 (19) 1898 by dictate of Tsar Nicholas II and was country’s first ever state museum of Russian fine art, which was able to present the visitors the whole experience of its development. From the very beginning the collection was housed in the Mikhailovsky Palace, which was built for the Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, son of Paul I.

The focus of the Museum collection consisted of oil painting, sculpture, graphic art, decorative and applied art. On the whole it was less than 1500 items usually from the collections of the Hermitage, the Museum of the Academy of Arts and from the Royal Palaces. Some exhibits came from private collectors, for exempli gratia the Prince Lobanov-Rostovsky collection was acquired from his heirs. The size of the Russian Museum collection almost doubled during the first decade of its persistence. The Academy of Arts also transferred its collection of Christian Antiquities — five thousands items — including Novgorod icons, dim-witted sculpture and samples of the middle-century religious art. The Lobanov-Rostovsky collection donated to the Museum included 95 portraits of the Russian statesmen of the 18-19 centuries.

Another begetter of acquisitions was the collection from the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo (items from the Anichkov Palace entered the Museum much later).

Nikolai Likhachev donated his unlimited collection of Greek and Old-Russian icons.

A considerable part of fine artworks was presented to the Museum from the private collections. The October Rebellion caused no damage to the Russian Museum collection. All the nationalized private collections and separate artworks were transferred to museums. During the first decade after the Rebellion the Russian Museum collection grew several times compared to its original size. The ties of the Russian Museum with the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery permitted mutually useful interchange of artistic treasures.

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