With the collapse of gOOgle free pages and ticking of the clock marching on relentlessly, I have finally decided to bring my scribbles on board.
Whereas I had plans to slow down, it has become clear to me that most of my scribbles are out of date and so before I go to meet the Lord of the Ages, and with the grace that He so richly pours upon all earthlings either by the apportioned lot of providence, or the gracious abudance which is in Christ for all who believe; I shall labour by candle light to retract errors and add additional information; and if neccessary fresh scribbles.
Currently my scribbles are hosted by Delusion Resistance, and here they are; in the order which they were written:
“Witchcraft” by Eric Sawyer
“With great subtlety we are being lulled into complacency, rocked in the cradle of blindness, pacified with the dummy of deceit, covered with a blanket of fleshly contentment, placed in a coma of poisonous paralysis, in which state he can easily wheel us into Hell’s morgue, trapping us in the same folly of pride in which he has bound his own heart, through willfulness, against Almighty God!”
1). Introduction
4). Ye are gods
6). Witch-hunts?
INTRODUCTION
After having read some of the most wonderful testimonies, of persons who have been delivered from the grip of Witchcraft or Wicca, I can confidently say that there is “Hope.”
If you are presently involved in some form of Witchcraft or Wicca; you need not be lonely anymore, for there are many others who were just like you; who have made it through and found safety in the arms of the true ‘lover of our souls’; “The Lord Jesus Christ.” (Romans 8:38 & 39)
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Update 2008-2009
Since moving to Europe, I have not only become aware of the escalation of Traditional Witchcraft and the Wiccan Religion, but also conscious that where the word witch is used in Scripture it is closer to what we understand by the word Medium; or someone who communicates with the living dead.
I can forsee not only the need to update this early scribble of mine, (please excuse my innocence) but there is definitely a need for a second scribble, bringing into sharp perspective clear definitions of Traditional Witchcraft and the Wiccan Religion.
Which Bible do you refer too. The King James? Do you realize this book is not entirely accurate, for there have been things taken out and add. All to please humankind! If you have studied it properly and followed origins you would have known this. And in turn questioned the beliefs in the Bible as it is written and studied more to find the truths. I do not believe in something simply because I am told too. Blind faith can lead to disaster. I do not believe the Bible as we know it was ment to be taken in the literal sense as almost ALL people do. Who wrote the King James Bible? And who was it written for. Who translated the words? Where they accurate in their translations? How long where the words handed down in voice before being written down. Now it is not God I question! It is MAN! Do you truly believe our all loving, forgiving and understanding God would send souls to eternal damnation of pain and suffering? Now this does not sound like an all loving, forgiving and understanding God to me! And if He knows all from beginning to end then he must have known what the world would turn out to be and who is and is not going to this eternity of damnation before they are even born and allowed this to happen! What kind of Gracious Loving God would do this?
I do not believe there is a burning Hellfire after death if you are a bad person as most preach. I believe this was added to scare people into believing in God. I also believe IF there is a Hellfire it was not ment for humankind but for the Angels who defied God. And again why would he do this to his creation? When all he has to do is cease them to exist! There are so many questions to be answered that no one may ever know the answers to. Also we are taught we are made in the image of God. Man takes this literally in the physical. This is not so!!! When you take the phrase God is with in you and all things. What does a human have in common with nature? Energy!!! Without it nothing can exist. Now this energy can be used for good or bad. Your choice. The bible states we where given free choice. But if we make the wrong choice we go to Hell? This does not make sense. I believe if we make the choice to believe in God and be good we are blessed with an eternity of Love, but if we choose bad we are simply erased. This makes more sense for a Loving God to do than the Hellfire for ever. Do I believe in God? I believe there is a much high power than we know or can even fathom. For anyone to claim they know his meanings is wrong! For no one does! All we can do is speculate and GUESS. If we live a life of good then we have nothing to worry about!!!!
Thank you for reading my brief perspectives.
Hi Brenda, and thanks for dropping by.
This was the first book I wrote and back then I was what is known as a King James Only person.
You have asked many questions that are outside of the scope of this thread and some of them I am attempting to answer on other pages. In fact I have dedicated slightly over a decade to studying the primary subject you are asking questions about.
That being said, once I discovered that my King James only position was flawed, I began to slowly (and in some cases immediately) work through each book I had written (this being the first one I attended to) examining each passage that I had employed in the past (from the King James Bible) and reconsidering the topic.
As this book ‘Witchcraft’ (which was my original title) is the subject of this thread I am not going to respond to your general questions which seem to be more about the next world/afterlife. However, I will tell you that I am working very hard on going through each and every passage in the Bible that might hold some relevance to the subject of what happens to the lost when they die?
Firstly however I want to stay on the topic of ‘Witchcraft’ which is where you decided to drop by and direct you to a page where I have begun to reexamine the subject. In the introduction (coming up in the next stanza) there are several other links to pages here, which show my progressive development in thinking about the subject of ‘Witches, Wicca and Witchcraft’. (I am still very busy reading and thinking and hopefully one day I will write a proper book exploring the subject with my renewed perspectives.)
Here is the introduction followed by a link to the page, after which I will give you a link to my current page where I am dealing with the subject to which you addressed in your comment:
Now the link to the page where I am beginning to deal with the questions you asked. (It’s basically and introduction.)
http://aerycksmusic.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/where-do-the-lost-go-when-they-die/
As you will notice, I have divided it up into two parts.
As I spent about five years studying the New Testament passages and am currently working through the Old Testament passages (actually I am going through each passages I cited when I was a King James Only person) and they are being dealt with on another blog titled ‘HELL REEXAMINED’ which is a part response to Rob Bell’s book ‘Love Wins’ and more about a study which I am sure I have been been busy with for far longer than Rob. (That is a guess : ) Though I was doing it on the new blog, I decided to bring it back here and hopefully that will keep me focussed on a subject that I know is extremely controversial and needs to be dealt with slowly and carefully.
That being said, I think there is some merit in what you say but I prefer to reserve my conclusions until I am done.
Sincerely,
Eric J. Sawyer
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