"Just Was"

by

Icorigin a.k.a. Daniel Roy Bloomquist, S.T.D. Honorary

A Short Essay in Systematic Theology


The ubiquitously-recognized-and-respected Nicene Creed states (in part):

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth
And of all [real and not imaginary nor make-believe] things visible and invisible;
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God,
Begotten of His Father before all worlds:
God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God,
Begotten, not made,
Being of one "substance" with the Father,
By Whom all things were made;
Who, for us "men," [males only?] and for our salvation, came down from heaven,
and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the [former!] virgin Mary,
and was made man...

Some denominations of Christendom (e.g. many non-liturgical sects of Christianity) either never or rarely engage in reciting that creed, even with modernized alterations.

The causes for that are varied and numerous, some worthy and others prejudicial, but all can agree that the exact words of the creed precisely in their typical ordering - in block form - are simply not found anywhere in the entirety of the Sacred-66-books Old-and-New-Testaments Holy Bible.

That is not to imply that all or each phrase of the creed is heretical, apostate, misleading, misrepresentative, faulty, errant, silly, obnoxious, blasphemous, and/or not directly or indirectly based on verses of Scripture.

For example, the "ONE God" stated in the Nicene Creed is related to:

Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD

Mark 12:29 Jesus answered: "The first is: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One'

First Corinthians 8:5 For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth - as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords" -
First Corinthians 8:6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Ephesians 4:5 ...one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

The part in the creed about "believing in God" is related to:

John 8:24 I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am He."

James 2:19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe....and shudder.

The phrase in the creed that "the Father Almighty is the Maker of heaven and earth" seems to contradict Son-creatorship info (plus the part of the above-quoted creed stating that the One who has the same "substance" as the Father "made all things") in the opening verses of the gospel of John and the first chapters of both Colossians and Hebrews:

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:2 He was in the beginning with God;
John 1:3 all things were made through Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
John 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of humans.
John 1:5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Colossians 1:11 May you be strengthened with all power, according to His [NOT Mary's] glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy,
12 giving thanks to the Father [NOT "mother"], who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
13 He [NOT "she"] has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His [NOT "her"] beloved Son,
14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation;
16 for in Him [NOT "her"] all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities....all things were created through Him and for Him.
17 He [NOT "she"] is before all things, and in Him [NOT "her"] all things hold together.

and:

Hebrews 1:1 In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers [NOT "mothers"] by the prophets;
2 but in these last days He [NOT "she"] has spoken to us by His Son [NOT "daughter"], whom He appointed the heir of all things, through whom also He created the world.
3 He exhibits the glory of God and His very essence, upholding the Universe by His word of power....
8 But of the Son [GOD] says: "Your throne, GOD, (or "G-d" if you wish) is forever, the righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom. [NOT "queendom"]
9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your comrades."
10 And: "You, Lord, did found the Earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands...

That "first-born of all creation" phrase in Colossians 1:15 initially seems to refer to a sometime-back-in-the-past starting-point-in-time "begotten" origin of the Son of God, but actually is a reference to what Saint Paul referred to in the following Scriptural passage:

First Corinthians 15:35 But some one will ask: "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"
36 You foolish man! [Do not waste your time vainly trying to contemplate details of the supernatural which you now cannot either comprehend nor access] What you plant does not come to life unless it dies.
37 And what you plant is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
38 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
39 For not all flesh is alike, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is planted is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.
43 It is planted in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is planted in weakness, it is raised in power.
44 It is planted a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.
45 Thus it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46 But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual.
47 The first "man" was from the earth, a man of dust; the second "man" is from heaven.
48 As was the "man" of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.
49 Just as we have borne the image of the "man" of dust, we shall also bear the image of the "man" [how about man-rib woman?] of heaven.

True, "the Father" (in the three-persons-in-one-trinity concept and manifestation of Almighty God) is alternatively (not in a familial "father" or "dad" or "daddy" or "pops" sense) declared Creator by the following Father/Son/Spirit combination word: "LORD" in the following references:

Isaiah 44:24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the Earth. Who was with me?"

Jeremiah 10:12 He [NOT "it"] is Him who made the Earth by His power, who established the world by His wisdom [yes: "intelligently designed!], and by His understanding stretched out the heavens. ["stretched out" - as an expanding Universe?]
Jeremiah 33:2 "Thus says the LORD who made the Earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it: the LORD is His name...

....and the Son is equated with the Father (in a familial-named-or-designated sense) according to the following:

Isaiah 9:6 For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His [NOT "her"] shoulder, and His name will be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

John 8:58 Jesus said to them: "Truthfully, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."
John 14:8 Philip said to Him: "Lord, show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied."
John 14:9 Jesus said to Him: "Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you say: 'Show us the Father'?

Colossians 1:3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you...

Separate familial-name distinctions, however, are also numerous throughout the Bible:

Colossians 1:3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

Matthew 11:27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
Matthew 24:36 But of that Day and Hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

[ NOTE: In family-authority structures, dad is regarded as the boss - because he is larger, stronger, wiser, more knowledgeable, and has more money. From Christ's point of view, his family-like designators are no different. His Father has the apparent upper hand, both because only Daddy Divine knows the Day and the Hour when Earth and the works that are upon it will be dissolved in fervent heat (read Second Peter 3:7-12) and Judgment of proverbial Sheep and Goats begins, after Sonny Boy turns judgment of such over to Daddy:

First Corinthians 15:24 Then comes The End, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.

The apparent superiority of Daddy is also indicated by the fact that He is Him who has disciplined His Son - not the other way around:

Proverbs 19:18 Discipline your son while there is hope; do not set your heart on his [crucified?] destruction.

Hebrews 5:8 Although He was a Son, He learned obedience through what He suffered...

But in the case with earthly temporal dads and sons, when the dad gets old and feeble, the son takes care of him:

Malachi 4:6 And He will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse.

Romans 9:29 And as Isaiah predicted: "If the Lord of hosts had not left us children, we would have fared like Sodom and been made like Gomorrah."

Nevertheless, Dad is yet The Boss - NOT the Kid - per:

Isaiah 3:12 My people: children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. Oh my people, your leaders mislead you, and confuse the course of your paths. ]

John 3:35 the Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.
5:19 Jesus said to them: "Truthfully I say to you, the Son can do nothing of His own accord, but only what He sees the Father doing; for whatever He does, that the Son does likewise.
5:20 The Father loves the Son, and shows Him all that He Himself is doing; and greater works than these will He show Him, that you may marvel.
5:21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He will.
5:22 The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
5:23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
5:26 For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son also to have life in Himself,
5:36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has granted me to accomplish, these very works which I am doing, bear me witness that the Father has sent me.

John 5:37 And the Father who sent me has Himself borne witness to me. His voice you have never heard, His form you have never seen;
38 and you do not have his word residing in you, for you do not believe Him whom He has sent.

John 8:18 I bear witness to myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness to me.
8:28 So Jesus said: "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on my own authority but speak thus as the Father taught me.
8:44 You are of your father the Devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
10:15 as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
10:17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. [so Jesus resurrected Himself?]
10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
10:30 I and the Father are one."
10:32 Jesus answered them: "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?"
10:36 do you say of Him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world: 'You are blaspheming,' because I said: 'I am the Son of God'? [Jesus DID say THAT about Himself!]
10:37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;
10:38 but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

Brief reference is given to the invisible Third Person of the Trinitarian Godhead in the following references:

John 15:26 But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He [NOT "she" nor feminists-for-Mary nor Mary herself] will bear witness to me

Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit Himself [NOT "herself" NOR Mary nor her rosary-mantras-mouthing feminists] intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. [The He-Spirit has no need to have a transgendered nor transsexual artificially-attached penis nor surgically-concocted vagina to prove that He is semantically considered masculine and neither feminine nor neuter]

Ephesians 2:18 ...through Him [NOT Mary nor any other "canonized" catholic "saint" nor Hail-Mary-blovating priest] we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

IS it through the former-virgin "Holy" Mary [and/or some catholic priest] that we have access to God the Father, who intercedes and prays for us sinners, which deceased corpse we should necromantically mutter upward to for and with petitions?

Romans 5:2 Through Him [JESUS - not Mary!] we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.

Ephesians 2:18 ...through Him [JESUS - not Mary!] we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

NO where in Scripture does it state that Mary was the Mother of Almighty God, the LORD [i.e. the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit].....but merely that she was the mother of Jesus.

Moreover, Jesus Christ ALONE is the Holy Father of The [Universal] Church, and Mary is NOT their "Mother."

Ephesians 3:7 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace which was given me by the working of His [NOT "her" nor Mary's] power....
Ephesians 3:11 This was according to the eternal purpose which He [NOT "she"] has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, [NOT Mary HIS mother pretended to be our lord!]
Ephesians 3:12 in whom we have boldness and confidence of access through our faith in Him. [JESUS - not Mary!]

Other references to "the Spirit" (i.e. the Holy Spirit, who and not "what" nor "which" is part of the Trinitarian LORD, or Almighty God) are:

Genesis 1:2 The Earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the water. [NOT "lava"]
Judges 14:6 and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon [Samson], and he [NOT "she"] tore the lion apart as one tears a young goat; and he had nothing in his hand. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.
Judges 15:14 When [Samson] came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes which were on his [NOT "her"] arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.

And Samson probably used a MALES-only bathroom, not a transgendered one.

Second Chronicles 24:20 Then the Spirit of God took possession of Zechariah the son [NOT "daughter"] of Jehoiada the priest; and he [NOT "she"] stood above the people, and said to them: "Thus says God: 'Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have rejected the LORD, he has rejected you.'"
Ezekiel 3:24 But the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and He spoke with me [audibly, by snailmail letter, by FedEx or UPS package or telegram, by e-mail or cellphone, telegraph, carrier pigeon or dove or buffalo or wolf spirits, psychiatric hypnosis, smoke signals, Navy mirror reflecting sunlight, by Morse Code?] and said to me: "Go, shut yourself within your house. [sounds safe]
Micah 3:8 But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
Matthew 12:28 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I exorcise demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

John 3:5 Jesus answered: "Truthfully I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he/she cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:6 They who is born of the flesh are flesh, and they who is born of the Spirit are spirit.
John 3:8 The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know from where it comes or to where it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit."

Ah, NOW we get to that strange and rather-foreign-sounding word: "begotten" - which is part of the Nicene Creed with reference to both the Father and the Son having the same "substance" (whatever that is or is not).

Perhaps a preferable word to use other than "substance" (which word implies something tangible and measurable as to beginning and end, start and stop, and which can be perceived and manipulated with a human's five senses) is the word: "essence" which is a better word than characteristic or even attributes.

And did the "substance" who (and not which nor that) came down from heaven come for men only - or also for women? A better word might instead be: humans -- taking into account both genders of male and female.

And there are MALE (in stark contrast to FEMALE) references within the creed. Why?

WHY "Son" and not "daughter?" WHY "Father" and not "mother?" WHY "His" and not "her?"

According to the Greek Text upon which most English Bible translations are based on, the precise Greek word used is indeed, and thus of necessity, directly and properly translated "Father" with a male connotation, and "Son" with a male connotation, and "His" with a male connotation, because (as is the case with English semantics) different Greek-language letter combinations of various Greek words portray either nearly-identical, or somewhat-similar, or totally-different, or completely-opposite concepts or entities.

To give a quick English-wording example: "Penis" does NOT mean "vagina." STOP does not mean GO. BLACK does not mean WHITE. Same with Greek words.

Clearly, even though the Son of God was not "made," (as it states in the creed), Jesus was certainly "made" by becoming conceived (and in His case, "incarnated") within the womb of Mary.

But, getting back to John 3:5-8 cited above pertaining to the nocturnal discussion which righteous Pharisee Nicodemus had with Jesus about "being born anew" or "being born from above," why does the creed state the word "begotten" twice? Is not mentioning it once enough? WHY the apparently-needless repetition of that word?

Not only that, but WHAT does the word "begotten" mean - especially in relation to understanding whatever origin there was of both the spiritual Son of God, and the human Son of Man Jesus Christ (one and the same)?

DID the Father have a Wife back in time past who He fkd (if you will please and kindly bare with me on that one) for His Dear Spouse to then birth from her Divine Crotch and Blessed Pussy a Spiritual Babe named "The Son of God?"

Was the male infant [complete with male-human scrotum and prostate] in Mary the Son of GOD (rather than merely Son of MAN) being "begotten" (or "generated") by her - which Dynamic-Duo Messiah the creed states was never begotten at all by Mary but instead was begotten by and of His Father?

To be sure, Mary neither "begot" NOR "made" nor "generated" even Jesus the Son of Man [let alone the Son of God] by herself, but was a mere reproductive tool who (NOT "that" nor "which") the Lord Himself (via the Holy Spirit who came upon her) chose to humanize and mysteriously integrate the Son of God with and as the Son of Man.

There seems to be a gross and non-resolvable problem relating to implications of not Jesus but rather the Son of God being "begotten:"

How can the Son of God...who always existed and had existed previously in eternity past...suddenly come into being and into existence by being "begotten" - whenever and wherever and however?

Psalm 2:7 I will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me: "You are my son, today I have begotten you."

Let's get back to the question of: "WHAT does "begotten" mean?"

One dictionary defines it as: to procreate. Another defines it as: to produce. A third defines it as: to become the father of; to cause.

Each of the dictionaries above contains NO defined inclusion of the word: "begotten" per se, but instead refers the reader to the word: "beget." None of the dictionaries define the word "begotten" as: being made nor made....nor being created nor created....but merely refer the reader to the word: "beget."

Interesting.

In the case of the Son of God being "begotten," and given dictionary definitions of such word, we return to the non-solved mystery of EITHER the Son of God (and we are NOT talking incarnated-into-Mary Son-of-Man Jesus here) was made, created, produced, caused, procreated at a certain time before which the Son of God had not been made, created, produced, caused, nor procreated.....OR the Son of God always existed as a merely-with-familial-name-and-structure-associated eternally-past-and-present-and-future-always-existing Entity.

It is the latter of the two above which Scripture designated and yet designates as the appropriate characteristic of the "begotteness" of the Son of God:

John 8:58 Jesus said to them: "Truthfully I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."
John 17:24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to perceive and consider (i.e. "behold") my glory which you have given me in your love for me before the foundation of the world.
First Peter 1:20 He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake.
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

First John 3:8 He/She who commits sin is of the Devil; for the Devil has sinned from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the Devil.

Hebrews 7:3 He is without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.

That immediately-previous Hebrews 7:3 reference seems to infer that a certain Old-Testament king was a theophany of the Son of God manifested before the Son of God became incarnate with Son of Man personage in Mary's womb by means of the Spirit "overshadowing" her (apparently without sexual-intercourse coitus bypassing penis-inserted-into-vagina seminal-sperm transfer to ovarian egg).

The passage is as follows:

Hebrews 7:1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;
2 and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.
3 He is without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.
4 See how great he is! Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of the bounty.
6 But this man who has not their genealogy received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
7 It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.
8 Here tithes are received by mortal men; there, by one of whom it is testified that he lives.
11 Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the Law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?
12 being that when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the Law as well.
13 The one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar,
14 because it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.
15 This becomes even more evident when another Priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,
16 who has become Priest, not according to a legal requirement concerning bodily descent but by the power of an indestructible life, [Highlander? Superman?]
17 being that it is witnessed of Him: "You are Priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."
18 In one sense, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness
19 (for the Law made nothing perfect); in the other sense, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
22 This makes Jesus the guarantee of a better covenant.

The Son of God was manifested as a theophany at other times under other conditions in the Old Testament, in accord with:

Proverbs 30:4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the [east/south/west/north] "ends" of the Earth? What is His name, and what is His Son's name? Surely you know!

and they are:

Genesis 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
25 When the Man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, He touched the hollow of his thigh; and Jacob's thigh was put out of joint as he wrestled with Him.
26 Then He said: "Let me go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said: "I will not let you go, unless you bless me."
27 And He said to him: "What is your name?" And he replied: "Jacob."
28 Then He declared: "Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."
29 Then Jacob asked Him: "Tell me, I pray, your name." But He replied: "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there He blessed him.
30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, stating: "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved."
31 The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his thigh.

Joshua 5:13 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and hey, a Man stood before him with His drawn sword in His hand; and Joshua went to Him and said to Him: "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"
14 And He replied: "No; but as Commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to Him: "What does my Lord bid His servant?"
15 And the Commander of the LORD's army said to Joshua: "Put off your shoes from your feet; for the place where you stand is holy." And Joshua did so.

Daniel 3:24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in a hurry. He said to his counselors: "Did we not toss three men bound into the fire?" They answered the king, "True, O king."
25 He answered, "But I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like the Son of God."
26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the burning fiery furnace and shouted: "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!" Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire.
27 And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king's counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men; the hair of their heads was not singed, their mantles were not harmed, and no smell of fire had come upon them.
28 Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed: "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants, who trusted in Him, and set at nought the king's command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God.
29 Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins; for there is no other god who is able to deliver in this way."
30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 4:1 King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that reside in all the Earth: Peace be multiplied to you!
2 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done toward me.
3 How great are His signs, how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His dominion is from generation to generation.

It's very simple, actually:

Either want to obey God in everything, like it, and go to Heaven...or instead want to disobey God in everything, like that, and go to Hell. One CANNOT have it BOTH ways, NOR a confused and double-minded combo.
Either pee or get off the pot.

It is not rocket science.

Bonus:

Sexist-feminist Republican women ALREADY HAD their chance -- TWICE -- to chauvinistially vote in a WOMAN candidate for the Presidency and THUS VIOLATE the OBVIOUS intentions of Isaiah 3:12, Nahum 3:13, First Corinthians 11:1-16 and 14:33-38 plus First Timothy 2:8-15.....and they did NOT make use of it....FIRST when Carly Fiorina was a GOP Prez candidate, and SECOND when Ted Cruz chose her as his VP running mate.

WHY ???

Being that they did NOT do activism for Carly, does anyone in their right mind presume that they would now and instead vote for Hillarius Clinton who attorney Larry Klayman called: "the wicked witch of the Left?"

Forget the Libertarian Party; may NeverHillary democrat discontents vote for them.

Trump MUST select a male VP running mate to prevent me and others from voting for the 2016 male Constitution Party candidates (being that I did vote for the Constitution Party candidates in 1992, 1996, and 2008 with McCain choosing inferior-gender Sarah Palin....and in each case the demoncrat candidates won the elections).

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