Think Draw - Picture - James 1:20-24

Title: James 1:20-24
created on 23 Mar 22

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1. chelydra wrote: the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God...
2. chelydra wrote: ...But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
3. chelydra wrote: For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
4. chelydra wrote: ...For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
5. chelydra wrote: https://coffeeordie.com/shock-and-aw e/
6. chelydra wrote: A great ancient city, home to millions, and a ruthless relentless barrage of bombs and artillery. An invasion justified by lies, lies, and more lies. Dissent on the home front ignored or suppressed.
7. chelydra wrote: Poisoning of the regime's opponents took place in the run-up to the war. Anthrax spores definitely traced back to gov't labs by US investigators.
8. chelydra wrote: Countless civilian deaths result from the invasion. The PR-savvy invaders make sure no one will ever know if the total is under 200,000 or in the millions.
9. chelydra wrote: We do know that the aggressor's pre-invasion policies caused the death of a half-million children over several years; the government's response was that this was an acceptable cost of doing business.
10. chelydra wrote: https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madel eine-albright-saying-iraqi-kids-deat hs-worth-it-resurfaces-1691193
11. chelydra wrote: I was about to mention that the picture I drew is but a pale imitation of the lurid holocaustic imagery that covered news magazines and TV screens as the invasion was beginning...
12. chelydra wrote: ...and that the river in the foreground is the Tigris...and then I was going to copy Genesis2:something, where the Tigris flows past Eden as it now flows past the smoking remnants of Baghdad...
13. chelydra wrote: But whilst looking for the Bible verses I found this remarkable little essay... answersingenesis.org ...in which the author offers his opinion (backed by evidence, sort of)...
14. chelydra wrote: ...that the original Tigris River, and the Garden of Eden too, were actually in Merry Olde England, not that nasty hellhole we call the Middle East!
15. chelydra wrote: So is it equally mad to suggest that Kiev (or Kyiv) is in Iraq, and Baghdad is the capital of Ukraine, and that the joyful triumphant bloodlust we supposed to feel...
16. chelydra wrote: when our government is engaged in invading and sanctioning and demolishing and impoverishing nation after nation is inevitably (and already) blowing back on us? ....
17. chelydra wrote: Well if it be true that the Kingdom of God is within you, is it not equally true that Eden is (or once was) everywhere in Creation, from the Amazon to the Yukon to the Euphrates to the Thames? ...
18. chelydra wrote: ...and the only way to find our way through the confusion of ever-changing groupthink with good and evil labels pasted randomly, every which way, on every world leader and every invasion — is to find and keep an internal moral compass...
19. chelydra wrote: ...and make use of it... and try to learn and remember at least a few of the most pertinent facts (including some we're not supposed to notice or remember)...
20. chelydra wrote: ???
21. chelydra wrote: (and to think that I wrote this whole sermon without even once remembering to mention Yemen!) (Apologies to all ye whose nations refrain from invading one another; it wasn't addressed to you. Keep up the good work.)