Lookahead: It does occur to me that this is "a lot of overhead."  But it just goes to show that it takes a lot of energy not to judge and to essentially overcome human nature.  Which brings me to (6):  I acknowledge that humans make lousy judges, so I purposely defer to Him.  Basically, people … Continue reading Unpacking #30 – Jesus and James on Judging

Lookahead:  This past weekend, I stumbled upon a new ChatGPT-based Android Bot for cell phones that "role plays" Jesus! In the "How Scared of Artificial Intelligence Should We Be?" category:  I could envision that a person would be so desperate to hear from God (for example, in prolonged crisis, in the middle of another sleepless … Continue reading Unpacking #29 – you’re a bot and He is not

Lookahead: Au contraire, all that the left-brainer Bible Translator Lady did was to believe in Jesus and pray whenever a demonic manifestation happened--that God would protect the people and get rid of the demons.  Then she got the people converted, and taught them to pray for themselves.  The demons postured and threatened and threw temper … Continue reading Unpacking #28 – Opening the Door to the demonic

Lookahead:  Many of the Millennial Testimonies additionally had this in common:  The speakers were yoyo Christians caught in backsliding cycles before they came to the point at which they became irrevocably sold old for God.  Personally, I became frustrated and judgmental with a couple of the testimonies wondering how could they have fallen so hard again?  At … Continue reading Unpacking #27 – No Fear 2

Lookahead: Now I'm sure the LORD doesn't want us beating ourselves up for every sin or mistake we've ever made--that He's OBTW forgiven! And He also doesn't want us having blame-placing dialogues with our adversary. As far as the East is from the West, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12 … Continue reading Unpacking #26 – No Fear

Lookahead: And per Webster's, execrate means to detest utterly, to declare to be evil or detastable, to denounce. So curses are not the result of a fleshly moment. Curses are the result of having a deep loathing for someone, and represent a sincere wish that the recipient would be doomed. That's pure evil and the … Continue reading Unpacking #25 – Hyprocrite Countermeasures (HCM)