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I'm making some progress on the historical journey of the Shroud. Thank you for the prayers. I was able to resolve some discrepancies in different accounts that the less aware would dismiss, and it was a chef's kiss moment when it fell into place. (It has to do with multiple names for Thaddeus - thankfully, I was given a Syriac record of all of the bishops in the Church of the East from the first century onwards which helped me to resolve it. I'm preparing the script currently and hope to put together the video either today or tomorrow. (What really strikes me is that the Lord's providence has ensured that the shroud was moved prior to each threat to its preservation. If it had stayed in place, it likely would have been destroyed. It is just a pity that the cross wasn't preserved as well - not that we could be sure it was THE cross but at least we might have had a chain of provenance.)
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A common thing we hear is that the earliest clear reference to the shroud of Jesus, currently called the Turin shroud, is from the 13th or 14th century. This is then used to bolster the shoddy findings of the radio carbon dating, which was a text book example of how not to do a test properly. However, a Syriac book from the late 8th century, translated into Latin in the 11th century speaks of the presence of a linen cloth with the image of Jesus on it. I am going to create a video bringing you on a journey through time of the shroud's remarkable journey that led it through 5 countries to its current location. Pray that I will have the grace to do this full justice.
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Really good channel. Deserves a lot more views.
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I got sick this week with fever and headaches. Finally, feeling somewhat better. Throat still sore. I hope to get back into swing of making videos in the coming days. First item is destroying a false idea of how Islam that is doing the rounds so as to clear the decks as it were. I want to then put a series together of the different proponents of the Jerusalem. Then, hopefully a series from a guest researcher on the history and development of the Maltese language which might throw up some surprises on the earlier meaning of common Arabic words relevant to Islam's origins.
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Saracens disguised as devils troubling Charlemagne's army, 14th century Grandes Chroniques de France, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. (MS 2813, fol. 119)
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The historic critique can be usefully applied to dismantle later narratives about Christianity's origins. Far from the practice of praying to saints, especially to the Lord's Mother, being a later "invention", it was very much part and parcel of Christian life even before the canon of the Bible was in place. The Book of Revelation was seen as a reflection of the Church's link with the saints in heaven. The Church that determined the books of the Bible prayed to the saints. The earliest Christian creed, the Apostle's creed, reflects that in the words "sanctorum communionem", the communion of saints. They would have considered it a heresy to not believe that the saints were alive in heaven and praying on our behalf, and also they would have considered it heresy to claim praying to saints was wrong. I'm sure this is uncomfortable for some Christians, now you know how some Muslims feel when we confront them with the historic critique. It shows no mercy.
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St Augustine in his exposition on Psalm 83 makes a reference to the Hagarenes and terms them proselytes and strangers and as malicious opportunists.
"5. Since they have imagined with one consent; together against You have they disposed a testament Psalm 82:5: as though they could be the stronger. In fact, a testament is a name given in the Scriptures not only to that which is of no avail till the death of the testators, but every covenant and decree they used to call a testament. For Laban and Jacob made a testament, Genesis 31:44 which was certainly to have force between the living; and such cases without number are read in the words of God. Then he begins to make mention of the enemies of Christ, under certain proper names of nations; the interpretation of which names sufficiently indicates what he would have to be understood. For by such names are most suitably figured the enemies of the truth. Idumæans, for instance, are interpreted either men of blood, or of earth. Ismaelites, are obedient to themselves, and therefore not to God, but to themselves. Moab, from the father; which in a bad sense has no better explanation, than by considering it so connected with the actual history, that Lot, a father, by the illicit intercourse procured by his daughter, begot him; since it was from that very circumstance he was so named. Genesis 19:36-37 Good, however, was his father, but as the Law is good if one use it lawfully, 1 Timothy 1:8 not impurely and unlawfully. Hagarens, proselytes, that is strangers, by which name also are signified, among the enemies of God's people, not those who become citizens, but those who persevere in a foreign and alien mind, and when an opportunity of doing harm occurs, show themselves. Gebal, a vain valley, that is, humble in pretence. Amon, an unquiet people, or a people of sadness. Amalech, a people licking; whence elsewhere it is said, and his enemies shall lick the earth. The alien race, though by their very name in Latin, they sufficiently show themselves to be aliens, and for this cause of course enemies, yet in the Hebrew are called Philistines, which is explained, falling from drink, as of persons made drunken by worldly luxury. Tyre in Hebrew is called Sor; which whether it be interpreted straitness or tribulation, must be taken in the case of these enemies of God's people in that sense, of which the Apostle speaks, Tribulation and straitness on every soul of man that does evil. Romans 2:9 All these are thus enumerated in the Psalms: The tabernacles of the Edomites, Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarenes, Gebal, and Amon, and Amalech, and the Philistines with those who inhabit Tyre."
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I hope to resume making videos next week. I will present some pretty rock solid proof that Islam is wrong about it's central message, as it currently stands. To do this, I will turn the historical critique onto Christianity to show how robust it is in its central claim: the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Then, I will begin a new series with new evidence for the Jerusalem thesis, a thesis now supported by a growing number of scholars.
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I was shocked but not surprised to find out that a certain one of those "flags" that I can't name without being demobilised is a symbolic incantation! Like what the heck!
Gilbert Baker designed the "flag" in 1979, he intended each colour to represent a value that mattered to the pan-sexual community. The fact that sex (pink), magic (turquoise) and spirit ({which one?} (violet) head the list, followed by life (red), sunlight (yellow), nature (green) and serenity (indigo), ought to give us something to think about. Working backwards, invoking “spirit” to use “magic” (an aspiration for control) to promote sex is quite some project.
It should be obvious to all Christians that invoking magic to unleash demonic power is wrong. The specific demons being invoked are Satan's generals, the second highest in the demonic hierarchy. It is evil beyond belief to consecrate one's business to them, akin to a Faustian pact. Christianity teaches humility and chastity, not pride and fornication of any kind. Shame on those who mindlessly "virtue signal" as opposed to the more difficult task of being virtuous. They have abandoned the faith and have lost their salvation as a result. They should repent of this. God will not be mocked.
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During the demolition of the church of St John the Baptist, according to the 12th century Damascene historian ibn Asakir, which I have reason to be sceptical of due to its late date, Caliph al-Walid I was alerted by his workmen who "incidentally' spotted a cavity under the site of the future mosque. The Caliph entered the cavern -his descent hastily lit by candles- to come upon a box enclosing a basket containing the head of Prophet Yahya son of Zechariah (the Muslim equivalent of St. John the Baptist). Promptly, al-Walid had the head reburied and incorporated within the Mosque marking the spot with a column as an added precaution. Why I'm sceptical of this report is that Pope St Sergius I, of Syrian parents (born in Palermo), introduced the Agnus Dei into the Mass, during his reign, which was from 687-701AD. This of course made the words of St John the Baptist proclaiming Jesus as the saviour prominent, IE behold the Lamb of God. Is it likely that this Church would get destroyed at the height of a new prominence for St John and coincidentally that his relics would happen to be discovered by chance? The timing seems off and the discovery too much of a coincidence.
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