Make excuses for others, save blame for yourself…

When things in my life seemed to go differently than I wanted them to, when they would go what I call “all wrong” I would make endless excuses to myself why I fell short, and also why everyone else was to blame. It was all other peoples fault, and well for me, a 101 excuses.  Then one day I realized I created my own reality, and I could blame myself or give my self-credit, but I was the creator. Also I realized I had to stop looking at others. Stop blaming them and judging them, If anything I should make excuses for them, for they might not be on the same path in life as I. They might not have the same truth as I. They could have endless problems that I am not aware of. So I decided stop blaming others, if there is blame take it myself.  If there are excuses to me made, well make those for the other folks! 

Make excuses for others, save blame for yourself…

..danny dummitt

Actually God does take sides…yours…

God is on YOUR SIDE win or lose. When you get what you want and when you get what you don’t want, God is still right there on your side. See I used to wonder how two sports teams can meet, and both pray, and both think God is on the side of the winner. I mean what happens when two Christian church or school groups play against each other. Wow God has a dilemma there, doesn’t he? Well in fact he takes both sides. Some would even say it is better to have God on your side in life when you lose than win.  But you can be sure no matter what you want to do, decide to do and what every the out come God is still right there on YOUR SIDE!!

Actually God does take sides…yours…danny dummitt

WHERE DOES THE WORD HELL COME FROM?

WHERE DOES THE WORD HELL COME FROM?

Webster's Third New International Dictionary, unabridged, under "Hell"

says: "from 'helan' to conceal." The word "hell" thus originally conveyed

no thought of heat or torment but simply of a 'covered over or concealed

place.' In the old English dialect the expression "helling potatoes" meant,

not to roast them, but simply to place the potatoes in the ground or in a

cellar.

Collier's Encyclopedia (1986, Vol 12, p.28) says concerning "Hell":

First it stands for the Hebrew Sheol of the Old Testament and the Greek

Hades of the Septuagint and New Testament. Since Sheol in the Old Testament

times refered simply to the abode of the dead and suggested no moral

distinctions, the word 'hell,' as understood today, is not a happy

translation."

The meaning given today to the word "hell" is that portrayed in Dante's

Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost, which meaning is completely

foreign to the original definition of the word. The idea of a "hell" of firey

torment, dates back long before Dante or Milton. The Grollier Universal

Encyclopedia (1971, Vol. 9,p.205) under "Hell" says: "Hindus and Buddhists

regard hell as a place of spiritual cleansing and final restoration.

Islamic tradition considers it as a place of eternal punishment." The idea

of suffering after death is found among the pagan religious teachings of

ancient peoples in Babylon and Egypt. Babylonian and Assyrian beliefs

depicted the "nether world . . . as a place full of horrors, . . . presided

over by gods and demons of great strength and fierceness." Although ancient

Egyptian religious texts do not teach that the burning of any individual

victim would go on forever, they do portray the "other world" as featuring

"pits of fire" for "the damned."--The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, by

Morris Jastrow, Jr. 1898, p. 581; The Book of the Dead, 1960, pp. 135-200.

"Hellfire" has been a basic teaching in Christendom for many centuries,

it is understandable why The Encyclopedia Americana (1956, Vol XIV,p.81)

said:"Much confusion and misunderstanding has been caused by the early

translators of the Bible persistently rendering the Hebrew Sheol and the

Greek Hades and Gehenna by the word hell. The simple transliteration of

these words by the translators of the revised editions of the Bible has not

sufficed to appreciably clear up this confusion and misconception."

Nevertheless, such transliteration and consistent rendering does enable the

Bible student to make an accurate comparison of the texts in which these

original words appear and, with open mind, thereby to arrive at an

understanding of their true significance.

So, what is the 'Lake of Fire" of Revelation chapter 20? First let's

look at verse 15, it says: "Whosoever was not found written in the book of

life was cast into the lake of fire." But verse 14 says:"And death and hell

were cast into the lake of fire." Is hell itself to be tormented? And how

can death ,a condition, be thrown into a literal fire? The rest of verse 14

reads: This [the lake of fire] is the second death." Rev. 21:8 repeats this

point. What is this "second death"? The Catholic Jerusalem Bible adds this

footnote concerning "the second death": "Eternal death. The fire ... is

symbolic." Very true, for it signifies complete destruction, or

annihilation.

How interresting! "Hell" is to be destroyed! Note, however, that the

Greek word used here is Hades, which, according to Strong's Exhaustive

Concordance of the Bible, means "grave." Are the dead conscious or

suffering in hell, or Hades? The Bible replies:"The dead know nothing...for

neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom,nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither

thou art hastening."--Ecclesiastes 9:5,10, Catholic Douay Version.

However you may ask "Why does Rev.20:10, say that the Devil will be

'tormented' in the lake of fire?" If, as we have seen, the lake is

symbolic, then, logically the torment is also.

In the Bible times, jailers often cruelly tortured their prisoners,

hence they were called "tormentors." In one of his illustrations, Jesus

spoke of a cruel slave as being 'delivered to jailers' (Greek, basanistes',

which actually means "tormentors" and is so rendered by the KJV at Matt.

18:34). So when Revelation speaks of the Devil and others as being

"tormented...forever" in the lake of fire, it means that they will be

"jailed" to all eternity in the second death of complete destruction. The

Devil, the death inherited from Adam, and the unrepentant wicked all are

spoken of as being destroyed eternally--"jailed" in the lake of

fire.--Compare Heb.2:14; 1 Corinthians 15:26; Psalm 37:38.

The Dogma of eternal torment is based on the immortal-soul theory.

However, the Bible clearly states: "The soul that is sinning--it shall

die."(Ezekial 18:4,20; see also Acts 3:23.) Proclaimers of hellfire have

made the true God, Jehovah, appear to be a fiend--a cruel monster--instead

of what he is: a God of love, "merciful and gracious . . . and abundant in

loving kindness."--Exodus 34:6.

Lovingly God has made provision to save men, not from torment, but from

being destroyed. Said Jesus: "God loved the world so much that he gave his

only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him not be

DESTROYED but have everlasting life.--John 3:16.