Yeah, too bad snopes has to mess up what folks really do want to hear has happened.
Amen on that one Buck. I still post some things erroneously sometimes. I really think I posted the the one we're talking about once upon a time. I have learned to leave a link to the source.If I post one that's wrong and somebody knows it's wrong, please tell me. I don't want to be like the dems, libs and environuts and be posting things that are untrue. I personally am an environmentalist. I want the environment to be safe from the nuts, no matter which side they are own. Usually when man puts his hands on something in the guise of "improvement", he messes up more than he fixes. And, as far as trying to control nature, man just as well keep his hands off. Nature is going to do what nature is going to do sooner or later. All man can do is slow it down for a while, - - - - - - - maybe!
They have these "Mega Disaster" shows and the question is asked, "are we ready for whichever volcanic eruption, storm, tsunami, or whatever?" There is only one way to be ready for a hurricane. Move out of the hurricane zone. To be ready for a flood, move out of the flood zone. To be ready for a mud slide, move out of the slide zone. To be ready for a forest fire, move out of the fire prone area. To be ready for an earthquake, move out of the earthquake zone. To be ready for a Tornado, move out of tornado alley. Even then, with all the moving out, natural disasters of one sort or another will someday "reach out and touch you" and there'll be nothing you can do about it except cope.
I firmly believe that all these natural disasters are a direct result of sin according to Romans chapter 1:18-31, (amplified bible).
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%201;&version=31;
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Amen Herschel!!
Along those same lines, I saw this today and became even more disgusted with our "society" (and I am using that term loosely.)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298307,00.html
My opinion: This is some SICK garbage! Anyone who perpetrates or allows it should be dealt with severely!
It's sad enough that our school systems are failing to adequately educate the children. It's morally reprehensible when they serve to corrupt young minds.
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Our "society" is mostly sick anymore. That link to the fox news story makes it plain that even those who would strive to be the leader of this great country are willing to give up good moral values and to sell their souls and ours in order to attain the highest office in the land. I personally would choose to rally to a cry heard of the American Colonists. "No King but King Jesus".
We watch now, as the courts of our land, under their desire for political power, attempt to kill God by removing any resemblance, deference or mention of Him from the very fabric of life. When God is removed, our way of life will crash into despotism, anarchy and chaos. The statements of those candidates who seek the democratic nomination for the presidency are in effect approving of those who would deny God, and in doing so are attempting to lead us into a path that will destroy our very way of life.
Isn't it amazing how John Edwards, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton would lead us into the possibility of utter destruction by leading us to accept and approve of a way of life in which God does not approve? But of course, if they can kill God off one court at a time, it'll be totally illegal for God to be there, so it won't matter. And, the only reason they desire to kill God is that He and His holy word expose them to the light and call them what they are. They hate the light, (Jesus Christ) because the light exposes their evil deeds.
John 3:14-21
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but[b] have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
Romans 1:32 Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.