I agree that many terrible and horrible things were done by christians to their fellow man. Many terrible and horrible things were also done by the muslims, the romans, the indians, the asians, the caucasians, the assyrians, the iranians.......... to their fellow man. This part of history is not just confined to the christians, nor is it just confined to 'in the name of God'.
When an american is taken hostage by a foreign country...... well, a bunch of americans........ the US tries to first get them back by diplomatic talks and appeasements and all that stuff. When it fails, we go in kick ass and take names, and bring them home. Thats how it would be in a perfect world anyway ..:P (The Iranian hostage crisies was a failure, I know) The pharaoh of Egypt was holding Gods chosen people as slaves and many times Moses went to the pharaoh and asked him to "let my people go". When diplomatic terms failed, God went in a took them by force. They were very important to His salvation plan, and it was time to show a foreshadow of the Messiah to come. (which is what Moses and the Exodus is... a foreshadow of the Christ and his rescue plan of salvation)
I think a big part of western christianity's problem is that we have of view of God or Christ that is meek and mild, and well, rather wimpy. But my God, the one who I belong to ..The Lord is a warrior, the Lord is His name. (Ex. 15:3) He is strong and powerful and mighty to save, He is so much bigger than I am or this world is. I dont understand Him all the time and truthfully dont want to. (if I had a God that my puny mind could understand, then what kind of a god would that be) I want to have to continually study His awesomeness and His holiness, because if it came to a point that i didnt have to...well, there would be an end to the awesoness and wonder and might. And I am so glad that He loves me enough to give me choices, to love me when I dont follow them, to love me when I rebel against Him, to correct me when I am wrong, to let me be so angry that I could spit nails at Him and then comfort me when my tantrum is over. He can do that because He is so big and mighty and not always understandable at times.... but He is love.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
to the shores of tripoli.......
Okay, at last I get to post this! By the way, good morning guys! I love Saturdays.........
The Tripoli Treaty.
The Tripoli treaty came into being because after the Revolutonary War had ended and Britan had pulled out their ships and went home, pirates from the Barbary Coast begin to attack American ships and plunder them, take hostages and then demand a ransom for the captives. Kinda like Somalia now.... So, the Americans decided they needed to enter into a treaty with the pirates to make them stop. TADA! The Tripoli treaty. The person who was in charge of taking it to all the nations that needed to sign it was a guy by the name of Joel Barlow, a known anti christian who had helped Thomas Paine publish a book called the "The Age of Reason" that argues against christian doctrine. This is important so stay with me....
The nations that needed to sign it were mostly muslim nations, so the original document was written in arabic, there is also an italian copy. So, off it goes, carried by Joel, to Morocco, Algeria, Tropli and Tunis. It was signed in Tripoli, certified at Algeries and approved in Lisbon. So after 7 to 8 months of travel it was brought to the states, translated by Joel to english and sent to congress. Neither congress nor Adams felt like they could cancel the terms by then, and on the very first day it hit the congressional floor (which was the very first day anyone saw it since it left) it was ratafied. (The pirates had to be stopped after all). Admendment 11 and all.......
In 1931 the United States hired Hunter Miller to analyze all of the treaties that America had ever entered into, and figure out what they meant to America today (1931). When he reached the Tripoli treaty his words were this......."Barlow's translation is at the very best a poor attempt at a paraphrase or summery of the sense of the arabic. Oh, and admendment 11 is not in the arabic or italian verson."
Hmmmmm........
The Tripoli Treaty.
The Tripoli treaty came into being because after the Revolutonary War had ended and Britan had pulled out their ships and went home, pirates from the Barbary Coast begin to attack American ships and plunder them, take hostages and then demand a ransom for the captives. Kinda like Somalia now.... So, the Americans decided they needed to enter into a treaty with the pirates to make them stop. TADA! The Tripoli treaty. The person who was in charge of taking it to all the nations that needed to sign it was a guy by the name of Joel Barlow, a known anti christian who had helped Thomas Paine publish a book called the "The Age of Reason" that argues against christian doctrine. This is important so stay with me....
The nations that needed to sign it were mostly muslim nations, so the original document was written in arabic, there is also an italian copy. So, off it goes, carried by Joel, to Morocco, Algeria, Tropli and Tunis. It was signed in Tripoli, certified at Algeries and approved in Lisbon. So after 7 to 8 months of travel it was brought to the states, translated by Joel to english and sent to congress. Neither congress nor Adams felt like they could cancel the terms by then, and on the very first day it hit the congressional floor (which was the very first day anyone saw it since it left) it was ratafied. (The pirates had to be stopped after all). Admendment 11 and all.......
In 1931 the United States hired Hunter Miller to analyze all of the treaties that America had ever entered into, and figure out what they meant to America today (1931). When he reached the Tripoli treaty his words were this......."Barlow's translation is at the very best a poor attempt at a paraphrase or summery of the sense of the arabic. Oh, and admendment 11 is not in the arabic or italian verson."
Hmmmmm........
Friday, January 30, 2009
First Things First....
...In the begining was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1.1)
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