Tomorrow - Friday at 7 PM - Day of Epiphany Vespers

Tomorrow - Friday - I will be working on the chapel hardware set-up. I know today is the Day of Epiphany, celebrating the Wise Men seeing the baby Jesus, but tomorrow will work better - 7 PM Central Standard Time.

I want to see how much difference one change (the camera) will make.

Mike Pompeo, Former Trump Secretary, Lost 100 Pounds

 

 "Does my fur make me look fat?"

NY Post has an interesting article on Mike Pompeo losing 100 pounds through daily exercise and nutritious eating. 

He might modestly call it the Ichabod diet, because this was my lunch - sweet potatoes microwaved with a pat of butter on them. They were delicious, and I was hungry. 

I once had a slice of Walmart's sweet potato pie - poison. 

Look at the nutrition in sweet potatoes.

One cup (200 grams) of baked sweet potato with skin provides (2Trusted Source):

• Calories: 180
• Carbs: 41.4 grams
• Protein: 4 grams
• Fat: 0.3 grams
• Fiber: 6.6 grams
• Vitamin A: 769% of the
  Daily Value (DV)
• Vitamin C: 65% of the DV
• Manganese: 50% of the DV
• Vitamin B6: 29% of the DV
• Potassium: 27% of the DV
• Pantothenic acid: 18% of the DV
• Copper: 16% of the DV
• Niacin: 15% of the DV

Another example to consider - Compare the price of one large package of meat versus the same amount spent on frozen or canned vegetables. That would probably be one package in one hand and one large sack in the other.

Questions To Ask While Reading The Bible Book: The KJV Reborn for Those Who Love the Word of God

 

Questions To Be Asked While Reading The Bible Book

 

1.      Since manuscripts do not have a date, how can scholars like Tischendorf promote a very early date that enhances their careers?

2.      Why did Tischendorf, a German Lutheran, have an audience with the Pope, an arrangement with a Roman Catholic king, and a deal with a Russian Orthodox Tzar?

3.      How can anyone claim, as Tischendorf did, that monks devoted to ancient manuscripts were burning up pages from a 1500 year-old bound volume (codex) with leather pages that could not burn?

4.      How does anyone explain Sinaiticus having white, supple pages after resting unknown for 15 centuries? Two witnesses attest to the whiteness, and yet the codex later looked very much darkened, not so much by age but by special treatments.

5.      Since Tischendorf lied so many times about Codex Sinaiticus, what does that suggest about his earlier work with Codex Ephraim Rescriptus[1] – and his later work embracing Codex Vaticanus – “so much like Sinaiticus?” They disagree at a 40% level, not exactly a match, except for the sketchy origins.

6.      Why did the mysterious Codex Sinaiticus suddenly appear at St. Catherine’s Monastery, having no previous history, and was later stolen by Tischendorf – but never returned – so the Russians “could set Sinaiticus in print for the whole world.”

7.      How did Tischendorf happen upon a codex with no history and get away with his garbage to be burned excuse for spiriting pages away for the Catholic king?

8.      Biblical apostates in England and America were burning to have the earliest and best possible New Testament Greek text, but why did they accept the least trustworthy and most heretical Sinaiticus and Vaticanus?

9.      Indeed, why did the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod use Vaticanus as the main source for the Gospel of Mark commentary, 1000 pages long?

10.  Since Westcott and Hort were honored clergy and scholars in England, why were they allowed to secretly push their Greek New Testament on the KJV Revision Committee?

11.  Why did the Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament stay hidden until the horrible KJV Revision came out?

12.  The wild bragging of Tischendorf and the absurd theories of Westcott-Hort are an embarrassment to text scholars, so why are they still locked into loyalty to these Til Eulenspiegels but opposed to the clear, well-documented, apostolic sources of the Byzantine Majority Text?

13.  Which is more likely to be the true apostolic heritage? – 5,000 or more individual examples of the Byzantine Text from a Christian empire 1100 years old – or a handful of dubious and heretical exceptions with no history and no children proving they were never used for anything other than supporting papal supremacy over the Word of God.

14.  When will the New King James Version and any other KJV copycats stop referring to the Nestle-Aland-Nida texts as genuine alternatives? Do we join the apostates in saying a Virgin - or young woman - will bear a son?[2] Are we so frightened by these hucksters that we whisper the Biblical truths softly in Mequon/Mankato/St.Louis/FtWayne lest we be heard on the streets of Gath?

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[1] Tischendorf claimed to have superb eyesight, enabling him to detect what others could not, since the pages were erased and overwritten.

[2] The RSV first used young woman instead of virgin in Isaiah 7:10. After the firestorm, they used virgin in the text and footnoted young woman. Now the RSV has young woman in the text and footnotes virgin. A con artist always rigs the game against the suckers.