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Most religions are politically correct and deny that Jesus was and is anything but merciful and loving.

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There have been thousands (I hope) of merciful and loving people on this planet. Hopefully, there are still a few left.

However, to promise people nonsense, ie you will keep on living after your body is dead, is not nice.

Brainwashing doesn't begin to describe it.

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I will address your allegations as one who I know has had little to no access to or teaching that is equivocally an opportunity to have facts on each side of the equation.

I was raised by a Salvation Army mother and a Methodist father. No Dick and Jane books for me, I was taught to read by using the Holy Bible.

It is not at all fair to you as you have had nowhere near the opportunities and observatory truths hit you in the face full force as I have and have seen living proof that the afterlife exists. I have seen people die, not the least of which were my parents, both saying they were not afraid to die and lived that to their end. It is very sobering to see one's parents die with no fear and to carry a great aunt out to a car to be taken to the hospital after collapsing in church as the victim of a stroke. As I carried her out of the church at age 16 her head was against my shoulder and I could hear her whispering "Praise the Lord" all the way to the car. She died six days later praising God with the assurance she was heaven bound. In my life I lived a rough existence. I participated in both a dangerous profession with a higher injury and fatality rate than either fire fighters or police. My activities chosen for recreation were motorcycling and scuba diving. I was a height specialist building working platforms for other workers at heights as high as 356 feet and my current profession is more dangerous.

In that reality I have seen and known things that happened and/or did not happen were real and I wondered at the many times I faced death but did not decease. There were and are eye witness accounts of others who did not believe their eyes.

In a work camp at Gillam Manitoba I was attacked by a big Spaniard whose weapon was a number 4 reinforcing rod three feet long but as he approached I drew my hatchet and swung it, stopping it less than an inch from his forehead. Had I been sure he would have tried to kill me I would have put it into his forehead.

I have lived in garages, slept in the ditch on my motorcycle in the rain with a plastic sheet over me, freeloaded at marinas, etc. I knew what it was to be homeless before the wussies now who get sheltered by churches.

Too much has happened to me for me to be an ingrate and not give credence to God for preserving my life, whose purpose I realized 29 years ago. It was all for an abused and troubled woman who God loved and who He kept me for to be her comfort and protector. Her story broke me and still does. But we are close with no romance.

You have had not such an existence. Five years ago a truck driver rear ended my motorcycle, totalling it and throwing me 50 feet down the road. A year to the day I drove by that site and there was a 56 year old woman killed there in the same place memorialized by a plaque. I had ONLY a broken heel.

I know what I have experienced and I will tell you I am grateful to God and am not ashamed to say so. It was HIS will I not get killed on several occasions I and others realized I should have been taken. I took a few times for me to realize I should have been killed but He got through to me over the space of several years.

I once considered joining the ultimate M/C gang but could not reconcile the way they mistreated their women. A renegade from age 18 to 28 when I married a woman in order to be able to protect her and the son she bore me who is loved by the several women along the way in my life who asked me to be their friend.

Better than I, stronger and more knowledgeable than I and superior in every way is my son. I am employed in different profession having operated it as a business for 33 years. I am not promising nonsense, to anyone, I have had living proof God is real, the scriptures are true and He preserved my life. I give the full credit to God for His protection and for salvation freely given me by the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ.

As to you I promise one moment after you die your spirit will return to He who gave it to you at conception and you will know I was honest with you but if you do not attain unto salvation by humbling yourself and asking Jesus to forgive you then you will be condemned. There is no doubt that this conversation was and is the will of God for you to hear my story and convince you of its Truth and more importantly its purpose was and is for your salvation.

I have no doubt you are far more couth than I perhaps a better person. I could never have said this a long time ago as pride was my problem. What you do with what I have said is your choice but I do like you no matter what choice you make. Your call Karl.

Any questions fire away. I say this all with humility but the choice is yours and I will not reject you because He did not reject me in my detestable sins.

Always Edward

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— HE CURSED THE FIG TREE WITHOUT FIGS IN WINTER …. —

THIS, (THE FIG TREE), OF COURSE, WAS MOSTLY SYMBOLIC OF THE JEWS …

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God had a time with his people during their freedom he secured from the Egyptians and in His wrath slew over ten thousand in the Sinai Desert because they were ingrates and whiners and complainers.

There will be no change until Israel is attacked at the time a bit after the APOCALYPSE and one third of the city is over run with the horrors of war and then they will cry out to Jesus, He who they never recognized nor acknowledged as the Messiah. At that time the Glorified Christ, the Lion of Judah will wreak havoc on the enemies of His people and destroy millions in a moment in the valley of Megidio.

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Which God? The Egyptians had many - as did many others. Multitheism was common - what the Christians had to their advantage was a single God.

Problem for them, at least in the beginning, was their Story (a holy man sacrificing himself for humanity) was so common that people just laughed at them.

Then they came with their ultimate mindfuck - yeah, that was because Satan altered history to make it appear so.

Ha fucking ha.

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You are on dangerous ground Karl. Did you ever wonder why there were many different religions even to worshippers of the sun and moon? It is because within us is the desire to worship something or someone. How did that NEED occur? It was because God exists. I am going to say this because this may be the last chance you have to get right with God. He is merciful still. It is my wish you do not die lost.

Satan is real. And you are deceived by him. I shudder to think of the times I was out of the fold and faced certain death but He for some reason I indicated had a purpose in my life and it was for another He loves who suffered terrible things from age three.

At least look into the many atheists who set out to prove God does not exist and ended up believing even being anti God.

Your call. Do not miss it. Your body dies but your spirit is immortal and lives either in Heaven or Hell. I offer you my life experiences and you make the choice.

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