http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jul/17/creationist-groups-approval-free-schools
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Argentine law lets people identify own gender!
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/10/world/americas/argentina-gender-identity/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
(CNN) — Lawmakers in Argentina have approved a gender identity law that allows individuals to be recognized in official documents by the gender they choose.
Argentinians have the right to be treated in accordance with their own gender identity, and the government is required to recognize it as well, the law states.
The law gained final approval from the Senate on Wednesday.
“It is understood that gender identity is the internal and individual way that a person experiences their gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth,” the law states.
This means that people 18 or older in Argentina can go to a government office and change the gender listed on official documents if they choose.
The law is meant to include people who undergo sex change operations or hormone treatments to look like the opposite sex, but it goes further than that.
Those who dress, talk or have manners like someone of the opposite sex also qualify to have their documents changed to recognize their self-identity.
A push for such a law began under the late President Nestor Kirchner, and the cause was taken up by his wife and presidential successor, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
“(The law) is a path toward equality, inclusion and recognition of rights for all Argentinians,” Vice President Amado Boudou said. “Today is a day when thousands and thousands of Argentinians have new rights, without anyone else losing an ounce of their own rights.”
WHERE IS THE TRUE CHURCH TODAY? THE SHOCKING TRUTH!
INTRODUCTION
The ASTONISHING facts that the so-called churches are meant to be teaching, but are instead hiding from their members, while professing to be “doing-a work” should shock any who have been in God’s truth for any length of time! What is that work they are meant to be doing? And is suppressing the truth from their members part of their work?? These are very confronting questions, but answers must be given!
Some WILL be shocked by this article, but initially, by way of introduction to this article, please note that it is not our intention to criticize, ridicule, ride rough-shod over other churches, their beliefs, their ministers, or their congregations. Hence the reason we do not name & shame them. In fact, the Church of God is the family of God, our brothers & sisters in Christ, the sons & daughters of Abraham, & of Israel are being systematically re-deceived by the arch-enemy of mankind, that old serpent, called Satan, and the Devil.(Rev.12:9)
As a faithful remnant of the One true church of God, & possibly one of, if not the smallest organised church group with proper governmental structure, as begun by Jesus Christ to live by every word of God, we must speak truth, and as such, we have admonished many of our brothers, older and younger, to carefully check who they are following, whether God, or men.
God commands us to PROVE ALL THINGS, hold fast that which is good! I Thessalonians.5:21. And we hope to help all those called of God to come out of the lies & hypocrisies of your church which is not preaching the whole truth. Whether they are large or small, God is not a respecter of persons, organisations, ministers, members, or any thing in heaven or earth. But all that fear him in every nation, and obey him, he will honour! This is just another IMPORTANT reason we are commanded by Christ not to put father, mother, wife, children, brethren, sisters, or even his own life before God! (Luke.14:26-27) Saying here that when this is done, these are NOT-WORTHY to be Christ’s disciples!! Verse 33. Do you BELIEVE this??? Most do NOT.
As such, we have been warning many for around 16-years that they are in ERROR of the keeping of God’s commanded Holy days, and annual Sabbaths, called the Feasts of the Lord. And they have all, to a man, rejected this PLAIN, and easily provable TRUTH. Now, we have further rebukes for those who are sliding down a slippery slope called, “Laodiceanism”, meaning becoming lukewarm. In fact so many have become Laodicean, lukewarm, they will hardly preach prophecy, will not believe the truth concerning the CORRECT, & easily provable dates of God’s commanded Holy days! They have become so steeped in traditions, they can’t even recognize it anymore-What a shame!
Due to this lukewarm condition, we are among very rare & small company, as God’s faithful, called the elect in Scripture, who BELIEVE the GOSPEL. We are therefore directing this article to you that are prepared to be FAITHFUL to the living God, & his truth, those who will seek the kingdom of God above ALL THINGS.
Paul also had to finally realise that the Jews were not interested in the Gospel, or Christ, whom the prophets had foretold of, as he said to them in one place; “Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles”. (Acts.18:6) We also go now to ALL whom God will send, to truly learn, be taught, and follow the path Christ set for his church, the ONE-true church he said he would build. (Matt.16:18)
As a further lead in to this examination of who are the true church of God are & who are the elect, and who are proclaiming the true gospel, we must ascertain who are actually keeping God’s Laws, while also preaching God’s word. Before we examine this situation further down after the sub-head, Who Is, & Who Is NOT teaching God’s Truth, & What is TRUTH? below, let us first ask & hopefully answer some basic questions, and get the back drop of past and current teachings.
Which Gospel?
In approximately 27 A.D, the gospel of the kingdom began to be proclaimed by Jesus Christ according to all the prophecies that went before on him, and as mentioned in Mark.1:14-15; “Now after that John was put into prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:repent ye, and believe the gospel. John had prepared the way before him baptizing them in the river Jordan. And Jesus himself went to John to be baptized, not that he had sins to be washed of, but he the principal, and correct order, that except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God, (John.3:5.) showed even he, Jesus, had enter the kingdom of God, in this designated manner, and lead by example all them who would follow, as he had explained earlier to the Pharisee Nicodemus.
This is the point where a member of the human family is actually begotten into the family of God! And the transcendent process of beginning to let Christ live his life in every newly begotten child of God commences. Of course, Nicodemus could not understand, just as any of us who have been baptized and received the laying of hands of the ministry and a begettal of God’s Holy Spirit could not understand until this process had occurred. The apostle Peter said in Acts.2:38. …Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission (removal) of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Herbert Armstrong Tribute “God Sent him To Proclaim The Gospel”, Worldwide! By Pastor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udyd7N-8gfE
Dear brethren of God worldwide, we, like many of you, are baffled by the loss of so many of the teachings God restored to us via His apostle in the 20th century, Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong. As such we have seen many in the churches moving away from the trunk of the tree & solid foundational teachings, from which we all cut our teeth. Also the tremendous worldwide work Jesus Christ did through him. As he said, I am not doing this work, I have my part in it, but it is Jesus Christ doing the work, He is the Head of this church! (Or words to that effect) We have been criticized by some who appeared to worship Mr. Armstrong for not preaching him. We honour him as a faithful servant of God, and in deep appreciation of the truth God led us to understand. But I say, as I did to these; I preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified, (I Cor.1:23) not men! God’s servants are not to worship each other! For even the angel did tell this to the last surviving apostle of the 1st century. (Rev.19:10) “And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus; worship God: … Even the mighty angel made it clear to this wonderful apostle toward the end of his life as a faithful apostle of Jesus Christ. We know it is Only God that ought to be worshiped! Herbert Armstrong castigated those who worshipped other men, and quoted the verses below, we have recorded on C.d, still, they continue on blindly worshipping him, while saying they aren’t worshipping him! In fact there are entire churches who have halted in their learning as a direct result of this “man-worship”. He stated, that he expected to go on learning until the day he died, and any who did not do this were in dire trouble.
To prove their “man-worship” is in error, they they will never admit it; The apostle Paul encountered this same problem, and said “who is Paul, or who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man. I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase. (I Cor.3:5-7-My emphasis) The fact that there were divisions in the early churches of God, and that the ministry were having to counter this, shows nothing has changed as far as human nature is concerned. Today, some of the brethren, still want to worship men.
Another sad indictment on many of the people of God is that they do not understand that Jesus Christ said “I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH“; (Mt.16:18) But, it is the Father that doeth the works, via Jesus Christ, not any man! (John.14:10)
Mr. Armstrong did his part faithfully, and as a result, we all love him, though he is dead. Many are slandering his name, his work, even accusing of heinous, yet unproveable crimes. Yes, he made his mistakes, he was after all, a man.
At this junction, I want to emphasize, that God did open the Gospel to his called people on a world wide basis, not done for 1900 years! (19 time cycles) Mr. Armstrong stated to his successor that he had preached the gospel, his successors job, was to to get the church ready! Even this well known statement has been rejected by the deniers, saying, they knew first hand that he did want the gospel to continue to be preached. Even though they all knew HE-had preached the gospel on a WORLDWIDE basis, that no man had done since the time of Jesus Christ. Did they realize Jesus Christ was opening the doors to him, and no other man? No, and they still will not realize this fact, so simple a child could work it out.
That “marvelous-work” WAS-DONE! (Hab.1:5) Does that mean as some “think”, that everything is finished? As one put it, the time of prophecy is over? And does that mean that there’s nothing else we can do? That we should should just wait? Perhaps we have nothing further to be doing? Maybe God is not even doing anything else, because Mr Armstrong is now dead? That “thinking” would mean all prophecy has been fulfilled. And that is impossible. [Read more…]
WEST-ISTAN RAPIDLY UNRAVELLING
The west’s last chance has come and gone through it’s foolish and self destructive political dogma of multiculturalism! British, American, Canadian, Australian, Dutch, New Zealand, European, Swiss, and even Israel have allowed the “integration” of this “religiously” based people to fill many nations all over the globe, to their very great detriment. The effects of their inhabitants are mostly evil, and with a dogma in their book, the Koran, dictating that all non-Muslims are to serve them, Christians are to be converted, or killed! At the same time, the men may have many wives, treat women like cattle, beating them if they decide it is appropriate, or rape them, it should astonish any with the host nations that they have so infiltrated them so cleverly and insidiously.