Prophet Mohammad has no right to become a prophet if Quran will be the basis

This is a painting showing Abraham to offer his son Isaac but God told him to stop because His order was just a test to him if really Abraham loves God more.

My co Christian brethen and to my future Muslim reader/s of this blog's article, I just want to share with you that in Quran the Prophethood was given to the descendants of Isaac.

Quran 29:27 "And We gave (Abraham) ISAAC and Jacob, and ordained AMONG HIS PROGENY PROPHETHOOD and Revelation, and We granted him his reward in this life; and he was in the Hereafter (of the company) of the Righteous."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/progeny

"a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal." 

We cant read there that the Prophethood was given unto the sons of Ishmael and the Arabs are one of them. like Mohammad the Prophet of Islam. So if a/some Muslim reader/s who has/have read this blog's article and is/are still open minded, He/they must start to doubt about Mohammad's allegedly Prophethood from God. This proves that Islam is not God established religion.

Proofs that Catholicism's way of worship has pagan origins

Ezekiel 8:9And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.


8:10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.

 

Notice's Mary's feet. It has stars. Like the Bible said about Asherah, the pagan goddess.

2 Chronicles 33:3 He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had demolished; he also erected altars to the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.

Research Asherah's picture who is the pagan goddess "Queen of Heaven"

It has a serpent with it.


FROM: http://thequeenofheaven.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/asherah-part-ii-the-serpents-bride/

Asherah, would then be not only the Goddess Life, but the Goddess Wisdom. Accompanied by her serpent totem she can dispense knowledge from deep within the source of all things. 

Mary also has a serpent with her that was called "QUEEN OF HEAVEN"

Ezekiel 8:16-18 - the pagans worship the Sun

The Sun is the commonly sign you will see in Catholicism

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Prophet Mohammad's most disgusting medicinal advice

 CAMEL'S URINE AS MEDICINE

Sahih Bukhari

Narrated Anas:The climate of Medina did not suit some people, so the Prophet ordered them to follow his shepherd, i.e. his camels, and drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they followed the shepherd that is the camels and drank their milk and urine till their bodies became healthy. Then they killed the shepherd and drove away the camels. When the news reached the Prophet he sent some people in their pursuit. When they were brought, he cut their hands and feet and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron. Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 7, Bk. 71, No. 590. (Also, see No. 589.)

Narrated Anas: Some people from the tribe of 'Ukl came to the Prophet and embraced Islam. The climate of Medina did not suit them, so the Prophet ordered them to go to the (herd of milch) camels of charity and to drink, their milk and urine (as a medicine). They did so, and after they had recovered from their ailment (became healthy) they turned renegades (reverted from Islam) and killed the shepherd of the camels and took the camels away. The Prophet sent (some people) in their pursuit and so they were (caught and) brought, and the Prophets ordered that their hands and legs should be cut off and that their eyes should be branded with heated pieces of iron, and that their cut hands and legs should not be cauterized, till they die. Sahih Al-Bukhari Vol. 8, Bk. 82, No. 794. 

Sahih Muslim

Anas reported: Eight men of the tribe of 'Ukl came to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and swore allegiance to him on Islam, but found the climate of that land uncogenial to their health and thus they became sick, and they made complaint of that to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), and he said: Why don't you go to (the fold) of our camels along with our shepherd, and make use of their milk and urine. They said: Yes. They set out and drank their (camels') milk and urine and regained their health. They killed the shepherd and drove away the camels. This (news) reached Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and he sent them on their track and they were caught and brought to him (the Holy Prophet). He commanded about them, and (thus) their hands and feet were cut off and their eyes were gouged and then they were thrown in the sun, until they died.
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn al-Sabbah with a slight variation of words. Sahih Muslim, Book 16, Number 4131 (Also, see 4130, 4132).

A FLY IN YOUR DRINK THAT YOU SHOULD DRINK

        Sahih Al-Bukhari: Volume 4, Book 54, Number 537:

        Narrated Abu Huraira:

       The Prophet said "If a house fly falls in the drink of anyone of you, he should dip (in          the drink), for one of its wings has a disease and the other has the cure for the disease."

Muhammad was poisoned and his advice to eat dates when poisoned

Muhammad is reported to have given the following medicinal advice:

Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 71, Number 663:

    Narrated Saud:

    The Prophet said, "If somebody takes some 'Ajwa dates every morning, he will not be effected by poison or magic on that day till night." (Another narrator said seven dates).

Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 71, Number 664:

     Narrated Saud:

    I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "If Somebody takes seven 'Ajwa dates in the morning, neither magic nor poison will hurt him that day"

Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 71, Number 671:

    Narrated Sad:

    I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "Whoever takes seven 'Ajwa dates in the morning will not be effected by magic or poison on that day"

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/071.sbt.html#007.071.671

Narrated AbuHurayrah

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "The ajwah dates come from Paradise and contain a cure for poison; truffles are a kind of manna and their juice is a medicine for the eye."

Tirmidhi transmitted it. (Tirmidhi Hadith, Number 1127; Alim CD-Rom Version)

Narrated AbuHurayrah

When some of the companions of Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) remarked to him that truffles were the smallpox of the earth, he replied, "Truffles are a kind of manna, and their juice is a remedy for the evil eye. The ajwah dates come from Paradise, and they are a remedy for poison." AbuHurayrah said that he took three, five, or seven truffles, pressed them, put their juice in a bottle and applied it as an eye-lotion to a slave-girl of his who was bleary-eyed, and she recovered.

Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying this is a hasan tradition. (Tirmidhi Hadith, Number 1194; Alim CD-Rom Version)

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Muhammad himself eats Dates

Sahih Bukhari Volume 2, Book 15, Number 73:

    Narrated Anas bin Malik,:

    Allah's Apostle never proceeded (for the prayer) on the Day of 'Id-ul-Fitr unless he had eaten some dates. Anas also narrated: The Prophet used to eat odd number of dates.

From the foregoing we would assume that Muhammad would not suffer from either magic or poison.
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Yet such is not the case since the same hadith literature claims that Muhammad suffered from the ill effects of both:

Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 53, Number 400:

    Narrated Aisha:

Once the Prophet was bewitched so that he began to imagine that he had done a thing which in fact he had not done.

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/053.sbt.html#004.053.400

Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 54, Number 490:

    Narrated 'Aisha:

Magic was worked on the Prophet so that he began to fancy that he was doing a thing which he was not actually doing

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/054.sbt.html#004.054.490

Narrated 'Aisha:

Magic was worked on Allah's Apostle so that he used to think that he had sexual relations with his wives while he actually had not (Sufyan said: That is the hardest kind of magic as it has such an effect)... (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 71, Number 660)

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/071.sbt.html#007.071.660

WORST OF ALL, POISON KILLED MUHAMMAD

A Jewess brought a poisoned (cooked) sheep for the Prophet who ate from it. She was brought to the Prophet and he was asked, "Shall we kill her?" He said, "No. I continued to see the effect of the poison on the palate of the mouth of Allah's Apostle" (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 47, Number 786)

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/047.sbt.html#003.047.786

I felt (the affects of this poison) on the uvula of Allah's Messenger. (Sahih Muslim, Book 026, Number 5430)

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/muslim/026.smt.html#026.5430

"O 'Aisha! I still feel the pain caused by the food I ate at Khaibar, and at this time, I feel as if my aorta is being cut from that poison." (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 59, Number 713)

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/059.sbt.html#005.059.713

and if you were a prophet then it would NOT HARM YOU[/COLOR][/B]." (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 71, Number 669)

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/071.sbt.html#007.071.669
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In light of the foregoing we are left with the following points:

 1. Muhammad failed to take his own advise of eating some dates in order to avoid being harmed by either magic or poison. The problem with this position is that we find references in the hadith literature that he did eat dates.

2. Muhammad may have failed to eat dates on those specific times when he suffered from the ill effects of magic and poison. Two problems with this position. First, we are not told that Muhammad hadn't eaten dates during those events. Second, Muhammad could have simply eaten dates when he realized that he was bewitched or poisoned in order to undo their harmful effects.

3. Muhammad's medicinal advice was simply wrong and cannot protect from magic and poison. Any Muslim who thinks otherwise is free to try it at his or her own risk.

 4. The most problematic aspect of all this is that the Jews had claimed that if Muhammad were a true prophet then poison would not have harmed him, and yet poison did harm him to such an extent that he himself believed it caused the illness which eventually led to his death. This means that Muhammad was a false prophet!

If he were a true prophet then the least thing Allah could have done is to insure that the poison that his messenger ingested would have no effects on him so as to provide concrete proof to the Jews that Muhammad was a true prophet even by their own criteria. For instance, contrast what happened with Muhammad to what happened to the blessed Apostle Paul when a poisonous viper bit him. Acts 28:1-6 Paul's miraculous protection led the people to wrongly conclude that he was a god! Although not a god, this miraculous intervention did prove that Paul was a real emissary of the true God. Allah could have done something similar for his messenger, but he didn't, thereby solidifying the doubts of the unbelievers regarding Muhammad's prophetic (il)legitimacy.

Alabang Village Ordinance, a clear proof of Phil. Catholic Church's dictative side

A picture of contraceptives

ORIGINAL SOURCE: http://fatherbernasblogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/furor-over-alabang-ordinance.html

I am, of course, referring to an ordinance that bars distribution of contraceptive drugs and devises in Alabang village. In a copy of the ordinance which I have seen, the Alabang BARANGAY Council prohibits  

“Any natural or legal person to advertise within the territorial jurisdiction of the BARANGAY . . . or sell, offer for free or endorse, promote, prescribe or distribute abortifacients as defined” in the ordinance. The ordinance defines abortifacients as “any devise, medicine, substance or practice which may damage, injure, interfere with the natural development, endanger or cause the expulsion or death of an unborn child . . . Abortifacients include Intrauterine Devises (IUD’s), and hormonal contraceptives . . .”  

The Ordinance lists what it prohibits in an Annex. 

Purportedly, this is merely an implementation of Section 37 of R.A. 5921.  

What is this Section 37 all about? It is part of the law governing the practice of pharmacy. Specifically it enumerates what drugs and devises may not be sold without a doctor’s prescription. It says: “No drug or chemical product or device capable of provoking abortion or preventing conception as classified by the Food and Drug Administration shall be delivered or sold to any person without a proper prescription by a duly licensed physician.”  

Violation of this law is a criminal offense punishable by a penalty found in Section 40 of the same law.

It is important to note, therefore, that it is a penal law. Like any penal law it is limited strictly to what it prohibits. Thus, who are covered by it and what exactly does it prohibit?

Pharmacists are covered by the prohibition. R.A. 5921 is about the regulation of the practice of pharmacy. It is not a regulation of the activity of buyers of pharmaceutical goods but of the actions of pharmacists.

What does RA 5921 prohibit? What act does it punish? It does not prohibit the sale or dispensing without prescription of every contraceptive or abortive devise. It prohibits the dispensing without prescription only of contraceptive or abortive drugs or devises “as classified by the Food and Drug Administration.” The FDA is the national body empowered to regulate drugs.

An interesting question is whether the Annex to the Alabang ordinance expands the list of drugs and devises listed by the Food and Drug Administration. It seems to me that the drugs and devises being currently sold over the counter are not in the FDA list. Interesting too is the question whether a barangay council can determine what doctors may or may not prescribe.

These, of course, are technical matters that can easily be verified. I believe, however, that there is something more eerily fundamental here. I see what is happening as an attempt by a sector of the Catholic church to instrumentalize the power of the state to impose Catholic belief on all others. This is something which gives the Catholic religion a bad name. It is reminiscent of the Inquisition.

We might perhaps agree about the evil of abortion. But when it comes to contraception, the nation divides mainly along religious lines. The official Catholic teaching is that artificial contraception is immoral. Other religions believe in good faith otherwise. Seeking to impose Catholic belief and practices on non-Catholics and others violates freedom of religion. Freedom of religion does not merely mean freedom to believe. It also means freedom to act or not to act according to one’s belief. And this too is the teaching of Vatican II in its decree Dignitatis Humanae.

The Alabang ordinance is not far from a statute declared unconstitutional which said: "Any person who uses any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception shall be fined not less than fifty dollars or imprisoned not less than sixty days nor more than one year or be both fined and imprisoned."

 

Of course, the ordinance authors will say that they are not prohibiting the use but merely regulating the sale. But they insult the intelligence of villagers by thinking that the Alabang residents are village idiots who do not have enough brains to see the truth behind the pretense. One does not have to be a genius to understand that the curtailment of sale is intended to prevent the use of what is sold. And therein lies the gross offense. As one court said: “The present case, then, concerns a relationship lying within the zone of privacy created by several fundamental constitutional guarantees. And it concerns a law which, in forbidding the use of contraceptives rather than regulating their manufacture or sale, seeks to achieve its goals by means having a maximum destructive impact upon that relationship. Such a law cannot stand in light of the familiar principle, so often applied by this Court, that a ‘governmental purpose to control or prevent activities constitutionally subject to state regulation may not be achieved by means which sweep unnecessarily broadly and thereby invade the area of protected freedoms.’ Would we allow the police to search the sacred precincts of marital bedrooms for telltale signs of the use of contraceptives? The very idea is repulsive to the notions of privacy surrounding the marriage relationship.”

Finally, the ordinance purports to prescribe a criminal penalty. Only a real court and not a village kangaroo court or vigilante may impose criminal penalty, and only after trial.

Grammatical Errors in the Quran

A picture of a man reading the Islamic Quran

The Qur'an contains sentences which are incomplete and not fully intelligible without the aid of commentaries; foreign words, unfamiliar Arabic words, and words used with other than the normal meaning, adjectives and verbs inflected without observance of the concords of gender and number- illogically and ungrammatically applied pronouns which sometimes have no referent- and predicates which in rhymed passages are often remote from the subjects ... To sum up, more than one hundred Qur'anic aberrations from the normal rules and structures have been noted... ( Ali Dashti, 23 Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Muhammad [Costa Mesa, Ca. 1994; Mazda Publishers], pp. 48, 50)

A few examples include the following passages:

7:56 - "The mercy of Allah is near"

Arabic - "inna rahmata Allahi qaribun min al-mohseneen."

The word qaribun is the predicate of rahmata Allahi, and as such should match in gender. Since rahmata is feminine the word qaribun (which is masculine ) should be qaribah, its feminine form.

7:160 - "We divided them in twelve tribes"

Arabic - "wa qata'nahom 'ethnata 'ashrata asbatan."

In Arabic, any noun which is counted by a number above ten should be singular, as is the case in 7:142; 2:60; 5:12; 9:36; 12:4. As such the Arabic asbatan should be sebtan.

5:69 - "Surely they that believe, and those of Jewry, and the Sabians, and the Christians, whosoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, and works righteousness- no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow."

Arabic- "Innal-laziina 'aamanuu wal-laziina haaduu was-Saabi'uuna wan-Nasaara man'amaana bilaahi wal-Yawmil Aakhiri wa 'amila saali-hanfalaa khaw-fun 'alay-him wa laa hum yah-zanuun."

According to scholars, the Arabic Saabi'uuna has been wrongly declined. Compare the same grammatical structure found in the following suras:

2:62- "Innal-laziina 'aamanuu wal-laziina haaduu wan-Nasaara was-Saabi'iina..."

22:17- "Innal-laziina 'aamanuu wal-laziina haaduu was-Saabi'iina wan-Nasaara..."

In the last two suras the term was declined correctly, Saabi'iina, as opposed to Saabi'uuna. This is due to the word inna found in the beginning of the sentence causing a form of declension called "nasb" (as in the cases of accusative or subjunctive) with the "yeh" being the "sign of nasb". But the word Saabi'uuna is given the case of 'uu, a sign of "rafa" ( as in cases of nominative and indicative ). Accordingly, the verse in 5:69 is wrong.

91:5 - "By the heaven and that which built it."

Arabic- "was-samaaa-i wa maa ba-naahaa."

The word ma is impersonal in Arabic. Yet, the subject of the verse is Allah, heaven's Creator. As such the word man, meaning "him who", should have been used instead of the impersonal ma.

It should be pointed out that it is not only Arabic scholars who have discovered dozens of grammatical mistakes within the Quran, but Muhammad's very own companions in the past have also admitted this fact. The Muslim scholar Ibn al-Khatib in his book al Furqan quotes Muhammad's wife Aisha as saying:

"There are three grammatical errors in the Book of Allah, they are the fault of the scribe: In 20:63 ... And in 5:69 ... And in 4:162." (Muhammad M. abd al-Latif Ibn al-Khatib, Al-Furqan [Dar al-Kutub al-Elmiyah, Beirut], p. 91)

After seeing the first standard copy of the Quran, Islam's third Caliph Uthman proclaimed, "I see grammatical errors in it, and the Arabs will read it correctly with their tongues." (Ibid., p.90)

Gnosis, Gnosticism and it's influence on the Roman Catholic Church

 

 

Plato: Copy of portrait bust by Silanion

What is Gnosis?

"THE meaning of the term Gnosis or Knowledge, as applied to a system of philosophy, may be illustrated by the language of Plato towards the end of the fifth book of the Republic, in which he distinguishes between knowledge(gnosis) and opinion(doxa) ...

The mystery of the ages contained in the secret doctrine of all religions
Marie Sinclair Caithness
Stanford University Library
STANFORD, CA 94305 United States
page 87


What is Gnosticism?

GNOSTICISM (nds'ti-siz'm), (Gr. yruxrtt, no'sis, knowing).

... still it is the opinion of Dr. Burton that it was the Greek writings of Plato which gave the extraordinary impulse of their genius, and, if we may use the word, of their fashion, to the lost writings of the Gnostics, as well as to those which remain to us of Philo and Plotinus; in a word, that Platonist, Philonist, and Gnostic, are but emanations at different distances from the Gnosis of Plato.

The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural Dictionary
Samuel Fallows
San Francisco State University Library
Map Library
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132 United States

Plato! Remember this name!!

What is the influence of Gnosticism to the Roman Catholic Church?

Augustine in his skepticism turned to Plato, or rather the modified form of his day. His writings show this influence in their best and largest thinking. One of his greatest admirers (Grattry) says: "Saint Augustine has borrowed much from Plato: ... he never denies the fact."

Beacon lights of Christian history
Author: Albert Walkley
Publisher: Boston : Unitarian Sunday-School Society
Graduate Theological Union
SFTS Library
BERKELEY, CA 94709 United States

Plato allegedly influenced Augustine.

Who is "Saint" Augustine?

Augustine of Hippo [SAINT] [DOCTOR]
"one of the greatest saints that ever lived."

www.catholic.org

Who si Plato?

Plato is known today as one of the greatest philosophers of all time.

www.historyforkids.org

So, Augustine is considered by Catholics as the greatest "saint" to ever lived was influence by Plato, the greatest Greek philosopher of all time.

With regards to the service of God and of being Christian, is it allowed by the Apostles that Christians be influenced by the gnosis(knowledge) of philosophers? of course NOT!!

Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces[a] of this world rather than on Christ.

If there's a church now existing that can be called gnostic based on the influence of gnosticism unto it, it safe to say it is the Roman Catholic Church.

Quran's historical error

Roman governor Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus Christ to the Jews and asked what will they do to Him. to be freed or to be crucified on the cross

Quran's historical error:

Ever in history? Only in the Quran. as far as I know until now they are still waiting for their Messiah.

And because of their (Jews) disbelief and uttering against Maryam (Mary السلام عليهما) a grave false charge (that she has committed illegal sexual intercourse); And because of their saying (in boast), "We killed Messiah 'Îsa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), the Messenger of Allah," - but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but it appeared so to them [the resemblance of 'Îsa (Jesus) was put over another man (and they killed that man)], and those who differ therein are full of doubts. They have no (certain) knowledge, they follow nothing but conjecture. For surely; they killed him not [i.e. 'Îsa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary) Sura 4:156-157

Jews never admitted that Jesus was Messiah and would not have killed him if they had believed that he was their long-awaited Messianic Deliverer. The unbelieving Jews had Jesus killed because they believed he was a false Messiah:

"And they began to accuse him, saying, ‘We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and CLAIMS to be Christ a king.’" Luke 23:2 (New International Version)

A clear historical error in the Quran.

Why I support the Reproductive Health Bill?

Picture of a rally supporting the passage of Reproductive Health Bill

This comment came from another person but I was convinced by this that I should support the passage of Reproductive Health Bill into law:

Actually, they're not ENCOURAGING grade 5's to have sex. They tell you the diseases you can get from having sex. HIV/AIDS is a nasty thing. It teaches how to reduce your chance of becoming pregnant. I can tell you most diseases... from STI's right at the top of my head and tell you what they do. They don't really tell you much in grade 5. They just tell you the boys and girls private parts and to respect each gender. The RH bill has good intentions, although many people oppose it. That's what's sad.

Go on ahead if you want to protest the RH bill but I can guarantee that Sexually Transmitted Infections will be more common amongst people and the population will continue to increase, rapidly. Just remember this, the Philippines is a small country, people aren't the only organisms living on that island. No natural resources = dead.

I've already made up my mind, I'd rather help reduce or stabilize the population then let STI's dominate the Philippines.

Think about it....Canada -> 2nd largest country in the world, yet it has a little over 36 million people. Philippines -> Not even half the size of Canada's provinces and territories yet, it has almost 100,000,000 people. Yes, you're right, countries are laughing at the Philippines because they DON'T SUPPORT CONTRACEPTIVES and they're such a small country, yet has so many people.

Allah's angels taught people black magic? WOW! that's demonic ah!

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

And they follow (wa’ttaba‘ū is a supplement to nabadha, ‘[it] cast away’) what the devils used to relate, during the time of, Solomon’s kingdom, in the way of sorcery: it is said that they [the devils] buried these [books of sorcery] underneath his throne when his kingdom was taken from him; it is also said that they used to listen stealthily and add fabrications to what they heard, and then pass it on to the priests, who would compile it in books; this would be disseminated and rumours spread that the jinn had knowledge of the Unseen. Solomon gathered these books and buried them. When he died, the devils showed people where these books were, and the latter brought them out and found that they contained sorcery, and said, ‘Your kingdom was only thanks to what is in here’; they then took to learning them and rejected the Scriptures of their prophets. In order to demonstrate Solomon’s innocence and in repudiation of the Jews when they said, ‘Look at this Muhammad, he mentions Solomon as one of the prophets, when he was only a sorcerer’, God, exalted, says: Solomon disbelieved not, that is, he did not work magic because he disbelieved, but the devils disbelieved, teaching the people sorcery (this sentence is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the person governing the verb kafarū); and, teaching them, that which was revealed to the two angels, that is, the sorcery that they were inspired to [perform] (al-malakayn, ‘the two angels’: a variant reading has al-malikayn, ‘the two kings’) who were, in Babylon — a town in lower Iraq

TAKE NOTE OF THIS:

 — Hārūt and Mārūt (here the names are standing in for ‘the two angels’, or an explication of the latter). Ibn ‘Abbās said, ‘They were two sorcerers who used to teach [people] magic’; it is also said that they were two angels that had been sent to teach [sorcery] to people as a trial from God. They taught not any man, without them saying, by way of counsel, ‘We are but a temptation, a trial from God.

for people, so that He may test them when they are taught it: whoever learns it is a disbeliever, but whoever renounces it, he is a believer; do not disbelieve’, by learning it; if this person refused and insisted on learning it, they would teach him.

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MY COMMENT:

Angels of allah teaching BLACK magic? it says here it was a trial from God. 

I thought it was Satan's job to tempt people to sin. if angels tempt people to sin, therefore they are not angels but demons.

Angels of Allah teaching BLACK magic? It says here it was a trial from God. I thought it was satan's job to tempt people to sin. if angels tempt people to sin, therefore they are not angels but demons.

In the Bible, It is forbidden for men to use sorcery:


There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, (Deuteronomy 18:10)

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Bible Topic: The Hope of the excommunicated/separated from the Christian Church

 Picture of the RAY OF HOPE

A) What is the Hope?

1) God - (Read 1 Corinthians 5:13)

2) Mercy from the LORD - (Read 2 Timothy 1:16-18)

3) Holden up by the LORD - (Read Romans 14:4)

B) What is the proof that there is a hope remaining to an excommunicated that was given to God the Judgment outside the Christian Church?

1) To change by repentance

2) A chance to repent - (Read Revelation 2:18-22)

3) Mercy from the LORD - (Read 2 Timothy 1:16-18)

4) No mercy to those unmerciful on Judgment Day- (Read James 2:13) meaning those excommunicated Christians who had shown mercy will be granted mercy by God on the Judgment Day.

Catholic saints are the ones who first taught SOLA SCRIPTURA ideology

A Catholic painting depicting Jesus Christ and his saints are with him in heaven.

Catholic Church always teach that the Protestants, ADD and INC religion are the only ones in the Christian denominations to teach SOLA SCRIPTURA and the Catholic Church is not only the Bible but also with their so called Traditions claiming to be an apostolic when teaching doctrines within her flock.

let's unmask the Church's hypocrisy. Is it true that the SOLA SCRIPTURA belief first came from the Protestants?

NO! Because before Protestantism was founded, there are lot of saints who first believed on it.

Here are these saints:

Men of the world give many further rules about the way to speak, which I think we may pass over; as, for instance, the way jesting should be conducted. For though at times jests may be proper and pleasant, yet they are unsuited to the clerical life. For in the first place, HOW CAN WE ADOPT THINGS WHICH WE DO NOT FIND IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES?

(St. Ambrose, On the Duties of the Clergy, Book I Ch. 23)

We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, HANDED DOWN TO US IN THE SCRIPTURES, TO BE THE GROUND AND PILLAR OF OUR FAITH

(St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies, Book III Ch.1)

But while the latter proceeded, on the subject of the soul, as far in the direction of supposed consequences as the thinker pleased, we are not entitled to such licence,

I mean that of affirming what we please; WE MAKE THE HOLY SCRIPTURES THE RULE AND THE MEASURE OF EVERY TENET; we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings.

(St. Gregory of Nyssa c. 335-395, "On the Soul and the Resurrection")

Bring me not human reasonings and syllogisms, for I rely on the divine Scripture alone. ~ Theodoret of Cyrus

The holy and inspired Scriptures are fully sufficient for the proclamation of the truth. ~ St. Athanasius

The reason is that only canonical Scripture is a measure of faith. ~ St. Thomas Aquinas

But as we do not deny what is written, so we do reject what is not written. ~ St. Jerome

Biblically speaking, The saints for the moment are telling the Truth because before they said that, It was the teaching of Apostle Saint Paul before:

That ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. (1 Corinthians 4:6)

Lambasting Catholic teaching that to be fruitful and multiply even today

"Be fruitful and multiply," the first instruction given by God after the world was created and the first couples were made by Him.


TAKE NOTE: This article has a relevance on the defense of the Reproductive Health Bill:

The Catholic Church always teach the concept of BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY to all Catholic couples. Oh my Gosh. That commandment is only for Adam and Eve.

In the Bible, Apostle Paul taught Christians about this:

1 Corinthians 7:5 "Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you ...not for your incontinency."

IN FILIPINO TAGALOG: 1 Corinto 7:5 "Huwag magpigil ang isa't isa, MALIBAN KUNG PAGKASUNDUAN SA ILANG PANAHON, upang kayo'y mamalagi sa pananalangin, at muling kayo'y magsama, baka kayo'y tuksuhin ni Satanas dahil sa inyong kawalan ng pagpipigil."

See, Paul taught to the couples to defraud and not always multiply. meaning Christians will have a limit on how many children will they have.

P.S. The Church just want more babies for more followers to gain more profits on their Sacraments, contributions, schools, donations and worse illegal gambling.

I understand the Phil. Catholic Church because Rizal's satire written against the majority of the friars of his time is still applicable even today.

FROM NOLI ME TANGERE CHAPTER 9 SAID BY AN OLD DOMINICAN FRIAR:

"Our power will remain as long... it is believed. It we are put into a bad situation, our corporation will fall. No money will enter to the Church. we will be poor"

Catholic Bishops Conference of the Phils. calls for civil disobedience

The picture of CBCP Residence in Intramuros, Manila

SOURCE: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/02/03/11/bishops-call-anew-‘civil-disobedience’-vs-rh-bill

MANILA, Philippines - Bishops renewed their call for a “civil disobedience” should Congress insist on the reproductive health (RH) bill.

“We will have a civil disobedience! Those laws that are immoral, we will tell the people not to obey,” Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes told Radyo Veritas.

“Let’s make it clear that we are not against any person. We are not against the government. We are not subversives,” Archbishop Ramon Arguelles added, noting that the call is not meant to topple the government.

Bastes added the members of the Church will not be afraid of being imprisoned because of this.

“We bishops, are willing to be imprisoned, together with our priests, and protest the immoral things [in the RH Bill]. To be firm with our teachings, let them imprison us,” he stressed.

“We are just saying what is right! We are going to proclaim whatever it is,” Arguelles also said.

The House committee on population and family relations earlier endorsed for plenary approval the controversial Reproductive Health Bill, which aggressively advances the use of condoms and other modern contraceptive devices.

MY COMMENT: 

The Catholic bishops who claimed to be apostles of Christ are ready to rebel against the government even the apostles themselves did not rebel against Roman Empire and to Herod even my early Christian brethen are being killed. Really this will happen when their being greedy of money is applied to themselves. they will become wild beasts. oops no, they are devils.

Remember this teaching from the Lord Jesus Christ:

Matthew 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
 

Matthew 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire....

Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

If these are the fruits of the Catholic Church, REBELLIOUS BISHOPS, It is clear that the Catholic Church is not of God and also not the continuation of the 1st Century Christian Church.

European Union Ambassador Supports the passage of RH bill into law

 The flag of the European Union

FROM: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=643267&publicationSubCategoryId=63

1) MacDonald said at the launching of the Emphasis-RH project that lack of access to reproductive health services is anti-poor, anti-women, anti-children and anti-development.

He noted that the total fertility rate (TFR) for the richest quintile of the population is 2.0, while the TFR of the poorest quintile is 5.9. The TFR for women with college education is 2.3, about half that of women with only elementary education (4.5).

He also said the lack of access to RH services is anti-women, citing the slow decline in maternal mortality ratio in the Philippines.

He also said surveys suggest that the total wanted fertility rate for the Philippines is 2.4 children, or below the actual TFR of 3.3 children.

“It seems to me extremely unlikely that the Philippines will be able to meet its commitment under the MDGs under the present policy,” he said.

2) "The risk of childhood diseases and child mortality associated with large numbers of unplanned pregnancies is frightening, to think of the opportunities which children in the country are being denied because of the strain on health services, on education services, and the lack of employment opportunities, in a country which is straining at the seams,” he said.

“And even more immediately, infants and children have a greater probability of dying if they are born to mothers who are too young or too old, if they are born after a short birth interval, or if they are of high birth order,” he said.

3) “There is, however, one issue where the absence of effective RH services is not ‘anti.’ I have to underline that the lack of access to RH services is not anti-abortion – rather it serves to encourage abortion, to create a situation in which... there are more than 500,000 illegal abortions per year in the Philippines,” MacDonald said.

He cited the “astonishingly high proportion of abortions” at 15 percent of total pregnancies.

The EU’s current poverty reduction program in the Philippines is focused on the health sector.

Satire against the Catholic Church and RH bill defense which I like the most

  

Virgin Fathers or Dying Mothers: The Filipino Freethinkers Join Fellow RH Supporters in Silent Protest Against CBCP

Last Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, the Filipino Freethinkers and fellow pro-Reproductive Health (RH) groups under the Reproductive Health Advocacy Network (RHAN) held the Memorial March for Mothers from Padre Burgos St. to the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) headquarters in Intramuros, Manila. The march and its succeeding mass action at the CBCP gates aimed to call the Catholic Church’s attention to the 11 Filipino women who die each day due to maternal complications. These complications could have been avoided with proper sex education and reproductive health services, but these rights continue to be suppressed thanks to the CBCP’s condemnation of the RH Bill and its efforts to delay the Bill’s passage.

MY COMMENT: I had been a staunch defender of the Reproductive Health bill at Free Carlos Celdran Facebook fan page for

CLICK HERE TO SEE IT since last year and these comments anti Catholic Church statements to express their opinions about the Philippine Catholic Church's too much interferance on politics on a mission to make it happen not to pass the bill into a law made me impress a lot

 SATIRE AGAINST THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

1) Has anyone noticed how there is an increase of films about exorcism since the present idiot Pope took over? I went to watch The Rite at the cinema in the Philippines last week - parents took their young children to watch it. When I asked why they took their children, some of which were no more than 3 years old, they said it was to teach them about the devil and how the Church is the only defense against evil. Astonishing. Truly astonishing. The Middle Ages are alive and kicking in the Philippines.

2) The bottom line being protected by the catholic church is the headcount of its members. More born, more infants baptized, more money into the coffers. More poor people? They don't care! The poor can still give... coins. Imagine about 80 million catholics this very moment. That's a lot of coins in week's harvest even with only 50% of its followers still practicing the faith.

3) The Catholic Church is like a juke box. It is coin operated. But, even it is only coins, when 80% of the Philippines are Catholic people, too much money for it every week. More than enough to make their bishops and cardinals live like kings and princes and send money to the pope in Rome too. Just imagine if only few baptized babies because of birth control.

 DEFENSE FOR THE RH BILL

Defense number One:

If the Catholic church were to take a more responsible attitude for the children who are born and can no longer be fed by their penniless parents, perhaps, the bishops would become more credible. Why, for instance can't the church use its tax-free collections to feed the hungry and care for unwanted children instead of building temples and air-conditioned residences for parish priests and bishops? It is my understanding that a percentage of the money is sent to the Vatican (a sovereign state).

If the church truly believes that all sexual acts should be "open to the transmission of life" (why does she insist on NFP, then?), results in procreation and no pregnancy should be unwanted, why not take the burden away from couples who do not want to bear more children that they cannot support? The church ought to take all these children into her bosom, feed, clothe and educate them. Then, maybe, we may actually have a more Christian society where the church is into caring for her faithful instead of aspiring to become the political primate that controls the State. I'll be happy to donate to such church-run charity.

On the issue of population management, economists have repeatedly stated that what is best for the country is a population growth moderated to a level that the country can grow economically, instead of being burdened by having too high a birth rate. Every year, close to 2 million babies are born in the country. In about 6 years, children born this year will enter kindergarten, and the cycle is repeated year after year. As it is, there are already shortages in the number of classrooms and textbook materials. I don't need to elaborate further, but I'm sure all of you understand what I'm trying to point out.

Those who advocate policies that produce a higher birth rate than is ideal for this country ought to put their money where their mouth is, support orphanages, invest in economic activities and other enterprises where people can find decent paying work. Sadly, most of these self-righteous people who label those who do not agree with them "abortionists", "evil" and what not, will not lift a finger when confronted with the results of their ruinous advocacy.

To promote what the church promotes without the sanctimonious bishops (and their "echo chambers") accepting responsibility for the resulting higher birth rates and unsustainable development is to be totally irresponsible.

Defense number 2:

A smaller population = lesser people to allocate resources to. I will repeat. even the whole Philippine budget will be allocated, It is not enough if the population continues to grow

You are making it show that it is easy to create jobs, books and classrooms like magic. You have 10 pieces of bread but you will feed 11 people. Is it enough? Sure, you buy 1 but Question: Do you have something to buy for it? This is too common scenario to poor families with around 13 members. You seem to rely more on the "pound of cure" rather than the "ounce of prevention" Most Filipinos do that, anyway, I will not be surprised.

Another thing: RH bill isn't just to prevent abortions. There is population control that the Philippines needed because we are overpopulated. If you think you can remove sex to all couples, you are dreaming. Sex is Physiologic need as Abraham Maslow said. But it does not mean that RH bill tolerates sexual promiscuity (Here for sure the conflict what the Church wants to say)

A Catholic Defender Mr. Wendell Talibong cheated on a debate in Cebu against Ramil Parba, an INC minister

P.S. Dont you even ask why the Catholic Confraternity Bible Version is not available to be bought by the people at St. Paul's publication bookstores that can be seen at the all malls in the Philippines?

because once you read it, there is no word said by Mr. Talibong on the verse which he claimed there is.

Poor Catholic Defenders. they just cheated just to win a debate.

I understand them because if you will list all debates happened between Iglesia ni Cristo founded by Mr. Felix Y. Manalo and the Unholy Roman Catholic Church here in the Philippines, the INC always win against the Catholic Church that is why a long time ago, the INC managed to snatch so many members from that Church.

"A brief history of brothels". Prostitution and the "Saints" who defended this sin

January 21, 2006
The Independent
www.independent.co.uk

A brief history of brothels

The first bordellos were in the temples of Babylon, while in Ancient Greece they were run by the state. As the Government announces the latest attempt to control prostitution, Paul Vallely romps through the colourful story of the whorehouse

If prostitution is the oldest profession, then the brothel must be the oldest public institution. The Government's plan to make brothels legal - albeit only small ones, with a maximum of two prostitutes and a receptionist - may sound bold to those in Middle England who fear the woman next door may turn to a bit of home working. But the debate on whether prostitutes are best confined to brothels or allowed to walk the streets is hardly a new one.

The "oldest profession" tag is, of course, almost certainly wrong. Not just because, as some feminists have pointed out, it is probably the profession of midwife that qualifies for the label.

Anthropologists suggest prostitution did not actually seem to exist at all in what were once called primitive societies. There was no sex for sale among the Aborigines of Australia before the white man arrived. Nor, apparently, were there brothels in societies ranging from the ancient Cymri people in Wales to recently discovered tribes in the jungles of Burma. Prostitution seems to be something to do with what we call civilisation.

The first recorded instances of women selling themselves for sex seem to be not in brothels but in temples. In Sumaria, Babylonia and among the Phoenicians, prostitutes were those who had sex, not for gain, but as a religious ritual. Sex in the temple was supposed to confer special blessings on men and women alike. But that was very different to just doing it for money.

There's plenty of that in the Bible, though prostitutes in the Jewish scriptures seemed to ply their trade from home, such as Rahab, the prostitute in Jericho who aided the spies of Joshua and identified her house with a scarlet rope - the origin, some say, of the "red light" (though that may, more prosaically, come from the red lanterns carried by railroad workers left outside brothels while they were inside).

The first brothels proper seem to have been in ancient Egypt. Some historians suggest prostitution was not common until the influence of Greek and Mesopotamian travellers took hold. But, in the times of the later Pharaohs, dancing women and musicians were used to recruit men into brothels. Herodotus said a Greek prostitute called Rhopopis was so successful in Egypt she built a pyramid from her takings.

But certainly it was the Greeks who first put the brothel on an official footing. The celebrated Athenian lawmaker and lyric poet Solon founded state brothels and taxed prostitutes on their earnings in the 5th century BC. They were staffed by hetaerae (companions) who ranged from slaves and other lowclass women to those of the upper ranks. The cost of sex was one obole, a sixth of a drachma and the equivalent of an ordinary worker's day salary. For that you got intercourse but nothing oral, which Greek women had a distaste for, although hetaerae were commonly beaten for refusing.

The Romans were keen on sex. There can be few languages richer than Latin in the pornographic, with dozens of terms for prostitutes and different sexual acts. Waitresses in taverns usually sold sexual services. Prostitutes set themselves up at the circus, under the arches (fornices - hence fornication). Official prostitutes were registered by the police and their activities were regulated. Rent from a brothel was a legitimate source of income for a respectable man.

Not all brothels were the same. Those in the Second District of the City were very dirty but the brothels of the Peace ward, were sumptuously fitted. Hairdressers stood by to repair the ravages of amorous combats. Aquarioli, or water boys, waited by the door with bidets for ablution. The superior prostitutes had immense influence on Roman fashions in hair, dress and jewellery.

To attract trade, the houses had an emblem of Priapus in wood or stone above the door "frequently painted to resemble nature more closely" as one ancient historian delicately put it.

Several such advertising standards have been recovered from the ruins of Pompeii where a large brothel was found called the Lupanar - lupae (she-wolves) were a particular kind of sex worker known to be skilled with their tongues.

Among the fossilised ruins were what our delicate historian called "instruments used in gratifying unnatural lusts" which "in praise of our modern standards of morality, it should be said that it required some study and thought to penetrate the secret of the proper use of several of these instruments".

The ambivalence towards the brothel - the simultaneous urge to license and to regulation - continued into medieval times. Prostitution was tolerated because it was held to prevent the greater evils of rape and sodomy. No lesser figures than St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas argued that prostitution was a necessary evil: a well-ordered city needed brothels just as it needed good sewers. The medieval brothels were under the authority of the state, city or prince.

Rules were set in place. Brothels were situated in special streets. Ecclesiastics and married men weren't allowed to visit. Prostitutes, who had to wear distinctive dress, were allowed to ply their trade just outside the town walls but not within. Special houses were built for repenting prostitutes.

Places as varied as the town of Sandwich and foreign municipalities such as Hamburg, Vienna and Augsburg, built public brothels. Such systems of regulation continued in many places for three centuries - until a great epidemic of syphillis swept over Europe in the 16th century and these official medieval brothels were closed.

By Elizabethan times, the sale of sex was more diverse. In London, Southwark was the red-light district. Brothels, usually whitewashed, were called "stews" because of their origins as steambath houses. But prostitutes were active in the theatres. Celebrated theatrical impresarios and actors, such as Philip Henslowe and his son-in-law, Edward Alleyn, owned a profitable brothel.

Henry VIII, in 1546, tried to close the bawdy houses but without much success; some were moated and had high walls to repel attackers. And again the Tudor whorehouse catered for both poor and rich - one 1584 account records that a young man might have to part with 40 shillings or more in a brothel for "a bottle or two of wine, the embracement of a painted strumpet and the French welcome [syphilis]".

But in Paris, the French were, by the end of the 17th century, demanding a medical examination of prostitutes who also had to wear a distinct dress with a badge, and live in a licensed brothel. Many approved. Bernard Mandeville, a Dutch doctor in London in 1724 wrote a defence of public stews, "for the encouraging of public ******* will not only prevent most of the mischievous effects of the vice," he said, "but even lessen the quantity of ******* in general and reduce it to the narrowest bounds which it can possibly be contained in".

But others disapproved. In Vienna in 1751, the Empress Maria Theresa outlawed prostitution and imposed fines, imprisonment, whipping and torture for violations. She even banned female servants from taverns and forbade all women from wearing short dresses.

Throughout the ages, there have been plenty of folk determined to outlaw the trade. In France in 1254, Louis IX ordered all courtesans to be driven out of the country and deprived of their money, goods and - a bit dodgy this one - even their clothes.

When he set out for the Crusades, he destroyed all brothels, with the result that prostitutes mixed more freely than ever with the general population.

In Russia, not long after Marie Therese's purge, the Czarina Elizaveta Petrovna ordered a "find and catch" of all prostitutes both Russian and foreign. And her successor, Tsar Paul I ordered all those caught in Moscow and St. Petersburg to be exiled to Siberia.

In 1860, the Mayor of Portsmouth tried the same thing, turning all the city's prostitutes on to the streets but, at the end of three days, the condition of the place was so bad that he allowed them to return to their former premises. Practically the same episodes were repeated in Pittsburgh and New York in 1891.

Originally legal in the United States, prostitution was outlawed in almost all states between 1910 and 1915 largely due to the influence of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union which was influential in the banning of drug use and was a major force in the prohibition of alcohol. But ******* survived just as boozing did, with brothels opening and closing with regularity, and women switching between prostitution and working as chorus girls in the brothels that lined West 39th and 40th streets in New York alone.

The intervening years have only told the same story, with many countries oscillating between phases in which the sex industry was tolerated or cracked down upon. In 1885, Rotterdam, with regulation, had more prostitution and venereal disease than Amsterdam, a city without regulation. In 1906, Denmark abandoned regulation. Amsterdam adopted it in 1911. The brothels of Germany, Austria, Hungary and Italy were banned in the 1920s. In 1949, Paris abandoned its brothels after two centuries.

Neither the permissive nor the prohibitive approach is successful because the problems they try to address - protecting public morals, controlling sexually transmitted disease, improving health and working conditions for the prostitutes, reducing the exploitation of women and the sex-slave trade are not amenable to common solutions.

What assists the one, detracts from another. Yet still we try, changing policy here, shifting it there. The only true lesson of history, it seems, is that we never learn from history.

Prostitution favors by the Catholic saints

 St. Agustine of Hippo

St. Thomas Aquinas

Even more proof the Catholic church is not Apostolic

Prostitution

Some say it’s the oldest profession in the world. There may be some truth to that as it is even said to be a Law of Moses. Be it the oldest or not, one thing is sure: it is against God’s law and it is prohibited to be one, engaged in the practice of or procure the service of one. At the very least, prostitution is immoral, and nothing good will come out of engaging in such an immoral act. Prostitution destroys marriages, families and lives. More importantly, it harms the spirit and will leads to eternal death.

What is prostitution anyway and what law does it break. In its simplest definition prostitution is engaging in promiscuous sexual relations, most often for money or favor. Prostitution is illegal in most countries and even in countries where it is permitted it is highly regulated. More than just legally wrong, prostitution is against God’s law. There are many bible verses which clearly shows that prostitution is against God’s law and it is something that makes God really angry.

Sex per se is not wrong or bad or immoral. Sex is a basic human need that has to be filled, thus the creation of the woman and marriage. Marriage was created by God and is therefore true and good and holy. And sex within the bounds of marriage is therefore also good and holy. Don’t believe that fable coming from the Catholic church, specially Augustine of Hippo who claim that sex is equal to lust and is an original sin and passed from father to son. Sex only becomes a sin when it is engaged in by people who are not married or people of the same sex.

Lust is not sex, and sex is not lust. For one, lust is not limited to sex alone. Lust could be for money, success or even life itself. Lust is intense desire specially for pleasure and delight. And when the desire for sex is so intense that it is engaged with whomever, then that false into a sin of either fornication or adultery or sodomy. When the practice of engaging in sex outside the bounds of marriage is done in exchanged of money or favor, that is then it becomes prostitution.


This doctrine based on the bible is totally different for the teachings of the self-proclaimed Apostolic church, the Catholic church. Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas both defended and legalized the practice of prostitution. Augustine recognized and accepted prostitution within his flock. Aquinas agreed with this acceptance. This is in total contradiction and disregard of Jesus Christ and the Apostles teachings to STOP from sinning. In fact, Augustine allowed it to be practiced and even legalized it! He rationalized it saying something like it’s instead of men seducing and even raping respectable women, let it be they practice sex with prostitutes. Augustine basically threw away the commandment to stay away from sin but instead to commit sin with other sinners! Talk about anti-Christians.

Catholic church “fathers” are men who came after the death of the apostles and started preaching doctrines utterly opposite the teachings of Christ and the Apostles. They were made” saints” by Catholics, idols and icons are made of them and they are prayed to and worshiped. They were exactly the men the true Apostles forewarned before they died: “that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils".