Re: WHAT REALLY BOTHERS OTHERS IF YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS?

Saint
You can look into a person's eyes and tell whether they are high or not. Did you know that cannabis was used during the Bible days? Cannabis can make your mind tune into psychedelic channels that aren’t even on the television.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/10...
http://patients4medicalmarijuana.wordpress...

Saint I appreciate your input. I am not one for long argument-- so I do close certain blogs for comments. I do indeed have an agreement in part with this statement.

"I say be still in your faith.... ." I do really stand on faith.
Thank you.

Dang.. I have to agree with Yakkie on this... Regards to one's faith and beliefs.. (gosh darn..)

@ Helen

Yes.. I know that and thanks for the information.

It really doesn’t matter where or what was the origin of certain faiths. What matters is what’s going on in religion today, the fact people who think that they are doing an assignment, don’t realize that someone else is also doing an assignment on them (lol).

To All

The point is to understand the agenda of a person and compare it by research.

I'm not a follower and have always been a rebel, meaning I search almost everything before I believe it.

I have attached this video to exemplify that the majority of our people are not free from the so-called white man's ideology and philosophies.

"EVERYONE HAS AN AGENDA", research the facts to get to the bottom of it.

Saint
In regards to the use of cannabis, I think that the reason that it will be legalized is because without the introduction of negative thoughts patterns (which produces paranoia), it produces love, harmony, and positive thoughts for those who suffer from mental illness.

I saw the video and see that truth can be in the eye of the beholder. I can understand how the woman represents the earth because she is fertile and productive. The man plants his seed in the earth (woman) would mean the male is over or above the female.

I intended no offense to you Misreal Bride in my comments. I can see that you are going through a transitional. It is hard to keep on loving when reality tells you that people will hate you purely by the color of your skin. The love psychology is going to work because you can look that prejudice person in the eyes and say to yourself, “I know you hate me MF but I’m going to show you some love”. (DEEP)

Helen,

The ancient Egyptian thought was that the earth was male because it produced seed. The sky (the waters above the firmament) was female because it nourished the seed, and the ox was likewise female because it cultivated the seed.

The crown of Isis is the moon encircled by the ox horns.

Let's breakdown the word God which is used frequently by the "Black Consciousness Community" lectures however the word was never used by the Ancient World which includes the Greeks?


Etymology of the Name God



Oddly, the exact history of the word God is unknown. The word God is a relatively new European invention, which was never used in any of the ancient Judaeo-Christian scripture manuscripts that were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek or Latin.

According to the best efforts of linguists and researchers, the root of the present word God is the Sanskrit word hu which means to call upon, invoke, implore.

Nonetheless, it is also interesting to note the similarity to the ancient Persian word for God which is Khoda.

The following is a survey of some of the efforts of those who have been trying to decipher the ancient roots of the word God:


Webster's 1913 Dictionary:

\God\ (g[o^]d), n. [AS. god; akin to OS. & D. god, OHG. got, G. gott, Icel. gu[eth], go[eth], Sw. & Dan. gud, Goth. gup, prob. orig. a p. p. from a root appearing in Skr. h[=u], p. p. h[=u]ta, to call upon, invoke, implore. [root]30. Cf. {Goodbye}, {Gospel}, {Gossip}.]

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/...


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Catholic Encyclopedia:


Etymology of the Word "God"

(Anglo-Saxon God; German Gott; akin to Persian khoda; Hindu khooda).

God can variously be defined as:
•the proper name of the one Supreme and Infinite Personal Being, the Creator and Ruler of the universe, to whom man owes obedience and worship;
•the common or generic name of the several supposed beings to whom, in polytheistic religions, Divine attributes are ascribed and Divine worship rendered;
•the name sometimes applied to an idol as the image or dwelling-place of a god.

The root-meaning of the name (from Gothic root gheu; Sanskrit hub or emu, "to invoke or to sacrifice to") is either "the one invoked" or "the one sacrificed to." From different Indo-Germanic roots (div, "to shine" or "give light"; thes in thessasthai "to implore") come the Indo-Iranian deva, Sanskrit dyaus (gen. divas), Latin deus, Greek theos, Irish and Gaelic dia, all of which are generic names; also Greek Zeus (gen. Dios, Latin Jupiter (jovpater), Old Teutonic Tiu or Tiw (surviving in Tuesday), Latin Janus, Diana, and other proper names of pagan deities. The common name most widely used in Semitic occurs as 'el in Hebrew, 'ilu in Babylonian, 'ilah in Arabic, etc.; and though scholars are not agreed on the point, the root-meaning most probably is "the strong or mighty one."

Oxford English Dictionary:

"god (gρd). Also 3-4 godd. [Com. Teut.: OE. god (masc. in sing.; pl. godu, godo neut., godas masc.) corresponds to OFris., OS., Du. god masc., OHG. got, cot (MHG. got, mod.Ger. gott) masc., ON. goð, guð neut. and masc., pl. goð, guð neut. (later Icel. pl. guðir masc.; Sw., Da. gud), Goth. guÞ (masc. in sing.; pl. guÞa, guda neut.). The Goth. and ON. words always follow the neuter declension, though when used in the Christian sense they are syntactically masc. The OTeut. type is therefore *guđom neut., the adoption of the masculine concord being presumably due to the Christian use of the word. The neuter sb., in its original heathen use, would answer rather to L. numen than to L. deus. Another approximate equivalent of deus in OTeut. was *ansu-z (Goth. in latinized pl. form anses, ON. ρss, OE. Ós- in personal names, ésa genit. pl.); but this seems to have been applied only to the higher deities of the native pantheon, never to foreign gods; and it never came into Christian use.

The ulterior etymology is disputed. Apart from the unlikely hypothesis of adoption from some foreign tongue, the OTeut. *gubom implies as its pre-Teut. type either *ghudho-m or *ghutó-m. The former does not appear to admit of explanation; but the latter would represent the neut. of the passive pple. of a root *gheu-. There are two Aryan roots of the required form (both *glheu, with palatal aspirate): one meaning ‘to invoke’ (Skr. hū), the other ‘to pour, to offer sacrifice’ (Skr. hu, Gr. χέειν, OE. yéotan YETE v.). Hence *glhutó-m has been variously interpreted as ‘what is invoked’ (cf. Skr. puru-hūta ‘much-invoked’, an epithet of Indra) and as ‘what is worshipped by sacrifice’ (cf. Skr. hutá, which occurs in the sense ‘sacrificed to’ as well as in that of ‘offered in sacrifice’). Either of these conjectures is fairly plausible, as they both yield a sense practically coincident with the most obvious definition deducible from the actual use of the word, ‘an object of worship’.

Some scholars, accepting the derivation from the root *glheu- to pour, have supposed the etymological sense to be ‘molten image’ (= Gr. χυγόν), but the assumed development of meaning seems very unlikely.

transcribed from The Oxford English Dictionary

An Additional On-Line Reference:


Word origin: God - Our word god goes back via Germanic to Indo-European, in which a corresponding ancestor form meant “invoked one.” The word’s only surviving non-Germanic relative is Sanskrit hu, invoke the gods, a form which appears in the Rig Veda, most ancient of Hindu scriptures: puru-hutas, “much invoked,” epithet of the rain-and-thunder god Indra. (From READER’S DIGEST, Family Word Finder, page 351) (Originally published by The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville New York, Montreal; Copyright 1975)

Now if the sources noted above are accurate, then the word that we use for the Supreme Being, God, comes from a very pagan origin. Thus the word god is used generically by many different religions to refer to their deity or “invoked one.”

Some may laugh at the notion, the very idea that the word “God” has any origin or association with Hindu Sanskrit. To illustrate how this is possible, we again quote from ‘Family Word Finder’ on the historical development of our Modern English language:


Page 7, ‘Word Origins’ - “English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages, which consists of about 100 related tongues, all descended from prehistoric language of a pastoral, bronze working, horse breeding people, the Aryans, who inhabited the steppes of Central Asia about 4500 B.C. Scholars refer to their language at this stage as proto-Indo-European, or simply Indo-European

So God comes from Sanskrit through German to English? What about it?

@Helen, Not offended at all. Often those who are haters really want to break you down, but showing love has a deep force field. You just get deeper and deeper! SHOW L O V E {DEEP} LOL! :)

@ Yaiqab Saint
Really Yaiqab Saint, Christianity was actually influenced by Ancient Sumer the home of Abraham the Great patriarch. and you have the historic proof too as well!????????????????????????????? Can you please produce that proof for all of us to see Thanks