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http://www.biblestudysite.com/4.htm The Divine Names And Titles This Is Appendix 4 From The Companion Bible. I. ELOHIM occurs 2,700 times. Its first occurrence connects it with creation, and gives it its essential meaning as the Creator. It indicates His relation to mankind as His creatures (see note on 2Chronicles 18:31, where it stands in contrast with Jehovah as indicating covenant relationship). ‘Elohim is God the Son, the living "Word" with creature form to create (John 1:1. Colossians 1:15-17. Revelation 3:14); and later, with human form to redeem (John 1:14). "Begotten of His Father before all worlds; born of His mother, in the world." In this creature form He appeared to the Patriarchs, a form not temporally assumed. ‘Elohim in indicated (as in the Authorized Version) by ordinary small type, "God". See table below. II. JEHOVAH. While Elohim is God as the Creator of all things, Jehovah is the same God in covenant relation to those whom He has created (compare 2Chronicles 18:31). Jehovah means the Eternal, the Immutable One, He Who WAS, and IS, and IS TO COME. The Divine definition is given in Genesis 21:33. He is especially, therefore, the God of Israel; and the God of those who are redeemed, and are thus now "in Christ". We can say "My God," but not "My Jehovah", for Jehovah is "My God." Jehovah is indicated (as in Authorized Version) by small capital letters, "LORD"; and by "GOD" When it occurs in combination with Adonai, in which case LORD GOD = Adonai Jehovah. The name Jehovah is combined with ten other words, which form what are known as "the Jehovah Titles." They are as follows in the order in which they occur in the Hebrew Canon (Appendix 1). All are noted in the margin, in all their occurrences:- 1. J 2. EHOVAH-JIREH = Jehovah will see, or provide. Genesis 22:14. J 3. EHOVAH-ROPHEKS = Jehovah that healeth thee. Exodus 15:26. J 4. EHOVAH-NISSI = Jehovah my banner. Exodus 17:15. J 5. EHOVAH-MeKADDISHKEM = Jehovah that doth sanctify you. Exodus 31:13. Leviticus 20:8, 21:8, 22:32. Ezekiel 20:12. J 6. EHOVAH-SHALOM = Jehovah [send] peace. Judges 6:24. J 7. EHOVAH-ZeBA’OTH = Jehovah of hosts. 1Samuel 1:3, and frequently. J 8. EHOVAH-ZIDKENU = Jehovah our righteousness. Jeremiah 23:6, 33:16. J 9. EHOVAH-SHAMMAH = Jehovah is there. Ezekiel 48:35. J 10. EHOVAH-‘ELYON = Jehovah most high. Psalms 7:17, 47:2, 97:9. J EHOVAH-RO‘I = Jehovah my Shepherd. Psalms 23:1. We have seven of these, experimentally referred to, in Psalms 23, inasmuch as Jehovah, as the "Good," "Great," and "Chief Shepherd," is engaged, in all the perfection of His attributes, on behalf of His sheep: In verse 1, we have number 1 above. In verse 2, we have number 5. In verse 3, we have numbers 2 and 7. In verse 4, we have number 8. In verse 5, we have numbers 3 and 4. III. JAH is Jehovah in a special sense and relation. Jehovah as having BECOME our Salvation (first occurrence Exodus 15:2), He Who IS, and WAS, and IS TO COME. It occurs 49 times (7x7. See Appendix 10). Jah is indicated by type thus: Lord. IV. EL is essentially the Almighty, though the word is never so rendered (see below, "Shaddai"). EL is Elohim in all His strength and power. It is rendered "God" as Elohim is, but El is God the Omnipotent. Elohim is God the Creator putting His omnipotence into operation. Eloah (see below) is God Who wills and orders all, and Who is to be the one object of the worship of His people. El is the God Who knows all (first occurrence Genesis 14:18-22) and sees all (Genesis 16:13) and that performeth all things for His people (Psalms 57:2); and in Whom all the Divine attributes are concentrated. El is indicated in this edition by type in large capital letters, thus: "GOD." It is sometimes transliterated in proper names Immanu-’el, Beth-’el, etc., where it is translated, as explained in the margin. V. ELOAH is Elohim, Who is to be worshipped. Eloah is God in connection with His Will rather than His power. The first occurrence associates this name with worship (Deuteronomy 32:15,17). Hence it is the title used whenever the contrast (latent or expressed) is with false gods or idols. Eloah is essentially "the living God" in contrast to inanimate idols. Eloah is rendered "God", but we have indicated it by type thus GOD. VI. ELYON first occurs in Genesis 14:18 with El, and is rendered "the most high (God)". It is El and Elohim, not as the powerful Creator, but as "the possessor of heaven and earth." Hence the name is associated with Christ as the Son of "the Highest" (Luke 1:35). It is Elyon, as possessor of the earth, Who divides the nations "their inheritance". In Psalms 83:18, He is "over all the earth". The title occurs 36 times (6x6, or 62. See appendix 10). Elyon is the Dispenser of God’s blessings in the earth; the blessings proceeding from a Priest Who is a King upon His throne (compare Genesis 14:18-22 with Zechariah 6:13, 14:9). VII. SHADDAI is in every instance translated "Almighty", and is indicated by small capital letters ("ALMIGHTY"). It is God (El), not as the source of strength, but of grace; not as Creator, but as the Giver. Shaddai is the All-bountiful. This title does not refer to His creative power, but to His power to supply all the needs of His people. Its first occurrence is in Genesis 17:1, and is used to show Abraham that He Who called him out to walk alone before Him could supply all his need. Even so it is the title used in 2Corinthians 6:18, where we are called to "come out" in separation from the world. It is always used in connection with El (see above). VIII. ADON is one of three titles (ADON, ADONAI, and ADONIM), all generally rendered "Lord"; but each has its own peculiar usage and association. They all denote headship in various aspects. They have to do with God as "over-lord." (1) ADON is the Lord as Ruler in the earth. We have indicated this in type by printing the preceding article or pronouns in small capitals, not because either are to be emphasized, but to distinguish the word "Lord" from Adonai, which is always so printed in the Authorized Version. (2) ADONAI is Lord in His relation to the earth; and as carrying out His purposes of blessing in the earth. With this limitation it is almost equivalent to Jehovah. Indeed, it was from an early date so used, by associating the vowel points of the word Jehovah with Adon, thus converting Adon into Adonai. A list of 134 passages where this was deliberately done is preserved and given in the Massorah (§§ 107-115). (See Appendix 32) We have indicated these by printing the word like Jehovah, putting an asterisk, thus: LORD*. (3) ADONIM is the plural of Adon, never used of man. Adonim carries with it all that Adon does, but in a greater and higher degree; and more especially as owner and proprietor. An Adon may rule others who do not belong to him. Hence (without the article) it is often used of men. But Adonim is the Lord Who rules His own. We have indicated it by type, thus: LORD. The three may be thus briefly distinguished:- Adon is the Lord as overlord or ruler. Adonim is Lord as owner. Adonai is the Lord as blesser. IX. The TYPES used to indicate the above titles, in the text, are as follows: God = Elohim. GOD = Jehovah (in combination with Adonai, "Lord"). GOD* = Jehovah in the Primitive Texts, altered by Sopherim to Elohim as in the Printed Text. (See Appendix 32.) GOD = El. GOD = Eloah. LORD = Jehovah. THE LORD = Jah. LORD* = Jehovah in the Primitive Text, altered by the Sopherim to Adonai as in the Printed Text. (See Appendix 32.) Lord = Adonai. LORD = Adonim. ALMIGHTY = Shaddai. MOST HIGH = Elyon. X. THE COMBINATIONS are indicated as follows: Adonai Jehovah = Lord GOD. Jehovah Elohim = LORD God. Elyon El = MOST HIGH GOD. El Shaddai = GOD ALMIGHTY.

Correct. Your turn.

"Should old acquaintance be forgot"

"So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" I want you to get up right now. Get up. Go to your windows, open your windows, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Things have got to change my friends. You've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open your window, stick your head out and yell, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

"Should old acquaintance be forgot"

So, are you saying then, that Sedro-Woolley is the PERFECT place for Victor Barnard and anyone that "drinks his Kool-Aid"? :)

Just because the pinheads JAL wrote about were completely in the wrong, that does not mean JAL is in the right. JAL was just FINE with twi until someone ELSE forced the issues- then he was APPALLED by what happened for years while he was a top leader. JAL was just FINE with ces/stfi until HIS ox was getting gored- then he was APPALLED by what happened for years while he was a top leader. You're an IDIOT! You dropped the ball in a MAJOR way TWICE in TWO different organizations! You're preparing to drop it AGAIN by making ANOTHER group and not learning from the mistakes you made EITHER time! In this, you're stupider than lcm- at least HE has kept his fool mouth shut down the years and has stopped drawing attention to himself! You've retained a style of demonstrating ego AND cluelessness and letting God's people get hurt while you puffed up organizations! Perhaps you're doomed to make the same mistakes over and over until death. If you have any choice about it, WAKE UP!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books/review/Caldwell-t.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1 Ok, let's see.... "Forsaking his education, Koestler moved to Palestine. Allergic to the hard physical labor it took to make the desert bloom, Koestler didn’t last long." Ok, THAT sounds like vpw. He was not to be found when it was time to do his chores around the farm, and avoided physical labor in general. "But there is a consistent note of autodidactic crankiness, too. Koestler’s enthusiasms included Lamarckian evolution, telepathy and ESP, a theory of creation that we would call intelligent design, levitation and the belief — laid out in his late book “The Thirteenth Tribe” — that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from the Khazars of the North Caucasus." vpw also has "a consistent note of autodidactic crankiness." He claims to have picked it all up without conventional sources, and God help you if you disagreed with vpw! "Crankiness" puts it mildly! Koestler's poor science- he embraced Lamarckian evolution, which is simplistic science fiction, and knowing THAT, it's no surprise he could come up with the idea that Ashkenazi Jews weren't "Jews" but Khazar converts to Judaism. (Both Lamarckian evolution and Koestler's ideas about Ashkenazi have been disproven conclusively using genetics.) " But the Koestler he depicts is consistently repugnant — humorless, megalomaniac, violent. Like many people concerned about “humanity,” he was contemptuous of actual humans. He ignored and snubbed his mother (who had pawned her last diamond to pay for his passage to Palestine), and he rebuffed every attempt to arrange a meeting between him and his illegitimate daughter. What made him such a creep? Perhaps alcohol — Koestler threw tables in restaurants and was arrested for drunken driving on many occasions. Perhaps insecurity — he was tormented by his shortness (barely 5 feet 6 inches) and used to stand on tippy-toe at cocktail parties. “We all have inferiority complexes of various sizes,” Koestler’s Communist editor Otto Katz once told him. “But yours isn’t a complex — it’s a cathedral.” In the late 1990s, Jill Craigie, the wife of the Labour politician Michael Foot, told Cesarani that Koestler had raped her decades earlier. The scandal that resulted when Cesarani’s own Koestler biography was published embroiled Scammell, who had defended Koestler in 1995 against an allegation of attempted rape made by Foot. Scammell argues here that “the exercise of male strength to gain sexual satisfaction wasn’t exactly uncommon at that time” and that “Craigie’s story and Cesarani’s embellishment of it have left a stain on Koestler’s reputation far larger than he deserves.” He is wrong. Posterity has let Koestler off lightly. Every scrap of evidence that Scammell himself has so impartially gathered argues in favor of crediting Craigie’s story. Bertrand Russell’s wife claimed Koestler tried to rape her, too. “Without an element of initial rape,” Koestler wrote the woman who would be his second wife, “there is no delight.” One girlfriend called him “an odd mixture of consideration, thoughtfulness and extraordinary brutality.” Certain aspects of Koestler’s sexism — in particular, his expectation that his girlfriends serve him as stenographers and maids — are indeed mitigated by the era in which he lived. His pattern of predation and violence, though, is a vice of a different order. It shocked those who encountered it. " I don't think Koestler INSPIRED vpw, but if vpw knew, he surely ADMIRED him for it- vpw admired Stiles for an unkind word that "put his wife in her place", as they'd see it. "The point can be made more generally: In print as in life, he was driven by ego, not principle. His subject was himself." Now, THAT would be a neat summary of vpw for the curious, as well!

Welcome! You'll find that the posters here run the gamut between Christian, non-Christian atheist, etc. If you're looking to find Christians who are still Christians after twi, this is not a bad place to look. (Keep in mind the messageboard as a whole is not about Christianity, and if you want an open discussion on beliefs, please post it in "DOCTRINAL".) That having been said, hello. You'll find that here, the rum is NOT gone. ;) BTW, before I forget to ask, if you're a Jedi Master, what lightsaber forms do you practice?

Seems like a decent enough place to build the next Jonestown...

"Hey, Hey, we're the Monkees!"

The Dark Night.

Yes. "Journey's End." Actually, The Traveler (aka "Lakanta", was already involved and disguised as a settler. No idea how that worked. Actually, there was no Maquis resistance at this time- the decision made at the beginning of the episode was what eventually INSPIRED the Maquis resistance. Picard: "I must point out that when you first came to this world, you were warned that it was the subject of a dispute between the Federation and the Cardassians. You were asked not to settle here." Wakasa: "Do you know how long we have searched for a home? Almost two hundred years. Then we found this world... Can you blame us for not wanting to give it up?" Picard: "I understand and respect the long journey of your people. But I believe we can help you find a new home." Troi: "As you can see, there are three other planets in this sector that have environmental conditions similar to those here on Dorvan Five. They are all uninhabited... and could be colonized immediately." Picard: "And if those worlds don't meet with your approval, then we'll find you other choices." Wakasa: "You don't understand... the choice of this world was not limited to... "environmental conditions." There were other... more intangible concerns as well. My people have always had an... intimate bond with nature. We think of ourselves as being a part of it... and it being a part of us. One of the reasons our ancestors left Earth two hundred years ago was because that bond had been severed. They began to control the weather. We believe -- very strongly --that nature should not be "fixed" or controlled. Droughts and floods... tornadoes and hurricanes... these are natural events. By putting man above nature... an imbalance was created. We could no longer live in harmony with our environment." Picard: "I can assure you that we will not impose a weather control system or anything else on your people. Whatever world you choose to colonize will be completely yours to do with as you please." Anthwara: "Captain, once the bond between us and Earth had been broken, we had to find a planet where we could establish a new bond... a planet that would welcome us. When I came here twenty years ago, I was welcomed by the mountains... the rivers... the sky." Wakasa: "He's laughing at you, Anthwara. He thinks you're talking about old superstition and nonsense." Picard: "That's not true. I have a great deal of respect for your beliefs and the meaning they hold for your people." Anthwara: "Then you should respect the fact that this planet holds a deeply spiritual significance for us. It took us two centuries to find a place where the mountains gave us permission to use their stone for our houses... where the rivers let us drink from their waters... and where the wind sang to us at night. We don't want to spend another two hundred years searching for what we already have." The settlers, for all their convictions, and the spiritual significance of the planet, faced the same questions as Goshaven several seasons earlier. Leave the planet-which they didn't WANT to do- or be killed off by another group of "settlers"- which they really have to avoid. No point in having a deep spiritual connection to a planet you're on if it's going to get you turned into an oily smear. How did they know that the other planets Picard offered would not welcome them just as much, or even more? They didn't even entertain the notion that they could find any candidate to be acceptable to their spiritual criteria. If they tried and it didn't happen, then they lost nothing by sending a few people to look around. We even saw them prepared to make the same mistake Goshaven was prepared to make. "Why have you taken these men prisoner?" "They were invading our homes...violating our privacy... this is not their world. They have no right to be here." "The terms of the treaty do give them the right to... survey this planet." "We don't recognize that treaty. We're not going to let the Cardassians have Dorvan Five. No matter what the cost." 1) Disregarding a treaty signed by the Federation means they're breaking Federation law- and that's exactly what they want. 2) Fighting an overt, "hot" war with the arriving Cardassians was more than stupid. Gul Evek's response was obvious and predictable. "Two of our men on the surface have been taken prisoner. Prepare to send an armed squad to rescue them and to occupy the village." Picard talked him into just beaming his men up instead- rather than shooting and dragging the Enterprise into another shooting war right then and there. "Gul Evek, those people down there are Federation citizens and I am sworn to protect them. If your troops attack the village, my security forces will respond..." The settlers ultimately had 3 choices: 1) Resettle on a different planet. 2) Stay and resist-and be bombed to bits once the Enterprise left. 3) Forswear their Federation citizenship and take their chances the Cardassians will somehow treat them fairly, despite little motivation to do so. "Anthwara... I want to make absolutely sure you understand the implications of this agreement. By giving up your status as Federation citizens... any future request you or your people make for assistance from Starfleet will go unanswered. You will be on your own... and under Cardassian jurisdiction." "I understand, Captain. And we are prepared to take that risk. Will the Cardassian government honor the agreement you've made here?" "I believe that I can convince them this is an... equitable solution. I cannot speak for every Cardassian you will encounter..but if you leave us alone... I suspect that we will do the same." Now, see, if all settlers in the new Cardassian territories who chose to stay ALSO made the same agreement, they were NO LONGER Federation citizens and their own problem from then on. The real problem with the Maquis was not the utter stupidity of the Maquis, but the Federation's refusal to stick to its OWN agreements. They should have said "Well, it's tragic that the Cardassians are wiping out their own colonies, but those ARE Cardassian colonies, after all, and that's a purely internal matter, and the Federation does not involve itself with the internal problems of the Cardassians or anyone else." After all, that's what was said in OTHER episodes, and even how they dealt with the Romulans arming the sisters of Duras in a Klingon Civil War. (They prevented the Romulans from interfering, and ended their involvement there.) Instead, the Feds disregarded the legal status of the FORMER Federation citizens, and interfered anyway.

It IS "Moonlighting."

"Earl Grey Tea... watercress sandwiches... Bularian canapes...Are you up for a promotion?" "I'm trying to establish a new relationship with the Admiral. There's been a certain amount of... tension between us in the past." "Tension's not the word I would use..." "What do you know about your family, Captain?" "A great deal actually. My father was a strong believer in passing along the family history and traditions." "Tell me about your family. We have very strong ties to our ancestors... we believe their actions guide us even now. Knowing more about your family might help me to better understand you." "There are many things you don't understand yet... but you will." "I don't mean to be rude, but I wish you'd stop talking about me in the future tense." "...at that time they were warned the planet was hotly disputed by the Cardassians. The bottom line is... they never should have settled there in the first place." "Remember how we always talked about improving the quantum efficiency by creating a new plasma-dyne relay? Well, feast your eyes on this." "You've only got one micro-fusion inter-relay in here... the converter interface will never hold up." "Hey, I ran the diagnostics myself.This little baby will withstand over five hundred Cochranes of warp field stress." "I don't think so. You better put a secondary phase inverter in there. In fact, this entire subprocessor matrix needs an overhaul."

"Well, let me remind you Mr. Addison, that one case does not a detective make." "Well, let me remind you Ms. Hayes, that I HATE IT WHEN YOU TALK BACKWARDS." "David, may I please have some ANSWERS?" "Delaware, all of the above, 90 degrees." "Where's Dave and Maddie?" "They're not in this episode." "Fire at Will! Or Al, or Harry! Or whoever the hell else you can hit!" "Get serious? Maddie, I just touched your rear end, if I get any more serious they're gonna move us to cable!" "You need me, Maddie Hayes." "I need you to leave." "You need me to live, lady. You are one cold, icy broad. You've got your nose so high in the air, it's snowing on your brain." "Did you call?" "I called you ever name in every language."

Next episode. "Earl Grey Tea... watercress sandwiches... Bularian canapes...Are you up for a promotion?" "I'm trying to establish a new relationship with the Admiral. There's been a certain amount of... tension between us in the past." "Tension's not the word I would use..." "What do you know about your family, Captain?" "A great deal actually. My father was a strong believer in passing along the family history and traditions." "Tell me about your family. We have very strong ties to our ancestors... we believe their actions guide us even now. Knowing more about your family might help me to better understand you." "There are many things you don't understand yet... but you will." "I don't mean to be rude, but I wish you'd stop talking about me in the future tense."

"Well, let me remind you Mr. Addison, that one case does not a detective make." "Well, let me remind you Ms. Hayes, that I HATE IT WHEN YOU TALK BACKWARDS." "David, may I please have some ANSWERS?" "Delaware, all of the above, 90 degrees."

Right. The episode is the ST:TNG episode "Second Chances." Due to a freak accident involving the planet they were evacuating from, William T. Riker barely escaped a planet several years ago during beam-out... but a second William T. Riker materialized back on the planet as the first materialized on the starship. The ship left with Riker and the crew had no idea anyone was left behind. Years later, they visit the planet again-and both Rikers meet. After an episode with some interesting character development and interaction- and both Rikers grating on each other from the differences in their experiences since the accident- they go their separate ways, our usual Riker staying on the Enterprise, and the rescued Riker accepting a posting on the USS Gandhi. To distinguish himself from our usual Riker, he legally changed his name to "Thomas", his middle name. (One book said "T." stood for "Thelonius", and another said he had 2 middle names, Thomas AND Thelonius. That's not completely unheard of even in our present.) Anyway, my cryptic question was understood- "Thomas" means "twin", and was also translated "Didymus" in the Bible (also "twin".) So, I asked if that was the episode without giving the episode name. Personally, my favorite scene in the episode is in the prologue, when Riker is playing in a jazz band and asking for requests. Troi keeps requesting "Nightbird" because she knows he's never gotten the hang of playing the instrumental bridge. As he prepares to try, Picard pages him to report to the Bridge. (Once again, Jonathan Frakes said a LOT with his face in that scene. He ignored Troi, then he gives her a flat look when he accepts the request, then he focuses and pumps the slide as he gets ready, and finally looks so pleased when he has to answer the call. :)

It's not Christmas without "a Charlie Brown Christmas" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" for me either. Songs outside those who speak of the season-to me- include "Snoopy's Christmas". As fanciful as it is, it reminds me of the "Christmas Truce" of World War I (which I expect it was meant to.) http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/truce.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPQ8cXzBZw =============== Normally, I don't seek out Christmas songs of various kinds, but the thing that bugs me especially is hearing a song with more than one stanza- sung as if it is only ONE stanza, sung over and over. Like "Silent Night"-with the first verse sung twice and the song ending. Where's the shepherds quaking at the sight?

Didymus?

"Yes. Where on earth am I gonna get that kind of money?" "I don't know. But we will." "We will... How?" "We'll make it." "Where? On the Xerox machine?!" " I'm going to the museum. They're exhibiting a new Gauguin." "Gauguin? Oh, I heard of him. That's the guy who duked it out with Godzilla, right?" "That man belongs in a pound!" "Pound of what?" "You can't just burst in here like that!" "Oh yeah? Tell that to the writers." "Wipe that stupid grin off your face." "This is the smartest grin I know." "You are eye crust!" "The better to see you with, my dear." "You are navel lint!" "Expensive navel lint." "You are..." "Don't go much lower, they'll take us off the air." "...I don't want you to panic but there is a dead man in the back of the car. "Dead?" "Either that or that man wears an obscene amount of blue rouge." "Heeeerre's PETRUCCHIO!" "Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second, there's a page missing out of my copy of the script." "I always play my horn with my shirt off. Late at night, by an open window, next to a flashing neon light. I know I look good that way." "I walked the streets for hours that night, my mind was reeling. I felt alone, adrift, I had never murdered anyone before. I had so many questions. How long was I supposed to walk the streets? How much guilt was I supposed to be feeling? How long will those signs float over my head? I wasn't ready to stop talking to myself yet, so I figured I might be better company if I had a couple of drinks." "Just extending the metaphor. "Extend it somewhere else." "Doesn't it seem a bit... quiet to you?" "Well, this is our slow time." "Morning?" "Well...." "Mondays?" "Kind of." "Spring?" "The eighties."

Another quote might make the difference. (Or maybe not, but you can try.)

Nothing so old.