Conservative Black Woman: Just A Reminder......

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Just A Reminder......

J.C. Ryle (1816-1900) wrote the following in Fire, Fire!:

Beware of manufacturing a god of your own: a god who is all mercy but not just, a god who is all love but not holy, a god who has a heaven for everybody but a hell for none, a god who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a god is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible, there is no God at all.

Beware of making selections from your Bible to suit your taste. Dare not to say, ‘I believe this verse, for I like it. I refuse that, for I cannot reconcile it with my views’. Nay! But O man, who art thou that repliest against God? By what right do you talk in this way? Surely it were better to say over EVERY chapter in the word, “Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth”. Ah! If men would do this, they would never deny the unquenchable fire.

H/T to Unworthy1 who posted this quote on Defending.Contending!

15 comments:

Linda said...: Wow, CBW, this is a powerful post. I have heard it said that the devil has more bibles than God.; June 23, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Laurie and Alan said...: Ditto, a very powerful post indeed! My prayer is that peoples hearts will be opened and that they will "see" that there is truly only ONE Lord and Saviour.

Thanks for posting this.; June 23, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Smile said...: This says it all: "...manufacturing a god of your own..."

As for me and my house: There is one God and we serve Him.; June 23, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Allison said...: Just found your blog...like it very much :) Will definitely be back!; June 24, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Jessica said...: This is awesome! What a great find!; June 24, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Deanna Bland Hiott PhD, MSN, RN said...: As usual, wonderful post...so true.; June 25, 2009 at 2:18 AM
Anonymous said...: Great post CBW. People will often use the Bible as a tool for their own foolishness.; June 25, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Smile said...: A few prayers for the 'goings on' in MI would be a good idea. The citizens of that state have to bare the brunt of much foolishness.

The felon, Detroit Counselwoman Monica Conyers, is the latest in a long line of deplorable behavior and shabby results. Her husband, Congressman John Conyers, head of the judiciary committee, a huge proponent of "single payer" national health care, is a long entrenched politician. The results of these kinds of policies are there for all to see.

The politicians of the region are so convoluted and interconnected with each other, judges, and various enterprises... Is there such a thing as political incest?; June 26, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Bessie M. said...: I just love J.C. Ryle. What a man!; June 28, 2009 at 2:47 AM
Anonymous said...: To BrotherKomrade:

Keep in mind that Christianity is not an Abramhic faith. Christianity is built on a believe in Jesus Christ, as God incarnate. Abraham is not the cornestone of Christianity, Christ is.; June 29, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Attorneymom said...: Conservative, did you fire me as a blog sista. WT__?? LOL; June 30, 2009 at 6:09 AM
Conservative Black Woman said...: Attorneymom~uhmmm.....I've only called and emailed you 50 times over the last few days. Read your email Chick-A-Dee!; June 30, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Digital Publius said...: Awesome!; July 7, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Maurice said...: One word... AWESOME.; July 7, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Ryan Jankowski said...: awesome blog! This is great stuff and an enjoyable read.

My friend and I do audio recordings of great works (like Ryle's) which we make available for free online, so I thought I'd share a link with the hope you'd stop by sometime.

God bless sister,
Ryan; August 18, 2009 at 11:10 PM

About

Don't let the title of this blog deceive you. Yes, I'm a Conservative Black Woman -- Not to be confused with Republican Black Woman. At this point I am in fact a Political Atheist. I believe with every fiber of my being that America is no longer a Constitutional Republic but rather a Corporate Fascist Oligarchy. Our Presidents are just the puppets, tools, spokespersons for the Powers that Be...Council of Foreign Relations and various other NGO's who are beholden to the International Banking Cabal. No, I'm not a Conspiracy Theorist -- I am a Conspiracy Researcher and I'd advise you to do the same. Who said "I would not have you ignorant?" Yes, that's my "handler" for all of those who think I have one. Over the course of writing this blog. My paradigm has shifted ENTIRELY. Yes, the paragraph below still applies but the Left\Right, Democrat\Republican head fake no longer applies to me. I WOKE UP!!!!

"I am fed up with what has happening within the black community. Too many of our families are broken, too many of us are morally degenerate and too many of us are willing to blame all of our pathology on slavery, George Bush, the Republican party or anything but our failures as Parents, Husbands, Wives and Christians."

My Favorite Quotations.....

Truth is scarcely found. But integrity and truth are hardly found within the Black population as a whole at least not where it involves black people. Most blacks have pledged allegiance to their blackness, not truth, not to America, not even to God as many profess. Integrity and truth has to go out the window if it somehow poses a threat to the "positive" image of blackness. ~Anonymous

Regarding Obama's hit on Gadhafi's family: "He's spineless and shameless, except when his masters unleash him on people of color. Then he becomes a pit bull--a real life Sambo/Quimbo doing the dirty work of Simon Legree. TPTB knew exactly what they were doing when they "selected" Obama to manage their psychopathocracy." ~ Makheru Bradley

"Whenever I hear cats start talking that "community" shit I know they are not serious. No one is accountable in conversations about "da community". That "we as a people"... Plantation Negro segmentation nonsense is Kool-Aid left over from the 70's. It perpetuates the illusion that there is even such a thing as a "black community". There aint no "community" and hasn't been in 40 years. Most Negros don't even know their neighbors."The only effective group is FAMILY. Families are the cells of a society. Destruction of the cell is cancer. An effective institution, expectation and habit of marriage is the antidote." ~Denmark Vesey(A Bloggin' Beast!!!!)

The irony of having an economic system that you hate be the source of your entitlement that is in excess of your productive capacity. -- Constructive Feedback (Blogger Extraordinaire)

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion – in the long run, these are the only people who count. -Robert A. Heinlein

Illumination of the above Frederick Douglass quote by blogger extraordinaire Constructive Feedback

With all due respect to this great I am not sure that he could have imagined the day where:

"Non-justice" is delivered by the hands of favorable officials with racial diversity that realize "Black on Black violence" is not seen as "violent" as other modalities
Where allowing "ignorance to prevail" is a favorable strategy for the retention of power by those who position themselves as saviors
Where "conspiracy theories" are effective tools to allow people to remain unified against an external threat - even when it has moved away and they are all by themselves - otherwise having to manage the human resources before them toward a more conscious end.

In this environment - Robbery, the oppression of intimidation, and degradation put in the form of a music genre lead to an inevitable condition of insecurity for persons and property.