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My Fatherland
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. We cannot dwell side by side. Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also. My brothers, shall we submit? or shall we say to them:
‘First kill me, before you can take possession of my fatherland!”
Sitting Bull
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oh we humans not a single lesson learnt from the history written with blood…
I would say we dont forget and we will teach them a lesson..
Presently if you see as far as the human life is involved in shamble…
HI ,MORNDAY HI,,DOT,BLESSING YOUR PAGE…..“Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: ‘I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.’” Isaiah 48:17 (ESV)
Are you waking up today with a serious case of the Mondays? Does your life feel like a prison that is keeping you bound in chains of grief, shame, guilt, and sin? Sometimes we need a good reminder of how free we are and why praise and thankfulness should always be on our lips.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.” (Ephesians 1:3-10, ESV)
Thankyou for the message; I am well awake and Alhumdulillah being a muslim, I praise Allah with every breath I take
‘WILL’ is “the mental faculty by which a person decides or conceives himself as deciding upon and initiating his actions”
[1]. When we ask the question, “Do we have free WILL?”, the answer depends very much upon what we mean by “free” in this context. If we ask, ‘Is our WILL free from compulsion?’, the answer is ‘YES’ but if we ask, ‘Is our WILL free from causation?’, the answer is ‘NO’.
“A man is free from compulsion when he is not restrained or coerced by forces or persons outside of himself. He is free when he can follow his own desires, his own WILL, regardless of how that WILL may itself have come to be what it is.”
[2]According to the Quran, man is (born) free to aim at definite ends, free to choose between alternatives, free to choose good from evil and free to act in accordance with his WILL. The Quran says, “Do whatever you will”
[3]; “there is absolutely no compulsion in the Deen”
[4]; “the Truth [has come] from your Sustainer: let, then, him who wills, believe in it, and let him who wills, reject it.”
[5]; “Verily, We have shown him the Way: whether he be grateful or ungrateful (rests on his will)”
[6] Allah says in the Quran that if human beings had not been endowed with freedom of choice, all those who dwell on earth would have been made to believe (in that which Allah asks them to believe). But this was not Allah’s way. He says, “Would you compel people to believe?”
[7], signifying that people are under no compulsion by the Almighty to believe or disbelieve and that they should not be compelled in this regard by other people. “None can attain faith except in accordance with Allah’s law”, which is that “Allah lays the loathsome evil [of disbelief] upon those who will not use their reason”
[8]. People believe or disbelieve according to Allah’s law of universal causation. Human WILL is absolutely free from compulsion but not free from causation.
Let me elaborate a little more on English Standard Version of Bible;
Many emendations and restorations of certain renderings were made to satisfy Christians who viewed many of the theologically liberal renderings in the RSV and similar translations as objectionable or heterodox in their abandonment of historical Christian, especially Protestant, interpretation and exegesis, along with the objections of translators who found them inadequate: these changes, incorporated in to subsequent versions such as the NRSV as well, were interpreted as implicitly denying prophecy of Christ throughout the Old Testament.
This was seen in passages such as a short and incomplete listing is provided here:
Genesis 1:1–3: “In the beginning God created… the Spirit of God was moving…” In many modern translations 1:1 is rendered as a dependent temporal clause, implying that matter is co-eternal with God, along with the reference to the Spirit being removed in 1:3.
Genesis 3:15: the protevangelium. The sensus plenior is lost and Messianic interpretation precluded by using “‘singular’ they” as in NRSV.
The “seed promises” of Genesis (which, in the RSV, were translated as “descendants”, precluding the possibility of a fulfillment in an individual; ESV translates “offspring”).
Psalm 1: Messianic interpretation precluded by “singular they”.
Psalm 2:11–12: Understanding “bar” to be an Aramaism meaning “Son”; traditional Protestant rendering and more forceful Messianic prophecy.
Psalm 16:10: Rendering “will not… see death” or “…the pit” as in RSV, NRSV, REB precludes Messianic interpretation. Rendered in ESV as “will not let your Holy One see corruption”, as interpreted by Luke when writing Acts;
Isaiah 7:14: Messianic interpretations are precluded by interpreting almah as “young woman” and translating accordingly as in RSV, NRSV, REB, also contradicting both Matthew’s and Luke’s interpretation of the passage and thus speaking against Biblical inspiration;
Hosea 6:6: Rendered in RSV and NRSV as “I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice”; quoted by Jesus in a Dominical saying as “I desire mercy and not sacrifice” in Matthew 9:13.
The ESV restored the majority of these traditional renderings, for example, the translation of the Hebrew almah (maiden) in Isaiah 7:14 from “young woman” (RSV, NRSV, REB, NAB) to the traditional rendering of “virgin” (ESV, NASB, NIV, supported by LXX, VG).
The language was modernized to remove archaic pronouns (“thee”, “thou”) and their corresponding verbs (“didst”, “speaketh”) which the RSV had maintained in passages the translators considered to refer to God (which proponents of historical Christian interpretation also objected to, as archaic verbiage was not retained when addressing Christ, which was interpreted as an implicit denial of Christ’s divinity; also, breaking with tradition, the RSV did not capitalize passages of the Old Testament that have been traditionally interpreted as prophecies of Christ), to remove obsolete words (e.g., “jug” for “cruse”), and to introduce a moderate amount of horizontal gender-neutral language.
It just makes me wonder about the authenticity of the current scripture, I will advise you if you cant read arabic, perhaps get an english translation of Qura’n and read. P.S. Qura’n dont have any version it is in its pure form since prophet Mohammad pbuh.
When I lived in the Navajo nation I was called “Who smiles like a bear”
:-]
wow thats great bear smile i love that. I wonder what i would be named..
I love the nation of the native..:)
I have learned a new word: freshet. (and not to be funny, but it is very fresh!) Love the quote. I grew up in MT, and have a special place in my heart for the Native American.
Thats very nice in heart…:) try to fight with them for their rights you heart will be more pleased
And still today no lessons have been learnd!
yes i agree..:)
Which nation is your fatherland, and who’s threatening to take it? Or do you just like the quote?
As you asked the question, I am just wondering does it make much of difference to you??? either someone had taken my fathersland or perhaps just words.
i see.
sorry didnt get what is; i see???
i understand.
salaamu alaikum,
Such a terrible thing that we do to one another; when we see ourselves as better than…anyone or anything else. I pray that one day we will see that the true injustice was created by us.
Peace to you,
L.M. Young
Walykum salam, Those days are not far I assure you that. What goes around comes around…