"... OUR GENERATION IS VERY SKEPTICAL...HOWEVER THE SCIENTISTS THEMSELVES FIND NO EXPLANATION FOR SO MANY THINGS...
IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR VOICE IS TRANSPORTED THROUGH MILES AND MILES AWAY THROUGH A CELL PHONE, WHICH IS BY ITSELF A SMALL MIRACLE, IN A MATTER OF SECONDS FROM TOKIO TO LISBON WHY RESIST TO THE IDEA OF AN EXISTING GOD?! THE SAME WAY YOU DONT SEE YOUR VOICE TRAVELLING THROUGH SPACE IN SECONDS FROM MILES AWAY, YOU MAY NOT SEE GOD BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN HE DOESN`T EXIST!
I AM CHRISTIAN, TRY TO BE AT LEAST, AND DESPITE NOT HAVING EVERYTHING EASY AND ROSY IN LIFE ALL THE TIME, BELIEVING IN GOD REALLY HELPS! HE MEANS CONSOLATION AND HOPE FOR MANY, AN UNCONDITIONAL LOVE LIKE NO OTHER WE CAN EXPERIENCE OR FIND ANYWHERE ELSE! SOMETIMES NOT EVEN IN A MOTHER OR FATHER (FOR THERE ARE SOME NOT SO GOOD EXAMPLES WE HAVE SEEN OR HEARD ABOUT...).

THE SON OF A HUMBLE CARPENTER OF GALILEE / ISRAEL BECAME THE PILLAR OF THE WORLD`S MOST PROFESSED RELIGION! THIS IS IN ITSELF A MIRACLE! FOR THIS WAS NOT COMMON AT ALL! THE PROOF FOR THAT, IS THAT HE WAS HUMILIATED AND SEEN AS INSAINE FOR HIS CLAIMS AND WORDS, NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF THOSE WORDS, BUT EXACTLY BECAUSE OF BEEING ONLY THE SON OF A CARPENTER...

BUT A MADMAN DOESN`T RAISE SOMEONE FROM THE DEAD , ESPECIALLY IF HAS BEEN DEAD FOR 3 DAYS) (AND ALLREADY SMELLING BAD) AND DOESN`T HEAL BLIND BORN PEOPLE!

HIS STORY WOULN`T GO AROUNG THE WORLD FOR 2009 YEARS WITHOUT SOME OF THESE AMAZING DEEDS.



MANY MIGHT SAY: «IT`S ALL JUST A LEGEND, A MYTH, BULLSHIT FROM SUPERSTITIOUS PEOPLE...» NOT QUITE SO!

MANY ALSO SAY:
«HE JUST FAINTED OR PRETENDED TO BE DEAD»... A SWOON THEORY THAT ALONG WITH THE PRETENDING TO BE DEAD THEORY , ARE SWEEPED AWAY BY AN ARTICLE FROM THE J.A.M.A. THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL THAT WROTE AN ARTICLE ON THE SUBJECT. IF HE DID BOTH, HE REALLY WOULD DIE!

IT IS NOT ONLY ON THE GOSPELS OF THE BIBLE THAT WE CAN READ ABOUT JESUS LIFE, WORDS AND SIGNS! I GIVE YOU SEVERAL NAMES (BUT NOT ALL, THERE ARE MORE) OF «INDEPENDENT» TESTEMONIES OUTSIDE THE BIBLE:

«...The notes of Josephus. Firstly, the Jewish historian Josephus mentioned Jesus. In his notes, we can see several people from the Bible – John the Baptist, Herod, Pilate, Cyrenius, Archelaus, and the clergy of Jerusalem. He also tells us in some passages how the Sanhedrin was called together with the task of condemning “Jacob, the brother of Jesus, whom they call Christ”. He is thus referring to Jesus’ brother Jacob, the child of Mary and Joseph who was one of "the pillars" of the congregation of Jerusalem. This man was condemned by the Sanhedrin, because he followed Jesus Christ.
Also another longer statement about Jesus by Josephus has been preserved. In this, he mentions that Pilate sentenced Jesus, and he also speaks of His crucifixion and resurrection. He also mentions in an earlier passage how Jesus taught and made miracles. He also had followers:

In those days, there lived a man called Jesus, a man filled with wisdom, if He can be called man. He did some quite unbelievable things and was the teacher of all of those who gladly heard the truth. Many Jews and Greeks followed Him. He was the Christ. Provoked by our influential men, Pilate condemned Him to death on the cross. However, they who had loved him remained faithful to him. He actually appeared to them alive on the third day as the prophets sent by God prophesied about Him in thousands of marvelous prophecies. There is still a sect whose members have named themselves after him: Christians.

A Roman historian called Cornelius Tacitus is one of the people who have mentioned the death of Jesus and also the fire of Rome in 64. He mentions in his writings that Jesus died on the cross – just as is described in the Gospels – during the reign of Caesar Tiberius (14–37 A.D.) when Pontius Pilate (26–36 A.D.) was a judge. He also points out that the Christian faith spread to Rome from Judea – where it started:

A popular belief is that Caesar Nero was the one who started the fire. To silence the rumor, he accused a sect called the Christians of this crime. They were commonly shunned because of their customs and services. The name had been given to them because of a certain Christ, whom the procurator Pontius Pilate condemned and nailed on the cross during the reign of Tiberius. This dangerous sect, whom I have described earlier, has not only been rooted in Judea from where it has come, but also in Rome where all frightening and shameful things gather and find their home.

Thallus, a Samaritan by birth, has also mentioned Jesus. He says in his historical book written in approximately 52 A.D. that the darkness that fell at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus was caused by an eclipse of the Sun.

In the Talmud, we can find several passages that are consistent with the Gospels. We are told how Jesus was known by the name of Jesus the Nazarene; He said that He had not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it; He mocked the teachers who interpreted the law like Pharisees; His miracles were explained to be sorcery (this can also be found in the Gospels when the Pharisees accused Jesus) and it was also said that Jesus misled people; He was crucified on Easter Eve as an instigator of people; He had five disciples; the disciples preached the teachings of Jesus to others; His disciples healed the sick in His name but nobody could seek safety in them even when faced with death.

Roman Suetonius, who was a contemporary of the historian Tacitus, also refers to Jesus. In The Life of Caesar, he talks about Caesar Claudius (the Caesar in 41–54 A.D.) and Jesus. He, as Tacitus, says how the Christian faith had already reached Rome by then but that Claudius had banished the Jews because so many of them believed in Christ (compare Acts 18:2: “And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came to them.…”):

Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome, since they had become a permanent source of disorder because of Christ.

Elsewhere in his book, Suetonius talks about the persecution of the Christians by Caesar Nero (the Caesar during in 54–68 A.D.). He tells how in the 50s and 60s the message of Jesus was still quite new:

During his (Nero’s) reign, many malpractices were punished severely and banned, and as many new laws were regulated. (…) The targets of the punishment were Christians, people who belonged to the new and wicked cult.

Plinius Secundus, who is generally known as Plinius the Younger, a contemporary of Tacitus and Suetonius (61–120 A.D.), also mentioned Jesus. In a letter to Caesar Trajanus he speaks about the Christians and their services:

They had a custom of assembling on a specific day before daybreak to sing praise to Christ, quite like to the king, and they swore that they would not join in any criminal activities, steal, rob, or commit adultery, neither would they betray anyone’s confidence or refuse to give money back to those who had entrusted it to their care. When they had done this, they broke up and later assembled again for a common meal, but the food was quite ordinary and harmless.

Plinius described spreading of the Gospel in his long letter. He also mentions the above-mentioned (cf. the notes of Tacitus and Suetonius regarding the same issue) fact of how the Gospel had spread to the kingdom of Rome:

The faith that spreads like an epidemic has spread to the towns and small villages, emptying the temples of idols.

One possible reference to Jesus is a letter written by Syrian Mara Ben-Serapion. It has been estimated that it was written a few years after the destruction of Jerusalem (70 A.D.). In the beginning of this letter, he speaks of the murders of Socrates and Pythagoras, and after those about the king of the Jews and his death. The identity of this wise king is not mentioned, but Jesus could fit the description:

How did it benefit the Athenians to kill Socrates, especially as it was later revenged by famine and an epidemic? What good did it do the residents of Samos to burn Pythagoras at the stake, since it resulted in all of their country being covered in sand in a second? Or the Jews to kill their wise king since after that, they have been without a kingdom? God justly revenged the death of these three wise men: the Athenians died of hunger, the people of Samos did not get help when the sea covered them, and the Jews were killed and driven away from their kingdom to live scattered around the world.
Socrates is not dead, thanks to Plato; Pythagoras is not dead, thanks to the statue of Hera, and neither is the wise king, thanks to the new laws he gave. (16)

The fragment of Quadratus: As we continue to examine the writings on Jesus' life on Earth, we can find one writing in the fragment of Quadratus. He was an influential person in the beginning of the second century and prepared an apology for the Caesar, writing about Christianity. He told the Ceasar about Jesus who had healed and raised people from the dead, some of whom were still alive:

The acts of our Savior were always there to be seen because they were real. There were people who were healed and people who had been risen from the dead. We not only saw how they were healed or raised from the dead, but they were always present when the Savior lived here on Earth, and also after He left. They lived on earth for a long time and a few of them are still alive these days...» (TAKEN FROM AN INDEPENDENT AND SCIENTIFICAL WEBSITE).



The Biblical account...


That there was a darkness lasting three hours during the crucifixion is recorded in three of the Gospels. They read as follows:


Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
Mark 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

Luke 23:44-48 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
47 Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
48 And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.


We see then that there were three hours of darkness which occurred while Jesus Christ hung on the cross. The time was from noon until 3:00 P.M. According to the account in Luke, the darkness and the earthquake that ended it (Matthew 27:54) were so impressive that the centurion in charge of the crucifixion glorified God, and all the people showed signs of remorse and fear.
An eclipse?


In true humanist style, men have proposed a natural cause for this darkness. No natural cause is indicated by the text, particularly the coincidence of the end of the darkness and the earthquake. The most common naturalistic explanation is that the darkness was caused by an eclipse of the sun.

This speculation is too easy to refute. The passover, which is the time when Jesus was crucified, occurs at full moon, when the earth is between the moon and the sun. An eclipse of the sun can only occur when the moon is between the earth and the sun. Yet I've even seen astronomers try to date the eclipse by computing when such an eclipse might be visible at Jerusalem.

The final nail in the eclipse's coffin is that a naturally occurring eclipse of the sun can last at most about seven and a half minutes, a far, far cry from three hours. One may, of course, charge the Bible with an error, that it exaggerated the duration of the eclipse, and such has been done by some, but reason says it cannot be an eclipse of the sun for such would have been a miracle greater than Joshua's long day or Hezekiah's sign, when the sun went back 10 degrees (lengthening that day by forty minutes). For this to have been an eclipse of the sun, the moon would have to perform a quantum jump of half a million miles, stop its orbital motion, and stay in front of the sun for three hours. Then it had to jump back to where it should have been had it never jumped to cover the sun. As P.T. Barnum reputedly said, there's one born every minute.

Reports of Pontius Pilate to Augustus and to Tiberius


Now when he was crucified, there was darkness over all the world, and the sun was obscured for half a day, and the stars appeared, but no luster was seen in them; and the moon lost its brightness, as though tinged with blood; and the world of the departed was swallowed up; so that the very sanctuary of the temple, as they call it, did not appear to the Jews themselves as their fall, but they perceived a chasm in the earth, and the rolling successive thunders.


Now when he was crucified darkness came over all the world; the sun was altogether hidden, and the sky appeared dark while it was yet day, so that the stars were seen, though still they had their luster obscured, wherefore, I suppose your excellency is not unaware that in all the world they lighted their lamps from the sixth hour until evening. And the moon, which was like blood, did not shine all night long, although it was at the full, and the stars and Orion made lamentation over the Jews because of the transgression committed by them.5

To the aforementioned problems we may now add the fanciful ending in which a constellation, the model of Nimrod, Orion, (which would have been visible in the easter sky at the time) is said to lament the Jews. The Jews call him Kesil, the fool. Would he lament if he could?
Phlegon


Philopon6 and Origen7 draw from Phlegon's Olympiads (written A.D. 138) an account of the darkness of the crucifixion. Phlegon was a Greek astronomer. Origen's quote is the best documented and quite similar to Philopon's:


That heathen author, in treating of the fourth year of the two hundred second Olympiad, which is supposed to be the year in which our Lord was crucified, tells us “That the greatest eclipse of the sun which was ever known to happened then; for the day was so turned into night that the stars in the heavens were seen.”

To this account, Philopon adds that “this is shown by the historical account itself of Tiberius Caesar,” suggesting that a Roman account exists.
The Acts of Pilate


Justin Martyr also referred to The Acts of Pilate which was forged by the Jews to deny the deity of Jesus Christ. Despite that, they bore witness that darkness did indeed accompany the crucifixion.

-Thallus
-Eusebius (speaks of the darkness and earthquake during Jesus crucifixion)

There are other names though, but don`t wanna get the blog too long.




THIS ARE EXTRA-BIBLICAL SOURCES, NON-CHRISTIAN (AT FIRST, FOR SOME, NOT ALL) THEY ARE EITHER ROMAN, JEW OR GENTILES (NON RELIGIOUS) PEOPLE. AND THESE ARE JUST A FEW.

IN SOME JESUS IS REFERED TO AS A «MAGIC» PERFORMER, AMAZING SIGNS PERFORMER...THAT WAS THE WORD FOR THE MIRACLES APPLIED TO THESE SIGNS (THERE WASN`T ANOTHER YET).


THE EARTHQUAKE OF JESUS TIME OF DEATH IS REFERRED BUT ALSO THE RIPPING OF THE TEMPLE WALLS IN TWO SLICES AS JESUS HIMSELF HAD PREDICTED!


HE WAS ALSO DESCRIBED BY IMPARTIAL SOURCES AS A WISE AND GOOD MAN.


MIRACLES STILL TAKE PLACE IN CURRENT TIMES...

LOOK ON YOUTUBE FOR : "HOLLY FIRE ON EASTER" ...AMAZING SPONTANEOUS FIRE, THAT BREAKS OUT FROM SOLID ROCK ON THE HOLLY SEPULCHER PLACE, A STRANGE FIRE THAT, AS YOU CAN SEE ON YOUTUBE, DOES NOT BURN OR SET ANYTHING OR ANYONE ON FIRE, EVEN IF YOU TRY!

SOLID ROCK STATUES OF HOLLY MARY THAT OPEN AND CLOSE THEIR EYES TO ALL PEOPLE PRESENT, IN FRONT OF PEOPLE AND CAMERAS, WHOSE GARMENTS WAVE IN THE WIND AS IF THEY WERE TEXTILE MADE! YOU CAN SEE IT IN YOUTUBE (SOME).

VISIT SANTARÉM / PORTUGAL AND THE LOCAL CHURCH OF «THE HOLLY MIRACLE». AMAZING STORY OF A MIRACLE WITNESS BY MANY LOCALS AT THE TIME OF THE EVENT AND PASSED DOWN THROUGH GENERATIONS. THE STORY GOES LIKE THIS:
A LONG TIME AGO A WOMAN, WHOSE HUSBAND WAS CHEATING ON HER WITH ANOTHER WOMAN, LOOKED FOR A WITCH TO PERFORM AN EVIL WITCHCRAFT TO HOLD HER HUSBAND...
THE WITCHES, THOSE EVIL CREATURES, ASKED HER TO KEEP AND BRING HER THE HOLLY HOST INSTEAD OF TAKING AND SWALLOW IT AS IT WAS SUPPOSED TO.
SHE DID SO, BUT ON HER WAY HOME THE HOST HIDDEN UNDER HER HEAD HANDKERCHIEF OR VEIL STARTED BLEEDING PROFUSELY...WHEN SHE WAS ALERTED TO THE FACT BY LOCALS PASSING BY, SHE GOT TERRYFIED AND PLACED IT IN AN ARK, HIDDEN FROM ANY EYE WITNESS.
DURING THE NIGHT SHE NOTICED A LIGHT COMING FROM THE ARK. SHE OPPENED IT AND, TO HER SURPRISE, THERE SHE SAW THAT THE HOST WAS NOW ENCAPSULATED IN A KIND OF WAX WHILE SHE WAS AWARE OF THE FACT THAT NOBODY COULD POSSIBLY KNOW ABOUT HER SECRET, WHERE SHE HAD HIDDEN THE HOST, OR ENTERED HER HOUSE BY NIGHT...AND WHAT ABOUT THE STRANGE LIGHT COMING FROM THE ARK? THE HOLLY HOST CONFIRMED ITSELF AS TRULY HOLLY!!! AND BOTH THE SCANDAL AND GOD`S DECEPTION WERE KNOW ETERNALIZED IN WAX! BY BECOMING THE STORY KNOWN BY NEIGHBORS AND PRIESTS THE WOMAN SUBMITED HERSELF TO PUBLIC SHAME, BUT THE SECRET WAS SIMPLY TO BIG TO KEEP IT TO HERSELF. SO, UNDOUBTLY THIS STORY IS COMPLETLY REAL!
THERE ARE MANY PROOFS OF MIRACULOUS CURES, THESE DAYS, ANALIZED TO THE DETAIL BY DOCTORS THAT END UP GIVING UP ON ANY LOGICAL EXPLANATION.


JESUS CAME TO MANKIND AS A RENEWED HOPE AND NEW WAY OF LIFE, AS THEY SAY IN THEOLOGY : FOR US TO BE BORN AGAIN!
HOW ABOUT YOU? WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?...»
RELIGION HAS ALLWAYS BEEN A TABOO SUBJECT...WHY? IAM AMONG THOSE WHO SAY: «IT IS FORBIDDEN TO FORBIDE!» TO ME THERE ARE NO FORBIDDEN THREADS!


MORE THAN THAT:

ONE OF THE MANY REASONS (OR EXCUSE) THAT PEOPLE FIND TO LEAVE GOD OUT OF THEIR DAY TO DAY LIVES IS THE FACT THAT THERE IS SO MUCH PAIN AND SUFFERING IN THE WORLD (THAT NONE OF US SHOULD EVEN DARE TO JUDGE OR ASSUME WE KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE). BUT DIDN`T JESUS SUFFERED HIMSELF TOO? SUFFERING TO SAY THE LEAST, FOR HE KNEW PAIN INSIDEOUT!
HE WENT THROUGH ALL KIND OF SUFFERING ANYONE COULD PASS THROUGH: HUMILIATION,PREJUDICE,DECEPTION AND A VIOLENT AND EXTREMELY PAINFULL DEATH!
DYING ON THE CROSS WAS NO SWEET CAKE, AND HE REFUSED THOSE DAYS ANALGESICS: WINE WITH MYHRR . ALL THE PAIN WAS REDEMPTION FOR US SINNERS! HE DID NOT WANTED TO BE SPARED.

WHAT LEGITIMACY WOULD A GOD HAVE IF HE JUST SET ON HIS THRONE COMFORTABLY WATCHING US LIKE CHARACTERS FROM A A HUGE «BIG BROTHER» REALITY SHOW? JUST THERE TO JUDGE US IN THE END?! JESUS CAME AMONG US, MADE HIMSELF POOR AND HUMBLE, CHOOSED TO GO THROUGH SUFFERINGS LIKE ANY COMMON MORTAL PERSON, TO NOT ONLY FULLY UNDERSTAND US AND OUR WEAKNESSES AND DOUGTS, BUT TO SERVE, RATHER THAN TO BE SERVED, AND THAT IS THE NOBLE MAJESTY OF GOD! HE DISCLAIMED A LIFE ON LUXURY AND POWER TO END UP IN THE CROSS! IT IS REFERED SEVERAL TIMES IN THE BIBLE THAT JESUS DIDN`T TOOK ANY MONEY FROM OFFERINGS FOR HIMSELF: «GIVE IT TO THE POOR!» HE SAID!
WHAT KIND OF CHEATER OR VIGAR WOULD DYE FOR A LIE WITHOUT HOPE OF MORTAL GLORY, BECAUSE HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS GETTING HIMSELF INTO, FOR ALL JEWS FEARED THE PHARISEANS, AND THEREFORE, UNLIKE JESUS, THEY PREFERED A LOW PROFILE, A POLITICALLY CORRECT APPROACH TO THEM. WHILE JESUS WAS KIND OF PROVOCATIVE, BECAUSE LIKE HE SAID HIMSELF: «... IF THE EARTH SALT IS INSALUBRIOUS, WHAT WILL YOU SALT THE EARTH WITH?»...

COURAGE WAS NEEDED TO A «CHANGE FOR BETTER» TIMES!!!

WHAT GOOD WOULD POWER AND GLORY DO TO A DEAD MAN? SO WHAT MAKES HIM INTO A VIGAR OR CHEATER?
THE APOSTLES (OR ALLEGED ACCOMPLICES, IN THE WORDS OF SOME SKEPTICS...) FOLLOWED HIM BOTH IN LIFE AS IN DEATH! WHAT KIND OF CHEATER IS WILLING TO DIE FOR A LIE? NORMALLY THEY HAVE A QUITE COWARDLY TEMPER...
SO MANY FACED THE LIONS IN THE CIRCUS OF ROME FOR A LIE? WERE THEY ACCOMPLICES TOO? TO RISK TO FACE THE LIONS FOR A LIE IS ABSURD! AND WITH SUCH CERTAINTY AND WITH UNWAVERING DETERMINATION!

IT IS A HUGE DEFEAT FOR SATAN THAT USES FEAR AS A WEAPON TO MISLEAD PEOPLE AND GUIDE THEM TO WHERE HE WANTS...BUT THEY HAVE THE FREE WILL OF CHOSING THEIR WAY...


AND HOW THESE PEOPLE ARE ADMIRED AND RESPECTED FOR THEIR DIGNITY AND COURAGE! I ADMIRE THEM ALL TREMENDOUSLY! DONT YOU? DOESN`T EVERYBODY?

SPEAKING OF SATAN, DOES HE EXIST? SOME OF THE VATICAN`S ARCHIVES MIGHT SOMEHOW SUPPORT HIS EXISTENCE...IF YOU NOTICE EVERYTHING HAS TWO SIDES: CAOS AND ORDER, LIGHT AND DARKNESS,...GOOD AND EVIL...BUT ITS A COMMON UNCONCIOUS MAYBE, ERROR, THAT THERE IS A SPIRITUAL FIGHT BETWEEN TITANS ON OPPOSITE BARRICADES: GOD ON ONE SIDE AND SATAN ON THE OTHER. BUT WHO OR WHAT IS SATAN?

HE USED TO BE A GOD`S FAITHFULL ANGEL. ONE DAY HE FELT ENVY OF PEOPLES LOVE TO GOD AND WANTED GLORY FOR HIMSELF, NOT A GLORY OF KINDNESS AND MERCY, BUT OF VANITY AND SIMPLE DESIRE FOR POWER! HE BECAME A FALLEN ANGEL, ONCE CREATED BY GOD, BUT THAT BETRAILED HIM AND STARTED SEEKING TO MISLEAD PEOPLE WITH TEMPTATIONS FOR EVIL, AND SPIRITUAL OR MORAL TRAPS TO MAKE PEOPLE TURN THEIR BACK ON GOD, SO THIS IS WHAT SATAN IS DESCRIBED AS EVEN IN WIKIPEDIA.
A FRENCH FRIAR CALLED BARTHOLOMEO DEFINED SATAN BETTER THAN ANYONE:
«...SATAN IS LIKE A DOG HELD BY HIS LEASH , HE MAY BARK OR TERRIFY, BUT, CANT DO MUCH HARM FOR GOD OWNS HIM, AND IT IS THE DOG`S OWNER THAT IS IN CHARGE OF THE DOG, AND HOLDS HIM BY THE LEASH AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!», «PUT ON GOD`S ARMOUR, TRUST HIS JUSTICE, SENSE OF JUSTICE, THE LOVE HE HAS FOR US, AND FEAR NO MORE» THATS THE CONCLUSION TO THE DOG ANALOGY.

OF COURSE THERE IS MUCH SUFFERING IN THE WORLD! BUT IT REDEEMS AND SANCTIFIES ASWELL, THAT IS WHY JESUS CALLS THEM BLESSED, BECAUSE IF JESUS LOVES US ALL, HE LOVES THEM IN A VERY ESPECIAL WAY. THE WAY WE DEAL WITH SUFFERING CAN REDEEM AND SANCTIFY EVEN MORE! THIS LIFE IS A CASTING FOR THE TRUE ETERNAL LIFE, GOD IS OUR CONSOLATION AND HOPE, AND CAN BE OUR BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT MAYBE EVEN THE ONLY ONE ALL THINGS CONSIDERED ON A BRIEFING OF OUR, SOMETIMES, STUPID LIVES!!! TO HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF BEEING CALLED HIS FRIENDS, HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS LIKE HE SAID! NOT BY FAKE LOVE, OR FORCING OUR NATURE TO BECAME PLASTICAL AND FORGERIES OF GOOD CHRISTIANS...BUT LEARN TO LOVE WITH TIME.
SATAN CAN TRY PEOPLE WITH EVIL AND TEMPTATIONS OF EVERY KIND BUT GOD GAVE US FREE WILL TO CHOOSE OUR WAYS. THOSE WHO LOVE DONT FORCE AND COMMAND, IF GOD STROKE US WITH A LIGHTNING FOR A DESOBIEDIENCE, OR DIDN`T CONCEIVE OF BEEING DISOBEYED IT WOULD BE SELF LOVE, PRIDE OR SOME SORT OF VANITY MAYBE...(MAY GOD FORGIVE MY CLUMSY WORDS).

INSTEAD HE PROPOSES THAT WE MAY CHOOSE! BECAUSE WE ARE NOT PUPPETS IN A PUPPET SHOW HANDLED BY OUR STRINGS,HE PREFERS TO BE CHOSEN, TO BE FOLLOWED ON OUR OWN FREE WILL, WITH HEART AND SOUL! AS TRUELY FREE BEEINGS! WE ARE GIVEN ARGUMENTS THAT HAVE AUTHORITY AND STRENGHT IN THEMSELVES, NOT COMMANDS!

WHENEVER WE IGNORE TEMPTATION FOR EVIL AND CHOOSE TO DO THE RIGHT THING WE BOTH CONFIRM OURSELVES AS FREE MEN AND WOMEN, AND MAKE OUR CHOICES BY HEART, I THINK GOD GETS VERY HAPPY AT US THEN! THERE IS A BEAUTIFULL SENTENECE IN THE BIBLE THAT SAYS: «WHENEVER A SINNER REPENTS AND REDEEMS HIMSELF ANGELS REJOICE AND CELEBRATE IN HEAVEN» THEY MAKE A PARTY, THE LOVING ONES!!! A BIG PARTY! HOW CUTE AND SWEET IS THAT?
THERE ARE MANY MISERABLE LIVES ON THIS PLANET:
A FATHER THAT RAPES HIS DAUGHTER LIVING HER WOUNDS FOR HER LIFETIME, DIFFICULT, IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO HEAL...
PEOPLE WHO GREW UP IN ORPHANAGES WITHOUT ANY VISITORS, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOBODY TO CARE FOR THEM, ALONE IN THE WORLD AS THEY SEEM TO BE...
THE GRIEF OF HOMELESS PEOPLE WHO LOST EVERYTHING, EVEN HOPE, AND IMMERSE INTO SORROW AND WINE TILL THEY GET TOO DRUNK TO REMEMBER ANYTHING.

WHAT SENSE WOULD THEIR LIVES MAKE WITHOUT A FINAL COMFORT, CONSOLATION AND HOPE?
«I CAME SO THAT NO LIFE IS LOST» SAID JESUS! NO MATTER HOW SMALL AND INSIGNIFICANT THAT LIFE MAY LOOK FROM THE OUTSIDE VIEWER!

THAT GIRL WASN`T RAPED BY GOD...BUT BY HER FATHER! GOD LOVES US, IT IS WE THAT USUALLY HATE AND HARM EACH OTHER!!! AND IT`S EASIER TO BLAME GOD FOR EVERYTHING...



HOW ABOUT THOSE WHO WERE BORN BLIND?
I KNOW MANY CASES OF BLIND PEOPLE WHO LIVE A NORMAL LIFE, HAVE CHILDREN, AND LAUGH, AND MAKE JOKES AND BELIEVE IN GOD FROM ALL THEIR HEARTS.
JOE BERARDO, A RICH PORTUGUESE BUSINESS MAN, WAS RAISED BY A BLIND MOTHER. ONE DAY HE ASKED HER: «MOM, YOU ARE BLIND AND YET YOU BELIEVE IN GOD! WHY?« SHE ANSWERED: «GOD CHOOSES HIS FRIENDS TO SET UP THE EXAMPLE». JOE WAS AMAZED AT THE ANSWER BUT IN FACT THE WAY PEOPLE LIVE A HONORED LIFE AND ACCEPT DIFFICULT LOADS, MAKES THIS PEOPLE HIS FRIENDS, I WOULD SAY, CLOSE FRIENDS, OF GOD. AND THERE IS A HUGE HONOUR IN IT!
AND MANY BLIND PEOPLE HAVE A HUGE FAITH AND LOVE FOR GOD! EVER HEARD OF THE PORTUGUESE SAINT OF OF BALAZAR? SHE HAS A REMARKABLE LIFESTORY!

WHEN SHE WAS A TEENAGER SHE HAD TO RUN FROM A VICIOUS MAN THAT MADE AN ATTEMPT TO RAPE HER. SHE FELL BADLY AND BECAME PARAPLEGIC OR TETRAPLEGIC, IM NOT SURE. EITHER WAY SHE WAS FORCED TO A LIFETIME CONFINED TO A BED. CONFINED IN BODY, BECAUSE HER SOUL WAS AS FREE AS THE WIND!
SHE COULD HAVE FELL INTO ANOTHER KIND OF TRAP: ANGER AGAINST GOD...AND YET, SHE LOVED JESUS NOW MORE THAN EVER! SHE HELD ON TO HIM! WHAT A DEFEAT SHE INFLICTED ON SATAN, THAT ALSO USES ANGER AND UNJUSTICE ARGUMENTS TRYING TO TAKE HIS PROFIT ON THE OPORTUNITY .
IS THIS OPPINION BIZARRE OR CRUEL? MAY SOUND AS SUCH, BUT LIFE IS A CASTING FOR THE REAL LIFE IN FULL LOVE AND WITH HOPE AND CONSOLATION IN GOD.



THERE IS A PART OF THE BIBLE THAT THEOLOGISTS OFTEN FORGET BUT ITS IMPORTANT! AND GOES LIKE THIS:

IN A CERTAIN TIME JESUS WAS LEAD TO THE DESERT TO BE TORMENTED (NOT TEMPTED, BECAUSE GOD IS THE SO CALLED «NIRVANA», THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION AND MEAN EARTHLY THINGS DO NOT TEMPT HIM AT ALL. THERE SATAN IS DEFEATED ALLREADY BEFORE DEPARTURE INTO SURROUNDING JESUS...

AT A CERTAIN POINT, AFTER SHOWING HIM HOW, FOR MANY, HIS SACRIFICE WAS USELESS, SATAN SHOWS HIM ALL THE EARTHS KINGDOMS AND LUXURY AND POWER HE CAN ACHEIVE:
«ALL OF THIS CAN BE YOURS: ALL THE KINGDOMS OF EARTH, ALL THE POWER, THE LUXURY, THE GLORY, YOU JUST HAVE TO BEND OVER ME...BENS AT MY FEET FOR ONCE...»
JESUS REFUSED! IF HE ACCEPTED HE WOULD BE CONDEMNING US TO ETERNAL DOOM, TO EFECTIVE DEATH! AS WE WOULD BE EMERGED INTO SELFISHNESS, VANITY, AND OUT OF REAL, FULLMEANING LOVE: GOD`S BIGGEST TREASURE, THE ONLY WORTHY OF EFFORT!

THERE ARE OTHER LINES ON THE BIBLE EQUALLY BEAUTIFUL AND ENLIGHTENING:

«...BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO CRY, FOR THEY SHALL BE CONSOLED...» IN THE BEAUTIFULL SERMON OF THE MOUNTAIN.


THE LOVE OF GOD FOR US AND OF HIS SON JESUS IS SO ENOURMOUS AND ILIMITATED THAT GOD DELIVERS HIS CHILD TO SUFFERING IN UNJUSTICE AND PAINFULL DEATH AS A COMMON CRIMINAL ON THE CROSS, BEEING INNOCENT, AND JESUS WHO ANTECIPATED ALL HIS SUFFERINGS AND AWARE OF THEM FACED THE SUFFERING AND DEATH OF UNIMAGINABLE PAIN AND DELIVERED HIMSELF WITH SWEAT, BLOOD AND TEARS TO GIVE US TESTIMONY THAT WE ARE NOT ALONE, A TESTIMONY OF HOPE AND ENCOURADGMENT TO LIVE AND TO LIFE! AND DO WHAT IS RIGHT WITH NO FEAR! FEAR IS A WEAPON USED BY SATAN TO BEND US !

THE LOVE OF GOD AND CHRIST HAS NO LIMITS AND SO IT IS UNCONDITIONAL : THE EXAMPLES I REFERED TO LIKE THE SAINT OF BALAZAR / PORTUGAL, SAINT PETER AND THE APOSTLES AND THE MARTYRS ARE THE EXPRESSION AND REFLECTION OF GOD`S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, CONSIDERATION, RESPECT, COURAGE AND INFINITE MERCY AND FORGIVNESS CAPACITY! THE GIVING BACK! NOT FOR PLEASING THE LORD, BUT BY REFLEXION, FROM HEART AND SOUL!


IF WE FEEL WE ARE BEEING PUNISHED SOMEHOW FOR SOMETHING HE AIMS AT TEACHING US LIKE A GOOD FATHER WOULD DO TO SET THEIR CHILDREN IN THE RIGHT TRACK! SO HE DOES IT FOR LOVE, FOR SALVATION, ELEVATION OF THE SOUL AND THE HEART:
«IF WE ARE NOT LOVED ITS SAD, BUT NOT TO LOVE IS THE SUPREME SADNESS» THIS EXPRESSION FROM A FAMOUS WRITER COULD HAVE EVEN BEEN TAKEN FROM THE HOLLY BIBLE. MOTHER THEREZA GAVE LOVE BY TONES! IF WE ARE NOT LOVED WE CAN ALLWAYS LOVE!

JESUS SAID: «I CAME SO THAT YOU HAVE LIFE AND HAVE IT IN ABUNDANCE»
THOSE WHO COMMIT SUICIDE MAY BE UNDERSTOOD AND WE MAY BE COMPASSIONATE TO THEM, EVERYBODY HAS ITS WEAKNESS MOMENTS, AND I PERSONALY UNDERSTAND THEM, BUT, THEY DO NOT FOLLOW THIS WILL OF GOD. THEY GIVE UP HOPE, AND JESUS CAME TO GIVE US HOPE. HE DEFEATED DEATH. SATAN IS DEATH, ETERNAL DEATH, EFECTIVE DEATH. IN MANY PAINTINGS, ICONES OR FRESCOS WE SEE THIS SCENE: GOD RAISING ABOVE DEATH AND DEVIL. BY FACING PAINFULL DEATH AND RAISING FROM THE DEAD HE MEANT TO GIVE US HOPE, CONSOLATION, AND CAST AWAY OUR FEARS AND DO THE RIGHT THING, THE GOOD THING AT ALL TIMES (HUMANLY POSSIBLE).

SATAN OR LIFE MAY TRY TO SET US UP, TORMENT US, BUT THERE ARE LIMITS IMPOSED BY THE DOG`S OWNER (REMEBER?), DYING ON THE CROSS AND KNOWING HE WOULD, MEANT EVERYTHING BUT GIVING UP ON US, LIVING US , ABANDONING US TO OUR (LITTLE) LUCK!

WILL WE ABANDONE HIM? ABANDONE THE ONE WHO REFUSED TO ABANDONE US EVEN IF IT MEANT HUGE SUFFERING AND FACING PAINFULL DEATH?!

GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU! GOD CAN BE LIKE A STRONG BRACH WE HOLD ON TO DURING A HURRICANE. IF WE DONT LET GO IN THE END WE MAY HAVE THE FINAL VICTORY!
HERE GOES SOME INTERESTING VIDEOS OF SOME OF THE THINGS I SPOKE ABOUT AND THEY ARE AMAZING!!!



THIS VIDEO SHOWS A SOLID ROCK STATUE OF THE VIRGIN MARY, OPENING HER EYES IN FRONT OF MANY PEOPLE, AND IT WAS RECORDED BY CAMERAS.


THIS ONE IS ALSO MADE OUT OF ROCK AND WAS VERY MUCH ANALISED, IT IS NO FORGERY...

APPARITION OF HOLLY MARY IN TURKEY.

NEXT, THREE VIDEOS OF THE HOLLY FIRE IN THE HOLLY SEPULCHER IN ISRAEL ON EASTER DAY. IT PUMPS OUT OF NOWHERE IN THE ROCK...AS YOU CAN SEE BELOW, IT DOESN`T BURN AT ALL.

AN IMAGE OF THE HOLLY MARY THAT CRIES MYHRR (NOT ENVOLVED IN THE PROCESS OF HER PRODUCTION), WHICH WAS ANALISED AND CONFIRMED AS SUCH...

A SCIENTIST EXPLAINS HOW THE RESSURETION TOOK PLACE, BECAUSE BY ANALISING THE HOLLY SHROUD OF TURIM, THE CLOTH IN WHICH JESUS WAS ENVOLVED AFTER HIS DEATH, THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF PAINTING WHATS SO EVER, AND NO EXPLANATION TO IMAGE FORMED RATHER THAT A STRANGE RADIATION COMING FROM HIS BODY, A NUCLEAR RADIATION THAT PRINTED THE IMAGE WITH CONFIRMED 2000 YEARS (TIME OF JESUS), AND THE BODY MUST HAVE CROSSED OVER THE CLOTH, THEY CANT EXPLAIN IT ANY OTHER WAY...

UNCORRUPTED BODIES OF SAINTS, YEARS, SOMETIMES CENTURIES AFTER THE BURIAL. ONE OF THEM EVEN SWEATS...IT`S TRUE! AND ONLY LIVING PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSE TO SWEAT. FATHER PIUS EXALLES A ROSED PERFUME FROM HIS BODY...HE ALSO RECEIVE GODS WOUNDS KNOWN AS STIGMATA:


A CHURCH IMAGE OF JESUS STARTED BLEEDING FROM THE WOUNDS REPRESENTED WITH NORMAL PAINT. THEY WERE ANALISED: HUMAN BLOOD, TYPE AB/ RH+
THIS IS THE TYPE OF BLOOD ALSO FOUND ON THE SHROUD OF TURIM, AND AB BLOOD WAS NOT COMMON IN EUROPE IS MORE A MIDDLE EAST BLOOD. THE IMAGE WAS BLEEDING IN FRONT OF PEOPLE...

SCIENTIST EXPLAIN WHY GOD WAS THE SOURCE OF ALL CREATION. STEPHEN HAWKING, A BRILLIANT MADE, NOBEL PRIZE, AGREES. THIS MAN HAS ONE OF THE WORLDS HIGHEST I.Q.:


THE HOST FROM SANTARÉM / PORTUGAL, ST. ALEXANDRINA DE BALAZAR AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF JESUS FACE AFTER THE SUDARIUM...