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The national team of South Africa is called, “Bafana Bafana” which is translated as “the Boys”! South Africa have lately been beaten by anyone who so happened to wander on a field after the 1996 showing where the country was a feared competitor! With players like Ronaldino and Kaka on their way here what chance do we stand against the most talented in the world? I personally think we have a great chance! Let me tell you why.
Trajan (AD 98 – 117) was a Roman Emperor in the time of Nerva, Hadrian, and the two Antonines. The relatively peaceful reign of Nerva was short-lived when Trajan took the throne. Trajan was a neurotic fearful person and had a deep fear of secret societies which were common place with the Heretics, Pagans and many other Gnostic groups vying for power. He feared the political opposition such secret organizations potentially could develop and therefore banned all clubs and associations. Read the rest of this entry »
Dan Brown was completely confused in his writings on the early history of Christianity. What he did not realise was that there was a lot of resistance to the Word and that many developed there own views and so the Heretics became a massive movement as did the Pagans who held to the traditional beliefs of the Roman empire with the many Gods for all purposes. Read the rest of this entry »
In Acts 24 it speaks of Paul being taken in front of the Governor Felix by Ananias, the high priest and Tertullus which the Bible says was a gifted speaker. After years Festus moved on and a new Governor, Felix sat over the lot of Paul. Because Paul was a Roman he had the right to declare his defence to the King and so it was that even King Agrippa had the Gospel laid out by none less than Paul himself. In fact Acts records Agrippa as saying, “Act 26:28 And Agrippa said to Paul, A little more and you will be making me a Christian.” Do not think this is a compliment or indication that he was believing. It was a statement of scorn! History shows Agrippa as a man without morals. Read the rest of this entry »
In the town of Smyrna, Asia Minor a true believer by the name of Polycarp led the Christian believers. The local Pagan priests were concerned as, “The Christians make a laughing stock of us as we can hardly assemble a handful at our temples”! The complaints continued that it was not only the converted Christians who were staying away, but even those not yet converted are “wondering about the powers of our Gods and whether our idols are fake!” Read the rest of this entry »
To answer this question one must first define “real love”! The fact that it is called “real” love indicates there must also be something which is not real! What is not real love then?
False love is any activity that has a benefit to the one giving “love”. This is over simplifying but in the space for a blog we cannot go into detail! What I mean is that if you give something like a gift to someone you care about with the expectation that they will respond in any specific manner, that is not true love! You will argue that you simply expect certain courtesies! Yes I know, but the fact that you initiate an action with a certain expectation makes it manipulation and not love. Read the rest of this entry »
