Ted Walther's Private Diary

In my diary entry last week titled A Short Defense of the Trinity, I quoted Glenn McWilliams as saying that some of the words of the Apostle Paul had been mistranslated. When properly translated, they uphold the keeping of the Torah for followers of the Christ.

Jake wrote in to say that the word ek wasn't mistranslated. I wrote back promising to contact Glenn McWilliams for clarification. Everything turned out alright. I will display our correspondance here. After our correspondance, you can read Glenn McWilliams explanation of the mistranslation of the word "ek".

From: Jacob Fronczak
To: Ted Walther
Subject: Greek prepositions

Mr. Walther,

from your diary: "The translations show that we are not justified of the works of the law. But the Greek manuscripts contain the word "ek", which means "out of". This changes Pauls position entirely; he is saying that you cannot be justified "out of" the works of the law; without the works of law, you will not be justified."

first, if memory serves, in Qumrani texts "works of the law" was not even used to refer to Torah, it was used to refer to oral law and traditions, sometimes mixed with Torah. qumran is to my knowledge the only extrabiblical source we have to determine what the phrase "works of the law" means.

second, according to Strong's, ek is "a primary preposition denoting origin."

"from," "through," "by," would all be appropriate translations in the verse you are quoting; "out of" would also work but it doesn't mean "without," it has the same meaning as it would in the phrase "out of Egypt I will call my son."

if Paul meant to say "without" he probably would have picked strong's 5565, choris, as he did in romans 3:28. "a man is justified by faith WITHOUT (choris; by itself, apart from) the deeds of the law."

From: Ted Walther
To: Jacob Fronczak
Subject: Re: Greek prepositions

Thanks Jake. I better get in touch with Glenn McWilliams and get him to clarify. I hate to teach false doctrine; it just seemed like such a beautiful way of correcting the Bible in our favor. I'll post a retraction and update if Glenn can't clarify adequately.

From: Jacob Fronczak
To: Ted Walther
Subject: Re: Greek prepositions

I think we are definitely justified apart from "works of the law" or "deeds of the law." What "works of the law" are is debatable. I don't think it's referring to Torah. Sha'ul makes it clear that the word of faith in Deuteronomy that the Israelim were to uphold is the same word of faith he was preaching. Yeshua makes it clear that those who do not believe Moses' words will not believe Messiah's.

It would definitely be easier if we could dismiss or radically reinterpret Sha'ul or Ya'acov on this matter. I like what Avi ben Mordechai said in his commentary on Galatians, though. We ought to first consider the words of YHWH as recorded by Moses, then those of the prophets (who must agree with Moses), then those of Yeshua as recorded in the Gospels (for Messiah must be in agreement with the Torah and the Nevi'im), then those three great pillars of the body of Yeshua (Cephas, Ya'acov, and Yochanan as recorded in James, 1-2-3 John, 1-2 Peter, and Acts) and then lastly Sha'ul who is the usually the hardest to understand and contextualize, especially when considered apart from the rest of the Scriptures!

Of course, Avi goes on to radically reinterpret Shaul in his commentary... sigh.

I think basically our western concept of faith is flawed. Faith is chutzpah, faith is kind of like activated belief. In Hebrews 11, never does the author say "so-and-so HAD faith and was saved." No, it was BY faith Abel OFFERED a more excellent sacrifice. BY faith Noah BUILT an ark. If Noah had "believed" but had not built the ark, would he have had faith? If someone "believes" in Messiah but refuses to obey or emulate Him, do they have faith?

Christianity tends to pit "faith plus works" against "faith without works." There is no such thing as faith without works. It is not works that justify, but faith; but one who claims to have faith but has no works, has no faith - or if he does, it is dead faith, and not by any means saving faith. According to Ya'acov, a man is not justified by faith alone, but faith is made complete by action. Works need not add anything to faith, for they complete faith. I think it is safe to assume that Biblical faith effects and includes action.

So Shaul says, May it never be that we should annul the law by our faith, but on the contrary, we establish it. But we do not place our hope in Moses, as the Perushim did. Our hope is in Messiah, in the promise to Abraham, and most of all in YHWH Himself.

The error was mine; my diary entry said that we cannot be justified without the works of the law. Glenn McWilliams did not say that. Glenn was speaking of Galatians 3:10.

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

This verse seems very confusing. First, it says that if you are doing the works of the law you are under a curse. But then right after it says that this is because everyone is cursed who does not do the works of the law! A damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.

This is where the mistranslation comes in. Jacob is correct; the best translation of the word "ek" is "from" or "out of". Let us substitute the correct translation and see what we get.

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are out of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Now it is much clearer. If you are out of the works of the law, you are under a curse. And this matches perfectly the last half of the verse, for it is written that every one is under a curse who doesn't do the things written in the law.

So, we are not justified by works of the law, but we are assuredly under a curse if we don't do what God's Law says.

After our correspondance, Jacob wrote a good Bible based definition of faith, hope, and love in his blog: Furry Curry November 28, 2006.

When Terry Pratchett's novel Monstrous Regiment came out in 2003, I did a web search. On the first page I found reference to an old essay by John Knox, one of the founders of Calvinist, predestination, Scottish Protestantism. Terry Pratchett's book is a story about a literal military regiment with a set number of soldiers and officers. In the days of John Knox, regiment meant the same thing as regime or regimen. That is, a government. You can read his article here: The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women. By reading this article you can clearly see that in 1558, the letter I and J were identical.

The second essay posted today is How Superior Powers Ought To Be Obeyed By Their Subjects: And Wherein They May Lawfully By God's Word Be Disobeyed And Resisted. Wherein also is declared the cause of all this present misery in England, and the only way to remedy the same. Written in Geneva in the year 1558 by Christopher Goodman. Christopher Goodman was a pastor at the same church as John Knox.

Both John Knox and Christopher Goodman were punished by the powers and authorities for the rest of their lives because of these two essays, both written in the year 1558.

The link to The Smoky God, by Willis George Emerson (1908) has now been fixed in the Reactor Core Reference Library.

Absolutely. It certainly does. But you have to read the Torah the way the prophets and other holy men of old did. You have to connect the commands together like pieces of lego. Many Torah keepers refuse to see connections between commands, because it lets them remain comfortable, doing things their own way. Working on the New Moon day, for instance. Or shaving their beards. Or eating mushrooms. To learn how to connect the dots, I recommend reading Incest and the Bible.

The Karaites start their year by observing "Abib", that is, when the barley crop is in a particular state of growth. Many Torah keepers have adopted this practice too.

Rich Lobert wrote this article, Choose Your Barley - The Barley/Equinox Question, Part I and Choose Your Barley - The Barley/Equinox Question, Part II.

People who start the New Year by the barley harvest are often quick to say that using the vernal equinox to determine the start of the year is "pagan astrology". If it is, then so is sighting the new moon. But keeping the new moon feast is commanded by YHWH.

Rich Lobert writes that there are many varieties of barley. Even in Israel, the domestic barley matures at a different rate than the wild barley. Would YHWH command us to use a method of time keeping that forced us to travel to Israel every year? Some varieties of barley would force us to have a 14 month year.

Although I side with the Karaites, Rich Lobert raised some important issues which urgently need answers. I encourage you all to read his article linked above.

A correction to this diary entry was posted seven days later. You can read it here: Update on the Mistranslation of the Apostle Paul

I do not accept the Church Councils or Creeds, such as the Nicene Creed or the Athanasian Creed. However the following quote needs investigation:

For instance, in regards to the deity of Christ, not only does John 1:3 and Colossians 1:16, 17 say that everything was created by Him and through Him, Isaiah 44:24 says specifically that Jehovah alone is responsible for creating the universe and that He was all by Himself when he stretched forth the heavens. Plus, Hebrews 1:10 also says that Jesus was the one who laid the foundations of the earth yet, this passage is actually a direct quote from Psalm 102 in which it is clear that it is Jehovah God who laid the foundations of the earth. Also, if we look at Matthew 26:14-16, we see that it was Jesus who was valued at 30 pieces of silver. But if we look at Zechariah 11:11-13 we see Jehovah prophetically saying, that it was He who was valued at 30 pieces of silver. And finally, Isaiah 45:23 and Romans 14:10-11 are clear that it is before Jehovah that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, and yet Philippians 2:10-11 says that it is at the name of Jesus that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess.

— Steve Berg <trinitas@aol.com>

As I found out this weekend from Glenn McWilliams, the New Testament is often translated outrageously wrong. For instance, there a couple places were Paul talks about justification by works of the law. The translations show that we are not justified of the works of the law. But the Greek manuscripts contain the word "ek", which means "out of". This changes Pauls position entirely; he is saying that you cannot be justified "out of" the works of the law; without the works of law, you will not be justified.

Steve Berg makes a good case for the Trinity. It will take some study to see if his arguments stand up to the light of investigation or if they are as phony as the translators who make Paul say that the works of the law are useless.

Jesus himself said "go thou and sin no more". Can a Christian lose their salvation? Yes, they can. Otherwise why would Paul himself have stated his own salvation to be in doubt up until the end of his life?

The Reactor Core now hosts a copy of The Book of the Courtier, by Baldessar Castilio. The book was taken from the Renascence Editions website and cleaned up a bit. Pictures were taken out, the sidenotes were removed, HTML was cleaned up, and all four books were integrated into one big page.

I heard about the book from the ONE and the MANY, by Rousas John Rushdoony. I quote his review here:

Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529), courtier, diplomat, soldier, and author, write, in The Courtier (written 1508-1516, first printed in 1528, four years before Machiavelli's The Prince), a classic statement of the ideal Renaissance man. The influence of The Courtier on European standards has been very great. Very quickly translated into English, "it became famous as the perfect guide for young members of the English Establishment practically until Edward VII's times." Castiglione himself represented the standard he taught: he "became a man of varied accomplishments, in all of which he was good but in none of which he was uncouth enough to excel." [1]

Castiglione's courtier is a man of the world, urbane, sensitive, and responsive to every wind of influential opinion and observation. He is formally for all things — church, state, family, and society — but substantially he is only for himself, not in any crude, egoistic sense, but in the sense that the true universal is not to be found in religion or in the state, but in the individual man. Similarly, he shall seek in a woman, not a particular person or gross sensual satisfaction, but again a realization of a universal…

— the ONE and the MANY, by Rousas John Rushdoony (Fairfax, Virginia: Thoburn Press, 1978), p.230.

[1] Luigi Barzini: The Italians (New York: Bantam Books, 1965), p.86.

Edward VII died in 1910. This means Castiglione's manual for surviving and staying sane was used continually by the elite classes for almost four hundred years. It might be profitable to study it.

I phoned bishop H. E. Mar Emmanuel of the Assyrian Church of the East in Canada. This church is the continuation and descendant of the original Nestorian church which spread as far as China before the time of Marco Polo.

Bishop Emmanuel was reluctant to talk on the telephone. He wanted me to send in my questions in writing. I apologized for taking up his time, and he warmed up enough to answer a couple questions.

My goal in phoning was to inquire about the status of polygamy in the Nestorian church, and to verify some claims I read elsewhere. I read over the years that the Nestorian branch of the Christian church allowed polygamy for most of its history. Bishop Emmanuel flatly denied this. I asked him if the branch of the church in India had allowed it. He also denied this.

While leading up to the polygamy question, I mentioned that the Ethiopian Orthodox church sacrifices a sheep at Easter time, and that the older ones admit to it, while the younger ones try to cover it up and deny it. Bishop Emmanuel quickly said "oh yes, we do that too!" But he quickly affirmed that the sheep were killed for a celebratory feast, and not as a sacrifice. The sheep is slaughtered in a special area outside the church. I told him that my understanding of a sacrifice is that it is a barbecue that you pray over.

A former Church of God member phoned me tonight to tell me about Torah Keepers Ministry, a Messianic group that advocates a return to Torah keeping. She said they are sending Glenn McWilliams to speak here in the Greater Vancouver area this weekend. If you want to hear Glenn speak, the address is at the corner of 83 avenue and 208 street in Langley, BC. He will be speaking Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday. Entry is free.

The Torah Keepers Ministry statement of faith is good reading. The very first item is phrased in a peculiar way. It reads: "We believe in God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit the creator, redeemer, sanctifier and sustainer of heaven and earth." This isn't the usual way of phrasing the Trinitarian doctrine. It looks as if there have been some heated arguments about the Trinity inside the Ministry. On the face, the statement is definitely trinitarian. But it is phrased ambiguously. This gives wiggle room for the non-Trinitarian believer that wants to associate himself with the Ministry. The Trinity issue can be very divisive among Torah keepers. True Torah keepers don't discriminate against others because of their trinity belief. I would like to see the Nicene and other Church creeds abolished, but until then the best we can hope for is the sort of tolerance shown by this ambiguous statement in a good organization's statement of faith.

Glenn McWilliams wrote a great article on the origins of the Messianic movement, and where it is currently going: The Great Calendar Debate. Glenn shows that the Messianic movement was originally about bringing Jews to Christ. As such, it was about letting the Jews follow all their traditions but still be Christians. Today it is mostly about goyim who want to keep Torah. The new breed of Torah keepers aren't interested in Jewish traditions when they conflict with the written Torah. And this means the newer Messianics are quick to discard the Jewish Hillel II calendar in favor of the Biblical Karaite Abib calendar, while the old-school Messianics like to emphasize their Jewishness by keeping the calendar.

I look forward to meeting Glenn. Perhaps some day Nehemiah Gordon or Ariel Lyman will make it up to this neck of the woods too.

The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love, by John Shelby Spong, is the book under review today. It is a nauseating exercise in trying to make the Bible politically correct. Spong's main technique to do this is to throw out baby and bathwater at once.

I had this book on loan from the library for four months. It took three months to read it, and another month to write this review. The book is pure Satanism. The surname "Spong" is an ancient and honored one among Anglican clergy. But Shelby shows that the Spong name rose to prominence in the Church through man-pleasing, not God pleasing. Spong has written many popular books about the Bible. He is invited to travel often and address large crowds of people with his Marcion-like view of the Bible.

Spong's book doesn't advocate burning babies. What makes it Satanic is its all out assault on the Bible. Spong presents himself as your smiling best friend, who loves the Bible just like you do. But his love of the Bible only consists of throwing away the strong meat of the word. Shelby preaches love, but neglects the importance of hating what is wrong.

Just like any Satanist, Spong knows what he is talking about. Spong does indeed know the Bible very well. But his conclusions are exactly the opposite of what they should be. He tries to convince his readers by repeating himself ad nauseum.

Every page of Shelby's book is so full of lies, I was surprised to find some bits of truth in it. But Spong only repeated those bits of truth that he thought would invalidate the Bible in peoples eyes. Spong spent three pages outlining the case that Jesus was a married man. Married to Mary Magdalene. Spong is correct; Jesus was married. Why this should weaken the credibility of the Bible is beyond me. It has always been understood that you have to study the Bible carefuly before it yields its secrets. The other bit of truth that surprised me was Spong's frank admission that the Bible teaches against Copernicus' heresy. Yes, the Bible teaches that the earth is at the center of the universe.

Spong preaches against positive institutions like slavery, spanking children, patriarchy, and in favor of gay marriage, evolution, women having the vote, and other so-called liberal perversions.

If there was ever going to be a book burning in this country, I would recommend Shelby Spong's book as the first candidate on the list.

Shelby Spong is my exact opposite; he read the Bible honestly and thoroughly, and came to the same conclusions about what it said as I did. Whereas I embrace the dark corners of the Bible, Shelby rejects the Bible in favor of his own understanding. Isn't this pure Satanism? He makes himself God, or judge, by deciding what is right or wrong.

I read the Skeptic's Annotated Bible. The atheists wrote it in an attempt to destroy peoples faith. I read it just to make sure I didn't miss any "good" bits.

John Shelby Spong is a new Marcion. Like Marcion, he convinces people to throw away the "dirty" bits of the Bible. Spong is anathema. He should be punished with the full punishment of those who try to mislead the people into following another God. The Old Testament Law, which he rejects, specifies stoning to death. And let no man pity him, for the evil he has wrought in Israel is great. Let him repent if he can.

There is no evidence from before 200 C.E. of a week that is divorced from the lunar cycle.

A couple years ago, before I started keeping the seventh day sabbath, I studied the Lunar Sabbath. I find the idea very attractive. But one little detail derailed it. The Omer Count, by which you determine Pentecost. I couldn't see any way to count 50 days from a sabbath and end up at the day after another sabbath, if you were using the lunar sabbath system. Yet this is how I thought Pentecost was to be calculated. So I set it aside for a while. Last night I sat down and read an an article called Philo and the Lunar Sabbath, published by Hope of Israel Ministries.

My eyes were opened. Philo was a Jew who was mainstream, orthodox, and accepted by his fellow Jews as a Jew in good standing. Philo lived twenty years before Jesus birth, until twenty years after. So Philo's writings about Judaism of his time apply to the Judaism practiced by Jesus and the Jews around him. Jesus parents fled to Egypt, and would have practiced the lunar sabbath with the Jews in Egypt.

Philo clearly states that the sabbath was counted from the New Moon, as is stated in the Bible. Further, he said that new moon days aren't counted among the days when counting the six days until the seventh day sabbath. If New Moon days aren't counted when you count the Sabbath cycle, then why should you count them when counting the fifty days until Pentecost? For the scriptures say, "number to yourself fifty days, until the morrow after the Sabbath".

Therefore, the only objection I had to the Lunar Sabbath is gone. The fine articles at the Hope of Israel website addressed every other objection I've seen Saturday Sabbath keepers use to preserve their faith. Will I be keeping the Lunar Sabbath? I'll try. And if at some point I find out I'm wrong, I'll stop.

This brings us to the true Pentecost. This morning I found this article, True Pentecost, by Brother Arnold. This article shows from scripture that Pentecost must be 50 days after the seventh sabbath, and not fifty days counting from the first sabbath. If I'd had this understanding from the beginning, the Lunar Sabbath never would have been an issue. Brother Arnold shows that Aaron required three pilgrimages in the first, fourth, and seventh months. If you keep Pentecost in the fourth month, this works out.

I always thought it was odd for Pentecost to come so soon after Passover. If you are busy harvesting, why would you come back to Jerusalem for a festival so quickly, when you just had a big feast at Passover? With the extra fifty days added, it all gets smoothed out. Instead of having a long wait for the feast of Booths, you have Passover, then wait three months, Pentecost, three months, then Tabernacles. This way is smooth, just feels right, and is supported by scripture.

Give the Pentecost article a read; you don't have to believe in Lunar Sabbaths to appreciate the arguments that it makes for a fourth month Pentecost.

Read the short story by clicking here: The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jean Giono (1953).

I found this short story a couple years ago on memepool. The Man Who Planted Trees is about a desert, a wasteland in France one hundred years ago. The author met a shepherd who walked the hills, planting a hundred acorns every day. The author came back to visit every few years. The oak trees grew. And the desert became lush and fertile. The dead land came to life. Empty, abandoned villages suddenly became active towns. One man really can make a difference.

There is another important theme this story reveals, one which is guiding my current endeavors. Plants and animals interact with the land. Trees bring moisture back to the land. I was thinking of this story when I recently visited Organic Pastures dairy farm. Set in the middle of the Fresno valley, the owners of the farm have created their own miracle. By keeping the cows outdoors year round, they have turned the grass green. All around them, the land is dry and dusty, and is sprinkled nightly with irrigation systems. But on this one dairy farm, there is no irrigation. The owner showed me the trenches they had dug to install an irrigation system thirty years ago. But they never installed it. They didn't need it. The connection between the cows and the land benefitted both, making healthy milk. Trees can do it, cows can do it... how can we humans increase life on this earth?

Did you know that heroin and cocaine are legal in North America? That is right. You can go down to your corner gas station and buy as much heroin and cocaine as you want. It is 100% legal. Joe the cashier won't even blink at you. Little Janey down the street won't think any less of you. They go by different names of course. Heroin is called "codein" and is found in aspirin tablets. Heroin and codein both come from the poppy plant, and have the same effect. Cocaine is called "guarana". You will find guarana in all the "energy" drinks that are sold in gas stations. guarana powder comes from the guarana plant, so it isn't technically cocaine, but it is chemically identical to cocaine. The guarana and cocaine plants are grown in the same terrain and climate. The difference is guarana powder comes from berries, while cocaine comes from leaves.

The only drug directly endorsed in the Bible is alcohol. However, God did give us every green herb of the field.

LSD and magic mushroom are forbidden. magic mushroom because it is a fungus. LSD, because it is derived from ergotoline, which in turn comes from ergot, a type of fungus. This also rules out penicillin as a medicine. The Bible refers to fungus as "leprosy", which if a house has it, it must be torn down and destroyed.

Hashish, cocaine, heroin, tobacco, and the amphetamine family of drugs all come from non-fungal plants, and are allowed. The Bible endorses alcohol, but not strong drinks like whiskey, so one should be cautious about the stronger drugs. If you want to do coke, then chew a coca leaf. If you want to smoke hash, eat a marijuana brownie. If you want heroin, drink some poppy tea instead. If you want crystal meth, take mescaline or peyote instead. The herbs were given to man as medication, not as a way of life.

The Nazi "lightning" warfare was driven by amphetamines in the beginning. Hitler's soldiers stayed awake and worked 24 hours a day for many days on end. This gave him an advantage in the beginning, but it burned out the soldiers. By the end of the war the first year veterans were tweaky wierdos who were weak and not much good for anything. Amphetamines may give you a boost but they also burn you out at an incredible rate.

Islamic soldiers take heroin so they can go into battle fearlessly and without pain. This just makes them stupid and careless; they die at a tremendous rate when faced with modern weapons.

A couple days ago I interviewed Americas foremost science genius from the ghettoes of New York, Ralph Rene. I asked Rene about the Hollow Earth theory. Rene investigated the Hollow Earth theory thirty years ago. Rene made several important observations:

• Admiral Byrd was stationed in the Arctic. He couldn't have been flying in the Antarctic, because the airplanes of the time couldn't fly 3000 miles.
• Admiral Byrd was pepped up on benzedrine.
• A military pilot stationed at Tully base in Greenland reported to Rene that he never saw warm, wooded areas anywhere north of his base.

Rene tried benzedrine in the 1950's. It helped him drive for long periods of time. Rene stopped after he found himself hallucinating. Rene says

"I was driving along on my third day without sleep. I saw this gorgeous, beautiful woman hitchhiking by the side of the road. Blonde, blue eyed, big tits. I slammed on my brakes to pick her up. When I got up close, I saw she was a big, square grey mailbox. That benzedrine stuff gives you pep, but it makes you hallucinate! I never did it again after that."

— paraphrase of a statement by Ralph Rene on the telephone

I ask you, what are the odds that Admiral Byrd and the other pilots of the era, who hadn't had sleep, were pepped up on benzedrine pills (bennies) and hallucinated their experiences?

Tully base is really far north. A military pilot stationed there would be sure to fly north sometimes. At least one of those times he would be bound to see the opening to the hollow earth, right? The pilot Rene talked to, someone he knew and trusted from his time in the military, reported affirmatively that he saw nothing unusual, just grey water and ice as far as the eye could see.

After reading The Smoky God, I believe it is fiction. It contradicts the Bible in several aspects, most notably in its assertion that humans are still living in the Garden of Eden. Also, the Bible says that man cannot measure the foundations of the earth, and if man ever manages this, He will cast off Israel from being his people. God says man being able to measure the earth and heavens is as likely as the sun and moon and stars disappearing. Since the sun and moon and stars are still here, I'm pretty certain our scientists are full of shit when they say they know anything about the interior structure of the earth.

Jeremiah 31:35-37 Thus saith Jehovah, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. Thus saith Jehovah; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith Jehovah.

A link to the Reactor Core Hymn Repository. I'll quote the README file and let it explain things for you.

WELCOME TO THE REACTOR CORE HYMN REPOSITORY

Do you wonder what some hymns sound like?  Does your small home church lack a
piano or piano player?  Look no further!  This repository provides copyright
free mp3 files of your favorite hymns, suitable for use in church worship or
for practice at home.

In addition to providing mp3 files of the whole hymn, an mp3 file of each part
of the hymn is provided separately so you can find out which part suits you
best, and practice it.  The four parts are soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.
Don't worry if you don't know which part you should sing.  Try them all until
one feels right.

If the mp3's provided do not quite meet your needs, the script used to generate
them is provided here.  Anyone may use it free of charge.

The mp3 files are in the following format:

1.  A few bars are played to refresh your memory of the tune.
2.  The music is played all the way through, once for each verse.
3.  If there is a final coda or "amen", this is played after the last verse.

WHAT IS IN THE DIFFERENT FILES?

hymn.mp3

This is the full hymn, suitable for singing the whole hymn through.

hymn.pdf

This is the sheet music for the hymn.  It is suitable for playing the piano.
Lyrics are not included at this time.

soprano.mp3
alto.mp3
tenor.mp3
bass.mp3

These are the individual parts.  They just play the tune once, and the amen if
there is one.

FUTURE FEATURES

At some future time you will be able to choose the following attributes of the
hymn by using a web interface.

 * instrument (french horn, clarinet, church organ, etc)
 * tempo (50, 60, .. 120, etc)
 * transpose (lower c to a, or raise b to f)

WANT TO CONTRIBUTE A HYMN?

If you can understand the "lilypond" music typesetting program, then you can
easily contribute new hymns by looking at the hymns already provided here.

CONTENTS OF THIS DIRECTORY:

default/

This directory contains the templates for starting a new hymn.  To make a new
hymn, make a new directory and copy all the files into it.  Edit these files.
When you are done, run the "genly" program.  This will generate mp3 files and a
PDF file with the sheet music.

default/soprano
default/alto
default/tenor
default/bass

These are the four parts.  Most hymns are written in four parts.  You need to
fill out the middle section in the template, but the intro and amen sections
can be left blank.  It is recommended you copy the first few bars of the main
section into the intro section to remind people of how the hymn goes and help
them prepare to start singing.  Some hymns have a final "amen", which you would
put in the amen section.

default/header

This is where you put in the key signature, the time, the title of the hymn,
the composer, and similar items of interest.

default/instrument

This is where you put the name of the midi instrument.  Only instruments
supported by lilypond can be used.  The instrument name must be entered in this
format:

#"myinstrument"

default/stanzas

This is the number of stanzas, or verses that are in the hymn.  This decides
how many times the music will be repeated in the mp3.

default/tempo

This is the tempo.  This controls how fast the mp3 file will play the hymn.
There are two numbers: the beats per minute, and the length of a beat.  The
length of a beat is specified in lilypond syntax.  100 2 for instance, means
one hundred half notes per minute.

default/transpose

This will transpose the music up or down by the amount of half notes that you
specify.  The transpose command is described in the lilypond documentation.

genly

genly is a shell script.  Run it inside a hymn directory that has all the files
that you find in the default directory.  genly creates the PDF and mp3 files
based on the template files that you filled out.

A Christian-Israelite Hymn Book/

You will find hymns in this directory.

This is the first hymn book to provide hymns to the repository.  Hymns from ANY
hymn book are welcome and will be placed in the appropriate directory for that
hymn book.  The old favorites are found in almost every hymnal.  That is ok.
Often different hymnals will transpose up or down a note, or use a different
key signature.

CONCLUSION

If you enjoy the service provided by this hymn repository, pray that God will
bless it and use it to bless others.  Oh, and also send me an email.  I love
getting personal emails!  My email address is ted@reactor-core.org.

Ted Walther
Tuesday November 7, 2006

While researching the Hollow Earth theory today, I came across some interesting stuff. Remember the first few chapters of Ezekiel? Remember the astouding four wheeled chariot of God, with eyes along the rims and four-winged angels? The imagery might not have been odd to the people of the Near East. Look at these amazing photographs taken from old Babylonian monuments, palaces, and clay tablets: Chariot of Ezekiel's God In Ancient Art, by Michael S. Heiser. Jacob Fronczak speculated today that the Cherubim's chariots may have looked like flying saucers. After looking at many Sumerian and Babylonian rock carvings today, I can say "Yes Jacob, they most likely did!"

Also, I added the old novel The Smoky God (1908), by Willis George Emerson, to the Reactor Core. The novel is actually a journal of a journey into the "Hollow Earth". Nothing in the book itself, except its subject matter, indicates that it should be taken as fiction. Many people over the previous century read it, and believe it is not fiction. I haven't read it yet myself, but a novel that is so convincing must be a very good read, if it is not indeed truth itself.

Finally, my search for Hollow Earth stuff led me to several sites that showed the connection between the double helix of DNA, and the intertwined serpents that have been the pagan symbol for medicine for more than 3000 years. The Christian and Jewish symbol of medicine is a single snake coiled around a pole, recalling the time when Moses made a brass serpent. It is easy to jump to the conclusion as Zechariah Sitchin has done, that the ancients knew about DNA because aliens taught them. I think the opposite. I believe the modern day DNA symbol is taken from the old serpent symbols. I've seen scanning electron photographs of DNA. It does not look like a spiral at all. Modern "scientists" are the new priesthood. Should we be surprised that they revive ancient symbols, and for the exact same uses? From its inception, DNA has been the center of a struggle to blend different species of plants and animals together to form hybrids. This is exactly what the Anunnaki were doing in their experiments in the old rock carvings that show the two serpents twined together. It was this "corruption of all flesh" that brought on the Great Flood. The Tyrannasaurus Rex wasn't a viable creature; he was a failed experiment by the Nephilim. The tiny arms of the T.Rex are the give-away. They aren't practical or balanced.

For several years I've known that Global Warming, should it ever happen, is a positive blessing from the Creator. The evidence is in these two articles: Summer's Lease, by J.R. Dunn and Education Automation, by Buckminster Fuller.

Fact: The arctic at one time was tropical. With palm trees and elephants. The rest of the world was also tropical.

Biblical Fact: The reason the Arctic is cold today has nothing to do with lack of sunlight and everything to do with the Great Flood. When you open the valve on a propane tank, the high pressure gas rushes out and promptly expands. To expand it needs energy. So it takes energy from the nearest source, the nozzle of the propane tank. The result is that while the high pressure propane is leaving the tank, the tank freezes. The exact same thing happened during the Flood. The fountains of the deep (under the earths mantle) were forced out of the earth under very high pressure. God squished the earth like an orange; he trampled the earth like a grape press. The water shot out under high pressure and promptly sucked all the heat energy out of the Arctic and Antarctic areas. When God was finished squishing the earth-orange, the gaps in the earths crust resealed themselves. If God wants, he can pump our oceans back under the earths mantle, causing massive earthquakes, and an increase in the earths diameter (and livable land area).

The freezing of the Arctic was a one time deal. If the Arctic is heated up, it will stay heated up. At some point in the future, the prophets say the earth will be destroyed by fire. At this time the oceans will dry up and the great whales will disappear. Perhaps they will return to the oceans under the earths crust.

The mean highs are about the same everywhere; that is, in Eastern Siberia it gets as hot in the summer as it gets in mid-continent Africa on certain days. The major climatic differences between the various parts of the world are in the extremes of cold, or the "lows," not in the "highs," or heats. The hottest days in Brazil and India are about the same as the hottest days in Eastern Siberia and Alaska. The cold pole of the Northern Hemisphere is in Eastern Siberia. The cold pole for the Southern Hemisphere happens to coincide geographically with the south pole of the earth's rotational axis.

excerpted from Education Automation, by Buckminster Fuller.

In plain English, Buckminster Fuller is saying that as temperature increases, it increases at the low end. The high end of the temperature range stays constant. The outcome is that when the whole globe warms up, the tropics stay the same and the other areas get warmer. Summers stay as they were, but winters get shorter. Days stay as they were, but nights get warmer.

You can read many authors who debunk the fallacy that the melting ice caps will cause flooding. I can recommend Debunking the Ice Age, by Kurt Johmann. Kurt is an atheist old-universe believer, but even he finds there is no evidence for high temperatures causing any changes at all in sea level. Summer's Lease, by J.R. Dunn also shows the folly in believing that global warming means global flooding, from a historians perspective.

Now, given that Global Warming is great, and that it has happened in the past, why worry about it happening in the future? I want to see mighty jungles all across the Arctic Circle. I want to see tribes of naked Germans running through the trees, and woolly mammoths crunching grass where the snowy tundra used to be. The Arctic was provably tropical before. It can and WILL be again.

What is the Indigo kid movement? It is a new agey label that comes from a "channeled" spirit for todays children. The Bible says that when we sin, "little children will rule over you". Indigo kids are imperious and arrogant. The channeled spirit says they are going to lead mankind into a bright future. Hah. Listen to some Indigo moms prattle on:

Doreen: You know everythings going to be so natural. This is really radical stuff, but they've shown me that the polar ice caps melting and the greenhouse effect is really a blessing.

Jenny: I think that too.

Doreen: Everyones screaming and Al Gores screaming and I'm saying, NO!

Jenny: I think its a good thing.

Doreen: You know what they told me? We're going to run out of fresh water by that time, and the melting polar caps are going to give us fresh water. We're supposed to become tropical again like we we're before. The trees are going to grow mangoes and guavas and pineapples and bananas to give us fresh water, and fresh organic fruits that have the life force of the sun in them. Where were going reminds me of a little Fred Flintstone-ville, its like a jungle and its beautiful.

Jenny: I absolutely believe that. For some reason, like for my new school, I want to learn how to plant foods and then we can eat them right off the tree or bush...

excerpted from the September 2006 Indigo Moms Interview.

So some channeled spirits speak truth. Don't reject the truth on that account. The channeled spirits even proclaimed Jesus as the Son of God, until he silenced them.