Made for Each Other

This is what God intended for us.  From the beginning God has joined men and women together to help each other through life.  So, men and women are united in marriage and become as one. 

“Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” 

So God created human beings in his own image.

In the image of God he created them;

male and female he created them. 

Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.” (Genesis 1:26-28 NLT) [1]

  

“This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. 

Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person. 

The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.  But the LORD God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden— except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.” 

Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”  So the LORD God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one.  He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him. 

So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the LORD God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the opening.  Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man.” 

 “At last!” the man exclaimed.

“This one is bone from my bone,

and flesh from my flesh!

She will be called ‘woman,’

because she was taken from ‘man.’”

 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

 Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.”                (Genesis 2:4, 7-25 NLT) [2]

 

 

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[1] https://biblehub.com/nlt/genesis/1.htm

[2] https://biblehub.com/nlt/genesis/2.htm

Who was That Masked Man?

When I was a young boy before we had television, my mom used to let me listen to the adventures of The Lone Ranger on the radio.  I watched The Lone Ranger on TV later, after we finally got one.  (My folks didn’t have a lot of money.) 

The Lone Ranger and his friend, Tonto, roamed around the Old West righting wrongs and bringing the bad guys to justice. Every program would begin with The Lone Ranger’s horse rearing up on its hind legs while he yelled “Hi ho Silver away.” and with the William Tell overture. 

The Lone Ranger wore a mask, and he was always mistaken for a bandit by the townspeople. They realized that he was a good guy by the end of each episode. Then somebody would ask “Who was that masked man?” 

The press and the liberal politicians are making a big deal out of federal agents wearing masks while apprehending criminal illegal migrants. The level of ignorance these people are displaying is really aggravating.  The masks are a precaution against retribution against the officers and their families.  They also protect the American public from these lawbreakers gaining control of our social order the way they have in countries South of the border. 

Aljazeera recently did a story about mass graves in Brazil near the border with Venezuela that the Brazilian authorities we're attributing to Tren de Aragua. [1]  It is well known, or it should be, that a common modus operandi (normal method of operation) of criminal gangs and cartels is to render the police, local officials, and even state and national officials in Mexico, Central America, and South America ineffective by threatening to kill them and their families – and they follow through.  They have frequently kidnapped people and held them hostage to get what they want.  Even those criminal illegal migrants who are not affiliated with gangs or cartels often have serious criminal histories. 

As employees of a state department of corrections, we were discouraged from having identifying items on our persons or in our offices.  Cell phones were not allowed in the facility, and we were discouraged from bringing in check books, credit cards, or driver's licenses.  We had picture ID’s, but without addresses, phone numbers, etc. If an employee lost their ID or keys, the facility was locked down, and a thorough search was conducted. Furthermore, the legal offenders we were dealing with were already incarcerated and were (theoretically) sober and unarmed.  We worked in a risky environment, but it was usually safer than the one ICE and CBP are operating in … and it was still wise to take precautions. 

To the loud mouths in the press, and to the liberal politicians making political hay at the expense of brave law officers: Let’s see you go out and try it.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx8bcirDccg