Pastor Mike wrote:
All that's required is to become a sycophant and an individual can have the slate wiped clean of all past and future transgressions. It makes this life a complete meaningless farce

Pastor Mike wrote:
The reason atheists are building churches

Bible states your future is...
"8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." Rev 21.

Atheists belong to Satan...
"14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with BELIAL? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 2Cor 6.

Pastor Mike wrote:
Give me your best piece of evidence

"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good." Psalm 53.

btw the Hebrew at the word "FOOL" can also mean stupid according to Strongs. If that is what God thinks of the atheist then who are we to disagree.

These people are a joke not a church.
Clearly they have rejected Scripture from their so called "church."

"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."

As Mr. Foster has pointed out in his article 'God's Glorious Alternative to Power-Sharing with Murderers', Mr. Paisley could have “OPTED OUT” of the deal.
James 4:17 “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”

Ivan has well-spoken in his article:
The providence of God again reveals the evil at the heart of the political
regime in Ulster
http://www.ivanfoster.net/pdf/Dec0901.pdf

Those lines have been blurred by Ian Paisley himself.

Elder J. Dale Lewis:
“It is clear that as men of God, the man of God cannot assume the office of the politician for reasons of his consecration to his call. The politicians are sent & speak for the people while the man of God is sent by Christ & speaks to the people. The politician is forbidden to speak freely for God & speaks only in behalf of the people he represents. The man of God, on the other hand, is required to speak only of the things of God to the people the Lord has sent to him.
"No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." 2nd Timothy 2:4.

“On May 20th, 1998, the General Presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster was associated with an advert in the local press, calling on all to say NO" in the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement. It was signed by most if not all of the then ministers of the Free Presbyterian church.

. . part of that 1998 advert reads: “We the undersigned, having professed faith in Christ as our Lord and Saviour and bound in conscience by the infallibility of the Word of God, declare the truth that governments have divinely been given the power of the sword for the punishment of evil doers, and the power of protection for the praise of them that do well. The Agreement flies in the face of Holy Scripture and punishes those that do well and praises those that are evil doers. We protest against this outrage.” Romans 13:3-4.”

THE SHAME OF THE DUP STANCE ON MURDER
Link: http://www.ivanfoster.net/pdf/Mar0901.pdf

Excerpt:
“Truth and righteousness are deemed less important than political expediency

Infamously, the DUP chose to enter a power-sharing arrangement with the murderous
Sinn Fein/IRA organisation, taking them into government and into the joint office of
First and Deputy First Minister. Martin McGuinness, self-confessed IRA leader and operative,
as a result of the DUP's decision now rules Northern Ireland in conjunction with Mr.
Peter Robinson, the leader of the DUP.

Truth and righteousness were abandoned for political
power and temporal glory.”

I do not take exception to your statement that Christians pray for the conversion of terrorists. It is a basic tenet of Christianity that we pray for our enemies. Nevertheless I maintain that ehud's comment goes to the heart of the matter.

As I have already stated, truth and justice are central tenets of biblical Christianity as well. Those who hold positions of public trust are to execute justice. How much more should this be the burden of a PREACHER? The signal verse at I.Paisley's EIPS website is Jer. 50:2.
Justice is integral to upholding the Gospel standard!

Mr. Paisley's remark "I'll jail McGuinness any day soon", though said in jest, betrays where he truly believes he should be. That being said, Mr. Paisley could just as well pray for M. McGuinness's conversion were he in jail.

'I'll jail McGuinness any day soon', jokes Paisley
(by Suzanne Breen, Sunday Tribune) here: http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/Sunday_Tribune/arts2007/may6_Ill_jail_McGuinness_soon__SBreen.php

Now consider Mr. Paisley's words in 2002 when he wrote with rejoicing:

'The Northern Ireland Executive, which included IRA/Sinn Fein terrorists, has fallen! ‘The Lord Reigneth’ Ps 99 v 1 here: http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=fallen

"elijah did not pray with ahab what fellowship has light with darkness and i mean darkness of the darkest dye. This should not have happened and is an affront to all those who have been butchered at the hands of maguiness `s ira.It is a disgrace and a true exposure of paisley`s folly and brings ot memory his attacks on Billy Graham etc.We need a Nathan to rebuke this man.

Don't look over here . . look over there.

The very notion of a Hebrew-born Messiah, first making his appeal to the Hebrew people (‘the lost sheep of the house of Israel’), supported by the Hebrew Scriptures, in anything other than the Hebrew language would seem a contradiction in terms.

What is more, Galilee as a region was well-nigh as Jewish as Judaea. Josephus described its population in his day as predominantly Jewish, while “Hebrew language and literature” still “dominated the region at this time”[34], as Chancey and Meyers note. The Mishnah says that

“The men of Galilee wrote in the same manner as the men of Jerusalem”.[35]

To suggest, therefore, that while Hebrew might have been the vernacular of Judaea, Aramaic will have to do for the Jewish population of Galilee, is a discrimination which is historically untenable.

[34] Mark Chancey and Eric M. Meyers, “How Jewish was Sepphoris in Jesus’ time?”, Biblical Archaeology Review, (July – August, 2000), p. 33.

Di voi pastor s'accorse il Vangelista,
quando colei che siede sopra l'acque
puttaneggiar coi regi a lui fu vista. . .

But what does this mean, in terms of our enquiry into Jesus’ language? A great deal, actually. Self-evidently there is a nexus between the Jewish vernacular of first century Israel, and the language Jesus spoke. It would fly in the face of common sense if the “Word made flesh” addressed the very countrymen he was first sent to by his Father, in anything other than their normal tongue.(See Matthew 15:24; John 5:36; 1:11.)

Consistent with this, we find Jesus speaking of the “jot” and “tittle” of the Law in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:18). By universal consent, this refers to the text of the Hebrew Bible. Let two modern authorities suffice – one Catholic, one Protestant:

“‘Jot’ refers to ‘yod’, the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet; ‘tittle’ is a slight serif [or hook] on a Hebrew letter that distinguishes it from another”.

(The New Jerome Bible Commentary)

Likewise John Broadus, in his Commentary on Matthew:

"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." (Matthew 5:18)

Why would Jesus not have said this? Because the jot is a Hebrew letter, and the tittle is a small mark to distinguish between Hebrew letters. If Jesus used the Greek Septuagint, His scriptures would not have contained the jot and tittle. He obviously used the Hebrew scriptures!

In addition, Jesus only mentioned the scripture text in two ways, (1) "The Law and the Prophets" and (2) "The Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms":

"And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me." Luke 24:44