Savior Women in Eve's Garden

Men, Not God, Get Angry When We Question Religious Rules And Beliefs.

Some of the readers  of Savior Women In Eve's Garden apparently are under the impression that I have not read The Bible. Or, if I have read it, that I did not read with understanding or did not read the right chapters. They apparently believe that if I had done these things that I wouldn't raise the questions this blog sometimes raises about God, religion, The Bible, and the anti-Christian behaviors of those who claim to love and follow the teaching of Jesus Christ.

Of course, I have no way of knowing whether or not this is the reason for what I am sent, because most are sent anonymously and without any explanations for why they sent it or what position they propose to  support. The narrative I receive most often is John: 3, always without comment except for highlighting verses 3, 5, and 16 - 21. 

Do these readers believe that every question I pose or have about my mortal existence and about my assumed eternal existence of an immortal soul that defines me is answered in the 3rd chapter of John? For the record, I have read The Bible--a lot. But always with discernment. And while I have no argument with John: 3, some of what I have read and have been told to believe is in conflict with what I believe My God tells me. There are a few things I know for sure.

1. I know that my Symbiotic God Of Creation is not hurt, offended, made angry, nor inclined to punish anyone whose search for God includes questioning the laws, beliefs, and rules of man's religious rhetoric. That behavior is the selfish act of weak men willing to control other human beings by fear and violence.

2. I know that my Symbiotic God does not offer the gift of Symbiotic Grace to those who hate, hurt, suppress, enslave, and are generally uncivil to any person or group who disagrees with their politics, religious beliefs, sexuality, or are not members of their own religion, race, or ethnic background.

3. I know that A God of Love does not approve of any person or religion that embraces acts of war based on religion, personal conquests, ethnic cleansing, natural resources, national economics, and corporate greed. 

4. I know that Jesus Christ does not accept as Christian the behavior of anyone who applauds with unconcealed joy and moral smugness the vile voices of anger, division, hate, and murder in the name of God instead of being offended by their presence. And I know that reading the Four Gospels, raising my hands in Jesus Name, with vociferous claims of my love for Him will not change that.

5. I know a lot of other things, too, most of which are captured in The Four Gospels, The Ten Commandments, and Eve's Simple Realities.

6. Most of all, I know that when my mortal life is over, God will not deny the immortal soul that defines me His Magnificent Gift of Symbiotic Grace simply because in my mortal sojourn on Earth, I raised a few questions about some man made religious laws, rules, and interpretations about God's Will for my life.

Selah.

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Power Blessings And Protection Prayers For Children And Family.

God will hear your prayers regardless of their origin in the same way He relishes your songs of praise even if you don't compose them. You only need to be sincere when you offer them. If any of the prayers herein are reflections of what you would like to say to God, you can offer them. You can read them to God. Or you can commit them to memory and recite them. 

The prayers below are just examples of the kind of prayers you can offer God for children, home, and family. Your best prayers, however, come from inside you--your joy, your appreciation, your need, your pain, your anything that motivates you to talk to God. For prayers that promote happiness and empower women in Eve's Garden, see the first link at the end of this post.

A Parent's Prayer For Children
Dear God, Please bless my children. Energize them with strength of will and self reliance in the face of adversity and bad influence. Help them to recognize and appreciate good advice and counsel. Help them to recognize and accept the efforts of those who are acting in their best interest. Help them to recognize and reject the advice and actions of those who are detrimental to them. Dear God, please surround my children with your protective energy. Please hear my prayer.

A Parent-Child Prayer
Dear God, Please bless my children and their (other parent) with your nurturing power and your healing energy. Please bless (each child's first name and the other parent's first name). I pray that you will surround my children and (their other parent) with the shelter of your protective energy. Dear God, I ask for your blessings and protection for my children and (their other parent). Please hear my prayer and bless this home and family that You and I share. Amen.

A Prayer For Home And Marriage
Come Holy Comforter and hear our prayer. We ask you to bless our marriage and our home. Grant us the ability and the will to be sympathetic with each other. Help us to protect each other's emotional well being and to nurture each other's self worth. Dear God, Please hear our prayer. We entreat you to help us avoid behaviors that put our marriage at risk. Grant us that the love between us will not be diminished merely because we cease to value it. Help us appreciate in full measure the blessings you have given us and for this bond we share. Please help us protect this home, this love, and this marriage. Dear God, please hear our prayer.

A Prayer To Be
Heavenly Father, Please hear my prayer. Please help me to be a good (son, daughter) to my parents. Help me to be a good (mother, father) to my children. Please help me maintain the love, will, patience, and strength to be a good (husband, wife). Please help me remember to be a good (sister,brother). Let me not give up my goal to be a good (occupation title). Please help me to recognize and appreciate good friends and to be a good friend. Above all, Please imbue me with the wisdom and strength of will to be Your faithful Symbiont. For You Are The Power And The Glory. Amen.

Selah

 

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Prayers That Work, Promote Happiness, And Empower Women In Eve's Garden.

Life can sometimes seem overwhelming and all women seek prayers that work, empower them, and help them to feel safe and to enjoy a sense of happiness.  The responsibilities of Savior Women in Eve's Garden can sometimes feel feel daunting.  But God has need for your happiness and your success. Every one of Eve's Beautiful Daughters can Trust God to acknowledge your prayers of need with helping energies. Every Beautiful Daughter of the Primordial Mother can trust God to send them healing energy to provide solace and comfort for your deepest pain.

What follows are sample prayers that work to empower Eve's Beautiful Daughters, the Savior Women in Eve's Garden.

A Prayer For Healing
Dear God, Please hear my prayer. Please send me your healing energies in this time of my need. I pray you will make me whole. Please cleanse the impurities from my body. Please help me cleanse the impurities in my mind. Please cleanse my spirit. Please cleanse my blood. Please send your healing energy to my compromised organs. Please make me whole. Dear God Of Creation, Please make me whole.

A Personal Prayer
Dear God Of Creation, Please hear my prayer. With faith and hope I submit this prayer to you. It is through your guiding energies that I can know happiness and achieve the appropriate goals in my life. I acknowledge you as my creator. I acknowledge you as The Living God. I recognize you as the Source of Life. You are The Omnipotent Power. I pray you will send me nurturing and healing energy and bless me with the happiness of a long and healthy life. I pray for your guidance in avoiding moral decay and physical infirmity. Please help me refrain from thoughts and actions that distance me from you. Please help me prepare myself for the tasks and responsibilities my dreams and goals require. Direct me. Teach me. Guide me. Energize me. I am empowered enough to submit to your will. I know that You Are The Power and The Glory, Forever. Amen.

A Prayer For Absolution
Come, Holy Comforter, Please hear my prayer. God, I need relief from this pain of guilt that tears at me. Please cleanse my spirit. Please cleanse the immortal soul that defines me. Please forgive my sins and relieve me of the weight of my transgressions. Help me make decisions that attract you to me. Help me make decisions that lead me to happiness and keep me free from the pain of guilt and remorse. Help me be a healthy symbiont of The Living God.

A Prayer Before A Difficult Task
Dear Father Of Creation, Please hear my prayer. I need your help to (complete the task before me). God, you know my strengths and my weaknesses. I do not want to do this task alone. I welcome Your Presence, O God. Help me strengthen myself where I am weak. Help me find wisdom, energy, and courage to do my best where I am strong. Help me recognize and appreciate good counsel when offered it. Help me recognize and refuse bad counsel whether given in good faith or aimed at making me fail. Dear God Of Creation. Please hear my prayer.

A Prayer Of Forgiveness.
Dear God, Please forgive my sins. Please forgive me for any conduct that puts distance between us. Forgive me and do not turn away from me because of my transgressions. God, I invite you into my life. My spirit and the immortal soul that defines me are open to Your Healing Energies, Your guiding energies, and Your Will. Please accept this payer of forgiveness. Forgive me and come into my life. Please answer my prayer.

A Prayer For Solace Come Holy Comforter, Please hear my prayer. Help me purge the demons from the immortal soul that I am. Help me purge the ogres and fears from my head. Please help my mind find the place and peace that lets me know happiness and lets me live in peace. Please hear my prayer. In your hands, Dear God, I place my trust and the security of the immortal soul that defines me. I know that You Are The Power And The Glory Forever. Amen.

Selah.

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On Mothers, Wives, Lovers, And The Strength Of Women

The Christian Bible has a message that is relished by many Christian men and women--that wives should submit to their husbands, the head of the home. On the approach to Mother's Day, we visit 1 Esdras from The Apocrypha Of The Old Testament for a short treatise on the strength of women. The Apocrypha was part of the King James Version of The Bible published in 1611. Rejected for inclusion in the Canon Christian  Bible, The Apocrypha was recognized by some Protestant groups as enlightening for building moral and religious knowledge.

ON THE STRENGTH OF WOMEN 1 Esdras 4: 13-34. (With minor pronoun & other changes.)

"Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of the truth, (this was Zerubbabel) began to speak. O you men, it is not the great king, nor the multitude of men, neither is it wine, that excels; who is it then that rules them, or has lordship over them? are they not women?

Women have borne the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land. Even of them came they; and they nourished them up that planted the vineyards, from whence the wine cometh. These also make garments for men; these bring glory unto men; and without women cannot men be.

Yes, and if men have gathered together gold and silver, or any other goodly thing, do they not love a woman which is comely in favor and beauty? and letting all those things go, do they not gape, and even with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her, and have not all men more desire for her than for silver or gold, or any goodly thing whatsoever?

A man leaves his own father that brough him up, and his own country, and cleaves unto his wife. He sticketh not to spend his life with his wife, and remembers neither father, nor mother, nor country.

By this also you must know that women have dominion over you; do you not labor and toil, and give and bring all to the woman? Yes, a man takes his sword, and goes his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers; and looks upon a lion, and goes in the darkness, and when he has stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he brings it to his love.

Wherefore a man loves his wife better  than father or mother. Yes, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women. And now do ye not believe me? 

Is not the king great in his power? Do not all regions fear to touch him? Yet did I see him and Apame the king's concubine, the daughter of the admirable Bartacus, sitting at the right hand of the king, and taking the crown from the king's head and, and setting it upon her own head; she also struck the king with her left hand. And yet for all this the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth; if she laughed upon him, he laughed also, but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again. O you men, how can it be but women should be strong seeing they do thus?

Then, the king and the princes looked one upon another; so he began to speak of the truth. O ye men, are not women strong? ..."

Happy Mother's Day to mothers and other strong women everywhere.

Selah

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Christians, The Bible, And The Word Of God.

It is troubling, sometimes bordering on absurdities of major proportions that some Christians routinely declare every word, phrase, sentence, and story in The Bible to be the "word of God."

It is equally troubling when some Christians make generous literal translations of "God's Word". This habit remains constant even when the "facts" of the biblical narrative fly in the face of physical laws as we understand them and of intellectual examination as we employ them.

It is more troubling that some Christian men and women routinely quote the "word of God" in efforts demonize as sins the values, ideas, behaviors, and lifestyle of those with whom they disagree. On the hand they are quick to rationalize, forgive, or ignore their own sins even when it is in direct conflict with the "word of God" and the good news brought to Christians by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Connotative images of The Bible connote many secular documents that we live by in our daily lives. A policy manual may be an administrator's bible. A cookbook or another document from a long list of things we could enumerate becomes another person's bible. The unabridged second edition of Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary defines bible as "any book regarded as authoritative and official". Millions of Christians regard the great book we call The Bible as the authoritative and official word of God.

However, translations of The Bible occur in more than a thousand  languages and dialects. The English Bible is different from the Greek Bible; is different from the Hebrew Bible; is different from the Latin bible; is different from the New living Translation.

In Bible study groups where participants sometimes read aloud from different translations of The Bible, it is common for one or two people to exclaim: "where are you reading"? the apparent meaning of the different versions or translations can be so incongruous that the same verses can make or appear to make different denotative and connotative statements.

Beginning with the ancient church and continuing today, scholars have criticized, validated, and invalidated portions of The Bible for all kinds of reasons. We regard some books from the collection of books that comprise the various religious manuscripts as holy or canonical while others are not.

Some Christians will affirm and read only from the King James Version of The Holy Bible. For them, the King James version of The Holy Bible is the only legitimate version or translation. Yet The Apocrypha, sometimes referred to as the deuterocanonical books, was included in the 1611 published edition of the King James Version of The Holy Bible. However, contemporary printings of the King James Translation of The Bible for the most part, do not include The Apocrypha.

But the reality of apparent omissions, contradictions, inaccuracies, and changes of meaning and intent in The Bible and perpetual debates and criticisms over the same should be of no momentous concern. Even if everything recorded in the various translations of The Bible were essentially a flawed history of the people of Judah and Israel, it would still be a very important book. It is much more than that. Many people find The Bible to be an excellent stimulus for gaining personal strength, wisdom, and inspiration.

From The Old Testament, we can read Samuel I, Samuel II, and the book of Psalms and feel inspired by the chronicles of King David and the special relationship he feels he had with God. The prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah impress both academic scholars and those who are not academic scholars. Likewise the book of Lamentations can touch the human psyche like no other work. The history of the Jews and their special relationship with "the one God of Creation" can be a powerful testament for many people.

In The New Testament, the four gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John bring the good news and its powerful influence on all who strive to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. And while some people confess to having difficulty with some of the positions in the letters of the Apostle Paul, his letters offer compelling lessons for Christians seeking guidance, spiritual strength, inspiration, and spiritual growth.

The Bible offers contemporary humans priceless lessons in the search for God. It is an invaluable guide in our efforts to establish an intimate relationship with God. So it is with some regret that we deem it necessary to point out some of the apparent flaws in this magnificent book. But we acknowledge that the apparent absence of infallibility is a position that anti-christians and other religious antagonists invoke vigorously. It is for that reason that we underscore and acknowledge some apparent flaws in this celebrated book, notwithstanding that for many of the faithful, The Bible is the "word of God", and hence without fault because, according to their faith, the "word of God" cannot have errors.

The lesson here is very simple. Do not let any flaws or inconsistencies you may observe in The Bible promote cynicism for all religion. Worse of all, don't let it keep you from reading at least some of it, at whatever depth and pace you can allow yourself. Above all, don't let it estrange you from God and prevent what is the crown of mortal existence--establishing and maintaining Symbiotic Intimacy with your Creator God in your soujourn on the living planet we call Earth.

Selah.

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