Is it true that the first born is annointed?
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Annointed is not the right word for it. 'Blessed' is more accurate.\n\nTradition holds that the first-born goes into the ministry in some way. In some traditions, you can buy your way out of it.\n\nAlso, the first-born becomes the head of the family line when blessed by the father- a passing of the torch sort of thing.\n\nThe two links below are entried in a couple of Bible dictionaries about the topic.
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Scripture doesn't mention Jesus's birthdate or any christians celebrating His Birthday. The only birthday mentioned besides Pharoah is the heathen king Herod. "Christmas" means "mass of Christ"; the celebration coexisted in Rome before there was any in Jerusalem. The early Roman Church however did establish a pagan festival that (Jer.10) coexisted with Jesus's Birth and that was the birthday of the sun god. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., article: "Christmas"). The Catholic sources admit that Christmas didn't co-exist with the earliest festivals. Jesus wasn't born Christmas; even scripture makes this evident. "On the night of Jesus's birth, the shepherd's were still keeping watch over their flocks." (Luke 2:8). The rainy season in Ancient Israel began after the Feast of Tabernacles which generally is early October. In November, it would be cool and wet; the flocks from the pasture had already been brought and kept in winter quarters by the shepherds. This tells us the shepherds were no longer in the fields at night. Another peice of evidence is overlooked is in Luke 1:35-36; it tells us John the Baptist was born to Mary's cousin Elizabeth six months before Jesus. And as we look further in verse 5-17, we see Zacharias an elderly priest burning incense on the altar and then an angel appearing to him and telling him that he and his wife would have a son to prepare Christ's Way. We know however when this announcement was made by the angel because of Zacharias was "of the course of Abijah" Please look at 1Chron.24:1-19; it tells us that King David divided these priests into 24 "courses" that served in the temple by rotation. The Course of Abijah would be the 8th of the 24 courses which usually would occur around the end of May. Pentecost came the week after the 8th course served and he had to serve all 24 courses during the three festival seasons. So Zacharias came home approximately after the first week of June; in which John the Baptist was conceived around mid-June and 9 months later would be his birth. John Baptist's birth came around mid-March while Jesus's was around mid-September. Also notice every year people claim 3 wise men seen Jesus in a stable; is this really true? The Bible nowhere states "3 wise men" or "that the wise men visited Jesus in a stable". Read for yourself: (Matt.2:11); these Magi came from the east beyond the Euphrates River which in the 1st century was called the Parthian Empire (the eastern border of the Roman Empire). \n\nI can't finish this: so you would have to see it on\nhttp://community.webshots.com/photo/2715...\n\n\n***JESUS DIED WEDNESDAY APRIL 14, 31AD\n\nA good foundation (1Tim.6:19) has solid ground evidence. The foundation should include 2Tim.3:16; Isaiah 28:9-10; 2Peter 1:19-21; 1Thess.5:20-21 & Ephes.5:9-10,13. To understand deeply--you must use these websites:\nhttp://www.bbmhp.org/visaids/nt/crucweek...\nhttp://lcg.org\n\nIf you read Daniel 9:27; it says "he died in the middle of the week"; that would be Wednesday. This is followed by "3 days & 3 nights" = Matthew 12:40 which equals 1-24hr.day x 3days equals 72hrs. in grave. Next the Bible tells us it would be "after 3days and "not before = Matt.27:63-64 and Mark 8:31. It tells us in three days (John 2:19-21) and not after. The Bible also reminds us a day is 12hrs. not including the night(John 11:9-10). Remember also Gen.1:5 and Lev.23:32 tells us "evening to evening" is considered to be a day.\n\nHEBREW CALENDAR-month of Abib or Nisan (APRIL 31AD)\n\nWednesday 14\nLord's Supper--Tues.Even\nPut in grave Wed.Even\nLEV.23:5--[14TH DAY=PASSOVER]\nDAN.9:27--["DIED IN MIDST OF WEEK"]\nJOHN 13:1; 18:39--[FEAST OF PASSOVER]\nJOHN 19:14,31--[PREPARATION OF PASSOVER; NEXT DAY WAS A SABBATH HIGH DAY]\nLUKE 22:13--[PASSOVER]\nMATT.27:57--[EVENING CAME AND JOSEPH BE
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I'm not sure where it is in the Bible but it says that God planned everyone's birth. He knew about us before we were conceived. I think we are created right when we are concieved but God planned it out first.
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annointing is the act of making the sign of the cross on ones' forehead with blessed oil,sometimes done to initiate healing , to bless someone or at easter time to make a new declaration of ones' religious commitment
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Baptism is an outward sign of the New Birth you have experienced. It is not necessary for salvation. It was originally a Jewish Rite called a "mikvah" the ceremonialy clensing before being declared "Clean." Apostle Paul said, "I'm glad I baptised none of you, except Crispus & Gaious and a few others. For God sent me not to baptise but to preach the Gosple." If Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles felt it's not necessary to baptise Gentile converts, then it is good enough for me. It doesn't hurt any if you do have it done, but not necessary to salvation.
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There is an interesting story when Samuel was to find God's choice for who of Jesse's sons to be annointed king of Israel. Samuel saw one of the burly sons and said, "Surely God's annointed is before me..." But God warned Samuel, "The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.\nThe SDA church is very big on looking at what you do on the outside, such as keeping the law. But God looks at the heart. If the Lord sees Jesus abiding there, He says that this heart is perfect. Not because of what the person has done or not done, but by Who abides there.\nGod will judge who will or will not abide with Him forever. I will make no such judgment on any man or woman. It is not my place.\nPrint out my study below, read it and give it to that person. Don't punch em. Let the Holy Spirit do the convicting.
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First person to be put on the Earth Adam \nFirst person to give birth to a baby Eve\nFirst baby born Cain
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I had a child out of wedlock.  I can tell you that some Catholic priests would not baptize my daughter for precisely that reason.  That's one of the reasons I went to one of the Protestant churches.  I asked for and received forgiveness, and it was never considered something my daughter needed forgiveness for.  She has since been baptized.  Neither of us are going to hell for it, at least not according to our church :)
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Honestly?  No.  I have had a wonderful anointing most especially when I first received the Holy Spirit.  When this happened I was of course a believer, but I was not convinced that this whole 'baptism in the Spirit' thing was for real.  I've heard all the arguments against and hadn't heard many for, so was quite skeptical.  But the Lord knows what He is doing and arranged for me to receive of Him in a unique environment.  It was a private little Bible study and the participants were people from 'colorful' backgrounds.  Some would let a bad word slip from time to time, some smoked; how could these people minister the Lord to anybody?\n\nMy pastor had scheduled a speaker to come preach on the 'Filling of the Holy Spirit' and it just so happened without my asking or knowing anything of it, that he was scheduled to speak a week and a half after I'd been at that Bible study and had been encouraged to receive the Holy Spirit.  They'd laid hands on me and began to pray in tongues as well as English and being convinced that nothing was happening I began to get very concerned that they were full of Hooey.\n\nThen the guest speaker came to our church and preached every night for most of a week and had people come forward to receive the Spirit and not the same thing happened but it was similar.  So I began to doubt my church and pastor were on the right track.  But the last night that guest speaker spoke, he said the most common sense thing I've ever heard a  preacher say, "If you're not sure if you've received the Holy Spirit, or that this isn't real, just ask God to confirm it, or deny it."  God is faithful and He will make what is good and right your desire.  And He makes what is bad and wrong undesirable, but this only happens by spending time with Him.  \n\nWell, that made so much sense, I couldn't refute it.  So, I went home and began to pray for confirmation if it was of Him, and if it wasn't to put me in a church where I could be encouraged to seek Him in the right ways.  I prayed for a couple of hours and when I was frustrated at the lack of an answer, I got up and began to study the Bible. (it had become such a habit by that time I didn't know what else to do)  But when I opened the Bible, the first verse my eyes fell on were illumined, not literally but mentally my mind was opened to understand many ways this verse applies.  As an individual, it applies to me personally in my freedom and responsibility, as a man it applies to my role in society, as a head of household it applies to my leadership roles, as a worker and so on to the leaders of nations.  The order and simplicity placed such a peace in my heart and the knowledge that this was designed by the only true God, a God who loves each and everyone of us personally...  I was speechless, yet crying for joy, and laughing at the difficulty I'd had with understanding His order.  I had my confirmation!  \n\nIt wasn't until many months later that I understood why God wanted me to receive from those smoking and cussing Christians.  He wanted me to know that if He can use them to minister to me, He can use me to minister to others, because I too am an imperfect Christian.  After all, God used a donkey in the Old Testament to talk to one of His people.\n\nBack to your question, I've seen others receive the Spirit in such a powerful way as to be laying on the floor receiving a spiritually healing work from the Lord, still others have told me of the mighty rushing wind, and one more told me of a cleansing fire, but I have not felt the 'electric shock.'
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"Life shall be deemed from conception"\n\nIt's not the baby's fault someone made a mistake or that the mom was forced....\n\n\nQuote from above: "As the Protestant faith was founded by King Henry the eighth"......nope...try Martin Luther and the Reformation!
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Exactly, ! worship the creator , not the creation.... It follows by logical necessity that if God is one, and if He is eternal, Then He does not beget , Nor is he begotten. Because if He beget, then He will have a child then the child will have to be God-like. So there will then be two Gods. Since there is only one, you cannot have two.  OR If he was begotten, that means he would have father. Then the father will be older than him, wiser than him, more eternal than him. and you cannot have one who is more eternal than ETERNAL.
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Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called. The sheer gratuitousness of the grace of salvation is particularly manifest in infant Baptism. The Church and the parents would deny a child the priceless grace of becoming a child of God were they not to confer Baptism shortly after birth. \n\nChristian parents will recognize that this practice also accords with their role as nurturers of the life that God has entrusted to them.\n\nThe practice of infant Baptism is an immemorial tradition of the Church. There is explicit testimony to this practice from the second century on, and it is quite possible that, from the beginning of the apostolic preaching, when whole "households" received baptism, infants may also have been baptized.
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:} \nFirst Baptist Church was the first established in that city , 2nd the 3nd there are 3rd also
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It's called baptism in some other religions.\n\nFrom what I've read- it seems that there are several christening services- including infant baptism.
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If you believe the bible word for word (and if you read only some versions... reason why the bible isn't 100% accurate.) it says that Adam and Eve had other sons and daughters besdies Cain and Abel. So, it's not the first gay marriage-- we're all children of incest.
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Cuz you get annointed with spirit, just like oil.  Bible calls it annointing oil actually.  Also oil is (olives for example) in a pure form.  Spirit is pure.\n\nBlessings\nDavid
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See Galatians 4:7 "Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ."\n2 Corinthians 6:2b "now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation."\nHebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today,and forever" \nYou can believe the Son because he is the heir and will welcome you to the kingdom.