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INTERDISCIPLINARY
PROFESSIONALS for GLOBALISATION OF PEACE
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LECTURE HANDOUT ON STRESS MANAGEMENT FOR
RESPONSIBLE PARENTS WORLDWIDE
By:
Dr Jideofo Kenechukwu Danmbaezue, D.Sc.
Consultant Clinical Psychologist& Existential
Family Therapist
Kenez Health Klinik & Happy Family Network
International
5 Church Street, Federal Housing Estate,
Trans-Ekulu, Enugu
Phone: 0803-9097614 or 0805-1764999,
E-mail: saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The
average adult living in the present global village dominated by electronic
gadgets has many stressors to respond and react to. For Christian parents
therefore, the job of rearing their children becomes more cumbersome as the
control of what they watch on television, what they browse in the Internet or
restriction of when, why and how cellular phones are to be used and how these
influence their ethics and moral development is stressful.
What is
stress? Stress in scientific psychology and biology is any strain or
interference that disturbs the functioning of an organism. The human being
responds to physical and psychological stress with a combination of psychic and
physiological responses. When the stress is negative, the individual has to
respond with a variety of self preservative tactics, which we label “ego
defence mechanism”.
Inappropriate
use or abuse of a particular ego defence mechanism results in personality
disorder. Further inappropriate reliance on this translates into psychosomatic
or mental disorders that result if the stress is too powerful or the
individual’s defence is inadequate. This is the main topic we are here to
discuss with all of you. I am here to teach you how to identify these
inappropriate response patterns that may eventually land you, your spouse or
children in clinics, hospitals or prayer houses and/or crusade grounds!
RECOGNITION OF STRESSFUL EVENTS
Stress is
an unavoidable aspect of modern living especially in urban cities and its
effect on family life is specifically complex in an advanced technological
society. There is little doubt that an individual's success or failure in
controlling potentially stressful situations can have a profound effect on his
ability to live a healthy life, have a good job and care for the spouse or
love, manage and/or function adequately as a responsible parent. Neglect of
these things results in high blood pressure, which may end in stroke!
The
ability to “cope” with stress has figured prominently in psychosomatic
research. There is a statistical link between coronary heart disease and
individuals exhibiting stressful behavioural patterns designated “Type
A.” I
have a 35-slide PowerPoint on this.
These patterns are reflected in a style of life
characterised by impatience and a sense of time urgency, hard-driving
competitiveness and preoccupation with vocational and related deadlines.
Various
strategies have been successful in treating psychological and physiological
stress;
- Moderate
stress may be relieved by exercise and any type of meditation (g., yoga or Oriental
meditative forms).
- Severe
stress may require psychotherapy to uncover and work through the
underlying causes.
- A
form of behaviour therapy known as biofeedback enables the
patient to become more aware of internal processes and thereby gain some
control over bodily reactions to stress.
- Sometimes,
a change of environment or living situation may produce therapeutic
results.
Biofeedback is the in-born information
supplied instantaneously by one’s nervous system about an individual's own
physiological processes. In a laboratory set-up, data concerning a person's
cardiovascular activity (blood pressure and heart rate), temperature, brain
waves or muscle tension is monitored electronically and returned, or “fed
back”, to that person by a gauge on a meter, a light, or a sound. Though such activity
of the autonomic nervous system was once thought to be beyond an individual's
control, it has been shown that an individual can be taught to use the
biological data to learn how to voluntarily control the body's reactions to
stress or “outside-the-skin” events. An individual learns through biofeedback
training to detect his physical reactions (inside-the-skin events) and
establish control over them. Biofeedback training is a type of behaviour
therapy that attempts to change learned responses to stressors. It can be very
successful in alleviating symptoms (e.g., pain and muscle tension) of a
disorder, and its effects can be especially lasting if used in combination with
psychotherapy to help the patient understand his reactions to stress.
Complaints that have been treated by biofeedback
training include migraine headaches, gastrointestinal cramping (e.g., colitis),
high blood pressure, tics, and the frequency and severity of epileptic
seizures. Theoretically, many psychologists believe it possible to bring under
partial control any physiological process that can be continuously monitored
and displayed, including electrophysiological activity of the limbic system and
other homeostatic processes. Biofeedback training with brain waves has also
been useful in enhancing mental functioning. “Alpha (wave) training” elicits
the calming and integrative effects of meditation.Theta wave training has
led to more focused attention, the control of “mental blocks” during
examinations, and the control of anxiety.
- APA
Style: stress. (2009). Encyclopædia
Britannica. Encyclopædia
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Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica.
LET US LOOK AT AN EARLIER TELEVISION PROGRAMME I
DID IN NTA- AM EXPRESS IN 2005
STRESS MANAGEMENT IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Presented as News Item on NTA-AM EXPRESS &
broadcast on 7th Sept’05
By:
Dr Jideofo Kenechukwu Danmbaezue,
B.Phil., B.Sc.,
M.Sc. (Clinical Psychology), D.Sc. (Psychometrics), FACRS,
Consultant Clinical Psychologist/ Existential
Family Counsellor & Professor of Psychometrics,
KENEZ HEALTH KLINIK/ HAPPY FAMILY
NETWORK INTERNATIONAL,
1.
O.
Box 1995, Enugu, Phone: 0803-9097614 or 0805-1764999.
E-mail: saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk.
PREAMBLE:
In our country today, there is economic recession.
The poverty line has never been as low as it is now! This is despite the
foreign debt relief that the present administration has been hailed for
achieving. Presently, the price of crude oil worldwide is at its peak and the
nation is ranked as the sixth oil producing country in the world! Despite all
the adulation, messages of congratulations and advertorials in the mass media,
these gains have not translated into cheaper costs in fuel, food, school fess
and medical bills for the average Nigerian! One is bound to ask; Why? The
present oil boon has been orchestrated beyond imaginable limits; nevertheless,
high blood pressure is on the increase at cardiovascular clinics nationwide!
Why is it so?
Our educational system is so bad with expo and
other forms of examinations malpractices that many parents are now sending
their children to Ghana for secondary and university education. Do you blame
them when certificates from Nigeria are no longer recognised by foreign
countries? Our roads are so dilapidated that hundreds lose their lives in daily
mishaps despite the kangaroo efforts of the FRSC, another waste pipe that
drains our economy. Our hospitals are so poorly equipped that the rich go
abroad for minor surgeries while the poor die premature deaths! If government
policies are so corrupt and anti-people, that strikes and rallies are the
hallmarks of the pseudo-dictatorship we operate under the guise of democracy,
do you blame those who scram overseas to become slaves under the bogus American
visa lottery programmes? Others go to Italy or the Arab world!
Many graduates and ex-youth corpers are roaming the
streets chasing jobs below their university qualifications and expertise!
Parents and guardians who sweated throughout the protracted period of paying
for education in the country that is not subsidised are frustrated! The youths
have diverted their I.Q. into nefarious pastimes; the males engage in, shady
deals, cultism and armed robbery whereas the females thrive on part-time
prostitution and Abuja-contracts! Social ethics and morality have become
obsolete, as most religious leaders who are supposed to be role models are knee
deep in prosperity gospel. They exploit the masses that in their economic
strangulation chase signs and wonders from one crusade ground to another! These
constitute the variety of crises and stresses in the polity!
So, we may honestly ask: What is a stress or a
crisis? How do we manage either?
In this lecture, the two are treated as synonymous
since only a faint line differentiates them!
INTRODUCTION
Stress, when used, as a term in psychology is an
unpleasant state of emotional and physiological arousal that people
experience in situations that they perceive as dangerous or threatening to
their well-being. The word stress means different things to different people.
Some people define stress as events or situations that cause them to feel
tension, pressure or negative emotions such as anxiety and anger. Others view
stress as the response to these situations. This response includes
physiological changes—such as increased heart rate and muscle tension—as well
as emotional and behavioural changes. However, most psychologists regard stress
as a process involving a person’s interpretation and response to a threatening
event.
Stress is a common experience.
We may feel stress when we are very busy, have important deadlines to meet, or
have too little time to finish all of our tasks. Often people experience stress
because of problems at work or in social relationships, such as a poor
evaluation by a supervisor or an argument with a friend. Some people may be
particularly vulnerable to stress in situations involving the threat of failure
or personal humiliation. Others have extreme fears of objects or things
associated with physical threats—such as snakes, illness, storms, or flying in
an airplane—and become stressed when they encounter or think about these
perceived threats. Major life events, such as the death of a loved one, can
cause severe stress.
Stress can have both positive
and negative effects. Stress is a normal, adaptive reaction to threat. It
signals danger and prepares us to take defensive action. Fear of things that
pose realistic threats motivates us to deal with them or avoid them. Stress
also motivates us to achieve and fuels creativity. Although stress may hinder
performance on difficult tasks, moderate stress seems to improve motivation and
performance on less complex tasks. In personal relationships, stress often
leads to less cooperation and more aggression.
If not managed appropriately, stress can lead to serious
problems. Exposure to chronic stress can contribute to both physical illnesses,
such as heart disease, and mental illnesses, such as anxiety disorders. The
field of health psychology focuses in part on how stress affects bodily
functioning and on how people can use stress management techniques to prevent
or minimize disease.
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1993-2003 Microsoft Corporation.
SOURCES
OF STRESS
The circumstances that
cause stress are called stressors. Stressors vary in severity and duration. For
example, the responsibility of caring for a sick parent may be an ongoing
source of major stress, whereas being stuck in a traffic jam may cause mild,
short-term stress. Some events, such as the death of a loved one, are stressful
for everyone. Nevertheless, in other situations, individuals may respond
differently to the same event—what is a stressor for one person may not be
stressful for another. For example, a student who is unprepared for a chemistry
test and anticipates a bad grade may feel stress, whereas a classmate who
studies in advance may feel confident of a good grade. For an event or
situation to be a stressor for a particular individual, the person must
appraise the situation as threatening and lack the coping resources to deal
with it effectively. Stressors can be classified into three
general categories: catastrophic
events, major life changes and daily hassles. In addition, simply thinking about unpleasant past events or
anticipating unpleasant future events can cause stress for many people. Both the economic depression and other
socio-political instabilities can cause the greatest stress to the average
Nigerian who is neither a politician nor a ‘419ner’! This paper addresses the
health problems associated with this social malaise!
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Catastrophes
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A catastrophe is a sudden,
often life-threatening calamity or disaster that pushes people to the outer
limits of their coping capability. Catastrophes include natural disasters—such
as earthquakes, tornadoes, fires, floods, and hurricanes—as well as wars,
torture, automobile accidents, violent physical attacks, and sexual assaults.
In Nigeria, besides the civil war that lasted three
years, the military inter-regnum that engulfed the country for more than a
quarter of a century is enough catastrophe that has had traumatic effects and
caused long-lasting disillusionment on the psyche of her citizenry!
Catastrophes often continue to affect their victims’ mental health long after
the event has ended.
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Major
Life Changes
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The most stressful events
for adults involve major life changes, such as death of a spouse or family
member, divorce, imprisonment, losing one’s job, and major personal disability
or illness. For adolescents, the most stressful events are the death of a parent
or a close family member, divorce of their parents, imprisonment of their
mother or father, and major personal disability or illness. Sometimes,
apparently positive events can have stressful components. For example, a woman
who gets a job promotion may receive a higher salary and greater prestige, but
she may also feel stress from supervising co-workers who were once peers.
Getting married is usually considered a positive experience, but planning the
wedding, deciding whom to invite and dealing with family members may cause
couples to feel stressed.
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Daily
Hassles
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Much of the stress in
our lives results from having to deal with daily hassles pertaining to our
jobs, personal relationships and everyday living circumstances. Many people
experience the same hassles every day. Examples of daily hassles include living
in a noisy neighbourhood, commuting to work in heavy traffic, disliking one’s
fellow workers, worrying about owing money, waiting in a long line, and
misplacing or losing things. When taken individually, these hassles may feel
like only minor irritants, but cumulatively, over time, they can cause
significant stress. The amount of exposure people have to daily hassles is
strongly related to their daily mood. Generally, the greater their exposure is
to hassles, the worse is their mood. Studies have found that one’s exposure to
daily hassles is actually more predictive of illness than is exposure to major
life events. Traffic congestion, unemployment of the youth, neglect of
pensioners, non-availability of public utilities and loss of jobs by parents
are examples that many Nigerians face!
EFFECTS
OF STRESS
A person who is stressed
typically has anxious thoughts and difficulty concentrating or remembering.
Stress can also change outward behaviours. Teeth clenching, hand wringing,
pacing, nail biting and heavy breathing are common signs of stress. People also
feel physically different when they are stressed. Butterflies in the stomach,
cold hands and feet, dry mouth, and increased heart rate are all physiological
effects of stress that we associate with the emotion of anxiety.
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The
Stress Response
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When a person appraises
an event as stressful, the body undergoes a number of changes that heighten
physiological and emotional arousal. First, the sympathetic divisionof the autonomic nervous system is activated. The sympathetic division
prepares the body for action by directing the adrenal glands to secrete the
hormones epinephrine (adrenaline) and nor epinephrine (nor adrenaline). In
response, the heart begins to beat more rapidly, muscle tension increases,
blood pressure rise, and blood flow is diverted from the internal organs and
skin to the brain and muscles. Breathing speeds up, the pupils dilate and
perspiration increases. This reaction is sometimes called the fight-or-flight response because it energizes the body to either confront or flee from a
threat.
Another part of the stress
response involves the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland, parts of the brain
that are important in regulating hormones and many other bodily functions. In
times of stress, the hypothalamus directs the pituitary gland to secrete
adrenocorticotropic hormone. This hormone, in turn, stimulates the outer layer,
or cortex, of the adrenal glands to release glucocorticoids, primarily the
stress hormone Cortisol, principally derived from hydrocortisone, a survival
chemical that the body produces. Cortisol helps the body access fats and
carbohydrates to fuel the fight-or-flight response.
Canadian scientist Hans
Selye was one of the first people to study the stress response. As a medical
student, Selye noticed that patients with quite different illnesses shared many
of the same symptoms, such as muscle weakness, weight loss and apathy. Selye
believed these symptoms might be part of a general response by the body to
stress. In the 1930s, Selye studied the reactions of laboratory rats to a
variety of physical stressors, such as heat, cold, poisons, strenuous exercise
and electric shock. He found that the different stressors all produced a
similar response: enlargement of the adrenal glands, shrinkage of the thymus
gland (a gland involved in the immune response), and bleeding stomach ulcers.
Selye proposed a three-stage model of the stress response, which
he termed the general
adaptation syndrome. The three stages in Selye’s
model are alarm, resistance and exhaustion. The alarm stage is a generalized state of arousal during the body’s initial
response to the stressor. In the resistance stage, the
body adapts to the stressor and continues to resist it with a high level of
physiological arousal. When the stress persists for a long time, and the body
is chronically overactive, resistance fails and the body moves to the exhaustion stage. –
It should be noted that at this critical stage, the
body is easily vulnerable to disease and even death.
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Disease
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Physicians increasingly
acknowledge that stress is a contributing factor in a wide variety of health
problems. These problems include cardiovascular disorders such as hypertension
(high blood pressure); coronary heart disease (coronary arteriosclerosis, or
narrowing of the heart’s arteries); and gastrointestinal disorders, such as
ulcers. Stress also appears to be a risk factor in cancer, chronic pain
problems and many other health disorders. See Stress-Related Disorders.
Researchers have clearly
identified stress, and specifically a person's characteristic way of responding
to stress, as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. The release of stress
hormones has a cumulative negative effect on the heart and blood vessels.
Cortisol, for example, increases blood pressure, which can damage the inside
walls of blood vessels. It also increases the free fatty acids in the
bloodstream, which in turn leads to plaque build-up on the lining of the blood
vessels. As the blood vessels narrow over time, it becomes increasingly
difficult for the heart to pump sufficient blood through them.
People with certain personality
types seem to be physiologically over responsive to stress and therefore more
vulnerable to heart disease. For example, the so-called Type A personality is
characterised by competitiveness, impatience and hostility. When Type A people
experience stress, their heart rate and blood pressure climb higher and
recovery takes longer than with more easygoing people. The most “toxic”
personality traits of Type A people are frequent reactions of hostility and
anger. These traits are correlated with an increased risk of coronary heart
disease.
Stress also appears to
influence the development of cancer, but the relationship is not as well
established as it is for cardiovascular diseases. There is a moderate positive
correlation between extent of exposure to life stressors and cancer—the more
stressors, the greater the likelihood of cancer. In addition, a tendency to
cope with unpleasant events in a rigid, unemotional manner is associated with
the development and progression of cancer.
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Decreased
Immune Response
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Ordinarily the immune
system is a marvel of precision. It protects the body from disease by seeking
out and destroying foreign invaders, such as viruses and bacteria. However,
there is substantial evidence that stress suppresses the activity of the immune
system, leaving an organism more susceptible to infectious diseases. An organism
with a weakened immune system is also less able to control naturally occurring
mutant cells that overproduce and lead to cancer.
Numerous studies have
linked stress with decreased immune response. For example, when laboratory
animals are physically restrained, exposed to inescapable electric shocks or
subjected to overcrowding, loud noises or maternal separation, they show
decreased immune system activity. Researchers have reported similar findings
for humans.
One
study, for example, found weakened immune response in people whose spouses had
just died. Other studies have documented weakened immune responses among
students taking final examinations; people who are severely deprived of sleep;
recently divorced or separated men and women; people caring for a family member
with Alzheimer’s disease; and people who have recently lost their jobs.
Stress appears to depress
immune function in two main ways. First, when people experience stress, they
more often engage in behaviours that have adverse effects on their health:
cigarette smoking, using more alcohol or drugs, sleeping less, exercising less
and eating poorly. In addition, stress may alter the immune system directly
through hormonal changes. Research indicates that glucocorticoids—hormones that
are secreted by the adrenal glands during the stress response—actively suppress
the body’s immune system.
At one time scientists
believed the immune system functioned more or less as an independent system of
the body. They now know that the immune system does not operate by itself, but
interacts closely with other bodily systems. The field of psychoneuroimmunology focuses on the relationship between psychological influences (such
as stress), the nervous system and the immune system.
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Mental
Illness
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Stress influences mental
health as well as physical health. People who experience a high level of stress
for a long time—and who cope poorly with this stress—may become irritable,
socially withdrawn, and emotionally unstable. They may also have difficulty concentrating
and solving problems. Some people under intense and prolonged stress may start
to suffer from extreme anxiety, depression or other severe emotional problems.
Anxiety disorders caused by stress may include generalised anxiety disorder,
phobias, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. People who survive
catastrophes sometimes develop an anxiety disorder called post-traumatic stress
disorder. They re-experience the traumatic event repeatedly in dreams and in
disturbing memories or flashbacks during the day. They often seem emotionally
numb and may be easily startled or angered.
COPING
WITH STRESS
Coping with stress means
using thoughts and actions to deal with stressful situations and lower our
stress levels. Many people have a characteristic way of coping with stress
based on their personality. People who cope well with stress tend to believe
they can personally influence what happens to them. They usually make more
positive statements about themselves, resist frustration, remain optimistic and
persevere even under extremely adverse circumstances. Most importantly, they
choose the appropriate strategies to cope with the stressors they confront.
Conversely, people who cope poorly with stress tend to have somewhat opposite
personality characteristics, such as lower self-esteem and a pessimistic
outlook on life.
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Coping Strategies
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Psychologists distinguish
two broad types of coping strategies: problem-focused coping and
emotion-focused coping. The goal of both strategies is to control one’s stress
level.
In
problem-focused coping, people try to short-circuit negative emotions by taking
some action to modify, avoid or minimise the threatening situation. They change
their behaviour to deal with the stressful situation.
In
emotion-focused coping, people try to directly moderate or eliminate unpleasant
emotions. Examples of emotion-focused coping include rethinking the situation
in a positive way, relaxation, denial, and daydreaming (wishful thinking).
To understand these strategies,
consider the example of a premedical student in college who faces three
difficult final examinations in a single week. She knows she must get top
grades in order to have a chance at acceptance to medical school. This
situation is a potential source of stress. To cope, she could organise a study
group and master the course materials systematically (problem-focused coping).
She could also decide that she needs to relax and recollect herself for an hour
or more (emotion-focused coping), before proceeding with an action plan
(problem-focused coping). She might also decide to watch television for hours
on end to prevent having to think about or study for her exams (emotion-focused
coping). In general, problem-focused coping is the most effective
coping strategy when people have realistic opportunities to change aspects of
their situation and reduce stress. Emotion-focused coping is most useful as a
short-term strategy. It can help reduce one’s arousal level before engaging in
problem-solving and taking action, and it can help people deal with stressful
situations in which there are few problem-focused coping options.
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Social
Support
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Support from friends,
family members and others who care for us goes a long way in helping us to get
by in times of trouble. Social support systems provide us with emotional
sustenance, tangible resources and aid, and information when we are in need.
People with social support feel cared about, valued by others and feel a sense
of belonging to a larger social network.
A large body of research
has linked social support to good health and a superior ability to cope with
stress. For example, one long-term study of several thousand California
residents found that people with extensive social ties lived longer than those
with few close social contacts did. This confirmed the benefit of the African
Extended Family system! Another study found that heart-attack victims who lived
alone were nearly twice as likely to have another heart attack as those who
lived with someone. Even the perception of social support can help people cope
with stress. Studies have found that people’s appraisal of the availability of
social support is more closely related to how well they deal with stressors
than the actual amount of support they receive or the size of their social
network.
Research also suggests
that the companionship of animals can help lower stress. For example, one study
found that in times of stress, people with pet dogs made fewer visits to the
doctor than those without pets.
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Biofeedback
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Biofeedback is a technique
in which people learn voluntary control of stress-related physiological
responses, such as skin temperature, muscle tension, blood pressure and heart
rate. Normally, people cannot control these responses voluntarily. In biofeedback
training, people are connected to an instrument or machine that measures a
particular physiological response, such as heart rate, and feeds that
measurement back to them in an understandable way.
For
example, the machine might beep with each heartbeat or display the number of
heartbeats per minute on a digital screen. Next, individuals learn to be
sensitive to subtle changes inside their body that affect the response system
being measured. Gradually, they learn to produce changes in that response system—for
example, to voluntarily lower their heart rate. Typically, individuals use
different techniques and proceed by trial and error until they discover a way
to produce the desired changes. Scientists do not understand the
mechanisms by which biofeedback works. Nonetheless, it has become a widely used
and generally accepted technique for producing relaxation and lowering
physiological arousal in patients with stress-related disorders. One use of
biofeedback is in the treatment of tension headaches. By learning to lower
muscle tension in the forehead, scalp and neck, many tension headache sufferers
can find long-term relief.
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Relaxation
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In addition to biofeedback,
two other major methods of relaxation are progressive muscular relaxation and
meditation. Progressive
muscular relaxation involves systematically
tensing and then relaxing different groups of skeletal (voluntary) muscles,
while directing one’s attention toward the contrasting sensations produced by
the two procedures. After practicing progressive muscular relaxation,
individuals become increasingly sensitive to rising tension levels and can
produce the relaxation response during everyday activities (often by repeating
a cue word, such as calm, to themselves).
Meditation, in addition
to teaching relaxation, is designed to achieve subjective goals such as
contemplation, wisdom, and altered states of consciousness. Some forms have a
strong Eastern religious and spiritual heritage based in Zen Buddhism and yoga.
Other varieties emphasize a particular lifestyle for practitioners. One of the
most common forms of meditation, Transcendental Meditation, involves focusing
attention on and repeating a mantra, which
is a word, sound, or phrase thought to have particularly calming properties.
Both progressive muscle relaxation and meditation reliably reduce
stress-related arousal. They have been used successfully to treat a range of
stress-related disorders, including hypertension, migraine and tension
headaches, and chronic pain.
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Aerobic
Exercise
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Aerobic exercise—such
as running, walking, biking and skiing—can help keep stress levels down.
Because aerobic exercise increases the endurance of the heart and lungs, an
aerobically fit individual will have a lower heart rate at rest and lower blood
pressure, less reactivity to stressors, and quicker recovery from stressors. In
addition, studies show that people who exercise regularly have higher
self-esteem and suffer less from anxiety and depression than comparable people
who are not aerobically fit. The American College of Sports Medicine recommends
exercising three to four times a week for at least 20 minutes to reduce the
risk of cardiovascular disease.
Every
culture has its traditional ways of coping with stressful events and
situations. Take the example of long funeral ceremonies, the dancing, sing
songs, eating and drinking and boisterous milling around of relatives who had
come from far and near. To the average European, it does not make sense, but
when you view the emotional, social and moral support it gives the sorrowing
family, then you appreciate the wisdom of African Extended Family System.
Contributed By: Stephen Auerbach, Sandra E.
Gramling & Kenez J. Danmbaezue
Stress-Related Disorders
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INTRODUCTION
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Stress-Related Disorders
are diseases brought on or worsened by psychological stress.
These disorders commonly involve the autonomic nervous system, which controls
the body’s internal organs. Disorders that can be caused by stress include hypertension
(high blood pressure), headaches, back pain, skin disorders, irritable bowel
syndrome and ulcers. Stress is also believed to contribute to coronary heart
disease (atherosclerosis, or narrowing of the heart’s arteries) and some cases
of cancer.
Physicians have long recognized that
people are more susceptible to diseases of all kinds when subjected to great
stress. Negative events, such as the death of a loved one, seem to cause enough
stress to lower the body’s resistance to disease. Positive circumstances, however,
such as a new job or a new baby in the house, can also upset a person’s normal
ability to fend off disease. Social scientists have devised a list of life
events and rated the relative stressfulness of each. Thus, the death of a
spouse rates a 100 on the scale; getting divorced, 73; marital separation, 65;
going to jail, 63; death of a close family member, 63; major personal injury or
illness, 53; and so on. People also experience stress from daily hassles, such
as living in crowded, noisy conditions, commuting to work, and waiting in line.
Although these are minor irritants when experienced individually, the
cumulative effect of daily hassles can cause substantial stress.
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CAUSES
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Stress hampers function of the immune
system, leaving people more vulnerable to many diseases. It also affects some
disorders directly. When people experience stress, their heart beats faster,
blood pressure rises, and other body systems prepare to meet the perceived
threat. When a person does something active to cope with a threat, these
systems return to normal. Running away or fighting—the so-called
flight-or-fight response—are both successful ways of coping with many physical
threats. Problems arise, however, when the body is prepared to cope with danger
but cannot do so. Being caught in a traffic jam, for example, can cause the
body to prepare for a flight-or-fight response, but when no action can be
taken, the body’s systems remain overly active. Similar repeated experiences of
this frustrating nature can lead to conditions such as high blood pressure.
Scientists attribute at least part of this effect to evolutionary history. They
reason that at one time, people had to live with constant physical threats from
wild animals and the elements, as well as from one another, and that the body
developed in a way that helped it cope with these physical stresses.
Certain personality traits may also lead
to stress-related disorders. The so-called Type A personality, characterized by
competitive, hard-driving intensity, is common in American society. Although
early studies suggested a link between Type A behaviour and coronary heart
disease, most studies since the 1980s have failed to find such a relationship.
However, research has consistently demonstrated that people who show a high
level of hostility, anger, and cynicism—often components of Type A
behaviour—have a higher risk of coronary heart disease than people without
these traits. See Heart: Heart Diseases.
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KINDS
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High blood pressure, or
hypertension, is one of the most common disorders made worse by stress. About
25 percent of adult Americans have high blood pressure. Although it has no
noticeable symptoms, hypertension can damage the kidneys and can lead to stroke
or heart attack. Gastrointestinal problems are an even more common result
of stress. Peptic ulcers (see Ulcer) are sores in the lining of the stomach or
the duodenum (the upper part of the small intestine).
Most researchers believe that stress contributes to
ulcers by causing excessive secretion of hydrochloric acid. Normally this acid
aids digestion by breaking down food in the stomach. But when the stomach
produces excessive acid in the absence of food, the acid can eat through the
protective mucous lining of the stomach or duodenum. Other stress-related gastrointestinal
disorders include irritable bowel syndrome and some inflammatory diseases of
the colon and bowel, such as regional enteritis.
Stress can also contribute to some
respiratory disorders. For example, stress can trigger an attack of asthma (see
Asthma, Bronchial). Asthma attacks are characterized by wheezing, panting, and
a feeling of being suffocated. In addition, emotional stress can cause or
aggravate many skin disorders, from those that produce itching, tickling and
pain to those that cause rashes and acne.
Major traumatic events such as accidents,
catastrophes, or battle experiences may bring on a condition called
post-traumatic stress disorder. Once known under war conditions as shell shock
or battle fatigue, post-traumatic stress disorder gained its current name after
it appeared in many veterans returning from the Vietnam War (1959-1975) as they
tried to readjust to civilian life. Symptoms may appear long after the initial
trauma. These include re-experiencing the trauma through disturbing nightmares
and memories, emotional numbness, nervous irritability, depression, and sleep
difficulties.
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TREATMENT
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Treatment of stress-related disorders
depends on the specific disorder. In some cases, treatment is limited to
relieving the particular physical symptom involved. Psychological treatments
are directed at helping the person to relieve the source of stress or else to
learn to cope more effectively with it. Physicians often recommend combinations
of physical and psychological treatments.
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EPILOGUE:
It should
now be evident that crisis intervention is not exactly the same as stress
management. Any other socio-political instability that does not present as
health problems for the individual but translates into problems that affect the
larger community falls into crisis intervention/management. Natural disasters
like Tsunami and Katharina are recent examples! How has Nigeria fared as a
nation since independence and what has been its major crisis management
history. We shall cite the political inequalities that bedevilled the nation at
the end of the civil war as a veritable example! Military dictatorships have
been our albatross!
CONCLUDING WITH THE COMMONEST PROBLEMS IN SOCIETY
This
lecture ends with the commonest ego defence mechanism most parents live with
all through their lives. Those who are never completely healthy nor are
completely sick most of their lives are neurotics. Most resort to religious or
superstitious methods for coping with it and die without knowing they were ill!
Neuroticism, which is a fundamental trait in the study of personality
disorders in clinical psychology, is an enduring tendency to experience negative
emotional states. Individuals who score high on neuroticism are more likely to
experience such feelings as anxiety, anger, guilt anddepressed mood than the average individual.
- They
respond to environmental stress more negatively than others,
and are more likely to interpret ordinary situations as threatening and minor
frustrations as hopelessly difficult.
- They
are often self-conscious and shy, and
- They
have trouble controlling urges and/or delaying gratification.
Neuroticism is associated with low emotional intelligence, which involves emotional regulation
motivation and interpersonal skills. It is also a risk factor for "internalising" mental disorders such as phobia,
depression, panic disorder, and other anxiety disorders (traditionally
called neuroses). On the opposite end of the spectrum, individuals who score low in
neuroticism are more emotionally stable and less reactive to stress. They tend
to be calm, even tempered and less likely to feel tense or rattled. Although
they are low in negative emotion, they are not necessarily high on positive
emotion. Being high on positive emotion is an element of the independent trait
of extraversion. Neurotic extraverts, for example, would experience high levels of both
positive and negative emotional states, a kind of "emotional roller
coaster". Individuals who score low on neuroticism (particularly those who
are also high on extraversion) generally report more happiness and satisfaction
with their lives. Neurotic
anxiety occurs when unwanted impulses overwhelm the egos defences and try to
come into action.
THESE ARE THE REGULAR CUSTOMERS TO SPIRITUAL
HEALERS WHO ASK THEM TO USE INCENSE, GREEN, YELLOW OR RED CANDLES. OTHERS ARE
ADDICTS TO MIDNIGHT CRUSADES WHERE THEY INDULGE IN DENIALS AND EUPHORIA TILL
THE NEXT MORNING. THE RESPONSIBLE PARENT CAN ATTEND MY CLINIC ON WEDNESDAYS
FROM 9.00 AM TILL 5.00 PM TO LEARN BIOFEEDBACK OR EXISTENTIAL METHODS OF TREATING
AND MANAGING STRESS. GOD BLESS US.
1.
J.
K. DANMBAEZUE (a.k.a.
Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez ) is a sixty-three year old research scientist privately
self-employed as an existential therapist currently resident and practising in
Enugu, with a headquarters in Ihiala, Republic of Biafra, where he treats
people with personality disorders and counsels young adults about to wed by
administering standardised psychological tests and utilizing the results to
counsel, re-direct incompatible couples and conduct group sessions for other
couples .
He has three Community-Based Organisations for this
project;
1.
KENEZ
HEALTH KLINIK, an interdisciplinary therapeutic clinic, where a patient is seen
contemporaneously by three consultants in physical, social & psychological
medicine
2.
HAPPY
FAMILY NETWORK INTERNATIONAL, an intercultural fraternity, which aims at
the globalization of the principles he has neatly encapsulated in THE KENEZIAN
CREED and his LETTER TO ALL EDUCATIONISTS.
3.
INTEGRATIONAL
SPIRITAN MOVEMENT, a fellowship of natural scientists who seek for the
unification of all religious thoughts & practice to reflect the harmony
embedded in the eternal laws that govern human existence.
For the past twenty five years he has been a
student of the Holy Spirit of God, the Creator of the universe we share with
other beings. His ministry as of today encompasses the unification of all
religious faiths, while his lay apostolate for the entire human race aims at
institutionalising the equality of peoples of all nations irrespective of race,
creed, colour, and social status.
The concise motto; “ONE ALMIGHTY CREATOR, ONE
CREATED UNIVERSE & ONE HUMAN FAMILY” translates into enthronement of
brother/sisterhood of all mankind, the liberalisation of all social contracts
and the integration of all belief systems so as to ensure optimum health,
success and happiness for every home worldwide and for humanity at all times;
now and in the future. Professionally, he is a Consultant Clinical
Psychologist, an Existential Family Therapist and a Research Psychometrician.
Currently he is leading a team of medical experts in finding an alternative
management strategy for the pandemic HIV-AIDS based on natural ingredients from
the tropics.
He is happily married and has three kids. He holds
Bachelor’s degrees in both Philosophy and Psychology, a Pass Junior Staff
College (abbrev; pjsc) from the Nigerian Air Force, a Master’s degree in
Clinical Psychology and finally a Doctor of Science degree in Psychometrics
besides being a Fellow of the African College of Research Scientists.
There is need to make this world a peaceful
habitation of all rational beings who accept that we are all children of the
same Almighty Creator of the universe we share with so many other living and
non-living beings and this organisation is poised to enthrone optimum health,
social success and enduring happiness in all families in all communities and
countries of the world that make up the global village as heirs of the same
Ultimate Father!
Dr Jideofo Kenechukwu Danmbaezue, D.Sc.
E-mail: agunabu1948@gmail.com & saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk
THEN DIGEST THIS TO SEE THE FUTILITY OF RELIGIOUS
CONFLICTS
THE GOD
OF ABRAM ISSAC AND JACOB IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
FROM GOD
ALMIGHTY CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE
4/17/2015 2:04:35 HRS GMT
YOU MUST
READ THIS BEFORE YOU CAN FULLY UNDERSTAND MY PAPERS, QUERY WHAT IS NEBULOUS AND
THEN APPRECIATE MY DEPOSITIONS & CONCLUSIONS
YOU CAN
ALSO GET A GIST OF THE SAME BOOK IN WIKIPEDIA AT THIS SIDE;
Straight and Crooked Thinking, first published in 1930 and revised in 1953,[1] is a book by Robert H. Thouless which describes, assesses and critically analyses flaws in
reasoning and argument. Thouless describes it as a practical manual, rather
than a theoretical one.
The
earliest narrative that gave credence to my investigative instinct was WHO
CORRECTED ABRAHAM’S MISTAKE OF WRONGFULLY CHASING AWAY HAGGAI AND HIS OWN FIRST
BIOLOGICAL SON; ISHMAEL AWAY TO DIE IN THE DRY DESSERT WHEREAS HE WAS FULLY
AWARE THEY COULD NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT WATER/WHERE DID HE SEND THEM TO . . .
1 ¶ And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and
the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
Ge 17:16,19,21; 18:10,14; 1Sa
2:21; Ga 4:23,28
ACC JWN MHC MHCC TSK JFB
2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham
a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Ge 17:21; Ac 7:8; Ga 4:22; Heb 11:11
GBN FBN JWN TSK
3 And Abraham called the name of his son that
was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
Ge 17:19,21
ACC TSK JFB
4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being
eight days old, as God had commanded him.
Ge 17:10,12; Ac 7:8
ACC FBN JWN TSK
5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his
son Isaac was born unto him.
Ge 17:1,17
FBN TSK
6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh,
so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Ps 126:2; Isa 54:1; Lu 1:58;
Ga 4:27
ACC JWN TSK
7 And she said, Who would have said
unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a
son in his old age.
Ge 18:11-12
GBN TSK
8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and
Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
ACC TSK JFB
9 ¶ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the
Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
Ge 16:1,15; Ga 4:29
GBN ACC FBN JWN MHC MHCC TSK JFB
10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out
this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir
with my son, even with Isaac.
Ge 25:6; 36:6-7; Ga 3:18; 4:30
ACC JWN TSK JFB
11 And the thing was very grievous in
Abraham's sight because of his son.
Ge 17:18
FBN JWN TSK
12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be
grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all
that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy
seed be called.
Ro 9:7-8; Heb 11:18
GBN ACC FBN TSK JFB
13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will
I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
Ge 16:10; 17:20; 21:18
GBN JWN TSK JFB
14 ¶ And Abraham rose up early in the
morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting
it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and
wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Joh 8:35
GBN ACC FBN JWN MHC MHCC TSK JFB
15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and
she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
ACC TSK JFB
16 And she went, and sat her down over
against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see
the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice,
and wept.
TSK
17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and
the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth
thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
Ge 22:11; Ex 3:7
GBN JWN TSK
18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in
thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
Ge 21:13
FBN TSK
19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a
well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad
drink.
Nu 22:31; 2Ki 6:17-18,20; Lu 24:16,31
GBN ACC TSK JFB
20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and
dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Ge 16:12; 28:13,15; 39:2-3,21
GBN ACC TSK JFB
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran:
and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
WHEN CAN
ALL OF US WAKE FROM THE RELIGIOUS HYPNOSIS OF CENTURIES AND CLAIM OUR RIGHTS AS
“HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENTIS” OF THIS INTERNET AGE?
REPLY TO A RELIGIOUS FANATIC ON THE INTERNET
Re: Bible Question from Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D. Sc. Moses
Inbox x
yourfriendat-bibletoday@yahoo.com
9/25/11
to me
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Sent: Thu, September 22, 2011 11:35:03 AM
Subject: Bible Question from Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D. Sc.
Name: Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D. Sc.
Email: agunabu1948@gmail.com
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Moses is the Patriarch of Ethnic Prejudice by introducing the classification into JEWS and GENTILES. But he married a Gentile. So, who inspired him to formulate that racist nomenclature for which crusades and jihads had taken millions of lives?
Dear REV PROF, you seem to be ignorant of the fact that it is God who chose Abraham. (Genesis 12) And it was Abraham's grandson Jacob whose name was changed to Israel, who had twelve sons, one of which was Judah from which the Jews get their name.
God because of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob's faith made a covenant with their descendants through Moses as mediator, making them His people.
This is obvious to any who read the Bible. In the future it will be with Israel that the New Covenant will be made when the Kingdom of God is fully established on the earth and through them shall the earthly phase of God's blessing pass onto the world of mankind.
Moses was a friend of God and the Scriptures honour Moses as a faithful and obedient and meek servant of the Lord. Your problem isn't with Moses but with God Almighty.
Understanding God's plans and purposes throughout the ages establishes our faith and directs us to work in harmony with the Lord and to enjoy the peace and joy that knowledge gives us. The Divine Plan of the Ages and the rest of The Studies in the Scriptures give us this knowledge.
CB www.bibletoday.com
Rev. Prof. J J Kenez
2:03 AM (11 minutes ago)
to yourfriendat-b.
First Response to the www.bibletoday.com
A frog that lives in a pond from birth to age fifty years without jumping into other ponds and experiencing the vagaries of their differential environments cannot appreciate that other ponds may have cleaner waters and nutrients.
I will only refer you to one short article I battled with the LORD when I was only 45 years old.
You may have been born into your parents religion and grew up 'a good boy or girl' by their standards and practised whatever moral ethics you were introduced to. RIGHT?
Yet, that does not mean you are a good person by other standards. Abraham was a Chaldean. A full-fledged pagan. He was called out to a foreign land to serve the One True God of the universe!
BUT HE DISOBEYED. He had no child. His wife was barren. He took LOT, a nephew. Did he leave his paganish lifestyle?
NO! He took Lot to deceive others he had a son! You had never thought of that all your life. HE DID NOT OBEY GOD COMPLETELY/ that was why ISSAC came very late. He deceived a King to marry his wife and though he became wealthy there from, he unknowingly inherited curses that worsened the barrenness of his wife.
Find this website;https://sites.google.com/site/integrationalspiritanmovement/home/mission-statement
You need a year to read and digest some of the lectures there and review some of the PowerPoints to update your academic horizon, not your blind faith! After you have digested at least six of my dissertations on the false claims of the Jewish race you will then appreciate the one entitled 'Israelite is not a chosen race'. That alone, is all you need to read with a scientific mind to have your eyes open to divine wisdom.
Sorry, I did not read your mail earlier. I am a field research scientist and often forget to check my mails. Remain blessed in the Creator.
Revolutionary Professor J. J. Kenez.
You need not reply till you are a freeman not a slave. Read John 8: 32 – 47
Find GOOD NEWS BIBLE EDITION FOR THE Words FREEMEN and SLAVES
John 8:31-47
31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.
32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
33 They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?"
34 Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
37 I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are ready to kill me, because you have no room for my word.
38 I am telling you what I have seen in the Father's presence, and you do what you have heard from your father."
39 "Abraham is our father," they answered. "If you were Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then you would do the things Abraham did.
40 As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.
41 You are doing the things your own father does."
"We are not illegitimate children," they protested. "The only Father we have is God himself."
42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me.
43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!
46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me?
47 He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."
From the New International Version, find GOOD NEWS EDITION for “FREEMAN & SLAVES”
Rev. Prof. J J Kenez
2:14 AM (0 minutes ago)
to yourfriendat-b.
THE ISRAELITE NATION IS NOT A CHOSEN RACE
It is only a self-opinionated claim that is not backed by veritable facts of history. Moses had to fabricate it as a political ploy to arrest the insurrection; he faced as a leader of a rebellious people, in the desert! It really worked for him!
By:
Rev. Prof. J. J. KENEZ. , D.Sc.
The Vessel of the Holy Spirit of God, the Creator.
THE MAIN THESIS OF THIS DISCOURSE IS VERY SIMPLE!
If there was anybody in the Bible that could authentically lay claim to such a title, it was Noah! Shem, Japheth and Ham could also have inherited such a title by birth.
Moreover, if one follows the effects of the curse pronounced by Noah, after his drunken stupor, the Israelites are truly the descendants of Ham, not of Shem as they cooked up in Genesis 10 & 11. They were the ones that served both Shem, (Egyptians) and Japheth (Babylonians) as their father, Noah, had predicted by his vow or curse! To buttress my thesis, let us refer to the contents of Chapter 6, in the Book of Genesis, for a preliminary investigation!
GOD MADE A CHOICE OF NOAH BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONLY UPRIGHT MAN. HIS WAS THE TRULY CHOSEN RACE
Gen 6:8-14
8 But Noah found favour in the eyes of the LORD.
9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.
10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11 Now, the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.
12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
13 So, God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
(From the Holy Bible: New International Version. Copyright (c) 1973, 1978, and 1984, by International Bible Society)
ABRAM WAS CALLED NOT CHOSEN. AND EVEN AT THAT;
HE HAD A BETTER CLAIM TO BEING ‘CHOSEN’ THAN JACOB
Abraham was called out ‘from among his pagan relatives’ and was ‘promised descendants as numerous as the stars in the heavens’ or ‘the sands at the seashore’.
“Abram had auditory hallucinations”, as far as his relatives were concerned.
He could also ‘be escaping the derision his childlessness and barren wife brought unto him.’ She was beautiful, no doubt, but she was sterile! What other best option had he than claiming he received a call from a god their religion and culture did not recognise.
It was a perfect alibi, to get away and try one’s luck elsewhere!
On the other hand, did this ‘Lord’ also call Lot? If he took his nephew along, was he truly obeying his lord to the letter? Verse 1 stated clearly, what he was required to do. Alternatively, was Lot supposed to fill the void of sterility or childlessness, as those he came across would naturally presume that Lot was his son? Was Abram truly upright?
THIS IS VERBATIM WHAT THE LORD OF ABRAM DICTATED
Gen 12:1-5
12:1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.
2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.
5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
BEING CALLED IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM BEING CHOSEN
Does that translate to being ‘chosen’? Yes, it could. But Noah’s case was incontrovertible!
One can argue on behalf of Abram, a great grandson and descendant of Nimrod who built the city of Babel, where a tower was built. It was later re-named Ur.
Abram set out from this countryside! Therefore, one could equally apply the title; ‘chosen’ to his entire descendants rather than the offspring of Jacob, the deceiver.
However, the question you will have to answer is: did Abram really/fully obey this; ‘his lord’?
MOSES WAS NOT VERY SMART IN CHOOSING THE TITLE
The Israelites alone, (descendants of Jacob), should not claim the title ‘chosen’ as being great grand children of Abraham. Ishmael, Isaac, Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah could equally claim that if Jacob could!
See 1st Chronicles 1: 28 – 32
28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
29 These were their descendants: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
30 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,
31 Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael.
32 The sons born to Keturah, Abraham's concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
(From the Holy Bible: New International Version. Copyright (c) 1973, 1978, and 1984, by International Bible Society. MANY CHRISTIANS DON’T KNOW ABRAHAM HAD A THIRD WIFE WITH 6 SONS.)
THE LEOPARD NEVER CHANGES ITS SPOTS AS IT AGES!
Abraham’ genealogy continued through Ishmael to Isaac until Esau and Jacob arrived on the scene. They were the last on the list! The chronicle gives a historical data on those who later became kings and enumerates their dynasties!
Therefore, all these sons and grandsons had more claim to the title of ‘CHOSEN PEOPLE’ than Jacob had! His deceitful nature was later modified after wrestling with an angel. After this, it was reported that he was renamed: ISRAEL, yet, his deceit did not stop! Did he not out-wit Esau a second time?
The argument needs no amplification, as it is very straightforward. Alternatively, do you have any objections? State them and buttress your position with relevant portions of the Bible that will lend weight to your argument! Use my E-mail address!
What do you think these folks are discussing?
“Why can’t people agree that we need a ONE-WORLD-RELIGION, like this Rev. Professor J. J. Kenez is canvassing for”?
“My friend, humans dislike change! They would rather believe what they had been taught to memorise as infants, than think for themselves”! ‘Opium of the masses- Karl Marx called it’”!
“It is funny, as they claim to be RATIONAL BEINGS. I pity them”!
SO, THE LORD OF ABRAM HAD NO LOCUS STANDI TO GIVE ANY TITLE; LET ALONE, THAT OF ‘MY CHOSEN PEOPLE’
The title ‘CHOSEN RACE’ must necessarily come from the one and only Omniscient and Impartial God who created the universe, for it to be authentic & relevant! This is not the case with this ‘lord of Abram’.
The ‘Lord of Abram’ is an unjust ‘god’ that condones evil. This ‘lord’ advised Abram to listen to his wife Sarah twice and so Abram reluctantly banished Hagar and Ishmael to a dry desert to starve to death. Is that how to be a lord?
If not for the intervention of the Almighty God, the Creator, who is not only Just but also Merciful, Ishmael could have died of thirst! Hagar could scarcely look at him, the Bible stated!
The Lord of Abram, Isaac & Jacob frequently referred to in Bible narratives was a personal deity, as is obtainable in all pagan religions. The Chaldeans were not an exception!
See Genesis, Chapters 16 & 21 for the details.
THAT SARAI USED THE SAME TERM: ‘LORD’ CONFIRMED IT; ‘A PAGAN PERSONAL GOD’ OF ABRAM, NOT GOD USED 5 TIMES IN GENESIS 21.
Gen 16:1-2
16:1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;
2 so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
Gen 21:17-20
17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20 God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.
1st CHRONICLES 1,vv: 33 - 52 HAS A MORE DETAILED LIST
Definitely, this ‘lord/god’ was quite different from God, the Creator who chose Noah, saved his family when he destroyed the wicked with a ‘forty days & forty nights’ flood and later established a divine covenant with him and all the creatures he made!
Therefore, the title ‘CHOSEN RACE’ was not from the Almighty God, who had chosen Noah earlier, for he could not have chosen Abram who was so weak-minded! How could Moses, a great grandson of Jacob, the deceiver, graft the un-merited title on to his ‘stiff-necked and rebellious’ race?
This was how the Almighty God described the Israelites to Moses after they had forced Aaron to make a golden image of a cow, which they fully worshipped while he was away at Mount Sinai! So, did such a rebellious and adulterous people merit the title: ‘A CHOSEN RACE’? Judge them!
READ THE RELEVANT PORTIONS OF GENESIS, 25-27 AND LATER CHAPTERS 30-33. SEE WHAT CHAPTER 27 OFFERS:
Is it possible for a just and omniscient God to select a dishonest lad to be the father of his ‘chosen nation’? Let us review the intrigues of Jacob and his crafty mother, Rebecca, another cheat! Would you, an ordinary human being choose a liar as a favourite heir or friend?
Genesis 27
27:1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." "Here I am," he answered.
2 Isaac said, "I am now an old man and don't know the day of my death.
3 Now then, get your weapons-- your quiver and bow-- and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.
4 Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die."
5 Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,
IMAGINE THE EFFONTERY OF THE ISRAELITE NATION ; THIS JACOB, WITH A FAMILY HISTORY OF DECEIT & TRECHERY IS WHAT MOSES DEEMED FIT TO GIVE THE TITLE: ‘CHOSEN’
6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,
7'Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the LORD before I die.'
8 Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you:
9 Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.
10 Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies."
JACOB, IF NOT A CONGENITAL LIAR, LEARNT IT FROM HIS MOTHER
11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a man with smooth skin.
12 What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing."
13 His mother said to him, "My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me."
14 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
15 Then Rebekah, took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
16 She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.
17 Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.
MY GOD CAN NOT MAKE JACOB, THE LIAR, A CHOSEN ONE
18 He went to his father and said, "My father." "Yes, my son," he answered. "Who is it?"
19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing."
20 Isaac asked his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" "The LORD your God gave me success," he replied.
21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not."
22 Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
23 He did not recognise him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
24 "Are you really my son Esau?" he asked. "I am," he replied.
IN VERSES 35 & 36; JACOB DECEIVED HIS FATHER & BROTHER TWICE, YET THEY HAVE THE EFFONTERY TO ANSWER ‘A CHOSEN PEOPLE’
30 After Isaac finished blessing him and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.
31 He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, "My father, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing."
32 His father Isaac asked him, "Who are you?" "I am your son," he answered, "your firstborn, Esau."
33 Isaac trembled violently and said, "Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him-- and indeed he will be blessed!"
34 When Esau heard his father's words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me-- me too, my father!"
35 But he said, "YOUR BROTHER CAME DECEITFULLY AND TOOK YOUR BLESSING."
36 Esau said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? He has deceived me these two times: He took my birthright, and now he's taken my blessing!" Then he asked, "Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?"
WHEN A SON, MOTHER & MATERNAL UNCLE ARE EXPERT LIARS, DO YOU THINK GOD, KNOWING ALL THAT, WOULD STILL CHOOSE HIM?
41 Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
42 When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, "Your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.
43 Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
44 Stay with him for a while until your brother's fury subsides.
45 When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"
46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living."
GOD, THE CREATOR IS AN OMNISCIENT & JUST FATHER. HE DID NOT CHOOSE, HAS NOT, AND WILL NEVER CHOOSE ANY RACE TO BE HIS FAVOURITE ONE! HIS WAYS ARE NOT LIKE OURS, WHERE PARENTS PAMPER SOME CHILDREN!
Read the entire chapters given as the relevant references above and others you know too well on the subterfuges of Jacob. Subsequently, decide for yourself who had any veritable claim to being chosen: Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Esau or Jacob, the deceiver!
How could the All-knowing God of Justice chose one whose mother helped steal the birthright of his elder brother and who equally cheated his maternal uncle Laban, who was equally a deceiver. Then, the wife of Jacob, who bore Joseph, was also a woman who equally deceived and cheated his father as well. See Genesis 31!
Could the Infinite God of Equity and Goodness ever chose such a descendant of a family of cheats, liars and pretenders? An honest answer will reveal that the vain-glorious title; “Chosen People” was a masterstroke Moses employed to arrest the insurrection of the stiff-necked people he was leading out of four hundred years of slavery in Egypt.
He had to appeal to their pride, fabricate a special status that was vain-glorious, to assuage their inferiority complex. This is simply referred to as “Ego Defence Mechanism” in scientific psychology!
TO DATE; DECEPTION IS A NORM AMONG THE ISRAELITES! SO, WE SHOULD ALL CALL OFF THEIR BLUFF. CAN’T WE?
In all narratives about Noah, the term used was; GOD, but in those of Abram, it was; LORD, Why? What was/is the implication of alternating the names?
The answer is simple for the intelligent mind! Any one can be addressed as ‘Lord’ but for humans; only one entity is ever addressed as ‘God’!
Another landmark to observe is that Abram was a warrior fully brought up in paganism. This was best exemplified by what he did to recapture his nephew, Lot, and the loot he took. He demonstrated his native instincts as a Chaldean!
Did Joseph not marry an Egyptian? Did Moses, himself, not marry the daughter of the High Priest of Midian? Did King Solomon, also, not marry a daughter of Pharaoh?
So, when, where and how did the nation of Israel acquire the appellation “A Chosen Race”, or “Children of God”! Tell me, whose children are the rest of the nations? Are we all not Noah’s children? Who then are; Jews, others; Gentiles?
THE DESCENDANTS OF JACOB ARE THE SONS OF HAM WHO LOOKED ON THE NAKEDNESS OF NOAH. THEY SHOULD SHOW REMORSE FOR THEIR ANCESTOR’S NAIVETY & SHOW TRUE REPENTANCE, MAY BE GOD, THE ALMIGHTY/ MERCIFUL FATHER, CAN REVERSE THE CURSE!
If God later accepted any nation as his people, one could easily point at the Assyrians. At least, they listened to the reluctant Jonah’s prophecy and the King called for true repentance for all his subjects, including animals! Read Chapter 3 of Jonah and you will marvel at their humility!
The nation of Israel never did such, despite all the pampering of God, who literally rescued them from slavery. Let them stop deceiving themselves. Its time they grew up and realised that they are not special.
They are, in fact, the most ungrateful nation on earth. They even murdered the only son of the Almighty God who liberated them from 400 years of slavery in Egypt and another more severe 400 years in Babylon!
That was why Hitler tried to wipe them off the face of the earth. Have you so easily forgotten what their elders said to Pontus Pilate when he wanted to release Jesus, the Christ?
COULD ‘A CHOSEN RACE’ DO THIS TO THE SON OF THEIR GOD? NO! THE LORD OF ABRAM WAS NOT THE INFINTE GOD THAT WE WORSHIP
Matt 27:15-40
15 Now it was the governor's custom at the Feast to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd.
16 At that time they had a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas.
17 So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, "Which one do you want me to release to you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?"
18 For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.
19 While Pilate was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him this message: "Don't have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him."
20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.
21 "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" asked the governor. "Barabbas," they answered.
22 "What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?"
Pilate asked. They all answered, "Crucify him!"
ONLY A FOOL OR NON-SCIENTIST CAN BE DECEIVED BY AN ISRAELITE
The contents of Genesis 9 established the relationship between the three races of humankind; Negroid, Mongoloid and Caucasian; scientists found out many centuries later.
It is the only authentic portion of the Bible that tallies with science. The covenant God, the Creator, made with Noah is verifiable and universal; unlike the one, the ‘god of Moses’ gave him on Mount Sinai. Do a comparative analysis today!
When anyone critically evaluates the covenant given to Noah, the father of all humanity, and compares it with the covenant the ‘god of Moses’ gave, the difference is clearer than a cloudy heaven just before a storm!
I doubt the authenticity of the latter, but no one will cast a shred of query or shadow of doubt on the former. Whereas the former is international, the latter is parochial, nepotic, apartheid and ethnocentric! That is the bane of Judaism!
ISM does not subscribe to any of its tenets at all. So, never pay attention to the Mosaic Law! He concocted all of it!
A COMPARISM OF THE TWO COVENANTS NAILS THE JEWISH DECEIT!
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
9 "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you
10 and with every living creature that was with you-- the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you-- every living creature on earth.
11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between the earth and me.
14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
THE DIFFERENCE IS CLEAR,THIS IS A PAGAN RITUAL, NOT A DIVINECOVENANT
3 And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir."
4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir."
5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars-- if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
7 He also said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it."
8 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I shall gain possession of it?"
9 So the LORD said to him, "Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."
10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
11 Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
13 Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and ill-treated four hundred years.
THE ALMIGHTY GOD IS NEVER HUNGRY, SO NEITHER NEEDS FLESHY MEAT NOR DOES HE DRINK BLOOD; READ PSALM 50, verses 1 – 15.
In the case of Noah, the Almighty God was in charge of all the phases of the divine covenant:
1. He conceptualised it,
2. He gave the terms of reference,
3. He chose the symbol of remembrance, and
4. Finally, He made it with all his living creatures, not with a special nation.
This is how the Creator, the Loving Father and Almighty God of all mankind demonstrates that he owns the entire universe. He is self-sufficient and omnipotent!
In the case of Abram, it was a bargaining affair or a treaty:
1. What do I get for being faithful all this while without an heir?
2. A convincing stratagem of asking Abram to gaze at the heavens,
3. A naive ritual that seals agreements even among pagans of today,
4. Only a demonic god can delay sealing a treaty until 12 hours later!
The Israelite nation was never a ‘chosen race’ …QED.
Are you still waiting for more proofs from Dr Kenez? No!!!
AT INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT, WE TELL THE TRUTH AS IT IS! WE ARE NO FOOLS. IT IS TIME TO CALL A SPADE BY ITS NAME!
The truth of the matter is that, Jewish scholars or early theologians of the Roman Church had to graft a superior genealogy to the so-called ‘chosen race’! Ask yourself, if the Israelites were not the descendants of Ham; who was? Who served the brothers as it was predicted by the curse of Noah, the first drunkard? We are rational beings and therefore only fools can be taken for a ride for so many centuries.
It was the descendants of Jacob, a great grandson of Ham through Nimrod, Abraham and Isaac that were slaves to Egyptians, Babylonians and even Assyrians. Whereas the others were never slaves to anyone, Israelites cannot re-write history! I think we have had enough of this religious blindfolding; puerile subterfuge and futile buffoonery. Who do they think they can deceive for so long?
ONLY IDIOTS, CLOWNS & PSYCHOPATHS LIVE IN A FOOL’S PARADISE
An International adage the Jews ought to have learnt states:
“You can fool all the people, some of the time;
• You can fool some of the people all the time;
. But, you cannot fool all the people, all the time!”
You cannot easily graft on a nation, a genealogy that is false. My People in Biafra have an idiom that goes thus: “You can dive into a deep river and eat a banana, but you can’t hide your theft for long, because the cover of the banana will rise to the top and give you away!”
That is exactly where the nation of Israel is today! Moreover, until they recant and repudiate their grandfathers’ forgeries, they will remain slaves in their minds and their nation will forever be a pawn in the hands of international politicians, the PLO and the UN!
INFERIORITY COMPLEX IS A SERIOUS PERSONALITY DISORDER, IT IS WORSE WHEN IT IS PSYCHOGENIC! JEWS MUST TRY TO CONQUER IT.
The Jews were the descendants of Ham, and their servitude only confirms the curse the father of the entire human race decreed for his naivety of looking at his father’s nakedness.
However, it was Noah, who should have borne the punishment of his foolery. He planted the vineyard! He brewed the intoxicating wine! He drank it!
So, why should he, turn around and curse, not even his direct son Ham; but, an unborn child. This is what exposes the forgery to any great mind!
How can one curse a futuristic probability? All they wanted to achieve by the forgery is deny that their ancestor was Ham! They got confused halfway, just as all liars do!
Their escapist mentality settled for appropriating falsehood that has kept them in bondage & derision for centuries!
SELF-PRIDE IS THE FIRST MALADJUSTMENT THAT ETHNOCENTRISM CAUSES. THE JEWS FAILED TO LEARN FROM THE NATIONS AROUND THEM. CAN’T THEY DO WHAT THE NINEVITES & KING OF ASSYRIA DID?
Jonah 3
3:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
2 "Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you."
3 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very important city-a visit required three days.
4 On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned."
5 The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.
NIGERIA NEEDS TO IMITATE THIS NATION THAT REPENTED FULLY
7 Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh:
"By the decree of the king and his nobles:
Do not let any man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.
9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish."
10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened.
From the New International Version
PILATE REPRESENTED US VERY WELL, ABSOLVING US OF HOMICIDE!
The nation of Israel never did as the Ninevites, despite being delivered from slavery and all the pampering in the desert by God.
Let them stop deceiving themselves. Its time they grew up and realised that they are not special. They are, in fact, the most ungrateful nation on earth.
They even murdered the only son of the Almighty God who liberated them from 400 years of slavery in Egypt and another more severe 400 years in Babylon!
That was why Hitler tried to wipe them off the face of the earth. Have you so easily forgotten what their elders said to Pontus Pilate when he wanted to release Jesus, the Christ?
They shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him! Let his blood be on our heads and those of our children!” Of course Pilate washed his hands publicly.
By that single action, we, the ‘Gentiles,’ were exculpated!
I HAVE PROVEN MY THESIS BEYOND ALL REASONABLE DOUBT! BUT, BEFORE SIGNING OFF, AS A CONSULTANT CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, THIS IS MY PRESCRIPTION TO THE HYPO-MANIACAL ISRAELITES!
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Moses is the Patriarch of Ethnic Prejudice by introducing the classification into JEWS and GENTILES. But he married a Gentile. So, who inspired him to formulate that racist nomenclature for which crusades and jihads had taken millions of lives?
Dear REV PROF, you seem to be ignorant of the fact that it is God who chose Abraham. (Genesis 12) And it was Abraham's grandson Jacob whose name was changed to Israel, who had twelve sons, one of which was Judah from which the Jews get their name.
God because of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob's faith made a covenant with their descendants through Moses as mediator, making them His people.
This is obvious to any who read the Bible. In the future it will be with Israel that the New Covenant will be made when the Kingdom of God is fully established on the earth and through them shall the earthly phase of God's blessing pass onto the world of mankind.
Moses was a friend of God and the Scriptures honour Moses as a faithful and obedient and meek servant of the Lord. Your problem isn't with Moses but with God Almighty.
Understanding God's plans and purposes throughout the ages establishes our faith and directs us to work in harmony with the Lord and to enjoy the peace and joy that knowledge gives us. The Divine Plan of the Ages and the rest of The Studies in the Scriptures give us this knowledge.
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A frog that lives in a pond from birth to age fifty years without jumping into other ponds and experiencing the vagaries of their differential environments cannot appreciate that other ponds may have cleaner waters and nutrients.
I will only refer you to one short article I battled with the LORD when I was only 45 years old.
You may have been born into your parents religion and grew up 'a good boy or girl' by their standards and practised whatever moral ethics you were introduced to. RIGHT?
Yet, that does not mean you are a good person by other standards. Abraham was a Chaldean. A full-fledged pagan. He was called out to a foreign land to serve the One True God of the universe!
BUT HE DISOBEYED. He had no child. His wife was barren. He took LOT, a nephew. Did he leave his paganish lifestyle?
NO! He took Lot to deceive others he had a son! You had never thought of that all your life. HE DID NOT OBEY GOD COMPLETELY/ that was why ISSAC came very late. He deceived a King to marry his wife and though he became wealthy there from, he unknowingly inherited curses that worsened the barrenness of his wife.
Find this website;https://sites.google.com/site/integrationalspiritanmovement/home/mission-statement
You need a year to read and digest some of the lectures there and review some of the PowerPoints to update your academic horizon, not your blind faith! After you have digested at least six of my dissertations on the false claims of the Jewish race you will then appreciate the one entitled 'Israelite is not a chosen race'. That alone, is all you need to read with a scientific mind to have your eyes open to divine wisdom.
Sorry, I did not read your mail earlier. I am a field research scientist and often forget to check my mails. Remain blessed in the Creator.
Revolutionary Professor J. J. Kenez.
You need not reply till you are a freeman not a slave. Read John 8: 32 – 47
Find GOOD NEWS BIBLE EDITION FOR THE Words FREEMEN and SLAVES
John 8:31-47
31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.
32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
33 They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?"
34 Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
37 I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are ready to kill me, because you have no room for my word.
38 I am telling you what I have seen in the Father's presence, and you do what you have heard from your father."
39 "Abraham is our father," they answered. "If you were Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then you would do the things Abraham did.
40 As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.
41 You are doing the things your own father does."
"We are not illegitimate children," they protested. "The only Father we have is God himself."
42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me.
43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!
46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me?
47 He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."
From the New International Version, find GOOD NEWS EDITION for “FREEMAN & SLAVES”
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THE ISRAELITE NATION IS NOT A CHOSEN RACE
It is only a self-opinionated claim that is not backed by veritable facts of history. Moses had to fabricate it as a political ploy to arrest the insurrection; he faced as a leader of a rebellious people, in the desert! It really worked for him!
By:
Rev. Prof. J. J. KENEZ. , D.Sc.
The Vessel of the Holy Spirit of God, the Creator.
THE MAIN THESIS OF THIS DISCOURSE IS VERY SIMPLE!
If there was anybody in the Bible that could authentically lay claim to such a title, it was Noah! Shem, Japheth and Ham could also have inherited such a title by birth.
Moreover, if one follows the effects of the curse pronounced by Noah, after his drunken stupor, the Israelites are truly the descendants of Ham, not of Shem as they cooked up in Genesis 10 & 11. They were the ones that served both Shem, (Egyptians) and Japheth (Babylonians) as their father, Noah, had predicted by his vow or curse! To buttress my thesis, let us refer to the contents of Chapter 6, in the Book of Genesis, for a preliminary investigation!
GOD MADE A CHOICE OF NOAH BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONLY UPRIGHT MAN. HIS WAS THE TRULY CHOSEN RACE
Gen 6:8-14
8 But Noah found favour in the eyes of the LORD.
9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.
10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11 Now, the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.
12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
13 So, God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
(From the Holy Bible: New International Version. Copyright (c) 1973, 1978, and 1984, by International Bible Society)
ABRAM WAS CALLED NOT CHOSEN. AND EVEN AT THAT;
HE HAD A BETTER CLAIM TO BEING ‘CHOSEN’ THAN JACOB
Abraham was called out ‘from among his pagan relatives’ and was ‘promised descendants as numerous as the stars in the heavens’ or ‘the sands at the seashore’.
“Abram had auditory hallucinations”, as far as his relatives were concerned.
He could also ‘be escaping the derision his childlessness and barren wife brought unto him.’ She was beautiful, no doubt, but she was sterile! What other best option had he than claiming he received a call from a god their religion and culture did not recognise.
It was a perfect alibi, to get away and try one’s luck elsewhere!
On the other hand, did this ‘Lord’ also call Lot? If he took his nephew along, was he truly obeying his lord to the letter? Verse 1 stated clearly, what he was required to do. Alternatively, was Lot supposed to fill the void of sterility or childlessness, as those he came across would naturally presume that Lot was his son? Was Abram truly upright?
THIS IS VERBATIM WHAT THE LORD OF ABRAM DICTATED
Gen 12:1-5
12:1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.
2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.
5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
BEING CALLED IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM BEING CHOSEN
Does that translate to being ‘chosen’? Yes, it could. But Noah’s case was incontrovertible!
One can argue on behalf of Abram, a great grandson and descendant of Nimrod who built the city of Babel, where a tower was built. It was later re-named Ur.
Abram set out from this countryside! Therefore, one could equally apply the title; ‘chosen’ to his entire descendants rather than the offspring of Jacob, the deceiver.
However, the question you will have to answer is: did Abram really/fully obey this; ‘his lord’?
MOSES WAS NOT VERY SMART IN CHOOSING THE TITLE
The Israelites alone, (descendants of Jacob), should not claim the title ‘chosen’ as being great grand children of Abraham. Ishmael, Isaac, Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah could equally claim that if Jacob could!
See 1st Chronicles 1: 28 – 32
28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
29 These were their descendants: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
30 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,
31 Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael.
32 The sons born to Keturah, Abraham's concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
(From the Holy Bible: New International Version. Copyright (c) 1973, 1978, and 1984, by International Bible Society. MANY CHRISTIANS DON’T KNOW ABRAHAM HAD A THIRD WIFE WITH 6 SONS.)
THE LEOPARD NEVER CHANGES ITS SPOTS AS IT AGES!
Abraham’ genealogy continued through Ishmael to Isaac until Esau and Jacob arrived on the scene. They were the last on the list! The chronicle gives a historical data on those who later became kings and enumerates their dynasties!
Therefore, all these sons and grandsons had more claim to the title of ‘CHOSEN PEOPLE’ than Jacob had! His deceitful nature was later modified after wrestling with an angel. After this, it was reported that he was renamed: ISRAEL, yet, his deceit did not stop! Did he not out-wit Esau a second time?
The argument needs no amplification, as it is very straightforward. Alternatively, do you have any objections? State them and buttress your position with relevant portions of the Bible that will lend weight to your argument! Use my E-mail address!
What do you think these folks are discussing?
“Why can’t people agree that we need a ONE-WORLD-RELIGION, like this Rev. Professor J. J. Kenez is canvassing for”?
“My friend, humans dislike change! They would rather believe what they had been taught to memorise as infants, than think for themselves”! ‘Opium of the masses- Karl Marx called it’”!
“It is funny, as they claim to be RATIONAL BEINGS. I pity them”!
SO, THE LORD OF ABRAM HAD NO LOCUS STANDI TO GIVE ANY TITLE; LET ALONE, THAT OF ‘MY CHOSEN PEOPLE’
The title ‘CHOSEN RACE’ must necessarily come from the one and only Omniscient and Impartial God who created the universe, for it to be authentic & relevant! This is not the case with this ‘lord of Abram’.
The ‘Lord of Abram’ is an unjust ‘god’ that condones evil. This ‘lord’ advised Abram to listen to his wife Sarah twice and so Abram reluctantly banished Hagar and Ishmael to a dry desert to starve to death. Is that how to be a lord?
If not for the intervention of the Almighty God, the Creator, who is not only Just but also Merciful, Ishmael could have died of thirst! Hagar could scarcely look at him, the Bible stated!
The Lord of Abram, Isaac & Jacob frequently referred to in Bible narratives was a personal deity, as is obtainable in all pagan religions. The Chaldeans were not an exception!
See Genesis, Chapters 16 & 21 for the details.
THAT SARAI USED THE SAME TERM: ‘LORD’ CONFIRMED IT; ‘A PAGAN PERSONAL GOD’ OF ABRAM, NOT GOD USED 5 TIMES IN GENESIS 21.
Gen 16:1-2
16:1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;
2 so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
Gen 21:17-20
17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20 God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.
1st CHRONICLES 1,vv: 33 - 52 HAS A MORE DETAILED LIST
Definitely, this ‘lord/god’ was quite different from God, the Creator who chose Noah, saved his family when he destroyed the wicked with a ‘forty days & forty nights’ flood and later established a divine covenant with him and all the creatures he made!
Therefore, the title ‘CHOSEN RACE’ was not from the Almighty God, who had chosen Noah earlier, for he could not have chosen Abram who was so weak-minded! How could Moses, a great grandson of Jacob, the deceiver, graft the un-merited title on to his ‘stiff-necked and rebellious’ race?
This was how the Almighty God described the Israelites to Moses after they had forced Aaron to make a golden image of a cow, which they fully worshipped while he was away at Mount Sinai! So, did such a rebellious and adulterous people merit the title: ‘A CHOSEN RACE’? Judge them!
READ THE RELEVANT PORTIONS OF GENESIS, 25-27 AND LATER CHAPTERS 30-33. SEE WHAT CHAPTER 27 OFFERS:
Is it possible for a just and omniscient God to select a dishonest lad to be the father of his ‘chosen nation’? Let us review the intrigues of Jacob and his crafty mother, Rebecca, another cheat! Would you, an ordinary human being choose a liar as a favourite heir or friend?
Genesis 27
27:1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." "Here I am," he answered.
2 Isaac said, "I am now an old man and don't know the day of my death.
3 Now then, get your weapons-- your quiver and bow-- and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.
4 Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die."
5 Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,
IMAGINE THE EFFONTERY OF THE ISRAELITE NATION ; THIS JACOB, WITH A FAMILY HISTORY OF DECEIT & TRECHERY IS WHAT MOSES DEEMED FIT TO GIVE THE TITLE: ‘CHOSEN’
6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,
7'Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the LORD before I die.'
8 Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you:
9 Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.
10 Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies."
JACOB, IF NOT A CONGENITAL LIAR, LEARNT IT FROM HIS MOTHER
11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a man with smooth skin.
12 What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing."
13 His mother said to him, "My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me."
14 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
15 Then Rebekah, took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
16 She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.
17 Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.
MY GOD CAN NOT MAKE JACOB, THE LIAR, A CHOSEN ONE
18 He went to his father and said, "My father." "Yes, my son," he answered. "Who is it?"
19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing."
20 Isaac asked his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" "The LORD your God gave me success," he replied.
21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not."
22 Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
23 He did not recognise him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
24 "Are you really my son Esau?" he asked. "I am," he replied.
IN VERSES 35 & 36; JACOB DECEIVED HIS FATHER & BROTHER TWICE, YET THEY HAVE THE EFFONTERY TO ANSWER ‘A CHOSEN PEOPLE’
30 After Isaac finished blessing him and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.
31 He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, "My father, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing."
32 His father Isaac asked him, "Who are you?" "I am your son," he answered, "your firstborn, Esau."
33 Isaac trembled violently and said, "Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him-- and indeed he will be blessed!"
34 When Esau heard his father's words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me-- me too, my father!"
35 But he said, "YOUR BROTHER CAME DECEITFULLY AND TOOK YOUR BLESSING."
36 Esau said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? He has deceived me these two times: He took my birthright, and now he's taken my blessing!" Then he asked, "Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?"
WHEN A SON, MOTHER & MATERNAL UNCLE ARE EXPERT LIARS, DO YOU THINK GOD, KNOWING ALL THAT, WOULD STILL CHOOSE HIM?
41 Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
42 When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, "Your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.
43 Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
44 Stay with him for a while until your brother's fury subsides.
45 When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"
46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living."
GOD, THE CREATOR IS AN OMNISCIENT & JUST FATHER. HE DID NOT CHOOSE, HAS NOT, AND WILL NEVER CHOOSE ANY RACE TO BE HIS FAVOURITE ONE! HIS WAYS ARE NOT LIKE OURS, WHERE PARENTS PAMPER SOME CHILDREN!
Read the entire chapters given as the relevant references above and others you know too well on the subterfuges of Jacob. Subsequently, decide for yourself who had any veritable claim to being chosen: Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Esau or Jacob, the deceiver!
How could the All-knowing God of Justice chose one whose mother helped steal the birthright of his elder brother and who equally cheated his maternal uncle Laban, who was equally a deceiver. Then, the wife of Jacob, who bore Joseph, was also a woman who equally deceived and cheated his father as well. See Genesis 31!
Could the Infinite God of Equity and Goodness ever chose such a descendant of a family of cheats, liars and pretenders? An honest answer will reveal that the vain-glorious title; “Chosen People” was a masterstroke Moses employed to arrest the insurrection of the stiff-necked people he was leading out of four hundred years of slavery in Egypt.
He had to appeal to their pride, fabricate a special status that was vain-glorious, to assuage their inferiority complex. This is simply referred to as “Ego Defence Mechanism” in scientific psychology!
TO DATE; DECEPTION IS A NORM AMONG THE ISRAELITES! SO, WE SHOULD ALL CALL OFF THEIR BLUFF. CAN’T WE?
In all narratives about Noah, the term used was; GOD, but in those of Abram, it was; LORD, Why? What was/is the implication of alternating the names?
The answer is simple for the intelligent mind! Any one can be addressed as ‘Lord’ but for humans; only one entity is ever addressed as ‘God’!
Another landmark to observe is that Abram was a warrior fully brought up in paganism. This was best exemplified by what he did to recapture his nephew, Lot, and the loot he took. He demonstrated his native instincts as a Chaldean!
Did Joseph not marry an Egyptian? Did Moses, himself, not marry the daughter of the High Priest of Midian? Did King Solomon, also, not marry a daughter of Pharaoh?
So, when, where and how did the nation of Israel acquire the appellation “A Chosen Race”, or “Children of God”! Tell me, whose children are the rest of the nations? Are we all not Noah’s children? Who then are; Jews, others; Gentiles?
THE DESCENDANTS OF JACOB ARE THE SONS OF HAM WHO LOOKED ON THE NAKEDNESS OF NOAH. THEY SHOULD SHOW REMORSE FOR THEIR ANCESTOR’S NAIVETY & SHOW TRUE REPENTANCE, MAY BE GOD, THE ALMIGHTY/ MERCIFUL FATHER, CAN REVERSE THE CURSE!
If God later accepted any nation as his people, one could easily point at the Assyrians. At least, they listened to the reluctant Jonah’s prophecy and the King called for true repentance for all his subjects, including animals! Read Chapter 3 of Jonah and you will marvel at their humility!
The nation of Israel never did such, despite all the pampering of God, who literally rescued them from slavery. Let them stop deceiving themselves. Its time they grew up and realised that they are not special.
They are, in fact, the most ungrateful nation on earth. They even murdered the only son of the Almighty God who liberated them from 400 years of slavery in Egypt and another more severe 400 years in Babylon!
That was why Hitler tried to wipe them off the face of the earth. Have you so easily forgotten what their elders said to Pontus Pilate when he wanted to release Jesus, the Christ?
COULD ‘A CHOSEN RACE’ DO THIS TO THE SON OF THEIR GOD? NO! THE LORD OF ABRAM WAS NOT THE INFINTE GOD THAT WE WORSHIP
Matt 27:15-40
15 Now it was the governor's custom at the Feast to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd.
16 At that time they had a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas.
17 So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, "Which one do you want me to release to you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?"
18 For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.
19 While Pilate was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him this message: "Don't have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him."
20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.
21 "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" asked the governor. "Barabbas," they answered.
22 "What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?"
Pilate asked. They all answered, "Crucify him!"
ONLY A FOOL OR NON-SCIENTIST CAN BE DECEIVED BY AN ISRAELITE
The contents of Genesis 9 established the relationship between the three races of humankind; Negroid, Mongoloid and Caucasian; scientists found out many centuries later.
It is the only authentic portion of the Bible that tallies with science. The covenant God, the Creator, made with Noah is verifiable and universal; unlike the one, the ‘god of Moses’ gave him on Mount Sinai. Do a comparative analysis today!
When anyone critically evaluates the covenant given to Noah, the father of all humanity, and compares it with the covenant the ‘god of Moses’ gave, the difference is clearer than a cloudy heaven just before a storm!
I doubt the authenticity of the latter, but no one will cast a shred of query or shadow of doubt on the former. Whereas the former is international, the latter is parochial, nepotic, apartheid and ethnocentric! That is the bane of Judaism!
ISM does not subscribe to any of its tenets at all. So, never pay attention to the Mosaic Law! He concocted all of it!
A COMPARISM OF THE TWO COVENANTS NAILS THE JEWISH DECEIT!
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
9 "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you
10 and with every living creature that was with you-- the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you-- every living creature on earth.
11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between the earth and me.
14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
THE DIFFERENCE IS CLEAR,THIS IS A PAGAN RITUAL, NOT A DIVINECOVENANT
3 And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir."
4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir."
5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars-- if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
7 He also said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it."
8 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I shall gain possession of it?"
9 So the LORD said to him, "Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."
10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
11 Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
13 Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and ill-treated four hundred years.
THE ALMIGHTY GOD IS NEVER HUNGRY, SO NEITHER NEEDS FLESHY MEAT NOR DOES HE DRINK BLOOD; READ PSALM 50, verses 1 – 15.
In the case of Noah, the Almighty God was in charge of all the phases of the divine covenant:
1. He conceptualised it,
2. He gave the terms of reference,
3. He chose the symbol of remembrance, and
4. Finally, He made it with all his living creatures, not with a special nation.
This is how the Creator, the Loving Father and Almighty God of all mankind demonstrates that he owns the entire universe. He is self-sufficient and omnipotent!
In the case of Abram, it was a bargaining affair or a treaty:
1. What do I get for being faithful all this while without an heir?
2. A convincing stratagem of asking Abram to gaze at the heavens,
3. A naive ritual that seals agreements even among pagans of today,
4. Only a demonic god can delay sealing a treaty until 12 hours later!
The Israelite nation was never a ‘chosen race’ …QED.
Are you still waiting for more proofs from Dr Kenez? No!!!
AT INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT, WE TELL THE TRUTH AS IT IS! WE ARE NO FOOLS. IT IS TIME TO CALL A SPADE BY ITS NAME!
The truth of the matter is that, Jewish scholars or early theologians of the Roman Church had to graft a superior genealogy to the so-called ‘chosen race’! Ask yourself, if the Israelites were not the descendants of Ham; who was? Who served the brothers as it was predicted by the curse of Noah, the first drunkard? We are rational beings and therefore only fools can be taken for a ride for so many centuries.
It was the descendants of Jacob, a great grandson of Ham through Nimrod, Abraham and Isaac that were slaves to Egyptians, Babylonians and even Assyrians. Whereas the others were never slaves to anyone, Israelites cannot re-write history! I think we have had enough of this religious blindfolding; puerile subterfuge and futile buffoonery. Who do they think they can deceive for so long?
ONLY IDIOTS, CLOWNS & PSYCHOPATHS LIVE IN A FOOL’S PARADISE
An International adage the Jews ought to have learnt states:
“You can fool all the people, some of the time;
• You can fool some of the people all the time;
. But, you cannot fool all the people, all the time!”
You cannot easily graft on a nation, a genealogy that is false. My People in Biafra have an idiom that goes thus: “You can dive into a deep river and eat a banana, but you can’t hide your theft for long, because the cover of the banana will rise to the top and give you away!”
That is exactly where the nation of Israel is today! Moreover, until they recant and repudiate their grandfathers’ forgeries, they will remain slaves in their minds and their nation will forever be a pawn in the hands of international politicians, the PLO and the UN!
INFERIORITY COMPLEX IS A SERIOUS PERSONALITY DISORDER, IT IS WORSE WHEN IT IS PSYCHOGENIC! JEWS MUST TRY TO CONQUER IT.
The Jews were the descendants of Ham, and their servitude only confirms the curse the father of the entire human race decreed for his naivety of looking at his father’s nakedness.
However, it was Noah, who should have borne the punishment of his foolery. He planted the vineyard! He brewed the intoxicating wine! He drank it!
So, why should he, turn around and curse, not even his direct son Ham; but, an unborn child. This is what exposes the forgery to any great mind!
How can one curse a futuristic probability? All they wanted to achieve by the forgery is deny that their ancestor was Ham! They got confused halfway, just as all liars do!
Their escapist mentality settled for appropriating falsehood that has kept them in bondage & derision for centuries!
SELF-PRIDE IS THE FIRST MALADJUSTMENT THAT ETHNOCENTRISM CAUSES. THE JEWS FAILED TO LEARN FROM THE NATIONS AROUND THEM. CAN’T THEY DO WHAT THE NINEVITES & KING OF ASSYRIA DID?
Jonah 3
3:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
2 "Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you."
3 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very important city-a visit required three days.
4 On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned."
5 The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.
NIGERIA NEEDS TO IMITATE THIS NATION THAT REPENTED FULLY
7 Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh:
"By the decree of the king and his nobles:
Do not let any man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.
9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish."
10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened.
From the New International Version
PILATE REPRESENTED US VERY WELL, ABSOLVING US OF HOMICIDE!
The nation of Israel never did as the Ninevites, despite being delivered from slavery and all the pampering in the desert by God.
Let them stop deceiving themselves. Its time they grew up and realised that they are not special. They are, in fact, the most ungrateful nation on earth.
They even murdered the only son of the Almighty God who liberated them from 400 years of slavery in Egypt and another more severe 400 years in Babylon!
That was why Hitler tried to wipe them off the face of the earth. Have you so easily forgotten what their elders said to Pontus Pilate when he wanted to release Jesus, the Christ?
They shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him! Let his blood be on our heads and those of our children!” Of course Pilate washed his hands publicly.
By that single action, we, the ‘Gentiles,’ were exculpated!
I HAVE PROVEN MY THESIS BEYOND ALL REASONABLE DOUBT! BUT, BEFORE SIGNING OFF, AS A CONSULTANT CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, THIS IS MY PRESCRIPTION TO THE HYPO-MANIACAL ISRAELITES!
THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION TO THE FRATRICIDAL RELIGIOUS CRISES IS FOR ALL HUMANITY TO RELY SOLELY ON THE NOAH ANCESTRY THAT IS UNIVERSAL AND CORRESPONDS TO THE SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION OF MANKIND INTO THE THREE RACES THAT NOAH FATHERED.
ISHMAEL
WAS SENIOR TO ISAAC, HE WAS THE CHIEF MOURNER AT ABRAHAM'S BURIAL, SO THERE IS
NO CONFLICT AS TO WHO WAS THE ORIGINAL FIRST SON OF ABRAM. THE ISRAELITES MUST
APOLOGISE TO THE WHOLE WORLD FOR THE SUBTERFUGE THAT HAS BRED INTERNECINE WORLD
WARS, JIHADS AND CRUSADES.
WHY DO WE
KILL OURSELVES FOR A FORGED ANCESTRY THAT IS FULL OF LIES, TREACHERIES AND
SUBTERFUGE. WE ARE 'HOMO RATIONALIS' ALBEIT 'HOMO SAPIENS', WE MUST PUT ON OUR
THINKING CAPS AND OPEN OUR EYES TO THIS KENEZIAN DISCOVERY. WE SHALL ALL HAVE A
GLOBAL PEACE WHEN WE REJECT THE ANCESTRY TRACED TO ABRAM AND REACH FURTHER TO THE
AUTHENTIC FATHERHOOD OF THE RACES OF MANKIND OF PATRIARCH NOAH WHO WAS THE
ORIGINAL AND AUTHENTIC CHOSEN MAN.
TYPE INTO
GOOGLE SEARCH; A Cross-Cultural Harmonisation of Youth Counselling, A Panacea
for Racism AND SEE THE PAPER THE UNITED NATIONS IGNORED THAT COULD HAVE GIVEN
US WORLD PEACE. WHAT IS THAT TOOTHLESS BULLDOG DOING OTHER THAN SERVING THE
INTERESTS OF THE SUPER POWERS...
SCRAP IT
AND SEND THEIR OPERATIONAL FUNDS TO THE STAFF OF LINKEDIN TO BUILD THIS;
IPGP..Here is an old diatribe I wrote on them earlier;
A KENEZIAN EXISTENTIAL COMMENTARY ON THE ISSUE OF
THE TOOTHLESS BULLDOG WE REFER TO AS U N i.e. THE UNITED NATIONS THAT ONLY
WAITS TILL THERE IS ETHNIC CLEANSING BEFORE THEY RUSH TO APPLY THEIR BELATED
‘FIRE BRIGADE INTERVENTIONS’ IN FAKE PEACE KEEPING OPERATIONS
IS THE
WORLD DEAF OR IS THE SECRETARY OF THE UNITED NATIONS WAITING FOR BLOOD BEFORE
HE STEPS IN ….
A Biafran adage or funny parlance states “ The
reason why the hen being taken to the slaughter for making a soup or stew for a
human meal is screaming loudly, not because what or who is holding tight will
release its firm grip on her BUT so that everyone will hear that at least she
made a bold effort to call for help not that she hoped for freedom from
entering into the soup pot.” In my culture we do not interpret wise sayings.
Think and SOLVE THE RIDDLE.
The first time I heard an elderly man use the
analogy of a hen screaming for help that she knew was not forthcoming, I
retorted like this; THE REASON WAS BECAUSE SHE WAS SHOUT ING TO THE WRONG
AUDIENCE, NAMELY HUMAN BEINGS….to which a cock nearby retorted thus …
“NA LIE OO.. IS IT NOT THE SAME HUMAN BEINGS
THAT CHASE AWAY THE KITES OR HAWKS THAT SWOOP DOWN TO CARRY HER DAY-OLD CHIICKS …
You see, at the time I had the gift of hearing animal
talk WHEN I WAS STILL IN STANDARD ONE AT ‘NEMPI CATHOLIC MISSION SCHOOL’ IN ORU
LGA OF PRESENT IMO STATE, FOUR YEARS BEFORE NIGERIA GOT IT PSEUDO-INDEPENDENCE,
so I burst out laughing so much that the elders thought I was laughing them to
scorn…THEY GOT ANGRY. My daddy, mummy, brothers and sisters were not around to
notify them that I had the gift, so I had to tell them myself, despite the fact
that I knew quite well that they would not believe me…
MY DADDIES, I am not laughing at you SIRS, it is
the cock that caused my uncontrollable laughter by telling me that I was wrong
by suggesting that the hen in your story was not screaming to the wrong
audience RATHER THAT HUMANS HAD NEPOTIC INTERESTS, SKEWED PREFERENCES OR
ETHNOCENTRIC-SPECIES PERSPECTIVES WHEN THE HEN WAS SHOUTING FOR HELP ..
They laughed and then demanded that I ask the cock
to expatiate on his thesis…. THIS IS HIS LOGIC; ….
1. Human beings are racists and have an
apartheid scale of preferences when they kill animals below their status in the
animal kingdom,
2. They are so myopic when a meal of chicken meat
is the topic in question, more so when the hen is past MENOPAUSE that humans
classify as OLD LAYERS,
3. Therefore, they develop deceptive hearing
problems and refuse to listen and interpret the urgency of the CRY FOR HELP of
poultry chickens in danger.
COUNT YOUR TEETH WITH YOUR TONGUES MY DEAR READERS
OR ELSE FIND THE NEAREST BIAFRAN ELDER AROUND YOU TO EXPLAIN WHAT I
HAVE SAID AS IT APPLIED TO THE POLITICS OF THE CAUCASIAN RACE.
Yours truly,
Dr J. K. Danmbaezue a.k.a Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez,
AGUNABU UMUELECHI BIAFRA
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