Ta ta to everyone. Abandoning UGLY Blogger.

Well, looking at this MESS, I doubt I will be posting ANYMORE posts to this blog. It's a nightmare to operate. Au Revoir followers, fiends and friends. Afrikitty

YouTube user Mgreer511002 and his Zombie Stompin' - It's the Old RAZZLE DAZZLE, Folks!

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On HYPER-DISPENSATIONALISM.
Recently, I watched a video titled "Heresies" put out by Pastor Mike Greer's YouTube channel, mgreer511002. While I am familiar with the teachings of Hyper-Dispensationalism, I was quite rudely taken aback by some of the musings that were perpetuated in that video. The error and heresy I heard went way and beyond blasphemy.

Hyper-Dispensationalism is anti-EVERYTHING they actually are. They are Humanists, they are Arminians, they are Universalists, they are anti-Scripture, leaning ONLY on the Pauline epistles for their doctrine. They do not believe God is Sovereign, they are free will advocates as well as Common Grace advocates. They are rabidly dispensational in their eschatology. They believe that the "Grace Era" will end with the Rapture, and the Tribulation "saints" will only be saved if they endure to the end, thus nullifying the saving work of Christ on the cross for a certain group of people. This makes a mockery of Acts 4:12, which states that there is NO other name under heaven, given among men by which we must be saved. They do not agree amongst themselves which of the three Acts Dispensations they hold to, be it Acts 2 Dispensationalists, Mid-Acts dispensationalists or Acts 28 Dispensationalists. The can and do disagree vehemently with one another on many of their dogmas.

Finally, many of them also deny the Genesis 1 account of Creation. They insist on calling themselves "Old Earth Creationists". This makes a mockery of God's infallible revelation that HE created the heavens and the earth. God did NOT leave that issue open to discussion. He says quite clearly in His infallible word, that HE spoke the universe into existence, and it is HIS word which maintains it in it's present state. God is also very clear on the issue, that HE created the universe in SIX LITERAL DAYS. On the 7th Day, God rested and called it holy. JediMan672 is a particularly avid proliferator of Old Earth Creationism.

They prefer to call themselves "Grace Believers", and I will admit that these people do get it right to a degree when it comes to the Gospel. They are of the few who do actually attempt to preach the Gospel of Grace, however, their surrounding doctrine is so far off that they often make the precious gospel of non-effect.

Regarding their Gospel preaching though, it HAS to be said that most of them preach a humanist, faith/works Gospel. This, I find, is because they do NOT understand who 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 is actually written to. Because of this, they will preach "believe", "receive", and "trust" (which are verbs/actions) as PART of their gospel presentation. This is a serious error, known as the Galatian heresy and is condemned by Paul in Galatians 1:8-9.

I will post a link to Mike Greer's original video in this description box, so that you may watch the 28 minute sermon at your leisure. I could only pick out a few errors in the time allotted to me to make this video. I have tried to deal with the worst ones I came across, but I had to ditch many others. Hyper-Dispensationalism is a massive error. The problem is where to start with this teaching. It would take, literally years of study and writing to correct ALL the error they hold to and teach. It is very, very difficult to teach these people anything. They think they are the Elite - seriously. If you have a Hyper-D friend, the only thing I would suggest, if your friend will allow it, it to try to show them their error with Scripture and PRAY for them

Super-Elitism on display:

FreedomMountain(2 months ago)
"I will brotha, I don't know if they get into it, most of my friends are not diverse like I am , I just am thankful to be your friend *****, and that you are a friendly person, have you ever heard a preacher liek me?LOL, rare, I am a pretty cool broad minded person LOL."

To see the original video for your perusal, please go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz3uSpnGWkE

For a refutation of the heresy of Hyper-Dispensationalism, please go here: http://www.wayoflife.org/files/ff92e8f95e2e0887d2468156498ba416-163.html
or
http://www.victory-baptist.net/hyper.htm
or
http://www.realapologetics.org/blog/2010/06/06/covenant-theology-vs-dispensat...

An excellent YouTube series of videos, put out by user Tim (kjvonly01) on Hyper-Dispensationalism can be found by following these links. I have placed them in order to be played:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPfB7HTUyfc
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBijwT1gp2Y
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlSF5wZRi-I
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTejraDU2Rg
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDdl4JX1JI
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_lXjRD96Ks
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBs3Lf9659g

YouTube user RedBeetle - Monty Lloyd Collier, has an excellent video on the heresy of Hyper-D proponent Brandon Kraft A.K.A. "Darth Gill".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk465m_Ru2Q

TOMASO ALBINONI's "Adagio" with Sissel, Il Divo, The Eroica Trio, Dominic Miller, Mostar Sinfonie

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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was born in Venice in 1671, eldest son of a wealthy paper merchant. At an early age he became proficient as a singer and, more notably, as a violinist, though not being a member of the performers' guild he was unable to play publicly so he turned his hand to composition. His first opera, Zenobia, regina de Palmireni, was produced in Venice in 1694, coinciding with his first collection of instrumental music, the 12 Sonate a tre, Op.1. Thereafter he divided his attention almost equally between vocal composition (operas, serenatas and cantatas) and instrumental composition (sonatas and concertos).

Until his father's death in 1709, he was able to cultivate music more for pleasure than for profit, referring to himself as "Dilettante Veneto" - a term which in 18th century Italy was totally devoid of unfavorable connotations. Under the terms of his father's will he was relieved of the duty (which he would normally have assumed as eldest son) to take charge of the family business, this task being given to his younger brothers. Henceforth he was to be a full-time musician, a prolific composer who according to one report, also ran a successful academy of singing.

A lifelong resident of Venice, Albnoni married an opera singer, Margherita Raimondi (d 1721), and composed as many as 81 operas several of which were performed in northern Europe from the 1720s onwards. In 1722 he traveled to Munich at the invitation of the Elector of Bavaria to supervise performances of I veri amici and Il trionfo d'amore as part of the wedding celebrations for the Prince-Elector and the daughter of the late Emperor Joseph I.

Most of his operatic works have been lost, having not been published during his lifetime. Nine collections of instrumental works were however published, meeting with considerable success and consequent reprints; thus it is as a composer of instrumental music (99 sonatas, 59 concertos and 9 sinfonias) that he is known today. In his lifetime these works were favorably compared with those of Corelli and Vivaldi, and his nine collections published in Italy, Amsterdam and London were either dedicated to or sponsored by an impressive list of southern European nobility.

Albinoni was particularly fond of the oboe, a relatively new introduction in Italy, and is credited with being the first Italian to compose oboe concertos (Op. 7, 1715). Prior to Op.7, Albinoni had not published any compositions with parts for wind instruments.

The concerto, in particular, had been regarded as the province of stringed instruments. It is likely that the first concertos featuring a solo oboe appeared from German composers such as Telemann or Handel. Nevertheless, the four concertos with one oboe (Nos. 3, 6, 9 and 12) and the four with two oboes (Nos. 2, 5, 8 and 11) in Albinoni's Op.7 were the first of their kind to be published, and proved so successful that the composer repeated the formula in Op.9 (1722).

Though Albinoni resided in Venice all his life, he traveled frequently throughout southern Europe; the European nobility would also have made his acquaintance in Venice, now a popular destination city. With its commercial fortunes in the Adriatic and Mediterranean in decline, the enterprising City-State turned to tourism as its new source of wealth, taking advantage of its fabled water setting and ornate buildings, and putting on elongated and elaborate carnivals which regularly attracted the European courts and nobility.

Apart from some further instrumental works circulating in manuscript in 1735, little is known of Albinoni's life and musical activity after the mid-1720s. However, so much of his output has been lost, one can surely not put our lack of knowledge down to musical or composition inactivity. Much of his work was lost during the latter years of World War II with the bombing of Dresden and the Dresden State library -- which brings us to the celebrated Adagio.

Albinoni died in 1751, in the city of his birth.
For a comprehensive biography on Tomaso Albinoni, please go to:
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Albinoni-Tomaso.htm
http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxalb.html

For more information on Il Divo, please go to"
http://www.ildivo.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Divo

For more information on Sissel Kyrkjebø (Soprano), please go to:
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Sissel.htm
http://www.sissel.cc/Sisselbio.html

For more information on Dominic Miller, please go to:
http://www.dominicmiller.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Miller

For more information on The Eroica Trio, please go to:
http://m.eroicatrio.com/biography.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroica_Trio

Classical Series: Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto - Eric Carmen, "All By Myself".

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The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The second and third movements were first performed with the composer as soloist on 2 December 1900.[2] The complete work was premiered, again with the composer as soloist, on 27 October 1901, with his cousin Alexander Siloti conducting. This piece is one of Rachmaninoff's most enduringly popular pieces, and established his fame as a concerto composer

At its 1897 premiere, Rachmaninoff's first symphony, though now considered a significant achievement, was derided by contemporary critics. Compounded by problems in his personal life, Rachmaninoff fell into a depression that lasted for several years. His second piano concerto confirmed his recovery from clinical depression and writer's block. The concerto was dedicated to Nikolai Dahl, a physician who had done much to restore Rachmaninoff's self-confidence.

For more information, please visit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._2_(Rachmaninoff)

"All by Myself" is a power ballad written and performed by Eric Carmen in 1975.

The verse borrows heavily from the second movement (Adagio Sostenuto) of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18, which Carmen believed was in the public domain. Having found it was not only after the record had been issued, Carmen had to come to an agreement with the Rachmaninoff estate. Early versions, therefore, only give writing credit to Carmen while later versions also credit Rachmaninoff. The chorus borrows from a song "Let's Pretend" that Carmen had written for the Raspberries in 1973. Carmen's full version has an extended piano solo and lasts over seven minutes. There is also an edited version of 4 minutes 22 seconds.

The song was the first release from Carmen's first solo LP after leaving the power pop group the Raspberries and was originally recorded by the author and released in December 1975 to great success. It reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 1 on Cash Box Top 100 Singles and number 12 in the UK. The single sold more than one million copies in the United States and was certified gold by the RIAA in April 1976. In a 2006 poll for UK's Five programme Britain's Favourite Break-up Songs Eric Carmen's version of this song was voted seventeenth.

For more information, please visit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_by_Myself

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David Meece - Brokenness!

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I made this video after I was badly betrayed by a "friend" in a group I was part of on YouTube. The woman was so brazen, that she did not even notice the two fleeting shots of snarling wolves in this video and she wrote a glowing comment in the comment section, which I subsequently removed. Today, this poor lady is deeply into heresy and the thriving ministry she once had on YouTube in now of nought. I cannot forget how much I loved this woman once - as if she was my own daughter. Nonetheless, God has helped me to forgive and move on.

This is the song written and sung by David Meece from his album "Once in a Lifetime"

LYRICS:
In my Brokenness, In my hour of Darkness,
I will lift my hands and Worship You.
In my Brokenness, In my Time of Sadness
I will lift my voice in Praise to You.

Time stand still, as I kneel down before you;
Light draws near
Like waves upon the Shore, You touch me.

In my Brokenness, In these Whispering Shadows,
I will lift the pieces of my heart to You.

Time Stands still, as I kneel down before you,
Light is here,
Your waves of Power and Glory, touch me.

In my Brokenness, In my hour of Darkness;
I will lift my hands and worship You.
I will lift my hands and Worship You!