Couple Claim They Are Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene- Alan John Miller ...

A couple who claim they are reincarnations of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene have recently set up camp in Queensland's Bible Belt, joined by 30- 40 followers. Australian cult watchers are concerned about a new organization known as Divine Truth, led by Alan John Miller and Mary Suzanne Luck, who claim they are Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene.

According to The Courier Mail, the two rely on donations made by their followers in order to sustain themselves, and authorities fear they could be taking advantage of the vulnerable.
Mr. Miller, 47, was born in Luxton, South Australia, and is the father of two children from a past marriage, which ended when he began remembering details from his past life. He seems to believe this is his 22nd life and that he has the amount of divine love in his heart accumulated in 22 life cycles. Now he and his soul mate, 32-years-old Mary Magdalene, real name Mary Suzanne Luck, are reunited and have created their
very own little cult, in Wilkesdale. Miller first bought 16 hectares of land in the area, and his followers soon followed his example just to be close to their charismatic spiritual leader.

In 2009, Divine Truth members joined forces and bought a $400,000, 250 ha property where they could hold meetings and build a center for international visitors. Concerned friends and families contacted the Cult Awareness and Information Center to warn followers are selling their houses to move to Wilkesdale. Land clearing has created a cross-like shape which locals say wasn't done intentionally, and that's bound to
convince plenty of believers this is a divine sign.

Meanwhile, police say they've been called to investigate screams on the property, only to find Divine Truth members practicing an exercise that apparently helps them deal with "past soul damage"
Alan John Miller admits "There's probably a million people who say they're Jesus and most of
them are in asylums. But one of us has to be.
How do I know I am? Because I remember everything about my life." He means all 2,000 years of it...

Lecrae’s “Anomaly” Album Receives RIAA Gold Certification

Grammy-award winning rap artist Lecrae celebrates the RIAA Gold Certification of his breakthrough album Anomaly . Released with Reach Records on September 9, 2014, Anomaly debuted at #1 on the coveted Billboard Top 200
Albums Chart, receiving universal acclaim and making Lecrae a force in rap music.
The Atlanta-based artist, community leader, activist and entrepreneur has helped to revive the genre’s conscious sensibility with his message of
inspiration.
Nominated for multiple awards throughout his career, Lecrae has blazed an unchartered path,
winning two Grammy Awards. His hit single “All I Need Is You” from Anomaly garnered across-the-board acclaim, earning a 2015 Grammy
nomination for Best Rap Performance. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Anomaly – Lecrae’s 7th album to date – at #12 on their list of the Best
40 Albums Of The Year.
This summer Lecrae celebrated the release of his memoir, Unashamed , which immediately debuted
as a New York Times Best Seller landing in the Top 10 of the Nonfiction category. It was also announced that the groundbreaking rap artist had
signed a deal with Columbia Records and his own label, Reach Records.
Lecrae has shared the stage with Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole as well as hip hop legends Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim and Common, and he has co-headlined some of the best-selling tours in the U.S., according to Pollstar. This fall Lecrae will embark on “The Destination Tour, You’re Accepted,” a headlining tour kicking off October 25th in Columbia, SC with stops in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago and more. Tickets are on sale now .

SOURCE: The Christian Beat
Jessie Clarks

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what they believe to be the site of a biblical city mentioned in the story of David and Goliath.

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Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what they believe to be the site of a biblical city mentioned in the story of David and Goliath.
Charisma News reports that the two-gated city is thought to be around 3,000 years old. Its modern name is Khirbet Qeiyafa and it is in Israel’s Elah Valley.
Archaeologists believe the city was referenced in the Old Testament and that its name during biblical times was Sha’arayim, which is Hebrew for “two gates.” The city is mentioned in 1 Samuel 17: 52 which says, “And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron.”
Scientists used carbon-14 dating of some 28 charred olive pits to determine that the city flourished at the end of the eleventh century BCE through the early tenth century, which included the days of King Saul and David.
"No one can argue with this data," said
Proffessor Yosef Garfinkel, Yigal Yadin Chair of Archeology at the Institute of Archeology at
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Professor Garfinkel, along with Professor Michal Hazel of Southern Adventist University of Tennessee, led the excavations.
The excavation of the city has been going on for seven years, but the public is finally able to explore the findings through a Bible Lands Museum exhibit that recently opened in
Jerusalem.

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Social Acceptance and Rejection: The Sweet and the Bitter

Social Acceptance and
Rejection: The Sweet
and the Bitter




For proof that rejection, exclusion, and
acceptance are central to our lives, look no
farther than the living room, says Nathan Dewall,
a psychologist at the University of Kentucky. “If
you turn on the television set, and watch any
reality TV program, most of them are about
rejection and acceptance,” he says. The reason,
DeWall says, is that acceptance—in romantic
relationships, from friends, even from strangers—
is absolutely fundamental to humans.
In a new paper published in Current Directions
in Psychological Science, a journal of the
Association for Psychological Science, DeWall and
coauthor Brad J. Bushman of Ohio State
University review recent psychological research on
social acceptance and rejection. “Although
psychologists have been interested in close
relationships and what happens when those
relationships go awry for a very long time, it’s
only been about 15 yrs that psychologists have
been doing this work on exclusion and rejection,”
DeWall says. The results have highlighted how
central acceptance is to our lives.
DeWall thinks belonging to a group was probably
helpful to our ancestors. We have weak claws,
little fur, and long childhoods; living in a group
helped early humans survive harsh environments.
Because of that, being part of a group still helps
people feel safe and protected, even when walls
and clothing have made it easier for one man to
be an island entire of himself.
But acceptance has an evil twin: rejection. Being
rejected is bad for your health. “People who feel
isolated and lonely and excluded tend to have
poor physical health,” DeWall says. They don’t
sleep well, their immune systems sputter, and
they even tend to die sooner than people who are
surrounded by others who care about them.
Being excluded is also associated with poor
mental health, and exclusion and mental health
problems can join together in a destructive loop.
People with depression may face exclusion more
often because of the symptoms of their disorder—
and being rejected makes them more depressed,
DeWall says. People with social anxiety navigate
their world constantly worried about being socially
rejected. A feeling of exclusion can also contribute
to suicide.
Exclusion isn’t just a problem for the person who
suffers it, either; it can disrupt society at large,
DeWall says. People who have been excluded
often lash out against others. In experiments,
they give people much more hot sauce than they
can stand, blast strangers with intense noise, and
give destructive evaluations of prospective job
candidates. Rejection can even contribute to
violence. An analysis of 15 school shooters found
that all but two had been socially rejected.
It’s important to know how to cope with
rejection. First of all, “We should assume that
everyone is going to experience rejection on a
semi-regular basis throughout their life,” DeWall
says. It’s impossible to go through your entire
life with everyone being nice to you all the time.
When you are rejected or excluded, he says, the
best way to deal with it is to seek out other
sources of friendship or acceptance. “A lot of
times, people keep these things to themselves
because they’re embarrassed or they don’t think
it’s that big of a deal,” he says. But our bodies
respond to rejection like they do to physical pain;
the pain should be taken seriously, and it’s fine to
seek out support. “When people feel lonely, or
when people feel excluded or rejected, these are
things they can talk about,” he says.