We’re going to the New River Gorge in West Virginia for whitewater rafting and would like to know where the best place for tent camping is and what is a "Do Not Miss" sight/to do while we’re there? We will not be hiking in as I have my 11 year old going with us. Many thanks to you for helping us.
Next week, I’m going on my first hiking/campout trip on the Sipsey River Trail in Alabama. I will last from a Friday afternoon until Sunday afternoon. I’m looking for tips on what all to take. Here is what I have so far:
Light tent
sleeping pad
sleeping bag
hiking backpack with hydration bladder
compass
portable cooking pan/pot plate and silverware (like boy scouts use)
As for meals – what is recommended? I have seen these "just add boiling water" meals in the bag that are about at walmart. I have had one before at a campout and it was tasty. Is that fine for dinners? How about breakfast and lunch – cook over a fire or just eat granola bars or something like that?
As for clothing, what is normal to wear? Jeans, shorts, etc…? Thermal underwear? How many pairs of socks – and are they special socks or just normal socks?
As for water, do you just take a lot of water bottles or do you use some sort of filtration setup and use river/creek water?
Any more tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
i am about to hike the AT and i need a good,inexpensive tent to hike with…i am searching for a good online store and/or suggestions on "who" makes a good lightweight tent…i would like to keep the price range around 100 dollars…any suggestions would be greatly appreciated…
GE 34:13-29 The Israelites kill Hamor, his son, and all the men of their village, taking as plunder their wealth, cattle, wives and children.
GE 6:11-17, 7:11-24 God is unhappy with the wickedness of man and decides to do something about it. He kills every living thing on the face of the earth other than Noah’s family and thereby makes himself the greatest mass murderer in history.
GE 19:26 God personally sees to it that Lot’s wife is turned to a pillar of salt (for having looked behind her while fleeing the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah).
GE 38:9 "… whenever he lay with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked …, so the Lord put him to death."
EX 2:12 Moses murders an Egyptian.
EX 7:1, 14, 9:14-16, 10:1-2, 11:7 The purpose of the devastation that God brings to the Egyptians is as follows:
to show that he is Lord;
to show that there is none like him in all the earth;
to show his great power;
to cause his name to be declared throughout the earth;
to give the Israelites something to talk about with their children;
to show that he makes a distinction between Israel and Egypt.
EX 9:22-25 A plague of hail from the Lord strikes down everything in the fields of Egypt both man and beast except in Goshen where the Israelites reside.
EX 12:29 The Lord kills all the first-born in the land of Egypt.
EX 17:13 With the Lord’s approval, Joshua mows down Amalek and his people.
EX 21:20-21 With the Lord’s approval, a slave may be beaten to death with no punishment for the perpetrator as long as the slave doesn’t die too quickly.
EX 32:27 "Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
EX 32:27-29 With the Lord’s approval, the Israelites slay 3000 men.
LE 26:7-8 The Lord promises the Israelites that, if they are obedient, their enemies will "fall before your sword."
LE 26:22 "I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children."
LE 26:29, DT 28:53, JE 19:9, EZ 5:8-10 As a punishment, the Lord will cause people to eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and fathers and friends.
LE 27:29 Human sacrifice is condoned. (Note: An example is given in JG 11:30-39)
NU 11:33 The Lord smites the people with a great plague.
NU 12:1-10 God makes Miriam a leper for seven days because she and Aaron had spoken against Moses.
NU 15:32-36 A Sabbath breaker (who had gathered sticks for a fire) is stoned to death at the Lord’s command.
NU 16:27-33 The Lord causes the earth to open and swallow up the men and their households (including wives and children) because the men had been rebellious.
NU 16:35 A fire from the Lord consumes 250 men.
NU 16:49 A plague from the Lord kills 14,700 people.
NU 21:3 The Israelites utterly destroy the Canaanites.
NU 21:6 Fiery serpents, sent by the Lord, kill many Israelites.
NU 21:35 With the Lord’s approval, the Israelites slay Og "… and his sons and all his people, until there was not one survivor left …."
NU 25:4 (KJV) "And the Lord said unto Moses, take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun …."
NU 25:8 "He went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly."
NU 25:9 24,000 people die in a plague from the Lord.
NU 31:9 The Israelites capture Midianite women and children.
NU 31:17-18 Moses, following the Lord’s command, orders the Israelites to kill all the Midianite male children and "… every woman who has known man …." (Note: How would it be determined which women had known men? One can only speculate.)
NU 31:31-40 32,000 virgins are taken by the Israelites as booty. Thirty-two are set aside (to be sacrificed?) as a tribute for the Lord.
DT 2:33-34 The Israelites utterly destroy the men, women, and children of Sihon.
DT 3:6 The Israelites utterly destroy the men, women, and children of Og.
DT 7:2 The Lord commands the Israelites to "utterly destroy" and shown "no mercy" to those whom he gives them for defeat.
DT 20:13-14 "When the Lord delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the males …. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves."
DT 20:16 "In the cities of the nations the Lord is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes."
DT 21:10-13 With the Lord’s approval, the Israelites are allowed to take "beautiful women" from the enemy camp to be their captive wives. If, after sexual relations, the husband has "no delight" in his wife, he can simply let her go.
DT 28:53 "You will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you."
JS 1:1-9, 18 Joshua re
JS 1:1-9, 18 Joshua receives the Lord’s blessing for all the bloody endeavors to follow.
JS 6:21-27 With the Lord’s approval, Joshua destroys the city of Jericho men, women, and children with the edge of the sword.
JS 7:19-26 Achan, his children and his cattle are stoned to death because Achan had taken a taboo thing.
JS 8:22-25 With the Lord’s approval, Joshua utterly smites the people of Ai, killing 12,000 men and women, so that there were none who escaped.
JS 10:10-27 With the help of the Lord, Joshua utterly destroys the Gibeonites.
JS 10:28 With the Lord’s approval, Joshua utterly destroys the people of Makkedah.
JS 10:30 With the Lord’s approval, Joshua utterly destroys the Libnahites.
JS 10:32-33 With the Lord’s approval, Joshua utterly destroys the people of Lachish.
JS 10:34-35 With the Lord’s approval, Joshua utterly destroys the Eglonites.
JS 10:36-37 With the Lord’s approval, Joshua utterly destroys the Hebronites.
JS 10:38-39 With the Lord’s approval, Joshua utterly destroys the Debirites.
JS 10:40 (A summary statement.) "So Joshua defeated the whole land …; he left none remaining, but destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded."
JS 11:6 The Lord orders horses to be hamstrung. (Exceedingly cruel.)
JS 11:8-15 "And the lord gave them into the hand of Israel, …utterly destroying them; there was none left that breathed …."
JS 11:20 "For it was the Lord’s doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be utterly destroyed, and should receive no mercy but be exterminated, as the Lord commanded Moses."
JS 11:21-23 Joshua utterly destroys the Anakim.
JG 1:4 With the Lord’s support, Judah defeats 10,000 Canaanites at Bezek.
JG 1:6 With the Lord’s approval, Judah pursues Adoni-bezek, catches him, and cuts off his thumbs and big toes.
JG 1:8 With the Lord’s approval, Judah smites Jerusalem.
JG 1:17 With the Lord’s
JG 1:4 With the Lord’s support, Judah defeats 10,000 Canaanites at Bezek.
JG 1:6 With the Lord’s approval, Judah pursues Adoni-bezek, catches him, and cuts off his thumbs and big toes.
JG 1:8 With the Lord’s approval, Judah smites Jerusalem.
JG 1:17 With the Lord’s approval, Judah and Simeon utterly destroy the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath.
JG 3:29 The Israelites kill about 10,000 Moabites.
JG 3:31 (A restatement.) Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an oxgoad.
JG 4:21 Jael takes a tent stake and hammers it through the head of Sisera, fastening it to the ground.
JG 7:19-25 The Gideons defeat the Midianites, slay their princes, cut off their heads, and bring the heads back to Gideon.
JG 8:15-21 The Gideons slaughter the men of Penuel.
JG 9:5 Abimalech murders his brothers.
JG 9:45 Abimalech and his men kill all the people in the city.
JG 9:53-54 "A woman dropped a stone on his head and cracked his skull. Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, ‘Draw your sword and kill m
JG 11:29-39 Jepthah sacrifices his beloved daughter, his only child, according to a vow he has made with the Lord.
JG 14:19 The Spirit of the Lord comes upon a man and causes him to slay thirty men.
JG 15:15 Samson slays 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass.
JG 16:21 The Philistines gouge out Samson’s eyes.
JG 16:27-30 Samson, with the help of the Lord, pulls down the pillars of the Philistine house and causes his own death and that of 3000 other men and women.
1SA 7:7-11 Samuel and his men smite the Philistines.
1SA 11:11 With the Lord’s blessing, Saul and his men cut down the Ammonites.
1SA 14:31 Jonathan and his men strike down the Philistines.
1SA 14:48 Saul smites the Amalekites.
1SA 15:3, 7-8 "This is what the Lord says: Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass ….’ And Saul … utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword."
1SA 15:33 "Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord …."
1SA 18:7 The women sing as they make merry: "Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands."
1SA 18:27 David murders 200 Philistines, then cuts off their foreskins.
1SA 30:17 David smites the Amalekites.
HO 13:16 "They shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up."
MI 3:2-3 "… who pluck off their skin …, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron."
MT 3:12, 8:12, 10:21, 13:30, 42, 22:13, 24:51, 25:30, LK 13:28, JN 5:24 Some will spend eternity burning in Hell. There will be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.
MT 10:21 "… the brother shall deliver up his brother to death, and the father his child, … children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death."
MT 10:35-36 "For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law a man’s enemies will be the members of his own family."
MT 11:21-24 Jesus curses [the inhabitants of] three cities who were no
MT 11:21-24 Jesus curses [the inhabitants of] three cities who were not sufficiently impressed with his great works.
AC 13:11 Paul purposefully blinds a man (though not permanently).
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theres lots more ,…but….
"And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes…" (I Chronicles 20:3)
"And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and woman: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house." (Ezekiel 9:5-6)
A;Because angels are also made according to God’s image.They are spirit,but they can also manifest in the flesh.The Word of God reveals that angels periodically presented themselves before the Lord.
1.Job1:6"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord,and Satan came also among them."These sons of God are angels who are able to manifest themselves in human flesh.
2.Job2:1"Again there was aday when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord,and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord."In Job38,God reminds Job of the Creation:Was he there with God and His angels during the Creation?Job38:7"When the morning stars sang together,and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"For further proof that God is always accompanied by two or more angels,let us readGenesis18:1-2,"And the Lord appeared unto
Him in the plains of Mamre.And he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;And he lifted up his eyes.
i recently got a response to this question from >friendshipband@sbcglobal.net<
"here is what he/she wrote: Because of that sin or curse it was a curse on Joshua’s war !!! Because of those idolatrous items preserved by Achan a war was lost !!! God had His own war against idol worship with these former slaves and gave them a severe lesson to remember forever !!!
A principle to remember is one rotten apple in a barrel will rot the whole bunch there in the barrel !!!
So it is best to have it totally removed !!!" end quotes
although this may explain why Achan should be stoned, it does not explain why his children must suffer for it, especially since in Deuteronomy it says the complete opposite. neither does the bible point to the sons and daughters or cattle as accomplices. so the response has totally missed the point of the question. any RATIONAL christians out there, please give a BIBLE BASED response that ADDRESSES the issue and does not change the subject.
is any Christian out there able to give a reasonable explanation for this?
(taken from the New International Version of the Bible)
Deuteronomy 24:16- "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin."
Joshua 7: 19-25- Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and give him the praise. Tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me."
Achan replied, "It is true! I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I have done: When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."
So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver underneath. They took the things from the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites and spread them out before the LORD.
24 Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the gold wedge, his sons and daughters, his cattle, donkeys and sheep, his tent and all that he had, to the Valley of Achor. Joshua said, "Why have you brought this trouble on us? The LORD will bring trouble on you today."
Then all Israel stoned him, and after they had stoned the rest, they burned them
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in Deuteronomy, it states that a son will not be held accountable for his father’s sins, and vice versa. each person will be punished for their OWN sins.
but in Joshua, roughly 26 pages later, it tells a story of a man named Achan who was one of God’s chosen people from Israel, who keeps some things from a nation they were conquering (God said to devote everything to destruction and to keep nothing) when they find out, not only do they stone him to death, but they also take his sons, daughters, and all his cattle and stone them as well, and then burn them. this was an acceptable punishment to God, as shown if you read the context before and after. so basically, his children and cattle have to pay for HIS sin. (i thought the cattle getting stoned was even more unusual) the more you compare the texts the more obvious the contradiction.
they are BOTH in the old testament and not even too far away from each other. can any Christians explain this rationally using the bible?
Gen 18:1-2
1 The LORD appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.
2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
At first, this verses seems to be a valid reference to the trinity. There seems to be a connection between The LORD and the three men, the men representing the appearance of God.
However, as the story unfolds, the real nature of the men is revealed. As the men are about to leave for Sodom, one of them stays behind with Abraham, as read in verse 22:
22 The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.
Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition, "but the LORD remained standing before Abraham."
Up to this point in the story, we have the following scenario: Three men came to visit, two of them left for Sodom, and one remains with Abraham. Abraham goes on to request mercy from the man that stayed behind. Verse 19:1 goes on reveal the true nature of the men:
1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
In this verse, 34 verses after Gen 18:1, the real nature of the men revealed. The men were angels. God appeared to Abraham through three angels. The concept of God appearing or talking to people through angels is not a rarity in the Old Testament. It happens in quite a different number of places.
To conclude, it is obvious that the three men in 18:1 were angels, leaving behind any possibility that the men who appeared to Abraham were the three persons of the trinity.
How can Gen 18:1&2 prove the trinity ?
Accoridnig to the NWT
God has fingers:
Exodus 31: 18
Now as soon as he had finished speaking with him on Mount Si´nai he proceeded to give Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone written on by God’s finger.
God has palms:
And it has to occur that while my glory is passing by I must place you in a hole in the rock, and I must put my palm over you as a screen until I have passed by. 23 After that I must take my palm away, and you will indeed see my back. But my face may not be seen
God has feet, which Abraham offered to wash:
Genesis 18: 1
"Afterward Jehovah appeared to him among the big trees of Mam´re, while he was sitting at the entrance of the tent about the heat of the day"
This clearly says that God appeared to him, therefore it is God who appeared to him….
18:2
"When he raised his eyes, then he looked and there three men were standing some distance from him. When he caught sight of them he began running to meet them from the entrance of the tent and proceeded to bow down to the earth"
If these are men are merely angels, then why does Abraham bow down infornt of them
isn’t this angel worship?
18:3-5
Then he said: “Jehovah, if, now, I have found favor in your eyes, please do not pass by your servant. 4 Let a little water be taken, please, and YOU must have YOUR feet washed. Then recline under the tree. 5 And let me get a piece of bread, and refresh YOUR hearts. Following that, YOU can pass on, because that is why YOU have passed this way to YOUR servant.” At this they said: “All right. You may do just as you have spoken
He offers to wash Jehovah’s feet, and to give him food
if he is not offering to do this to Jehovah, then he is blaspheming and calling mere angels Jehovah, why is he not rebuked for this?
i see we dont have a problem with Jehovah turnnig himself into a man or 3 of them as it may seem to speak to Abraham
however we get an extreme reactino on the possibility of God turning himself into a man called Jesus
which is more impossible
God turning himself into a man to speak to Abraham
or God turnnig himself into a man whose name is Yeshua:
God the saviour, or as you prefer
Jesus= I cause salvation to become
If king David calls God the saviour
and Jeuss= I causle salvation to beocme
then Jesus is…
1. ok lets try to focus on Abraham why does he call those men Jehovah, this is blasphemy
2. God told moses he has fingers and palms
3.Abraham offers to wash God’s feet, and feed him, he calls angels Jehovah and is not rebuked
why??????
Answers to those 3 questions please
Chuck:
You have left the watchtower, but you have not left their beleifs…..
why was it so important of them to convince you that Jesus was not god?
now that you are no longer a JW, why are you still convinced?
Did Jesus not say he who has seen me has seen the Father?
Trustdel:
can youy feed god?
Why does Abraham offer to feed JEHOVAH?
O JEHOVAH…..LET me wash your feet
he ios offering to wash God’s feet
GOd maniofested himself as a man to Abraham
so why can he not do it to Jesus
seeing jesus=yeshia=GOd the saviour
it’s even more obvious now isn’t it
trustedel
Angel Gabriel forbids John bowing down before him, in fact he rebukes him for doing so
what does that tell you?
No man may see his face and live,
but that did not stop moses, Abraham and etc seeing the rest of him
such as his hands and feet,
f God manifested himself in a body as he did befroe moses and abraham then why is not possible for him to manifest himself as Jesus?
Cheers, i knew you would understand
My husband and I are looking for a tent to take hiking and camping. The requirements are:
3 Person Tent
Must weight less than 7 pounds
Must be a good brand that is durable and will last us a while
Must be well ventilated but also have a water hood…
Must fit in a backpack (less than 6" x 24"
Must cost less than 0
Hiii!
One of my friends gave me a 2-man tent for free but being a duma$$ i dunno how to set it up.
This is the tent my friend gave me: EXACT TENT!
http://www.neptunemart.com/servlet/the-242/tent%2Ctents%2Ctent-camping%2Ccoleman-tent%2Cdome-tent%2Coutdoor/Detail
It’s made by Neptune.
Anway so it has steel L shaped pegs? with a long white wire.
I had no toruble spreadthe tent and inserting the 2 sets of poles. Each pole has 6 segments that sort of interconnect with each other. Each of these 6 segments are connected internally by a white elastic rope.
Now when I inserted these they formed a X shape of the tent and my tent was actually up! But I don;t know how it is supposed to be curved on the top"???
Should I leave some of the pole not connected? Need help!!
A DUMB SHARK