th1bill said:

It looks to me that David Pakman wants to impress himself. He hates the President, Mr. Trump.

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He's definatley on the left, but generally he reports fairly. It is hard to overcome confirmation bias though.

This virus sounds pretty miserable. Praying for your healing and protection for your husband.

Mercy Shown said:

I never stated any of this. You are projecting most of this from your own heart.

I did not say, everyone that relies on Jesus to change them, even though scripture says He came to save us from our sins, is a legalist. You said those words.

I never stated, No one can have a greater faith than I. Those are your words.

These are straw men you are attacking. They came from your imagination.

Does the change in you include this type of posting?

These are your words. Is this the testimony you wish to give?

Let the peace that passes understanding rest on you. God is good.

You can be perfect before Him today if you enter His rest by faith. Stand on Christ the solid rock, all other ground is sinking sand.

I am far from proud as long as I daily walk after the spirit. I know that I must rely fully upon Christ for my salvation and that there is no good thing in me, that is my flesh. In my hand no price I bring, simply to His cross I cling.

No post is worth becoming angry over.

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Your words imply my deductions from what you say. Have you never heard of deductive reasoning? Legalism is your weakness, not mine.

Matthew 1: 21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Anyone who listens to you would think God encourages legalism. What a joke as Jesus fought against Pharisaical legalism His entire ministry. The Pharisees condemned Him to death by their own law.

John 19: 6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

Right now, I am feeling really tired due to a lack of sleep because of nightmares.

Mackenzie Young said:

We have to remember that the Law was old Israeli that Moses and God created. This is similar to Hindu religion and the laws that were made to govern the people.

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Mosheh did not collaborate with Yahova over what the Law says, those are the words Yahova set in stone.

BCP1928 said:

It is--the Synoptics. When you think about how much of our Christology depends on the Gospel of John and the Epistles, the Muslim position on Jesus makes perfect sense.

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The Synoptics, you mean the other gospels besides John. I don't think the Muslims would have understood the Gospel of John. I think the main understanding was the Synoptics. Simple and straight forward telling of Christ as the Messiah, God made flesh and His crucifixtion and resurrection and His miracles which is the core of Christian belief.

The Pauline and other letters were more about spiritual matters which I don't think the Muslims would have understood about being born again in the Holy spirit. But you havn't answered the question. Why do many commentators say that Muhammad is actually talking about the Christian Gospels being the Injil.

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There is, off the top of my head, a prophecy of Muhammad in Isaiah that is not any more fare fetched than the passages supposedly prophesying Christ.

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Except if its the verse I'm thinking of which seems to be the most popular one cited the biblical scholars disagree and have linked it to a prophesy about the Isrealites themselves as forming a nation.

Isaiah 42 "Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations. 2 He will not cry out or raise His voice, Nor make His voice heard in the street.

Isaiah 42:1-4 was first identified by Bernhard Duhm as one of the Servant songs in the Book of Isaiah,[12] along with Is. 49:1–6; Is. 50:4–7; and Is. 52:13–53:12. The Old Testament identifies the servant of the Servant songs as the Israelite's in Is. 41:8–9; Is. 44:1; Is. 44:21; Is. 45:4; Is. 48:20 and Is. 49:3.[13][14]

Muhammad and the Bible - Wikipedia

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But still it makes no sense. Why would the Old Testament prophesy about a Prophet who would both deny Christ as the promise Messiah and put an end to the Jews hope of a promised Messiah yet to come with Mohummad being the last great prophet.

Why would this prophet's followers go on to build their Holy place of worship right on top of the Temple Mount which is prophesized to be rebuilt. If the Jews tried to rebuild the Temple on the Mount the Muslims would go crazy. It would be like the Qur'an prophesizing about a Messiah coming who Instructed the Jews to build their Temple on the cite of the Kaaba.

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Yeah,well, that is stretching it rather a bit.

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Its not. Lets forget that its about Christ. Whoever the Messiah will be he will have to fullfill many prophesies that talk about the Messiah being born of a virgin, being God man flesh dwelling among us, being sacrificed for our sins in crucifixtion, even that His cloths would be gambled away. There are many which Christ fullfills some 350 prophesies. So whoever it is the Qur'an contradicts His status as Gos among us and being crucified and raised from the dead for our sins.

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So do the Jews.

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Yes but like I said the Jews don't reject a Messiah prophesized that is yet to come. They just reject that it was Christ. But Christ doesn't contradict the prophesies in the Old Testament. The Jews will still believe that the Messiah is the Son of God and the final sacrifice for sin. The Muslims don't.

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Because they don't believe that the Gospel of John and Paul's letters are part of the books of truth revealed by God.

The Gospels were originally written in Koine Greek, though it is possible that there were Aramaic source materials. The first translation of the Gospels was into Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic which became the parent language of modern Arabic.

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Ok so they pick which parts of the bible they believe in. Presumably Muhammad was referring to the Jews and Christians when speaking about which Truths they should follow.

This would just create conflicts between the Christians they were talking to about following the Book. They tell them only parts of their book reveal the Truth and they reject the actual Books that go into detail about being a Christian like the Pauline letters.

It still undermines the Qur'an as Truth because its telling the Christians and Jews that they will choose what is Truth about their own scriptures thus undermining the claim that the Qur'an is Truth in the minds of Christians and Jews. In that conext the Qur'an doesn't make sense when addressing Christians about what is Truth.

Like I said I think this traces back to the fundemental core Truth of Christ. It seems everything converges on the status of Christ as far as the Qur'an mentions Christians. That is why they reject the Pauline letters which go into Christs death and resurrection and being born again in the spirit, the Holy Spirit for which the Qur'an denies.

I also added a photo of my hypersensivity scores for Autism at the bottom of my testimony. For now, I have nothing more to add.

RileyG said:

I don’t know.

We still have to be good stewards of the earth and take care of it for future generations.

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Absolutely. We have a responsibility to take care of out planet. However, this requires accurate information and not scaremongering. The boy can only cry wolf so many times before people ignore him. Constant claims of climate cataclysm that fail to predict real world outcomes make it easier to write the wolf off as fiction. "When will this happen" is an important question. Answering that it will happen soon, and it doesn't happen soon, can hurt the cause as much as saying there's no threat to the environment.

It's one thing to show the effect of humans on climate over time. It's quite another to suggest that New York City will be underwater by the year 2000.

sjastro said:

The Bible cannot be used to contradict science while the opposite can be true where the Bible presents a historical account which can be attested or not through archaeology.

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Which, in itself, is interpreted.

I have been to Catholic funerals for suicides.
I remember one in particular, the son of a water aerobics buddy and a very active Catholic. Her son, high on drugs, shot his ex wife and turned the gun on himself with their young son in the backyard.

The pastor was so kind and compassionate and seemed to know exactly what to say.

There is a page called time.is

I am told that my computer is .3 seconds behind. Behind what? Is time subjective or objective? Do we all share the same moment in time?

If we are looking at our reflection in the mirror. We are looking at the light that bounces off of us and then is reflected by the mirror and perceived by our eyes. Yet our eyes have to connect somewhere. So where is the now? Where does it all connect. Because the light has to travel from the mirror to our eyes, what we see is in the past and not the present monent. Depending on how small a unit of time physics will allow. This is called planck time. It takes 53.33 millimeter for light to travel from your hand to your eye. Depending on where your hand is of course.

If a dispensation is 1000 years then how can 1000 years be a day or how can a day be 1000 years?

I believe God is past, present and future. I believe that God does not heal memories. I believe He goes to the event AND heals us then at that point in time. Which then has an effect on the moment of time that we are currently in. When or where ever that moment is or exists.

We have different sensory preceptors that are integrated in the parietal lobe.

• The posterior parietal cortex helps us understand our position in space, perceive distances, and recognize objects’ locations relative to our body.
• It integrates visual, auditory, and somatosensory information to create a coherent spatial map.

So when or where is the current moment of time that we are suppose to abide in?

It use to take a lot of effort to get a watch that was accurate within 3 minutes. There was an adjustment in the watch to speed it up or slow it down. Still we were doing good to adjust our watch to be two or three minutes accurate. In the old movies you will see where they all synchronize their watches so they are all on the same time' Before atomic clocks the Janitor had to set the clock in every room so that they always had the accurate time on them. Now we seem to be accurate within .3 seconds. For GPS that is all adjusted. You could set your watch by Television because a program would start at the exact precise time. People that did not adjust their watch could be 6 or 7 minutes off NOT seconds, minutes.

Praying for your brother to heal!

Make a decision. Make a plan. Make a move.

In other words, decide what you want to do, determine what you need to do to make it happen, and then make it happen.

The old expression, "cut your losses," might apply in this case. Make your decisions and plans based on what is, not what might be.

Federal judge found ‘strong evidence’ of crimes before Trump was charged in classified documents case​

Months before Donald Trump was indicted for mishandling classified documents, a federal judge said that investigators had “strong evidence” that the former president “intended” to hide classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort, according to newly released court documents.

Judge Beryl Howell cited, among other things, the discovery of additional classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago months after the FBI’s search of the property in the summer of 2022. The records included a “mostly empty” folder marked as “Classified Evening Summary” that was found in the former president’s bedroom, as well as four other documents with classification markings found in his post-presidential office at the resort.

“Notably, no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago,” Howell wrote in March 2023.

Dave Darling. I was so touched for you. Me myself I don't think I could attend more than 2 churches as it could lead to confusion for me. However, it seems to be working for you. I wish you the best and end to your suffering in Jesus name. My heart is with anyone who experienced voices. I hope that you were treated respectufully in those 5 churches.

BCP1928 said:

Why is it so important to you to paint those who believe that there is systemic racism as making an accusation of personal racism?

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Inevitably it always comes.down to that.

BCP1928 said:

Why is it so important to you to misrepresent it as making white kids feel personally guilty for the racism of their ancestors?

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Because it's it's only their ancestors that are blamed. No one else's.

BCP1928 said:

Until we figure out why you really don't like the possibility that there is systemic racism we won't get anywhere.

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It has nothing to do with like or not like. No one has been able to show there is systemic racism.

(No need to respond if you've already purchased a ticket out of this aptly named Reddit-town.)

Simon_Templar said:

In terms of the knowledge/belief, the primary distinction is that which is arrived at by only natural means, and that which is arrived at by means of divine revelation.

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I think I agree with most everything you say in this post, including your reservations about whether the division is complete or watertight. I think it is interesting to ponder the ways that the water gets in. As you say, revelation can inform philosophy, especially moral philosophy. I think philosophy also informs theology (as well as every other discipline), especially when that theology is weighted in favor of the propositional. The other interesting question is whether there is a correlation between faith and intellect (nous). Obviously some, like Gregory of Nyssa, would hold that there is.

Hey guys,

There is supposed to be a divine revelation experienced by Mary of Agreda, where Blessed Mother took her veil and asked a roman guard to wrap it around his loins to cover it and provide some decency and give her son some dignity in dying.

Jesus was truly covered on the cross. I do believe Blessed Mother stepped up and asked the guard. That is so like our Mother!

It can be found in her work called "City of God" a voluminous work, and here is shared in a PDF form City of God

The Liturgist said:

Hedrick, my old friend, it is good to see you! How are you feeling? I have been extremely ill and in going to church and briefly attending the Scandinavian Festival at California Lutheran University afterwards, I massively over-exerted myself; I thought I was doing better, but just doing that, which would have been no problem a year ago or two years ago was brutally exhausting and made me realize how sick I am. So please pray for me.

Regarding your post, I found it very interesting and I found myself agreeing with the trajectory and orientation of your post.

Would you agree with the emphasis Metropolitan Kallistos Ware and other Orthodox theologians put on the notion that we are saved together, in communion with Christ as members grafted onto the Church, the Body of Christ, through Baptism and Holy Communion, and thus since the Church is the Ship of Salvation, her passengers are saved collectively?

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I don't want to have to judge what you mean by "collective salvation!" Certainly people are saved, in the spiritual sense, on an individual basis. But is "salvation" something biblically that applied to the collective?

I would have to say yes. God wanted to save not just the individual but also the society, because that's where we, as individuals, have to live. If God is concerned with social conditions, and angry at social injustice, and I know He is, then He is as interested in the collective as He is in the individual.

So I would agree with you that the Bible seems to focus on the collective more than with the individual. But I don't think this is out of disregard for the importance of the individual. Rather, individual relationship with God has been a given from the beginning, and it is everywhere implicit in every individual mentioned in the Bible.

But the collective, the nation, or nations--plural, need to be addressed because that is where human relations and social evils become a problem on earth that God wants to remedy. He wants us restored in a relationship to Himself, but some of this is so that we can relate properly to our neighbor, to one another.

So God set up and institutionalized a legal form of worship in the OT era such that an entire nation can practice the same religion and all collectively relate to God and to one another in a peaceful, spiritual way. But it is always understood that not all individuals will cooperate. And even those who observe the common religious rituals could do so deceptively, hiding their corrupt ways beneath a religious veneer.

Hopefully, I got your point?

The Liturgist said:

Also, many Orthodox theologians such as Archpriest Andrew S. Damick have criticized the trend, popularized by Evengelicalism in North America, of focusing on “having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ”, which is something that the early Church Fathers never talked about. Indeed one Orthodox priest recalled an incident where at the end of a lecture on the Apostles, the Apostolic Fathers and the Council of Nicaea that an evangelical in the audience replied “I don’t see what any of this has to do with building a personal reionatlship with Jesus Christ.”

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Would anybody think that the 12 Disciples of Jesus were unconcerned that they had an individual, personal relationship with Jesus during their collective ministry? But I don't think it was just a pragmatic relationship. Jesus left the Holy Spirit behind when he went to heaven so that all could, as promised to the Woman at the Well, worship God anywhere, individually and collectively.

Some think that having a "relationship with God" is extraordinary, "mystical," and controversial. But those who think this way are either skeptical that God can be touched at all, or they are believers who limit their experience of God to Sunday rituals.

At any rate, prayer to God should extend far beyond the church walls, and express concern not just for our fellow congregationalist, but also for everybody in the world. And we should embrace any particular set of spiritual gifts God wants us to have. If we've made Him Lord, then we should accept His gifts and be responsible with them. And we shouldn't be afraid of criticism from others who have no such experiences.

If our "gifts" are thought to be purely secular gifts, then where is the evangelical value in anything we do? Where is our testimony to others if we don't have light to reveal our works as being from God?

Ignatius the Kiwi said:

Why does the US undermine the rules based international order by supporting this criminal state?

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Because we're a stupid country in a toxic relationship with the worst states the region has to offer (Israel and Saudi Arabia).

Hey fellow Catholics,

Can you lift me up as well as any one else with emojis, hugs, scripture, spiritual writings, catholic art, catholic music and so on?

This is a new thread all about lifting up and encouraging one another in our walks with Christ and our daily struggles with life.

Its about more than just a prayer, and it's for you too!

Lets more deeply love on one another through this add on group thread!

BNR32FAN said:

I’m quoting you. Are you calling your own theology a strawman?

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“Using notable doctrines with reform theology, such as the Canons of Dort, the Westminster Confession of Faith, the London Baptist Confession of Faith, or Calvin‘s Institutes of Christian Religion, make your argument on whatever issue you have against Calvinism, but you must be able to quote one of these sources to support your claim. I will allow other sources, but they must be something that is considered an historic document within reformed theology (Heidelberg catechism, for example).”

Miles said:

A lot can be explained by projection and malignant "othering".

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It's kinda serious when a person loses
touch, and does even know they're
just saying things.