I'm still relatively new here so if this belongs in another forum please move it.

Has anyone ever considered the platypus? I think God thought it would be highly amusing to create something completely absurd just to give us a giggle.

And there's an added benefit. It gives us the benefit to ask the ardent evolutionist what exactly is THIS evolving into? A duck? A beaver? What? And what exactly did it evolve FROM?

Imagine the lonely male platypus mucking along one day and running into his first female platypus - "Thank GOD! Someone who can love me just the way I am!"

We are very close to the end of time as the WEF had a witch doctor perform his magic rites on stage with members of the WEF. Evil is coming right out in the open.

"Securing the border through these negotiations is a win for America," Biden said in his Friday statement. "For everyone who is demanding tougher border control, this is the way to do it. If you’re serious about the border crisis, pass a bipartisan bill and I will sign it."

Interesting. First of all since the Speaker of the House has already publicly stated that the Senate bill is dead on arrival. But mostly because the Biden administration has claimed the border is safe, secure, and closed.

"The fossils date back more than 1.6 billion years, which is around 70 million years earlier than scientists previously thought multicellularity arose, according to a new study published Jan. 24 in the journal Science Advances."

1.6-billion-year-old fossils push back origin of multicellular life by tens of millions of years

We all know what common people in the streets, think, that everyone`s a brain, and there`s no soul. But, I`m presenting opinions of myself. Every year, there`s children, born without a brain, it only has a brain-stem, and the eyes are connected to that with muscles, there`s no brain, it develops later usually, if the child survives. You can operate half of the brain away in normal children and people, and because of the shock of losing a body-part, he or she, get`s paralysed for a while, the brain actually feels pain, contrary to the popular belief, that it doesn`t fell anything; the shock from operating, proves it.

The eyes, are connected directly to the brain-stem, so there`s a soul, controlling it, moving them, by will. If there`s no soul in the brain-stem also, the eyes would look empty or dead, but they show a personality, without a brain, in those children born without it. Some argue, that the brain-stem only contains primal instincts, but the eyes clearly shows a personality, and the child smiles, laugh, without a brain. I added a picture of a child born without it, so you can judge it yourself.

So, what is the brain for, if the child, have a personality and will, without it? Since it`s located on the top of the body, heat dissapears from it very effectively circulates the blood, Secondly, it produces hormones, hormones are, sort of nutrients for the soul, but it does way more than that, nature consists of way more than just nutrients, it has stuff that makes you feel good also. So the brain, makes this stuff, and nutrient your soul, so not only, does it give you nutrients, but also things that makes you feel good. The brain is a hormone-factory actually, the different parts, makes different ones based on what you are doing that day, and it goes down to the center of it all, the pineal-gland. This is where it`s all stored, and drips down to the soul, the brain-stem.

The idea, of brain doing different things, is based on theories from watching people do certain things, and then see where the brain is lit up, but this is only indicating what hormone it`s making, during the specific action. The theories, aren`t based on reality, only what they thought, based from a cynical stand-point, that nothing is real. A thing that proves it, is that positive people, optimistic ones, performs better, than cynical ones. This is tested, and proven, the ones who think the brain is responsible for all actions, performs on a lower level, than people who think they`re a soul. There`s a theory also, that if you stimulate certain parts of the brain, you can be forever happy, but we know from experience, that all stimuli, get`s old, which proves, that feelings and emotions, are real, unlike what the cynical people think - again, another point to the realists.

I`ll add a picture for a child who`s born without a brain, even though this is a condition connected to a disease, and often they don`t surive, you can see on their eyes that they have a soul still without it, and they laugh, smile, think, talk etc.:

Do not know who or if anyone remembers Donnaslaw88...
She was on hospice for a few months.
I was told today she had passed away.
We talked since 2001.

Thank you for prayers.

Hi there,

Just pondering on a matter that is worthy of discussion.

I understand that a lamb offered as a sacrifice for sin, under the Law, was then consumed.

The partaking in the body and blood of Jesus was first shared with Jesus by the disciples before His sacrificial death on the Cross.

Am I right then to conclude then, that this blood and body that the disciples consumed as they partook of the bread and wine, were of His eternal resurrected body and not His pre-resurrection body ?

Or do you consider them one in the same ?

I think there is a gem of faith building revelation to be had as one ponders on this.

Your thoughts most welcome.

John 6:53
Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Can we please refrain from debating the doctrine of the real presence on this thread and focus on the question I have raised thanks.

The short answer is that under Judaism the focus is on works meant to please God; under Christianity the focus is on faith and love of God.

One might say that there is faith, love and works in both religions. The thing is, that each of these are approached differently, depending on the religion. Under Judaism, the achieving of faith and love of God is similar to color by numbers in that it is planned out. The numbers are the Commandments, Laws, Statutes and Ordinances in the Old Testament. Under Judaism, you’re not considered as having love and faith in God unless you abide by all of these. In another sense, it’s similar to building a house.

Under Christianity, if you have faith and love in God, the works come later; such works are not spelled out as they are in the Old Testament, it is expected they will come to you through your love and faith in God. It’s similar to envisioning a house you haven’t built yet, that you want to live in. Will the house be built? It will be if you want it enough. Will you achieve having faith and love in God, and God loving you in return? You will achieve it if you want God’s Love enough. It’s achieved through works that aren’t spelled out as extensively as in the Old Testament. Works in the New Testament are sprinkled around among the Books, and they are for people who need the idea of works spelled out if people can’t envision what those works would be. In Christianity, works are needed in whatever form, and according to how the person envisions them. Jesus in Matthew 7:21-23 says, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who DOES the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’”

Might make you wonder what “lawlessness” Jesus is talking about if under Christianity you are not expected to abide by all the Laws under Judaism. What are those laws? Some might say those are the ceremonial laws, that encompass laws such as “washings” and “laying on of hands” referred to in Hebrews 6:1-8. It’s true that in this passage, the Jews are being addressed, but the rationalization leads to the basis for non-Jews to worship God under Christianity, and to non-Jews who may have some familiarity with how Jews worship. But this “elementary doctrine” of Jesus leads to a general free-form worship of God through Christianity rather a color by numbers form through Judaism.

The free-form worship of God through Christianity focuses on the House you want to live in; the color-by-numbers form of worshiping God through Judaism focuses on getting to that House. On a given day, there are a number of Jews who pour over the Law in synagogues, discussing every word and passage in documents like the Torah and the Talmud, with the Rabbis often leading the way. And they’ve been doing it as far back as when the New Testament was being formed, noted in Acts 17:11 but with the same desire to question what the Law says. Can anyone envision many of the Christian clergy doing the same thing in their churches, pouring over the Bible and the Cataclysms to see for themselves? Or do they wait for instructions from the Pope?

Whereas the Jewish approach to considering anything new is to consult the Scriptures, from a philosophical standpoint the Christian approach would be to first consider the faith and love in God, then see how anything new may fit in.

See Can we lose our salvation?

Is he telling us when we are getting assaulted not to defend ourselves or is that a figure of speech not to be combative?

Pray that a person named Ashwin has an Unquenchable Thirst & Hunger for God's Living Word

I have read about so many of these cases....the cops get their reports wrong, go barging into some innocent citizen's house in the middle of the night, and a blameless, law-abiding person ends up riddled with bullets from trigger-happy SWAT teams who think they're storming Omaha Beach.

article said:

It isn’t clear if police in Elyria, Ohio, knew there was a 1-year-old boy with a heart defect and a breathing disorder in the Parmely Avenue residence where they shattered a window, deployed a flash grenade and smashed the door open with a battering ram. What is clear is that they terrified the boy’s mother, who says the smoke and fumes from the flash grenade put her son in the intensive care unit. “There were 20+ officers in the house,” she wrote on Facebook. “Not one had the decency to check on my baby, get the glass off him or get him out of the house that had smoke in it.”

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Hi,

I have a question for Catholics. How do you justify God redeeming everyone and especially Eve, if he simply created a new eve (aka Virgin Mary). What happens to the old Eve? Is that redemption if you simply discard the old one and give another woman the role as the mother of living? I don't want any hard and defined answers if there isn't one. But I just thought it's something to think about. IF you sinned and God simply replaced you, would you term that as redeeming you?

And Seducing Spirits. We are given a text which warns us of what would be coming in the end times....

1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

We find that many false doctrines are being spread in the Christian church and they are .truly 'doctrines of devils', that can be found almost everywhere these days..:

Secret rapture (All saved Christians will suddenly disappear with no Second Coming);
Hyper grace (You're free to do whatever you want, all is forgiven);
Amillennialism (The "second coming" and "millennial kingdom" are just metaphors);
Universalism (All are saved, and all religions lead to God);
New Age (Humans are divine and have no sin nature);
Prosperity gospel (Faith will bring you wealth and health, minus)
Social Justice (Common Good replaces Gospel)
Do we know of any others...

The site, Just Security, is maintaining a master calendar of Trump's legal dates. Things are about to get extremely spicy, so of course the GOP is moving rapidly to try to coronate him.

There is not going to be a boring week in the next 4 months.

John 3:36 : “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

I have seen some Universalists claim that John 3:36 doesn’t affect their doctrine at all. Instead they agree with it because they agree that unbelievers shall not see life until they believe in Jesus Christ. Which I agree with too. However, where we disagree is when this offer to accept salvation expires. Universalists take this to mean that even those who die physically in a state of rejection of Christ will still have the opportunity post mortem to accept Christ thus changing their eternal destiny by leaving Hell and going to Heaven.

The problem is that it is not biblical. The clear teaching of the New Testament is that our eternal fates are sealed at our death because we are judged solely based on what we did in this life and not on a choice we make after death. What we say after physical death has no impact on whether we go to heaven or hell. So when John says that the one who rejects the son shall not see life he is indeed correct and that will be permanent in effect when someone dies physically.

Luke 16:19-31 is a perfect teaching by Jesus Christ that once we die we cannot change our eternal destinations. Our fate is fixed. I don’t want to hear any Universalist throw a cop out card by claiming that this is a parable just so you can discard it and not deal with the clear teaching.

In Luke 16:19-31 the Rich Man after dying physically woke up in torment in Hades and is told that he cannot cross over to paradise and those in paradise or that are saved cannot cross over to those that are damned confirming that at death our fates are sealed for eternity and that is consistent with the rest of scripture which testifies that it is this life that determines our eternal abode.

"And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’" - Luke 16:26

This passage is nonsensical if post mortem salvation is true, what Jesus should have said is "You can cross over once you repent" but he doesn't and also we see the Rich Man once accepting his fate that he is forever damned he starts pleading with Abraham to send Lazarus to warn his brothers to repent so that they do not come to this place of torment. This text is not identified as a parable. But even if its parabolic in nature, treating it as an unreliable source ignores the one who is giving the account. Should we believe that Christ would engage speculative imagery on such a serious matter? Luke 16 is a clear teaching that this is the life to either choose or reject Christ and after death we will not get another chance.


Romans 2:6-10

“God's righteous judgment will be revealed.He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek”

We will all be judged based on what we did in this body and in this life. Based on that we will either go into eternal perdition or into eternal life. Only one group receives eternal life.

Other passages that make this explicit : John 8:21-24 ; Matthew 16:27 ; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ; Galatians 6:7-9 ; 2 Corinthians 5:10 ; John 5:28-29 ; Matthew 25:31-46 etc.

All of these judgment passages teach the same thing and that is that God will judge us based on what we did in this life alone. There is no mention of post mortem salvation or multiple chances after death to repent and accept Christ. When John says that unbelievers "shall not see life" he is just confirming what Jesus says in Matthew 25:46 that when all people are judged according to what they did in this life those who rejected God will be sent into eternal punishment and its clear to conclude that they shall not see eternal life.

Hi,

I have a question for Catholics. How do you justify God redeeming everyone and especially Eve, if he simply created a new eve (aka Virgin Mary). What happens to the old Eve? Is that redemption if you simply discard the old one and give another woman the role as the mother of living? I don't want any hard and defined answers if there isn't one. But I just thought it's something to think about. IF you sinned and God simply replaced you, would you term that as redeeming you?

Hello people of Christian Forum. I hope I won't be thrown out for what I have to confess. I know I selected Christian as my religion, but I kinda have my Komboskini prayer rope where I chant the Jesus Prayer like the Orthodox, believe in Mary's role in salvation but not in papacy, believe in rapture and some other things!

I hope I won't be considered heretical here. I hope my faith in Jesus as the Son of our one and only Lord God who died to redeem us will help me find a community here.

Now, this is not saying that we will not have physical human enemies. We most certainly will! That is why we are taught to love our enemies and to pray for them and to do good to them and to say to them what is beneficial to them in a good way. And it is why we are taught not to fear our enemies, and we are warned of what to expect when we choose to follow Jesus with our lives. For we are told that we should expect to be treated by others as Jesus was treated, because we are living for the Lord in walks of obedience to him and because we are sharing the truth of the gospel and refuting lies.

[Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-25; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 6:22-36; Lu 21:12-19; Jn 15:1-21; Jn 16:33; Jn 17:14; Ac 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 7:9-17; Rev 11:1-3; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:1-18; Rev 14:1-13]

For it isn’t that we don’t have physical enemies, but it is that we are not to fight our physical enemies with the weapons of warfare provided by human beings. We are not to murder and to do evil and to willfully do physical harm to those who are our enemies. For this is not physical warfare being talked about here, but this is speaking of a spiritual battle which we are to fight with spiritual weapons of warfare against the wicked schemes of the devil. And the devil does use humans to do his dirty work, for certain. But we can only fight this battle in the strength of the Lord, and with his armor.

Now, this is written in figurative language comparing physical armor of physical warfare with spiritual armor of warfare against our enemy Satan. But the Lord’s armor he provides for us is not of a physical nature, but of a spiritual nature. So it is not something that we put on our physical bodies, but it is what needs to be applied to our daily lives, in practice. And it is not just words we say or some routine that we go through, but it involves us engaging in these specific areas in our deeds, thoughts, and words.

For Satan (the devil) is going to scheme against us in how he might try to take us down, for he wants us to give up hope, and to stop serving the Lord in ministry, and to stop sharing the gospel, and to not live holy lives, but to continue living in sin. And if he can’t get us one way, he will try another, and another, hoping that something will work and that he will conquer. And those who are not armored up, but who leave a door open for the devil, do get taken out. And this is why we must be armored up all the time.

So, how this is applied to our lives is in how we live our lives, in practice. So if I have on the belt of truth, I am one who is living the truth of the gospel and who is teaching the truth of the gospel, and I am not one who tells lies to make others feel good. And if I am wearing the breastplate of righteousness, then righteousness is what I live, what I practice, and it guards my heart from the evil one. And if I am wearing shoes with the readiness given by the gospel of peace, I am someone who is living and who is sharing the gospel message, in practice, in my daily walk of faith.

And if I am taking up the shield of faith I am putting the faith provided by the Lord into daily practice. And that faith involves obedience to my Lord in holy living, believing his word, and putting his word into practice. And I trust the Lord and I do not doubt him. But I follow him in obedience, I listen to him, and I follow him wherever he leads me. And the same applies if I am taking up the helmet of salvation, for first of all I need to be putting my faith in biblical salvation and not the diluted version of God’s gospel of salvation so many are promoting today. For Jesus delivers from slavery to sin.

If I am taking up the sword of the Spirit, the word of God, then I am being serious-minded and diligent to study the Scriptures in their correct context, to know what they teach, to apply them to my life, and then to share them with others, in truth. I am also using the Scriptures as a sword to fight against the lies of the enemy, for we fight lies with the truth. And believe me, lies and liars abound these days in the governments of nations, in the gatherings of what is called “church,” and in the media, including the news media, but also in social media – lies and liars abound there!

And then prayer is critical! If we are not talking with our Lord, and if we are not listening to him speak to our hearts, then we cannot operate in the Spirit with the Spiritual armor of God. For this can’t be something that we do in the flesh with human reasoning and intellect and choices. We need to be in open communication with our Lord about everything going on in our lives and regarding prayer needs for other people, and in order to know the way he wants us to go so that we can walk in it. For our Lord has specific callings for each of us to follow and so we need to listen to hear him speak.

Now, the Lord Jesus lately has been using this secular song in my life as an encouragement by replacing “Sun” with “Son” (Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who is also God). For sometimes the troubles of life can be overwhelming, and the enemy may be attacking fiercely, and it may seem sometimes like it’s been awhile since we have seen the light of day, i.e. a breakthrough of some kind to give us encouragement and hope and healing.

Here Comes the Sun

By George Harrison

Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's alright

Little darlin', it's been a long, cold, lonely winter
Little darlin', it feels like years since it's been here
Little darlin', the smile's returning to their faces
Little darlin', it seems like years since it's been here
Little darlin', I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darlin', it seems like years since it's been clear

Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's alright

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I feel as if im high- When thinking about god. A gang approached me,and tried to intimidate me. But I felt the glory of god around me. I listen to the bible on YouTube,and I pray as i listen. And i feel so relaxed. Like im floating on air. How come after a person prays. They feel so relaxed

President Biden has given Texas Governor Greg Abbott a 24-hour deadline to allow federal agents to clear out Eagle Pass or "face consequences," according to Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt.
I think Joe is making a mistake by not waiting to hear the Supreme Court decision. This is the time for prudence. It could be he and his people think the Court will rule against them.

The book of Ezekiel when it was written down, it was highly controversial and only barely made it to the OT. It contains prophesies that were hard to accept by Jews of the time. there is evidence that the way the book is arranged is not in the same order of how it was originally written down by Ezekiel. Have you read the original chapter wise arrangements of the book of Ezekiel and found something new or different about it?

Mr. Beast is the biggest youtuber on the planet. He uses his platform to help others, it is also how he makes his money. I have seen people say he is a white savior for doing good in africa. He had surgery done on over a 1000 people to return there sight and that makes him demonic. One of the big arguments is would he be doing all this good if he did not have money. He can make money...good money...without doing good for others.

He wants to do good, to make a change in the world and the best way to do it is to make money. He made this post on Twitter

Twitter - Rich people should help others with their money
Me - Okay, I’ll use my money to help people and I promise to give away all my money before I die. Every single penny.
Twitter - MrBeast bad

I am happy he is not letting a bunch of jerks stop him from doing what he does.

I guess my question is...what is the problem. Other people like to complain, I mean he could cure cancer people would complain

I went through a Doubting Thomas phase where I started to think religion was fake. So, I denied the HS and made disparaging remarks about Him to prove to myself that I no longer believed and officially leave the church. The Gospels clearly state that anyone who blasphemes the HS can't be forgiven and will go to Hell. I also wondered why God would forgive serial rape but not something as seemingly trivial as blasphemy, especially considering that it's free speech.

Do you think it's too late for me to be saved?