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Dan1988 · 2025-11-24T05:17:20-0600

Hentenza said:
Elohim is the name of God in the Hebrew Bible.

God is described in the Bible by hundreds of distinct names, titles, and descriptive attributes.

The descriptions fall into two main categories:

Names and Titles
The Bible uses a variety of specific names and titles to refer to God, revealing different aspects of His character and relationship with humanity.

Yahweh (Jehovah): The personal covenant name of God, often translated as "LORD".
Elohim: The plural form of El, meaning "God," emphasizing His power as the Creator and Judge.
El Shaddai: Meaning "Almighty God" or "All-Sufficient One".
Adonai: Meaning "Lord" or "Master".
Alpha and Omega: The "Beginning and the End".
The Ancient of Days: Emphasizing His eternal nature.
Immanuel: Meaning "God with us".
Prince of Peace: A Messianic title for God the Son, Jesus Christ.

Attributes and Characteristics
God is also described through numerous attributes that detail His nature and character. These descriptions appear in countless verses throughout the Bible. Key attributes include:

Omnipotent: All-powerful.
Omniscient: All-knowing.
Omnipresent: Present everywhere at all times.
Eternal: Without origin or end.
Immutable: Unchanging.
Holy: Set apart from all moral defilement and perfect.
Just and Merciful: Always doing right while also showing compassion and grace.
Love: His very nature is love.
A Consuming Fire: Describing His holiness and judgment against sin.
Spirit: Indicating He has no physical form.

Ultimately, the vast number of descriptions illustrates the belief that God is an infinite being who cannot be fully defined by human language, but reveals aspects of Himself through His Word.

Warden_of_the_Storm · 2025-11-24T05:16:34-0600

jonojim1337 said:
You can see the quality is getting better as it gets more into view. Get better optics and you will see the full ship again.

Notice how in the photoset, the only parts of the boat that are 'out of focus' is the bottom part of the ship, while as it gets closer, the 'focus' gets better from the top down.

That's not a question of 'better optics', that's called a haze. If it was just a question of 'better optics', the entirety of the ship would be in focus or out of focus the whole time, not partially throughout.

jonojim1337 · 2025-11-24T05:15:42-0600

Strong in Him said:
Newsflash: you live on that spinning globe, and nothing you can say will change that fact.

It’s not spinning. Mickelsen Morley experiment proved that.

Strong in Him · 2025-11-24T05:13:04-0600

Apple Sky said:
What a spinning globe ? I quite agree.

Newsflash: you live on that spinning globe, and nothing you can say will change that fact.

The Righterzpen · 2025-11-24T05:12:59-0600

Stopped_lurking said:
Even when looking at places where it is covered by public spending (Sweden from 1970-2010) the regret rate is rather low, 2.2% regretted SRS. Which is in line with regret rates reported in the literature. So why should I believe in some kind of conspiracy?

Why did public health stop covering it in 2010?

Stopped_lurking said:
Even when looking at places where it is covered by public spending (Sweden from 1970-2010) the regret rate is rather low, 2.2% regretted SRS. Which is in line with regret rates reported in the literature. So why should I believe in some kind of conspiracy?

Why did Sweden change its policies then? Surgeries are not even allowed for people under 18. It’s a very lengthy process to get approved for surgery and it takes years.

So now, what percentage of people explore the option of surgery who don’t go through with it?

Other than females who get double mastectomies; what percentage actually get “bottom surgery”. (I’m going to venture to guess that the number is pretty small for those with full consent of what it entails!

jonojim1337 · 2025-11-24T05:12:29-0600

Warden_of_the_Storm said:
No it's not vanishing because of 'limited optics', nor is it actually dropping, you've got that sequence backwards. It's coming up and over the horizon, towards the viewer.

You can see the quality is getting better as it gets more into view. Get better optics and you will see the full ship again.

jonojim1337 · 2025-11-24T05:11:07-0600

David Lamb said:
Haven't you got that the wrong way around? Jesus came so that we could be "born again" into God's family. He was not born into your family, unless you can trace your ancestry to King David. Not sure what you mean by "the Right of Kings - perhaps you were thinking of a verse like this, written about Christians:

“and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him [be] glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.” (Re 1:6 NKJV)

Yes some are made priests, some are made kings, and very few are made priest-kings (pontifex maximus).

jonojim1337 · 2025-11-24T05:10:08-0600

Chesterton said:
So God's last name is jim? Or 1337? And what right were you given?

Also, if you're going to spout heresy, don't label yourself Eastern Orthodox.

Well it’s actually Komnenos, but we’re related.

Warden_of_the_Storm · 2025-11-24T05:09:50-0600

Apple Sky said:
What a spinning globe ? I quite agree.

No, flat Earth is infinitely more stupid. I thought I was clear on that but I guess I wasn't.

Also, no-one has still explained why at 70 miles on an earth that is supposed to be flat, I cannot see the Isle of Man with the naked eye from the North Wales coast. You least of all.

Warden_of_the_Storm · 2025-11-24T05:08:42-0600

jonojim1337 said:
You can clearly see the ship is vanishing because of limited optics. It’s not making a drop.

No it's not vanishing because of 'limited optics', nor is it actually dropping, you've got that sequence backwards. It's coming up and over the horizon, towards the viewer.

Apple Sky · 2025-11-24T05:07:58-0600

Warden_of_the_Storm said:
No, it is infinitely more stupid.

What a spinning globe ? I quite agree.

A2SG · 2025-11-24T05:06:30-0600

The Righterzpen said:
And how is historical perceptions of female actors irrelevant to this subject of male actors playing female roles?

Because the point was about society accepting cross dressing as entertainment. Why actors cross dressed isn't relevant to that point, only that they did, and society had no problem with it.

The Righterzpen said:
Nice try though.

We wouldn’t be having this conversation if society had “…clearly accepted both for most of human history”. Ya think….

Only if you ignore the vast and varied history of cross dressing, and drag, as acceptable entertainment, that is.

Individuals may differ on what they, personally, choose to accept, but society, in general, has accepted cross dressing and drag as entertainment for centuries.

-- A2SG, even as children's entertainment, or have you forgotten Bugs Bunny.....

jonojim1337 · 2025-11-24T05:06:19-0600

Warden_of_the_Storm said:
But curvature IS a fact. A well attested fact in fact.

You cannot explain this sequence of photos, at the Strait of Magellan in Chile, with a flat Earth. It's impossible.

View attachment 373529

You can clearly see the ship is vanishing because of limited optics. It’s not making a drop.

Dan1988 · 2025-11-24T05:05:56-0600

timothyu said:
The only grip the Adversary has is death, and that was overcome. We are free once again to make the right choice, a willing choice based on understanding of how God's will is superior to our instinctive animalistic self-serving will we are born with like the family cat.

All of that is true for those whom God chose to save, before He created the world. It is foolishness to the rest, they will never ever make the right choice. They will remain in their condemned state forever.

Please identify who the "we" are that you speak of, it sounds like your not making any distinction between the children of God and the children of the Devil. These have nothing in common, God wrath abides on those who do not know Him. They are sealed for eternal torment in hell, they will never know Gods love or mercy. They will only experience Gods vengeance and wrath.

Those of us whom God chose to save, are free from Gods judgement, wrath and vengeance. Death and sin have no power over us, Jesus has already destroyed the power of death, on our behalf and we are now dead to sin. We are free in Christ, meaning we will not suffer the penalty for any of our past sins, or present sins or future sins. They are all paid for in full in advance.

Normandt · 2025-11-24T05:01:45-0600

Homily Tuesday, November 25 2025

34th OT

Dan 2:31-45

King Nebuchadnezzar's dream reminds us to take our time, to build slowly, little by little each day, to reach our goal.

And half of the way through, we don't worry if we find it's not fast or effective enough. We continue to move forward one day at a time, one step at a time.

Lk 21:5-11

"While some people were speaking about how the temple was adorned with costly stones and votive offerings, Jesus says, “All that you see here—the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.'"

Of course, we saw the destruction of the Temple in 60 AD.

But here Jesus goes beyond the earthly sense. What is earthly will pass away, what is of God remains: Love, peace, joy, life.

Let us live in this moment and not in the past nor the future, nor for what will be destroyed anyway.

Biblical texts: NAB-RE

Normand Thomas.

johnnypapa · 2025-11-24T05:00:18-0600

November 24, 2025 Day 3

My God! because Thou art infinite goodness, I love Thee above all things, and repent with my whole heart of my offenses against Thee. Grant me the grace of holy perseverance. Have compassion on me, and, at the same, on the holy souls suffering in Purgatory. And thou, Mary, Mother of God, come to their assistance with thy powerful intercession.

Say one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and the Prayer to Our Suffering Saviour for the Holy Souls in Purgatory below

Prayer to Our Suffering Saviour for the Holy Souls in Purgatory

O most sweet Jesus, through the bloody sweat which Thou didst suffer in the Garden of Gethsemani, have mercy on these Blessed Souls. Have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.

O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel scourging, have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.

O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most painful crowning with thorns, have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.

O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in carrying Thy cross to Calvary, have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.

O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel Crucifixion, have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.

O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most bitter agony on the Cross, have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.

O most sweet Jesus, through the immense pain which Thou didst suffer in breathing forth Thy Blessed Soul, have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.

(Recommend yourself to the Souls in Purgatory and mention your intentions here)

Blessed Souls, I have prayed for thee; I entreat thee, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for me a miserable sinner, who is in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever. Amen.

The Righterzpen · 2025-11-24T04:57:59-0600

A2SG said:
I'm sure there were many irrelevant things about history I neglected to mention. Not sure why it matters to the subject at hand, however.

Drag queens are performers, and they are not trying to "pass as women" at all. The exaggerated style of dress and makeup, largely derived from Commedia del'arte, attests to that. What they may or may not choose to do in their spare time off the stage is their own business, of course. But the subject was society's acceptance of drag or cross dressing in general, and clearly, it has accepted both for most of human history.

If you're trying to make some other point here, it eludes me. Maybe you could explain it better?

-- A2SG, if you care to....

And how is historical perceptions of female actors irrelevant to this subject of male actors playing female roles?

^_^

Nice try though.

We wouldn’t be having this conversation if society had “…clearly accepted both for most of human history”. Ya think….

Matt5 · 2025-11-24T04:56:37-0600

What follows is a crazy story about an American family's escape from Sweden as the Swedish social services were closing in to seize their four kids. In talking with friends and acquaintances, they were warned to get out without delay. Get out that very night if possible. It turns out that that was good advice.

The People's Therapist Expert on X:

This is the story of how I nearly lost everything to activist Swedish Social Services. In 2017, my family and I were living in Sweden. I had lived there before as a single man. We thought it was the safe, stable, open society everyone in the West keeps praising.

What happened instead nearly destroyed us. I am a former Marine with a couple combat deployments to Afghanistan (this detail matters) and was part of Marine Corps Forces European Command in Germany. I worked for Amazon Web Services with a Nordic focus, staged in Stockholm.

I managed teams across Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland.

We lived in the countryside, paid taxes, followed every rule. We even insisted on speaking the local language.

We tried to be the ideal expat family.

Then the Swedish social services system turned its eyes on my family.

Continued on X.

https://t.co/RCQJmpRQTF" / X

https://x.com/Careerflex/status/1992751754791002352

Edit: This is a new post/article but the event took place in 2017.

Warden_of_the_Storm · 2025-11-24T04:56:04-0600

Apple Sky said:
No more stupider than a spinning globe.

No, it is infinitely more stupid.

Reluctant Theologian · 2025-11-24T04:54:18-0600

RamiC said:
You will, I assume, be pleased to find out that no one in this thread is arguing that the KJV is the literal and infallible anything. ChubbyCherub is not guilty.

Plus CF Rules include "Promotion of King James Version Onlyism (KJVO) or King James Bible Only is not allowed. Stating one has a preference for King James Version is fine. Tying salvation to what version is used will be seen as flaming." Terms and rules

I know that @ChubbyCherub didn't argue for that, neither did I suggest she did - my comment used exaggeration as a style element. Instead of KJVO (which only makes sense in English speaking areas), other more subtle versions of the thesis exist: my translation is best/uniquely chosen by God as 'the' vehicle for His truth. Or a certain best Hebrew/Greek text or tradition (TR vs Critically revised texts) is infallible, etc.

I didn't grow up in an English speaking area - in those days different but similar versions of the theme circulated - and still do.

The Righterzpen · 2025-11-24T04:53:55-0600

Larniavc said:
That is 65 years ago. Who knows what wonders have happened in the exciting field of surgery in that period?

Go look up the procedures for “bottom surgery”. They’re barbaric. Patients loose the ability to have sex at all.

Apple Sky · 2025-11-24T04:53:43-0600

prodromos said:
I'll bet the flerf who came up with this meme thought he was being sooo clever, while in reality it is just stupid.

No more stupider than a spinning globe.

RileyG · 2025-11-24T04:50:25-0600

The Righterzpen · 2025-11-24T04:50:22-0600

Stopped_lurking said:
Ok, but I should believe you just because?

Prove to me that big pharma’s researchers have never fudged data so they can sell drugs or medical products.

Assuming you understand that research is paid for by those who have a vested interest in selling their wares.

And assuming you also know that because the transition surgeries are not covered by insurance, that the “doctors” can charge whatever they want.

Show me the incentive and I’ll predict the outcome.

RileyG · 2025-11-24T04:49:15-0600

Hardback books!

Crab or lobster?

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