First day of summer in Brisbane (Australia) maximum 32 C (89.6 F), minimum 20 C (77 F).

Humidity 73% - Brisbane is generally humid in summer.

The climate is supposed to be similar to Miami, although other cities are a close match.

From an AI overview -

Orlando, Jacksonville, and Tampa, Florida: These cities are also considered similar, sharing the humid subtropical classification.

Houston and New Orleans: These cities, located on the Gulf Coast, are also comparable due to their hot and humid summers and mild winters.

Corpus Christi, Texas: One analysis proposed Corpus Christi as a potential "best match" based on average temperature and rainfall, though its summers are hotter and winters cooler.

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I have found YouTube videos that appear real but are stating questionable things. Like bishop Barren giving a talk saying priests can be married and the celibacy rule is lifted
If we rely on AI or YouTube videos alone, we can be deceived. I always check the Vatican news to see what the magisterium is really teaching

I would say AI is dangerous in that it can be used to deceive by looking so offical yet be so wrong sometimes.

timothyu said:

Who will we be? Who should we see now as being the real us instead of these failed creations struggling to self=justify our ways? The elohim (spirits) failed God. Humans (flesh) failed God. Who will we be to reverse that failure?

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We will be the Sons of God.

What is your point?—that's what I want to know. I'm not trying to debate you or criticize. I'm trying to understand why you went there.

Bob8102 said:

I have been struggling with OCD and struggling with the gospel for decades. I ask the question because of what I read in a book on Christians with OCD. The book is called Strivings Within by Mitsy VanCleeve. The author talks about how the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan, centuries ago, apparently had OCD. I have read about him and how he kept doubting his salvation and having other struggles. VanCLeeve said that he eventually gave up trying to seek assurance. He decided that come heaven, come hell, he was for ‘venturing all for the name of Christ.’ She said that only by making this decision was he able to continue ‘serving His Lord.’ This jives with other advice I’ve read which says that OCD people must learn to live with the OCD and its uncertainty.

If all of the above is true, then OCD people can never get assurance of salvation, right?. Yet one author I read said that your spiritual life will never really take off until you have assurance.

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The OCD people I have known in this life are very varied, though they have much in common, too. For the most part, I have found them very intelligent, able to reason well.

One thing I can suggest, is to pursue Christ with all your might, with all your will, with all your heart. Get to know him, spend hours praying, reading, without demanding he answer your questions. Get to know him and you may find, in his timing, that your life is about him, for better or for worse. And that for that, he is to be praised. You belong to him.

I'm not saying that it can be both, but that it can be neither, or maybe, better, that there may be a perspective/understanding that encompasses both.

Your descriptions are dependent on some form of time passage. And we don't know how to think otherwise, so I think that is partly why the terminology of Scripture. But when one looks at the attributes of God —particularly his singularity of purpose —his Aseity— and his Omnipotence and Sovereignty, we have to conclude that time is only one of his "inventions", one of his tools, and not necessarily something that governs the life/death to come, which is his economy —his realm.

When I consider that Christ took our punishment for us, I have to conclude that he suffered EVERYTHING we would have, not just temporal torment and death, but the torments of hell for every one of us who have our sin forgiven. He 'survived' it because he is God. "Hell could not hold him". I can't say that my conclusions are accurate —much less my descriptions— but I think there is something to them: That what happened to him, and to everyone of the reprobate, is a matter of what we in this life might term, "INTENSITY", where time passage does not apply. In this, complete destruction is going to happen, and is never over with (because there is no time passage), yet not ongoing in the sense that "time" would imply. Their hopelessness, anguish, despair, pain, regret, anger, hatred for God all "at once" knowing what it is to have lost all virtue with which we once knew them here, lost it because God has abandoned them.

FaithT said:

Jesus? How so?

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Hmmm....

Lady Bug said:

Whether or not the hymn is cliche for the Advent season, it never fails to move me. I love it

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I'm not a Roman Catholic, so I hope I am not breaking forum rules by answering. I like that hymn, too, as it looks back to the first coming of Jesus at Bethlehem, and forward to His glorious Second Coming. I especially like this verse:

"O come, O Branch of Jesse's stem,
unto your own and rescue them!
From depths of hell your people save,
and give them victory o'er the grave."

FaithT said:

The geocentric model was debunked a long time ago.

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I agree, but I don't see any connection between your post, and the single-word post from Apple Sky correcting another poster by indicating she is female.

Praying for the love of God to reach out and pierce the heart of those playing with dangerous things they think are some form of joke or rebellion against a person controlling them. Lord please help this member fight the spiritual war as You best know how to direct.

essentialsaltes said:

Miscarriages, infections, neglect: The pregnant women detained by ICE​

Until last year, Congress required reports on the pregnant, postpartum or nursing women in ICE custody, including ‘detailed justification’ for their detention. This requirement no longer exists, Kelly Rissman reports​

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[oversight is one of those words that mean its own opposite]​

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Despite an ICE directive generally prohibiting the detention of pregnant women, Alicia was held there for three months.​

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About a month after she was detained, Alicia began experiencing severe abdominal pain, vaginal discharge, cramping, and bleeding. She was taken to a nearby emergency room in shackles. There, she underwent an invasive medical procedure, without her consent, according to the letter. ​

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she remained at the facility for two more months. Unrelenting symptoms - bleeding, swelling, foul-smelling vaginal discharge and excruciating pain — persisted. The pain became so severe that she struggled to sleep.​

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It wasn’t until Alicia was deported in July that she was able to obtain antibiotics to treat the vaginal infection she’d developed from the miscarriage that had gone untreated while in ICE custody.​

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Data, available from a patchwork of media, lawsuits and Congressionalreports, suggests dozens of pregnant, postpartum and nursing women have been detained so far this year. [But we don't know since Congress did not renew that required reporting.]​

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Good Lord, why are we holding people for 3 months? If they are illegal, it shouldn't take three months to ship them out. And we absolutely are responsible to see they get the medical care they need. It's unconscionable that they don't.

DaisyDay said:

Those who commit crimes get expedited deportation. If you're not familiar with the DACA then you're just speaking from ignorance.

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I was strictly speaking about general deportations. And generally it doesn't matter if you are a good person or a bad person. If you are here illegally you are subject to deportation. Period.

Hank77 said:

Thanks,
I'm really glad of that.

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Hank, you should have realized this about @Aryeh Jay a long time ago.

Dave, joining others in welcoming you to CF

Hope you find your times here rewarding.

Oompa Loompa said:

This this the textbook definition of "grooming." Again, I say that transgender are not born, they are groomed and recruited.

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Out of curiosity, how many transgender people did you speak to before coming to this conclusion?

-- A2SG, could take a guess, but let's see what you say....

The last couple hundred years, maybe more, it seems a different perspective has become pervasive across Christendom, that we are put here on this earth for the purpose of doing God's plans for him, (to put it a little crassly). Truth is, it works out to the same thing the Pharisees were doing and that people from the beginning do, as though there was some level of obedience that was good enough, and worse, that figuring out what God wants (plans, etc) is our job to figure out, and that he can't do it without our cooperation.

We are here (both now and in the afterlife) as the Bride of Christ. We are what he is making, if you get what I'm saying. It is not ours to figure out what he wants —that becomes akin to divination. Thank God for prayer, where in spite of the direction our thinking intended he talks to us anyway. WE ARE HERE TO GET TO KNOW HIM. And no, not that we need not be obedient and listen to him. He loves it when we talk with him. But steer clear of methods of divining God's will.

You needn't stop praying about anything, unless your praying is demanding he treat you according to your understanding.

Joining others in welcoming you to CF

Hope you find your times here rewarding.

romansroad said:

know John Bunyan had issues like this

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Yes, sir. Indeed he did. You may wish to read his book on his experiences with this, called "Grace Abounding".
In any event, there is an entire section at these forums for those struggling with the same basic problem as you are, some of the symptoms you have mentioned being spot on with theirs, especially the one about sudden blasphemous thoughts against God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit coming to mind out of seemingly nowhere when never before in their years of life had it ever occurred before (and of course, the fact that it is naturally a worrisome thought to the sufferer right away, is pretty much the reason why the thought persists in the mind as much as it does afterward).
So know that you do not suffer alone!

romansroad said:

I refuse to give up though.

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And I do not think that the Lord will allow you to, even if you have times of weakness, tired out from such a mentally and emotionally exhausting thing as scrupulosity, where you might feel that you are or want to give up.