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The goal of Christianity in 'Not' to stop sinning!

16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Excellent citing. Shall not fulfill never said we won't have the lusts to contend with.

The lusts are in fact demonic in origin. We are all "tempted" in mind. Often quite subtly I hear. Most think it's just them, but it's not.

There's a very good reason to take "every thought" captive. Captives belong in jail.

When Paul says "bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" just how might that apply to our adversary, the tempter (or his own unseen influencers)?

We know where the Word is sown, Satan steals, resists, tempts, etc.

So, anyone can test this theory for themselves.

How many times has any believer read Mark 4:15 and said to themselves, "that doesn't apply to you because you are a believer?"

I did, perhaps thousands of times as I've read scriptures a lot for a long time, before it finally hit me, that it DOES happen to me. Kind of an Oh Crap moment for me because, you see, I had been in DENIAL of Jesus' Own Words, openly so, and never saw it or realized that voice in my head doing the DENYING was "not me."

Welcome to the wrestling match
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The goal of Christianity in 'Not' to stop sinning!

The more of God you know, the more of God is revealed through you, and naturally, the less you will sin. No effort, no fuss, no worries.
You were doing so good! Til the end. Not that I'm disagreeing with you but will throw in a slight complication about the above.

The notions of sinning "less" are also a scriptural and reality fantasy. Why?

Paul described the sin that dwelt in him as "no longer I" twice in Romans 7:17-21, concluding therein with the fact that whenever he did good, evil was in fact still present within him and that IT did it's sinning things, outlined in detail earlier in the chapter, vs. 7-13.

Paul also claimed that he was, in the present tense sense of the term, "I am" the chief of sinners, basically putting himself at the top (or bottom if we prefer) of the heap of sinners, 1 Tim. 1:15

Jesus nailed this subject quite solidly in Mark 7:21-23 stating quite deadly accurately that "evil lawless thoughts" defile us all. The same things Paul pointed to in Romans 7:7-13

Yes, sin has a life (or anti-life if you prefer) of its own that does operate in everyone. This is why we're no better than any given sinner, Romans 3:9, and that every mouth and the whole world is shut up in GUILT.

Yes, guilty as charged. Every last one of us, no exceptions. (Yes, Jesus was/is the ONLY exception)

Anyway, to delve further in to this topic we should start to look at the WHY.

Paul introduces us to the fact that he had a "messenger of Satan" in his own sorry hide. He also tells us that temptation was in his flesh, Gal. 4:14, which ties in quite nicely to all the above scriptures with the addition of AN ADVERSARY, a very real "other agent" that was not Paul. There was Paul and there was an adversary, a messenger of Satan in his flesh. Now it gets interesting donut?

How did that agent get in his flesh? Well, that's an unseen story, but Jesus, thank God, at least shows us the "how."

Where the Word is sown, Satan enters the heart to steal it. Mark 4:15 is just a fact. And it's not something we ever rid ourselves of. The only temporary promise of the Gospel is DOMINION OVER that adversary, not eradication of.

Paul, Apostle as he was, I am certain was viciously attacked by said adversary constantly and continually. Hence when he claimed the seat of the chief of sinners, he was not just looking at himself. He was speaking of himself and THE ADVERSARY, the messenger of Satan in his flesh.

John said no differently when he said SIN is "of the devil," 1 John 3:8

So there you have it. The composition of mankind in a nutshell.

You have people, whom we are commanded to love

and

We all have an adversary, us, others included, whom we do NOT have to love, but can and should resist.

Now life gets very interesting from here.

Good luck to all in the wrestling match, well, not the other parties for sure. But to all people.

I have great hope that all people will come through the sieve intact, sans the other parties. Basically half of us will get through, the other half of me will definitely not. I have to throw out the damnation scriptures as a reminder to "my adversary" quite often. Daily in fact.
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

So have anyone measured the 10 kN vibrations in the pyramids? This presupposes that the pyramid vibrates, this is directly measurable. Why doesn't those proposing it just measure if it is the case or not?
I thought the electromagnetic wave effect at the location of the pyramids has already been established with the Schumann resonance frequency.
Resonating electromagnetic waves with a frequency of around 8 hertz which can be measured in the Earth's atmosphere. This natural phenomenon is called the Schumann resonance frequency.

This causes a constant vibration in the quartz crystals. So any further effects are building on this. The way the stones are located in relation to each other. The granite chambers are under tremendous pressure and the addition of certain acoustics and all sorts of activity can be produced.

The modelling that the findings are theorised on has only just been done. Still further modelling is needed. Then this has to be physically applied. Getting access to the pyramids for testing is another story.

I think so far the only on site testing has been on acoustics which shows piezoelectric effects concentrated in the granite chambers. In fact from memory the effect increased as it reached the Kings chamber. So the design at least for sound energy was intentional I think. The chanting and all that.
The authors mean to put the hypothetical system in an area with geothermal and seismic activity.
Yes and I think there are some papers on the granite and basalt stones showing evidence of thermal and/or stress damage. But also I think the reflective outter casing if white or bright would have radiated.

They may have harnessed natural weather events such as thunder storms and lightening. But just the location with so much quartz crystals and underground water ways. It was an active location in many ways and potentially it seems unreal that the Egyptians would not of at least come to understand all these natural events going on around them.
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the myth of flat earth debunked again

Sorry - What were the qustions again ?
Isn't this your thread? Aren't you reading the posts? A couple of the questions I directly asked you. So please don't treat me like an idiot.

Just see posts 1262, 1319 and 1324.

Any time you're ready, cariad.
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the myth of flat earth debunked again

You live in Oz, maybe you can explain this.


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Yep, and the only way you can see the entire 90 miles of road is from an elevation of 5400 ft. Any lower and some of the road is hidden behind the horizon. Good grief, who are the idiots that put these memes together.
Yes again, so the only way you could see the whole length of the bridge is from an elevation of just under 7000 ft. Any lower and some of the bridge will be hidden behind the horizon. Whoever created this meme is a moron.
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Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe











Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

Not what I said, but your outlook tells you otherwise. Yes, death was the result of A&E putting their will ahead of the Will of God. It was a factory built safety in case we went rogue like the elohim previously. The dead were dead as resurrection never became a thing until 2000 years back. Choice was what Jesus gave us as to whether we follow the Will of God or our own in achieving the Kingdom. Those that died before Jesus still had been told all through the OT of the same choice, the same choice given A&E. The difference is now, yes, we still will die as soon as we put our will first and we all do, but now we get a chance to repent and find life again, having understood and shown we are worthy of the Kingdom and accept His will over our own. That understanding was not available to A&E as they had not yet taken the knowledge to be able to understand. They were restricted to 'don't touch' as they had no way of understanding why. We do and should make the right decision, not thinking we can have it both ways, pulling a rabbit out of the hat on our deathbeds but lacking the fruits to prove our allegiance to the will of God.
Man, you sure used a lot of sticky tape to hold your theology together. It's like the patchwork on a Mosaic Quilt, it's inconsistent and incoherent. Makes no sense at all and it's unbiblical.

I don't know who the "elohim" are that you're referring to. If you mean the "Angels who sinned" then just refer to them as Demons or fallen Angels.

I don't know what you mean by "the resurrection never became a thing until 2000 years back". If you're suggesting that those who died before Christ came into the world, were under a different covenant, then you're wrong again. God only made two covenants with mankind. The first was "the covenant of the law", only Adam and eve were under that covenant. And the rest of mankind is under thew "covenant of grace".

No third covenant was ever made so we are under the same covenant as Abraham (He is a born again Christian), just as Job, Moses, David and all those who lived before Christ came were.

The only difference between Moses and myself, is Moses placed his trust in the coming Messiah and he was saved by the same Lord Jesus who saved me. But I look back and Moses looked forward. None of us met the Lord Jesus,, but both of us were saved by Him.

God never gave anybody a choice, you have no choice. There is no such thing as free will, because everyone is born into slavery to Satan. Nobody can escape Satan's grip on them, if God doesn't free the captive, then nothing else can.

There is no difference now, the only difference is, I know more than Moses and Abraham put together, they would have loved to know what I know but it was hidden from them. I have the completed canon of scripture, while they only has fragments.

The biggest problem with your theory, is that you failed to take onto consideration the fact that a leopard cannpt change his spots. Just as the natural man can't change his nature. We can only act according to our nature, we are all born with a sin nature, so we sin because we are sinners by nature.
You can't, change your own nature, because you don't have access to the reprogram your operating system Only God has access because He knows the the password.
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‘Just atrocious’: Trump’s polling numbers just hit a new low

If only Kamala had gotten elected, then we would be in good shape as millions of illegals keep flooding across the border.

Where do you think economies come from? The sky? Bad economies require bad decisions by business people. They need to go out of business, so businesses who make good decisions can take over. That process is cut short by government interference when it tries to make the economy better.

What really happens if the people via the government keep interfering with the economy over many decades? All those bad decisions accumulate until the economy stops working normally, then it is ready for a depression. This takes about 60 to 80 years of stability. We are at 80 years now.

The damage was already done before Trump got elected. It's too late now.
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The Miraculous Medal Novena

Day 6... 11/23/25

O Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of Our Lord Jesus and our Mother, penetrated with the most lively confidence in your all-powerful and never-failing intercession, manifested so often through the Miraculous Medal, we your loving and trustful children implore you to obtain for us the graces and favors we ask during this Novena, if they be beneficial to our immortal souls, and the souls for whom we pray.

(Privately form your petitions here.)

You know, O Mary, how often our souls have been the sanctuaries of your Son who hates iniquity. Obtain for us, then, a deep hatred of sin and that purity of heart, which will attach us to God alone so that our every thought word and deed may tend to his greater glory. Obtain for us also a spirit of prayer and self-denial, that we may recover by penance what we have lost by sin, and at length attain to that blessed abode where you are the Queen of angels and of men. Amen.
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the myth of flat earth debunked again

Sorry - I don't know what you mean.

In response to @David Lamb's comment of:
But as I have said, perspective makes things look smaller and smaller, the further they are from the observer, so are you claiming that Cornwall is so small, and/or so far from where you live, that perspective cause it to be invisible?

You said, not even answering in full mind you:

That's right until it dosn't apper to be there anymore.

To which I asked:
Does that inability to see stop at roughly three miles?

So... does it stop at roughly three miles?
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Needing a pastors counsel

I don't feel like I can pray right anymore. I'm scared I'm going to hell. I hallucinated audible demons. I have diagnosed schizophrenia but it felt so real.
I pray that God directs a pathway for you, both spiritually and physically, and pray that in Jesus' name.

Are you on a prescribed medicine, and taking it ?
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