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Woman arrested for vandalizing Charlie Kirk memorial now asking for money on GoFundMe

This phenomenon is not uncommon. This woman will likely receive significant financial support from liberal donors. However, it is important to note that such fundraising occurs across the political spectrum. For example, George Zimmerman, who was involved in the death of Trayvon Martin, received contributions from conservative sources, with Sean Hannity encouraging viewers on his show to donate to Zimmerman. Similarly, Kyle Rittenhouse has raised funds from conservatives on multiple occasions.
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The Brokenness of Christianity

The term "Christian" means to be a follower of Christ. That in turn, means to be a student of his teachings and walk those teachings out in your every day life. In this day and age though, there are over 45,000 different denominations world wide with 6 main branches. We are just way too fragmented... To give that point on how inconsistent we are, here is an article that discusses a research poll on percentages of just the core main points of Christianity and what people believe.
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Here is an example:
  • 64% believe that “Everyone is born innocent in the eyes of God.”
  • 53% agree that “Everyone sins a little, but most people are good by nature.”
  • 53% think that “The Holy Spirit is a force but is not a personal being”—compare this with the fact that 98% agreed with the statement: “There is one true God in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.” Talk about inconsistent!
  • 47% agree that “God accepts the worship of all religions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.”
  • 28% say that “Jesus was a great teacher, but he was not God.”
  • 17% believe that “The Bible, like all sacred writings, contains helpful accounts of ancient myths but is not literally true.”
  • 19% affirm that “Modern science disproves the Bible.”
  • 16% likewise say that “The Bible’s condemnation of homosexual behavior doesn’t apply today.”
  • 28% think that “Religious belief is not about objective truth”—and another 19% aren’t sure how to answer this question.
But read the rest in order to see just how disjointed it really is.

We.... are a mess.... How can we spread the gospel when we can't even agree on the basics!?

Assembly of God, no longer Pentecostal ?

Though the AOG is growing, I saw research that number of salvations far outpaces the number recieving the baptism of the spirit. So this is what one would expect if that was the case with this church. Many are still alive, but perhaps better than find that is to light a fire in the one that has less?
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Three Arkansas residents arrested and charged with voting illegally last year

It's not evidence. Do you think every instance of excessive use of force by a law enforcement officer results in a conviction? How about every theft? As President Carter pointed out, there are weaknesses in the election vote counting system.
Thank you for confirming there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the US. As stated in my previous post, voter fraud in the United States over the past 50 years has been less than 0.001%.

If there is no evidence, should we accept the existence of widespread voter fraud in America “On Faith”?
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law discussions belong in the law/sabbath area, or controvertial.

Sunday is not a commandment of God, but a tradition of man. The Sabbath is a commandment of God, written and spoken by God that sits under His mercy seat. Exo 20:8-11

Jesus answers this very principle quoting from the Ten Commandments

Mark 7:And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
8 For laying aside (saying its not for me) the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men

Mat 15:3 He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— 6 then he need not honor his father [a]or mother.’ Thus you have made the [b]commandment of God of no effect by your tradition. 7 Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:

8 ‘These people [c]draw near to Me with their mouth,
And honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
9 And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’


10 When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand: 11 Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”

12 Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

13 But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”
So the vast majority of Christians, who worship on Sunday, are indeed living in sin and their salvation is very much in question according to your theology. Right?
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Democrats shut down government

Nope. It's the truth, though I'm confident you don't know it, because you haven't looked into it beyond what the clowns on Fox and Phonies said.

-CryptoLutheran

You think the people who lick Donald Trump's shoes care about you, your loved ones, or America at all?
They clearly do more than the Democrats. At least they getting rid of illegal alien criminals
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Sept 23rd Rapture

People are re-playing and picking apart his initial phone call with God's Voice Daily back from June. Joshua didn't even know about the rapture or what it was up until "he was told by this spirit". So that tells me the dude doesn't read his Bible nor would he or should he be elgible to pastorize any church. He's a fraud all front and centre and we are witnessing what a genuine idiot really is who believes every wind of doctrine but won't study to show himself approved. I mean, he's been sitting on this vision for 7 years and couldn't be bothered to test the spirit? God is never going to tell any human being when the rapture is. It's just not going to happen, which is why we're to be ready all the time.
Goodness gracious, I didn't even know Joshua said that. I'm glad people were pulling apart what he said and it irritates me that Vlad had a hand in making that guy go viral. People should stop tuning into Vlad now because he PROMOTED IT. He is just as much complicit in this as Joshua is. But I know people aren't going to do it... It makes me sick people just do not care that this was proven false and CONTINUE to listen to the pair of them.

This is exactly why God trained previous prophets. So they could tell the difference between God and Satan/minions. God is also NOT going to tell some random person to go proclaim something serious that has NOT been trained by God himself. That does not exist. First question to ask anyone who thinks God is telling them a message to go spread, "do you know how to test the spirits?" and if the answer is no, automatic false prophet. I guarantee it.
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Morality without Absolute Morality

Do you think forcing a spouse against their will to engage in sexual intercourse is wrong?
Yes. But in certain cultures, especially in the Middle East and South Asia, it is the duty of the wife to gratify the sexual needs of her husband. Therefore, in those cultures, spousal rape is often viewed as morally good when a wife refuses to fulfill her roll. Similar situation found in the Handmaid's Tale. Side note, handmaids do not wear red cloak and white bonnet, they wear black burkas.
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Morality without Absolute Morality

If you have an example demonstrating that rape is not wrong then the claim would be factually incorrect.
You are factually incorrect to say that everyone agrees rape is wrong. You are using a bandwagon fallacy by claiming rape is wrong because everyone agrees it is wrong.
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Are infants guilty because of Adam's sin?

It appears to me you are confusing the text with your interpretation of it. This is the basis of the argument. It does NOT say the sin of Adam is imputed. That's your interpretation. Can you see a difference? You approach the text with the preconceived idea that it means Adam's sin is imputed. But the text doesn't say that. So how you are reading the text is faulty.

You are mistaking the absence of a single English word for the absence of the doctrine it names. That is the word–concept fallacy, assuming that if a particular word does not appear in a passage then the concept it names is absent from the passage. See D. A. Carson, Exegetical Fallacies, 2nd ed. (Baker Academic, 1996); Moisés Silva, Biblical Words and Their Meaning, rev. ed. (Zondervan, 1994); James Barr, The Semantics of Biblical Language (Oxford University Press, 1961).

Paul's forensic argument in Romans 5:14-19 embodies the very logic of imputation, namely, liability transferred on the basis of federal representation. The concept is structurally and contextually present, even though the technical English gloss "impute" is absent. Paul is arguing representationally and forensically:
  • v. 13 uses ἐλλογέω ("count/charge/credit"): "sin is not counted where there is no law." The lexical field of imputation is already in the pericope.
  • vv. 16, 18 uses κατάκριμα ("condemnation"): a courtroom term, not a mere description of corruption.
  • v. 19 uses κατεστάθησαν ("by the one man's disobedience the many were made [κατεστάθησαν, constituted] sinners"): parallel to being constituted righteous in Christ; if you deny forensic imputation in Adam, you shipwreck the parallel that grounds justification in Christ (whatever κατεστάθησαν means for Adam must apply analogically to κατασταθήσονται for Christ).
  • The verb is καθίστημι, which in Romans 5:19 is the aorist passive indicative, third person plural (κατεστάθησαν, constituted/appointed/made). Lexically, καθίστημι means to bring into a particular state or relation, to appoint, to make, to constitute (BDAG, s.v. καθίστημι). This range includes judicial or declarative senses. For example: Matthew 24:45, "whom his master has set over his household" (appointed to a role); Acts 7:10, Pharaoh "made him ruler" or governor (appointed, not transformed); Hebrews 5:1, "every high priest is appointed to act on behalf of men."
Romans 5:12-21 contrasts two representative heads, Adam and Christ. The governing ideas are judgment and condemnation versus justification and life, all forensic or covenantal categories. When Paul says the many were constituted sinners, he is not describing an ethical change in personal character but a judicial placement under condemnation through Adam's disobedience. The result—death reigned—follows from legal liability.
  • Lexically: καθίστημι means to appoint, constitute, not become.
  • Syntactically: The Adam–Christ parallel demands forensic symmetry.
  • Contextually: The whole pericope revolves around judicial categories—sin/righteousness, judgment/life, condemnation/justification.
  • Theologically: Denying the forensic sense in Adam undermines it in Christ.
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Another look at the moon landing.

I've yet to see a genuine image of the earth in it's full glory.
Correction - you have yet to see an image of the earth in all its glory that you believe is genuine. A search on Google for "The earth from space" brings up hundreds of images. For example:

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Another look at the moon landing.

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If rockets are going up and leaving a globe earth and going 200,00 mile away. Out into an outer space as exist, as stated and described by science, with CGI illustrations

Then have at lest one actual video example of a rocket going up and showing the earth as the rocket leaves the earth in the distance. With the earth getting further and further away from the rocket, so eventually the whole globe earth is seen and eventually being reduced in size as the rocket over travel distance, gets further and further away from the globe earth.

I've yet to see a genuine image of the earth in it's full glory.
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