God bless the patriotic people who got out and voted last November!

7thKeeper said:

No matter how much you try to blame the democrars, this shutdown is the republicans doing. They knew they didn't have the votes and didn't try to bring any over.

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It looks like they were counting on the democrats folding, as they usually do. What they didn't imagine was the democrats actually sticking to their guns and holding firm. So they have no choice but to blame democrats for the shutdown, with the probable hope that they will cave in eventually. So far, though, that plan doesn't seem to be working.

-- A2SG, they will do anything to avoid discussing the loss of health care for so many people...

I am glad that he is out and looking forward for his next congressional term.

Lost Witness said:

Purgatory isn't biblical it amounts to saying what God has declared clean to be unclean and diminishes the Lords sacrifice.

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The "evil present" within no one, nor the works thereof are getting past the pearly gates:

1 Cor. 3:
13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Every man's, not just "believers after any fashions."

Daniel Martinovich said:

You picked an excellent example of just how these end time teaches influnce the way see the Bible.

This tidbit of truth from the Bible could be categorized under: Fundamental error.​

1st Corinthians 15:24 then the end, when He shall hand over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He shall have annulled all dominion, and all authority and power. 25 For it behooves Him to reign until He shall have put all the enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy to be abolished is death. 27 For “He has put in subjection all things under His feet.” But when it may be said that all things have been put in subjection, it is evident that the One having put in subjection all things to Him is excepted. 28 Now when all things shall have been put in subjection to Him, then also the Son Himself will be put in subjection to the One having put in subjection all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.​

The end in the first verse where Christ hands the kingdom over to the Father is the cross. Before the cross Jesus annulled all dominion, authority and power. John 18:6 shows his dominion, authority and power exercised against the government and its soldiers. John 8:59 over mobs attempting to kill him. John 9:1-34 over disabilities, in this case a man born blind. Luke 4:40 over all sickness and disease. Matthew 8:29, over demons. John 2:1-11 and Matthew 14:15-21 over the elements. Luke 8:22-25 over the earth. Mark 2:3-12 over sin. Matthew 4:1-11 over temptation. Luke 5:4-11 over the animal kingdom. Verses 25-26 says Jesus reigned until he put all of his enemies under his feet and then he abolished the last enemy death, with his resurrection. Verse 27 tells us how he did this, (as a human being.) The One who put all things under his feet when he walked this earth was God his Father. Everything was put in subjection to Jesus with the exception of God the Father. Verse 28 says once all was conquered then Jesus was put in subjection to the one who subjected all things to him. This happened when Jesus voluntarily surrendered himself in the Garden of Gethsemane to the authorities’ intent on killing him.​

John 16:33 I have spoken these things to you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world." The word overcome in this verse means to conquer and prevail in battle.​

That is what Jesus did AS KING. The fundamental error is thinking that Jesus came only as a suffering servant and will someday return as a conquering king. What he did was come as a conquering king who then gave his life for the sins of the world that God may be all in all, as 1st Corinthians 15:28 says. His kingdom that is currently being built is not modeled on the worlds kingdoms of that day. If you want to see it, or at least its effects, as it is invisible; all you have to do is look at the free world created and built by Christians and others influenced by the Bible and the laws of nature. There was no such world in any way shape or form back then.​

Fear not Jesus says; Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from now on even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.​

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You merely miss the entire point

Jesus came to "destroy" the devil and his works.

Has that happened yet? No.

We have dominion over, but not eradication, yet.

Part of the Christian Hope is for the permanent eradication of the devil and his messengers.

So put your cards on the table for that subject and maybe we can have a conversation?

Aseyesee said:

How do you characterize hearing an accusation in my question? Would this be to you a listening to devils?

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Heaven forbid you have sin and sin is of the devil

Can't have that now can we?

This is a good link, I got it from another topic.
It is blog of some sort - with short recap of all the world news related to Armageddon / The Rapture.

Cool site. ^^ Thanks for the person from another topic for link, I think this should be here. ^^

David Lamb said:

Ezekiel refers to Job as a real person:

““Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver [only] themselves by their righteousness,” says the Lord GOD.” (Eze 14:14 NKJV)

So does James:

“10 My brethren, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering and patience. 11 Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end [intended by] the Lord—that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.” (Jas 5:10-11 NKJV)

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Okay. Then who was present to witness the conversation between God and Satan regarding Job? Was it the camera man?

David Lamb said:

The bible nowhere teaches reincarnation.

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Hi David. I agree the Scriptures give no clear, intrinsically verifiable demonstration of reincarnation, such as it does concerning the resurrection, but I have always been intrigued by this question asked of Jesus by his disciples:

”And passing by, He saw a man blind from birth, and His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this one sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God may be revealed in him;“
‭‭John‬ ‭9‬:‭1‬-‭3‬ ‭LSV‬‬

Again, nothing with which to establish the teaching of reincarnation , but nonetheless intriguing as to the thought process of his disciples.

blessings,

Servus said:

No matter how much they try blaming republicans, the Schumer shutdown is the democrats doing.

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No matter how much you try to blame the democrars, this shutdown is the republicans doing. They knew they didn't have the votes and didn't try to bring any over.

In my parish church, it used to be 100% by hands.

It made you feel out of place if receiving by mouth.

But now more and more people are receiving by mouth, a small number even receive kneeling. Probably the reason is the ex priest was replaced by 3 conservative priests here. Conservative priests attract conservative laypersons.
Another reason is some people were distributing pamphlets to encourage receiving by mouth.

Warden_of_the_Storm said:

That... really has nothing do with what I said.

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You have to admire the consistency!

2PhiloVoid said:

While I sympathize with your apparent felt loss of time, I'm not a believer that Critical Analysis always and only produces clarity. Sometimes, many times really, it produces more questions and less assurance of things we all thought we've known really well.

But I know. Someone needs to be held accountable. So, maybe take your complaints to various Existentialists and Critical Realists and other similar theorists who have influenced my own critical approach to studying the world.

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The thing is Philo, the more I read your posts, the more I reflect on exchanges we have had in the past, I find myself channeling Danny Kaye: "The King is in the all-together." I suspect others worked this out long ago; I'm just a bit slow.

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Joining others in welcoming you to CF.

Hope you find what you're expecting.

Richard T gave you some good advice. Also, Dr Derek Prince has numerous episodes about witchaft on YT

When dreams are from the Lord, they have a purpose. Sometimes they're warning us just like in Scripture such as Matt 2. We can always pray and asks Him for direction and for His grace and mercy.

Is it forgivable? According to several Scriptures including Mark 3 "28 All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men... 29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness..."

Sometimes we involve ourselves in things such as readings and Ouija boards which means we've looked to demonic spirits to give us hidden knowledge and dont realize the impact til later. In prayer you could address the reading and now for being fearful and asks for His forgiveness and peace. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." I John 1:9 "Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord," II Pet 1:2

Valletta said:

Yes, all it takes is one blow, kicking someone in the head, the chest, or the kidney. We had a local guy who was in a similar situation and he is brain-damaged for life. A teacher was just killed from a blow to the chest:

‘Tragic loss’: Mass. school mourning staff member who died after being kicked by student

The worker collapsed to the ground during the altercation and was pronounced dead the next day.

www.yahoo.com

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Well in that case, the punishment would have been different, now wouldn't it have? But in this case, there was no permanent damage. It's quite odd why you'd bring up a different case with totally different results as if that would have relevance.

I thought I'd have trouble locating this particular quote by CS Lewis to back up my claim in the above post, but it fell to hand almost immediately when I went looking for it.

It was the closing paragraph of his essay "Fern Seed and Elephants" which was originally delivered under another title in 1959.

Originally entitled 'Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism', Lewis read this essay at Westcott House, Cambridge, on 11 May 1959. Published under that title in Christian Reflections (1981), it is now in Fern-seed and Elephants (1998).

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Such are the reactions of one bleating layman to Modern Theology. It is right that you should hear them. You will not perhaps hear them very often again. Your parishioners will not often speak to you quite frankly. Once the layman was anxious to hide the fact that he believed so much less than the vicar; now he tends to hide the fact that he believes so much more. Missionary to the priests of one's own church is an embarrassing role; though I have a horrid feeling that if such mission work is not soon undertaken the future history of the Church of England is likely to be short.

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I did a search on the Nigerian Anglican Church to see how many members it has.

There were conflicting accounts but an AI summary gave the number as 17.5 million.

There were 17.5 million Anglicans in the Church of Nigeria as of a 2005 report. Nigeria has one of the largest Anglican populations in the world, making it the country with the highest number of Anglicans globally.
Total members: 17,500,000 (as of 2005)
Global standing: The Church of Nigeria is the largest Anglican church in the world based on membership numbers.

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That's a lot of members to lose in one fell swoop. Then there is the breakaway GAFCON movement as per another post by Michie.


Way back in the 50's and 60's CS Lewis, who was Anglican, was warning that the writing was on the wall if they didn't stop their worldly drift.

Apple Sky said:

Why ?

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I would imagine because you don't trust NASA and would say they are lying.

Debate is a good "front" tool for presenting the word. People are saved by faith. Faith comes by revelation, and revelation comes by Christ speaking to a heart. So I keep delivering the word repeatedly, not really caring what they have to say. Every response is just another opportunity to present the word. The word is all that matters. The word is the only thing that works.

rjs330 said:

We've seen a clash of cultures not racism. Not all cultures believe in tge same things. Thats why there are different cultures. Depending on where people are from even those of the same race can have a different culture. Not everything is racial. But I guess you are entitled to think it is. Thats a very limited point of view.

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Thing is, the ‘culture’ that went on those marches is my culture. I’m as English as the long day. But it is only the racist people within my culture who go on these marches.

Also the ring leaders often turn out to be criminals like Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and Anthony Styles.

So it’s not about culture; it’s about racism with a side of fraud, common assault and indecent assault of children.