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Progressive government is the antithesis of a biblically based republic.

What "revolutions of the mid-20th century"? I must have missed them as I don't recall any.
Lol you must have been on Mars. The Sexual and womens liberation movements. That went into the Critical theories that permated the society and the insitutions.

Its no coincident that from this came easy divorce, the undermining of mariage and the family and all the lies feminism and other theories and ideologies have spread that have destroyed society.
No one is fighting with your god, Steve. Those of us who don't believe in your god just don't care about your god.
Thats a blanatnt lie lol. That a man can be killed for belief in his God in todays society is testiment that people do care enough to actually cancel them forever. Then double down and spew out further hate for anyone else who agrees with such beliefs.

If they don't care about our God then why are they so triggered by Him and Christian beliefs. Why has there been blanatnt bias and even targeting of Christians from the State. This has now been proven that there was lawfare and bias.

In fact you hear many people spewing out hate for Christians and conservatves. You may not care but please don't be the spokemen for others.

PS by the way, Are you following me lol. It seems you pop up commenting on all my posts lol. I don't mind but it feels like your following me lol. Or are very concerned about my postings. Maybe you care more than you realise.
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Are the Jews Israel, or is the church Israel? Or does it depend on the context of the passage?

How about adding this to your discussions?

Moses as well as other prophets wrote- That what we call the first covenant given by Moses to Israel, was predestined to be replaced by God in favor of a second covenant that was to come. That the first covenant was but an instrument towards his designs of a predestined second covenant through which he would save billions and transform the world. Many of the prophets spoke of this but no one did it quite like Moses in the first five books of the Bible. This is why God rejected so many of the first born in Genesis but elected and predestined the second born.

*Cain the first born of Adam was rejected in favor of the second born Abel.

*Ishmael, Abraham's first born was rejected in favor of his second born Isaac.

*Esau the first born rejected in favor of the second born Jacob.

*Jacob, later named Israel blessed Joseph's second born over the first born
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*Moses struck the rock the first time in the wilderness and nothing happened, but the second time he struck it water, “the living water” came out.


None of this was written by accident. It is all prophecy about God predestining the world to be saved via the second covenant with the first as a means to arrive at the second.

There is much more of this in the Bible like Israel's first king Saul being rejected in favor of Israel's second king David. Even the book of Job is a prophecy of the first and second covenant. Everything Job had from God at first was destroyed by Satan. But what he received the second time around was much much more and endured. However, the the coup d'état of this prophecy is at the end of the five books of the Torah. God does not allow Moses to lead the people into the promised land because a man named Yahshua, Joshua in English, Jesus from Hebrew to Greek to English, was predestined to do that. A man named Jesus led the children of Israel into the promised land as a prophecy of Jesus leading the meek to inherit the entire earth!

Now ask yourselves how could Moses and the rest of the OT writers know such things about a first and second covenant and preach and prophesy this would happen thousands of years in advance? Especially through the historical story line of the lives of the patriarchs and the lawgiver Moses himself? It certainly was not written after the fact as the books of Moses and the prophets were known throughout the empires of those days many centuries before the Messiah came. Besides, do you think the Jewish political class who murdered Jesus because they thought he would take their ruler-ship over the Jewish people from them would go ahead and alter the scriptures in such a way as to prove the claims made about Jesus? In their rabbinical writings in the centuries following the first century they sure don’t. They couldn’t anyway. The entire Greek Empire had access to the Hebrew Bible written in Greek hundreds of years before Jesus came. That is just historical fact.

I would like you to use reason and logic about what I just pointed out. This is not just a matter of so called faith. What possible reason could Moses or any other writers of the OT have had to conjure up such a story line? What gain would it have been to them? What a total contrivance of nothing because there was no chance the world could or would develop along such lines. Especially in light or the fact that no one understood what it all meant. The apostle Paul called this in Ephesians 3:4.... the mystery of Christ 5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; But he found this out after the fact because it became evident due to it transpiring in his ministry. His revelation of it came through the scripture as he was living out what was prophesied.

God had to trick Peter into going to a household of gentiles to preach. Even after that Peter called Paul's writings on the subject scripture, because it was really no clarity on the matter up till that point, until after it began to come to pass. One might ascertain that surely some of the saved in ancient Israel knew that the messiah was going to bring the light, salvation and transformation to the nations because there is so much prophecy about it. Some of the prophets even spoke directly of a new covenant for Israel and the abrogation of the current one. But the means through which that would be accomplished was just to much to grasp for them. Especially since what was written was four-twelve centuries old before Jesus had arrived on the scene and there was no more scripture written throughout that four hundred year period.

Moses even stated it in Duet 18:17 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. 18.....He will tell them everything I command him. 19 I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name. Or as the writer of the NT book of Hebrew claims concerning the Old Covenant: 2nd Co. 3:13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away.


Psalm 22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations.

Isaiah 2:17......and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

Isaiah 54:5 ......The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
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Skillet’s John Cooper Responds to Criticism New Chart-Topping Christmas Song Is ‘Demonic’

It amazes me what Christians will fight about. Skillet's song is pretty tame, relatively speaking, when it comes to Christian Metal artists making Christmas music.

If you wanted to flip out about something, I think this song would be a lot more appropriate to get upset about (even though I personally still love this kind of thing)...

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Trump terminates orders signed by Autopen during Biden administration

Conservatives cast a lot of shade on Biden in his last year in office (and Jake Tapper should be ashamed of himself for promoting it.)

And all along they ignored the 'elephant in the living room.' Their candidate (who was most unfortunately elected) spews nonsensical verbal sewage on Truth? Social and X every night that made Biden's very occasional forgetfulness sound like absolute genius.
Trump spews a lot of nonsense but Biden was in obvious cognitive decline. Nothing could make him sound like a genius.
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The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

Since when is real science and real history "far left."

Since when is the Constitutional concept of separation of church and state far left?

As someone who doesn't want public schools turned into fundamentalist indoctrination factories, I am proud of the work the NEA does. I am much more concerned about states like Oklahoma buying overpriced "Trump" Bibles and wanting to give political bias tests to teachers who come from "New York."

In my state some millionaire (denomination unknown) gave the state university a grant to post the ten commandments in every single classroom. The courts later said they couldn't do it.

I'd like them to put these in every classroom:


They might not be the 10 commandments, but they are mentioned much more frequently in the Gospels than any of the ten commandments.
Those actually look like they could pass for secular, you may be onto something with this
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Government Taking Stakes in Private Companies - Veering Toward Fascism Through Corporatocracy

Energy secretary suggests nationalizing private power generators to lower electricity prices, add capacity.

Trump’s Energy Secretary Wants Walmart Backup Generators Powering U.S. Grid

Chris Wright acknowledged prices are still rising

Chris Wright: “We will take backup generators already at data centers or behind the back of a Walmart and bring those on when we need extra electricity production.”

He suggested those private-sector generators, typically installed for emergency use, could be tapped when the grid requires supplemental electricity. Wright did not outline how such a program would work or whether companies have agreed to participate.
What you conclude is NOT in any way what the article says.
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The articles suggests that there could be a program whereby privately held power capacity which is off-grid could be used by to help power the grid in time of need. It noted that it didn't know which companies are interested.

There are programs in almost every state where private assets are allowed to be used to send power into the grid in times of need. Some involve water heaters, hone generation, electric car parked at municipal parking lots and many, many others. And yes, lots of baclkup generration can generate electricity to be provided to the gtid.
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BTW, this idea was noted as innovative and not at all a suggestion for action. I would note that NH took the opposite approach toward backup generation. They are fine with industrial generation and would allow it to be free from most generation provided that it is NOT connected to the grid. This generation would need to be on company property and the company would get no backup from the grid. This would greatly decrease the cost to other consumers.
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1) no mandatory program is suggested
2) even if the program were mandatory, the program would likely provide that any EXCESS be provided to the grid amd that the grid would have the right to turn the on the generation if it was not in use.


BTW, I worked in electric utility companies for over 25 years. This is a fine idea and should be explored.
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

How many has he made?
How many have you or anyone on this thread made. At least he has made similar products requiring similar tech. Were you not using machining experience and expertise to determine the vases. How many have those claiming to be machinist have they made.

Now you ask if he has made vases and only apply it to those I present to undermine them. While never bothering to ask the same question of anyone on your side who claims machining expertise. Its bias once again.

The point is the opening and lip of a part he makes will have the same tech as one on a vase. Its a case of a different cutter that handles granite. But the principles are the same. Especially for the interior that is the most difficult.
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

That is not true. Why do you lie?
How am I lying. What is untrue in what I said.
Read the full sentence you quoted.
How is that not making out he is an amateur when it comes to the marks on stone. What is the difference in knowing the strirations and marks on vases to the marks on other works as a machin ist and tooler who understands how marks are created and with what tools.

Calling the stone Egyptian does not matter. Its still a stone with machining marks.
Cite which article by him you believe supports this "...with the academic knowledge relating directly to software creation relating to ancient artifacts.". In which article did he create any software?
I linked his page and its full of papers dealing with the digitalisation of artifacts and shapes into 3D and the dealing with difficult shapes being digitalised into 3D. Seems the exact same process as working with the vases.

If Marian is working with different 3D objects including cultural works in digitising them for measuring why would he not understand the difficulties in mapping out the vases digitally for they reflect an acurate representation in digital 3D. He would have to know how the software works to be able to even do that.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marian-Marcis-2

But your still making a fallacy by demanding he be an expert in a particular aspect. When his expertise may have been in a certain aspect of developing the software.

The point is his credentials were not even checked full stop. Thats where the bias came in and you can't even acknowledge this. So why should I even bother with your doubling down trying to discredit him.

So far they seem to be amateurs, when you don't tendentiously twist others words.
Your still missing the point. There was no "so far" as though an investigation was made prior. There was none at all so they did not know. They had decided he was an amateur without any investiogation. Thats the bias and from that they are disqualified on everything else that is said. Once bias is shown you cannot trust any further comment from the posters.

But listen to you. They 'seem like an amateur'. That is a unsure subjective claim. Yet you want to double down and declare him an amateur. Talk about credibility, I don't trust you full stop no matter what you say.
Because the claims are not published in scientific journals, therefore it becomes an issue of why we should believe them.
Ah the good old peer review. This does not automatically make it wrong. There was not even any reference to the content and it was dismissed. No likewise rigor in the objections or critical thinking. Just plain outright dismissal.

Why should I take the word of those who have already shown bias. They disqualify themselves from the get go.
In evaluating ancient egyptian artifacts!
Yes in evaluation the tooling and machining marks on ancient Egyptian artifacts. Or any object that has been made by a tool or machine.
I've seen it, it doesn't seem to be true you can import the public STL files and do the analysis with standard tools, if you try.
Well others have. Its stated that the files can be utilised as an open file. In fact third parties have already used them. Dr Max and Karoyl used the files existing on Olgas vases and the OG vase. They did not make the files but utilised the existing ones from the Vase scan project done by Nick Sierra and Alex Dunn.
They don't, it is not even the same measure.
How is it not the same measure when they measured the same vases and got the same results. They both found Olgas vases to be in the imprecise range. They both found the OG vase to be in the precise range.
Their own data belies their claims of precision. Look at the mm surface deviations reported.
I don't want to go through the whole fixation on microns of difference again. Its a red herring and does not negate that these vases are lathed.

For Karoyl 5 vases fell in the precise range.


For Dr Max several fell in the precise range using their own methods for median deviation errors.

Class Averages


The ‘PRECISE’ class average errors are as follows:
● <<RMSE>> = 1.3 thousandths of an inch (0.03 mm);
● <<dR>> = 1.3 thousandths of an inch (0.03 mm).

Such surprising precision indicates a highly advanced manufacturing technique consistent with machining on a lathe as the modern lathe-made vases ‘M1’, ‘M2’, and ‘M3’ fall into this class.

The Vase scan project got the same results.
The original vase was put into a cartesian coordinant grid (X,Y,Z axis) and analysied in Polyworks for precision.
New Video – Scanning a Predynastic Ancient Egyptian Vase down to 1000th of an Inch! – UnchartedX

No, that is not a conclusion that can be drawn from Marians article.
What are you talking about. Who said Marian had anything to do with the scoop marks. I said we have evidence of alternative methods besides the orthodoxy such as the small dolerite pounders were not what was used to dig out the unfinished obeliske.

That evidence has nothing to do with Marian Marcis.
So making stainless steel bearings and aluminium bodys make you an expert on ancient egyptian manufacturing? Why?
Yes as far as what tools or machining could produce such an object. Look at the parts. They are contain the same shape as vases, flat tops with wide lips, cone type bodies, flat bottoms. But also other angles and shapes associated with a vase.

Smith is a machinist and precision tooler and also makes the machines and tools to make the parts. This is hypocritical and double standard that you now want to question where a machinist is an expert. When people on this thread have claimed their own expertise in machining as part of the evidence they sight. Why did you not question others on machining wood and metal when they claimed it was expertise in making vases.
Still is this software public? Their own analyst (Stine Gerdes) thinks their claims of precision are smoke.
Lol you can see the precision compared to later vases by the naked eye. You can get a hand held guage and measure the circularity of the vase that shows high precision circularity enough that it was lathed. Most people agree they were lathed.

They are more precise than that which come 1,000 years later by using a Bore Stick on softer stone. Thats why I kept things simple and said that we can at least say these vases were lathed to pretty good standard.
I've seen it.
Then why are you objecting. He clearly knows what he is talking about. Theres a few videos actually where he goes into the technical aspects.
They are completely free to make the investigations and publish them in a journal.
They have for some things. Its all relatively new so give them time. Watch this space lol.
And there have been no modelling of energy extraction.
What do you mean by modeling of energy extraction. How could this even be possible. We would have to work out what the method was. If it involved additional aspects like thermal or stress then who is going to allow such things in the pyramid lol.

How is it that the modelling for say theorectical physics is not always replicated yet accepted.
So why don't do the science and publish it?
Well we know such stones have the effect. We know the pyramid itself creates the effect. Theorectically why would it not produce an effect of some sort.
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The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

So how do you determine sex before using anyone's pronouns? No, it is all convention.
Its built upon accurate observations. Its not that hard for Pete's sake. We've been doing it since the beginning of time. Even the most primitive of societies get it right.
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The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

Not in the same way.

All those things are tied to sex. Of course there are variations within the sex group and not every person within the sex group is exactly the same. But none of those things alter whether or not one is a male or female.

And people.do NOT guess wrong quite often. Its very rare that someone might guess wrong.

That also does not determine if someone is male or female. Of we had the ability to surgically alter someone to make them look like a lizard, they still.wouldnt be a lizard. It would be an abomination. Which is what trying to surgically alter someone into something they aren't is by removing perfectly healthy body parts trying to graft on things that don't belong. It sounds like something from a horror movie of a mad scientist.

In some fashion yes, as we are talking the genetic norm. For example if a male has an accident that removes his testicles, he is still a male in toto. Or a female has to have a hysterectomy which doesn't create something besides a female. No one is trying to make her a male.
Suppose the woman, who now has no reproductive organs and has never really liked being a woman, decides to live the rest of her life as a man? Would you be able to refer to her at work as "he?"
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Trump Says US Will Permanently Pause Migration From 'Third World Countries'

I reject your agreement with my joke at your expense.

I'm half English too - Old English, bruh.

...Straight up Americano.

According to the numbers on ancestry.com, I have over 200,000 cousins in the United States. So... This country belongs to me.
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Trump terminates orders signed by Autopen during Biden administration

Here's my idea. Let's have a challenge between the current and previous president.

Both of them must take comprehensive competency tests adminstered by a licensed professional agreeable to both sides. That being completed, both must take the citizenship test immigrants take to assess their knowledge of our constitution and laws.

Whoever has the lower score (and I have no doubt who that will be) gets all his executive orders rescinded. It sure will feel safer when the 1/6 insurrectionists are back in jail instead of formenting autocracy throughout our country.
I don't think you would like the results
You know the thing
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Are the Jews Israel, or is the church Israel? Or does it depend on the context of the passage?

That was all I was trying to establish with you here


If you agree with what I am saying here, we can move on.

You can insert your own historical context into that passage, without me.
Then I can’t agree with you because agreeing with you would be to ignore proper hermeneutics.
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The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

Yes, but they all overlap between the sexes (yes, even breast tissue and facial hair).
Not in the same way.
Without social cues like fashion, hairstyle, speech patterns, friend gruops, partner choice and mannerisms those lead people to guess wrongly quite often.
All those things are tied to sex. Of course there are variations within the sex group and not every person within the sex group is exactly the same. But none of those things alter whether or not one is a male or female.

And people.do NOT guess wrong quite often. Its very rare that someone might guess wrong.
Many of the secondary sex characteristics are also amenable to medical or surgical interventions.
That also does not determine if someone is male or female. Of we had the ability to surgically alter someone to make them look like a lizard, they still.wouldnt be a lizard. It would be an abomination. Which is what trying to surgically alter someone into something they aren't is by removing perfectly healthy body parts trying to graft on things that don't belong. It sounds like something from a horror movie of a mad scientist.
So the you can't change your sex crowd are not talking about secondary sex characteristics, I guess?
In some fashion yes, as we are talking the genetic norm. For example if a male has an accident that removes his testicles, he is still a male in toto. Or a female has to have a hysterectomy which doesn't create something besides a female. No one is trying to make her a male.
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