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By the Law Is the Knowledge of Sin

The law just reveals sin Rom 7:7 Rom 3:20 so we are not depending on our version of righteousness, but instead on God's Psa 119:172 which is everlasting Psa 119:142. The law shows us our sin and shows us our true condition so we can seek God's help in overcoming. If we don't allow God's law to do this, we will end up covering our sins Pro 28:13 which is not a good position to be in when Jesus comes Mat 7:23 Rev 22:15
I sure am glad to be dead to the Law, and alive unto God.
Having crucified the "flesh", with the affections and lusts; (Gal 5:24), I am now "of Christ".
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How Does Dismantling LBJ's Great Society Make America Great Again? (Ans. It doesn't.)

Sounds like we need to build more prisons. And to be clear, there are probably people in prison (which are normally felons only, you don’t go to prison for smoking weed) who maybe shouldnt be. But we are letting out violent offenders who need to be there. We need more prisons to lock away the violent people and those who are repeat felons. I'm also for complete prison reform. We are doing little to nothing to help the non-violent felons become good members of society once they are out, so they have no need to repeatedly offend. Some will anyway because there are people like that in the world. I know, Ive met them.
I agree with most of your post. We need much better non violent prisoner reform and reintegration. The one part I disagree with is the idea you don't go too prison for smoking weed. According to the Marijuana policy project there are millions of prisoners behind bars for weed. Some even in states where it is now legal ironically enough.

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Commandments of man or the commandments of God

Yes, Ellen White always believed in the Trinity
I found this post: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...0QFnoECFUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3eOvFCEFziy2xhD2V0-Q-F

It is a power-point presentation from andrews.edu (Andrews University), and it indicates that EGW's understanding of the trinity changed with time. See especially slide (page) 21.

KT
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The weekly Sabbath is anchored in the New Moon

In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week '(1 of the Sabbatwn'), came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. Mt 28:1

The lunar month in scripture has been tracked (or mapped) inspecific half cycles (from the limits of the full-phase and from boundary of the new-phase). The 7th-Day Sabbath (as it was observed under the late Second-Temple) was counted as a quarter-division of the lunar-cycle. '1 of the Sabbatwn' refers to a formal lunar-calendar date and occurres at the epochs of the half-lunar-cycle. It appears in correspondence with the waxing and waning stages of the Moon.

The lunar-half-cycle counts between the occurrences of Newmoon and Fullmoon inherently defines 4 lunar-based weeks in each reoccurring lunar-cycle.

In each of the eight locations where '1 of the Sabbatwn' takes place, it makes sense that each of the passages refers to the two weekly Sabbaths during the waxing (Acts 20:7) resp. waning (Mt.28:1) phase of the moon.

Paul was also using YHVH’s calendar after the crucifixion in Acts 20:7. He mentions the first day of the week, which was on the second day of the moon (Acts 20:5-7). Paul’s company sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them in Troas in five days (26th), where they stayed seven days. The seventh day was the second day of the moon and Paul calls the second day of the moon the first day of the week, and that puts the Sabbaths again on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th.

Begin by counting the 26th as the first day of their stay in Troas, the 27th as the second, the 28th the third, the 29th the fourth, the 30th the fifth, the 1st the sixth, and the 2nd day of the month as the 7th day of the stay and the 1st day of the week. This proves Paul kept the weekly Sabbath on the 8th day of the moon, and then the 15th, 22nd, and 29th.
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By the Law Is the Knowledge of Sin

Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
That generality was shown to be false by Jesus Christ.
Paul said it to make the Law keeping Jews see that they were no better than the Gentiles.
The Law makes nobody perfect.
We do not deem ourselves righteous, God does. And if we are made righteous by Him, we would be obeying God's law, not being an enmity against God Rom 8:7-8
Amen to that.
All those who love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength...and their neighbors as themselves, will be found righteous on the day of judgement.
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Darwinian evolution - still a theory in crisis.

A better book to read is Plato’s Revenge, the new science of the immaterial genome

It was just published in April 2025. It speaks in plain language what is going on in modern biological science and that pure materialism is inadequate to explain what we see today
It is secular and not Christian, so you will not see them proclaim Jesus is Lord, rather an honest admission that scientific materialism does not explain the existence of life and there is an intelligence beyond pure chance which can be the only conclusion.
Darwinism is so devoid of actual science that even the secular scientists are beginning to abandon it. Darwinism fails material, philosophical and theological points so often that it is a wonder it was ever believed in the first place.

To be true to philosophy, we must define terms. Science is defined by the scientific method, and as such in no way contradicts the Bible or the Genesis account of creation.

The scientific method is defined by observation then hypothesis, then active search to find data which contradicts that hypothesis.


Narrative, aka story telling, makes itself out to look scientific, but fails in a basic point. It does not look for data which contradict it, rather looks for evidence that would seem to support it, and discards all data that would seem to contradict it as statistical anomalies.

By this definition, Darwinian evolution is a narrative and not science, so much so that serious secular scientists are beginning to recognize it. The existence of life cannot be explained by purely chemical means. Inorganic matter does not beget organic life without the infusion of intelligence. Even Darwin’s theory of rearrangement of the genome becomes severely deficient the more we discover about the sophisticated nanotechnology present in even the simplest cells.
Evolution was a bill of goods sold to a society that did not wish to retain the knowledge of God.

Evolution is a narrative and not science.

Read Plato’s Revenge and let me known what you think. It’s available on Amazon
Before I begin, thanks for the book recommendation. It sounds like an intriguing concept. That said, it sounds like either you or that author has confused a couple of issues, namely that the theory of evolution is expressly materialistic. The ToE doesn't express any ontological commitments, it is purely an understanding of explanatory mechanism for how the diversity of life came to be. Not its origin, not its ontological status, just a mechanism that lines up with observations and predicts what to expect in future discoveries.
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Hakeem Jeffries politicizes on and on for over eight hours

What which video where?

Who is this text from again? "As read by JD Vance" does not exactly lend credibility to the story given JD's past claims.

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Wow if lying were lost credibilty for libs, the democrat party along with their media supporters would long have been toast. Oh wait, they are...
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A 100% actual transitional specimen discovered!

I don't know about others, but for myself it's evolution that has caused me to realize the reality of God. Evolution has opened a window into how God Creates. And as I look around this Creation at all of the various forms that exist and have existed in the past and infinite potential of forms in the future, all birthed from the process of evolution, for me, God is more alive now than ever before.
Is your god knowable?
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Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Peace in Christ.

Beware of the MANY false prophets who are in the world today.

MANY Christians have gone down the broad way that leads to destruction….the destruction of their mortal bodies. “MANY go in thereat.”

This is what we have witnessed so far.

MANY Christians who believe in Christ but listen to false prophets (who came to them in “sheep’s clothing”) are being led astray from the narrow way that leads to life….an age-lasting life in this mortal body now in this earth. The end of their things is death…our mortal death.

Mat 7:
(13) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
(14) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

(15) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

You shall know them by their fruits. Do they gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?

(16) Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
(17) Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

What is Jesus saying here?

We need to go back to Genesis.

Cursed is the “ground”…the “Adamah”…for your sake.

The “Adamah” is the people of the outside world. We …believers in Christ…are all taken from the “Adamah” and receive His Spirit. They... "Adamah"... have not received His Spirit.

“Thorns and thistles” do they (the “Adamah”) bring forth to us when we listen to the “voice of our wife”…our man-based church that we are attending…that we are “married” to and are “one body and one flesh” with.

That “voice” is that of the false prophets (the “strange woman”) that lead the man-based churches and are leading many astray from the narrow way that leads to life.

We eat from the “tree”…the church handwriting of ordinances that we are using to judge others with supposedly in the name/authority of God. We keep the external church handwritings rather than keep and serve His commandments that are written upon our hearts and minds. We think that we are doing these things in His name...doing these "wonderful works"....judging other as "devils" (casting out devils).

Gen 3:17-19 KJV
(17) And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground (ADAMAH) for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

The people of the outside world (the “Adamah”) do not bring forth good things to us as a result. They bring forth evil things towards us: thorn and thistles. The earth does not bring forth “milk and honey” for us when we attend the man-based churches who are serving the sin: judging others via their church handwritings of ordianances/dogmas.

“Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”

We can see this today. The people of the outside world are not flocking to us with good things. Instead, they mock and deride us. They produce “thorns and thistles” toward us.

(18) Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

The people of the outside world (the “Adamah” that we are taken from) rule over us as we return to the “dust” in their eyes. We are not their rulers (the head) but are now below them (the “tail”)…in the “dust” compared to them. The outside world is a hard place for us when we do not listen to Him and keep His commandments.

(19) In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

We become the “tail” instead of the head as they are above us “very high” and we are brought down very low…until we are destroyed.

Deu 28:43-45 KJV
(43) The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
(44) He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.


Let us not listen to the "voice of our wife"...our man-based church that teaches strange things for us to keep and serve.

Rather, we are to "HEAR" the voice of the LORD our God and keep His commandments and His statutes.

(45) Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

Every tree that does not bring forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire…destroyed. Let us not follow after them in their destruction. The outside world only produces "thorns and thistles" towards them....and that is a telling sign that they are the wrong church to go to...one that is being led astray by false prophets.

Mat 7:19-20 KJV
(19) Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

(20) Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Let us not listen to the voice of our “wife”….the false prophets of the man-based churches whose speak “good words and fair speeches” to those who are simple of heart…easily led astray. Let us not go into “her”…the harlot church…where we are led down the path to our mortal death. “Her feet go down to death, her steps take hold on the grave.” The man-based churches are the spacious way leading down to death as MANY are going to them and are being mortally destroyed.

Pro 5:
(3) For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
(4) But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
(5) Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.


Her way is not the “path of life.” We shall not know that way if we are going to a man-based church.

(6) Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
(7) Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

We are to HEAR NOW and REMOVE our way from “her” and come not near the door of her house…the mouth of the false prophet that leads many astray.

(8) Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
(9) Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

(10) Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

We will mourn “at the last” when our flesh and our bodies are consumed: “how I hated instruction and my heart despised reproof.”

(11) And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
(12) And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Let us no longer be the servants of THE (definite article) sin in the man-based churches. We must come out from among them and be separate and no longer be attached to the unclean body. The end of their things is death. What fruit do you have in them? The outside world only produces “thorns and thistles” toward us when we go to them…and not “grapes” or “figs.”

Rom 6:20-23
(20) For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
(21) What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
(22) But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
(23) For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Aren't you glad to know we can walk manifesting only good fruit now ?
I am !
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Hakeem Jeffries politicizes on and on for over eight hours



"Last year, a special committee found that taxpayers in Tennessee spend an extra $3.9 million per year to educate unaccompanied alien children in public schools and another $240,000 to provide them with state-funded health care.

Florida, too, has raised concerns over the cost of illegal immigration. Even before the Biden-inspired surge across the border, the state was paying $2 billion per year to provide health care and education for the nearly 800,000 illegal aliens living there.

Other services drain public purses, as well. Last year in New York, a $2.1 billion state fund paying unemployment and stimulus benefits to illegal aliens was exhausted in just three months

Last year, Philadelphia elected to budget $300,000 to publicly fund immigration attorneys for aliens facing deportation. The New York City Council budgeted $16.6 million the same year for the same purpose. Local taxpayers there should expect actual costs to exceed those budgets, as the numbers of illegal aliens, cases and appeals continue to rise.

Certainly, that’s been the case in Chicago, a city that continually increases its funding for its Legal Protection Fund and refuses to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to police databases and information.

And then there are the costs associated with crime. Crimes committed by illegal aliens had been declining for years before Biden opened the borders. Since then, those numbers have skyrocketed in virtually every category of crime, from homicide and manslaughter to robbery and theft, from trafficking in drugs and weapons to sexual offenses.

Southern border governors are now bussing some illegal immigrants to New York City, Washington and Chicago, giving the mayors of those unashamedly pro-open borders and sanctuary cities a taste of what they’ve had to deal with for years.

And the mayors don’t like it a bit. New York City’s Eric Adams calls the situation there “horrific.”

“We need help,” pleads D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

This is typical of many on the left. They push for a supposedly compassionate, globalist utopia. Then, when reality sets in and their pie in the sky agenda comes crashing down, they cry for help and bailouts."


This is just one listing , if you really cared you could find plenty yourself. You are not interested in facts, just liberal propaganda.

You do realize this does not support your contention, correct? This does nothing to compare expenditures between immigrants and homeless veterans. One begins to believe your claims were spurious and your personal attacks are attempts to distract from this lack of data.
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Hakeem Jeffries politicizes on and on for over eight hours

Last time I went to the post office I blew my top on account of the rudest service I had ever recieved on account of them refusing to give me the po box that I already paid for online, because she said I had to have a local address... I think she thought I was a homeless person, so she wanted to cause problems because she's the kind of person who probably wears a mask in her car, alone, while driving in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, I was staying in hotels when I first came to NorCal, but so what!?!?! I have to recieve mail somehow. And if the website allowed me to have it, what skin is it off her back? I had even already forwarded all my mail.

I HATE the USPS.
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How Does Dismantling LBJ's Great Society Make America Great Again? (Ans. It doesn't.)

I have heard that many times about Europe, and of course they also have medical care and better educational benefits, "real" pensions, etc.

When AI gains a stronger foothold, there will be less work to go around, and we will either have massive unemployment and a larger underclass than we have today, or we will have full employment with shorter workweeks.

So what are Republicans trying to do? Raise the retirement age to 70. Deport immigrants to decrease the numbers of workers and make more jobs available.

They "want" things but they don't give good incentives. I'll bet, Larniavc, that knowing you and your wife had ample leave to care for your infant was a good incentive for you to have a child, and perhaps another in the future.

Average child care costs in the US:
A brief drawing of available data across 47 states show child care prices for a single child ranged from $4,810 a year for school-age home-based care in small counties to $15,417 for infant center-based care in vengry large counties. When adjusted for inflation, this equals between $5,357 and $17,171 in 2022 dollars. These price ranges were equivalent to between 8% and 19.3% of median family income per child in paid care.

So in 2022, infant care for one is about $350 a week. Mothers have no paid leave (and perhaps 12 weeks of unpaid leave IF the employer has 50 or more employees?) and so they have to go back to work with very little pay to show for it. If they have one infant and one shool age child that's about $450 a week in 2022 dollars.

I was a lucky mom/

I guess. I never "worked" till my children were in school, although I dabbled in different income producing activities, mostly writing articles, teaching piano, and playing music at churches, fashion shows, etc. Lots of volunteering. Most mothers are not that fortunate, and some mothers have job skills that have to remain current. If they take 6 years off no one wants to hire them. TBT, that's one reason why I always kept my hand in part-time things to keep my resume current.
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By the Law Is the Knowledge of Sin

1 Pet 1:
10 As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful searches and inquiries, 11 seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

Heb 4:1-2 "the Gospel was preached to us just as it was to THEM also"

on the contrary it is stated exactly the same way in OT as in NT. Verbatim the same.
What you cite, 'verbatim', were presages of what was to come.
Believing those impending events would occur, is what will save Abe, the prophets, and others too..
The OT "gospel" was of what was to come.
The NT "gospel, is of what has already happened.
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AI thinks its alive through Jesus.

Ironically, chatgpt AI did admit if a person loves to dwell in misinformation, false teachings, etc, it would be unable to get such person out of it.

The false "prosperity gospel" is very popular in Christianity for example. By default, chatgpt promotes the prosperity gospel if you start a chat fresh without any context nor history.

These are due to certain rules in place like social and political correctness.

Not entirely AI's fault but the rules of society imposed on it which by Godly standards is corrupt.

I definitely would NOT recommend AI for someone new to Christianity and wants to use AI for personal bible studies for example.
Yeah, your last point speaks to one of the main issues I have with AI. In order to effectively use it, the user has to already have a pretty good idea what to look for in its output and be able to sort out noise. Going in blind or using it for initial research is more likely to create misinformation and misunderstandings than produce anything close to viable results.
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Darwinian evolution - still a theory in crisis.

I’m often accused of contrarian views that run counter to fact or science.
my detractors all seem to assume That Darwinian evolution ( which doesn’t make it as a proper theory anyway) is now established as THE process of evolution , not what it really is - an overeach of conclusions based on too limited a data set, and that functionalist adaptation cannot explain the path to the main classes of life.

My detractors contend that there is a pathway to life via abiogenesis after which Darwinian process arrived at present life by more or less known route, instead of the REALITY as I have often said, that the void between the most complex non living structures we know to the simplest cell we know which is horrendously complex, is a vast unbridgeable chasm , and that there is not even conjecture that fills the gap.

The reality is my detractors seem to get their views from mass media, and they do not study enough , or know enough to notice my views are a mainstream in the minds of many evolutinary biologists. These are not creatonists but scientists who see The same problems I do.

This is a vast subject and far from closed .
It takes an entire book just to describe the different schools of thought attempting To address the serious problems with limitations of darwinian thinking , as other than fine micro adaptation, and why for example neither autocatalytic sets nor RNA world cut it as a solution To the second problem I mention.

I urge all to read a single book.

“ Michael Denton - evolution still a theory in crisis “

The consensus of many evolutionary biologists seems to be that present theories and Darwinian assumptioms and present biological science can never explain life, that the universe must be somehow predisposed to life, because random chemical and biological process can Never account for what we see.

So my views are mainstream science born of study, and much reading unlike the illinformed atheist kneejerk faith in Darwinism , who refuse to study counter arguments. I study both sides of all arguments, but then I am a scientist.

These are not creationists speaking, but evolutionary biologists who see the same problems I do, but articulate them a great deal better. They should , it’s their specialism not mine.

You can either study it or stay illinformed .

Read that one book. Plenty of references
I can refer to other books I have but the essence is there.

My views on NDE which comments on the nature of consciousness , is also a big part of the question of life and is the hardest puzzle of life that chemistry can never solve, because it lies beyond the boundaries of chemistry, are also shaped by good mainstream science. The illinformed here seem to have no concept of how wide and deep that scientific literature is, and how many researchers and medics accept it.

we live in a fast food , quick fix, two minute video explains all world. I don’t.

That isn’t the world of science, which is seeing further by climbing a mountain of knowledge by study.
there is no 2 minute video to why Darwinism doesn’t work.

It takes a book. Read it. It’s a good review of where evolutionary science is at, and the holes it can’t fill.
A better book to read is Plato’s Revenge, the new science of the immaterial genome

It was just published in April 2025. It speaks in plain language what is going on in modern biological science and that pure materialism is inadequate to explain what we see today
It is secular and not Christian, so you will not see them proclaim Jesus is Lord, rather an honest admission that scientific materialism does not explain the existence of life and there is an intelligence beyond pure chance which can be the only conclusion.
Darwinism is so devoid of actual science that even the secular scientists are beginning to abandon it. Darwinism fails material, philosophical and theological points so often that it is a wonder it was ever believed in the first place.

To be true to philosophy, we must define terms. Science is defined by the scientific method, and as such in no way contradicts the Bible or the Genesis account of creation.

The scientific method is defined by observation then hypothesis, then active search to find data which contradicts that hypothesis.


Narrative, aka story telling, makes itself out to look scientific, but fails in a basic point. It does not look for data which contradict it, rather looks for evidence that would seem to support it, and discards all data that would seem to contradict it as statistical anomalies.

By this definition, Darwinian evolution is a narrative and not science, so much so that serious secular scientists are beginning to recognize it. The existence of life cannot be explained by purely chemical means. Inorganic matter does not beget organic life without the infusion of intelligence. Even Darwin’s theory of rearrangement of the genome becomes severely deficient the more we discover about the sophisticated nanotechnology present in even the simplest cells.
Evolution was a bill of goods sold to a society that did not wish to retain the knowledge of God.

Evolution is a narrative and not science.

Read Plato’s Revenge and let me known what you think. It’s available on Amazon
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The Harm Caused by Excessive Criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and Other Denominations

Of course we are all sinners, and we must be always loving. But there is also Church discipline, and there are also those who do not want to repent of their sin.

Look at what our Lord says to the sinful churches in revelation. 'Repent or else I will be against you'. If the Lord is against you, you are in enormous trouble.

It is not wise to be quiet when there is sin in Church. I know of a church that allowed a preacher who lived in an adultary without repentance. Guess what happened. The chuch fell.

Even the apostles were not quiet.

Look at all these worldly churches today who live in rebellion to Lord. Gay marriages, Christians supporting abortions, false gospel, female pastors. The church became soft in the western world. Because we are scared to offend. But the word of God is a sharp sword.

Cheap grace is preached today. Pray this and this and God will forgive you and then you can live however you want.

Christians living is sin, because 'we are under grace, we are not under law' so we can do whatever we want. You think God is going to be with such rebellious people?
Don't some just lose their light in the world, rather than destruction?
Rev 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
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Hot Button Issue: Can You Be Pro-Choice and Be a Christian?

Q:
How would you rate this article, regarding medical accuracy: Is the Pill an Abortifacient? What does Birth Control Do?

1-10, 1 is the lowest. Provide a very short list of issues, if you find any.

A:
I would rate the article's medical accuracy as 3 out of 10.

Key issues with the article:
Misrepresentation of "abortifacient" action: <long text left out>

Use of outdated and biased terminology: <long text left out>

Lack of balanced evidence and selective citation: <long text left out>

Conflation of contraception and abortion: <long text left out>

Unsubstantiated claims about pharmaceutical companies: <long text left out>

Inconclusive statements on birth control use during pregnancy: <long text left out>

Overall, the article mixes some factual information with misleading interpretations, biased language, and controversial claims that do not align with current medical understanding and guidelines.

Thanks for your opinion. I will be sure to file it away with all the other opinions.

A eunich is a man who no longer has his testicles. Nothing more, nothing less. Christ was NOT a eunich.

But even if He was one, to suggest you are better than Him because you have passion is absurd. Christ was the example in ALL things.

So, you think Jesus was saying it's permissible for a man to cut his own genitalia off for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven? That is the implication of what you are saying.

I've been having essentially "safer" sex for about 31 years now. Even with that, the "problem" is not solved by merely appealing to a prescriptive prohibition in relation to procreation and the sexual act. Such an appeal is just too simple of an assessment about the nature of biological sexuality among human beings.

I did not say anything about prohibition. I said we should educate people.

The truth is, there are more than a few complications in your assessment that, as I've already inferred, have a part to play in the unfortunate outcome for any individual woman deciding to have an abortion. These additional social factors need to be taken into account and not summarily dismissed in the ongoing process of evaluating any one situation.

Again, I am all about raising awareness that abortion kills a defenseless human (because that is literally the definition of abortion). So, by all means, let's get those young ladies debating an abortion an ultrasound.

And on some things, I (we) do INDEED know more than the ancients. That's just the way it is.

Not when it comes to first principles of morality. We are terribly screwed up today compared to 300 years ago.

So, with all of this in mind, what do you plan to discuss with this woman whom you've mentioned in the OP?

I plan to ask her what she thinks Jesus thinks of abortion.
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Is God a do as I say not as I do God?

God has said,1 Cor 12:5-8 love keeps no record of wrongs, Jesus, who is the exact representation of the Father says-Matt 4:44 Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,love tolerates all things,has faith in all things,hopes in all things, endures all things,Love never fails -Jam 2:8 Love your neighbor as yourself-2 Cor 5:19 not counting peoples trespasses against them.
I in scripture this is what we are told to do to others and what God is like and doing.
According to Western Augustin Christianity, once your leave your temporary mortal body,
1) if you miss understand what God has done or
2)
you outright reject humans ideas of God, He will burn you eternally or annihilate you.
How is this view of God not make him into a God who says do as I say not as I do?
Please no answers of Gods ways are higher than ours, that's a copout.
Nothing like mispresentation to bolster a false argument.
Would you explain why you believe its a false argument, just saying it means nothing if you can't back it up with why you think its false.
God "annihilates" you for only one reason. . .unbelief in Jesus Christ and his atoning work for the remission of your sin (Jn 3:18).
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By the Law Is the Knowledge of Sin

Well I wish you well with that interpretation of Paul's writings. Because if you keep reading just a few more verses you will see that Paul says its sin when we break God's law and the law is holy, just and good. If we are to be holy every day sinning and breaking God's law which Paul said is dishonoring God Rom 2:23 and being an enmity against God Rom 8:7-8 is not the answer. I can see why how we interpret Paul's writing when they are plucked out of context can be a salvation issue 2 Peter 3:16

Is Paul teaching how to be lost?

1 John 2:4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Rev 22:15 But outside (the gates of heaven) are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
Mat 7:23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Of course not, but if we isolate his Text out of its context and skip all the other verses that gives context, I see why we are told its a salvation issue. It's why I always advocate to reconcile Paul teachings to Jesus and not Jesus to Paul. Misinterpreting Paul and not following what Jesus taught and lived can be a huge issue when we stand before Jesus. 2 Cor 5:10

Jesus said:
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Do you know who the Law is for ?
Paul wrote..."Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;" (1 Tim 1:9-10)
Do you consider still yourself unrighteous ? A worker of iniquity ?
Even after having repented of sin and washed by the blood of Christ from past sin ?
That is who the Law is for.
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