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There is one video here where a professor claims the moon is plasma and cannot be landed on.

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I remember telling you a year or so ago that that video was made 4 years before the moon landings - which obviously, subsequently, proved him wrong.
Why you would drag out the same clip again; who knows?
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Dear Pete Hegseth, I’m Grateful the Japanese Navy Spared My Grandfather’s Life

So you are told. Some have said the smugglers were trying to flip the boat over to salvage the drugs. Have any evidence to suggest otherwise?
Pathetic. They were already rendered harmless floating around a wrecked boat with dead bodies around them.
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Now does everyone understand why the "right to refuse illegal orders" video was made?

(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population called migrants entering our southern borders via kidnappings, abuses, extortion, charging illegal passage fees, etc
What are these migrants supposed to do when they get in? Shoot government officials? Blow things up?
(ii) to influence the policy of a government/our Liberal-Democrat, DNC party members by coercion --or intimidation at least
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by using BIGGER EVILS THAN mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping such as ...by corrupting officials, destabilizing regions, funding extremist activities, causing massive nat security & military spending, diverting resources, and fleecing the rule of law. Leading to increased violence, erosion of social capacity via disturbingly-high drug use. ESPECIALLY WHEN IT ALL FUNDS insurgencies or terrorirism cells.
Why should we let them do that?
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Not a lot of respect for men

I understand that, in the past and maybe currently with some churches, elders used to counsel young people on marriage, the sanctity of it, readiness, spiritually, financially etc.

Now, that's all left to parents who have no clue, because they weren't provided guidance and they have no way of providing guidance to their children.

The church lost it's place of importance and society has paid for that with an open ticket to marry for 'love' and divorce for any and every reason.

It's a sad state of affairs!
Yes it is. But don’t lose heart, Christ will straighten it all out in the future. Until then we live in accordance with our GODS will.
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If it was need we say more ?
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Of course.
They were setting up the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. They were highly trained scientists. You've said yourself that "science" means "know/knowledge". So why on earth would highly trained and knowledgeable people want/try to deceive anyone.

I don't think you Flat Earthers have any common sense/logic. I think there is a FE script somewhere and you all read from it without any thought at all.
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what is Calvinism answer to how God works?

Brother Del said:
Better yet, what does it matter what Calvin thinks about good works, and why spend anytime debating it?

Are we really that uninterested in the "weightier matters"?

Yes,...... a lot of people are more worried about theology than a relationship with Jesus.

Some folks are not able to move on to those "weightier matters" in their walk with Jesus simply because they like to argue. They get caught up in man's teachings and think they need to defend the faith at every juncture.

There is no such thing as a ministry of an apologist in scripture, but you look around youtube and how many so-called Christians live to have debates with folks on there,...... they must think there is.
It's true that it doesn't matter what Calvin thinks, anymore than what you or I think. But don't make the mistake of thinking that this question is not among the weightier matters. Understanding this is easily within the question of who God is and what we are, which has everything to do with knowing God.

We throw too simplistic a definition to terms like, "good works" —specially in the context of predestination and supposed 'freewill'. Can you not see where this applies to justice, mercy and faithfulness? (Matthew 23:23) Why would any of us suppose that we know God well enough to not pursue Biblical doctrine concerning predestination and God's dealings with the will of corrupted creatures? Doesn't matter???
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Date of authorship of Revelation

I agree; the great city, the harlot, is Jerusalem.

Revelation 11:8
and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which is allegorically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.

1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour.

Luke 13:22-24
He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23 And some one said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, 24 “Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.


Few people will be approved to inherit eternal life. Many people will not.
Jeremiah 3:3 KJV A harlots forehead, Revelation 17:5 I am thinking that the worlds churches will be led by the man of sin into Judaizing, basically denying Christ. They already see Israel as GODS only chosen people and some go as far as using things out of the law to increase church revenue, tithes and offerings. With this mindset already in place it would not be difficult for the false prophet to deceive them by calling fire down from heaven to burn the sacrifices at the temple.
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Dear Pete Hegseth, I’m Grateful the Japanese Navy Spared My Grandfather’s Life

According to that article it was Congress,
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In the fictional world of Harry Potter. Otherwise I don't think it numbers in the list of trees that wands were traditionally made of.
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Dear Pete Hegseth, I’m Grateful the Japanese Navy Spared My Grandfather’s Life

True. So who formally declared war after WW2? Hint: It wasnt Congress.
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Dear Pete Hegseth, I’m Grateful the Japanese Navy Spared My Grandfather’s Life

Oh? What attitude would Jesus have towards those who deliver poisons to kids, rape them, and turn them into sex slaves? Weaponizing empathy does not work with me.
You nor Trump has proven that these boat operators are guilty of any of these. That is why we have courts.
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The Church Divided

I agree with your first sentence. And, yes, we should not despise prophesy but we are to test everything to make certain it is of God and not of human flesh, which also fits with your first sentence. In the New Testament they tested what was taught or shared as a prophetic word.
Yes, they followed 1 John 4:1-3 and so should we.
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There are videos of the moon being reflected into the other layers of the firmament. I’ll dig it up later.

Thanks for the info & will looking forward to viewing more videos. :)

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

Does AI follow that thinking?
AI doesn't "follow" anything. It just summarizes what it scrapes off the net.
Does AI have a god?
AI doesn't have a God. It's software running on a computer
Will it one day also become aware of self?
I think my wife's "AI" rice cooker is already. It does seem to me to do as it pleases.
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Trump dispenses with trials, orders military strike on alleged Venezuelan drug-trafficking boat (Now up to 2, 3, 4...)

Trump backtracks on releasing boat strike video, distances himself from controversy

"Whatever Hegseth wants to do is OK with me," Trump said.

[HIs leadership certainly brings tears to my eyes.]

President Donald Trump, after initially saying he had "no problem" with releasing the video of the Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea that killed two survivors, is now reversing course and deferring to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

"I didn't say that," Trump claimed when pressed on Monday by ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott about his Dec. 3 comments.

ABC Senior White House Correspondent Selina Wang asked the president in the Oval Office on Dec. 3, "Will you release video of that strike -- so that the American people can see for themselves?"

Trump responded, "I don't know what they have, but whatever they have, we’d certainly release no problem."
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Dear Pete Hegseth, I’m Grateful the Japanese Navy Spared My Grandfather’s Life

No Christian I've read accepts the two innocent fishermen murdered scenario.
I don't know of anyone who has claed that they were innocent but we also don't know if they were smugglers. The Navy hasn't provided any evidence.
That's what they keep getting accused of by those who do accept that scenario.
It's easy to prove if they were smugglers. They just need to show Congress how that was determined. They certainly weren't in US jurisdiction nor headed toward the US.
While failing to acknowledge others are leaning towards the other scenario that the administration and navy aren't demonic murdering monsters.
I don't believe that the Navy is and many Naval officers have informed the Trump administration that these strikes are or may be illegal. The administration has to prove that they aren't murdering monsters by proving they were lawful.
It's not a sin or a moral failing to give the benefit of the doubt that the administration and Navy aren't being careless and homicidal.
They may or may not be true.
Those that hate Trump basically NEED it to be that way. They MUST be incompetent monsters.
Trump has already proven that he is incompetent.
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Even though true I am not anti-Semitic . There are many scriptures to prove Jerusalem is the harlot city. Revelation 11:8 Too many people today don’t realize that if that day is not Far off they will be worshiping the man of sin. Revelation 12:9 People refuse to believe that Satan has indeed deceived the world. The big revival they say is coming is when they are worshiping the man of sin. Then if you try to warn them you make yourself a target.
I agree; the great city, the harlot, is Jerusalem.

Revelation 11:8
and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which is allegorically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.

1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour.

Luke 13:22-24
He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23 And some one said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, 24 “Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.


Few people will be approved to inherit eternal life. Many people will not.
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