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wing2000 · 2025-12-17T06:25:29-0600

RocksInMyHead said:
Well, we gotta make sure we check all the boxes in the playbook. It's 2003, right?

~~Iraq~~ Venezuela has terrorists and WMDs and they need regime change to remove their mustachioed dictator and bring peace and stability to the region. Oh, and also oil.

....with a bit of 1823 flavor (Monroe Doctrine).

Dan1988 · 2025-12-17T06:23:31-0600

RamiC said:
The problem you refer to does not exist.

" You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it." John 14:14

"14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." Ephesians 3 14-21

Jesus is alive, and will hear our prayers, and can absolutely teach anyone who asks.

I just asked the Lord Jesus for a new Ferrari, but He didn't hear me and He didn't give me a nice red Ferrari either.

You can't teleport yourself to heaven and breach the security detail to have a private Q&A with the Lord Jesus, whoever told you that you can was telling you tales.

The Lord Jesus has not spoken a word to any man for the past 2000 years and neither has the Father. So I think you should get your facts right before you jump to any conclusions.

Yusuphhai · 2025-12-17T06:16:51-0600

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Maria Billingsley · 2025-12-17T06:15:47-0600

Bro.T said:
“Tis the season to be jolly.” Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all men. These are sayings associated with Christmas, the day that Jesus the Christ was born; or was it? Certainly this could be a description of Christmas. Celebrations such as these were taking place among non-Christians centuries before Jesus Christ was born! Such customs do not come from the Bible. They have nothing to do with the birth of Jesus Christ. Jesus did not originate them, nor were they observed by the prophets (Old Testament) or the apostles (New Testament). We're going to examine Christmas, its origin and customs, and see if in fact Christmas is of God or Pagan. Should it be Celebrated or Rejected?

Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all men. Why, because we feed and shelter the less fortunate on this one day called Christmas? Shouldn't we care for the less fortunate all year long? Retailers increase the prices on merchandise, to try to recover from poor sales from the 1st three-quarters of the fiscal year.

Christmas (December 25th) is taught to be the day that Jesus the Christ was born. The fact is Jesus was not even born in the winter season. When Jesus was born, "there were shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." (Luke 2:8). This could never have occurred in Judea in the month of December. The shepherds always brought their flocks from the mountainsides and fields and corralled them no later than October, to protect them from the cold, rainy season that followed. Notice in Songs of Solomon 2:11 and Ezra 10:9, 13, that winter was a rainy season and typically the herds would most likely not be out in the rainy winter season. "It was an ancient custom among Jews of those days to send out their sheep to the fields and deserts about the Passover (early spring), and bring them home at commencement of the first rain," says the Adam Clarke Commentary (Vol. 5, page 370, New York ed.) Continuing, "During the time they were out, the shepherds watched them night and day. As..the first rain began early in the month of Marchesvan, which answers to part of our October and November (begins sometime in October), we find that the sheep were kept out in the open country during the whole summer. And, as these shepherds had not yet brought home their flocks, it is a presumptive argument that October had not yet commenced, and that, consequently, Jesus was not born on December 25th, when no flocks were out in the fields; nor could He have been born later than September, as the flocks were in the fields by night.

Therefore, to celebrate Jesus' birth date on December 25th is not scripturally sound. Any encyclopedia will tell you that Christ was not born on December 25th. The exact date of Jesus' birth is entirely unknown, as all authorities acknowledge - though by reading the scriptures, it strongly indicates His birth was in the early fall, probably September, approximately six months after Passover. This can also be found in the Catholic Encyclopedia 1967.

Some may say, "It does not matter when He was born. I am just celebrating His birth."; whereas others may say "Jesus is the reason for the season." Is that really the case? If Jesus is the reason for the season, then why didn't He let us know when to celebrate his birth? We claim we love Jesus so much but why don't we observe his death as he commanded us. Luke 22:19, "And he took bread, and gave thanks, and break it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me."

It wouldn't be Christmas without the yearly reminder that it is a Pagan holiday. Well, I look at it this way, I believe I am in line with what Jesus Christ of Nazareth said about " extra " activity done in His name:

Luke
'Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow with us.' But Jesus said to him, 'Do not forbid him, for he who is not against us is on our side.'"

I feel very confident that choosing a random day celebrating in His name while sharring love to one another is on His side!
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Thanks for sharing.
Be blessed

Nithavela · 2025-12-17T06:12:52-0600

Larniavc said:
Does this mean he will invade China?

Of course not. Any country with ACTUAL weapons of mass destructions is a valued partner.

Yusuphhai · 2025-12-17T06:12:52-0600

Dan1988 · 2025-12-17T06:12:16-0600

zelosravioli said:
You ask: Do we know what death is? Do we know what life is?

Death is obvious - the first death - as all living beings have observed: is a body becoming lifeless, decaying, turning to bones, and DEAD. Death needs no defining. As well, the first death defines the ‘second’ death - lifeless, decaying, DEAD.

Scripture defines death as well over and over: gone, forgotten, blotted out, destroyed, they are no more, etc.

Yes, death is defined in scripture as a process: the first death is of the body. First you go to Sheol or Abraham’s bosom (or paradise), then there is the Great judgement where the dead are separated one from another. The righteous to eternal life and the unrighteousness to eternal punishment - they are punished ‘according to their deeds’ (here they are still a living conscious spirit) and ultimately they go to the Lake of fire - the second ‘death’.

According to their deeds: Psalm 28:4, Isaiah 59:18, Jeremiah 17:10, 25:14, 32:19, Ezekiel 16:59, 36:19, 39:24, Matthew 16:27, Romans 2:6, 2 Corinthians 5:10, Galatians 6:7, Revelation 20:13, 22:12, etc.

The second death is just as the first death - it is ’death’. Then all is fulfilled. And so then the many 100 scriptures that speak of ‘death’ are fulfilled. The dead sinners are gone, forgotten, forever blotted out, as water into the ground, destroyed, perished, they are no more: Isaiah 17:14, 26:14, 60:12, Psalm 53:5, 54:5, 59:13, 88:5, 92:7, 94:23, 109:13, Job 24:20, Jeremiah 9:16, 10:20, Nahum 1:12, Job 14:12, Daniel 11:44, Zechariah 11:9, Joshua 11:12, 11:20, 24:8, Deuteronomy 7:24, 8:19, 9:3, 12:29, 32:26, Ezekiel 20:13, 20:17, 1 Corinthians 10:10, 2 Thes 2:8, etc. etc… so did God mean he would destroy them, or did God mean he keeps them alive in torment forever? I believe God means what He means - they are destroyed.

Death does not need to be described in anthropomorphic terms, neither does life. There is no ’not understanding’ what death and life are - that is, unless you prescribe to the eternal torture doctrine.

God doesn't agree with you. Gods description of death is very different to your theory.
If I was to go along with your theory, then it would be necessary to consider what God said about the matter as being a lie. And I know God doesn't lie, it's not in His nature to lie.

God said "In the day you eat of it, you shall surely die". Did Adam die, on the day he ate the forbidden fruit, according to you he did not die so that means that God lied to Adam, or it means that your theology is dead wrong...

Adam went on to live another 900 odd years, before he experienced your version of death. So in summary, according to your version of death Adam may have died three times. He first died, on the day he sinned, then he died again when he was around 960 years of age, then he died the second biblical death, or the third death according to your theory.

HIM · 2025-12-17T06:09:58-0600

Dan Perez said:
And I have attended many churches in. my 88 years even those that kept the sabbath. ,

And you say that you. really KEPT. all the LAW and even. Peter. in ACTS 15 : 10. says it was a burden.

So do you BELEIVE what HEB. 9:18 , YES or NO. ??

And the apostle Paul wrote 14 epistles and that INCLUDED HEBREWS. !!

AN you of course are keeping all. the LAW and Peter in. ACTS 15:10 says he could NOT !!

So. what does Acts 15:11. REALLY MENS. ??

dan. p

You did not address her post. You just spoke over it with questions without actually addressing any of her points

Inokuma · 2025-12-17T06:06:41-0600

Please pray for my mother who might have pneumonia. Her lungs are squeaky when she breathes, and she was really bad off when she woke up yesterday morning but after a bit she got a little better. Her oxygen level seems to be dropping while she sleeps, according to her watch. I can't get her to go to the hospital, but also most of the time she seems fine, but I can see this getting worse if more fluid builds up in her lungs while she's sleeping. Please pray for God to heal her.

Larniavc · 2025-12-17T06:05:06-0600

Nithavela said:
Trump signs executive order classifying fentanyl as a ‘weapon of mass destruction’

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order classifying fentanyl as a ‘weapon of mass destruction.’

www.29news.com

I am expecting the raids of US hospitals that treat patients with fentanyl to commence shortly.

Does this mean he will invade China?

Maria Billingsley · 2025-12-17T06:03:12-0600

peter2 said:
Hello,

i created a thread a few months ago on this forum, asking muslim Allah to kill me if He does exist. The thread was moderated and closed.
I read someone mentionning on the thread a killing in England the day after this of its creation. No other substantial reply

i created a few days ago, on the "kitchen sink" as well, a thread questionning about the moral purpose of the veiling. No reply either, but i heard about a killing, the day after it was created in Australia.

Do you think, please, it's just my paranoïa, or it could be more than a coincidence between these killings and the threads ?
(Actually, it's just that the killings makes me more and more doubting muslim Allah exists, and moral arguing also for veiling)

Of course Allah exists for the Muslim just as G_d exists for the Jews and it is the same God that the Christian's worship however, the big difference is access.

" No one can come to the Father except through me". Jesus Christ of Nazareth

No access, not heard.

What you need to be concerned with is your attempt to test your Father through other means in other words, you think there is power where there is none and more egregious was your attempt to cause harm to yourself for proof.

Sorry to be so candid, your post was very unsettling.

Be blessed.

Yusuphhai · 2025-12-17T06:01:04-0600

雅各看見母舅拉班的女兒拉結、和母舅拉班的羊群、就上前把石頭轉離井口、飲他母舅拉班的羊群。
Genesis 29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

tturt · 2025-12-17T05:57:04-0600

Also, you'll want to save tidbits for the interview

HIM · 2025-12-17T05:57:00-0600

Jeesuspelastaa said:
The law of Moses is one whole, and its partial observance is the breaking of the law.

Many people ask what Law is in our hearts.Let's take a look.

Two covenants in the time of Moses, The New and the old. The old was from Sinia and the new was first establish Moab prior to entering into the promised land. according to Deut 29:1

Deut 29:1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

Chapter 30 goes into details about the New Covenant that Jeremiah doesn't. In verses 6-10 it says our Lord our God will circumcise our hearts to Love Him. And That we shall return unto the Lord and obey and do all His commandments. That we are to hearken unto the voice of the Lord To keep His commandments, Statutes contained in the Book of the Law if we turn unto the Lord with all our heart. TAKE NOTE, THE JUDGEMENTS ARE NOT MENTIONED IN VERSE 10.

Deut 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Deut 30:8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.

Deut 30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

And this commandment to hearken unto the voice of the Lord to keep His commandments and statutes contained in the Book of the Law is now far from us or hidden from us. That we say, who shall go into heaven or across the sea to bring it to us. But this Word, to hearken unto the voice of the Lord to keep His commandments and statutes contained in the Book of the Law is very nigh unto us. It is in our hearts and in our mouths to do it.

Deut 30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
Deut 30:12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Deut 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Deut 30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

This New Covenant is in the present tense not future as in Jeremiah. But because it was only completely fulfilled in the People in that time due to the stiff necks and hard hearts like today it is repeated in Jeremiah 31:31. just in different words. There as you know it says, the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

One can plainly see that it is the Same covenant just in different words and in the future tense.

Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Both these wordings of the New covenant are repeated in the New Testament. The way it is written in Deut 29 and 30 is repeated in Romans 10:6-8. And as you are aware Jeremiah's wording is repeated in Hebrews 10 and 8. Take not of the difference emphasized in bolded print.

Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

Rom 10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above
Rom 10:7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
Rom 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

The readers of of Romans were both Jew and Gentile. That being said they would have recognized the wording in Romans and went to Deut, 30:10-14 and seen the wording there and would have seen what was meant by the word being in their mouth and hearts through Christ. And in seeing they would have seen that it was the circumcised heart that would hearken unto the voice of the Lord to Keep His commandments and statutes contained in the Book of the Law due to the Love that He has placed there. No judgements mentioned, just a loving heart hearkening unto the voice of the Lord to keep His commandments and statutes contained in the Book of the Law through Him.

Megaduck · 2025-12-17T05:56:35-0600

Unqualified said:
I pray for you to be strong and prep. It’s uncomfortable bt many have already handled it before you and ask for a sedative. I pray you will take it moment by moment and be glad. Put yourself in Gods hands and He will see you through. And laugh. Take joy in this and laugh. A little stressful, please lord overcome in Jesus Name.

Thank you!

Studyman · 2025-12-17T05:42:20-0600

Dan Perez said:
And I have attended many churches in. my 88 years even those that kept the sabbath. ,

And you say that you. really KEPT. all the LAW and even. Peter. in ACTS 15 : 10. says it was a burden.

So do you BELEIVE what HEB. 9:18 , YES or NO. ??

And the apostle Paul wrote 14 epistles and that INCLUDED HEBREWS. !!

AN you of course are keeping all. the LAW and Peter in. ACTS 15:10 says he could NOT !!

So. what does Acts 15:11. REALLY MENS. ??

dan. p

Dan,

Jesus warned about the "leaven", defined as "deception" promoted by the mainstream religions of the world at that time, "Who Professed to know God" and told me to "Take Heed" I am not deceived by them. Before God Sent Jesus, HE sent Jeremiah to warn about the same deception promoted by the mainstream preachers of his time, "who professed to know God".

Jer. 23: 16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. 17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

So because I believe all that is written in the Law and Prophets, I am careful not to just believe anyone who calls Jesus Lord, Lord, but to prove the teaching based on what is actually written in Scriptures. In doing so, I have discovered many "leavens" promoted by the religions of this world God placed me in.

For instance, the very popular but false teaching that Peter is calling God's Laws, Statutes and commandments, "a burden or Yoke" in Acts 15.

The mainstream preachers of that time, the Pharisees, were certainly attempting to place a Yoke on the necks of the Disciples that they nor their fathers could bear. Jesus spoke of this "Burden" when HE instructed the multitudes and the Disciples to listen to Moses, "when he was read in the Temple on God's Holy Sabbath Days". (Keep in mind this was the only way at that time that they could hear Moses)

Consider what the Jesus "of the Bible" said about the mainstream preachers of that time, who said they promoted the Law of Moses, but did not.

Matt. 23: 1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: "for they say", and do not.

4 For they (Pharisees, not God) bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

Peter was there when Jesus taught this. To promote the philosophy that Peter forgot, or rejected His Lord's teaching in Act's 15 is foolishness, and when a man considers all that is written, it is a deception.

Peter wanted to keep the Gentiles away from the traditions of men that Jesus said the Pharisees taught for doctrines, when they claimed to believe Moses, and directed them toward the actual Word's of God through Moses. It's right there in the Scriptures, all a man needs is belief.

14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,

16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

17That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, (Law of Moses) and from fornication, (Law of Moses) and from things strangled, (Law of Moses) and from blood. (Law of Moses)

21 For Moses of old time hath in every city "them that preach him", (Pharisees and Scribes) being read in the synagogues every sabbath day. (Just don't do what they do because they "profess to know God" but reject His Commandments to promote their own religious traditions))

Peter and the Apostles directed the Gentiles to do the exact same thing that the Jesus "of the Bible" commanded of them.

This entire philosophy promoted by this world's religions God placed us in, that somehow God's Judgments, Laws and instruction in righteousness is the plague on mankind leading them astray, burdening men with blindness and ignorance, and are a Yoke of Bondage, Beggarly Elements and Rudiments of this world is certainly a popular philosophy dating back to Eve and the first mainstream preacher "of this world", who professed to know God, ever to be recorded. Consider the foundation of his philosophy.

Gen. 3: 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: (God Lied to you)

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, (Reject the Commandment) "then" your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, "knowing" good and evil.

The "Yoke/burden" that the mainstream preachers of that time were tempting God, by attempting to place them on the Gentiles was not God's Laws given to Moses. They "said" it was, but Jesus had already shown the Apostles that it wasn't.

This is just ONE of the "many Leavens" promoted by the "many" who come in Christ's Name, that Jesus warned about. I hope you might consider.

Normandt · 2025-12-17T05:41:12-0600

Homily Thursday, December 18 2025

Jeremiah 23:5-8

“As the Lord lives, who brought the descendants of the house of Israel up from the land of the north.”

The living Lord is with every person. Every person can benefit from the Lord’s presence.

Matthew 1:18-24

“When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home.”

Joseph has the attitude of a true disciple. He listens, he discerns, and he realizes that it is truly the Lord who is speaking to him and inviting him to the mission. He accepts, and this is confirmed: “He took Mary home as his wife.”

Biblical texts: NAB-RE

Normand Thomas.

Apple Sky · 2025-12-17T05:36:35-0600

Kathleen30 said:
I would agree with that many passages hold higher importance but would disagree that they have a higher inspiration than other scriptures. Simply because all Gods scripture is equally inspired . But when thinking upon Joshua 10:12-13 when Joshua directly asks God to give power to still the Sun and the moon. What category does that fall into ?

Yes Kathleen I too would also like to know what category this verse falls into, hmm.

Nithavela · 2025-12-17T05:29:09-0600

RileyG said:
Well? I doubt anyone is reading that obscure book anyway. I don’t like book banning or censorship but i also understand why some material needs to be age appropriate. I guess I have overall mixed feelings? I dunno.

Is there a minimum amount of readers a book should have before people are allowed to read it?

Nithavela · 2025-12-17T05:28:38-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Supreme Court declines to hear appeal on Texas book ban case that allows officials to remove objectionable books from libraries
Sam Helmick, president of the American Library Association, said the Supreme Court’s decision not to consider the case “threatens to transform government libraries into centers for indoctrination instead of protecting them as centers of open inquiry, undermining the First Amendment right to read unfettered by viewpoint-based censorship.”

Texans will be protected from texts like They Called Themselves the K.K.K: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

There's only one american terrorist group: antifa.

Nithavela · 2025-12-17T05:27:20-0600

GoldenBoy89 said:
It looks like he’s taking his wallet.

No, he's slipping him a 100 dollar bill. The soldier will get back into the fight from the morale boost and then return home to frame the note and hang it on his wall.

Nithavela · 2025-12-17T05:25:09-0600

MarcusGregor said:
Step 1: Classify Antifa as a terrorist organization - Complete.
Step 2: Anyone who speaks out against the government is Antifa - In progress
Step 3: Deploy the military against "terrorist organizations" - A general has now stated to a committee that he would carry out such orders against Americans on American soil.

It looks like america is ruled by the anti-antifascists.

Christsfreeservant · 2025-12-17T05:22:36-0600

“Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? (Romans 2:1-4 NASB1995)

This is not a condemnation against all judging, but it is against hypocritical judging. For the Bible teaches that we should not judge unjustly, by human standards, by comparing others to ourselves, in hate, with wrong motives, and/or prejudicially, but we are to judge righteously. So, this is like “the pot calling the kettle black,” i.e. when those who are guilty of certain sins stand in condemnation against others who are guilty of the same exact sins.

[Matthew 7:1-5; John 7:24,51; John 8:15-16; Romans 2:3; Galatians 6:1-5; 1 Corinthians 5:1-13; 2 Corinthians 10:12; James 5:19-20; Jude 1:22-23]

And it might not be the exact same sin, technically speaking, but in the same category. For example a heterosexual might condemn someone for being in a homosexual relationship but while that person is engaged in adultery and sexual immorality of a different nature. For that person might be a porn addict, and all that comes along with porn addiction, but while that person will look down upon and condemn a homosexual relationship.

And this is about people who make sin their practice. All sin is wrong, but it is those who practice sin who are condemned by God, i.e. those who deliberately and habitually return to the same sins over again and do not change course. They always return to their vomit without conscience, and without remorse, and without concern for who gets hurt in the process. For their god is their flesh, and feeding the flesh overcomes all else.

“But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to each person according to his deeds: to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation. There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek, but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God.” (Romans 2:5-11 NASB1995)

And we are talking here about many people who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who are not living holy lives, pleasing to God, in walks of surrender to the will of God in obedience to his commands. But they are still walking in sin, making sin their practice, and not obedience to God. For they are those who are stubborn and unrepentant in heart and mind, many of whom are convinced that their habitual sins will not hinder their eternal life with God.

But Paul, as led by the Holy Spirit, makes it clear here that God is going to render to each person according to his deeds. For those who persevere in doing the good that God requires of us, we will have eternal life with God. But for those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth of God’s word, his gospel, but who obey unrighteousness, instead, they will face the wrath and indignation of God, and they will not have eternal life with God.

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” For not everyone who calls Jesus “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God the Father in heaven (see Titus 2:11-14; Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Living Water

An Original Work / November 21, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Based off Various Scriptures

My people have forsaken Me,
Their Savior, who died on a tree;
Made idols, and they worshipped them;
So empty, they will ne’er fulfill.

Lord, You are the hope of Your chosen ones.
Those who turn away from You will be shamed;
The Spring of Living Water left behind.

Living Water satisfies.

The thirsty, let them come and drink;
Believe in Jesus as their King;
The gift of Jesus given them,
So they will never thirst again.

Indeed, the Living Water flows within.
It springs up like a fountain cleansing sin.
Eternal life in heaven promised them.

Living Water glorifies.

Oh people, won’t you come to Him?
Obey Him and repent of sin.
Let Jesus come and live within.
Surrender all your life to Him.

My people, won’t you turn your hearts to Me?
Forsake your idols and then you’ll be free.
Won’t you come now to Me on bended knee?

Living Water sanctifies.

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Hypocritical Judging
An Original Work / December 17, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Ophiolite · 2025-12-17T05:21:04-0600

Shemjaza said:
Don't they have a brain with most of the working parts, just smushed into a an unusually small area of the skull?

Precisely. Apparently there are several variants, which in the most extreme cases prevent anything approaching normal mental life. However, in most cases the brain stem can take care of basic functions and the plasticity of the (compressed) cortex material allows a degree of adaptation. Scans presented out of context create a false impression of the amount of brain material present. This is done either through incompetence of the commentators, or deliberate lies for sensationalist purposes.

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