Cursed is the heart of this people
- By jonojim1337
- Ethics & Morality
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Shame about that thirteenth amendment.
Yeah America has a lot of problems, such as stealing emblems, buildings from Caesar.
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Shame about that thirteenth amendment.
Hiding the Gospel and Scripture in cloaks of tradition and ritual is what gets us ready to engage in Scripture-slinging spiritual warfare, but other than that we’re pretty chill. Occasionally we might have to disown somebody like John MacArthur who spends time attacking people for no reason and makes egregious theological errors though. Starting fights with other churches makes us look bad.
So as far as I know, we don’t use our schools to fight with other schools and we certainly are not interested in being like the Pharisees in our teaching styles. Well, except for the Master’s college, but that school is run by John MacArthur’s ego, so let’s just throw them out as irrelevant. I most certainly disown their elitism.
What I was referring to was the Dallas Theological Seminary, which is very inclusive in their doctrinal statement. I think a Christian of almost any Protestant stripe could attend there unbothered, including the SDAs and Messianics. In fact, I have reason to suspect that some actually have.
But when you build a school, there are those who teach at the school, and of the teachers, there will be researchers and scholars who decide what is to be taught. That’s just how schools work. There are people whose job is to know the worldwide mission field like a 3-D chess game and to train people for new mission opportunities, whether pastor or missionary.
And then, inevitably, these scholars will reach necessary consensus on certain issues, which are then taught to the pastors who teach it to their congregations. That is a way of keeping order and making sure that the pastors and missionaries are following the Scriptures. Most of these consensuses are practical, like refusing same-sex marriages to be conducted on church property or saying we don’t allow abuse as a valid reason for a biblical divorce, etc.
In this case, imagine yourself as a union less factory worker in 1863 when the SDA church was founded up in Michigan. Having a day of rest to the Lord would have been a relief to them from the constant toil and long hours in the workplace. That’s part of why that church has held on against the mainline work ‘em til they die American culture, by venerating the 4th commandment as a pushback. It provides relief. Likewise, the Zadok consensus appeals to the Messianic Jews and their theological needs. It’s a practical consensus for them to keep the Law to honor their heritage and keep the peace with their fellow law keeping Jews. The bottom line is:
Likewise, the mainline consensus is practical for people in occupations that don’t allow them to consistently rest on Saturday, like emergency service workers or postal carriers. You’re not apostate for delivering the mail on Saturday, says that consensus: your Sabbath rest is in Christ. Not only that, but our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, and He is working on Saturday too. No priest was breaking the Sabbath by working in the temple, and the temple was not breaking the Sabbath by being used, and neither are we.
It’s a strange reality to think about the fact that a temple can deliver your mail or heal your wound or tend a garden or do all the other things that humans do, but it is true. We aren’t God, but we are serving Him now with everything we do, and that should take some pressure off.
So, the percentage is irrelevant in your viewpoint. And that's a consistent viewpoint.And have the Muslim majority of Dearborn turned that city into a theocracy?
(I oppose all theocracy and always have.)
It seems you didn't actually read the argument. What kind of action is "creating the possibility of success"? Does the Father merely attempt to create that possibility, with the real risk of failure? Or is the Father necessarily successful in that act?There's no need for the success of the drawing to depend on force in order for it to create the possibility of success.
It provides a way for encouragement for like minded people. Strength in numbers (so to speak)Jesus said that if as few as "two or three" Christians are gathered together in His name, He is present.
In one sense, He is always present as He indwells, through the Holy Spirit, in every true Christian, but when as few as two Christians come together, He is present in an even greater sense in that a group of Christians gathered in His Name is a manifestation of His corporate body. He is, in a sense, physically present through His corporate body. Furthermore, because all Christians are united in the Holy Spirit, when even two Christians come together in prayer and worship, there is a sense in which the entire church of Christians (both alive and in the Father's nearer presence) are also present through the unity of the Holy Spirit. And Jesus is the Head!
As an aside, I suggest that "church" be taken as a collective noun - a swarm of bees, a murder of ravens and a church of Christians! A "church of Christians" is a gathering of born-again believers to worship God through Jesus. Thinking in this way helps us avoid the tendency to think of "The Church" as either an organisation or a building.
As the kids say, "Game recognizes game",
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Trump commuted Eliyahu Weinstein's 24 year sentence in the Pardonpalooza at the end of Trump 1.0. After his release, he stole another $44 million from his suckers and has now received a brand new 37 year sentence.
What are you even talking about. Bavarian Illuminati being founded 1776?Near independence right?
Some are better off as slaves.Well, when you imagine God as being perfect falling short of that is a rather foregone conclusion. Therefore comparing oneself to God is a rather silly thing to do. Hence I make no attempt to do so. I'm simply content with accepting people as they are, myself included. For what it's worth, in my house everyone is welcome.
Biden didn't run on releasing anything Epstein. Trump did. So did his head and second in command at the FBI.Biden and his staff and DOJ had access. Just as much access as Trump and his staff and DOJ have.
Political ??when the political kingdom of Israel would be restored
the millennium is the thousand-year reign of Christ with His saints in heaven, during which the wicked will be judged and the earth will be desolate.Hello!
I'm undecided about eschatology but doing some research on it. I think good points are made for both amillennialism and premillennialism. The only view I currently hold to with is inaugurated eschatology (or "already and not yet") where most prophecy has double fulfillment. It's normally associated with George Eldon Ladd, who was a premillennialist, but I don't see why one can't be amillennial and also agree with inaugurated eschatology.
I'm wondering if one can hold to a non-literalistic premillennialism?
Like, I don't think the events in Revelation are strictly chronological and probably could be oit of order or just the same events from different angles.
I also don't know if I believe the 1,000 years mentioned in the book to be be a literal millennium.
Could one believe in a Millennial State after the Second Coming, but not think the Millennial Kingdom will be a literal 1,000 years?
That is totally false. Trump et al knew exactly what the meeting was about. The email to Don Jr to set up the meeting:Yes, they knew that they were Russians. But they were duped into thinking they were going to get dirt on Hillary, when instead Veselnitskaya wanted to talk about sanctions against Russia. You seem to think that my pointing out that they had the meeting to get dirt on Hillary but were suckered, is trying to defend them is some way, which really doesn't make any sense.
But then again, this thread is about the current Epstein files situation, not something else that took place nearly ten years ago.
Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting.
The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father. This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump – helped along by Aras and Emin.
Thanks Rob I appreciate that. I am on the road at the moment but perhaps I just speak to Emin first. Seems we have some time and if it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer. Could we do a call first thing next week when I am back?
I wonder what our friends who always tell us Trump only hits back at those that attack him first must feel about this?More statesmanlike rhetoric directed at the GOP leader of the Epstein files discharge petition effort.
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Please, by all means continue with your totally unbiblical cherry picked doctrine. Someone who loves to tout this verse-You do understand we ALL engage our adversary, the tempter, in our own minds
You merely have a surface fleshy sight of people only
More statesmanlike rhetoric directed at the GOP leader of the Epstein files discharge petition effort.And now the sickest grandpa burn of 2025:
We keep trying to do this .... however the corruption is wide and deep. Government is way way too big ... the bigger something gets the more difficult it is to manage and/or have proper oversight. The only way corrupt practices will be curtailed is if the people involved in them are actually prosecuted for their dastardly deeds and so far that hasn't come into fruition.Then let's put social pressure on our leaders to change their corrupt practices.
Maybe because it is true. It would take a long time to tell the truth about everything Newton and Columbus did, but that doesn’t mean they are indoctrinating. In schools, they have to tell the students about the life of somebody that lived 60 years or more in less than a half an hour. It can’t be 100% correct, but it can be an introduction.Then why is the globe the first thing a child sees in the classroom & why do teachers teach that it spins, why teach kids about Columbus & Newton ?
If this isn't indoctrination I don't know what is.
And another thing when ever I'm watching a TV show or a film, there it is lurking in the corner, what is it, a globe. They never fail to show one.
I love a happy ending!Bodycam footage catches Border Patrol agent fighting Long Beach police
The Long Beach Police Department responded to the Shoreline Village Yard House on July 7 after an intoxicated Isaiah Anthony Hodgson, 29, allegedly went into the women's bathroom, approached a woman who saw his handgun and a firearm magazine.
Surveillance cameras show Hodgson leaving the restaurant and pulling out a handgun in the parking lot. He approaches a nearby security guard with the pistol in his hand. The security guard asked Hodgson to leave and told him that firearms are not allowed on the property, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.
Security cameras track Hodgson leaving the parking lot as officers arrive. He walks around a nearby park and dumps his handgun, which had Department of Homeland Security serial numbers, shortly before officers find him.
Bodycams show Hodgson resisting officers and slurring his words as he shouts, "I'm BP." It takes a handful of officers to wrestle Hodgson to the ground. Officers tased him before they could finally place him in handcuffs.
After being placed in the back of a patrol vehicle, still slurring his words, Hodgson repeatedly shouts expletives at the officers while claiming he's a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent and demands officers call "Bovino," referring to U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino.