Vambram said:

The Obama FBI performed a political hit job against General Flynn. That is a fact. It is also a fact that Roger Stone was rail roaded by progressive liberal judges.

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In other words, they were convicted of the crimes they committed. They later admitted guilt. No hit jobs necessary!

The Liturgist said:

Perhaps, my friend, you and I, with our knowledge of Patristics and the history of the early church and our shared sacramental, Trinitarian, iconographic and anti-Nestorian Christianity, and our veneration of the Theotokos, could find something interesting to talk about, if not on this subject, which seems to be a boring attempt to prove Calvinism from the scriptural text, which is impossible (I can’t completely disprove monergism or prove synergism, which is why I am patient with our Lutheran friends although I disagree with them on this issue because of the Fifth Ecumenical Synod and many NT texts), then on a related subject.

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I often find myself bowing to your knowledge, Liturgist, especially as it pertains to history and the various denominations. I also find that much is compromised and twisted and diminished when exegesis becomes the whole focal point in knowing the faith. Error is unavoidable where the doctrine of Sola Scriptura prevails.

jonojim1337 said:

Use whatever you want, just bring some proof of your claim

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What claim do you mean?

The article I quoted from is from Chabad.org, I could not see any author, probably because it is so well known.

Under the article were comments, one recieved a reply from Rabbi Shmary Brownstein.

So it is not my claim, it just is.

wing2000 said:

....they finally figured that out?

Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, said on Fox News Wednesday that the administration would be making “substantial” announcements about tariff exemptions over the next few days, saying that they would target “things we don’t grow here.”

He named coffee, bananas and other fruits. “So that will bring the prices down very quickly,” he said.

...it seems the administration is finally admitting that tariffs increase prices.

The Trump administration is preparing broad exemptions to certain tariffs in an effort to ease elevated food prices that have provoked anxiety for American consumers, according to three people briefed on the actions.

The change would apply to certain reciprocal tariffs the president announced in April, including on products coming from countries that have not struck trade deals with the administration, the people said, discussing a pending announcement on the condition of anonymity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/trump-tariffs-food-prices.html

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Trump uses tariffs as a bargaining tool ... that's the thing about tariffs that is good ... they can be easily adjusted.

Studyman said:

I was addressing your teaching, "The Pharisees we're promoting the old covenant Law."

The Scriptures you posted, expose this teaching as untrue according to Jesus. The Pharisees were not promoting God's Laws at all. At least this is what the Jesus "of the Bible" teaches about them.

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The Pharisees we're teaching the old covenant law. But their problems is they don't really followed it. Their actions were far from what they taught. Again read Matt 23

...Do what they say, But don't do what they do, for they don't practice what they preach..Matt 23:3

This is what the Pharisees we're promoting.

BelieveItOarKnot said:

Which of course renders any notions of ignoring or denying the evil facts useless lies by the bearer

Good choices never eliminated evil thoughts to "choose from"

Find honest answers from there

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Either way, grace give us the means to choose good thoughts over evil ones.

eleos1954 said:

No ... just saying they both gave pardons and that some on both sides are questionable ...

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Then let's put social pressure on our leaders to change their corrupt practices.

Michie said:

According to reports in The Wall Street Journal, billionaires in Silicon Valley are trying to expand the frontiers of genetic engineering in the eternal quest to create genetically engineered human beings with enhanced intelligence and traits preferred in different cultures.

Editing genes in sperm, eggs and embryos is currently banned in the United States. The current effort by Preventive, a Silicon Valley startup, involves a couple with a genetic abnormality who want to participate in producing a genetically engineered embryo.

Scientists are currently employing technologies for treating genetic birth defects (including edited and inserted DNA after birth, but not before birth).

In fact, scientists and medical ethicists have been calling “for a global moratorium until the ethical and scientific questions get resolved.”

Preventive is the harbinger of other efforts in Silicon Valley and beyond that are pushing all boundaries in the areas of genetic engineering and reproductive technologies. The stated goal is one of attempting to cure genetic diseases and genetic birth defects. The stated goal is to produce babies “who are free of genetic disease and resilient against illnesses.”

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Is engineering a ‘super’ human being a good idea?

When we start trying to engineer human beings, we are in way over our heads ethically and morally

www.christianpost.com

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Just like everything there will be both good and bad that comes along with the new technology advancements.

Oompa Loompa said:

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https://www.seattletimes.com/business/kroger-to-close-2-more-seattle-area-fred-meyer-stores/

Target to close 2 stores in Seattle, citing theft that threatens workers, shoppers

Target will close nine stores in four states, saying that theft and organized retail crime have threatened the safety of its workers and customers.

www.kiro7.com

So is the the stores or the news companies that are exaggerating?

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And how does this compare to typical big cities, crime wise? Why do you suppose Seattle is different in this regard?

2 Thessalonians 2:8
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8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Michie said:

Apologist Wes Huff recently responded to an influencer who claimed that the Bible was created hundreds of years after the time of Jesus “by a pagan emperor for political reasons.” In a post on Instagram, Adam Allred made a series of unorthodox claims about Jesus, Christianity, and the Bible.

“The Bible was literally voted on by a bunch of politicians and bishops in a room deciding what made the cut and what didn’t out of mounds of texts, centuries after the fact,” Allred said. “That’s like building your spiritual life around the minutes of a corporate board meeting.”

“This reference to a pagan emperor who supposedly compiled the books of the Bible,” said Huff in his response, “I only have to assume is referring to Constantine and the Council of Nicea. But there are some truly serious problems with this.”

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Wes Huff Responds to Claim the Bible Was ‘Compiled Hundreds of Years’ After Jesus by a 'Pagan Emperor for Political Reasons’

Wesley Huff recently responded to influencer Adam Allred, who claimed that the Bible was created hundreds of years after the time of Jesus.

churchleaders.com

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It seems like every generation of Protestants (sorry, my Protestant brethren) has their "enlightened critics of how the Catholic Church (along with its Eastern counterpart, the Orthodox Church) has corrupted Christianity. Just like the same repetitive questions that come up here on the Christian Forum, people need to do a little bit more investigating before they make unsubstantiated criticisms about the Catholic Church that have been debunked many times over. Wes Huff has been known to make quite a few mistakes in his research and presentations. He really isn't a very good reliable source.

Someday, we will be all happily together in the same Church then, look out world God's unified Church will be a loving and wiser Church to be reckoned with.

The shelters around here have received a lot less government funding this year--so it doesn't seemg to be "shifting" funds, but instead just cutting them.

Then they will call in the National Guard to get the homeless rounded up, deported, etc. Our cities will look like police states. No wonder why Boston, NY, and Seattle have all elected Democrat Socialist mayors. It's a trend. Momdani got all the publicity--but it's not one person--it's a growing movement away from what many (if not most) freedom-lovers call fascism.

Eventually the justifiable anger (and rage) of the cities will spill out to the smaller cities, and towns, and villages across the country. Hopefully it will be channeled constructively into votes.

essentialsaltes said:

What sort of things exemplify this blitz? NFL games on Sunday?

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The NFL has primarily played games on Sunday from their creation a hundred years ago, as it was a day when people were not working and there was no college football. In 1961, a federal law about sports broadcasting essential prohibits pro-football broadcast from compete with HS and college football keeping the NFL/AFL on Sundays.

Friday night: HS football
Saturday: College football
Sunday: Pro football

The 3-day football weekend.

Not sure why it would interfere with religion. In my youth it Sunday was:

Morning: Mass
Afternoon: [NFL team redacted] on TV
Evening: Sunday supper.

Given that it is Saturday, it is neither time for the NFL or church, but college football.

essentialsaltes said:

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a U.S. official said, turning the ship into Iranian territorial waters in the first-such interdiction in months in the strategic waterway.

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Sounds like Operation Praying Mantis 2.0 is in order.

GloryToHisName said:

I am familiar with that outline, and I feel like this double 70 weeks in the true interpretation

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Please explain how you consider it "double"

Good old Savage! Still making awesome sporting arms!
Thank you for posting!

The number of people who believe their faith does not depend on attending Mass has increased as more Catholics are cultivating a personal relationship with Jesus, according to a recent survey of U.S. Catholic beliefs.

ACS Technologies, a church management software and data analysis company, investigated the trends in “American Beliefs Study: Religious Preferences and Practices.” The study researched the religious preferences, practices, beliefs, and media habits of Americans.

Initially conducted in 2012-2013 and repeated in 2016-2017, 2020-2021, and 2024-2025, the study reflects the responses of roughly 60,000 participants over time. The most recent version of the study surveyed more than 15,000 Americans on Christian preferences, affiliations, values, and beliefs.

ACST Catholic, a business of ACS Technologies, specifically examined the feedback from 3,100 self-identified Catholic participants in the most recent survey. The updated findings were published in a recent guide: “The Evolving Landscape of Catholic Beliefs in 2025.”

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essentialsaltes said:

MAGA Rages at Kristi Noem Saying Trump Admin Has ‘Sped Up’ Legal Immigration Process​

Noem was quickly dragged by prominent MAGA media influencers. The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh replied to a viral clip of her comments, “We do not want or need more people to become citizens.”

Steve Bannon’s White House correspondent Natalie Winters hit back, “Not sure what is worse: this actually happening or the admin thinking this is a ‘win.’”

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@rjs330 - this seems to be the link you were requesting...

My how the errors in choices creep in.



Adam received “the command” from God, the quite entirely infamous “do not eat OR ELSE” command that we apparently all fell under.

Eve was not yet separated and formed from Adam. But Eve apparently had heard the command. How so?

Gen. 3:
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

So we have 3 basic possibilities where this repeating of the command from God came from. We have no record of God repeating it to Eve. She may have had an inert or inner understanding of the command, being “within” Adam at the time, (God called them BOTH Adam on the day they were created-Gen. 5) OR the most likely source, Adam himself.

In any case Eve clearly got the command wrong, adding to it the statement that they may not “touch it.” God never said that. In fact they were meant to tend to the Garden and presumably every tree therein, inclusive of the infamous tree of knowledge of good/evil. An error was already in place and an unknown violation of God's Intentions for them, again most likely from the recount of Adam of that command, which would essentially prove his own fault in listening or retelling or tending the Garden. Or Eve made up the error herself, again showing error was in her own mind. In any case the command was mangled in her own mind and statements in stating the command to the serpent. She basically erred to the serpent and of course the serpent struck from there, getting her to consider making a “MORAL CHOICE.” Perhaps not even cognizant of the fact that she already erred.

So Eve starts her decision making with a built in fault. An error in recounting the exact command, to not “touch” the tree.

And here is where her decision making starts, all quite in line with making a good moral decision for herself:

Gen. 3:
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

A classic setup for making a moral choice.

Good/Pleasant/Wise. What could possibly go wrong?

What’s wrong with the picture is that we fail to see that lawlessness was already at work within both Adam, who never even bothered to correct Eve’s misstatement of the command, and Eve, showing that LUST, LUST and PRIDE was already within her, referring to this pattern stated by John in:

1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Basically the things of the Father were NOT in Eve, but things of the world: good for food, pleasant to the eyes, the pride of being wise. All seemingly legitimate on the surface using the world’s decision making moral choice methods.

I honestly would hardly find fault in the decision making process, that we all employ daily. In many ways this decision making course is required to even survive. We have to eat. We like to eat things that please our eyes and we certainly are not rewarded for making foolish decisions.

But you see none of these observations are even accurate. What is accurate is that the package of Adam and Eve came PREPACKAGED with FAULTS.

Paul outlined this clearly in 1 Cor. 15:42-46 showing us exactly the conditions that
Adam and “all” natural people are planted in. These 3 things also correlate to Eve’s built in flaws:

Planted in corruption
Planted in dishonor
Planted in weakness

Is there supposed to be some surprise if outcome of making decisions with those pre-existing conditions is not and can never be moral? We make every decision from those planted conditions. Basically being seeded in dung, within the darkness of earth, our own dust body.

And lets not ignore what really happened to both Adam and Eve. Where the Word is sown, Satan comes immediately in our hearts to STEAL, to SIN in our own hearts via THEFT.

Obviously both Adam and Eve were stolen from within.

I believe the tempter was already at work within them both from the moment they first heard the Words of God. Yet hardly a one of us can see it, because we too have been stolen from.

And in this state we can’t even be honest with ourselves about it.

Instead we’ll claim that we justify ourselves by making good moral decisions, even with the hard line fact of EVIL CHOICES WITHIN TO CHOOSE FROM.

Remember these Words from Jesus: EVIL COMES FROM WITHIN.

It’s not optional, so let’s not try to pull Jesus’ Leg about it claiming we’re legally obedient and making good moral cnoices. Evil thoughts defile us all, period.

Mark 7:21-23

You have to love an HONEST BOOK. And of course not everything is as it appears on the surface, or in the mirror

Leo AL wrote:
I understand your perspective. You're suggesting that:

1. The Sabbath is no longer binding for those outside of Israel, as it was originally given to the nation of Israel.
2. The timing of the Sabbath is inconsistent due to the International Date Line, which creates a disconnect between the astronomical day and the day observed by those who attempt to keep the Sabbath.

I disagree with #1. I believe the Sabbath is no longer binding anywhere on Earth. God gave the New Covenant to all who dwell on Earth. It was promised in Jeremiah to Israel and Judah, and Jesus the Savior extended it to every living soul. The Sabbath command was never binding to any other nation.

Apple Sky said:

Do people care what I think ?

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Yes, but in your case, it's only what you think.
There is well documented evidence that the earth is a globe - and people who know more than I do have been explaining it to you. But your response always is "fake", "lies", or "that's what THEY want you to believe".

Apple Sky said:

Do people debate over the probabilities ?

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What probabilities?
The earth is a globe. Sunsets, sunrises and no doubt many other things happen because the earth is a globe.
These are facts; we can see them every day.
People went to Antarctica and saw a 24 hours sun; fact.
Those flat earthers who saw it and who are honest are now saying, "oh. Well we'll have to rethink our position." Some flat earthers who didn't see it are stubbornly refusing to accept it and are insisting that the experiment was faked. Either they refuse to consider anything that will challenge their beliefs or they're going around like a child with its fingers in its ears - "la, la, la; can't hear you."

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No, people just laugh & scorn & are always in demand of the evidence.

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Would you care to count how many posts we have written where your response has been, "prove it"?

Apple Sky said:

This is the same ol story what ever I post.

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It's not surprising.
i) you have said that you are addicted to conspiracy theories.
ii) You will not consider evidence contrary to your position - you've just said it, "evidence or not; there are no satellites."
iii) If you don't have an answer to a question you change the subject,
iv) or maybe say, "THEY have faked it", "THEY want us to believe ....", "you can't trust anything THEY say."
v) you won't Google anything that we suggest you check - because THEY are lying to you and will tell you more lies.
vi) if you can't answer a post you pick one sentence, or bit of it, and comment on, or laugh at, that.
vii) to have a debate, you would need to be prepared to look at the evidence both for, and against, your position. Such evidence might then strengthen your argument, or it might contradict and smash it to pieces.
viii) Even if someone set up a formal debate on the subject of flat earth with a whole mountain load of evidence to illustrate that it is real, you would refuse to accept it.

I've no doubt that, even after reading all that, you will still believe that you are correct and it's everyone else who is against you.

hopeforhappiness said:

"For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven,
was incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary
and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried"
My denomination in its local expression really dislikes the atonement and I have been wanting to present source documents to preachers to challenge them. (I have even shown them their own official catechism). Most of our preachers would simply find comfort and support for their liberal theology from this section. What they DON'T like is the Father giving His Son in order in anyway to assuage His anger at our rebellion.
I wish this foundational creed was stronger on Jesus dying for our SINS (our rebellion against God)
Is this a problem for the reformed. or can we just say that this creed was put together in response to the attacks on the person of Christ rather than His work?

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What you describe is penal substitution. It's perfectly possible to believe that Christ died for us without believing that it was needed to assuage God's anger. E.g. one could take Paul's view that through union with Christ we pass from bondage to sin to freedom. Calvin proposed something similar to that: that our mystical union with Christ creates a "community of righteousness" with him.

"For our sake" doesn't commit us to any specific theory of the atonement. I don't think you need to apologize for it. It's not a Reformed confession. It's a more generic statement of Christianity.

Valletta said:

This move comes as President Trump looks for ways to boost affordability for Americans.

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Trump is fixing just a tiny portion of the mess he has made. The tariffs were as foolish as they were illegal. The court is going to smack him down so hard.

Valletta said:

I was just reading from Wisdom this morning. God-breathed text. Actually early Christians, inspired by the Holy Spirit, decided upon 73 books for the Bible. They did so in accordance with the deposit of the faith, which ended with the death of the last Apostle. There were not 66 book Bibles until reformation times when seven books were dropped by men. My point is that the canon of the Bible is not found within Holy Scripture. The 73 book canon comes from Sacred Tradition. Other parts of the faith, such as the Assumption of Mary, are also not explicitly in the Bible. That too is also part of Sacred Tradition. Likewise our understanding of the Holy Trinity is not explicitly in the Bible.

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Yes, our understanding of the Trinity is from Scripture.

Jesus brackets together the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as the Triune name of God (Mt 28:19).
Paul uses all three interchangeably (1 Co 12:4-6);
they are linked for prayer for divine (Godhood) blessing (2 Co 13:14),
they are linked in pronouncement of divine (Godhood) blessing (Rev 1:4-5).