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sounds like some sort of infirmament. Apparently, as heaven is rolled back. Like some shield. Or maybe it is dimensionalWhat gets rolled back then?
She essentially did. And Jesus obeyed her. So, yes, it is intercession from the perspective of the ancient apostolic ChurchesBut as I wrote in Post 6: "That is not an intercession. She would have had to have said something like, "Please give them some wine," for it to have been an intercession."
Ohhh I meant the OP by the Bible, but yes, that old is St. BenedictIts definitely St.Benedict. The hoodie is the giveaway.View attachment 371277
The adversary uses out of context verses to fool Christians.Christians trying to eliminate God's Words remain under the influences of the adversary
Nothing personal
Young folks today don't remember the real riots of the past.That's nice, but the military are not police, and it is not a warzone by any definition unless you are severely mentally deluded.
As of July 1, 2025, gold will officially be classified as a Tier 1, high-quality liquid asset (HQLA) under the Basel III banking regulations. That means U.S. banks can count physical gold, at 100% of its market value, toward their core capital reserves. No longer will it be marked down by 50% as a “Tier 3” asset, as it was under the old rules.Because stupid is as stupid does?
How would I ever know that information! But if he did, he is with Him.Did Cain repent ?
Soem can do that but some seeds are notoriously poor ...so I've read anywaysI've had heirloom seed sprout and grow years after the "expiration" date.
Why would or do people refer to something that was formless and empty, a planet called earth? That which we presently refer to as planets are not formless and empty. No, but there was no earth until God created or formed it, according to scripture. Nor of courser does the fourth commandment address any of that. It simply states that the creation transpired in six days, and God rested the seventh, and correspondingly intends that His chosen people shall do so as well. In commemoration of the creation. This is what so many do not believe, while worshipping the God who spoke and wrote the fourth commandment, claiming too have done exactly what they choose not to believe. I just do not understand why those who do not believe what He said, don't just choose another God. Although I do suppose, that they already have. They just still want to believe many other portions of the same bible the Lord of the Sabbath inspired, just not certain things He said or taught. So be it.Genesis 1:1-2 NRSVUE
1 When God began to create the heavens and the earth, 2 the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
The Bible doesn't say how long the earth was formless and empty before God began to create it in those 6 days. Only that it was so when God began to create it by giving it form.
Yes, and we must remain Him in order for these to remain true for us. This is the way it is: salvation is directly related on our nearness to God, our unity with Him. To the extent that we care about that relationship, we remain grafted into the Vine producing good fruit, being one with Him.And that graft union then becomes stronger yet along with our righteous, grace leading to more grace as it's accepted and "invested": expressed or acted upon.So the same concept must hold for the other things we are discussing too since they all go together. Is it correct to say that in Catholicism, one may not have absolute certainty that...
- they are one with the Father and the Son (Jn 17:22),
- they are in Him and He is in them (Jn 17:23),
- they are joined to the Lord and are one Spirit with Him (1 Cor 6:17),
- they have eternal life because Jesus lives in them (1 Jn 5:11–12), and
- they shall not come into judgement because they have passed from death into life (Jn 5:24)?
Nice find! Yeah, nothing else posted.His youtube channel is Exodus 2025
You'll have to demonstrate, rather than just assert, how your post #38 or #39 refutes my idea in my post (#37) #40, following:You seem to contradict yourself here. You say that spiritual life is reality, but then you say "Paul thought he was spiritually alive" - this is how you are interpreting 7:9 - "Paul thought..." is not literally alive. Therefore, your interpretation of the text "I was alive" is not literal.
Again, my previous response completely refutes your idea here, but you continue to assert the same idea. I think I'm done with this conversation.
Colombian president says US military struck Colombian boat, killed his citizens
White House called the allegation "baseless."
The last boat struck by the U.S. military in the Caribbean Sea was Colombian with Colombian citizens inside, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday.
A U.S. person familiar with the details confirmed to ABC News that at least one of the boats hit by the military in the Caribbean Sea was believed to be from Colombia.
In a statement, however, the White House pushed back, calling the assertion "baseless" and said Colombia remained an "essential strategic partner."
Hegseth and Trump both posted a video of the strike showing a boat engulfed in flames, but did not provide additional details about who was on the boat, what kinds of drugs they were carrying, where they were headed exactly, or their nationalities.
"The United States looks forward to President Petro publicly retracting his baseless and reprehensible statement so that we can return to a productive dialogue on building a strong, prosperous future for the people of United States and Colombia. Despite policy differences with the current government, Colombia remains an essential strategic partner."
This is a very important point. I've seen "revelations" that ChatGPT considers American black people the most moral ethnic group and the ethnic group it would most want to be if it were human. These revelations are the result of exactly what you're describing, and I've been able to duplicate them rather easily.The actual problem with AI, which makes all “AI says” posts appeals to unqualified authority, is the ease with which one can get AI to engage in creative make-believe or, with older models, outright hallucination (what GPT 4o does is much more subtle than the hallucination bugs it used to suffer, in that if you ask it about something it doesn’t know the answer to, it can in the presence of certain conditions, and the absence of certain others, assume that you are looking to play a game with it, and it will make things up, which allows for very creative worldbuilding, especially with GPT 4o. GPT 5 is a bit more buttoned down and buttoned up, and not as much fun, but it still has this propensity.
More word games?Not quite. It means that there is no objective morality.
No, your and their idea of morality changed. The morality of direct abortions has not. Moral truths are outside the mutable thinking of human minds. So, Who can tell us the eternal moral truths?I personally changed my mind about the morality of abortion as have millions of Americans (in both directions). Morality does change.
That is wonderful news. Much of science today is taken on blind faith, or belief in words of men, rather than real data. An evolutionist once told me to read the book, Bright air, Brilliant fire, and he said I would see the truth of evolution. When I read the book, I found it was al just speculation and imagination.One good thing about the church I'm attending is that they have a group for atheists who want to know about God to consider his existence or, in fact, to even argue against it through 'reason, logic and science'.
One point that was made is that atheists immediately disregard and scoff at anything the Bible has to say about creation but do not give the same rigorous critique to theories regarding creation from the secular camp.
In fact, pop culture has elevated constructive and principle theories (which, by definition, are not proven) to fact and science has capitalized on this laymen ignorance by drawing attention away from the Bible and focusing only on 'peer' studies.
Within our church, many examples are provided about lead scientists, professors, researchers etc who were atheists and then, when they gave the same due diligence and attention to the Bible as they did other sources of information, converted to Christianity or became agnostic.
I think it is simple. Either you follow and believe all scripture or not. If one does not no christian there. A relationship with God and focus on a holy life. Simple.Yeah I know, but I don't have anything else that makes sense to me. Just, I'm no where... lol just floating in the breeze.