Apple Sky said:

So who's mocking now ?

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That would be me. I tend to do that to people who jump into threads making claim after claim, then don't respond with any kind of evidence when their claims are challenged.

Trump praises NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani after White House meeting​

Instead of rehashing their feud, they talked up their areas of agreement — especially on working to make New York City less expensive — and even traded some compliments.

“I think you’re going to have, hopefully, a really great mayor,” Trump said. “The better he does, the happier I am.”

“I appreciated the meeting with the president,” said Mamdani, who stood while Trump sat at the Resolute Desk. “And as he said, it was a productive meeting focused on a place of shared admiration and love, which is New York City and the need to deliver affordability to New Yorkers.”

Y0 Yogi!

Trump praises NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani after White House meeting, shrugs off being called ‘fascist’​

Delvianna said:

Don't negate the promise to Abraham of the "seed" which will never die which means ethnic Jews (biological descendants of Abraham). We don't replace Israel, as Paul says, we gentiles are grafted in. The original branches are still there and will always be.

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Have you never read these verses...

Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ....

Galatians 3:29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Rep. Bryan Morse, a 31-year-old Republican, was taken into custody Thursday. He was released on $200 cash bail, and is scheduled for arraignment on Dec. 18 in a Nashua courtroom.

According to Nashua police, an investigation into Morse began in May when the victim, who has not been identified, told authorities that he had posted explicit images of her on social media platforms without her consent.

In a statement, Morse denied the allegations and said he intended to fight the charges. “I am pleading not guilty and will be fighting vigorously to clear my name,” he said.

During his first year in office, Morse has spoken repeatedly about what’s described as the dangers of pornography in schools, including claiming in social media posts that New Hampshire public schools are providing students access to books with graphic content.

On his public Facebook page, Morse has said allowing trans people to use the bathroom of their choice is a threat to women’s privacy.

FAITH-IN-HIM said:

Across history, individuals who are homosexual or transgender have existed, often encountering difficulties related to gender identity. In recent years, notably the past 15, a growing number of teenagers have been dealing with gender identity concerns. This increase raises questions: Is it because society has become more accepting, or are people now being encouraged to examine these feelings more openly and be what they feel they should be.

Gender identity is clinically diagnosed as gender dysphoria. When someone is diagnosed with clinical depression, we don't tell them to remain depressed simply because that's how they are; instead, we encourage them to seek treatment and strive for improvement.

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That's actually what we do for people with gender dysphoria too: SEEK TREATMENT.

FAITH-IN-HIM said:

Similarly, when someone is clinically identified as suicidal, we don't advise them to just follow their heart and be happy while they're alive. Why, then, do we now encourage individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria to change their gender if it brings them happiness?

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Might I be so bold as to say your opinion is simplistic. "How come we do one treatment one way and then not the same way with another disease?"
For example; I got strep throat and they didn't give me cancer radiation treatments.


We do it "That way" because doctors job's are to treat illnesses and to keep people alive. Doctor's have discovered that treating gender disphoria gets the best results (least deaths, better mental health outcomes).

FAITH-IN-HIM said:

I think many people in our society seem quick to join the "acceptance bandwagon" rather than encourage individuals to seek medical and psychological help for gender identity issues.

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I think there's a segment of the population who feel that their opinions on other people's bodies are more informed than those bodies and the doctor's that treat those bodies.

That is not a hubris that is healthy for anyone.

JohnB445 said:

I am learning more about the Bible.

What happens in the future? Where there be an eternity of people being on Earth then dying later to be judged or will there come a point where there is no longer a need to judge and either people are in heaven or hell. And there are no more people left for God to judge?

If that is the case, what happens next? Is it possible for another rebellion to occur and people get kicked out of heaven? Remember the angels rebelled from the very beginning.

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Peter taught that when Jesus comes again unexpectedly as a thief in the night, the heavens and the earth as we know it will be burned up and there will then be "new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells".

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Jesus also talked about that event when "heaven and earth will pass away" unexpectedly at His second coming.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. 36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

jonojim1337 said:

Although Latins are, definitely, the spawns of Satan, this solution does not result in a man, nor does it have any association with wisdom.

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Ah, so at least you figured out the riddle. Now as for the proper interpretation of Revelation 13:18, methinks I don't care.

AV1611VET said:

Your prejudice wouldn't show, either.

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The fact you call it prejudice just shows your own prejudice.

I'm bugging out now. I've said all I've to say. Kent Hovind is a conman, fraud, liar and a tax evader. A poor Christian if ever there was one, and an even worse intellectual.

Douggg said:

keras, where in the bible are you getting that phrase "Israelites of God" ?

The term Israelites itself does not appear in the kjv bible.

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/search.php?q=Isarelites

The phrase "Israel of God" does appear in the kjv in Galatians 6:16.

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/search.php?q=israel+of+god&bsec=&order=0&s=1

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Yes, the "Israel of God" is referenced there, so it seems reasonable to call those who are part of the Israel of God "Israelites of God". Why question that?

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I think the Jews who believe in Jesus, Paul is calling the Israel of God in Galatians 6:16.

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Do you include Jews who don't believe in Jesus in the Israel of God? What do you think are the requirements for being part of the Israel of God?

Trump Ambassador Mike Huckabee Held Secret Meeting With Traitor Who Sold American Secrets to Israel​

President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, held a secret meeting in July with traitor Jonathan Pollard, who served 30 years in prison for selling American secrets to Israel.

According to a report from the New York Times, Pollard met with Huckabee at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem in July for a discussion that was “kept off Mr. Huckabee’s official schedule,” and revealed for the first time on Thursday.

Pollard confirmed the rendezvous in an interview with the Times, telling the newspaper “it was a friendly meeting” and that “a lot of things that came up in conversation.”

Three unnamed officials told the New York Times that the meeting “alarmed the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in Israel.” The White House was also reportedly unaware that the secret meeting was taking place.

(Spies usually have to work a little harder to get inside one of our embassies.)

Pollard was released from prison in 2015 and moved to Israel in 2020 – flying on a private jet owned by top Trump donor Sheldon Adelson to Tel Aviv, where he was given a hero’s welcome by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In 2021, Trump pardoned Aviem Sella, the Israeli handler who recruited Pollard to spy on the United States.

So basically the U.S. is holding a gun at Ukraine's head with one hand and offering them a pen to sign with the other.

Russia and the U.S. will benefit at the expense of Ukraine.

RDKirk said:

Romans 7:7–11 is the classic passage where Paul identifies the dynamic that the giving of a law creates an occasion for sinful desire. To put it another way, the command itself provokes the impulse to violate it.
Sin as a reality precedes knowledge. Wrong actions are objectively wrong, even if the person does not yet know.
Moral responsibility begins with knowledge. Once awareness arrives, the person is accountable for the wrongdoing. This principle appears dozens of times in Scripture.
Legal guilt is tied to command + knowledge. The command creates the standard. Knowledge triggers accountability. Before knowledge, there is sin but not accountability.

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Before existence of command, there is no sin of which to be guilty. There was no command between Adam and Moses.

'Where there is no law, there is no transgression." (Ro 4:15)

RileyG said:

Do you when John Paul II was shot and he forgave his would be assassin?

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He's welcome to come and live amongst the rapists and terrorists invading the UK.

Trump built a winning coalition. White nationalists will destroy it.​

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'Political suicide': Pro-Trump commentator warns MAGA's 'overt racists' will destroy GOP​

In a Thursday column, Thiessen laid out how Republicans were able to secure both a popular vote and Electoral College majority in 2024 for the first time in two decades thanks to making inroads with Black and Hispanic voters. He argued, however, that the GOP's activist base includes "morally reprehensible" people like neo-Nazi podcaster Nick Fuentes, whose growing influence could turn into "political suicide for the right."

According to Thiessen, (a MAGA conservative who recently advocated for President Donald Trump to win the Nobel Peace Prize) Trump’s 2024 voting coalition was "significantly more racially and ethnically diverse than it had been in 2020 or 2016," and he had increased his vote share "almost every key demographic."

However, Thiessen warned that gains are now in jeopardy due to Fuentes' increasingly prominent role in Republican politics. Fuentes – who is the at the heart of the ideological civil war currently consuming the influential conservative Heritage Foundation think tank — is a known Holocaust denier who regularly demeans racial minorities and has called for the "death penalty" against Jewish people and practitioners of all non-Christian faiths.

rjs330 said:

Why would you have to lie? If you self deport you are allowed to apply to come back and are eligible to do so.

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Nearly all immigration and tourist visa forms ask if you've ever visited the US; if so, you must provide your arrival and departure dates. Documentation proving arrival and departure dates must be provided for embassy verification.

If you immigrated to the US in the past 50 years, you should know these basic questions.

CoreyD said:

It's all up to us, yes. You are right on that point.
We all have the choice to do, or not to do... As you repeatedly quoted... Deuteronomy 30:19
Joshua, who succeeded Moses, told the people, "if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve... As for me and my house[hold], we will serve the LORD!” Joshua 24:15
Pretty simple and straightforward. No one is forced, but freely, and willingly make a decision.

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Joshua’s Stipulation​

• In Joshua 24:15, Joshua says: “If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve…”
• Notice the stipulation: the “choice” only exists for those who think serving God is evil.
• For Joshua himself, there is no choice — “As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
• This means the “choice” is not a neutral free will option, but a testimony of heart orientation.
  • Those who see God as wicked presume they have alternatives.
  • Those who love God see no alternative — serving Him is the only reality.

This is why the term "will" has to be a desire and NOT the ability to choose in the moral/immoral paradigm of good/evil.

SabbathBlessings said:

Regarding Mark7:19 this is what was in the original transcripts

καθαρίζων πάντα τὰ βρώματα
Katharizōn panta ta brōmata
Literally: "cleansing all foods"

The phrase modifies the digestion process, not food laws.

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You kidding right? I thought I had heard it all. First you claim that it was an addition but when I point you to the codex Sinaiticus and you realize your error, you now invent some other excuse to continue trying to put the Mosaic law back on the Christian’s back. There is absolutely nothing in this verse about digestion. The food laws are gone just like the rest of the Mosaic law.

Secondly, you still have not posted a verse that shows that the Mosaic law was given to the gentiles.

iluvatar5150 said:

Even lower than you think, piggy.

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There's this one time, I didn't kick this homeless guy who was sleeping in the park?

Nobel Peace Prize PLEASE!!!

fhansen said:

Right, they either never turned to Him to begin with, or they've turned back away from Him, failing to remain, returning to the flesh.

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Those who fail to "remain," never really turned in the first place.
It was a false move.
They were never good soil.

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Those, however, who persevere to the end, producing the good fruit of overcoming sin and doing good, will prove themselves to have been good soil.

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Yes, they will persevere to the end because they are good soil.

The persevering does not make the soil good.

The good soil makes the persevering.

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Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship, CNN reports​

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Birthright citizenship returns to Supreme Court as justices meet to weigh Trump's restrictions​

The justices could say as soon as Monday whether they will hear Trump’s appeal of lower court rulings that have uniformly struck down the citizenship restrictions.​

Doesn't seem like there's an issue.

chevyontheriver said:

As to Trump, he always was a boor. But that’s OK these days I guess.

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You downplay his actions and call it merely boorish, I'll call it fascistic when a single leader is demanding complete unchecked power while siccing the military on his own constituents and using his crypto coin grifts as slush funds for dark money and foreign government bribery, among a myriad of other crimes.

America will never live down not putting this man in prison. Even Brazil surpassed America in terms of being a functional democracy.

Right now in the GOP there is a debate whether neo nazis can be in the party.

chevyontheriver said:

Your predictions? We’ll see how they age.

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Maybe you missed the sarcasm indicator denoting the facetious nature of my comment but would you like you an actual prediction?

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