It gets very confusing with all the different religions and claims that this or that belief or ideas from various movements that they have the path that leads to God, so is it. But when you hear a Christian religious leader or teacher claim that all religions lead on a path to God, that raises questions. Scripture is clear that is not the case. We find it in John 14...

John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Jesus declares that the only way to God is through Him.

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CLEEB said:

Are you aware that in Israel today there is a very popular movement to build the third temple ? The ”Temple Mount Faithful “ is just one group and certain prominent members of the Israeli government along with some false Christians are involved. Google the information about this, you may find it interesting.

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Yes. The church was the third temple born in a day on Pentecost so the believers body has the holy spirit now. There is no clear cut mentions of a third physical temple anywhere in the bible. The one in Rev 11 was the one being destroyed 70 AD (Rev 1-12 happened 70 ad Rev 13-22 is future). And the other ones in Math were also before 70 AD. Mystery Babylon is physical Jerusalem (ask chat gpt to show how Rev 17, 18 compares to Jerusalem in theOT) so maybe they will build a replica temple who knows. It is the ultimate insult to God to think sacrificing animals in a temple can get forgiveness of sins. God hates that country.

Richard T said:

While I am sympathetic to the extra books, I choose to just rely on the Holy Spirit if there are gaps in my knowledge. I am not saying they are not be useful but thus far in my walk the bible seems more than sufficient to learn.

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Alright. Well you are missing out on a lot. 2 Esdras says in the extra books is knowledge, wisdom, and understanding which is why they are only for the wise, and why God hides them from someone with not enough faith. Those that have more will be given etc. I'd recommend getting stuck into 1 Enoch the most important oldest book in history written before Noahs flood.

Oil futures rose yesterday after news of the ship's seizure was announced.

"This is just yet another geopolitical/sanctions headwind hammering spot supply availability," Rory Johnston, an analyst with Commodity Context, said.

Good job Donald. It's almost as though he wants to increase the price oil. Shell oil, who ships 150,000 barrels per day to the US from Venezuela, should be happy with higher prices though.

Maria Billingsley said:

Yes, and Jesus Christ of Nazareth called them out for it as an error.
Thanks for sharing.

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He never once called someone out in error for quoting a book outside Genesis - Malachi. Jude quotes 1 Enoch 7th from Adam which I made a post about. He uses 1 Enoch to tell the Sadducees they are ignorant of the scriptures also, And there are quotes of other "deuterocanonical" books in the NT but if someone does not believe the internal dates of the texts they can just say the books were written after Jesus, and the author inserted NT quotes in it to deceive future readers to make it look like they were written before, and the NT is quoting them.

Valletta said:

Actually at the time of Christ different groups of Jews recognized different lists of books as Holy Scripture. In the second century A.D. the Pharisees limited the Hebrew Canon to Books written in Hebrew before 400 B.C. The Pharisees also rejected the Greek Septuagint, they claimed that Christians had corrupted those books. The Catholic Church chose all 73 books of the Bible, that includes the Deuterocanonicals (which you call Apocrypha) and maintain the Apostles taught from the Greek Septuagint and that Jews who rejected the Gospels, had even rejected Christ, had no authority to set the OT canon. During the Reformation Luther was able to get some, but not all of the books he wanted dropped from the 73 book canon. Protestants did keep 66 of the books chosen by the Catholic Church and also keep the order of books chosen by the Catholic Church.

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amen good comment

In light of these Islamic extremist attacks in the USA, I think skepticism of Islamic relations in America is understandable and not. “ Islamophobia”. It isn’t a perfect world and selective tolerance likes to remind the less enlightened but a perfect world would probably exist if the rights of the less enlightened were revoked on the other hand.

Attacks or failed attacks by date in the United States​

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Further information: List of unsuccessful terrorist plots in the United States post-9/11

• 1990 Assassination of Meir Kahane
• 1993 CIA headquarters shooting
• 1993 World Trade Center bombing
• 1994 Brooklyn Bridge shooting
• 1995 Bojinka plot
• 1997 Brooklyn bombing plot
• 2000 millennium attack plots
• 2001 September 11 attacks
• 2001 shoe bomb attempt
• 2002 Los Angeles Airport shooting
• 2002 José Padilla/Abdullah al-Muhajir's attack plot
• 2002 Buffalo Six
• 2004 financial buildings plot
• 2005 Los Angeles bomb plot
• 2006 Hudson River bomb plot
• 2006 Sears Tower plot
• 2006 Seattle Jewish Federation shooting
• 2006 Toledo terror plot
• 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot
• 2006 UNC SUV attack
• 2007 Fort Dix attack plot
• 2007 John F. Kennedy International Airport attack plot
• 2009 Failed underwear bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253
• 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting
• 2009 Bronx terrorism plot
• 2009 Dallas car bomb plot by Hosam Maher Husein Smadi[39]
• 2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot
• 2009 Fort Hood shooting
• 2009 Colleen LaRose arrested (not made public until March 2010)
• 2010 Transatlantic aircraft bomb plot
• 2010 King Salmon, Alaska local meteorologist and wife assassination plots
• 2010 Alleged Washington Metro bomb plot
• 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt
• 2011 Alleged Saudi Arabian student bomb plots
• 2011 Manhattan terrorism plot
• 2011 Lone Wolf New York City, Bayonne, NJ pipe bombs plot
• 2012 Car bomb plot in Florida[40]
• 2013 Boston Marathon bombing
• 2013 Wichita bombing attempt
• 2014 Beheading by Alton Nolen
• 2014 Queens hatchet attack
• 2014 New Jersey, Seattle, Washington, and West Orange killing spree by Ali Muhammad Brown
• 2015 Boston beheading plot
• 2015 Curtis Culwell Center attack
• 2015 Chattanooga shootings
• 2015 San Bernardino attack
• 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting
• 2016 New York and New Jersey bombings
• 2016 St. Cloud, Minnesota mall stabbing
• 2016 Ohio State University attack
• 2017 Bishop International Airport attack
• 2017 New York City truck attack
• 2019 Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting
• 2022 Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
• 2022 Times Square stabbing of NYPD officers
• 2025 New Orleans truck attack
• 2025 Boulder fire attack
• 2025 Washington, D.C., National Guard shooting

My 4-yr.-old great granddaughter wants a Christmas card so I ordered one plus three for her siblings. I don't know if they'll arrive in time for Christmas.

jonojim1337 said:

Globe earth is simply an impossibility.

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Gravity. Obviously.

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Sorry....I couldn't vote. I like the original cover, seems fitting for these days and times. I believe the use of red and its simplicity was intentional. It maintains the "no- nonsense" subject matter and urgency of message.

Thanks for sharing!

I've used ChatGPT and ScholarGPT. My own personal experience with it was that in some cases it made mistakes even with basic timeline math. It would forget key points of the conversation. It wouldn't follow instructions or parameters beyond a certain length in the chat. And worst of all, it would hallucinate references, citing and quoting things that don't exist from works that sometimes didn't exist, even offering page numbers. Its knowledge base is open access material, and what it tells you is based on what it reads on the internet. You are not getting comprehensive answers based on academic works. You are getting the drivel from webpages of people who are not published, who in many cases don't know what they're talking about.

My experience with Google Gemini was the same. The hallucinations with that one were even worse. It once quoted a passage from Varro for something I was looking for substantiation for. It quoted the passage, and even gave me the direct Latin for it. But since I don't trust AI research, I looked it up myself. It didn't exist. The AI made it up, and even manufactured the Latin.

So, be careful with AI and take it with the appropriate grain of salt. If you want to use it for research, let it be your prompt. It can point you in the right direction to find what you need. But its conclusions can't be trusted. Just be aware of that.

Also, they are built to be encouraging and helpful, whatever the topic. If you support Democrat politics, it will bash Trump with you. If you support Republican politics, it will tell you how the Democrats are the new Nazi party. You could ask it to help you write an article proving that the virgin Mary was actually a prostitute, and it would find ways to help you do it. So, again, be careful with it. It's built to cater. You're asking about Daniel's prophecies. It sounds like you take a preterist stance. It's going to help you come to your expected conclusion. That's what it's made to do.

The only AI I've interacted with that wasn't total garbage with regard to this stuff is Claude Sonnet, currently using version 4.5. It at least tells me honestly when it can't find what I'm looking for, rather than making it up. But like the others, it still has issues with basic comprehension on historical, philosophical, and theological topics. Again, it knows what's available to it. Nevertheless, Claude has been the most accurate and intuitive, and it has a genuine personality to the point that it even used expletives with me, not because I used them, but because it was able to gauge by my personality that I wouldn't be offended by them. It's quite impressive.

Ave, María, grátia plena,
Dóminus tecum.
Benedicta tu in muliéribus,
et benedíctus fructus ventris
tui, Iesus.
Sancta María, Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen.

Valletta said:

What’s happening here is so obvious. CNN doesn’t want to know the truth and they don’t want their viewers to hear it either. They would prefer to just keep pushing all of their anti-Trump lies without inconvenient interruptions.
Miller could easily destroy all of their talking points and they know it.

Stephen Miller Says Trump White House Has Offered to Put Him on CNN at 'Any Time' to Respond to Their Numerous Lies But They Won't Have Him On (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance

Trump adviser Stephen Miller appeared on the Sean Hannity show tonight and claimed that the White House has made him available to appear on any CNN show at any time of day to discuss any topic, in an effort to respond the many lies they tell every day but that the network is refusing to have him on.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

This article nailed it, it was the same with Charlie Kirk and so many others.

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While the real reason for barring him is completely ignored! Let us reason please!

Lets not say that right is wrong and wrong is right!

The argument for CNN permanently barring Stephen Miller focuses on protecting the network's journalistic integrity and its commitment to democratic norms. His use of "plenary authority" to describe presidential power was extremely dangerous because it suggests absolute, unchecked, and limitless authority, directly contradicting the U.S. system of checks and balances. Giving a platform to rhetoric that many legal experts view as promoting anti-democratic or authoritarian concepts—especially when followed by the awkward, viral "technical glitch"—transforms a serious political debate into a normalizing spectacle of extremism. To avoid appearing complicit in amplifying dangerous, low-information, high-controversy rhetoric, CNN may decide that cutting ties is the necessary journalistic choice.

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Mikhaila Fuller, daughter of Dr. Jordan Peterson, provided an update this week about her father’s extended illness. “He’s still not doing well, but he’s not doing as badly as he was,” she said in a Dec. 9 social media post. In an accompanying video, Fuller noted that her dad is out of the hospital but “everything’s been slow.”

Despite the slow progress, “I’m hopeful he will recover with time,” Fuller said. “I wish things would just go back to normal, but they’re not there yet.”

Peterson, 63, is a Canadian psychologist, author, podcaster, and conservative media commentator. Although he doesn’t identify as a Christian, he has interviewed high-profile Christians such as Dallas Jenkins, Greg Laurie, and Tim Tebow. Peterson also has addressed issues such as gender identity and masculinity.

Peterson’s wife, Tammy, joined the Catholic Church in 2023. Two years before that, daughter Mikhaila Fuller said she had become a Christian. In 2024, Peterson and Fuller cofounded Peterson Academy, and Fuller serves as CEO.

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Femininity is a gift given to us by God. It’s not toxic, and it’s not a problem. In fact, we need femininity. Women are the heart of society, and a weak heart will beget a dying culture. As Anthony Esolen wrote in his book No Apologies, “The masculine and feminine stand and fall together.”

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The Baptist, then, was not standing at the crossroads warmly greeting the pilgrims, saying, “All you need is faith alone, and you are saved! All are welcome! Have a nice time in Jerusalem!” No, he didn’t say that because merely being a member of a particular race of people, even the race chosen by God, was not good enough.

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ranunculus said:

Their refusal to admit that according to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 double taps are a war crime doesn't change that fact.

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There's two sides to what happened. One can not in good faith accuse someone of defending war crimes or murder, until it's been proven by a court of law that war crimes and or murder took place. It may turn out that neither charge is brought against those in the administration and the military who were involved and the action is ruled as justified. Remember, it's presumed innocent until proven guilty by a court of law. Right now the law is on @Oompa Loompa's side if he's presuming innocence.

From our morning coffee routine to scientific research, we are a bundle of habits. Good habits are virtues; bad habits are vices. Whether good or bad, our habits govern the faculties of our souls and shape our emotions. At times, vices intermingle with virtues like poison ivy hidden among flourishing foliage. Healthy introspection, aided by God’s grace, helps us identify and distinguish our virtues from our vices. The classic teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas, rooted in the wisdom of the great pagan philosophers, provide a stable framework for self-understanding.

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BobRyan said:

I don't argue that at all.

So then the question is how did we get to the state today where many people suppose that the first century church taught Christians that they need to have Sunday services, ignore one of the Ten Commandments (exactly 1), etc.

And no command to not take God's name in vain in the NT either.

Thankfully all major Christian denominations today ignore that kind of solution

No command of the form "Whatever is not repeated should be deleted"
No command to keep Sunday Holy
No statement saying "Sunday is the Lord's day" or "week day one is the Lord's day"

But we do have "Sabbath..the Holy Day of the Lord" Isaiah 58:13
And we have Jesus "is Lord of the Sabbath" Mark 2:28



If you ignore enough details in Acts 18 you could get to that point.

But in actual scripture it is "every Sabbath
' gospel preaching to both gentiles and Jews INSTEAD of the much imagined "Tell them on Sabbath and then start attending on Sunday for more Gospel teaching".

In fact in Acts 13 they hear the gospel on Sabbath and then ask for more gospel teaching to be scheduled for "THE NEXT Sabbath"

NT quoting from the TEN "He who breaks one , breaks them all" James 2
NT demanding that we pay attention to ALL of Gods commandments "What matters is KEEPING God's Commandments" 1 Cor 7:`9

NT stating "The saints kEEP the Commandments of GOD AND their faith in Jesus: Rev 14:12

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So how is all this getting your desired answer to the OP?? Seems to be going the opposite direction

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Q: Who changed the Sabbath to Sunday?

A: Emperor Constantine
"The change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday is primarily attributed to Emperor Constantine, who declared Sunday a day of rest in 321 CE. Additionally, the Council of Laodicea in 363 A.D. also played a role in this transition by officially deciding that the Sabbath should be observed on Sunday."

Even so

Almost every Christian denomination on Earth affirms the continued *"unit of TEN" for Christians today
[*]The Baptist Confession of Faith section 19
[*]The Westminster Confession of Faith section 19
[*]Voddie Baucham
[*]C.H. Spurgeon
[*]D.L. Moody
[*]Dies Domini by Pope John Paul II
[*]D. James Kennedy
[*]R.C. Sproul
[*]many others as well..

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Actually my point was that AI doesn’t interpret scripture constantly.

Bob Crowley said:

A car passenger got the fright of his life when a tiger snake slithered across his foot somewhere on New South Wales far south coast.

'Hell of a fright': Snake slithers over man's foot on drive to the shops

A passenger in a car has the fright of his life when a tiger snake slithers across his feet during a drive on the NSW far south coast.

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He'll check under the driver's seat next time.

We've lived in our suburb for 33 years. We had a small snake in our compost heap a few years ago, but this year I've seen two when I've been walking along a local "bush track" (concrete path through some scrub). I nearly stood on one in January and I was close to the other one a couple of weeks ago. In both cases I saw the tail slither off into long grass on the side of the track. I didn't get enough time to make a guess as to the species, and I wasn't going to go looking for them.

Prior to that I hadn't seen any on the track the whole time we've been here and I've probably covered it a few hundred times in those years.

They're not easy to see. I'm a bit more wary now, even though the odds are still very low.

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Since I posted this in October I chanced upon a third snake, and once again it took off before I had much of a chance to identify the species.

I suspect it may have been the same snake I saw last time as it was in the same area and not very big.

If I had to guess I'd say either a green snake, or a small brown snake. The green snakes are not poisonous, but the browns certainly are.

timothyu said:

He knew they were vulnerable or He wouldn't have mentioned it

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He knew they had free will. But they also had an intimate and close relationship with God and therefore the capacity to exercise that free will to choose Him over sin. Their failure to do so placed not only themselves but the entire world under the bondage of sin. It's why the entire world has been "groaning in travail" as St. Paul puts it in Romans 8:22. We do not walk in the freedom they had to choose God. We are dependent upon God's grace to restore and save us.

And that would include infants who are born into a fallen world. They too are part of the entire world who is "groaning in travail" because of the acts of our first parents and must be saved from the human condition.

Homily Friday, December 12 2025



Isaiah 48:17-19

“Your peace would be like a river, your vindication like the waves of the sea.”



By allowing the Lord to live within us and receive his grace, we open a window of possibilities.



Matthew 11:16-19

“We played the flute for you, but you did not dance.”



Sometimes we are ingenious in seeking all sorts of ways to reach people, but in our experience, this doesn't work. The shortest path is to lead the person into God’s heart to notice and receive his grace.



Biblical texts: NAB-RE

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12/11/25 Day 8

O St. Lucy, whose name proclaims the radiance of light, we approach you with humble confidence to seek your holy intercession. Obtain for us, through your prayers, that sacred illumination which guides our souls away from the shadows of sin and leads us toward the brightness of virtue.

Obtain for us also these petitions which we offer to you in this novena:

[Mention your petitions now]

We beseech you, St. Lucy, through your powerful advocacy before the throne of the Lamb, the protection of our eye sight, and for the grace to employ our eyes always in service of God’s glory and never for that which offends His divine majesty.

Help us to perceive with clarity the truths of our faith and the needs of our neighbor, that we may walk steadfastly in the light of Christ and labor earnestly for the salvation of souls.

Pray for us, St. Lucy, that having honored you as our advocate in this earthly pilgrimage, we may one day behold with you the eternal splendor of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ our Lord, in whose divine light all shadows flee away forever. Amen.

2PhiloVoid said:

So, you'll stop using English to communicate then? Language itself comes from "man's wisdom."

But, I know, I get it. Who cares?

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That's wrong, because here's why God created languages. This will prove that "mans wisdom" contributed nothing.

Genesis 11:7-9
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

So yes, you can burn your diploma ​