Dikaioumenoi said:

How is that possibility created if the drawing (enabling) fails?

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Because, as you stated, “ἑλκύω itself does not mean "irresistibly bring to faith".

perplexed said:

Why didn't the Biden administration embarrass Steve Bannon by leaking his connection to Epstein? He is a Trump ally.

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Biden didn't go after people based on his personal ire. There used to be a wall of separation between the president and the DOJ, with the DOJ basically running independently. Merrick Garland was way too concerned with the appearance of propriety to pursue the corruption of the previous administration to the point where he was essentially neutered.

RDKirk said:

There are certainly other "socialized" areas of American life, such as national and state defense, infrastructure maintenance, fire and police protection, public schools, and such.

I don't really understand why healthcare invokes such a particularly vicious Pavlovian response.

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We've been conditioned to believe that somehow the market will fix the issues that it created, if we just let the insurance companies have free reign.

that and socialized health care will make us more European

Guojing said:

I am asking you why James did not get it during Acts 21:18-25.

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I answered. You ignored. If you refuse to address my detailed post i am going to take that as an admission that you have no rebuttal.

Is it because they like America ?

A2SG said:

And he probably wouldn't lose any voters.

-- A2SG, forgiveness is fundamental to MAGA...only for Trump, though....

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Neither Trump nor Mohammad bone Saw will get any votes in any upcoming elections.

10 I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. 11 For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. 12 What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” 13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

The professor decided to take over the first meeting of a legally formed campus group. She used her power as a professor to try and bully the students, and not knowing who they were, called them racists. What she could have and should have done is sit down and join in civil discussion. Confrontation and violent rhetoric will not solve anything nor have a good outcome.

pasifika said:

freewill speaking of in the Bible is the will to seek after God. We as sinners by nature cannot do that because of the Sin that lives within us.

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Acts 17:26-31 clearly states the God structured things so that man can and should seek Him, and that He wants all to repent.

Always in His Presence said:

Bill and Hillary Clinton delay depositions in House Oversight panel’s Jeffrey Epstein probe​

The Clintons have pushed back their deposition dates for the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been expected to testify before the panel last week on Oct. 9 — but did not appear — and former President Bill Clinton was slated to be grilled on his ties to Epstein on Tuesday.​

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But an Oversight Committee spokesperson told The Post Monday that the panel is “having conversations with the Clintons’ attorney to accommodate their schedules.”​

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“The deposition won’t occur tomorrow,” the spokesperson said of Bill’s upcoming testimony.​

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That's not what "avoiding subpoenas" means. "Avoiding subpoenas" is dodging process servers. What the Clintons (no apostrophe) are doing is negotiating a deposition date (and perhaps intentionally delaying it). The article implies the negotiations began before the demanded date, so they didn't do that other thing that sometimes happens "failed to appear".

Always in His Presence said:

Back ground info from AI

In August 2025, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), issued deposition subpoenas to Bill and Hillary Clinton as part of a broader investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and connections.
• The subpoenas also targeted former U.S. Attorneys General, FBI Directors, and Department of Justice records related to Epstein.

Response and Compliance
• As of mid-November 2025, neither Clinton has complied with the subpoenas. Comer stated that his committee had not heard back from them and warned that continued silence could lead to criminal referrals, similar to the treatment of Steve Bannon for defying a congressional subpoena.

Why the stone walling? What are they afraid of?

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ai;dr

He was an older fellow. . . Could be that he's gone home with the Lord. I don't know that but it's a possibility.

What are the alternatives? Health savings accounts won't replace insurance, for a number of obvious reasons.

One approach would be to introduce some competition. Some way to make it easier to change insurance. Maybe have people who can afford it bear some of the cost of treatment. Not a deductible, because that doesn't depend upon the cost. It would have to be proportional to the cost.

But a lot of the cost is because there are lots of monopolies, particularly in drugs. Monopolies are almost always created and maintained by laws. We need a review of patent policies and other policies that tend to reduce competition. Unfortunately the party that normally claims to want competition is unlikely to be willing to support this kind of thing, because of large lobbying efforts. It's not all drug companies. Doctors have over history been able make anything other than treatments they like illegal.

This is a more general problem. I don't think we'll be able to make major improvements until congress is willing to do rational analysis rather than ideology, and stand up to lobbying. I don't see either of those things as likely at the moment.

Vambram said:

The evidence I showed is not wrong.

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"Fishermen" working working out of hi-speed cigarette boats? Smells fishy to me.

The claims of relatives and residents of the innocence of those killed running drugs seems a bit illogical to me.

My mother has recently overcome a situation where she couldn't hold any liquid down and kept vomiting for about 48 hours. I tried to get her to go to the emergency room, but she refused. She's 100% in her right mind, so I can't force her. Thankfully, God has healed her and she's feeling better and able to keep food and liquid down, but she's only urinating once a day, usually when she first wakes up. She's drinking plenty of fluids, but it's just not coming out as much as it should be. Please pray for her kidneys/bladder/whatever's causing this to heal and for a total and complete body healing

timothyu said:

That seems to disagree with scholars who have determined Paul was the first recorded writings followed by Mark, then Matthew and Luke who used Mark as a basis, then John.

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Only disagrees with traditional thinking

Dale said:

Real wealth is generated from within by hard work and innovation, not bestowed by rich Arabs.

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Hard work is not the way of The Donald...

Akita Suggagaki said:

Following diocese and bishop?

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NOT THAT I KNOW OF

Larniavc said:

The perception that the wrong person might be getting some at a cost them.

It really is that simple. Christians of whatever type are just as spiteful as anyone else.

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I'm spiteful? It's strange that I'm not the one taking a personalized and direct initiative to camp out for a very long while on one of the "oppositions" courtyards [such as CF here] so I can press my protestations and "be heard."

NxNW said:

I've seen the curvature myself from a plane. Haven't you ever flown?

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Yes plenty of times but I have never seen any curvature of the earth.

House of Lords apparently trying to get in the way....

"Defending the volume of amendments, Baroness Luciana Berger, who opposes assisted dying, told the BBC that evidence heard by a committee of peers scrutinising the legislation "strongly refuted any suggestion this bill is either safe or workable".

"This bill is full of holes which vulnerable people will fall through and be harmed if peers don't act to change and amend it," the Labour peer added."

Peers suggest over 900 changes to assisted dying bill


I pretty much despair of the situation though. I am just too bemused by the numbers of people who think that doctors can and should be trusted, without requiring the doctors to first do no harm, and as a lifelong proud disabled person who is constantly subjected to sympathy I do not want, for a poor quality of life I do not suffer from, it is just downright scary.

Thank you very much to all pro-life believers who pray and campaign peacefully against these wrongs.

Today, we thank God for His humble maidservant St. Elizabeth of Hungry.

Our Great Heritage: Elizabeth of Hungary​

rjs330 said:

You didn't answer the question. Do we have to take immigrants who are good people with no issues? Yes or no? Its not a difficult question.

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It wasn't a question:
No one, including me, has said that: straw man.

An insightful rabbinic metaphor views the Torah or the teaching that came down from God at Sinai as a giant light that passed into a prism atop the mountain. The light then refracted into several lights, each light representative of multiple meanings or interpretations of the Torah or the biblical text. Thus, I would like to offer a few refractions of the light arising out of the battle between David and Goliath in the Valley of Elah (1 Sam 17), one perhaps rather novel and another that should bring comfort and peace, especially during personal valley experiences in life.

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We all agree that death is a terrible tragedy. That violent separation of the soul from the body, the pain of saying goodbye to loved ones, the certainty of our own deaths with its unpredictable timing, and the great mystery of what lies beyond the grave—all these and more make death a mysterious and terrible thing. So, what can really be worse than dying?

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