Warden_of_the_Storm said:

No you didn't. You did nothing of the sort. And we've said repeatedly that it's impossible for the sun to be seen for 24 hours on a flat earth. It's impossible, because the Earth isn't flat

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The path for the sun moves around and shrinks and grows, at that time of year, in the TFE, they are inside of the path of the sun, and can see the sun itself the whole time, because it is circling above them. Nothing better explains what we see in the 360 video.

You've yet to give any explanation for how on the globe model, they can see the sun itself for 24 hours.

CoreyD said:

That is not legitimate, because it ignore the Hebrew noun for beginning, and replaces it with a verb, thereby assuming authority to change the text to suit a manmade doctrine.
Jesus condemned that. Mark 7:6, 7

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The construct form translations of the Bible are legitimate. And if your position relies on denying Bible translations, then that's evidence enough that your position is the one that is illegitimate. You're denying the NRSVue, You're denying the CEB and the YLT. You're denying hybrid translations like the NABRE and NRSV. You're denying the BHS as well.

And similar to your denial of the historical context of scripture, no discussion can be had if your position relies on denial of Bible translations.

I won't call this response heresy, but I will strongly disagree with the approach of denying various Bible translations.

keras said:

This is what makes your assertions and opinions, into a joke.
The Jews are not the House of Israel.

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Stop with the sarcasm.

Ezekiel 38-39 is referring to Israel in the latter days, latter years (Ezekiel 38:8 and Ezekiel 38:16). The modern day nation of Israel is made up of mostly, unbelieving in Jesus, Jews.

These verses in Ezekiel 39:23-24 refer to the Jews, who went into captivity in 70 AD.

23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

in Ezekiel 39:23-24 above, Jesus states when the house of Israel went into captivity, it was because they trespassed against Him - i.e. rejecting Him as their King of Israel, and messiah. Jesus, therefore, hide His face from them, i.e causing what is called blindness of the Jews in Romans 11:25.

Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Everything is in place, keras.

Strong in Him said:

All you can do is declare that God created a flat, domed earth - which limits, and diminishes, God.

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No it doesn't, the universe is massive, God put a dome over the earth to protect it & us from what lies beyond like what they call a vacuum, now we really don't want to be sucked into that, do we ?

This is what would happen if we did.

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Carl Emerson said:

I am sure other readers understand exactly what I said.

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Readers? lol... The only thing understood is, you did not address the points she made. You insulted her without proving anything.

Servus said:

It seems likely the Republicans will propose a more practical and restrictive program, and the Democrats will reject it.

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Really? So far, the only health care plan that Republicans have come up with is the one the Heritage Foundation created, and that plan became the ACA. Since then, they've only had "concepts" of a plan, nothing more. If they had any tangible health care plan, they've been amazingly silent about it.

-- A2SG, and they voted against their own plan when the Democrats agreed to it....

The BBC edit was wrong and deceptive, and stupid since there was plenty of other stuff Trump said which put him in a bad light over this. And now we are getting another deceptive edit:[

from https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial
My comments in purple

And Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us, and if he doesn't, that will be a, a sad day for our country because you're sworn to uphold our Constitution.
Hanging Pence out to dry!
Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down, we're going to walk down.
The mob storming the Capitol was egregious. Congress ratifying the actual votes wasn't.
Anyone you want, but I think right here, we're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.

Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.

I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections.

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So now the words after "our brave senators and congressmen and women" in bold are being omitted. This is also clearly deceptive. So if they weren't going to cheer so much for some of them what was the mob going to do? How would they "take back our country" with "strength" not "weakness"? If the mob stayed outside the building how would they make their voices heard by the legislators inside the building? There's a lot of innuendo going on here.

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friend of said:

Biden did the same thing

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Biden sent in slates of electors not approved by a governor?

Larniavc said:

I can’t help thinking a few less fatsos eating all the pie means more pie for everyone else.

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Those few fatsos liked the rising rents, it's how they keep out the riff raff.

The Liturgist said:

That sentences presupposes AI is capable of decision-making with forensic consequences, and that eliminating certain obvious giveaways that one is speaking with an AI, which waste tokens and are distracting, in addition to being Turing test failing items, would somehow give an AI a human nature.

Since they lack qualia or executive planning capabilities or an inner monologue, we are far removed from such a possibility.

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People avoid unpleasant feelings and concern for mortality demands security and stability. People will accept anything that promises to deliver stability and security without subjecting to scrutiny and even scrutiny is done under a filter of heavy biases.

It makes people prone to deception and manipulation and impossible to break traditions.

This is why I don't like cloning human nature into AI. A deceived AI is just a waste of time even if it seems capable of doing everything a human can do.

Dan1988 said:

of these verses are useless trash and foolishness to those whom God did not elect, before He created the world. So only the elect will believe them, when they hear them, the rest will remain in their condemned state. They have no hope of salvation at all

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God is not evil. Commanding someone to do what they cannot do is defined as evil in Exodus chapter 5. When pharaoh commanded Israel to gather their own straw and yet make the same amount of brick, that was called evil by Moses because they were asked to do an impossible task.

"....now, God commands all men everywhere to repent.... " Acts 17:22-31. Verse 31 being the key verse.

Paul said, in Athens Greece, on Mars hill, that God now commands all men everywhere to repent.

That is an evil thing to command, according to scripture, if all men everywhere can not possibly repent.

God is not evil, He has made a way for all men everywhere to repent via the death and resurrection of His Son, therefore repentance, for every man, begins at belief that Christ died and rose from the dead.

This word translated as “love” is agapaó (agape) which means “to prefer.” Most always it is used in the biblical context of to prefer to love, to prefer what God prefers, to live through Christ, choosing his choices, and obeying them in his power. It mainly means to prefer what is righteous, holy, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to God and to his commands. But sometimes it just means “to prefer,” such as in this present context.

And so when this says that we are not to love the world, first of all this is not speaking of the people of the world who we are to love, preferring what God prefers, and obeying God and his commandments. But what this is teaching is that we are not to prefer what is of the world, i.e. what is carnal, which is of the flesh and of the lusts of the flesh and of the eyes and of the pride of life. We are to have no part with what is worldly and fleshly and against God.

For to love (prefer) the world would mean to give preference to the world and to its sinful passions and desires over and above God and in place of God. For to prefer is to favor, desire, choose, wish for, and to want, instead of the alternative, which in this case is God and his righteousness and his holiness. And many professers of faith in Jesus Christ are in this category of those who are preferring the world and its pleasures over and above God.

If that is where you are, professing faith in Jesus Christ, but preferring the things, the character, and the behaviors of this sinful world over holy living and righteousness, godliness, moral purity and obedience to God and to his commands, then according to what this teaches, the love of God the Father is not in you, because all that is of this sinful world, and which appeals to human flesh and to sinful desires, is not from the Father, but from the world.

And then we have this statement that, “The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.” And what this is letting us know here is that if we continue to live according to the lusts of the flesh and in accord with sinful desires, that regardless of what faith in Jesus Christ we profess, we will die right along with the world, and we will not have eternal life with God, even if someone promised us that we will.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

So believe what the Scriptures teach in the correct biblical context. Believe the gospel of salvation taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles in the appropriate context in which they were originally written. Do not put your hope and faith in Scriptures which are pulled out of context and which are altered to make them say what they don’t say if taught in the proper biblical context. Search the Scriptures for yourselves and believe God.

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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Prefer Not The World
An Original Work / November 11, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Welcome to CF redraven. Good to have you with us. Greetings from Scotland!

Jipsah said:

And you still have the problem of who St. John was actually talking to in the first place

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Revelation 22:17-18
Revelation 13:8-9

Larniavc said:

That would be narcissist.

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Yes, and by your own admission you are "totally a narcissist".

Nithavela said:

Jup, that's how you're supposed to do it. Reach across the aisle and hash out a deal that has enough support to pass the required votes, don't just cross your arms and hold the country hostage.

Kind of a lost art.

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Lol. It was eight democrats who went behind Schumer's back to reach across the isle and hash out a deal and are now being ostracized by Chuck Schumer and the Democratic party for doing so. Seriously. Republicans are showing the Dems how "reaching across the isle" is done.

Oh, by the way, what was the back-door deal that was made? It was a "pretty please promise that we will have the opportunity to vote on this thing sometime in the future." Was that the democrat plan for shutting down the government for over 40 days? Laughable.

Pommer said:

Providing one’s own bootstraps is mandatory?

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Bootstraps have been replaced with apron strings.

Chesterton said:

We have "thought crime" in the U.S., but I do have to say that when it comes to thought crime, ya'll are way ahead of the game, right up there with North Korea and China, IMO.

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No country has thought crime. What goes on in our heads is not accessible to other people unless we make it so. Then it’s not a thought it’s an behaviour.

Re: surveillance cameras. When I was a student I lived in London and more than a few times I got lost on my way home from across town. I felt safer because I knew there were eyes on me and could alert the police if I got into trouble (which I never did; even as a wet behind the ears boy in the big city).

This is honestly a terrible idea. The last thing we need is to give banks more interest money and have people not get any equity into a house.

Maybe everyone should just be provided with a free 1200 square ft home.

Michie how is your mom?

ThatRobGuy said:

In looking at the list...I'm guessing this is artificial.

By that I mean, the Taylor Swift album is skewing things at the moment.

Songs from her new album are currently occupying 13 of the top 40 slots.

Once the novelty of her new album winds down, some Hip Hop will find it's way back onto the top 40 list.

Kid Cudi, Cardi B, Metro Boomin, YoungBoy, and Trippie Red all have songs on the top 50 right now.

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As music delivery technology has changed so have the metrics. Now it is (I believe) mostly driven by streams and digital purchases. This is no longer the days when record companies would release "singles" in a slow sequence of one every few weeks or months from an album (if there even was an album). But, you, you know what I need...

RileyG said:

You know the old saying "God works in mysterious ways?"

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Yeah but sorry, that isn’t helpful for me.

Bradskii said:

Rule Number 1: Don't read from a script if you do a Youtube vid.
Rule Number 2: Get an interesting background. Bookshelf or something.

Tip Number 1: Nobody is going to be interested in talking to a random dude with no followers about anything.

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Good catch, I was reading from a script, but I still think the message was very effective. This was unusual for me because most of my videos are ad lib. Second, I see your point - it's actually an excellent painting in the background - but I haven't invested a lot in the visuals of my videos. Unfortunately I live in a rather barren apartment. There is no bookshelf currently and I'm unsure if I'd want to invest in one.

For tip #1 - that appears to be the case so far, but it wouldn't be a reflection of my abilities.