Lady Bug said:

Can you and everyone else try to be patient with me if I don't update often enough? Just asking
(I wasn't saying you were not, I'm just proactively asking this for the future)

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Of course.

JustAServant7 said:

my dad has some form of cancer
i also have some kind of tumor or something, please pray for us, thank you

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His grace and peace to you

Belk said:

How is increasing the amount we spend on interest payments reducing "wasteful spending"?

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Is that described in the bill, or is that just a claim made by opponents?

ViaCrucis said:

I know Jewish people, they're US citizens, they're my co-workers and neighbors. They don't have anything to do with the modern state of Israel.

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I'm talking about physical descendants of Jacob. Most Jews today are physical descendants of Jacob. They are Israel.

And God knows who they are. And He will bring them back to the land He promised to Abraham's descendants, if He has not brought them already. This has been propecised in the Bible as I have shown already.

Yes, they are people who identify as Jews today, but are not. I'm not talking about them.

ViaCrucis said:

how is this not obvious anti-semitism

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What's anti-semitism is Christians saying that the Church has replaced Israel. Or that Israel has forfeited the promises God gave them. Or that the modern state of Israel has nothing to do with the OT Israel. That's anti-semitic.

Yes it's true that Jews have done lot of evil to Christians, but so have Christians done lot of evil to Jews in the name of Jesus. But that of course does not get talked about, the Christian persecution of Jews. That's anti-semitism.

enoob57 said:

Spiritual relationship with God is derived through His Scripture, both thought and practice, is the relationship... the problem is we try to incorporate this through flesh which is not how Jesus did so
Matthew 12:47 (KJV)

[47] Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.

[48] But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

[49] And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!

[50] For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

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Could you explain a little more please of where you are coming from? Jesus is claiming here that believers doing God's will are his brethren. Not necessarily talking about fellowship amongst the brethren.

A New Dawn said:

And this is why it is futile trying to have a discussion with you. Your claim is that Paul is speaking about the Jewish law, and only the Jewish law, when he talks about salvation not being by works, and when I confront you about the fact that the idea of salvation by works has been an issue even throughout the church age, you back peddle and and claim that it is God alone that justifies, not the law. WHICH IS WHAT I SAID.

Have a nice day.

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Silliness. I don't have to "back peddle"-I said we're justifed by God alone at least as far back as post #51. We are not made just by any work, IOW, because that would be US doing it -and not GOD.

The issue that you have is with the historic Christian faith, in your insistence that righteousness is merely and solely imputed to or declared of us at justification: we're made to look just, IOW, as a cloak put on us, when, in fact we're not just. But, in Christianity, God doesn't save us by pretending that we're righteous; rather, He saves us by making us righteous. And if we remain in Him we will remain in that justice, that righteouesness, doing His will. If we're not doing His will, if we're sinning wantonly and egregiously, then we haven't remained in Him and while He'll always seek to draw us back to Himself, to the fold, we can't presume that He'll override our wills: to sin is to set ourselves against Him and His will to begin with.

God is not expecting perfect sinlessness in this life, only that we get on board with Him on the path He's set out for us, and remain there, or repent and return there if we've seriously strayed. The Way, the path to God, is away from sin. And our wills are involved all throughout that journey. God's purpose from Eden until now has never been about producing automatons but about producing a greater being than He began with, who now, willingly with the aid of grace, has ultimately come to love Him with their whole heart, soul, mind, and strength-and their neighbor as themselves. That's your very purpose, your created telos.

What an abuse of The Bible's written language and messages. They absolutely just abuse John 3:16 adding, all who trust in him and his way. Complete changing up of John 3:16 into a works supporting verse. Where as the real John 3:16 is a faith alone in Jesus alone verse.


'“The Great Spirit loves this world of human beings so deeply he gave us his Son—the only Son who fully represents him. All who trust in him and his way will not come to a bad end, but will have the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony. '

Valletta said:

Remember Obamacare was about health insurance, this bill is about boosting our economy, putting working people ahead of the elitists, making our country a major energy exporter, cutting waste--so much common sense. For example, money needs to get to those who need it under Medicaid, whether the elderly or the disabled or pregnant mothers down on their luck financially. So for able-bodied individuals who can work, Medicaid will require them to either be looking for work or at least volunteering in their community for 20 hours a week.

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What a bill is supposed to do and what it accomplishes are not always the same thing. Then there's the issue of unintended results. Yes, that's negative thinking. It's also unfortunately true. We will see whether the bill lives up to expectations or not. Me? I'm not holding my breath.

Disgusting! Lord have mercy!

Horrifying!

That's too bad.

St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross, pray for us!

Pray that The Holy Spirit comforts & heals all those affected by the deaths & injuries caused by the explosion at a pharmaceuticals factory in India:

Please pray for a woman, DR, who died yesterday.

God bless

ugh how awful!

Lord, have mercy!

Pray that the 60-day ceasefire is accepted by Israel & Hamas:

FireDragon76 said:

The Israel lobby had to appeal at one time to the bulk of Americans that were amillenialists or postmillenialists, or seldom thought of eschatology at all. Think of the majority of Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Episcopalians in the 1950's. Premillenialism didn't really get on the wider cultural radar until the 1970's in the US, when the aformentioned churches had started to decline.

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But was Israel lobbying us fundies back then? I wouldn’t have thought so. We were pretty fringey.

Landon Caeli said:

Unless brainwork can also be calculated in kilojoules. I'm sure a ratio between physical, and mental work can be established so everyone is putting in equal effort.

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That would leave management, especially HR, out of it altogether.

BNR32FAN said:

The RCC didn’t abolish the Saturday sabbath, God did and it has been revealed in scripture thru Paul in Romans 14 and Colossians 2:16.

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Either God doesn't keep His promises Psa 89:34 Mat 5:18 and God made the Sabbath to be contrary and against man right from Creation Col 2:14 because that is when God made the Sabbath thus saith the Lord Exo 20:11 or one is using Paul's texts out of context, even against what Paul himself taught and kept Acts 17:2 Acts 13:42, 44 Acts 18:4 and what Jesus taught and kept. Since I believe God's Word is trustworthy and we are warned the twisting of Paul writings which can be a salvation issue 2 Peter 3:16 , I am going to trust God means what He says that there is no one above to Him to edit His own Testimony Exo 31:18 and was warned would happen Dan 7:25

There is no Scripture that says the Sabbath commandment was abrogated. Using an argument from silence, especially when it goes against the God of the Universe own written and spoken Testimony Exo 31:18 Isa 8:20 and what Jesus taught, who is God that became flesh, such as it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath, so Him teaching how to keep the Sabbath and keeping it Himself Luke 4:16 John 15:10 means its still God's law. Only God can remove His blessings Num 23:20 and you can search the Scriptures and will not find one thus saith the Lord or any Scripture that the one commandment God said Remember- that is holy and sanctified by the God of the Universe that we can now profane and forget.

The Sabbath was still a commandment a few hours after the Cross Luke 23:56
Jesus indicated His faithful would be keeping 40 years after the Cross and really until eternity Mat 24:24 Isa 66:23
And kept 60 years after the Cross Rev 1:10 because God only deemed one weekly holy day as His and only sanctified one day Gen 2:1-3 Exo 20:11 and He called it in His own words My holy day, the holy day of the Lord, thus saith the Lord Isa 58:13 so there is no other. Its not the one man assigned God, He deemed for work and labors Exo 20:9 using their own reasoning over God's own Testimony.

This disagreement is not with me. The Sabbath is a commandment of God no different than worshipping other gods or committing murder 1 John 3:4 James 2:11-12 Deut 4:13 Exo 20:1-17 and its not just a commandment for the Sabbath, it is for all days. Exo 20:8-11. God only exalted one weekly day in the Scriptures God wrote it God spoke it, it is His own Testimony Exo 31:18. Hopefully one day more people will see this instead of following the crowd. Mat 15:3-14 Mark 7:7-13. Thankfully many people are seeing the light on the Sabbath Truth.

God said not keeping the Sabbath is doing evil Neh 13:17 Isa 56:2 and is really profaning God Eze 22:26 because He set aside this sacred time for us starting at Creation when God made everything according to His perfect will. He said keeping the Sabbath is what is doing justice and righteousness Isa 56:1-2 which will not be abolished Isa 51:6 and is the foundation of His Throne Psa 89:14 so I guess the choice is which of these things we want to do. When He comes our decisions are final Rev 22:11 which I believe is soon. We can follow man-made traditions or we can obey God's commandments- His version because He is God. Even the apostles taught we ought to obey God over man. Acts 5:29

Subduction Zone said:

Yes, the flood story was part of the ancient Hebrew mythos.

Perhaps you should try to learn why we know that there never was a worldwide flood. There was a very severe local flood in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys that may have started the flood story, but at not point was mankind threatened by such a flood:

Yes, Noah's Flood May Have Happened, But Not Over the Whole Earth | NCSE

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The global Flood is supported by geological evidence, such as continent-spanning sedimentary layers and marine fossils on mountains. Ancient flood myths found worldwide--from Mesopotamia to the Americas--serve to corroborate Genesis as a real event, not just a myth.

Conspiracy thinking is just proof the system's logic has exhausted itself. Even the colonization of the imagination no longer works to keep people in line.

I don't think "healing" the system is quite the right way to think of this. Change usually comes from somebody prophetically speaking, or acting, from the margins, not from the centers of power, who rejects the logic of the system and points out how it is broken. This is different in motivation from a conspiracy theorist, who doesn't have the ethical grounding or discernment to speak prophetically with clarity and credibility.

Yarddog said:

The Catholic Church hasn't said one way or the other.

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The reason it is suspected of being a forgery is that it is hyper accurate up to a certain year and then it got really vague. It is considered to be a lobbying effort for a particular pope elected that year, while pretending to be a prophecy showing that pope was indeed in a list drawn up by St. Malachy. The Church doesn't have to rule on it for it to be a forgery. The other reason it can now be considered moot because there wasn't supposed to even be a pope Leo. Francis was it. The list ran out.

The Peruvian bishops have officially invited Pope Leo XIV to visit Peru, assuring him that “his presence will renew the hope of our people.”

According to a statement from the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference (CEP, by its Spanish acronym), a delegation of bishops, including the conference president, Bishop Carlos García Camader of Lurín, met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on June 30.

During the audience, “the bishops extended an official invitation to him to make a pastoral visit to Peru,” the CEP stated.

Leo XIV, born in Chicago as Robert Francis Prevost in 1955, lived in Peru for nearly 20 years, serving at different times in various capacities from parochial vicar of Chulucanas in the Piura region to bishop of Chiclayo. He became a Peruvian citizen in 2015.

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