BobRyan said:

A more concise form of the question allows AI to give a more accurate response

“Using strict rules, identify the largest Trinitarian Christian denominations that (1) claim Scripture is sufficient to test all doctrine, (2) possess a single global administrative authority, (3) maintain one unified set of binding official doctrines for all members, and (4) contain no autonomous subgroups within their membership.”

gives a very good answer

When I tried this recently AI asked for clarification about the term "autonomous' and then gave this response

"You are correct. Given the refined definition that an "autonomous subgroup" must have the ability to form a separate, differing set of doctrines—and acknowledging the Adventist Church's official claim that Scripture is sufficient to test all doctrine—
the Seventh-day Adventist Church appears to be the only large Trinitarian denomination that strictly satisfies all four criteria outlined in the prompt.

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Gave your new prompt and it still gave me Catholic Church.

Rev 19 says that at Christ's appearing the opposing armies of Earth are all slain and then 'the rest were killed by the sword that comes from Christ's mouth" (ie "The Word" of God)

2 Thess 1:5-8 says that those who "do not know God and those who do not obey the gospel" are all slain when Christ appears)

This might explain the desolate earth scenario of Jeremiah 4;23-26

Given that at Christ's appearing (1 Thess 4:13-18) all the saints are raptured.

RDKirk said:

If took the job for money, they literally are entitled to be paid.

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Agreed. There was a story today about rip offs with immigrants. Not right, legal or illegally here.

BPPLEE said:

Well you're right, it's a tradition, it's not a command found in the Bible

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And it is not a tradition found in the NT as if some text had said "it is our tradition to meet for worship every Sunday" or "it is our tradition to break bread each Sunday and call it the Lord's day". Nothing at all is said in the entire Bible about having some sort of worship event on every Sunday

@mourningdove~ I have a pair of shoes I need to look up a cobbler for, lol. They look too nice to throw out, but the sole's starting to separate.

What is a waverunner ?

Dave... said:

Yes, Jesus is the true Church, the Body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:13

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And Gal 6:15 is the BEST WAY. to explain. the DIFFERENCE. between Israel and GENTILES and. the BODY OF CHRIST

For in. Christ Jesus NEITHER CIRCUMCISION ( ARE JEWS ). is of any FORCE

NOR UNCUMCISION ( GENTILES. ). but a NEW CREATION. meaning. the BODY of CHRIST

And today the BODY of Christ RULES , because of HEB 9:18. is the big BOMB. so read very carefully

other wise you will need a PRIEST. and ALTER. and ANIMAL. for a SACIFICE.

dan p

Pull little levers today.

TODA

I learned that ice melts at 33 degrees, I just hope that Antarctica doesn't have a heat wave

Currently, I'm not collecting insects.

IMNOT

As a kid, I went to the Baptist church with mom. Poor lady. I have two memories from that church, and one is her literally dragging me by my arm down the sidewalk to the front door. I was crying and screaming because I didn't want to go in. Mom was very embarrassed and apologizing to an elderly couple who were looking very sternly at me as if I were under demonic influence. I think it was because I was a very hyperactive kid, and hated having to be quiet and sit still. But maybe demons viewed me as an easy target because of that. ?

The other thing I remember was something the preacher said one Sunday, the only thing I remember him saying, which stuck with me and would come up later in life.

Dad was not religious. The only time I heard him mention God or Jesus was when he was trying to fix the car, if you know what I mean. But he would convert and be baptized later in life.

One day in elementary school a teacher told us that light and sound traveled at different speeds. I'd never heard of that, and it didn't make sense to me because I didn't think of those as physical things. But one day while riding my bike I stopped on a hill to watch some older guys playing baseball a good distance away. I experienced what the teacher was talking about, because I would see the bat hit the ball, but didn't hear the sound from that till a second later. This blew me away. G.K.C. said that "One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot." And C. S. Lewis in several places wrote of reality as an "artifact" of God.

In whatever childlike thoughts I had, in that moment I realized that reality presents itself to us as something like "stagecraft" in a play. Something set up or designed to be experienced a certain specific way. Reality is real enough to us, but there's something else behind it. And if we're in some kind of play, it's possible that some kind of story is being told, or that we are to tell it. Later, like most of you EO, I'd come to know that it's also a cosmic battle.

I've also always kinda liked the Santa Claus editorial to Virginia: "...there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond."

I read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe as a kid. Loved the story, but didn't have a clue what it was actually about.

(I apologize for not just getting straight to conversion to EO. I will. It's just that looking back I perceive that I may have picked up bits of truth which each played a part in eventually leading me to the fullness of Truth.)

So

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On Dec. 5, officers responded to a report of a vehicle crash in a Publix parking lot.

When they arrived, they found a Chevy Silverado with 43-year-old Benjamin Donald Johnson behind the wheel. Johnson refused multiple commands by police to get out of the truck.

As Johnson sat the back of a police cruiser, an officer overheard Johnson says there was a “dirty bomb” in his truck. Officers found a yellow plastic container secured with chains and locks, with a radioactive warning label.

With the help of personnel from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, ATF, and an FBI bomb technician, it was advised that the device inside the container was a moisture density gauge, commonly used for soil testing. The experts said it emits less radioactivity than a medical X-ray.

A search of Johnson’s truck yielded several firearms and ammunition, firearm magazine speed loaders, thermal scopes, knives, a battering ram, night vision goggles, cannabis and gummies which tested positive for THC.

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So, just you're average ICE recruit then?

WordSword said:

Hi SB!

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Hi WS!

WordSword said:

I like a lot of what you said,

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I am glad we can agree on some things that's always a good start.

WordSword said:

but I think we should realize what is meant by "till all be fulfilled"! Jesus is teaching the law to Jews who were under the law. No other nationality will ever be under the law, not even the new law which will be in their next new covenant later, beginning with the Millennial Kingdom. Mat 5:20 is probably one of the passages that demonstrates the law most. The righteousness of Christians far exceeds the law because theirs is Christ's righteousness.

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Lets actually look at these verses a little closer. I think this is a very important teaching of Jesus.


Mat 5:17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.

What was prophesied on the law that Jesus is fulfilling?

Isa 42:21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

The Greek word here for magnify means to make larger or greater. Jesus just said plainly He did not come to destroy the law or prophets but to fulfill.

18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one [b]jot or one [c]tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.

There is nothing here that says "Jesus is teaching the law to Jews who were under the law." and I am a big believer of not adding to His Word but allowing Him to explain, especially when its Jesus speaking directly.

Jesus said plainly He did not come to destroy the law but was predicted He would make His laws greater, not smaller and not a jot or tittle shall pass from the law until ALL is fulfilled.

1. Heaven and earth have to pass (which has not happened)
2. Not all is fulfilled like these prophecies that Jesus plainly said He did not come to destroy


Isa 25:8
he will swallow up death forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears
from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace
from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.

Rev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

So not all is fulfilled until heaven and earth pass, Jesus comes in the clouds, judgement is served John12:48 Jesus makes a New Heaven and New Earth Isa66:22-23

So therefore:

19 Whoever (not just Jews- everyone) therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.


20 For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Were the Pharisees keeping the commandments of God? No Jesus condemned them because they laid aside the commandments of God in lieu of man-made commandments and traditions and Jesus said in doing so they made the word of God of no effect by their traditions Mat 15:3-14 Mark7:7-13 so following in their footsteps Jesus said by no means will one enter into heaven

And if you keep reading in this passage you will see Jesus magnifying His laws using two of the Ten Commandments as examples but they apply to all of them- not breaking the least of these commandments Mat5:19 and relates anger in our heart is what leads up to sin and if our heart is changed, the outward part would be changed and thou shalt not murder would be kept Mat5:19-30

WordSword said:

Jesus only taught the Jews because He was sent only to the Jews (Mat 15:24);

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This is a misunderstanding of what Israel means. It means God's sons. Exo4:22 Are we not all called to be sons and daughters of God? It was never meant to be only literal. God shows no partiality Acts 10:34 Romans 2:11

Jesus is everyone's example to follow, not just Jews 1 John2:6 1 Peter 2:21-22 and Jesus is the way John14:6 and I understand how convenient it would be not to have to follow His teachings, but its an error in human teaching, not coming from God's Word.

WordSword said:

His Apostles and disciples, esp. Paul, taught the Gentiles concerning Christianity. Eph 2:15 shows how the Lord Jesus has made Jews and Gentiles as one people in Christ. This involves the Jews who, with the Gentiles believe in Christ.

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Amen. There is only one people in Christ and God's people keep God's commandments Rev14:12 His version because no one can change a jot or tittle of the Testimony of God Exo31:18 Psa89:34 Deut4:13

WordSword said:

The Jews that love and believe in God but not yet in Christ inherit the New Earth; and the Christians inherit the New Heaven!

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No Scripture says this. There are only two groups, the saved and the lost. Rev 20

China’s trade surplus tops $1 trillion as its exports surge​

But as trade with the U.S. weakens, China is diversifying its export markets throughout Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

[China's surplus for the first 11 months of 2025 is already larger than all of 2024 and a new record, topping $1T for the first time.]

Right, as I indicated at the outset, if the US picks a fight with the world, the world doesn't have to fight with each other -- they can band together and do EVEN MOAR trade.

Sarcophagus of ‘real Santa Claus’ found at St. Nicholas Church in Turkey - only just found this.

essentialsaltes said:

The 'essay' itself is floating around and it really does bear no resemblance to a piece of academic writing, even a poor one.

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The reason it was floating around was that conservatives were making a big deal of this 'injustice' and spreading it themselves as 'evidence' of what a great essay it was.

Why conservatives are obsessed with this bad college essay​

The academic merits of Fulnecky’s essay are immaterial to the battle at hand. [Short answer to headline question: it's ragebait.]

Always in His Presence said:

Then another posts:

Hmmm... boat not hit - boat has two less engines -

First it was the evil Secretary of War - saying kill them all - never happened
Now it is a picture of a boat too small and not hit -

Uh, huh......

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Are you treating that picture seriously? Good grief, do you know nothing about the matter at all? Plainly you don't, so I must ask why on earth you have involved yourself in a thread about a situation that you seem to know nothing about.

All you've done is confirm that you are a person who has no qualms about killing people who are suspected of smuggling drugs. And killing them in direct violation of the stated rules of engagement and against everything we'd describe as civilised behaviour. It was illegal and immoral in the extreme. But as I've said, that's the world in which it appears you want to live. This is not an ugly incident in a dystopian novel about the collapse of a decent society. It's now how the US conducts itself.

And heaven help us, your attitude is 'Bring it on'.

RDKirk said:

God will forgive the ones who have given themselves to Christ.

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I agree but we don't know who these are or if and when people give themselves to Christ. That is why pray for all because vengeance is the Lord's.

Paul was a prosecutor before Jesus revealed himself to Paul. Why did Jesus choose that moment? Faith is trusting that God has a plan and he will save whom ever he wishes whenever he chooses.

Glenn Beck attempts to patiently explain to his rightwing fans that Hitler was bad.

The idea that Adolf Hitler was some misunderstood or even "good" figure while Winston Churchill was the real WWII villain was once confined to the extreme fringes and unknown to almost everyone else. Today, however, the idea has resurfaced with disturbing visibility — no longer limited to neo-Nazi forums but now defended or entertained on major podcasts, viral social-media threads, and platforms with tens of millions of listeners and viewers.

Glenn Beck, a lover of history and collector of historical artifacts, is appalled that this revisionist narrative is being taken seriously.

“I really don't get it. History, real history, is not a choose-your-own-adventure kind of thing. It's ink on paper, orders in filing cabinets, telegrams, diaries, bodies. It's what actually happened, not what we hope happened,” he says.

On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn sets the record straight about Hitler, Churchill, and WWII.

SabbathBlessings said:

There is the weekly Sabbath about worship Isa66:23 and honoring God Isa 58:13 Exo20:8-11 and the annual sabbaths that had to do with animal sacrifices- festivals, offerings etc.

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This be true. Consider the double sabbath at the time of Jesus' crucifixion.

keras said:

We will, after the Lords Day of fiery wrath and we go to live in the Holy Land. As Isaiah 35:1-10 says. Isaiah 32:3-4

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What do you think the church will experience when Jesus returns ?

DaisyDay said:

Many people write to be understood. Deliberately obscuring or confusing writing seems self-defeating - if you actually want to be understood.

Lols. Did you see that Thailand and Cambodia have resumed bombing? Leaders of some of the nations know just how very susceptible to flattery poor Donald is.

It is deeply pathetic.

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IMHO - a picture of Pathetic includes ignoring world leaders because it doesn't line up with the tribes narrative.

What did their 'flattery" get them?

Oh yeah - peace