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Well ,all far as appearances are concerned, that is why I love Formal Nights on cruises. Those Formal Nights are the only time that women pay attention to me. When I wear my black tux pants and white Dinner Jacket, some women ask ME to dance. I very rarely get turned down for a dance on Formal Nights. But, I cannot wear my white Dinner Jacket when I go grocery shopping.![]()
Sure you do. A YouGov poll showed that 24% of the left would celebrate the death of a political opponent.
Oops.You mean this?
Because that's not a quote from Title 10.
I believe the Lord permits various expressions to worship God in spirit and in truth ( John 4:24 etc.).If somehow a person does this in light of His commandments ( John 14:15-18 etc,) then I guess it must be right. How it all works, the Lord knows.
Personally, I worship within the liturgy and the Eucharist is given to the faithful. We should discern where necessary but realize expressions vary among Christians.
Your second statement is where we differ. It is a theological debate that we need not have unless you are willing.
Not a terrible idea, but media outlets would portray it as racism if minority prisoners were photographed working side by side in fields.I'm not against prisoners doing the harvest. For the price of their upkeep.
Sir, this is a republic, not a kingdom. Stick to the topic.I was not following the thread.... just saw this post....
Scripturally it is best to never listen to that voice - 'Mr Spock' , in fiction or in reality. He is not an authority in the Kingdom of God.
World-wise, the needs of a few always seek to control and direct the many, regardless of lives lost or money cost.
That is the one world governmen (religious and politic and economic and scientific and entertainment , et al)
serves itself or the devil, selfishly, not caring for the widows or orphans or neighbors or family ..... the way of the flesh , the ways of the world, are carnal and destructive and death dealing.
Evil is very very very present. God is patient ..... Judgement is soon.here we are in Christian Forums in 2025, centuries have gone by, Christianity has been The major religion of The West for two thousand years and I wonder if we're living in The best of all possible worlds?
if we're not then why? if we are how do we explain all the messy and terrible stuff that goes on in the world?
the reason that I wonder if it's The best of all possible worlds is that it doesn't seem likely that God would have made a sub optimal world and even with sin being present, and demons being present, an all manner of natural disaster being present, could The world be anything but the best of all possible worlds since it is the work of God's hands? Or is God a slip shod workman producing substandard products?
A non-American is likely unaware that it's from the Declaration of Independence, which lists causes of secession from the British Empire. It goes "We hold these Truths to be self evident, that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."This is a typically ignorant USA superstition, and typical Fundy thinking (which has deeply contaminated & defiled US Catholicism, sad to say).
Rights come partly from God, and partly from the State. Sometimes they agree or overlap, and sometimes they do not.
The stuff in the US constitution is of no legal force outside the US, and it certainly has no force in the Catholic Church. I’m not from the USA, and I do not care what the jokers responsible for the US Constitution said. We have our own legal traditions in the UK, and they do not include what the poxy US of A says.
Those walking in the flesh are not subject to God’s laws Rom 8:7-8 why Jesus will say depart from Me Mat 7:23 Not everyone who says Lord Lord (believers) will enter His Kingdom, only those that do His will Psa 40:8 Mat 7:21-23 Exo 31:18 Rev 14:12 Rev 22:14Just that it was given to Israel not to the New Testament church. The law, included the 10 commandments, was never given to the gentiles.
“because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”
Romans 8:7-8 NASB2020
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Romans 8:7-8 because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. | New American Standard Bible - NASB (NASB2020
because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.bible.com
The Christian church are the body of Christ comprised of believers not those that walk in the flesh.
This is right after Paul said:
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”
Romans 8:2-4 NASB2020
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Romans 8:2-4 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in th | New American Standard Bible - NASB
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in thbible.com
Do you really think your interpretation of these verses is correct? Is Paul defending the law in these verses?
There's a difference between 'theologically conservative / liberal' & 'conservative / liberal.' A theological liberal to use an extreme (but common) example would be 'there's a scientific explanation for each of the Bible's miracles.' Or a less extreme example 'church should be entertainment' over 'church should be teaching.'
If @Apple Sky doesn't give a brief synopsis of the videos she links, then don't bother viewing them, as it potentially provides income to the nutjobs who produce these videos.Oh really apple sky. Both of these are nonsense. Look the firmament crap has already been debunked. For one raqia should be translated to expanse and secondly we have already been to space and have the knowledge and pictures that it is not as you say. We even have the evidence from both of the Hubble and James Webb telescopes which are in orbit around the earth.
I added my response to the mix. Even if she pulls down the comments, she has to read them first in order to decide to pull them... so MAYBE, something might reach her. I doubt it... but one can hope.She's already deleted mine and a bunch of others' comments and I think I may have been blocked.![]()
Not a gen x but love that song.That's alright. Carry On, then ... !
KANSAS - "Carry On Wayward Son" (1976)Possibly one of my all-time favorites!
And the worst part is we don’t want to know or care.No prior president has ever used the military to execute civilians on the high seas without making any attempt to interdict and detain them. The fact is, we may never know what was on that boat and who the occupants were. The evidence lies at the bottom of ocean.