may seem unrelated but i believe social media tv's etc have the consequence that people meet less.
Before internet etc, you would be reading a book or something in your house, and at some time you would say 'ok lets go visit this person'
because really you didn't have all this time wasters.

Dan1988 said:

No, that's not true because Gods Word proves that the gospel is awful because it has the stench of death.

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Wow. St. Paul took a very different view:
6 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.

Your religion apparently denies that. Imagine my shock.

Dan1988 said:

It's like approaching an unbeliever and telling them that a stinking corpse smells good.
You need to deal with the truth of the gospel.

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The "truth" that your gurus have made up

Minister Monardo said:

As described by the Anointed Psalmist.
The OP simply claims that there is an Anointing of the Holy Spirit upon Saints in Fellowship, called by Paul "the Spirit of Unity."
"Behold, how good and pleasant it is, for the brethren to dwell together in Unity". This is the Apostolic Doctrine presented prophetically in the Psalms. You are as confused as you are annoying. Give it a rest, you are not Jesus or in Christ apart from His Body. I do not need any help from you, I have experienced real fellowship with real brethren. Online, smoke in my nose.

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Sorry, but that is not what Luke described happening to Jesus as I posted already.

It's the very reason why believers were laying handkerchiefs and cloths upon the body of Paul and people were being healed from them,.... the Spiritual oil of that anointing from The Father was dripping down upon Paul's body and transferring to those cloth items.

Again, cherry picking verses to try and piece together a sermon has never been a good strategy. You need experience to know what you're talking about, but at 69 I highly doubt you are up for learning anything new and correct.

Paulwat said:

Not debating, just trying to clarify a couple of things.

Actually, a lot of churches are now teaching how those bible quotes are mistranslated. There is a Reddit community called OpenChristian, which is for progressive Christianity and there are countless posts there about how LGBT is not sinful and people talking about how their churches are supportive of it

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That is revision and deception. Actually any sex outside of traditional marriage and procreation is sin & adultery. Compare Old Testament chapters like Leviticus 18, 19, & 20 to Romans 1 & the moral understanding is the same. What is different, is how people are to be treated and the key here is to read the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 6, & 7 which Paul obviously knew in some way since the ascended Jesus Christ converted him in Acts 9:1-16).


The Lord affirmed the moral code we have from the law of Moses as per Matthew 15:1-20. See how St. Paul warned St. Timothy ( & all of us) regarding falling away from sound doctrine ( & how many fell away) in 2 Timothy 4:1-22. See also how Paul knew the Lord’s commandments; compare the Lord speaking in Matthew 19:16-19 & Paul conforming to this in Romans 13:8-10.

Praise,Thanks,Glory,&Power to Jesus Christ for ensuring that Airbus company responsibly stated that some Airbus airplanes needed emergency maintenance work:

The sun, moon and stars are in the sky where God placed them and they are created lights. That is all that is known about the sun, moon and stars, what God has reveled through scripture.

DaisyDay said:

No, a brother's discarded paramour and the nephew's actual mother.

I don't know if it's true, but people are saying that she was a DACA recipient who had a kid with Leavitt's brother who subsequently came into a windfall (lottery or something), found a new woman but wanted full custody so then called ICE on his son's mother. Reported here for salaciousness. Sounds plausible, we'll see.

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not related by marriage - not related by blood - not related. Which baby momma's and baby daddy's aren't.

BibleBeliever1611 said:

1 John 4:15
"Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God."

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# 1 WHO SO EVER //. HOS is a. RELATIVE PRONOUN. is a NOMINATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 2 SHALL CONFESS // HOMOLOGEO. inv. the AORIST TENSE. in. the ACTIVE VOICE is a SUBJUNCATIVE in. the SINGULAR

#3 THAT //. HOTI is a CONJUNCATION

# 4. JESUS. //. IESOUS in. the NOMINATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 5 IS. //. in. the PRESENT TENSE. in. the. INDICATIVE MOOD , in. the SINGULAR

# 6. THE. //. HO. is a DEFINITE. ARTICLE. in c the NOMINATIVE CASE. in. the SINGULAR

# 7 SON //. HUIOS in the NOMINATIVE CASE. in. the SINGULAR

# 8 OF GOD //. THEOS. in. the. GENITIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 9 GOD // THEOS. in. the NOMINATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 10 DWELLLETH. //. MENO in. the PRESENT TENSE. in. the INDICATIVE MOOD. in the SINGULAR

# 11 IN. //. EN. is a PREPOSITION

# 12. HIM //. AUTOS. is. a PERSONAL POSSESSESIVE PRONOUN. in. the DATIVE CASE. in. the SINGULAR

# 13 AND //. KAI. is a CONJUNCATION

# 14 HE //. AUTOS. is a PERSONAL POSSESSETIVE PRONOUN. in. the NOMINATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 15 IN //. EN. is a PREPOSITION

# 16 GOD. // THEOS. is in the DATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# A And just to say anyone that QUOTES any verse was was written to ALL BELIEVERS

# B BUT the Holy Spirit did write to different groups of PEOPLE

# C The Holy did write to those under. ATONEMENT

#D He wrote to those under the LAW OF MOSES

# E HE wrote to those under the NEW COVENANT

# F. HE wrote to the BODY OF CHRIST and Paul wrote 13 letters to. the BODY and also wrote HEBREWS

# G JOHN wrote to those DURING. the GREATV TRIBULATION

# H CONTEXT. and PREMISE and CONCLSION

And be glad to answer any thing that I write and all. the GREEK WORD , TENSES , MOOD you can google. and see

that I have not ADDED or taken. AWAY FROM. THE GREEK TEXT !!

dan p

Whoa! Get rid of more poor brown people.

This is the solution in America.

Do you remember when this was supposed to be just about getting rid of the "criminals and rapists and drug dealers"?

What will it take to see that it is more than that I wonder....

The Liturgist said:

St. Elias did come, at the the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, described in all three synoptic Gospels. St. Moses was also present.

This feast is regarded by Orthodox Christians as the replacement for Sukkot.

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Certainly not in full, regardless of the traditions of men.
Malachi 4:
4 “Remember the Law of Moses, My servant,
Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel,
With the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
6 And he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to the children,
And the hearts of the children to their fathers,
Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.

Jipsah said:

Where do we find the purpose and duties of the Father and the Son?

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Both are expressed and satisfied in the Doctrine of Christ
2 John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
John 10:30 I and My Father are one.

another_lost_guy said:

My argument is this:

It is possible to worship one's own stomach (Phillipians 3)
It is possible to have gods made of inanimate things on earth (Genesis 31:19)

Therefore the Christian definition of 'god' and 'worship' is looser than most of us (including atheists) realize, meaning an atheist can worship a false god without believing in an all-powerful deity, making the term 'atheist' itself contradictory.

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First I would note that the word 'worship' is simply not used, even in the translation you have provided. You seem to have imported that word.

On the other hand, your argument from Philippians 3:19 is interesting given the word 'theos'. In one way I think the answer is simple: if by "God" we mean what Tillich meant, then there are no atheists. If by "God" we mean the current dictionary definition, then there are atheists. Given that atheists themselves use the word in the latter sense, I'm not sure your argument works.

But your rejoinder would be that Scripture tells us what the word 'god' really means, and in Philippians 3:9 we see that it can apply even to a devotion to food. I think the problem with this is a premise that I critique both here and here. To put it succinctly, the English 'God' does not have the same meaning as the Greek 'theos'.

Larniavc said:

Reading that back it sounds harsher than when it was in my head.

Apologies.

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Apologies so graciously presented are of course accepted.

What a wonderful ceasefire they have.

Apple Sky said:

The Foundations are built onto the
Chief Cornerstone Jesus Christ,
structurally sound, on a flat plane.

Act 4:11 This is the stone which was set at nought of
you builders, which is become the head of the
corner.
Job 38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof
fastened? or who laid the cornerstone thereof;
Isa 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD,
Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried
stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he
that believeth shall not make haste.

Nobody has ever been in "space."
The lunar missions never happened.

John 3:13 And No man hath ascended up to heaven,
but he that came down from heaven, even the Son
of man which is in heaven.
Pro 30:4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or
descended?
Psa 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the
LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

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Space is not Heaven. Space is part of God’s creation that includes the planets and the stars. Heaven is where God has lived for eternity so Heaven is eternal.

Please may I ask for a prayer, feeling down. I work two jobs but recently lost a source of income so things are very stretched at the moment. I've applied for and inquired about a couple of jobs recently but haven't heard anything. Please pray for another job thank you

RileyG said:

Yes. Yes, it was.

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Thanks!

The Liturgist said:

I don’t think the liturgical practice in the Oriental Orthodox churches is meaningless at all. It requires humility on the part of the bishop; pride is toxic to bishops and monastics, and most of our bishops are also monastics. The function of the liturgy is to demonstrate the greatest serving the least to the congregation, to inspire piety in the youths whose feet are washed (also historically, in churches in the deserts of Syria, Iraq and Egypt and the beautiful but rugged countryside of Armenia and Lebanon, to relieve real discomfort in preparation for Pascha), and to remind the bishop of his role by forcing him to humble himself as Christ did.

The Eastern Orthodox version is less moving in my personal opinion, but still meaningful. This is one of those cases where the OO managed to get an edge on us liturgically (another being the lovely variable fractions of the Coptic Rite, the colorful vesture of the Syriac Orthodox Rite and, theoretically, the diversity of West Syriac anaphorae, and also the longer Coptic and Ethiopian liturgies, which maintain superb quality despite an increase in quantity).

Also historically Western Christians would give alms on Maundy Thursday in lieu of foot washing, which would not have at the time been meaningless.

However those restorationist churches in which everyone washes everyone else’s feet quarterly before the Eucharist has been celebrated have I think overdone it.

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I think that rather then going through a ritual of washing perfectly clean and healthy feet, it would be much more humbling to wash a pair of really filthy, diseased feet. I have the greatest respect for individuals who have sacrificed themselves to care for the poor, sick and wretched outcasts of society.

Amid a rash of mass kidnappings in Nigeria, an Anglican priest in Nigeria abducted along with his wife and daughter has died in captivity, leaders of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion announced on Wednesday.

The Rev. Edwin Achi was kidnapped on Oct. 28 along with his wife, Sarah Achi, and daughter from Nissi village, Chikun County, in Kaduna state. Church leaders did not say how he died, but the assailants had demanded a ransom of 600 million naira ($415,216).

“The Venerable Edwin, who was kidnapped alongside his wife on 28 October, has been confirmed dead,” the Anglican leaders said in a press statement. “His transition is a painful loss to the entire Diocese, the clergy, the church family and all who were blessed by his faithful ministry, humble spirit and unwavering devotion to the service of God. We continue to pray for the release of his wife and daughter still in the hands of kidnappers.”

Days before his death, his captors released a photo of him and his wife along with other captive Christians.

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