I have found YouTube videos that appear real but are stating questionable things. Like bishop Barren giving a talk saying priests can be married and the celibacy rule is lifted
If we rely on AI or YouTube videos alone, we can be deceived. I always check the Vatican news to see what the magisterium is really teaching

I would say AI is dangerous in that it can be used to deceive by looking so offical yet be so wrong sometimes.

timothyu said:

Who will we be? Who should we see now as being the real us instead of these failed creations struggling to self=justify our ways? The elohim (spirits) failed God. Humans (flesh) failed God. Who will we be to reverse that failure?

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We will be the Sons of God.

What is your point?—that's what I want to know. I'm not trying to debate you or criticize. I'm trying to understand why you went there.

Bob8102 said:

I have been struggling with OCD and struggling with the gospel for decades. I ask the question because of what I read in a book on Christians with OCD. The book is called Strivings Within by Mitsy VanCleeve. The author talks about how the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan, centuries ago, apparently had OCD. I have read about him and how he kept doubting his salvation and having other struggles. VanCLeeve said that he eventually gave up trying to seek assurance. He decided that come heaven, come hell, he was for ‘venturing all for the name of Christ.’ She said that only by making this decision was he able to continue ‘serving His Lord.’ This jives with other advice I’ve read which says that OCD people must learn to live with the OCD and its uncertainty.

If all of the above is true, then OCD people can never get assurance of salvation, right?. Yet one author I read said that your spiritual life will never really take off until you have assurance.

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The OCD people I have known in this life are very varied, though they have much in common, too. For the most part, I have found them very intelligent, able to reason well.

One thing I can suggest, is to pursue Christ with all your might, with all your will, with all your heart. Get to know him, spend hours praying, reading, without demanding he answer your questions. Get to know him and you may find, in his timing, that your life is about him, for better or for worse. And that for that, he is to be praised. You belong to him.

FaithT said:

Jesus? How so?

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Hmmm....

Lady Bug said:

Whether or not the hymn is cliche for the Advent season, it never fails to move me. I love it

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I'm not a Roman Catholic, so I hope I am not breaking forum rules by answering. I like that hymn, too, as it looks back to the first coming of Jesus at Bethlehem, and forward to His glorious Second Coming. I especially like this verse:

"O come, O Branch of Jesse's stem,
unto your own and rescue them!
From depths of hell your people save,
and give them victory o'er the grave."

Vambram said:

This is not common place at all. Humans are not perfect so to expect perfection is a mistake.

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It's supposedly commonplace, but whenever it happens it makes hedline news.

FaithT said:

The geocentric model was debunked a long time ago.

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I agree, but I don't see any connection between your post, and the single-word post from Apple Sky correcting another poster by indicating she is female.

Praying for the love of God to reach out and pierce the heart of those playing with dangerous things they think are some form of joke or rebellion against a person controlling them. Lord please help this member fight the spiritual war as You best know how to direct.

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Miscarriages, infections, neglect: The pregnant women detained by ICE​

Until last year, Congress required reports on the pregnant, postpartum or nursing women in ICE custody, including ‘detailed justification’ for their detention. This requirement no longer exists, Kelly Rissman reports​

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[oversight is one of those words that mean its own opposite]​

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Despite an ICE directive generally prohibiting the detention of pregnant women, Alicia was held there for three months.​

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About a month after she was detained, Alicia began experiencing severe abdominal pain, vaginal discharge, cramping, and bleeding. She was taken to a nearby emergency room in shackles. There, she underwent an invasive medical procedure, without her consent, according to the letter. ​

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she remained at the facility for two more months. Unrelenting symptoms - bleeding, swelling, foul-smelling vaginal discharge and excruciating pain — persisted. The pain became so severe that she struggled to sleep.​

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It wasn’t until Alicia was deported in July that she was able to obtain antibiotics to treat the vaginal infection she’d developed from the miscarriage that had gone untreated while in ICE custody.​

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Data, available from a patchwork of media, lawsuits and Congressionalreports, suggests dozens of pregnant, postpartum and nursing women have been detained so far this year. [But we don't know since Congress did not renew that required reporting.]​

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Good Lord, why are we holding people for 3 months? If they are illegal, it shouldn't take three months to ship them out. And we absolutely are responsible to see they get the medical care they need. It's unconscionable that they don't.

7thKeeper said:

... But there is no negotiations between Russia and Ukraine going on.

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That we know of. The press doesn't always get told everything that's currently going on.

DaisyDay said:

Those who commit crimes get expedited deportation. If you're not familiar with the DACA then you're just speaking from ignorance.

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I was strictly speaking about general deportations. And generally it doesn't matter if you are a good person or a bad person. If you are here illegally you are subject to deportation. Period.

Don't know why anyone would want to campaign for welfare leeches (people capable of supporting themselves), and an overflow of illegal immigrants, or an overflow of immigrants period. Do they honestly think that creates a good society?

Dave, joining others in welcoming you to CF

Hope you find your times here rewarding.

Oompa Loompa said:

This this the textbook definition of "grooming." Again, I say that transgender are not born, they are groomed and recruited.

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Out of curiosity, how many transgender people did you speak to before coming to this conclusion?

-- A2SG, could take a guess, but let's see what you say....

Joining others in welcoming you to CF

Hope you find your times here rewarding.

Barraco said:

A8. The kingdom of the beast in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 are the kingdoms of the world. 1+2+3+4=10. Therefore the ten horns represent global authority. These are the ones Babylon runs after.

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I thought the number 10 itself signified completeness - where 7 represents God's perfection.

Barraco said:

A9. See A3. A mark on the forehead represents a testimony while a mark on the right hand represents deeds.

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Interesting. Have you seen the Bible Project on this? he has a Phd in Hebrew Apocalyptic Symbolism.
He basically thinks it's the Shema prayer - but a worldly version.
The image seems to be of someone so trusting in the power of the state and wealth they are almost "praying" to the authorities of this world for their security!

It's obviously an image - because there's a Christian image of the Christian martyrs having a WHITE stone on their foreheads in heaven in the very next chapter. Apocalyptic Symbolism does a lot of 'compare and contrast' to draw out the nuances and sometimes starker comparisons.

Barraco said:

A10. The mark of the beast is the antithesis of keeping God's commandments and bearing testimony of Jesus. Believers who don't heed the seven messages will take the mark of the beast after the worldly messiah, the false messiah that seeks power over the kingdoms of this world (the four beasts/ten horns), presents himself as the world's savior, using miraculous signs to deceive people who love lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2, Revelation 13).

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Yes! As certain Caesars did, and Mohammad, and Hitler and Stalin and North Korea.
It's not about predicting one future anti-Christ - but a symbolic sermon on suffering to Christians in ANY age that might face one.

(Revelation has a bunch of warnings. EG: Against the temptation us in the rich western democracies might have - to worship Babylon in all her wealth - and trust in her for security!)

Barraco said:

A11. We get the seal of God by heeding the messages to the seven stars and loving Jesus more than anything this world can offer.

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Exactly! In any age.

Barraco said:

A12. Jesus is Lord of all the days of the week. He is our the rest, the second Adam, the new creation. If we make anything about us, we stop following Jesus. He went to the cross. No servant is above his master, so we go to the cross as well. If we aren't willing to follow Jesus to the cross, what good does it do to debate whether one day is holier than another? We stand convicted as hypocrites.

A13. The beast, the antichrist and son of perdition, is the ruler of the kingdoms of this world. 666 is the gematria calculation of the false messiah (656) that rules over the kingdoms of this world (10). The transliteration of the Hebrew word for mashiach (messiah) into Greek language is messias. M(40)+E(5)+S(200)+S(200)+I(10)+A(1)+S(200)=656. The kingdoms of this world, as explained in A8 are the four beasts added together: 1+2+3+4=10. Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm.” (John 18:36) The false messiah is the one that fails to the temptations Jesus endured in the wilderness. He gives everything up for worldly power. That is how Satan gives the beast is authority and dominion. At the time the Apocalypse was received by John, the beast was Caesar.

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Barraco said:

A14-A15. The Papacy. Homey don't play that. Babylon is everywhere. She is sitting next to Zion in the pews at every church this Advent morning. The only way to tell the difference is by her fruit. She lives for this world and not the kingdom to come. The wheat and tares will both be harvested at the end of the age.

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I don't know I would say Babylon sits in the pew with us - but more that potential followers of Babylon do.
Which is the scary message of Revelation.
We've got to keep checking our own hearts for this stuff!

But so many turn Revelation into a B-Grade Sci-Fi movie - and spend all their time trying to calculate the end times tables. They've seen "The Omen" or "Numbers" or some other Hollywood lie that says Revelation has a secret coded message for the last generation. (Which of course would make it utterly irrelevant to the church for the last 2000 years!)

Then when their precious end-times-tables inevitably fail with the passage of time, how many people who trusted in these self-proclaimed "prophets" just fall away as Christianity to them has lost all credibility?

LoveGodsWord said:

What are your thoughts? Is God's true ISRAEL the Church?

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Since all of Israel shall be saved, even those who were and are enemies of the Gospel your theory should work that into the church picture. Romans 11:26-32

Additionally Paul was clear who was not Israel mentioned in Romans 9 and pinpointed in Romans 11:8, that being a blinding deafening spirit God Himself put upon the majority, in our behalves no less.

I might suggest it does not pay to block heavens gate to any person, ever, for any reason, 2 Cor. 5:19

Assume the best for everyone and assume them all IN

Jesus, Savior of the world who gets the job done

### Traditional Jewish Assignments (most common version)
Based on Midrash (e.g., Numbers Rabbah 2:7) and later sources like Rashi and the Zohar:

- Judah (East) → Lion (because Judah is called a "lion’s whelp" in Genesis 49:9)
- Reuben (South) → Man (because Reuben was the firstborn of a human mother, or because of the mandrakes story in Genesis 30 showing human-like behavior)
- Ephraim (West) → Ox (because of Joseph’s blessing in Deuteronomy 33:17, which speaks of oxen horns; Ephraim and Manasseh were sons of Joseph)
- Dan (North) → Eagle (or sometimes a serpent/eagle hybrid, based on Genesis 49:17 and the idea of swiftness)

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Another record?

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What is important about inflation in the price of silver? Not many people buy it. Do people buy silver with their CC?

“Life happens.” Okay, but how much life can happen to one person or family?!

Hi 9Rock9,

Welcome!

If we are followers of Yahshua; should we not follow Yahshua?

(CLV) Mt 5:17
"You should not infer that I came to demolish the law or the prophets. I came not to demolish, but to fulfill.

(CLV) Mt 5:18
For verily, I am saying to you, Till heaven and earth should be passing by, one iota or one serif may by no means be passing by from the law till all should be occurring.

(CLV) Mt 5:19
"Whosoever, then, should be annulling one of the least of these precepts, and should be teaching men thus, the least in the kingdom of the heavens shall he be called. Yet whoever should be doing and teaching them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.

(CLV) Mt 7:21
"Not everyone saying to Me `Lord! Lord!' will be entering into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who is doing the will of My Father Who is in the heavens.
(CLV) Mt 7:22
Many will be declaring to Me in that day, `Lord! Lord! Was it not in Your name that we prophesy, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many powerful deeds?'

(CLV) Mt 7:23
And then shall I be avowing to them that `I never knew you! Depart from Me, workers of lawlessness!'

(CLV) Mt 13:41
The Son of Mankind shall be dispatching His messengers, and they shall be culling out of His kingdom all the snares and those doing lawlessness

Gentiles (Goyim)?

According to Paul when we convert to be followers of Yahshua; we are no longer Goyim.


Ephesians 2

11 Wherefore, remember that once you, the nations (Gentiles) in flesh - who are termed 'Uncircumcision' by those termed 'Circumcision,' in flesh, made by hands -"

Not anymore!

12 that you were, in that era, apart from Christ, being alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and guests of the promise covenants, having no expectation, and without God in the world."

Not anymore! Hmmm...covenants, plural.

13 Yet now, in Christ Jesus, you, who once are far off, are become near by the blood of Christ."

Citizens of Israel.


(CLV) Hb 8:10
"For this is the covenant which I shall be covenanting with the house of Israel after those days," the Lord is saying: "Imparting My laws to their comprehension, On their hearts, also, shall I be inscribing them, And I shall be to them for a God, And they shall be to Me for a people.


14 For He is our Peace, Who makes both one, and razes the central wall of the barrier"

No difference between those who were born into the false dogma of Judaism, and those who were born into the false teaching of Paganism. All of those in Yahshua are in the truth of YHWH's perfect Torah.

15 (the enmity in His flesh), nullifying the law of precepts in decrees, (dogma, Talmud) that He should be creating the two, in Himself, into one new humanity, making peace;"

Israel!

(CLV) Mt 15:24
Now He, answering, said, "I was not commissioned except for the lost sheep of the house of Israel."



16 and should be reconciling both in one body to God through the cross, killing the enmity in it."

(CLV) Num 15:15
As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the sojourner sojourning with you. It shall be an eonian (FOREVER) statute throughout your generations. Like you so shall the sojourner be before Yahweh.

17 And, coming, He brings the evangel of peace to you, those afar, and peace to those near, 18 for through Him we both have had access, in one spirit, to the Father." 19 Consequently, then, no longer are you guests and sojourners, but are fellow-citizens of the saints and belong to God's family,


For whoever are baptized into Christ, put on Christ,

(CLV) Ga 3:28
in Whom there is no Jew nor yet Greek, there is no slave nor yet free, there is no male and female, for you all are one in Christ Jesus.

(CLV) Ga 3:29
Now if you are Christ's, consequently you are of Abraham's seed, enjoyers of the allotment according to the promise.


(CLV) Num 15:15
As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the sojourner sojourning with you. It shall be an eonian statute throughout your generations. Like you so shall the sojourner be before Yahweh.

(CLV) Num 15:16
One law and one custom, it shall come to be for you and for the sojourner sojourning with you.

1. I would have moved out of my parents’ house earlier than I did. At the time though, I don’t think I could have ever known how much that would have impacted my life.

2. I would have not gotten a bachelor’s degree and went straight to tech college. Though I think my bachelor’s degree helped me in a lot of ways. Maybe I would have still gotten it, it just didn’t help my career at all.

3. I would have avoided a guy I met at Bible study 15+ years ago. Mostly because he had a certain way of thinking that shaped me, at a time in my life when I was more impressionable.

Fantine said:

You could have answered me with one word. Denial.

But that's ok. I accurately translated your answer.

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I don't believe that you have accurately translated my answer at all.