Maria Billingsley said:

Like for everyone else, repentance is key.
Be blessed

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Genesis 4:25 Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.” | New International Version (NIV) | Download The Bible App Now

Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

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eleos1954 said:

Sainthood signifies a positional status in Christ—being set apart by God for His special use and purpose. It does not imply sinless perfection, but a calling to live a life that reflects God's moral purity.

Just to clarify ...

The term "saints" in the New Testament epistles is used by Paul to address living members of the church (e.g., in Rome, Corinth, and Philippi), not just deceased individuals who have been canonized by a church.

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childeye 2 said:

"of" is still a preposition, so "will" is still a noun.

Not really. The synonym list is something I already knew. In fact, in semantics there are even more. When people start talking about free will they end up collapsing distinct categories --> voluntariness, autonomy, and intent into one synonym set. <--That’s equivocation. Some also claim free will means they could've done the other. <-- Another form of equivocation. The bottom line is it's not a stable term if not qualified.

But it doesn't matter how much the meaning of free will changes, because like I said in Genesis 3:17 God says Adam ‘hearkened’ (shāmaʿ) to the woman, which rules out voluntariness and autonomy. The only sense left is intent, which is not the case when one is being persuaded, so there is no philosophical construct of self‑determination in the text.


I didn't say free will is a noun, I said "will" is a noun in this sentence -> Thus Adam acted on his own free will.

I’m not changing my argument. I’m addressing how you’re using the phrase “free will.” You’re sliding between adverbial voluntariness (“willingly”), noun level capacity (self‑determination), and mere intent, then denying the noun when pressed.

My argument is this: Genesis 3:17 says Adam “hearkened” to the woman, which denotes obedience to persuasion. That rules out autonomy and voluntariness. If by “free will” you only mean intent, then say intent. But the OP accuses Adam using a philosophical construct of self‑determination the text does not provide.

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I will freely love them / I will love them freely

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For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

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But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will (Berean Standard Bible; NASB; Amplified Bible; Christian Standard Bible; Holman Christian Standard Bible; American Standard Version; English Revised Version; New Heart English Bible; Majority Standard Bible; World English Bible; Smith's Literal Translation; Anderson New Testament; Godbey New Testament) / according to willingness / willingly / voluntary / not something forced.

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BelieveItOarKnot said:

The term AS moves such scriptural statements OFF literal understanding and INTO spiritual insights

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MarkSB said:

I wholeheartedly disagree. It is an excuse, because you're not looking at the actions of Donald Trump on their own merits, and not holding him accountable. Instead you point at the other side and say "they do it too"... which I would argue is not only an excuse, but a false equivalency.

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MarkSB said:

So I'm guessing what is being implied here is that the Democrats "cheated" in the 2020 election? If that is what you are saying, I will pose this question: If the democrats / "deep state" have such control over elections - then how did Trump win in 2024? If these unnamed powers were able to cheat in 2020 and make Joe Biden win, then how did Trump win in 2024 if there is such an underhanded conspiracy against him?

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Appeals court disqualifies Alina Habba as U.S. attorney for New Jersey​

Valletta said:

The four years of fraud, the election interference including collusion between the executive branch and social media to defeat Trump, as well as collusion by the courts, the flooding of our nation with 10 to 20 million immigrants who were largely unvetted, the defund the police movement, and the woke policies caused the people to vote for a widely disliked and abrasive presidential candidate. Human trafficking reached a level in our country not seen since the Civil War. The Democratic Party is deeply fractured, with radical leaders in charge but a part of the base that does not believe in the promulgated policies. I am convinced that locating the hundreds of thousands of missing children, jailing criminals and deporting violent illegal criminals, stopping the crazy pork filled spending bills of Democrats, letting the parents decide about transitioning and what their children are taught in school rather than the state, stopping government sponsored drag queen shows for our children, curbing the runaway inflation, and supporting our law enforcement officers and military, that is, keeping the promises made, are essential to our future. Giving in to the authoritarians who will decide what kind of oven you use and what car you drive and what your child will be taught in school and what pronouns you must use and putting men in girls locker rooms will be the end of our nation.

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Wolseley said:

The Islamic Caliphate of Britainistan (formerly known as the United Kingdom) is a cautionary tale for all of us.

I figure I have about fifteen, maybe twenty years left before I kick the bucket, so hopefully, I will be dead and gone before America falls.....and if anybody's been keeping up with the attitudes, beliefs, agendas, and voting patters of the under-30 population in this country, fall it will.


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ENGLAND FELL WITHOUT A SHOT.
AMERICA’S TROJAN HORSE IS ALREADY INSIDE.

You’re looking at a country that doesn’t exist anymore.
This is the postcard in your head.

England didn’t fall with tanks and smoke.
It fell with silence.

You probably still think the England in your head is real.
The postcards in your mind? They’re gone.
The photos in your camera roll are out of date.

Let me show you what changed… and why every American should be paying attention in 2025.
Look at the little horse in the reflection on that London street.
That isn’t an editing trick.
That’s the Trojan Horse every American is pretending not to see.

I want to take you somewhere gentle first —
somewhere millions of Americans have walked or always dreamed of walking.

England.

Not the England of today’s headlines.
The England you remember.
The England in movies.
The England you imagined as a kid.

I lived there during the fall of my senior year of college.
And I can still feel it.

The smell of rain soaking into old stone.
Black cabs sliding over wet cobblestones.
The ding of a double-decker bus pulling to a stop.
Real accents — Cockney, Midlands, Yorkshire — drifting through the air like a soundtrack.

If you’ve ever wandered London, even once, you know exactly what I mean.

Big Ben rising over the Thames like a cathedral tower.
The Changing of the Guard — boots hitting pavement in perfect time.
Red phone booths so iconic they looked painted onto the street.
Fish and chips wrapped in paper, vinegar sharp in the air.

That was England.
Calm. Ordered. Civil.
A place where history wasn’t something you read —
it was something you walked on.

I studied Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon.
I’d sit by the River Avon watching swans glide under willow trees older than our country.
I’d grab a ploughman’s lunch — thick bread, sharp cheddar, Branston pickle — the taste of the countryside in one bite.

Everywhere you went, the country knew who it was.
Quietly. Proudly. Confidently.

The problem was simple:
England had too many manners and not enough nerve.
It was so careful not to offend that it forgot how to defend.

That was the England I lived in.
That was the England millions of Americans believed still existed.

But the country you loved has been quietly swapped out while you were busy being told not to notice.

Here’s the truth — simple, final, unavoidable:

That England is gone.
Gone forever.
And it’s not coming back.

If you still believe that kind of loss can’t happen where you live, you’re already behind.
If you have kids or grandkids, their America will not look like yours unless you learn from what England did to itself.

America in 2025 isn’t the America of the 1950s.
Cities grow. Cultures mix. Generations shift.
But what happened in England wasn’t drift —
it was direction.

A direction written in government numbers before anyone dared say it out loud.

According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics, the early 2000s showed two trends colliding:
declining birthrates among longtime British families…
and sharply higher birthrates in newer communities.

At the same time, official data recorded net migration at levels never seen in modern British history —
year after year, stack after stack.

This wasn’t rumor.
This wasn’t theory.
It was their own math, in their own reports.

Math doesn’t care about politics.
Birthrates don’t care about feelings.
Demographics don’t ask permission.

Then came another shift.

In 2016, a government-commissioned investigation — the Casey Review — confirmed that Sharia councils were operating in parts of England, handling civil and family matters outside British courts.
Not a headline.
Not an opinion.
A government finding.

Police officers admitted — quietly — that they changed tactics in certain neighborhoods.
Not official “no-go zones.”
Just unofficial hesitation.
A sign the old authority no longer moved with confidence.

Call it “respect.”
Call it “sensitivity.”
On the ground, it felt like one group playing by different rules while everyone else was told to keep clapping.

England didn’t collapse in a single moment.
It faded in a million tiny silences —
every time someone noticed a change, felt uneasy, and told themselves not to say anything.

And one morning, without a single shot fired, the truth was unavoidable:

The England that stood for centuries had disappeared —
not conquered, not invaded…
but surrendered by silence.

A country that wouldn’t stop apologizing eventually forgot who it was and what it was apologizing for.
And when people finally asked, “When did this change?” the answer was simple:

While you were busy calling each other names online.

That’s how nations fall now.
Not with tanks.
Not with fighter jets.
But with Trojan Horses rolled through the gates while everyone whispers that nothing is happening.

And here’s why this matters to every American reading this:

If you want to see England’s future in miniature, you don’t need a passport.
You only need to drive to Dearborn, Michigan.

Recent census data show Arab Americans are now the majority in Dearborn, making it the first Arab-majority city in the United States.

America isn’t approaching England’s doorway.
We’re standing in it.
And the Trojan Horse isn’t approaching —
it’s already in the living room.

If you’ve watched your own town change like this — in your schools, your hospital, your streets — drop your city in the comments. America needs to see the map.

Part One is the memory.
Part Two is the blueprint — the laws, the votes, the policies that flipped England from postcard to warning label.
Part Three is Dearborn — the test case every honest American should study.

Nations aren’t losing wars on battlefields anymore.
They’re losing them in comment sections and quiet living rooms.

If someone you love still says,
“It can’t happen here,”
hit share and put this in their feed before Part Two drops.

Because it can…. And it's already started.

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Danthemailman said:

Criminals have become emboldened and even seem to have an entitlement mentality, thanks to soft on crime policies, particularly in blue states.

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Hans Blaster said:

No one. It evolves naturally.

The US absolutely was not. I can't say about the other nations, and frankly I don't care.

Simple reality is beyond your comprehension? Perhaps you should stick to Aussie politics. Your understanding of US politics and history is extremely poor.

The US government does not regulate belief and nothing in that paragraph even argues counter to that. To use your example of abortion, changing the legal status one direction or the other does not change the *beliefs* people have about it. There were major changes a couple years ago and my belief didn't change.

No wonder you think it is a strange mix, you are mixing things up in your head.

It is still back and forth between some stream or strength of left and of right.

The Christian Right declared war on American culture a few decades ago.

I'm not interested in your persecution complex projection. This is pathetic Steve, you are projecting your self into persecution in a country where you don't live and there is no such persecution. Here in the US we have entered a month-long season dominated by a Christian religious claim. That isn't anti-Christian persecution. Not in the slightest.

Too bad.

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Leviticus 19:34 (NIV):

"The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God."

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Numbers 15:15-16 (NIV)

"The community is to have the same rules for you and for the foreigner residing among you, a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the Lord: The same law and the same regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing among you.”

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Job 33:6 said:

Context is not given to the original authors. Context is something that the authors write scripture in light of. Just as Moses wrote in Hebrew while Paul wrote in Greek. God did not invent these languages and instruct the authors to write in them. It is not as though Paul was a native Arabic speaker and chose to write in Greek because God gave it to him. Rather Greek is part of his cultural context, and so that's what Paul writes in. It's the same for ancient cosmology. The revelation is shared through the cultural lense.

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Michie said:

The apostle Paul, for example, wrote that “the gifts and calling of God are without repentance” (Romans 11:29). Paul was writing about Jews who had not accepted Jesus as messiah. He wrote that “as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake” (Romans 11:28). In other words, they were still the Chosen People because of the promises He made to the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob).

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Michie said:

What did Paul mean by “the gifts”?

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