ThatRobGuy said:

As I stated before...

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We've covered what you said before. Saying it again doesn't help you.

So they aren’t sorry they used them, they are sorry they got caught in a copyright violation.

Very nicely done!

Clare73 said:

That's what I suspected. . .such a sweet guy.

(You and I may end up in the same corner of heaven.)

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I remain sweet as ever

Praying for you and Tessa; I know it's very hard. I also had to put my dog to sleep last week. It's difficult for us, but it is the best thing for your precious pet. I like to think of them romping and playing now, free from pain and all troubles.

What are some of your beliefs. People cannot help you without much to go off of.

NewLifeInChristJesus said:

I am having a hard time relating to this post. What is the goal you are promoting?

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It arose out of a conversation with a dear friend with sleep deprivation who benefited from the example of the saints in his religious life. So its goal is to share a thought that was useful for us and to share the theology behind it.

Another update: She's been diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia, which is related to the vasculitis and kidney issues. Very rare, in fact. Pray for healing for her and guidance for the medical staff.

I pray that God would provide you with a solution to the way that this co-worker treats you. In Jesus' name, amen.

I pray that God would bless your family however you need blessing. In Jesus' name, amen.

I pray that God would protect everyone threatened by Hurricane Ian. In Jesus' name, amen.

We are in the process of getting ready to spend some time in Bangladesh.
My wife brought it up last week.
I told her we needed to agree and that I needed a confirmation.
Last Sabbath I asked for prayer and within minutes I got a confirmation.
The Holy Spirit prompted me to remember a vision I had when I was about 4;
I was flying at night above mountains,
In the distance I saw a glow and when we were above it I could see that the glow was coming from inside a mountain,
Inside the mountain there was a chamber filled with gems.

When I turned 50 I was about to interpret for a foreign pastor during a missionary service.
Before it was time to participate, the Holy Spirit told me that he would tell me the meaning of the vision.
He gave me a verse; where your treasure is, there your heart shall be.
I then told the congregation that as long as they supported overseas missions, they would be blessed.

Last year we had a retreat at a state park. Inside the cabin we shared we saw a video testimony of a young man that was called to the mission field.
I felt impacted by the testimony and I identified with the message.
I was in tears as I told them that we wanted to serve.

Now, we have just sent in our passport renewal paperwork, we should get them in a few months.
The most important step is that of securing a visa to Bangladesh as these are very hard to get.
We have a family member that obtained a five-year visa, a friend of his tried but only got one for a few months.
We are set up financially to pay our way and be there as volunteers.
We hope to be there for six months and return, we know that God can open doors according to his purpose, we pray that will follow through.

I am watching Wimbledon Ladies' Singles final. Turns out to have been first 6-0, 6-0 final in a grand slam since 1988. So competitive and thrilling to watch.

The Barbarian said:

So Pete Hegseth is going to be severely punished for doing the same thing, while also endangering the lives of American troops?

Or do adulterers with drinking problems get a pass?

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You get a pass if you are sufficiently hateful enough for this administration. Loyalty to Trump and contempt for anyone opposed are the two primary requirements.

JimR-OCDS said:

But he's correct and I've heard priests say the same thing.

If you can't separate Hindu spirituality from the exorcise, then you'll have a problem
doing any exorcise, for much comes out of Greek culture. As it is, if you go to
most gym classes, you'll end up doing yoga stretching without even knowing it.
Yoga stretching is part of the exorcise routines in most of the exorcise programs.
Are you worshiping pagan gods doing these stretches? Of course not.

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I do not agree with with that assessment. Exercise for physical health or meditation is fine but of limited value for our heavenly selves.
Yoga says we are focusing on God and want to come to enlightenment, but that is not the path Christ has shown us, or else He would have taught it.
Yoga takes the focus off of obeying God and puts the focus on ourselves. “I only do it for exercise.” “It makes me feel better, what could be wrong with it?” “It’s not worship”
Well, regardless of our intention, yoga mimics physical postures used in the worship of Hindu “gods” aka demons. You may not realize it, but the demons can see what you do, and use your unguarded relaxed state against you. Also it’s just ignorant.
Think if I went through a gang neighborhood and started throwing Crip and Blood signs. I could say that they don’t mean anything to me, but the people that live there see things differently, and my life may not go well if I keep throwing those signs.
I believe that Thomas Merton was in error and was seduced by false ecumenism. Zen is not life, Jesus is the way the truth and the life. Satan and his demons are perfectly capable of manipulating your feelings and even thoughts, as scripture says he seeks whom he may devour.
Satan as the adversary wants to make himself out to be God. His best way is imitation, and it is not flattery. Demon possession is the imitation of the incarnation. Pagan religions imitate aspects of Christianity to deceive, as they are not real worship, but a replacement for real worship. Scripture says that there is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Satan will do all he can to make you think there is nothing wrong and what you are doing is absolutely right, so much so that you will not be convinced otherwise.
But just think of the fool in a gang neighborhood throwing signs, do you want to appear before Jesus and tell him how great those demon signs made you feel? Worship the Lord your God and Him only shalt thou serve, and don’t tell me that you are doing it while you are giving a shout out to demons
The great Fulton Sheen took the opposite view of Thomas Merton. The goal of evangelizing is not to learn pagan religions and tell us how great they are because they have some things similar to Christianity. The wise evangelist observes those similarities and uses them to tell pagans how great Jesus is. I heard a story that a man tried to tell Bishop Sheen how he read a book that melded zen and Christianity. Bishop Sheen threw him out and said something to the effect of don’t speak to me of other gods and tell me how they look like Jesus, they are not Jesus
Our Lady of Guadalupe shows real evangelism with Juan Diego in Mexico in the sixteenth century. The indigenous peoples were trapped in paganism and practiced human blood sacrifice.
Juan Diego brought the testimony form Our Lady and the understanding of blood sacrifice, but preached Christ and Him crucified. The king has already shed His blood for us and we do not do him honor by shedding more blood. We thank Him and present our bodies as living sacrifices.
Mexico stopped human sacrifice and became one of the most Catholic nations on Earth.
I want to see zen or practitioners come to an understanding and love of Our Lord Jesus, not seduce Christians to believe that there is nothing wrong with zen and Buddha is some how equal to Jesus

Exercise is good, meditation is good. Meditate on the Lord and His word. Theresa of Avilla has great teaching on meditative prayer. John of the Cross has teaching on the ascent of Mt Carmel. You may say they are similar to Buddhism, but they are not zen. They focus on Christ

I will not judge a person who thinks that yoga is ok. His works are between him and God, but don’t try and bring yoga class to my parish or try and teach it to my kids. It is junk, and what I was taught in high school, by well meaning but ignorant Christian Brothers. It took me 38 years and the grace of God to get over that error.
If you like zen, read John of the Cross and Theresa of Avila instead

Spiritual practices that are not of Christ put souls at risk. Modern exorcists tell us that God is not the only one that broadcasts on that channel. Test the spirits to see who is speaking, approaching it with a naive can’t we all just get along attitude will only lead to trouble

Leave the children alone. I don’t care that adults do, but leave the minors out of it.

I doubt that.

JimR-OCDS said:

In my 73 years as a Catholic, I've only knew one priest who had some questionable behavior and was once accused of
sexual abuse by a person who was suing him, the order he belong to and the Church. I don't know the end result
and I believe things may have been settled out of court, which usually happens.

I know priests who were falsely accused and their cases dismissed. The damage done by the accusation as it made
the headlines in the local papers, was deep. The acquittal was not printed in the same papers which headlined
the accusation when it came out. The worst case was a Vietnamese monk who spent 23 years in a communist
prison and was released when he was diagnosed with cancer. A local monastery I often attended, took him in.
Eventually a woman who often dressed as a nun, but was not one, accused him of sexual abuse. Eventually the
case was dismissed by the woman's own testimony and confession in court. The priest died not long after
from his cancer.

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Wow. How can someone be so cruel? Lord have mercy!

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Dave Watchman said:

If Newton can be wrong, not I, but my read on the materials, could be wrong as well. As I constantly review them, I can't see where my read is erroneous.

The first I ever heard it mentioned was on this Christian Forums. A member called Interplanner just asked a simple question about it in 2014. Sometimes these forums can be virtual idea factories.

It did happen. There's more than one source of archeological evidence.

I'm still very sure that it did happen. I constantly review the materials.

The end came.

"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.​

Thanks John. You can shake the dust off your sandals Brother. The end of the Gospel being preached by mankind, to the ends of the earth.. Then another John, John the Apostle, showed up to measure the Inner court. At that point the power was given to the Two Witnesses who stand before the Lord of the whole earth.

Daniel did. He wrote that from the going forth of the decree to restore Jerusalem, it would be 7 and 62 weeks, until Messiah the Prince.

Yes there are. So we must be getting close, or are even closer than we think. If it were to happen even before then, it would not surprise me. It must be happening now. Another guy writes the "weeks" has to do with the feast of weeks, of Shavuot, or Pentecost. That means into 2026? I don't know about that. I doubt it would be on an exact feast day. Pope Gregory switched New Years Day from April to January after our starting point, so it might go to April. I don't know about that. I wouldn't count on it.

I wrote a very long note on another forum last weekend with an update on the empirical. I noticed a new twist on the materials, even Newton had mentioned it as "the compass of a Jubilee". And on another little forum which has gone out of business, I remember a member writing how the prophetic time periods have been reversed in our end times and are a "reverse mirror image" of the originals. I see two reasons why this was done. Because the 69 week interval is already split up for us as 7 and 62 weeks, like Newton suggested, the time frames may be used individually, or interchangeably, with the 7 weeks preceding Messiah's second Visitation. Therefore being the "compass of a Jubilee."

One guy got mad, and among other things, accused me of having a "private interpretation". Lol. I don't think he understands what Paul meant when he wrote the private interpretation verse. Some translations are misleading. Paul wasn't talking about your, or my interpretation as readers of the Bible Prophecy, he was talking about the Bible writers of the prophecy, not having their own interpretation of it. Even the AI on my Brave Browser seems to get it wrong. AI just really is digesting what it sees already written which is popular on the Net. Private interpretation really means of "private origin".

Inn this case, KJV is best:

"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.​

I mention this as it's a coincidence, Ebed did a fine explanation of "private interpretation" in the thread where Interplanner mentioned our starting point:

Daniel 9

The correct understanding is that the prophecy given in the Bible is not discernable in two ways. Its not mistakable. If you propose a contrary interpretation to another, one of you is wrong, if not both. The rest of what you said is a given.. That is not at all what it says...but if you...

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Interplanner Oct. 13, 2014:

Daniel 9

Doug, I know of no futurist comments on Lk 13's 'blessed is he...' that make any sense. It's postiioned half way through the ministry; he cannot and did not mean a distant prophecy moment; he meant what would happen that year. Give it a go.

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Peaceful Sabbath.

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And Matt 24:36 and Mark 13:32 says that no one and not even the angels know when Christ is coming back!!
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