Believe it or not I remember being in the Womb, I remember awaking just as I were about to be born & thinking to my self, 'I don't want to go anywhere, I want to stay here asleep where it's nice and warm'.

So I reckon the soul awakens the moment a baby is about to be born.

There is an interesting article about the soul in the book 'The Legend of the Jews' by Louis Ginzberg It reads;

THE SOUL OF MAN
The care which God exercised in fashioning every detail of the body of man is as naught in comparison with His solicitude for the human soul. The soul of man was created on the first day, for it is the spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters. Thus, instead of being the last, man is really the first work of creation.

This spirit, or, to call it by its usual name, the soul of man, possesses five different powers. By means of one of them she escapes from the body every night, rises up to heaven, and fetches new life thence for man.
With the soul of Adam the souls of all the generations of men were created. They are stored up in a promptuary, in the seventh of the heavens, whence they are drawn as they are needed for human body after human body.

The soul and body of man are united in this way: When a woman has conceived, the Angel of the Night, Lailah, carries the sperm before God, and God decrees what manner of human being shall become of it--whether it shall be male or female, strong or weak, rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, long or short, fat or thin, and what all its other qualities shall be.
Piety and wickedness alone are left to the determination of man himself.

Then God makes a sign to the angel appointed over the souls, saying, "Bring Me the soul so-and-so, which is hidden in Paradise, whose name is so-and-so, and whose form is so-and-so." The angel brings the designated soul, and she bows down when she appears in the presence of God, and prostrates herself before Him. At that moment, God issues the command, "Enter this sperm." The soul opens her mouth, and pleads: "O Lord of the world! I am well pleased with the world in which I have been living since the day on which Thou didst call me into being. Why dost Thou now desire to have me enter this impure sperm, I who am holy and pure, and a part of Thy glory?" God consoles her: "The world which I shall cause thee to enter is better than the world in which thou hast lived hitherto, and when I created thee, it was only for this purpose."

The soul is then forced to enter the sperm against her will, and the angel carries her back to the womb of the mother. Two angels are detailed to watch that she shall not leave it, nor drop out of it, and a light is set above her, whereby the soul can see from one end of the world to the other. In the morning an angel carries her to Paradise, and shows her the righteous, who sit there in their glory, with crowns upon their heads. The angel then says to the soul, "Dost thou know who these are?" She replies in the negative, and the angel goes on: "These whom thou beholdest here were formed, like unto thee, in the womb of their mother. When they came into the world, they observed God's Torah and His commandments. Therefore they became the partakers of this bliss which thou seest them enjoy. Know, also thou wilt one day depart from the world below, and if thou wilt observe God's Torah, then wilt thou be found worthy of sitting with these pious ones. But if not, thou wilt be doomed to the other place."

In the evening, the angel takes the soul to hell, and there points out the sinners whom the Angels of Destruction are smiting with fiery scourges, the sinners all the while crying out Woe! Woe! but no mercy is shown unto them. The angel then questions the soul as before, "Dost thou know who these are?" and as before the reply is negative. The angel continues: "These who are consumed with fire were created like unto thee. When they were put into the world, they did not observe God's Torah and His commandments. Therefore have they come to this disgrace which thou seest them suffer. Know, thy destiny is also to depart from the world. Be just, therefore, and not wicked, that thou mayest gain the future world."

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Between morning and evening the angel carries the soul around, and shows her where she will live and where she will die, and the place where she will buried, and he takes her through the whole world, and points out the just and the sinners and all things. In the evening, he replaces her in the womb of the mother, and there she remains for nine months. When the time arrives for her to emerge from the womb into the open world, the same angel addresses the soul, "The time has come for thee to go abroad into the open world." The soul demurs, "Why dost thou want to make me go forth into the open world?" The angel replies: "Know that as thou wert formed against thy will, so now thou wilt be born against thy will, and against thy will thou shalt die, and against thy will thou shalt give account of thyself before the King of kings, the Holy One, blessed be He." But the soul is reluctant to leave her place. Then the angel fillips the babe on the nose, extinguishes the light at his head, and brings him forth into the world against his will.
Immediately the child forgets all his soul has seen and learnt, and he comes into the world crying, for he loses a place of shelter and security and rest.

When the time arrives for man to quit this world, the same angel appears and asks him, "Dost thou recognize me?" And man replies, "Yes; but why dost thou come to me to-day, and thou didst come on no other day?" The angel says, "To take thee away from the world, for the time of thy departure has arrived." Then man falls to weeping, and his voice penetrates to all ends of the world, yet no creature hears his voice, except the [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] alone. Man remonstrates with the angel, "From two worlds thou didst take me, and into this world thou didst bring me." But the angel reminds him: "Did I not tell thee that thou wert formed against thy will, and thou wouldst be born against thy will, and against thy will thou wouldst die? And against thy will thou wilt have to give account and reckoning of thyself before the Holy One, blessed be He."

How does a Christian explain Joshua 10 correctly? Did the earth stop moving, and how did that not shake the entire planet? Did Earth only slow down? What is the truthful way to explain this passage?

And to think the sweetheart deal almost went through.

Asking for God's help to open their eyes and to remove the blinders from their minds as He did with us.

"To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." Acts 26:18

"...for their minds have been blinded by the god of this age, leaving them in unbelief. Their blindness keeps them from seeing the dayspring light of the wonderful news of the glory of Jesus Christ, who is the divine image of God." (II Cor 4:4).

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This will finish him.

God is not dead! He is alive!
Only in Him will we survive.
Morning or noon, late in the day,
All on His alter to Him we lay.

Loving our Father, who is in heav’n,
Jesus, our Lord, our lives are giv’n.
Forsaking sin, walk in his love,
Blessed by His mercy, gift from above.

Fellowship now with Him in truth,
Loving His word – sink in your tooth.
Eat of His bread, drink of His cup,
Feasting on Him, never enough.

Walking with Him where’er He leads,
He will meet all, all of our needs.
Go where He sends, do as He states,
All of His truth, never forsake.

An Original Work / November 30, 2021

Titus 3:1-3 ESV


Exceptions to Submission

With regard to being submissive to rulers and authorities, there are exceptions to this, as well, which is important that we understand, for many people are submitting to things they should not be submitting to. So, if any authority over us leads us to sin against God and to disobey his word and to deny Christ as Lord and to give our worship (loyalty, devotion) to any other entity or person, then we are to refuse (example: Revelation 12-14).

Jesus did not obey or yield to or submit to the Pharisees, et al, if they required of him to disobey God. They chided him often for healing people on the Sabbath but he continued to do so. The disciples did not obey the authorities over them when they commanded them to stop speaking in the name of Jesus. Daniel refused to stop praying to his God but he kept on doing what he did every day. And Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow to Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue.

And with regard to submitting to pastors of “churches,” much of what is being called “church” today is not the church. It is not the body of Christ operating under the authority of God in the power of the Holy Spirit doing what God has called his church to do. Most of these “churches” are businesses incorporated under the state and under the authority of church denominations which are following marketing schemes and goals for how to grow their businesses. And many pastors are more like cult leaders following marketing schemes, and are men of the flesh and not of God and not of his Word.

And wives, if your husbands are leading you into sin, you can say, “No.” If they are leading you to disobey the Lord and the teachings of his word, you can tell them “No.” For you are to obey your husbands as unto the Lord, in the same way in which you would obey the Lord, and the Lord is not going to tempt you or lead you into any sin. So, if your husbands are leading you to compromise your biblical faith in any way, you can refuse kindly. Otherwise you should submit to your husbands as you would to the Lord.

Ready for Every Good Work

We read in Ephesians 2:8-9 that we are saved by God’s grace, through faith, and this is not of our own doing. Even the faith to believe in Jesus comes from God. This salvation which comes from God is not the result of our own works lest we should boast. BUT… verse 10 says, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Most people leave out that verse.

We can do nothing in ourselves to earn or to deserve our own salvation, but our salvation is not absent of works. It is just that they are the works of God which he prepared in advance that we should walk in them. For Jesus gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works (Tit 2:11-14). So, we are saved to do the works God prepared for us to walk in.

So, we are to be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord (1 Co 15:58; 2 Co 9:8). And just as we have always obeyed (if we have), we are to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in us both to will and to work for his good pleasure (Php 2:12-13). And we are to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work (Col 1:9-14; 2 Thes 1:11-12; 2 Tim 2:21; Tit 3:8; Jas 2:17; Gal 5:6; Jn 15:1-11).

And then we read all throughout the New Testament how we are to walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands, and how we are to no longer walk in sin, according to the flesh, and how we are to love our neighbors as ourselves, and how we are to deny self and daily die to sin and to self and to follow the Lord in obedience in everything. And then we read that if we continue living in deliberate and habitual sin and not in obedience to the Lord, and if we practice hate and not love that we will not inherit the kingdom of God.

[Lu 9:23-26; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Rom 1:28-32; Rom 2:6-8; 1 Co 6:9-10; 2 Co 5:10; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-11; Rom 6:16; Rom 8:3-14; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 10:26-31; 1 Pet 1:17-21; Jn 15:1-11; Rev. 2-3; Rev 18:1-6; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15; Matt 7:21-23]

Speak No Evil

Now, when this says we are to speak no evil of anyone this is not teaching that we are to remain silent about lies being spread by wolves in sheep’s clothing. We are to test the spirits to see if they are of God and we are to expose false teachers and false teaching for what they are so that others are not being led astray by these charlatans and by these masqueraders of righteousness who are spreading lies about God and about Jesus and about his gospel message. And then we are to proclaim the truth of the gospel.

So, when this says to speak evil of no one it is talking about being hateful and nasty and/or slandering and gossiping about people in order to destroy their reputations and to make others not like them. This is without cause. But if a brother or a sister is living in open adultery and in defiance against the Lord and his commands, and if he/she is walking in deliberate and habitual sin, we are to confront the sin and call them to repentance and then follow the biblical model for how to deal with unrepentant sin in the church.

Yes, we should avoid arguing with people, but we are to speak the truth in love, one to the other, so that none of us is led astray by men in their deceitful scheming who are teaching false doctrines. And if we are opposed, we should be ready to defend the truth of the gospel, to a point, but then pray for wisdom to know what to say and when to say it and how much to say and when to remain silent, too. For some people just won’t listen. But we should always be kind and not turn this into a spiteful fight.

And we must remember from which we came so that we are not too hard on those who are not living up to the faith that they profess. Now, this is not saying to give them a pass or to placate their sin or to say nothing. We should not be silent on the subject of deliberate and habitual sin in the lives of those professing faith in Jesus Christ. Yet, we can certainly follow Jesus’ example there. He spoke differently to the ones who knew better and who were living hypocritically than he did to those who were ill informed.

Full Release

An Original Work / April 15, 2012

Walking daily with my Savior
brings me joy.
Loving Father; precious Jesus;
He’s my Savior and my Lord.
Gently leads me; follow Him.
I’ve invited Him within.
Now abiding in His presence,
oh, what peace.
From my self-life
He has brought me,
By His mercy, full release.

Hope and comfort,
peace and safety Jesus brings
When I daily bow before Him;
Obey freely; do His will.
Follow Him where’er He leads.
Listen to Him; His words heed.
Now obeying his words fully,
oh, what love
That He gives me
through salvation,
By His Spirit, from above.

Loving Father; precious Jesus,
He’s my friend.
With my Savior, by His Spirit,
I will endure to the end.
Share the gospel, tell what’s true.
Witness daily; His will do.
Tell the world of how their Savior
bled and died.
On a cruel cross He suffered
So that we might be alive.

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When I was inquiring of the Lord as to the lyrics to go with the tune he had given me, I was praying to the Lord, “Show me your heart, Lord. This is not about me. Show me your heart.” And, he did. Yet, he also showed me the hearts of people, in general, too. Many people in this world don’t know the Lord, and many who profess to know him are not living for him. Some of those are living in rebellion against God, while others are still in bondage to sinful life patterns. The way in which the Lord showed me his heart was to show me how much he loves us, which is why he died for our sins, so that we could go free. And, he is calling out to us to love him, to worship and obey him, to turn from our sins, and to serve him only.

Your Heart

An Original Work / October 24, 2011

Tenderly He speaks, softly so.
Gently He calls - His will to know.
Won’t you invite Him in your heart?
Humbly accept Him now.
Bow before Him with contrite heart.
May you obey His will.
Seek Him with all your heart and soul,
And your heart, His Spirit fill.

Jesus died to free you from sin,
Giving you new life to begin,
Walking with Him ev’ry hour,
Obeying His commands.
Won’t you trust Him to be your Lord?
His grace you can’t afford.
Freely He gives you peace within,
When you turn from all your sin.

Live for Him ev’ry passing day.
Meet with Him; read His word and pray.
Serve Him in the way He leads you,
Doing all that He says.
Do unto others as you would
Have them do unto you.
Love them with Jesus love within you.
Your hearts to God be true.

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Hello, I would enjoy hearing and discussing the conclusions of macro-evolutionists and theistic evolutionists as well as the corresponding methodologies they utilize when observing the universe and how they come to their results.

Our obedience to God's law has never been about trying to earn our salvation from God, but rather God graciously teaching us to be a doer of His law is the way that He is giving us His gift of salvation. Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so Jesus graciously teaching us to be a doer of God's law is intrinsically the way that he is giving us his gift of saving us from not being a doer of God's law. In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith. In Titus 2:11-13, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so God graciously teaching us to be a doer of those works is again the way that He is giving us His gift of salvation.

I love this passage of Scripture, for it gives us a biblically accurate picture of the grace of God which is different from what so many people today are calling God’s grace. For so many people today are describing God’s grace to us as forgiveness of all sins and the promise of heaven when we die based on a mere profession of faith in Jesus Christ which does not require that we die with Christ to sin and that we now walk in obedience to his commands in holy living. But that is not biblical grace!

For the grace of God is what sent Jesus Christ to the cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded faith in Jesus, we might be crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. So sin is no longer to have mastery over our lives to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, in practice, it leads to death. But if obedience to God is our practice, its end is eternal life (Romans 6:1-23).

For Jesus Christ did not give his life up for us on that cross just to forgive us our sins and so that we can go to heaven when we die. He died that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. He died so we would now live for him and no longer for self. And he shed his blood for us to buy us back for God (to redeem us) out of our lives of addiction to sin so that we will now serve and honor him with our bodies (with our lives). For Jesus said we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him.

[1 Peter 2:24; 2 Corinthians 5:15,21; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; Luke 9:23-26]

So, we need to get out the message that God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce (say “No!” to) ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s return. For Jesus Christ gave himself up for us, not just to forgive our sins, and not just so we can go to heaven, but to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works (see also Ephesians 2:8-10).

And the Scriptures also teach us that if sin is what we practice, and not righteousness, and not walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands (New Covenant), that we will not inherit eternal life with God, regardless of whether or not we profess faith in Jesus Christ with our lips. For if we say that we are in fellowship with God, or that we know God, but we continue living sinful lifestyles, and we are not in the practice of obeying our Lord’s commandments, the Bible says that we are liars who don’t live by the truth.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2]

Sadly, there are many people who profess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips who are convinced that all their sins are forgiven and that they are on their way to heaven, but who still make sin their practice, their go to. Even if they are able, at times, to temporarily stifle the temptation to sin, they keep returning to the same sins over again, for they are the self-indulgent who are addicted to particular sins, who run to those sins habitually. They are also liars and deceivers who will fake faithfulness when being unfaithful.

So they will promise change and faithfulness and death to sin and the breaking of sinful habits, but the promise is fake, for it is also what gets recycled over again. So they keep on returning to their vomit. And so they give permission to themselves to ignore the reality of their own conditions so that they do not see their own damaged lives for what they are, and so they don’t see that they are not in genuine relationship with Jesus Christ nor with their spouses. For out of sight, out of mind. So they lie to themselves.


But we are to be servants of the Lord Jesus who not only are living godly, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient lives to our Lord, by his grace, but who are declaring to the world and to worldly professers of faith in Jesus Christ the truth about what God’s grace really is, and the truth about what salvation from sin really is. And we need to be letting others know that if we walk in sin, we will die in our sins. We will not have eternal life with God unless we turn from our sins and obey our Lord, in practice.

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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Pretty brief summaries hardly do justice but something to start with.

JEREMIAH 1:1-2:3

The calling of Navi Yirimyahu (the Prophet Jeremiah) As we see in the beginning, God says, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you!” This a great statement, a great truth that flies in the face of abortionists, those who say, “A fetus is not yet human”. If God is saying that EVEN BEFORE” being formed in the womb, He had Jeremiah in mind.

Where are we before being formed in the womb of our mothers? No one seems to know; the WORD does not say. Some believe that we are in Spirit form and that we await bodies to go into, and that when a man and woman unite together in love when the ***** meets the egg, there is a guardian angel that is sent to be with that person, and either God or the angel takes the spirit and puts it inside the tiny microscopic body. Well, who knows if this is true, but it might be.

Everyone has a calling in life, we just have to find out what it is. Our first calling is to “get right with God” and accept Yeshua as our Messiah, LORD, and Savior, that act of faith will secure our eternity in Heaven. Then we must search our hearts and ask the LORD what our calling will be. It may be a full-time ministry, or it may be a secular job joined with ministry. The gifts of the Holy Spirit will enable us to do many things. Jeremiah was called to a difficult task, to “wake up” the nation of Israel that was seeded deep in sin, his calling as “Prophet” (or spokesman) was for him, he accepted it, and we have his book to prove it.

He was unpopular with the king. He warned Israel of idolatry and the soon-to-be punishment of Babylon coming to take Israel captive and to destroy the first Temple. It was during this time that Daniel, Shadrack, MiShack, and Abednego were taken to Babylon. Jeremiah was called to preach doom and suffer for it, yet now, he is enjoying eternal life in Heaven. Many believers in countries around the world are suffering for their faith, both Jews and Christians alike. Could I stand up to the test of faith? could you? Time will tell, time will tell indeed.

Prophets declared the words of Adonai to the nations, today we have the complete written word of God. Everything we need to know is written in the Bible. His entire WORD is in 66 books. Can God speak through individuals today with “special words?” Sure, but those words will NOT contradict what is already written in the Torah.

If you are called to teach and expound God’s WORD, (which was the mission of the prophets of old in a general way) STUDY to show thyself WORTHY, a WORKMAN that needeth not be ashamed, but rightfully dividing the WORD of TRUTH!

JOHN 1:1-51

” In the beginning, was the WORD, and the WORD was with God and GOD was the WORD” This opening statement clarifies that YESHUA was part of the creation in the beginning, Yeshua has many names; Son of David, The Second Adam, Son of Man, the WAY, the TRUTH, the LIFE, the LIVING WORD, and many more.

WORDS are alive, and with words, Elohim created the heavens and the earth, bringing into being all that is in existence today. There are the things that were “created” (Bara) and those things (such as man) that were “Made” (Asah) “Asah” is used when things are “made” from pre-existing material, such as Adam (man) from earth, dust, water, and the spirit was put inside the body.

The title of Yeshua “The Living Word” in Hebrew is “HaD’bar Chayim” The word “Dabar” which is “word” consists of three Hebrew letters, “Dalet, Bet, and Resh” when we look at this from an ancient Hebraic perspective, we see the symbolism in these letters which can say; first door to the house” We are “households” and when Yeshua knocks on our “doors” do we open our door to let Him in? the word in Hebrew for “door” is “Delet” which can mean in the ancient Hebrew symbolic letters “instruction is the door to the covenant” God’s instruction through the Torah points us to Yeshua who is the “covenant” of our salvation.

In time, GOD was manifested in human form as YESHUA, who is the “Living WORD” He fulfilled the covenant of the cross to pay the price of sin, to crush the head of HaSatan, to teach the Torah, heal the sick, we as followers of Yeshua are called to share and teach his WORD to all who will listen. Are you fulfilling YOUR CALLING?

Hello folks. The political landscape has changed a lot over the past few years. Who was your first presidential vote once you guys have turned the legal voting age (lowered from 21 to 18 in 1971)?

Mine was Biden in 2020, back when I thought he would be a good choice to get us out of a pandemic. In 2024, looking at how the political landscape has changed in the past four years (from not as woke back in the 2010s to full-on woke in the mid-2020s), and the strange, far-left Olympics opening ceremony, it has made me want to vote 3rd party this year.

Has anything happened in the political sphere between your first presidential election and now that has made you all shift party lines, or go independent?

Hello folks. This is an icon of Daniel 12:4 which I have made using Microsoft PowerPoint, symbolizing how people move "to and fro", and how knowledge increases. On the upper left is a spacecraft orbiting Mars (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter), on the upper right is an Airbus passenger jet symbolizing how transportation enables us to travel around the globe, on the lower left is a Japanese hydrogen car, and on the lower right is a CPU showing how technology has increased our collective knowledge as a society.

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Hello, my question is: what are your thoughts on marriage as a future goal? I’m seeking to achieve this one day

Good day,

Jim McClarty walks though the text of 2 Peter to get the correct understanding in the context of 2 Peter 3:9.

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This video is 58 minutes long. Right now, I am listening closely to it in order to find the timestamps for the quote from the OP article. I want to find the timestamps so that I can establish the context around what Trump said concerning Christians and voting.

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The context is that after his proposed four years of fixing what Trump views as ballot stuffing, fake ballots, fraud creeping into the voting system that even Obama warned about when he was asked about certain forms of mail-in-voting... he is claiming that this emergency call on all Christians to vote (instead of the normal - stay-at-home-because-politics-is-not-Christian) won't be needed again. Those Christians who wish to just stay out of it will be able to go back to doing what they were doing before (according to Trump).

And of course Trump would be out of position to run anymore at that point anyway.

So then - what the news almost never tells you ...

from: Trump Declines to Back Away From ‘You Don’t Have to Vote Again’ Line

Side note:

The Left wing media idea is "Republicans don't read" and "they can be fooled regarding what what was said" as if Republicans EVER had EVER heard from Trump that he wanted to end all elections (the way the left likes to spin that one).

How many times can the left dupe the public with that sort of "click bate" .. and the public still falls for it??

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LIB media spins this as a message to VOTING Christians - telling them voting wont be needed any more after He is in.

INSTEAD what it was in reality - is a message to NEVER-VOTE christians, telling them they can go back to their preferred position of NEVER VOTE after stepping up just this one time of emergency - all-hands-on-deck.

How many Lib media sources told you about the context??

how many corrected any of their wild claims?

Do you expect that to come out to the public in a big way anytime soon?

What do you think??

At Mass, the Sign of Peace is no stranger to controversy. Where does it come from, and what's it for?​

The Sign of Peace, the handshake that takes place at Sunday Mass between the Our Father and the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) before Holy Communion, is sometimes a source of friction and confusion.

The friction derives from the experience of it getting out of hand—being disruptive and even an intrusion. These problems were serious enough to raise the question, at the 2009 Synod of Bishops in in Rome, of moving the Sign of Peace to before the Offertory. Here, I want to shed some light on the meaning of the rite, which helps to put the question into some context.

The “Pax” (“peace”), or kiss of peace, is a very ancient rite—so ancient, in fact, that the Irish word for “kiss,” póg, derives from the Latin “pax” thanks to this ceremony. Confusingly, however, in the Latin Church, the Pax was historically found in two different places. In France and other places, it took place before the Offertory; in Africa and Rome, it took place before Holy Communion, after the Our Father. The Church’s modern rites, both traditional and post-Vatican II, use the second location for the Pax, and this makes a difference regarding its meaning.

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