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AlexB23 · 2024-05-23T17:39:53-0500

Michie said:
This ER doctor urges you to stop making this horrible mistake on the highway

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Darria Long MD | ER Doctor+Mom (@drdarria) From drdarria on Instagram...

blog.newadvent.org

Cutting people off is a horrible mistake. I do not drive, but have noticed that a lot of people cut each other off.

But yes, getting out of the car on the highway is a bad idea.

keepitsimple144 · 2024-05-23T17:39:50-0500

keepitsimple144 said:
For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant. Heb 9:15

Diamond7 said:
Yes, the new is better than the old. The promises are greater.

He became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him; Heb 5:9-11
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal. Isaiah 26:4

Brightfame52 · 2024-05-23T17:39:30-0500

Clare73 said:
Does not address Ge 15:5, Ro 4:2-3.

"Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness (Ro 4:2-3)

Being in Christ, we have all that is Christ's--righteousness, holiness and redemption,
including sharing in his own inheritance from the Father (Ro 8:17).

Yes it does

imsaneru · 2024-05-23T17:39:22-0500

Wolseley said:
There is no good solution. You can't "vote them out", because elections any more are so corrupt and manipulated and hijacked and gerrymandered and usurped that there's no way of telling who actually won any given election. Pelosi the Shrew did her level best to cheat Hillary Clinton into office in 2016, and nobody will ever convince me that Biden won in 2020; he was appointed.

Trump reckons he caught them all , isn't that treason or something similar ?
Short vid , Trump speaks first up. But do watch the rest as well , good stuff..... :oldthumbsup:

FACT: Traitor, former VP under Traitor Obama, the real Joe Biden, has been executed for Treason and Covid PsyOp, buried January 20th 2021, and now...you witness very soon, in Springtime '24 - Surfacing #STORM

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Kokavkrystallos · 2024-05-23T17:39:16-0500

Russia says it will hit UK targets if British weapons strike Russian territory

Russia’s Foreign Ministry repeated a warning to the U.K. Thursday suggesting that Moscow could strike U.K. targets if British weapons are used by Ukraine to attack Russian territory.
The U.K.’s Foreign Minister David Cameron caused uproar in Moscow at the start of May when he said Ukraine was free to use British long-range missiles on targets inside Russia. Ukraine has used British Storm Shadow missiles to successfully target Russian military sites in Crimea.
Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova repeated Thursday that Moscow is prepared to retaliate, telling reporters that “we may strike any British military objects and weaponry in Ukraine and beyond.”

“As we know, during his visit to Kyiv, [David] Cameron said in an interview with Reuters that, and I quote: ‘Ukraine has every right to strike Russian territory using the British weapons’. Was it an unsuccessful attempt at self-PR? Or did he backtrack on the official London stance?,” she told reporters in comments translated by Reuters.

“We did draw conclusions from this case though. We registered this case ... we directly said that in response to strikes using British weapons against the territory of our country we may strike any British military objects and weaponry in Ukraine and beyond.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/23/ukraine-war-live-updates-latest-news-on-russia-and-the-war-in-ukraine.html

(This is how to start a nuclear war....)

Brightfame52 · 2024-05-23T17:38:55-0500

Clare73 said:
Well, something we can agree on. . .at last.

But in the realm of time, they must first come to faith, right?. . .which their Surety guarantees they will do.

No we dont agree, you dont even comprehend what m saying.

AlexB23 · 2024-05-23T17:38:49-0500

Michie said:
From the early 1990s through the 2010s, the number of Americans who identified as atheist, agnostic, and nonaffiliated saw a major surge — but that number appears to be stabilizing, according to an analysis published on May 20.

Ryan Burge, a political scientist at Eastern Illinois University and a Baptist pastor, published an analysis of religious demographic data from the annual Cooperative Election Study, comparing 2023 numbers with previous years. He found that in the past five years — from 2019 through 2023 — the number of Americans who do not identify with a particular religion has been relatively stable.

In 2019, the analysis notes, the percentage of Americans who identified as nonreligious was at 35%. By 2023, the percentage only increased by one percentage point — to 36%. Over those five years, the percentage of nonreligious Americans fluctuated between 34% and 36% — without any major surge or reduction.

“It’s slowed down considerably,” Burge told CNA.

Continued below.

Analysis shows number of nonreligious Americans stabilizing

The number of Americans who identify as atheist, agnostic, and nonaffiliated appears to be stabilizing, according to an analysis published on May 20.

www.catholicnewsagency.com

Hopefully, this means God is entering into people's lives.

AlexB23 · 2024-05-23T17:37:51-0500

Wolseley said:
MSN

Unsettling; but, I'm sad to say, not particularly surprising.

Churches are going to splinter in the end times. So, amen to this, as this means that Jesus may be returning soon, but, no one knows the hour.

AlexB23 · 2024-05-23T17:36:48-0500

Teresa W. said:
I'm from West Virginia. Married, 2 cats. We both play on the worship team at our church and are currently giving a book study there as well.

I look forward to getting to know y'all.

Welcome to the forums.

AlexB23 · 2024-05-23T17:36:25-0500

jonojim1337 said:
I find this comment by the angel to John comic, when he reacts to seeing the splendor of Babylon.

He doesn't have the eyes of the flesh, and therefore really doesn't see, what he is marveling at.

Why didst thou DC? But, Marvel is better.

Comic reference.

AlexB23 · 2024-05-23T17:35:19-0500

CoreyD said:
Micah 4:4 is one of my favorite passages in the Bible. Also Isaiah 35:5-7
These verses refer to life on the earth though.
If we see future life in heaven with Jesus, these promises would not apply to us.
They apply to those who will live on the earth, under Jesus' rule. Revelation 5:10

Amen to this.

Tinker Grey · 2024-05-23T17:34:52-0500

dlamberth said:
Over the years as I have watched how AV posts generates conversation and controversy, there's no way I see him as boring.

I never miss him when he's on hiatus.

peaceful-forest · 2024-05-23T17:34:49-0500

Earlier this week, I read two things on the Internet that upset me. (It was related to men being hung up on women's appearances).

I'm doing better now. But is it really that important to a man that a woman be beautiful?

Anyone else have insecurities over things like that?

Kokavkrystallos · 2024-05-23T17:33:38-0500

The Barbarian said:
Here a former YE creationists debunks these and other YE hoaxes:
The Confessions of a Disappointed Young-Earther
An old-earth creationist explains how he changed is mind, surveyingthe shifts in young earth arguments over the last 50 years.

The Confessions of a Disappointed Young-Earther

An old-earth creationist explains how he changed is mind, surveyingthe shifts in young earth arguments over the last 50 years.

peacefulscience.org

The supposed "tissue" in a T rex fossil turned out to be nothing of the kind. Dr. Schweitzer herself debunked that hoax. There was some collagen in the shape of blood vessels. The interesting thing is that in those fossils, there was a bit of heme that survived ( which chemists point out is very possible over millions of years). When tested, the heme turned out to be most like that of birds, once again confirming that birds are the last surviving dinosaurs.

Would you like to learn about that?

Here's a site that debunks more of those hoaxes.

Common Creationist Attacks on Geology | National Center for Science Education

In the last issue of this journal, my article "The Fatal Flaws of Flood Geology" attacked the flood geology model of the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) by citing a number of geological formations the creationists can't explain without inventing hundreds of convenient ad hoc miracles.

ncse.ngo

And another:

Controversial T. Rex Soft Tissue Find Finally Explained

A T. rex found with soft tissue preserved in her bones was an 'iron lady,' according to new research finding that iron kept the tissues from decaying for millennia.

www.livescience.com

If you'd like anything clarified, let me know.

Even if it is collagen, it decays too fast to be millions of years old.

It's ok if the heme is similar to birds. We actually have genetics similar to chimps but that small percent of difference makes all the difference.

I've seen studies where the points on fossils that are claimed to be where feathers were are actually points where tendons and other tissues were attached.

I'll use secular & evolutionist propaganda if it has evidence, and this shows remains that don't survive millions of years.

This Dinosaur Fossil Has Skin Intact – Here’s Why it’s Significant

Paleontologists unearthed a type of ankylosaur in 2011 with its spikes, armor and skin intact on its face.

www.discovermagazine.com

I like this part especially:

"The 2011 ankylosaur was not found under sediment, though. Rather, this fossil was found in what was once a deep ocean — an open-pit mine in Alberta, Canada. Scientists hypothesize that the animal likely died in a river and was then carried out to sea in a flooding event. Once there, the gasses that built up in its body after death dissipated, and the ankylosaur sank to the ocean floor."

Just as most dinosaur fossil finds are in graveyards showing catastrophic burial. "a flooding event..." Why of course it was! Amen. THE flooding event! The big one.

Catastrophic death by drowning

About 93% of the BB43 fossils are Centrosaurus ceratopsian dinosaurs. In other words, the bone bed is almost monospecific.4 An analysis of the bones further indicates that the dinosaurs died elsewhere and were later transported into their final resting place. Much taphonomic information supports this deduction (taphonomy, from Greek taphos=death, is the study of how an organism or part thereof became a fossil). For instance, the fossils are typically concentrated along bedding planes and/or erosional unconformities with the suggestion of a 5-metre deep by 60-metre wide channel. The long bones are current aligned. Most of the remains are fragmentary, broken and fractured. The material represents a lag deposit with most small and light skeletal elements missing and being primarily composed of portions of large adult-sized skeletal elements. Carnivorous dinosaur teeth, especially from the theropod Albertosaurus, and very rare tooth marks on the bones have been found in the bone bed. Thus, the condition of the bones indicates modification by an external force, probably in a high-energy watery flow as the sedimentology of the contained sandstone indicates. The particular bone bed under discussion is found in water-laid sandstone with east-southeast directed paleocurrent indicators.

There is no evidence for prolonged weathering in the form of desiccation of the bones. No bacterial or fungal degradation nor insect borings have been found. Evidence for disease and drought are absent.5 Death, transport and burial seems to be very rapid. Transport was not far as bone abrasion by water was light. The authors suggest mass death by drowning upstream with subsequent reworking:

‘The sedimentological evidence and taphonomic interpretations presented here indicate that the bonebed 43 fossil assemblage was reworked from an, as yet, unknown upstream position and facies."

Watery catastrophe deduced from huge Ceratopsian dinosaur graveyard

Creation or evolution? It makes a big difference! Over 10,000 trustworthy articles. Evidence for biblical creation.

creation.com

Joseph G · 2024-05-23T17:33:35-0500

From Global Christian Relief:

This is David Curry reaching out with breaking news from northeastern Nigeria, where authorities have just freed 135 women and 206 children from a Boko Haram terrorist stronghold.

We praise the Lord for this incredible news! Yet we know an uncertain future awaits these precious sisters in Christ.

Many of the women—who were widowed, kidnapped and held hostage for years by the extremists—now have no homes or livelihoods to return to. And some have several young mouths to feed after being subjected to sexual assaults and forced marriages in the Boko Haram compound.

That’s where GCR and our partners come in. We’re on the ground in multiple Nigerian refugee camps, meeting these needs of courageous women and innocent children who have been impacted by Boko Haram.

Please pray

RestoreTheJoy · 2024-05-23T17:33:34-0500

FireDragon76 said:
We send lawyers who work for hospitals to college and they must pass bar exams in order to be able to practice law. This is called legal expertise. It is not a matter of uninformed opinion.

Yeah, I'm well aware of what is necessary to pass the Bar, thanks.

The point is that this is CYA activity, not the law in several cases. Federal law requires the hospital to provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk. And many state laws allow abortion upon medical judgment that the life or health of the mother is at risk.

Case in point: The 10 year old Biden trotted out in a speech for shock effect did not have to leave the state to get an abortion. While current Ohio law rules out abortion after a fetal heart rate, she was only 6.5 weeks pregnant- which is still 6 weeks. The law does NOT specify a time frame - just when there is a fetal heartbeat. Not to mention that a pregnancy at 10 does prevent a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function. They could have just done it. Fear - and agenda - made them hold out.
She got the abortion in Indiana anyway.

AlexB23 · 2024-05-23T17:31:53-0500

iluvatar5150 said:
$500k for 1800 lights is $277 per fixture. That's the price range of low/mid-level DJ lighting, just to purchase, not to install.

I found the manufacturer of the fixtures that were installed:

Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge - Projects - Lumenpulse

The gateway to Tampa Bay is the four-mile long (6.7km), 430 feet (131m) high, Sunshine Skyway Bridge. This flagship bridge has undergone the installation of...

www.lumenpulse.com

These are IP66 rated (i.e. waterproof against strong jets of water, but not immersion) and several times brighter than a basic dj light.

The contract price of $15.6m comes out to $8,667 per fixture. What little I found of pricing on these lights suggests something in the range of $1-3000 per fixture, depending on options, volume, markup, etc. Then there's the required engineering design and review, custom mounting hardware, electrical and control systems, multiple miles of cabling, and a whole ton of labor.

The construction company that won the bid has a bunch of pictures of the job on their facebook page:

M & J Construction | Tarpon Springs FL

M & J Construction, Tarpon Springs, Florida. 102 dáma. We are a Florida Construction Company based in Tarpon Springs. We specialize in DOT contracting and coatings.

www.facebook.com

It does not surprise me at all that it cost several thousand dollars to install each light on the side of a very busy bridge.

Hey, thanks for enLightening me on this matter.

My phone is IP67, so it is a little more water proof compared to these lights. By the way, the bulb manufacturer is Canadian: https://storage.googleapis.com/lume...fullspecsheet-na-en-imperial.pdf?t=1704203342

Carl Emerson · 2024-05-23T17:29:54-0500

JosephZ said:
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Today this is surely the most stroked and caressed stone in the entire world. All day long people stoop to touch it, kiss it, or lovingly wipe handkerchiefs across it in hopes of collecting a trace of its original essence.

The Anointing Stone (Chapter 62 of Jesus: His Story In Stone)

Surely this is the most stroked and caressed stone in the entire world: the Stone of Anointing in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

www.mikemasonbooks.com

Interesting Joseph - similar issue, but nothing like the scale of the black (meteorite) ironically established to mark the end of all idolatry according to Islamic tradition.

peaceful-forest · 2024-05-23T17:26:32-0500

It's been a long work week.

GoldenBoy89 · 2024-05-23T17:20:59-0500

th1bill said:
I was deeply concerned when Biden said he would consider anyone that did not vote for him to not be Black. I am old but we had a name for that card that is no longer used with polite people but he went there and I see he has sewed it into his reign. Promise them everything and rob everyone... sad.

Biden tried to make a dumb joke on a podcast when he said that and it backfired and had to apologize for it. On the other hand, Trump seemed to be quite serious when he said:

“Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion. They hate everything about Israel and they should be ashamed of themselves because Israel will be destroyed.”

Trump says Jews who vote for Democrats 'hate Israel' and their religion

Former President Donald Trump on Monday charged that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their religion,” igniting a firestorm of criticism from the White House and Jewish leaders.

apnews.com

Explain to me how Trump, a non Jew deciding what is a good or bad Jew is any different than Biden, a white man joking saying someone’s not black if they don’t vote for him.

Lukaris · 2024-05-23T17:18:20-0500

From post #.149:

Quote:

“coastal states with unbelievably high housing prices, how many young adults defer marrying until they are over 30 and live with their parents until then because if they had to pay rent they would never be able to afford a home or pay off college.”

It was the Clinton administration that sparked the real estate collapse in the early 2000s. A 2012 article from Reason (magazine):

Clinton's Legacy: The Financial and Housing Meltdown

Clinton sowed the seeds of the Great Recession by helping to inflate the housing bubble.

reason.com

Bradskii · 2024-05-23T17:17:46-0500

o_mlly said:
Oh, and yes, I do remember. Isn't that you plagiarizing me again? See my post #518.

This one? I'm not sure of the relevance.

o_mlly said:
Do you still reason like a twelve-year-old, or a twenty-year-old.

No, my intellect is that of the person I am now. Not the person I used to be. Yours has changed as well. For why that has happened, see those quotes from Erich. *

o_mlly said:
Can right reason move the racist to become non-racist? Can the criminal be rehabilitated, can the addicted be set free from their addiction?

Of course. Why couldn't they?

o_mlly said:
This "ah-hah" moment can be proximate, but it is imo more often remote. But it is still a moment in time.

Who cares when it happens? It's not relevant. What had this post of yours have to do with anything I've been asking you in my last half a dozen? Which you refuse to address.

*Edit: Ah, light bulb moment. Because I used the common example of change in the intellect by pointing out that it was different at different ages, you classed that as plagiarism. That's like me accusing you of plagiarism if you bring up the trolley problem.

fli · 2024-05-23T17:17:43-0500

bling said:
I am not saying Adam did not sin, because Adam did sin.
It sounds to me that Adam's wonderful love for Eve was greater than his love for God at that time.
Adam was not trying to get Eve in trouble but was trying to get himself out of trouble somehow, Adam knew they both had sinned.
Where are you getting the idea: "Adam believed Eve and not God. When he ate the fruit, it showed who he believed." If Adam was not deceived than he knew he would die, and Eve would die.
The Bible says: "Adam was not deceived", so Eve did not deceive Adam either, he knew what he was doing.

Genesis 3:3 but of the fruit of the tree, which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'" NKJV

Eve did not sin at all until after the fall.

Eve was created after God told Adam not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. We have no information on how Eve learned of the warning concerning the tree. God warns us not to add to or take away from God's word. In verse 3 God's word is added to. The reason not to add to or take away from God's word is because it may cause one to sin. I was taught that adding to God's word was the reason Eve was deceived. Somehow the serpent accidentally pushed her into the tree, and nothing happened. Then she believed the serpent.

No where does God say Eve sinned in this incident. She was not faulted for being deceived. She is not faulted for adding to God's word. She did not sin by eating the fruit.

Adam was the one God had put in charge. I believe he was the only one that could give the title deed away. As far as we know God only warned him about the tree. No one could sin until Adam ate of the fruit and all humans gained knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 3: 6a So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. NKJV

She ate of the fruit and her eyes were not opened. If she had sinned, sin had entered the world and Adam's eyes would have been opened.

Genesis 3:6 b She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. NKJV

The scripture is clear Eve ate and then gave some to Adam. When Adam ate of the fruit then (at that time) both their eyes were opened. When Adam sinned, the entire world fell into sin including Eve.

Your right, nowhere does it say Adam did not believe God.

hislegacy · 2024-05-23T17:11:31-0500

The Barbarian said:
Not every American is a Trump follower. In fact, not every Trump follower accepts that idea.

He fast-tracked COVID-19 vaccines, for example. No one is perfectly incompetent. But he comes close.

He closed traffic from China while being called a racist -who knows how many lives were saved.
He instituted Opportunity Zones that heled minority business owners
He essentially closed the borders - Joe is allowing millions more cross un vetted
He kept inflation at 1.4% - it only took Joe less than a year to bring it up 645% higher
He kept us out of international wars - Joe has 13 unnecessary deaths on his watch
He got the EU nations to carry their fair share of the costs - never seen before
He completed a four decade old promise of moving the embassy to Jerusalem
He kept oil prices low without depleting the national oil reserve
Pre-covid he had one of the most robust economies in modern history

If he comes close - Joe must be a hair's width away.