I follow Jesus and the apostles. I follow the Psalms. I sit under my own vine and tree as Micah chapter 4 teaches. Politics and division is wrong to me. That's why i sit alone. I escaped religion and politics and i found Jesus in simplicity.

It's pure religion in my view. I submit Micah 4, John 14, Matthew chapters 5-7, Jerimiah 31, 1 John 2:27, 1 Timothy 3:16-17, Isaiah 55 and 66 and Matthew 11:28 as my foundation. That and everything else that Jesus snd his apostles teach us.

Hello. I'm follower of Jesus and i suffer mental illness and spiritual battles. I try to avoid debate and contention or division against the word of God. These things are wrong in my eye's. I avoid politics as well. I seek the kingdom and God's righteousness and I love simplicity in Christ and in life. I think I'll post things here in this thread. My little corner of the world where I can express my faith, love and hope in Jesus Christ our lord and savior.

Cuellar is the second sitting Democrat to face charges. In September, federal authorities charged U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) with using his power on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to steer business toward political allies. A raid of his home revealed gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash socked away in hiding places, prompting Menendez to claim that he always carried getaway assets as a result of his upbringing in communist Cuba.

He deserved a fair trial and should be presumed innocent until a jury decides.

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 175,000 on the month, below the 240,000 estimate from the Dow Jones consensus, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The unemployment rate ticked higher to 3.9% against expectations it would hold steady at 3.8%.

The most terrifying thing about God is that He is just absolutely just. Why is that terrifying? Because God is holy and we are sinners and deserve justice for our lifetime of sin, of hurting others. Because God is just He must punish us.

So what is His solution to this dilemma? He gave His only son to pay our penalty. But can He leave us in the condition of being sinners to continue to violate His justice? No. He must also do something about our sinning and He has. Scripture has the evidence of this.

Ezekiel 36: 25 ¶ Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Proverbs 21: 6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

Jeremiah 31: 31 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

John 17: 1 THESE words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

Jesus prayed this prayer on His way to Gethsemane. He is asking His Father to glorify Him on His way to the cross. How is the cross glory? It is the most ignominius death ever devised. Yet Jesus saw this as glorifying Him.

John 3: 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

We cannot see the HS but Jesus tells us that we can see the effects in the lives of those within which He dwells. This brings us right back to Ezekiel 36: 25-27 with which I opened this post. It also explains how we come know God which is eternal life.

I made a mistake last night.
I said I didn't wanna be a Christian anymore, and that I give up because God wasn't doing anything for my boyfriend, even though I pray for him, I never get any answer, God doesn't wanna talk to me, I said this all to my boyfriend. he said he felt like it was his fault because maybe he was having a bad influence on me because he isn't a Christian. now I feel so wrong, I feel terrible, I said that God does so many things for others and nothing for me or my boyfriend, so many people feel touched by God and I don't, people always talk about feeling God with them and I don't. now I feel bad, I prayed for forgiveness and apologized, but I still feel bad. I wanna read the bible but it feels wrong after last night, like I messed up and that I'm not supposed to touch it, that it's not for me because I cursed at God and didn't have faith.

I have a theory, hear me out. I'm not exactly a Christian but I am a believer well and truly since 2020 and looking to connect with other believers and Christians.
I've read both versions of the Bible and the book of Enoch plus the book of Macabees, Tobias, Judith etc.
So my theory is that the (giants) Nephilim were taken out of the Bible to stop people putting 2 and 2 together.
I've watched a few documentaries now about giants and giant remains being discovered and then swooped up by the Smithsonian never to be seen again,
I think the reasoning for this is more than likely as they don't want people to know the ancient scriptures were real just like how they lie and say that humans evolved from apes. I also believe that these beings made the pyramids and Stonehenge etc. not aliens.
I'm new to the forum so apologies if this subject has been covered before.

Exodus 40:

20 He [Moses] took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark. 21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Behind the veil was the area of the Most Holy Place, or the Holy of Holies. Only the high priest could enter, and only once a year on the Day of Atonement.

22 He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil,

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i.e., the Holy Place. Only the priests could enter.

23 and arranged the bread on it before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 24 He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, 25 and set up the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 26 He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil, 27and burned fragrant incense on it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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The golden altar of incense was located right in front of the veil that separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place. Only the priest could see this altar, the lampstand, and the table of showbread inside the Holy Place.

So now our country will have two candidates in court during campaign season! Surely we can do better than this.

While I believe that President Biden could do more to put pressure on Prime Minister Netanyahu to engage in a cease fire to prevent the widespread civilian death, starvation, and homelessness in Gaza, nothing could ever convince me to vote for Stein and risk making Biden's principal opponent president--someone who is plotting mass deportations and prison camps using Netanyahu's playing card.

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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein says she was charged with assaulting a police officer after she attended a pro-Palestinian protest on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on Saturday. According to a statement by Washington University, 100 individuals—including 23 students and four university employees—were arrested on Saturday when they “refused to leave after being asked multiple times.”

“All face charges of trespassing and some may also be charged with resisting arrest and assault, including for injuries to three police officers who sustained injuries including a severe concussion, a broken finger and a groin injury,” the statement added.

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Love does not engage in nor does it rejoice in what is evil, but it abhors what is evil. So it is not loving God or anyone else if we participate in or approve of or are entertained by what is evil. And we can, sometimes, approve of what is evil by our silence, by not speaking out against what is evil. And if we know that a fellow professing Christian is living in sin, are we not approving of their sin by our silence if we have the opportunity to say something but we say nothing? (women with women, and men with men)

For to (agape) love one another is to prefer what God prefers, which is all that is holy, righteous, godly, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. And it is to prefer to live through Christ and to choose his choices and to obey his commands in his power. And so it is to treat others with the love of God, which does no harm to a neighbor, but only what is good in the eyes of the Lord and that is beneficial for them as God determines what is beneficial for them, not as man chooses.

And we, as followers of Jesus Christ, are not to be slothful in zeal for our Lord and for the work of the ministry to which he has called us. But we are to be fervent in spirit in service to our Lord in accord with his word and with his calling upon our lives, both collectively and individually. For God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – should be the one guiding and directing our lives, and the one to whom our lives should be surrendered to do his will. For this is why we exist, to serve God with our lives.

But serving the Lord is not always easy. For when we serve him in the ways in which he has called us to serve him, and so we speak the truth in love to others, and so we are sharing the truth of the gospel, and we are refuting the lies of the enemy, we are not going to be well liked, even by others who call themselves Christians. And so we will be hated and rejected and cast aside as unwanted, and we will be persecuted and have evil done against us, and even by those who profess to love us, in some cases.

But through it all, we are to rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation and affliction, and be constant in prayer and in service to our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. And instead of taking revenge when others do evil to us or tell lies about us to turn others away from us, or when they sin against us in other ways (lying, cheating, stealing, adultery, betrayal, etc.), we are to love them in return, and do good to them, and pray for them. For we are to love even our enemies and those who do evil against us.

And when this says here, “if possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all,” this is never promoting compromise of truth and righteousness and moral purity nor the truth of the gospel of our salvation. We don’t back down from the truth of God’s word just so people will like us and so that they will not hate us. And we don’t join them in their evil just so they will think we are okay, and so that they won’t think that we are religious fanatics. But we follow the leading of the Holy Spirit always.

And when our enemies, who could be anyone, do evil against us, we are to do good back to them. But we need to be very wise and discerning in this so that we don’t get caught in any of their traps, too. So be loving, be kind, be forgiving, but be wise and discerning, for our enemies will try to trip us up, and they may betray us, and stab us in the back while pretending to be our friends, too. So while we are loving our enemies we must be careful to not be overcome by evil, but to continue to overcome evil with good.

[Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-25; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 6:22-23; Lu 21:12-19; Jn 15:1-21; Jn 16:33; Jn 17:14; Ac 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Eph 6:10-20; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 7:9-17; Rev 11:1-3; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:1-18; Rev 14:1-13]

Love Must Be Genuine

An Original Work / October 22, 2013
Based off Romans 12:9-21

Love must be genuine.
Hate what’s evil; cling to good.
Love each other with affection.
Show respect for ev’ryone.
Never lack in your zeal.
Serve the Lord with diligence.

Rejoice in steadfast hope.
In affliction, patient be.
Keep on praying; share with others.
Practice hospitality.
Bless those who persecute.
Feel with others sympathy.

Be not filled with conceit.
Daily sit at Jesus’ feet.
Live in harmony with others.
Live at peace with ev’ryone.
Repay not to someone
With the evil he begot.

Do not take your revenge;
Leave it to the wrath of God.
If your enemy is thirsty,
Give to him something to drink.
Do what’s right for mankind.
Evil: overcome with good.

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Just finding this documentary - causes of obesity including the food industry's part

Joe and his Justice Department continue to let the hate crimes escalate.

Understanding the Trinity

As an atheist one of the many things I find confusing about Christianity is the concept of the Trinity;


Part of the problem is understanding the concept of having three ‘God’ entities while at the same time describing them as a single entity.

As an outsider it also seems to me that each of the components of the Trinity would have a specific function or purpose. Is this the case? If not, why have three components?

The most confusing component of the Trinity is the Holy Spirit. Although it’s part of the Trinity it appears to be the least mentioned and the vaguest (to me) part of the Trinity. Although I can more or less understand the God-the-Father/God-the-Son concepts, I have trouble understanding the idea of the Holy Spirit, what it is and where it fits in.



A Request

After more than a decade on CF I’ve found that Christians have a habit of using impenetrable Christian jargon when trying to explain Christian concepts. As a non-Christian much of this jargon can be difficult to follow.

How you respond is up to you however sticking to plain English would help.



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I mean, they`re only gonna exploit resourches on other planets in the future for no purpose, and they think the eyes only pretend to be showing a soul, even though you have a feeling of "self". Kinda pointless existance, other societes are influenced badly from them also, they walk around sexualised in for example Greece. The only positive thing for them according to themselves, is the porn perhaps, but it`s violent also. The former president Trump, isn`t even himself anymore, looks distant in eyes, like he`s not there, constant impulses from testosterone, in lack of a better explaination. I mean, they`re only gonna fly around in space in the future, and exploit resources on other planets, for no other purpose, but to fill some emptiness inside, but it won`t work. Online you only swear and say sexualised words, and make fun of people thinking we have a soul, not caring if you hurt people`s feelings

Did I get that right? In this commentary by attorneys and Thiessen, it seems to say that Trump could not possibly have been trying to sway an election because the election (2016) was over (2017).

I'll try to find it, it's at the end of the video.

I've been watching this case a lot, though and not only is there no crime mentioned by the prosecutor, but Bragg doesn't have the ability to prosecute outside his jurisdiction anyway...

And the statute of limitations has run out on the potential misdemeanor charges-- all of them!

I just cannot believe what is happening here.

Ok, it's at point 6.40 in the video

I don’t know where to go

I tried getting in contact with my pastor but I can never get an appointment with him. I won’t say the sin I committed however, in terms of depravity and gravity and the years I’ve been away from god- I’ve committed a serious sin. God even promises vengeance on my sin in the Bible. I know god doesn’t play around, at least now I do. I am really trying to return to him but I feel like it’s too late. I thought I was saved but I fell away and I never truly followed god. It turned out that I was an unbeliever and the Holy Spirit was still pursuing me. God tried really hard for me but I messed up so so badly. It’s possible that I’ve been given over to a reprobate mind.

I’m trying to repent and turn from my ways but I feel like it’s all empty and hopeless if the Holy Spirit doesn’t enable it. I feel like spiritually my soul is dead and it’s really my fault. I sinned so badly in my life I don’t know what to do. I’ve been trying but there hasn’t been any change and my whole situation is a theological nightmare.

I cry out to god every day but I feel like it won’t change anything and I’m trying to change my ways but i always fail and everything just becomes pointless. Of course I did this to myself and I won’t stop trying however I feel like no matter what my efforts will go in vain. I chose to veer off the path god had for me and now I’m paying for it. I don’t feel conviction at all. I don’t know what to do.

An article in the N.C. Reporter, by JEANNINE GRAMICK ( co-founder of the Maryland-based LGBTQ Catholic advocacy group New Ways Ministry), includes this from the pope, in his response to her letter to him expressing grief in reading Dignitas Infinita, the Declaration on Human Dignity:

Pope Francis wrote:
Gender ideology is something other than homosexual or transsexual people. Gender ideology makes everyone equal without respect for personal history. I understand the concern about that paragraph in Dignitas Infinita, but it refers not to transgender people but to gender ideology, which nullifies differences. Transgender people must be accepted and integrated into society.

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So "transgender people" - by identifying themselves as being "transgender persons", and who have thereby embraced this very "transgender ideology" which Francis claims to condemn - these persons, internally contradictive and living a lie - Francis says "must be accepted and integrated into society." I don't see how one tongue, speaking out of both sides of his one mouth two such contradictory judgments, can complete the sentence without tying itself in such a knot that it strangles him.

Fox interviews and has guests who are from all walks of life and all kinds of professions. They always have a lot of ATTORNEYs on

So yeh, are you
Fox haters saying those people all lie just for Fox?

I mean, get real

They just give you vague sounding stuff like: Trump's past life!!.. blah blah blah

or Trump has been indicted (Wow, what a Newsflash)

I was reading one of those tabloid things the other day just because it was there and the line was long in the store and I was bored.

It made it sound like some HUGE new info had come from the trial Trump is going through, the first of.. I believe 4 trials to try to derail his campaign/future presidency.

The huge news was SO awful that Melania, apparently is thinking of divorcing Trump and she doesn't sleep with him because... well, we don't know.

The article didn't even say what the huge news was (!)--the news Melania heard that ripped up her relationship with Trump (allegedly).

Wow... no wonder no one trusts "the media" anymore. No wonder most intelligent people don't actually buy those rags.

In any case... where was I?

oh yeh... I read the entire article because the line was really long and the article was not.. but there it was, the proverbial nothing burger. And leftists are ALWAYS doing this.. Trump is hideous! He's going to destroy democracy (how ironic that one is)... Trump this and Trump that but never any substantive INFORMATION to justify their emotional rantings.



It's astounding.

Intelligent people look at this kind of anti-Trump lunacy, TDS and think to themselves: That dude must be doing something REALLY REALLY right------------------------

Good for Oklahoma, sez I.

article said:

Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters stated last Wednesday, "In Oklahoma, we have conservative values. President Joe Biden and the National Education Association want Christianity out of the classroom and are advocating for our kids to have zero morality and faith. Let me be crystal clear: Satanists are not welcome in Oklahoma schools, but they are welcome to go to hell."

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This is creepy.

And why wouldn't Satanists be disingenuous or totally LYING when they claim they are not into evil?

They want to be allowed into our children's schools as chaplains.

After all we've seen lately on the news RE how un-Christian people and anti-Christian want to influence our children, we aren't shocked. We're anxious but not surprised.

And of course, they are indeed welcome in Hell by Satan. They need to repent, obviously.

All we can is pray

Former Johnson City Middle School Principal, Daniel Erickson, has plead guilty to attempting to have sex with a student in July of 2023, according to District Attorney Paul Battisti.

Erickson is pleading guilty to Luring a Child, a Class E felony, as part of a negotiated disposition, or a plea bargain. In doing so, Erickson is set to serve six months in jail followed by five years of post-release probation as well as having to register as a sex offender and pay for the victims counseling, Battisti told NewsChannel 34.

Infamously, Erickson was said to have shown up to the meeting [where he was arrested, but expected something else] with a box of condoms, chicken McNuggets and a McDonald’s Grimace shake.

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Winter is over
the sun does begin
to warm the heart.
New revelations to men,
new insights to see
the old passed away
the coldness does flee
to life a new day

Drawn out by His love
into the dawning new day
from the deep sleep of childhood
to the expectation of play
of leaping and bounding
over mountains and hills
His love it does beckon
my love does obey.

No walls to restrain
no reluctance to follow
only love unrestrained
Come out of the hollow.

Songs 2:8-15
The call to escape from self

1. Satan mixes Truth with Lies
2. Satan is Self Righteous
3. Satan does malicious things under the guise of benevolence and righteousness
4. Satan is self serving (He stole the dominion over the earth from Eve, through deceit)
5. Satan, from Genesis to the Gospels, still has access to Heaven and has a very important position in Heaven
6. Satan stood where Jesus now stands. This matter is the most important to understand!
7. When Satan Deceived Eve, Creation was subjugated to the Rule of the Created, instead of the intended Rule of the Creator.
8. Satan brought DEATH into this world and was "Cursed" with the Power of Death
9. Satan is "Cunning"
10. Satan is written about in Job in a covert manner... (Job 41)... and is ultimately assigned the name (King of the Proud)

Give Job 41 a read, as it is very important to understand when searching scripture for the "Types" that reveal more about the adversary of God.

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Job 41 HCSB​

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41 [a]Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook
or tie his tongue down with a rope? Jesus often references fishing (Mark 1:17) There's a distinct reason that Leviathan is a "Sea Beast"
2 Can you put a cord[b] through his nose
or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 Will he beg you for mercy Matthew 9:13
or speak softly to you?
4 Will he make a covenant with you This one may tick some folks off, but it's biblical, so here goes (Acts 7:53)(Galatians 3:19)(Galatians 6:13)
so that you can take him as a slave forever? (Matthew 4:8-10)(2 Corinthians 3:7, Hebrews 2:14, 1 Corinthians 15:56)
5 Can you play with him like a bird
or put him on a leash[c] for your girls?
6 Will traders bargain for him
or divide him among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons
or his head with fishing spears?
8 Lay a[d] hand on him.
You will remember the battle
and never repeat it!
9 [e]Any hope of capturing him proves false.
Does a person not collapse at the very sight of him?
10 No one is ferocious enough to rouse Leviathan;
who then can stand against Me?
11 Who confronted Me, that I should repay him?
Everything under heaven belongs to Me.

12 I cannot be silent about his limbs,
his power, and his graceful proportions.
13 Who can strip off his outer covering?
Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?[f]
14 Who can open his jaws,[g]
surrounded by those terrifying teeth?
15 His pride is in his rows of scales,
closely sealed together.
16 One scale is so close to another[h]
that no air can pass between them.
17 They are joined to one another,
so closely connected[i] they cannot be separated.
18 His snorting[j] flashes with light,
while his eyes are like the rays[k] of dawn.
19 Flaming torches shoot from his mouth;
fiery sparks fly out!
20 Smoke billows from his nostrils
as from a boiling pot or burning reeds.
21 His breath sets coals ablaze,
and flames pour out of his mouth.
22 Strength resides in his neck,
and dismay dances before him.
23 The folds of his flesh are joined together,
solid as metal[l] and immovable.
24 His heart is as hard as a rock,
as hard as a lower millstone!
25 When Leviathan rises, the mighty[m] are terrified;
they withdraw because of his thrashing.
26 The sword that reaches him will have no effect,
nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.
27 He regards iron as straw,
and bronze as rotten wood.
28 No arrow can make him flee;
slingstones become like stubble to him.
29 A club is regarded as stubble,
and he laughs at the sound of a javelin.
30 His undersides are jagged potsherds,
spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron;
he makes the sea like an ointment jar.
32 He leaves a shining wake behind him;[n]
one would think the deep had gray hair!
33 He has no equal on earth—
a creature devoid of fear!
34 He surveys everything that is haughty;
he is king over all the proud beasts.[o] He surveys everything that is haughty; he is king over all the proud beasts