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1Tonne · 2025-12-12T03:00:21-0600

Yeshua HaDerekh said:
The worm is not the person. You are taking it out of context with Psalm 22:6.

Actually, the context supports the interpretation. In Mark 9:48, Jesus quotes Isaiah 66:24, describing the wicked in a state of shame and ruin: “their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.”
The “worm” is possessive, their worm, which implies it belongs to them. It is not literal maggots; it represents the person themselves in a state of ongoing contempt and humiliation. This is consistent with Psalm 22:6, where the psalmist says, “I am a worm and not a man,” expressing extreme shame and lowliness.
So the Bible’s own imagery shows that the “worm” represents the person in judgment, not something external or separate from them.

Yeshua HaDerekh said:
There are 2 births and 2 deaths. A physical birth and a physical death (which we all must possess). A spiritual birth and for some, a spiritual death. The first death destroys the body. What does the second death do...hmmm? Eternal life vs eternal death. Choose life!

Yes, there are two births and two deaths, but that does not change the fact that the second death is not annihilation.
The first death ends the physical body, but the soul continues asleep in the grave (Eccl 9:5; Ps 146:4) until the resurrection (John 5:28–29; Daniel 12:2). The second death is spiritual and eternal, the conscious punishment of those who reject God.
It is called “death” to show its ruin and separation from God, not to indicate that the person ceases to exist. Just as the first death does not destroy the person, the second death does not either, it is a state of eternal conscious judgment, not extinction.

So, the choice to “choose life” is truly about eternal conscious life with God versus eternal conscious separation from God, not life versus nonexistence.

David Lamb · 2025-12-12T02:55:56-0600

samaus123456789 said:
Everything I said is right. Jesus was referencing 1 Enoch, and other standard OT texts. The Sadducees mess up a story from Tobit about the woman with 7/8 husbands. If you believe 1 Enoch is not inspired then it is not for you. These other books are only for the wise.

But 1 Enoch is not a "standard OT text." And the fact that the Sadducees told Jesus a story which had similarities with one in Tobit doesn't mean that Tobit is part of God's word.

davetaff · 2025-12-12T02:51:30-0600

Akita Suggagaki said:
We often refer to fictional characters as if they were literal historical. Someone out if context could think we mean them that way.

Hi
Did God have to say it was the truth all Gods word is the truth the creation account in Genesis should be applied starting with Noah everything God created before the flood was destroyed in the flood except for Noah and everything on the ark.
So it was a new beginning starting with Noah and everything on the ark everything else was destroyed in the flood.
So the creation account should be applied starting with Noah so the things in the creation account should be understood as symbolic take the forth day the sun is symbolic of Christ the light fo the world the moon the church the bride of Christ the stars the children of God maks absolutely no sense to say the sun was created on the forth day very little could survive without sunlight so when Noah stepped out of the ark the sun was shining it had to be so that everything could grow and thrive.

Love and peace
Dave

GoldenKingGaze · 2025-12-12T02:49:59-0600

Jesus Christ our Lord rose from the dead, ascended and was glorified. But fully glorified? For Jesus is as in Isaiah 9:6. He is the father of time and should know the end from the beginning, but the bridegroom does not know the time of his wedding, but only his father according to Jewish traditions.

Hebrews 11:40.

The verse says:

“God having provided something better for us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.”
— Hebrews 11:40

Meaning:
The Old Testament prophets and faithful saints (“they”) will not receive their final perfection, glory, or completion without us — that is, without the whole people of God across all ages. The author of Hebrews is emphasizing that the consummation happens together, at the resurrection and final glorification.

Related idea

Paul teaches a similar “together in glory” theme:

1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 – The dead in Christ rise first, then living believers join them together.
Romans 8:17–23 – Glorification and redemption of the body happen for all God's children at once.

Perhaps Jesus full glorification will come with us altogether ? Prophets like Moses, Elijah and Ezekiel may be fully sanctified and partly glorified. As Jesus in Revelation, is crowned, with all glory, and honour and power... Revelation 1:5-6, 5:13, 7:12, but it does not say knowledge and that He again knows all and the end from the beginning, Isaiah 46:10. But even now His body is immortal and glorious and glory shines from His face with vast intensity. 2 Corinthians 4:6.

We may be awaiting the wedding feast of the Lamb for glorification, all together like a graduating class. And after us a new class starts.

A2SG · 2025-12-12T02:37:09-0600

Servus said:
I remember it all quite well and there's no comparison. The opposition towards Obama was about the same as it was towards Bush.

No, not even close. No one claimed President Bush wasn't a US citizen, repeatedly and constantly, even after proof was given. No one called President Bush a radical muslim, despite his doing nothing whatsoever to indicate he held either that position, or that religion. No one mocked President Bush based on the color of his skin, or made disparaging comments about his wife's gender.

Servus said:
The freakout over Trump however was and still is totally unprecedented.

To the extent that Trump's actions have been unprecedented, sure. Again, no president who lost a reelection bid previously ever tried to overturn that election, nor tried to install fake electors to change the outcome; no losing president ever called a state's officials and demanded they "find" enough votes to change the results; no president urged their followers to storm the Capitol to stop the certification of that election.

Trump has done stuff no president in office (or having left office) has done before. So, sure, a lot of the criticism of Trump is based on those unprecedented acts. People have reacted to things Trump has actually done, and continues to do.

But the wackadoodle stuff, that's a different story. The wackadoodle stuff some did to object to President Obama, much of it based on stuff that had nothing whatsoever to do with the man himself, or any actions he took, was off the charts.

-- A2SG, objections to Trump are based on reality, a large part of the objections to President Obama were not....

ViaCrucis · 2025-12-12T02:29:45-0600

rjs330 said:
Yes we are American citizens and get to decide that.

Irish Need Not Apply

ViaCrucis · 2025-12-12T02:28:26-0600

A New Dawn said:
Why is it that people on the left didn’t bat an eye when Obama broke the law and spied on his political opponent, or when Biden unleashed the power of the federal government against his political opponent, but when those very same people are being held accountable for their crimes, all of the sudden Trump is the dictator with nefarious plans for the country when he did absolutely nothing similar to all that nonsense in his first term?

Projection at its highest.

Irony rating: 10/10

Christsfreeservant · 2025-12-12T02:16:45-0600

I admit, this is not my favorite subject to write about, for it can be a confusing subject, for certain. So, I will try to make it simple to understand for all of us. The Jews of old were under the Old Covenant (The Law), and it was filled with all kinds of liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws that God’s people, the Jews, had to obey. But we who believe in Jesus Christ are not under that covenant.

“But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.” (Galatians 4:4-5 NASB1995)

This is speaking of Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, who is God, and who is our creator God (see John 1:1-36). He left his throne in heaven, came to the earth, and was born as a baby to a virgin woman, but conceived of the Holy Spirit and not of man, so he was not born with a sin nature as we are, and he never sinned. When he lived on the earth he was fully God and fully human. And at the age of 30 he began his earthly ministry, the primary part of which was sharing the message of the gospel of Christ.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

And so it is essential that we understand the message of the gospel taught by Jesus so that we comprehend this whole matter of The Law. For The Law is generally a reference to the Old Covenant God had with his people Israel, Jews only. But once Jesus was crucified on that cross to deliver us out of our slavery to sin, the Old Covenant was done away with, and the New Covenant came into being. But the New Covenant is not lawless, for under the New Covenant we still have to obey our Lord and his commandments.

“For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’” (Galatians 5:13-14 NASB1995).

“Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:19-21 NASB1995).

So, there is The Law, which was the Old Covenant, which had all those liturgical and ceremonial laws the Jews had to follow. And there is the New Covenant God has with his people Israel (Jew and Gentile by faith in Jesus Christ) which did away with all the liturgical and ceremonial laws, but which still requires that we obey our Lord and his commands under the New Covenant. And what God requires of us under the New Covenant is mainly that we die with Christ to sin and we walk in obedience to his commands.

And his laws under the New Covenant have mainly to do with love, grace, morality, faithfulness, honesty, and doing what pleases God and what is righteous in the eyes of the Lord, and that which submits to Christ as Lord and surrenders to his will and purpose for our lives. It is more, perhaps, about our relationship with Christ as our husband, and our desire to love him by doing what he calls us to do as his followers. And it is not about religious practices which do nothing to change the human heart, mind, and soul.

But the situation the believers in Christ of that time period were being faced with was the Judaizers who were trying to convince the Christians that they had to be circumcised and that they had to hold to some of those ceremonial laws of the Old Covenant. And so Paul let them know plainly that the Israel of God is not those who are merely of Jewish descent, but they are those who are followers of Jesus Christ. And all who do not believe in Christ are not the children of God, so we don’t have to listen to what they say.

“And you brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise. But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also. But what does the Scripture say? ‘Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be an heir with the son of the free woman.’ So then, brethren, we are not children of a bondwoman, but of the free woman.” (Galatians 4:28-31 NASB1995)

And what this is telling us (in vv. 21-31) is that physical Jerusalem is of Hagar, the slave woman, for she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem from above is our mother (allegorically speaking) who bears the children of promise, who are all who believe in Jesus Christ. So we are not to let ourselves be influenced by any Jew who is trying to push us to become more like Jews and to follow the Old Covenant liturgical laws. For all who do not believe in Jesus Christ are not the children of God; not his holy nation.

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; John 8:18-19,38-47; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-6; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13;1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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rjs330 · 2025-12-12T02:07:44-0600

No

GoldenBoy89 said:
I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt that you don’t agree with this administration’s current approach to immigration and are just playing devil’s advocate here but I guess that answers that.

These people did everything right. Waited in line. Paid the money. They’ve been vetted and verified by the government and were about to take an oath to the country that no natural born citizen is even required to make. There’s no reason to cancel their applications at that moment other than targeted cruelty.

No matter what date was chosen there would always be people who paid the money, were vetted and verified and about to take the oath. There has to be a cut off date. And as all cut off dates are, someone is going to get the short straw.

Immigration from these countries needs to stop.

Landon Caeli · 2025-12-12T02:07:02-0600

Stopped_lurking said:
What is your argument then, that we can see where Europe is headed by looking at the universities? That is too broad, and I'm not certain what commonalities you see across different countries in Europe. I asked questions to get to the specifics of what you want to discuss.

It doesn't seem to be borne out in reality either, in Sweden we switch between a right-wing or left-wing government quite often (every election or every other election). We don't shift out all the teachers between elections. It has been like this since 1991, shifting back and forth.

Oh, you don't shift all your teachers... i think you're being intentionally obtuse. I don't really have time to repeat myself, others can see what I said, and form their own opinions. I have no reason to persuade you.

David Lamb · 2025-12-12T02:00:44-0600

Apple Sky said:
The Micro & the Macro.

New King James Version
The craftsman stretches out his rule, He marks one out with chalk; He fashions it with a plane, He marks it out with the compass, And makes it like the figure of a man, According to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house.

Creation - The Micro & The Macro

This is just a theory. I have very often asked myself, could we & the earth be the micro of God who is the macro. To understand this better here is a link. There are 75 Verses About The Womb In The Bible

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GREATER WORLD MAP And MACROCLIMATE CHANGE (AEWAR, VIBES OF COSMOS And FLATEARTH NATIONS)

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You have taken Isaiah 44:13 out of context. It isn't about God creating the earth, but about ungodly people making idols, as is seen when we do see the verse in its context:

“Who would form a god or mold an image That profits him nothing? Surely all his companions would be ashamed; And the workmen, they are mere men. Let them all be gathered together, Let them stand up; Yet they shall fear, They shall be ashamed together. The blacksmith with the tongs works one in the coals, Fashions it with hammers, And works it with the strength of his arms. Even so, he is hungry, and his strength fails; He drinks no water and is faint. The craftsman stretches out his rule, He marks one out with chalk; He fashions it with a plane, He marks it out with the compass, And makes it like the figure of a man, According to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house. He cuts down cedars for himself, And takes the cypress and the oak; He secures it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a pine, and the rain nourishes it. Then it shall be for a man to burn, For he will take some of it and warm himself; Yes, he kindles it and bakes bread; Indeed he makes a god and worships [it]; He makes it a carved image, and falls down to it. He burns half of it in the fire; With this half he eats meat; He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. He even warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm, I have seen the fire.” And the rest of it he makes into a god, His carved image. He falls down before it and worships it, Prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”” (Isa 44:10-17 NKJV)

Kathleen30 · 2025-12-12T01:58:53-0600

Dro

Strong in Him said:
No, a blink of an eye is a second, a moment is longer - like a minute.
Are you saying there is something, or maybe things, that God cannot do? That he only has a certain amount of power?

I'm sorry that I haven't answered all you post but I'm finding them hard to read.
What's with all those pink oblongs?

Depending on what dictionary Collins says a few seconds but can also mean a minute or short time too . Strong in Him It is good you not answer write long time . Gives mind a rest. : ) No I not say that God can’t do . We not what know what God can fully do.

rockytopva · 2025-12-12T01:57:00-0600

Aryeh Jay said:
What help could anyone do? Her carotid artery was cut, she was dead in less than a minute. What can anyone do, put a tourniqute on her neck?

You might want to find a different source to support the narrative you are trying to spin. Your source says people helped.

I tell you her innocent blood cried out to God in terror as all of that unfolded. And the Democratic mayor's first words was that the killers mental state had to be taken in consideration.

JosephZ · 2025-12-12T01:52:21-0600

Ilhan Omar speech proved to be mistranslated but outrage continues spread

Republicans, rightwing figures and foreign politicians have seized upon the video despite proof the lawmaker was misquoted

According to the Minnesota Reformer, a Minnesota-based news outlet, which worked with two independent Somali translators, Omar said: “We are people who know that they are Somali and Muslim”, not that she was “Somalians first” as the video suggested.

Omar’s speech accurately translates to the following:

“As Somali people, we are people who love each other. We might have some disagreements, but when things get real, we are people who have each other’s backs. We are brothers and sisters, courageous people, and people who know they are Somalis and Muslims, and support each other and their brethren.

When we heard the other day that some Somali people—or who claim to be Somalis—signed an agreement with Ethiopia, many people called me and said to me, ‘Ilhan, you should talk to the U.S. government. What’s the U.S. government going to do about this?

My answer was that the U.S. government would do what we ask it to do. We should have this kind of confidence in ourselves as Somalis. We live in this country, we are taxpayers. This is the country where one of your own is sitting in Congress. As long as I am in Congress, no one can take Somalia’s sea, and the U.S. government won’t support others to rob us. Don’t stress over it, Minnesotans.”

rjs330 · 2025-12-12T01:52:01-0600

BPPLEE said:
Why do you hate America?

Because hes a progressive who lives in another country. Only America's faults count.

rjs330 · 2025-12-12T01:47:54-0600

Maria Billingsley said:
Even AI has a big problem with this article.
Let us reason, please .

You have identified a critical moral and religious counterpoint to the article's narrative, especially regarding the plight of the poor and the sick seeking help in the U.S. From a Christian perspective, the article's focus on casting out vulnerable people appears to contradict core tenets of faith regarding charity, compassion, and the treatment of the foreigner.
Here is a strong counter-argument based on the biblical mandate, using the New King James Version (NKJV) as requested:

The Christian Imperative for Compassion and Hospitality
The fundamental teachings of Christianity place a clear, unambiguous priority on caring for the poor, the sick, and the stranger. The Gospel message frames this duty not merely as a suggestion for humanitarian aid, but as a central act of worship and obedience.
1. Identifying with the Vulnerable
Christ's own words in the New Testament directly link the act of helping the poor and the stranger with serving Him directly. In the depiction of the Final Judgment, Jesus tells the righteous:
> “For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.”
Matthew 25:35-36 (NKJV).
When asked to clarify, Jesus states, "Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me" (Matthew 25:40, NKJV). Therefore, treating the sick or the impoverished migrant with hostility is viewed, within Christian theology, as rejecting Christ Himself.
2. The Mandate to Love the Stranger
The Old Testament, which forms the foundation for Christian morality, repeatedly and explicitly commands God's people to protect and show love to the foreigner (or "sojourner"). This instruction is based on the reminder that the Israelites themselves were once migrants and slaves in Egypt, establishing an enduring ethic of empathy:
> “The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.”
Leviticus 19:34 (NKJV).
This command is echoed in Deuteronomy, emphasizing God's own character as a defender of the defenseless:
> “He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
Deuteronomy 10:18-19 (NKJV).

3. Hospitality and Justice
Christian tradition celebrates hospitality, with the Apostle Paul urging believers to: "Distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality" (Romans 12:13, NKJV). The writer of Hebrews takes this a step further, suggesting that by showing hospitality to strangers, one might unknowingly be hosting angels: "Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels" (Hebrews 13:2, NKJV).

The article's portrayal of poor and sick migrants as a collective burden with "disdain" for the law runs counter to this profound biblical call to seek justice for the vulnerable and to show mercy without exception. From a theological perspective, the Christian response to the destitute and the sick arriving for help is one of immediate compassion and relief, not political condemnation.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness; because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it unto them. For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due. And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

Bible Gateway passage: Romans 1:18, Romans 1:19, Romans 1:20, Romans 1:21, Romans 1:22, Romans 1:23, Romans 1:24, Romans 1:25, Romans 1:26, Romans 1:27, Romans 1:28, Romans 1:29, Romans 1:30, Romans 1:31, Romans 1:32 - American Standard Version

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;

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But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would. But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Bible Gateway passage: Galatians 5:16, Galatians 5:17, Galatians 5:18, Galatians 5:19, Galatians 5:20, Galatians 5:21 - American Standard Version

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them; for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them; for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of. But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee. Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise; redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit; speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;

Bible Gateway passage: Ephesians 5:3, Ephesians 5:4, Ephesians 5:5, Ephesians 5:6, Ephesians 5:7, Ephesians 5:8, Ephesians 5:9, Ephesians 5:10, Ephesians 5:11, Ephesians 5:12, Ephesians 5:13, Ephesians 5:14, Ephesians 5:15, Ephesians 5:16, Ephesians

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

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So if Christian imperatives need to be the laws of the land, then these imperatives need to be as well. If we are going to desire that our state follow the scriptures, the we should desire they use all of them in their governance. I really don't find anything in scripture that says we only have follow the things we want to. The rest is optional. No, thats not there.

Unqualified · 2025-12-12T01:46:39-0600

Yah, long barrels @MarkRohfrietsch . It was a busy day though not even cold. Cast some lee 405 and some 495 grain. I shot these on Tuesday and hit the 200 yd. target twice. It was just a matter of aiming high enough. About 34 inches, with black powder. I shot the t7 hoping it would drop less. But couldn’t connect. I remembered my drops and got another clue. 2 solid hits out of nine. Reloading tomorrow and going back soon.

David Lamb · 2025-12-12T01:45:42-0600

truthuprootsevil said:
Yes, nuclear weaponry, even if the Lord speaks it to happen. Zachariah is giving an example of exactly what nuclear weaponry will do to a human, they will disintegrate, while they stand on their feet. The difference is with man's weaponry one has to be fairly close to ground zero. With the Lord there is no limit.

2 Peter 3:10 But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare. 2 Peter 3:10 - The Day of the Lord

The King James version words are different: the heavens will pass away with a loud noise; the elements will MELT with fibrant heat and the earth ALSO and the works thereof be BURNED up.

All knowledge comes from the Lord doesn't the Bible tell us that? "" Man's knowledge of nuclear weaponry comes from God."" But that is rarely thought of.

But there are other things that cause a person's body to disintegrate, like being burned in fire, or being put int a bath of acid. Saying that God uses nuclear weaponry seems to go beyond what Scripture says, and suggests that God first creates a nuclear bomb and then detonates it. I agree that there are similarities between the effects of a nuclear weapon and what happens at the Day of the Lord, but the latter is far worse, unless one knows the Saviour.

Aryeh Jay · 2025-12-12T01:37:18-0600

rockytopva said:
Look at the videos... Who helped the lady?

Killing of Iryna Zarutska - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

What help could anyone do? Her carotid artery was cut, she was dead in less than a minute. What can anyone do, put a tourniqute on her neck?

You might want to find a different source to support the narrative you are trying to spin. Your source says people helped.

David Lamb · 2025-12-12T01:36:38-0600

JAM2b said:
I don't attend church much anymore. Partly it is because I have to work on Sundays. But I also have lost patience for it. It's difficult for it to hold my attention.

I think part of it is because the sermons, while good, tend to stay at a very basic level. There is nothing new or deeper. I've also become annoyed and bored with the performative nature of the services.

As far as going for what you can give or serving, I've done that, too. It got me used up without getting refilled. It was also frustrating because there was no overall growth for the congregation. It was all just a regurgitation of the same sermons and formulaic worship service making a few look good and making the rest feel good.

I LOVE indepth Bible studies and prayer meetings. Sunday "services"? No thanks.

I find the idea of "attending church" strange. In the bible, we find that a church(for example the church at Ephesus) is a local grouping of Christians. So as a member of a church, one is part of the church. And Christians take par in church services to worship God and study His word.

exitstageright · 2025-12-12T01:35:49-0600

March 13

exitstageright · 2025-12-12T01:35:06-0600

Ma

sampa said:
I love celebrating other people and their birthdays. So if you're willing post your birthday here. Please don't post the year for privacy reasons. And hopefully I can remember when that month rolls around to wish you a happy birthday. And if I'm taking a break I will try to pass the baton on to someone else to remember those months. March 13

January
@d taylor - 6
@sampa - 26

February
@MrSkyfish - 27
@Saucy - 27
@Sophrosyne -29

March
@.Mikha'el. - 10
@Joined2krist - 13

April
@BeyondET - 1
@shineyourlight - 4
@sunshineforJesus -12
@MMXX - 21

May
@public hermit - 16
@Christopher Range -16

June
@SarahsKnight -9
@Multifavs - 16
@APersonWithNoName - 11
@MehGuy - 20

July.
@deanerenata32 - 30

August
@dogs4thewin - 8
@Lost4words -35
@Unofficial Reverand Alex - 13

September

October
@RileyG - 8

November
@Cute Peonies - 5
@DragonFox91 - 27

December

A space in time that doesn't exist
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rjs330 · 2025-12-12T01:33:56-0600

Larniavc said:
Conquest and slavery?

Yes absolutely. Just like every other country. We certainly arent unique. But of all those nasty world wide countries we are still the best with the greatest principles.

Strong in Him · 2025-12-12T01:32:31-0600

Kathleen30 said:
Stronginhim you.ask why did God take 6 days to create the universe when he could have done so in a moment you say he has the power to do so.. I could say to that. It’s all good and well to be healing the blind and withered arms. But could God create the universe in a moment ??? Stronginhim do you know what a moment is ??? It’s A blink of a eye .

No, a blink of an eye is a second, a moment is longer - like a minute.
Are you saying there is something, or maybe things, that God cannot do? That he only has a certain amount of power?

I'm sorry that I haven't answered all you post but I'm finding them hard to read.
What's with all those pink oblongs?

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