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RDKirk · 2025-12-03T13:55:47-0600

Oompa Loompa said:
Look! Another red herring! If you disagree with my statement, prove me wrong.

Actually, you made the assertion, so you need to provide references.

timf · 2025-12-03T13:55:35-0600

Dave, I appreciate your kind reply. However, I think if you look deeper. the Ezekiel verses parallel the Jeremiah verses in talking about the new covenant for Israel and the earthly kingdom they could expect.

Jer 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:
Jer 31:32 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:
Jer 31:33 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.
Jer 31:34 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.

The desire to see everything in the bible (especially the gospels) as applying to us can be very strong. By maintaining a distinction between what is intended for Israel and what is for the body of Christ, we can avoid a lot of confusion. I know it is unconventional and unfamiliar, but then there was a time when not praying to Mary was radical.

Oompa Loompa · 2025-12-03T13:54:52-0600

GoldenBoy89 said:
You might be onto something there. Look at the average IQ in Louisiana vs say… Minnesota.

Average IQ by State 2025

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Look! Another red herring! If you disagree with my statement, prove me wrong.

BCP1928 · 2025-12-03T13:54:00-0600

Oompa Loompa said:
Provide a source quoting the Trump administration admitted that it happened.

White House Confirms and Defends 2nd Strike on Boat, Contradicting Trump

Karoline Leavitt's comments appear to contradict those Trump made a day earlier about the boat strikes

time.com

CoreyD · 2025-12-03T13:51:20-0600

JohnClay said:
Brutal Bible Bloodbaths is now available on Steam Early Access. It has a ridiculous amount of blood though otherwise the graphics are like Minecraft since they are not very realistic.

Brutal Bible Bloodbaths on Steam

Based on a shocking Bible passage, use weapons like your magic laser sword to cleanse the promised land with optional blood splatter and body chopping.

store.steampowered.com

It is based on Deuteronomy 20:16-20 - and some boys talk about it - I was wondering if Christians thought the humor was offensive...
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Though I thought the boys seemed to be pretty respectful of God.

If this Game is for children, have you considered rating it PG?
Not that that would matter, if only atheists are playing this, since they will probably try to make God look as ugly as possible, and not tell them the whole truth.

For example, were the Israelites to love the command, in the sense the young boy thinks?
Proverbs 17:5

...whoever rejoices in the ruin of another will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 24:17

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,

Would it therefore please God, if one sits and enjoys doing this... finding delight, and glee, as they slaughter their victims?
Of course not.
While that may not bother atheists, warning people with children who may want to please God about how God feels about the matter, would be to their benefit.

No lover of God would enjoy this game though, for those two reasons.
God (1) hates the one loving violence, and (2) will punish the one that delights in the destruction of individuals.
In fact, God himself does not delight or pleasure in the death of anyone. Ezekiel 18:23, 32

For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD

A child being aware of this, and considering God, would most certainly avoid this game, and any like it.

JohnClay said:
This shows footage of a sacrificed toddler being sliced up, worshipping a foreign goddess idol causing soldiers to kill you, chopping clothed temple prostitutes, ordering soldiers to go on a killing spree, a cow corpse spilling blood onto flowers, receiving a quest, being told to chop living chickens' legs but their head was chopped instead of their legs:

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Think of a firing squad.
They line the criminals who received their death sentence, in front of their grave, and on the order, they fire their guns... making sure they don't miss.
It may not be a job they enjoy, but it's a job.

It's not likely they would be grinning as they pull the trigger... although living in a world where many have developed callous hearts, and will sit and enjoy watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the like, there are the odd number that would take pleasure in hanging someone; chopping off their head, and seeing it drop...

Love of darkness is indeed normal today. John 3:19

JohnClay said:
This shows the player chasing people around houses in order to kill them, tidying up after the soldiers by pushing chopped bodies into a pit, and skilfully chopping animals.

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Here is the Bible passage it is based on:
Deuteronomy 20:16-20

How accurate is your game?
If it's not accurately based on the scriptures, it's not based on the scriptures.
Usually, when endeavoring to make a game or movie based on history, or a document, or book, people do thorough research, so as to not misrepresent the facts.

Joshua 10:28, and Joshua 11:11 are corresponding text, and no one was buried, or pushed into a pit, and there was no need to skillfully chop animal, since they burned the city. So any survivor would be "incinerated".

The Israelites did not only have swords. They had spearmen Numbers 25:7, and they also had archers Genesis 27:4; Genesis 48:21, 22. The archers in David's time, were accurate to a hair's breath, and would not miss.
I can't see them running behind a horse, or cat.

Striking the city with the sword doesn't necessarily mean the sword alone was used.
Joshua 24:11-13 reads

11 “When you crossed the Jordan River and came to Jericho, the men of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I gave you victory over them.

12 And I sent terror ahead of you to drive out the two kings of the Amorites. It was not your swords or bows that brought you victory.

13 I gave you land you had not worked on, and I gave you towns you did not build—the towns where you are now living. I gave you vineyards and olive groves for food, though you did not plant them.

Psalm 44:3 reads

They did not conquer the land with their swords; it was not their own strong arm that gave them victory. It was your right hand and strong arm and the blinding light from your face that helped them, for you loved them.

So, there are a few details missing from your game.
Not that they make that much of a difference to what you are aiming to achieve.

GoldenBoy89 · 2025-12-03T13:47:11-0600

Oompa Loompa said:
Should I also bring up the fact that the more Muslim a country is, the lower their average IQ is? Perhaps the inbreeding plays a part.

You might be onto something there. Look at the average IQ in Louisiana vs say… Minnesota.

Average IQ by State 2025

Discover population, economy, health, and more with the most comprehensive global statistics at your fingertips.

worldpopulationreview.com

reddogs · 2025-12-03T13:45:44-0600

This asks some very fundamental questions of Christian understanding of the Bible..

"Many Christians in the West, N. T. Wright believes, have a fundamental misunderstanding of the very goal of their faith.

Instead of seeing Christianity as the story of God renewing the whole cosmos — Heaven and Earth united — they have been taught to think of salvation primarily as a private escape plan: the soul departing for Heaven when the body dies...

The result, according to the 77-year-old New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian and Anglican bishop, is not just a skewed theology of the afterlife, but a distorted understanding of everything from End Times prophecy to spiritual warfare.

"The problem is that most Western Christians today think that the whole point of Christianity is for our souls to go to Heaven when we die, whereas the New Testament concentrates on God coming to dwell with us," Wright told The Christian Post in an interview about his latest book, The Vision of Ephesians: The Task of the Church and the Glory of God.

"The direction of travel is wrong, and the result is wrong, and the intermediate stages are wrong."

That misdirection has shaped how generations of believers have read and misunderstood Scripture, according to Wright. In the ancient world into which Christianity emerged, the idea of the soul floating away into Heaven was already common, he said.

"These were the people we now call the middle Platonists, people like Philo of Alexandria, or Plutarch. … They talk happily about their souls going to Heaven. The early Christians really don't," Wright said.

Instead, the New Testament proclaims something vastly different; not human departure to Heaven, but divine arrival on Earth.

The former bishop of Durham pointed to the final chapters of Revelation, where "the dwelling of God is with humans," and Ephesians 1:10, where Paul says God's eternal purpose is "to sum up in the Messiah all things in heaven and on earth."

"But you'd have thought that God's plan from the beginning was to enable us to leave Earth and go to a place called Heaven instead," Wright said. "That's simply not what Ephesians, or indeed, the rest of the New Testament, is all about."

The misunderstanding extends even into Bible translations, he emphasized. The Greek word "psuche," often rendered "soul," is rooted in the Hebrew "nephesh," which does not denote an immortal, disembodied essence but the whole living person.

"A nefesh is one's whole self; a better translation will be 'person,'" Wright explained. Passages that have fueled Platonic readings, such as Jesus telling the thief on the cross, "Today you will be with me in Paradise," are frequently oversimplified.

"Jesus is going to be back in a couple of days' time … because He's going to be raised from the dead," Wright said. "There are many passages which routinely get misread."

What has occurred, he believes, is a "Western vision" that has shrouded biblical Christianity with Greek philosophy...." NT Wright: Why Western Christians have misread Heaven | Church & ministry

prodromos · 2025-12-03T13:41:35-0600

Apple Sky said:
Yes - what makes you think it is fictional ?

Apart from what @Ophiolite has already posted, there is the minor detail of the hollow earth 'ambassador' bringing up the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which happened in 1945, more than a decade after Admiral Byrd's fictional encounter with the hollow earthers. It demonstrates that the fictional diary wasn't written until after World War I.

Aryeh Jay · 2025-12-03T13:40:07-0600

Vambram said:
FBI probes possible ties of National Guard shooter to shadowy group, a ‘catalyst’ for jihad

FBI investigates Tablighi Jamaat connections in Washington DC attack as Afghan veteran's radicalization path emerges through disturbing family phone calls.

www.foxnews.com

He appears to be connected to a terrorist group.

And was still granted asylum under the Trump Administration.

AutisticAnglican · 2025-12-03T13:36:52-0600

this is a weird one made during the 80s Satanic Panic. Many of their songs (including this one) have a Japanese cover. This was included on a promotional VHS they would send religious stores to play to advertise their music label

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The people involved in the production the music is produced by an Australian denomination (which later became known as a cult in 1989 (at the very least in Australia)) known as The Family/Family International with their music label being known as Heaven's Magic. I hope this qualifies at least retroactively.

iluvatar5150 · 2025-12-03T13:35:02-0600

RileyG said:
No one mentioned evangelical Christianity. This isn’t about them.

Did you miss the point of my comments?

The video was presented as him doing something bad, undesirable, or "aggressive." My comments pointed out that he's not doing anything that thousands of other evangelicals before him have done and continue to do every Sunday.

RileyG said:
In Islam there is a “sixth pillar” known as jihad which wants to make society as a whole more Islamic. How one interprets that depends on the culture and individual. Evangelical Christianity cannot be compared to Islam.

On this point, you're very, very wrong. "Making society as a whole more Christian" is exactly what the 7 Mountain Mandate seeks to do. It's a core tenet of the theology driving a lot of the swell in Christian Nationalism and it's also infused a lot of branches of evangelicalism that aren't explicitly Dominionist.

Dominionism isn't explicitly violent the was that "jihad" is often interpreted, but it does seem to becoming more tolerant of it.

fhansen · 2025-12-03T13:28:29-0600

Michie said:
Editors’ note: The Christian Post Opinion Page has published two countering views on Calvinism. To read the opposing view in the piece titled “Which comes first in salvation order: Faith or regeneration?” click here.

Want to know a secret? If you’re a Christian, you were saved before you knew you were.

Now, I’ll bet that the vast majority of you reading this think that you made a personal decision — all on your lonesome — to receive Christ, and once done, you were a child of God in the faith. John Chipman believes this, as evidenced by his article, “Which comes first in salvation order: Faith or regeneration?”

He says, “Faith precedes regeneration. Always. For everyone.”

Many think that the reverse is heresy and short-circuited. Still, I’m going to ask you to give me a few moments to make a case for the position of regeneration (the Spirit’s supernatural work of giving spiritual life to us, transforming the heart, and enabling faith, so that we become a new creation in Christ), preceding faith. I used to believe the reverse in my earlier Christian walk, but am now convinced that we can’t make that move of commitment towards God until He enables us to do it.

Continued below.

Want to know a secret? You’re saved before you know it

Want to know a secret If you re a Christian, you were saved before you knew you were

www.christianpost.com

What's not understood here that it's not either/or, but both/and. Yes, we must first be enabled, by grace, by God, to turn to Him, to respond when He calls. And yet, that grace is still resistible. We can refuse to open the door, we can say "no" either at the beginning of a potential walk with Him or later on down the road after we've embarked upon it.

To maintain that we don't need that grace, that we do it all ourselves, would be Pelagian. To maintain that God so overwhelms the will and totally changes/regenerates man first is to completely misread and misunderstand His purposes for man: that of drawing him back from the originally willful-and unjust-rejection of Him in Eden and to the relationship/communion with Him that man was created for along with the ever-increaisng justice/holiness -the ever-increasing love, to put it best- that is intrinsic to that relationship and to the willingness that He cultivates, covets, and that likewise blossoms and grows as we act upon or express it.

RileyG · 2025-12-03T13:22:56-0600

Glory to God!

RileyG · 2025-12-03T13:22:41-0600

RamiC said:
The UK National Anthem is called "God Save the King" Do the police think it is illegal?

My thoughts exactly! Isn’t UK as a whole Christian based nations?

RileyG · 2025-12-03T13:22:07-0600

How terrifying!

RileyG · 2025-12-03T13:21:34-0600

Welcome!

Landon Caeli · 2025-12-03T13:21:23-0600

Hans Blaster said:
No. SHeldrake is a fraud.

Here's an example of scientific materialism attempting to explain morphic resonance, from that view:

Plants "Listen" to the Good Vibes of Other Plants | National Geographic Plants "Listen" to the Good Vibes of Other Plants

"Whatever the signal is, we don't know if the plants produce it for the purpose of signaling or if it is an accidental byproduct that other plants then 'eavesdrop' on," Renton said.

Other unknowns: What structures are plants using to talk to and listen to one another? And can insects and animals spy on plant conversations and exploit them for their own purposes?

To these questions and more, Gagliano said, the answer is "we don't know."

But "the data are here. Plants are doing something," she added. "I can't fully explain it, but that doesn't mean it's not happening."

RileyG · 2025-12-03T13:21:05-0600

BCP1928 said:
That would be a better analogy if there were more than a tiny handful, but I get your point.

The question is, are Muslim immigrants coming here to impose that aspect their culture on us or to escape it?

Why must we assume the former?

A majority of Muslims are peaceful, but there are unfortunately a few radicals. The radicals are the one people need to be safe with.

keith99 · 2025-12-03T13:20:59-0600

Ellesmere said:
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“If you want to do things like gender ideology, go to (the University of California) Berkeley,” DeSantis added. “There’s nothing wrong with that, per se, but for us with our tax dollars, we want to focus on the classical mission of what a university is supposed to be.”

“What this does is reorient our universities back to their traditional mission and part of that traditional mission is to treat people as individuals, not to try to divvy them up based on any type of superficial characteristics,” DeSantis said.

US Rank 2026 WUR Rank 2026 University Overall Teaching Research Environment Research Quality Industry International Outlook
1 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 97.7 99.2 95.3 99.6 100 91.9
2 =3 Princeton University 97.2 98.2 97.3 99 98 85.4
=3 =5 Harvard University 97.1 95.9 100 98.9 86.7 88.3
=3 =5 Stanford University 97.1 97.5 97.4 99.5 100 83.9
5 7 California Institute of Technology 96.3 96.4 97.4 96.8 100 87.9
6 9 University of California, Berkeley 94.4 87.3 99 98.9 99.5 83.9
7 10 Yale University 94.1 94.6 94.5 97.2 87.6 81.4

1) According to the TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS, the University of California (Berkeley) ranks 6th among US universities and 9th in the world!

2) Two other California universities actually rank ahead of Berkeley, the California Institute of Technology and Stan ford (tied with Harvard) rank 5th and 3rd for US universities - 7th and 6th worldwide!

3) A total of 9 universities in California were slotted ahead of the University of Florida (44th) - the highest ranked university in that state!

3rd - Stanford University (5th worldwide)
5th - California Institute of Technology (7th worldwide)
6th - University of California Berkeley (9th worldwide)
11th - University of California Los Angeles ranks (18th worldwide)
22nd - University of California San Diego ranks 22nd (47th worldwide)
25th - University of California Davis 25th (64th worldwide)28th - University of California Santa Barbara (72nd worldwide)
29th - University of Southern California (73rd worldwide)
35th - University of California Irvine (97th worldwide)

44th - University of Florida (134th worldwide)

4) Apparently Governor DeSantis has decided to start his 2028 Presidental Campaign early but he's finally learned the hard way not to renew his fight with Disney!

5) Now he's decided to take a page out of President Trump's playbook, he's picking a fight with the universities - threatening to establish his own accreditation board as a means of forcing Florida's institutions to comply!

6) Florida's Governor has assumed the role of determining what can/can't be taught in that state's institutions for the express purpose "to focus on the classical mission of what a university is supposed you be!"

7) Someone should inform the Governor that try as he might, he can't recapture his idyllic version of "THE GOOD OLD DAYS" and that the 1950's are not about to make a comeback anytime soon!

8) DeSantis' comments directed at Berkeley, that supposed "bastion of woke," are all the more misguided, given that the Governor has unintentionally issued an open invitation to compare Florida's public universities with those of California - a state where the Governor has made no attempt to impose his will on what is being taught!

9) As previously stated, the "Times Higher Education World University Rankings"
places the University of California Berkeley as the 6th best university in America and 9th in the World - in fact, California has currently placed 3 universities in the Top 10 in the world (2 public, 1 private)!

10) California also has 9 universities (7 public, 2 private) that rank in the Top 35 nationally and all are included within the Top 100 internationally!

11) Compare "woke" California where all 9 universities are ranked ahead of the highest placed university in Florida, where no institution of higher learning, public or private, managed to be included among the Top 100 worldwide!

44th - University of Florida (134th worldwide)
56th - University of Miami (private)(201-250 worldwide)
66th - Florida State University (301-350 worldwide)
74th - University of South Florida (351-400 worldwide)
80th - Florida International University (401-500 worldwide)

12) Many of Florida's universities, both private and public, are better known for their football program than academics!

13) In 2023, Governor DeSantis set aside $1 million in pubic funds to finance a Florida State University's (FSU) legal challenge directed at the College Football Playoff Committee when FSU wasn't included as one of the playoff teams that year!

Top Universities in the US 2026 - US College Rankings

Discover the best colleges in the US according to the Times Higher Education’s trusted World University Rankings. This list highlights the which universities in the US excel in teaching, research, and global influence. The Times Higher Education US college rankings are based on a trusted...

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Sets Aside $1 Million For FSU's Legal Battles Against CFP

The outrage in Tallahassee isn't limited to just supporters and fans of the program.

www.si.com

‘Go to Berkeley’: Ron DeSantis said students seeking ‘woke’ classes should study elsewhere

'We want to focus on the classical mission of what a university is supposed to be.'

floridapolitics.com

TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS, the University of California (Ber

“If you want to do things like gender ideology, go to (the University of California) Berkeley,” DeSantis added. “There’s nothing wrong with that, per se, but for us with our tax dollars, we want to focus on the classical mission of what a university is supposed to be.”

“What this does is reorient our universities back to their traditional mission and part of that traditional mission is to treat people as individuals, not to try to divvy them up based on any type of superficial characteristics,” DeSantis said.

Notice that Cal Tech is the only truly small school on the list! There is a bias against small schools and an even greater bias against colleges where teaching rather than research is the emphasis. My guess is if smaller schools get looked at the contrast between California and Florida increases. Pomona and Harvey Mudd both are excellent, but small. Heck all the Clairmont Colleges are probably better than anything in Florida. Along with Occidental and a couple of San Diego area small colleges.

Cal Tech, undefeated in Football for the last 40 years!

RileyG · 2025-12-03T13:17:36-0600

BlackDragonRemus said:
Hello.

Could you please say a prayer for my uncle, Donald Lynch.

He is suffering from cancer.

Thank You

Bless You

♥️

Lord have mercy!

RileyG · 2025-12-03T13:17:12-0600

Oompa Loompa said:
2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 NIV
[10] For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.” [11] We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. [12] Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat.

2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.” We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. Su | New International Versi

For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.” We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. Su

bible.com

QFTW

RileyG · 2025-12-03T13:16:18-0600

iluvatar5150 said:
It is? It sounds like every call for revival and evangelism that I've ever heard. I guess that could be considered aggressive, but that strikes me as an odd thing for a Christian to throw shade at.

There are some, sure.

You can talk about whatever the mods permit.

In Islam there is a “sixth pillar” known as jihad which wants to make society as a whole more Islamic. How one interprets that depends on the culture and individual. Evangelical Christianity cannot be compared to Islam.

RileyG · 2025-12-03T13:14:38-0600

iluvatar5150 said:
If you cut out the Arabic, that sounds a lot like hundreds (maybe thousands?) of evangelical services I've heard.

If you add the Arabic back in, it sounds exactly like basically every charismatic service I've heard, with their faux-Arabic "speaking in tongues."

No one mentioned evangelical Christianity. This isn’t about them.

US Rank 2026	WUR Rank 2026	University	Overall	Teaching	Research Environment	Research Quality	Industry	International Outlook
1	2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	97.7	99.2	95.3	99.6	100	91.9
2	=3	Princeton University	97.2	98.2	97.3	99	98	85.4
=3	=5	Harvard University	97.1	95.9	100	98.9	86.7	88.3
=3	=5	Stanford University	97.1	97.5	97.4	99.5	100	83.9
5	7	California Institute of Technology	96.3	96.4	97.4	96.8	100	87.9
6	9	University of California, Berkeley	94.4	87.3	99	98.9	99.5	83.9
7	10	Yale University	94.1	94.6	94.5	97.2	87.6	81.4

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