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The Schumer Shutdown

And that makes it a "crime"?
Is it a felony or a misdemeanor? My previous employers were never charged either way. But then again, I never thought to call the police when I got the memo.
Pretend that the bit about crime was an ill conceived interrogative. Can you comment on the rest of my post?
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Exclusive: The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary

....so you say, but have yet to backup.
The videos show the illegal drugs on those boats. But, I bet if Obama or Biden had ordered those drug traffickering boats to be destroyed, that liberals would not be so skeptical.
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Speaker Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

If that's all he had said, then I might agree with you. But also labelling it the "hate America rally" sends a different message. Protesting the current government's policies does not mean that someone hates America.
Where did he refer to liberal public disruptions as hate America rallies?
As a concerned resident he has first hand experience with the events he writes of.
He is well spoken, clear and at no point does he accuse well intended liberal parcipitants of hating this country.
It is the half truths by mainstream media and violent extremists he refers to.
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Another look at the moon landing.

Strong in him the times vary on different sites anywhere from 30 minutes, a hour, two hours anywhere up to 3 hours . But given given the combined distance of the inner and outer belts of the Van Ellen’s Belt of some 70 thousand kilometres or 42,500 miles. The travel time would be closer to your article’s statement of 2 hours and could go as low as a hour as is stated in other publications of them choosing a shorter route of their alleged journey through the Van Ellen’s belt. As to the scientists I’m sure they don’t get their degrees out of cornflakes packets . As to believing everything a Christian claims or anyone for that matter. The answer is No. I must prepare for church now so cannot write more. Kathleen
as you likely have heard, the time is immaterial ..... trusting only in God is the issue. Nothing at all ever gained that is not a gift from heaven , from above, is bad. Everything from above , from God, is good and lasting and healing.
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Who then can be saved?

No, I said that I or anyone can abide by the doctrines of grace. You just have to know your doctrines. And I can help you there, pointing to the ancient sources, largely influenced by Augustine's arguments against Pelagianism.
FYI, the Doctrines of Grace are what you call Calvinism. TULIP = the Doctrines of Grace. All TULIP does is acknowledge and elucidate how God uses grace for salvation.

Also, another FYI, Augustine was the first to fully grasp the same concepts of salvation through grace that TULIP teaches. So, seeing your hatred for Calvinism and salvation by grace, I have no interest in your supposed “help”. But when you come to understand that Augustine and Calvin were on the same side of the discussion of salvation by grace, come and get me and I will help you out.
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Men now surpass women in church attendance, especially among Gen X, millennials: Barna

Yes, but I believe it is the attitude that many of today's religious women learn from today's pop culture that causes them to reject Christ and the Church.
I wouldn't agree with you at all, there. If you look at my post again, I'd say they're not rejecting Christ at all, and they're rejecting what is unhealthy and damaging in the Church.
They want roles in the Church that usually held by men (such as being a priest; yes, I'm Catholic and believe only a man can be a priest).
Vocation is a lot more complicated than what someone "wants." But I don't really want to turn this thread into a debate on women's ordination, because the problem is there just as much for women who have no such vocation.
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Another look at the moon landing.

Strong in him the times vary on different sites anywhere from 30 minutes, a hour, two hours anywhere up to 3 hours . But given given the combined distance of the inner and outer belts of the Van Ellen’s Belt of some 70 thousand kilometres or 42,500 miles. The travel time would be closer to your article’s statement of 2 hours and could go as low as a hour as is stated in other publications of them choosing a shorter route of their alleged journey through the Van Ellen’s belt. As to the scientists I’m sure they don’t get their degrees out of cornflakes packets . As to believing everything a Christian claims or anyone for that matter. The answer is No. I must prepare for church now so cannot write more. Kathleen
There you go,

“The mathematical breakdown: OSHA's standard for radiation safety allows exposure of up to 300 rads (the unit of measurement for absorbed doses of ionizing radiation) in an hour. NASA determined that a spacecraft could travel through the radiation belts in 52 minutes with exposure of only 13 rads, based upon Van Allen's findings. This was determined to be well below the OSHA threshold and considered to be completely harmless. Until 1969, however, it was untested.”

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Priest explains why there is no hell

I‘m a bit confused … please clarify your “official doctrinal position” as it pertains to your statements in the highlighted portions above and below. I shouldn’t need to point out the inconsistencies of the bolded and underlined. Elaborate if you will please …

Man is spirit and body, both of which are subject to death.

Man is born spiritually dead
(edit: without God's eternal life within his immortal spirit) and man eventually succumbs to physical death.
Scripture uses "spiritual" relating to two things about man, and that can be confusing:

1) spiritual death in relation to the human spirit is not death of one's spirit, but is the absence of (eternal) God's life within one's immortal human spirit.

2) the divine Holy Spirit, which indwells the born again, within his immortal human spirit, and where everything related to the Holy Spirit is "spiritual;" e.g., the new birth of the Holy Spirit is into God's eternal "spiritual" life.
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What is Calvinism and its beliefs?

2 Pet 3 "God is not willing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance"
Matt 23 "How I WANTED to spare your children, but you would not"
John 1:11 "He came to HIS OWN and his own received Him not"
Matt 18 "I forgave you all that debt just because you asked, you should have forgiven others as you were forgiven but you did not... return all the debt to him"

God so loved the World that He gave His only Son that whosoever believes in Him should have everlasting life.

Shows that it is God's heart the created the process of salvation

On the contrary, that Matt 7 statement of Christ removes all options that seek to make God the problem when someone chooses the wide path rather than the Narrow path. It does not say "God chooses for many to be on the wide path to destruction and God chooses for only a few to be on the Narrow path".

The many are on the wide path to destruction even though "God is not willing that any should perish"

How could I possibly have a problem with that? It is clearly a problem for Calvinism just like Matt 18 "I forgave you all the debt" where the ungrateful servant then loses all his forgiveness (forgiveness revoked) and the danger/warning/lesson is stated as "So shall My Father do to each one of you IF you do not ..."

Yet another problem for Calvinism.

Very much like the problem Calvinism faces in Rom 11
You really don’t have any idea what the Doctrines of Grace teach, do you? LOL.

And by the same token, you don’t know what the Bible teaches, because what you call Calvinism is just scriptures right out of the Bible being spoken by Jesus.
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The History of the “Two Laws” Theory in Romans 3:20

until you read the New Covenant in Jer 31:31-33 and Heb 8 "I will make a NEW Covenant.. this IS the Covenant.. I will write MY LAW on their heart and mind..."

Turns out... God's Law is there.

"what matters is KEEPING the Commandments of God" 1 Cor 1:19
"this IS the LOVE of God that we KEEP His Commandments" 1 John 5:3-4
"saints KEEP the Commandments of God and their faith in Jesus" Rev 14:12
where "Honor your father and mother .. is the first commandment with a promise" Eph 6:1-2
The commandments of Jesus in the new covenant are 2 commandments that summarize and take over the whole law. The 613 Jewish laws including the 10 commandments was fulfilled by Christ sacrifice in the cross. The terms of the old contract have been met and exceeded by Christ. The new covenant has new and different terms. The Christian is not under the law.
Jer 31 says "I will write My Law" on their heart and mind.
The audience here is the Jewish people not the Christians.
Deut 5:22 says God wrote the TEN "and added no more".
The audience here is the Jewish people not the Christians.
Jeremiah's readers knew full well that one cannot delete the Ten Commandments from the term "the Law of God" or the "Commandments of God"
Like I stated the Jeremiah’s audience was the Jewish people not the Christians.


“Now the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how His body was laid. And then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭23‬:‭55‬-‭56‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Jesus was crucified and buried before the sabbath began. The women brought the spices and perfume before the sabbath and then rested on the sabbath. Jesus resurrection was on the first day not in the seventh therefore He had not yet completed ushered in the new covenant.

John 6 says Jesus is the bread yet we still have real bread. One thing can be used as a symbol for something else without deleting the primary purpose of it.
That does not follow that the new covenant includes the terms of the old covenant. Each contract has their own terms. When Jesus fulfilled the old covenant He issued a new covenant with different terms.
Is 66:23 "from one Sabbath to another shall all mankind come before Me to worship" is what God says for that future day after the cross, after the church during the "New Heavens and New Earth" ,... for all eternity.
Again, the audience here is the Jewish people. The Jewish people are still under the law including the sabbath so the verse is correct. Think about it for one minute, if you argue that the 4th commandment as stated in the law is still in force then the vast majority if Christians in the new covenant are breaking God’s commandment, even the most pious. In light of this do you think that promoting the law is biblically logical?
So then EVERY time in the New Testament that we see Paul preaching the Gospel in a worship service called "Sabbath" it is the Bible Sabbath of Gen 2:3. In fact "every Sabbath" preaching in Acts 18:4 is specifically every seventh day Sabbath.
Yes, for the purpose of preaching the gospel if Christ.

“To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the Law, I became as one under the Law, though not being under the Law myself, so that I might gain those who are under the Law;”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭9‬:‭20‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Food for thought. The Lords day was established by Jesus resurrection on the first day. But did you also know that every single appearance post crucifixion was also on the first day? Christ is just awesome.

Also I want to challenge you to find a single verse in the NT post crucifixion that commands the Christian to keep the Jewish sabbath.
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Another look at the moon landing.

I don't say two hours - the article does.
NASA scientists didn't get their qualifications out of a cornflakes packet - they knew what they were doing and what they were talking about.

That you don't believe them - even the Christians among them - says far more about you than it does about them.
Strong in him the times vary on different sites anywhere from 30 minutes, a hour, two hours anywhere up to 3 hours . But given given the combined distance of the inner and outer belts of the Van Ellen’s Belt of some 70 thousand kilometres or 42,500 miles. The travel time would be closer to your article’s statement of 2 hours and could go as low as a hour as is stated in other publications of them choosing a shorter route of their alleged journey through the Van Ellen’s belt. As to the scientists I’m sure they don’t get their degrees out of cornflakes packets . As to believing everything a Christian claims or anyone for that matter. The answer is No. I must prepare for church now so cannot write more. Kathleen
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Don't Believe The Lies!

They’re careless drivers and the company has a right to drop them. Which will probably result in a higher rate and that bothers him. Spiritualizing the experience doesn’t change the fact they were wrong. Penning the piece only made it worse. It’s a failed attempt to justify their mistakes

~bella
Yes, but not just that. He is a very popular preacher and writer of books and devotions, and he has thousands or millions of people who believe what he tells them. So he is perhaps leading millions of people to believe they can have faith which saves but which requires no obedience to God and no turning away from sin, and so he is sending them to hell based on a lie. And that is serious.
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The History of the “Two Laws” Theory in Romans 3:20

Sounds like the same ones according to Jesus (Mat5:17-30, Mat19:17-19 Mark2:27 Isa 66:23 Mat15:3-14 Mark7:7-13)

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. 15 But outside are dogs and sorcerers (Breaking commandment #1 Exodus 20:3) and sexually immoral (breaking commandment #7 Exodus 20:14) and murderers (breaking commandment #6 Exodus 20:13) and idolaters (breaking commandment #2 Exodus 20:4-6), and whoever loves and practices a lie (breaking # 9 Exodus 20:16 or any of the commandments 1 John 2:4) Breaking one we break them all James 2:11-12 Exo 20:1-17 .
Yep. Same ones that I debunked in this thread and in the other thread. Old tired argument based on verse mining and using OT verses as if they apply yo the NC when they do not. You are my sister in Christ but I will debunk arguments that attempt to put the monkey of the bondage of the law back in the Christian. Scripture is clear that the Christian is not under the law.
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