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Gallup: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World

You made two statements. And they both mean the same thing. And they are both wrong.
nope, they're both right. You're just falling for Islamist apologist propaganda.
From here: https://islam.ru/en/content/story/slay-unbelievers-wherever-you-find-them-verse-sword-explained

'The Quran says, “Slay them wherever you find them…” which abrogates all the peaceful verses in the Quran and lets Muslims kill any non-Muslim they want.'

But...

'This verse commands Muslims to defend their community against idolaters who violated their peace treaty obligations and were waging a war of aggression.

The verse is applicable only to hostile armies and not to non-Muslims in general. We should look at the entire chapter and interpret the verses comprehensively and consistently, rather than taking one verse out of context.

And...

"When the sacred months have passed, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give charity, let them go on their way. Verily, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.:

But...

Some scholars referred to this as the “verse of the sword” because it commands the Muslims to defend the community against their enemies, but this is merely the designation of some scholars and it was not labeled as such by the Prophet, his companions, or the early Muslims. The verse allows for hostilities to cease if the idolaters repent from their transgression and become Muslims. Even if they refuse to accept Islam, the verse immediately following commands peace with any idolater who stops fighting and asks for a covenant of security.
Yeah, an islamist apologetics site is not the best way to get accurate information about things that aren't flattering to Islam. But hey, not everyone has the time to actually read the hadith and sira, as well as the ishtijad which is mostly in disagreement with those claims until recent attempts at whitewashing. But I'm sure you source all of your information about religions from their apologists, right?
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Imitatio Christi - is the following Biblical?

Hey Colo Millz, Kiwi in Tokyo here—years of chronic pain have made Phil 3:10 my lifeline. When I choose to unite the ache to Christ’s, it stops feeling pointless and becomes partnership: purging pride, deepening compassion, and reminding me the nails weren’t the worst part—bearing our sin was (Luke 22:44). Biblical, provided we remember our pain participates in, never completes, His finished work (Col 1:24; Rom 8:18). Thanks for putting biblical meat on a hard reality—fellow-partakers, not the punished. Grace to you.

I myself also suffer from chronic pain and know of what you speak. It is a consolation.
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Gallup: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World

I spoke of muslim beligerants, and I stand by my statement even with you attempting to mischaracterize it.
You made two statements. And they both mean the same thing. And they are both wrong.
It's not just apostates, it's anyone they classify as kafiri...which is pagans, polytheists, atheists, and idolaters.
From here: https://islam.ru/en/content/story/slay-unbelievers-wherever-you-find-them-verse-sword-explained

'The Quran says, “Slay them wherever you find them…” which abrogates all the peaceful verses in the Quran and lets Muslims kill any non-Muslim they want.'

But...

'This verse commands Muslims to defend their community against idolaters who violated their peace treaty obligations and were waging a war of aggression.

The verse is applicable only to hostile armies and not to non-Muslims in general. We should look at the entire chapter and interpret the verses comprehensively and consistently, rather than taking one verse out of context.

And...

"When the sacred months have passed, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give charity, let them go on their way. Verily, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.:

But...

Some scholars referred to this as the “verse of the sword” because it commands the Muslims to defend the community against their enemies, but this is merely the designation of some scholars and it was not labeled as such by the Prophet, his companions, or the early Muslims. The verse allows for hostilities to cease if the idolaters repent from their transgression and become Muslims. Even if they refuse to accept Islam, the verse immediately following commands peace with any idolater who stops fighting and asks for a covenant of security.
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Trump suggests he’ll release Jeffrey Epstein ‘client list’ if elected: ‘I’d have no problem with it’

Trump says he signed Epstein bill

It's unlikely the Justice Department would release the entire Epstein file, according to sources. Any materials related to ongoing investigations or White House claims of executive privilege will likely remain out of public view.

Trump did not need to wait for Congress to act -- he could order the release immediately.
Couldn't Biden have ordered the release then? What was he waiting on?
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Trump suggests he’ll release Jeffrey Epstein ‘client list’ if elected: ‘I’d have no problem with it’

Trump says he signed Epstein bill

It's unlikely the Justice Department would release the entire Epstein file, according to sources. Any materials related to ongoing investigations or White House claims of executive privilege will likely remain out of public view.

Trump did not need to wait for Congress to act -- he could order the release immediately.
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Vatican stops use of titles for Mary

2 Tim 3:15 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
3:16 All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice:

The Scriptures Timothy knew from his infancy ( most likely before Christ was crucified ) is the Tanakh. Paul COULD NOT be referring to the Bible. Paul was referring to the Tanakh.
There's also the question of what theopneustas means in context, because there is a good case to be made that prior to Origen the idea was a life-giving property to the texts which fits with Pauls focus on the usefulness of the Scriptures in pastoral service rather than a theory of inspiration. It is out-breath not in-breath.
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Vatican stops use of titles for Mary

2 Tim 3:15 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
3:16 All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice:

The Scriptures Timothy knew from his infancy ( most likely before Christ was crucified ) is the Tanakh. Paul COULD NOT be referring to the Bible. Paul was referring to the Tanakh.

Not even the Tanakh, but St. Timothy would in infancy have known only the Targumim, or Aramaic glosses of it, which would have been understood before one learned the liturgical Hebrew, since in the year 0, Hebrew was a liturgical language like the Latin, Koine Greek, Church Slavonic or Jacobean English of today (one major error made by Vatican II was the presumption of an imperative for vernacular in the liturgy even though Vatican II never declared an all-vernacular liturgy; comprehensibility is enough, where admittedly Latin was losing ground, but what was indicated was the use of liturgical languages like Galgolithic had been used in the Slavic lands and the formal Jacobean English used by Anglicans and until recently by all Anglophone Eastern Orthodox; even more wrong was the choice of an intentional oversimplification of the text via a vis “and also with you” instead of “and with thy spirit” found in the ancient Greek and Latin liturgies.
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Gallup: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World

There is? Only if it was: "kill some of those those who don't convert" and "kill anyone who doesn't convert". If you have a different religion and you don't convert, according to you then either sentence is applicable. Which is not correct.
I spoke of muslim beligerants, and I stand by my statement even with you attempting to mischaracterize it.
Apostasy is a different matter.
It's not just apostates, it's anyone they classify as kafiri...which is pagans, polytheists, atheists, and idolaters. Which is the marching orders from the end of Muhammad's life, which is why abrogation is an important concept to understand to understand Islamic jurisprudence. Apostasy is a different matter, which is why I wasn't talking about apostates.
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Gallup: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World

...there is a difference between "kill those who don't convert" and "kill anyone who doesn't convert"...
There is? Only if it was: "kill some of those those who don't convert" and "kill anyone who doesn't convert". If you have a different religion and you don't convert, according to you then either sentence is applicable. Which is not correct.

Apostasy is a different matter.
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They are always asking you to produce a flat earth model.
So why haven't you been able to produce one. If the earth was actually flat it would have been the easiest thing to do.
Well ask them to produce an actual physical 3d globe showing the land masses at 100% accurate size.
Why don't you ask? (admittedly you should be asking for a scale model, not 100%)
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Explain how it isn't, because it seems to match up pretty well with the red adjusted sizes posted above.
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The Reality of Free Will

True free will requires the ability of one moral agent to make moral choices without coercion, constraints, or consequences imposed by another moral agent. Anything short of that is not "free will," but "volitional agency."
Free will doesn't require freedom from consequences, nor does it need to be absolute and without constraint. Coercion is also debateable, depending on whether it is resistable or irresistable. Free will just requires that the origin of the actions be in the person's will, rather than being something imposed upon them. So distinguishing between volitional agency and free will is an artificial one, as they amount to the same thing.
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Are the Jews Israel, or is the church Israel? Or does it depend on the context of the passage?

The text says olive tree, not Israeli tree.
The good olive tree is true Israel. We have been joined to them - the elect remnant according to grace. It is a spiritual Israeli tree. It is a believing tree. It is the household of faith from the beginning.

Why did you duck the other points?
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Are the Jews Israel, or is the church Israel? Or does it depend on the context of the passage?

I have been doing this 40 years, I understand the difference between the holy spirts voice and Satan's lies. Anytime I see people who can not understand God's SIMPLE TIMING PATTERNS, I get leery. Not understanding these deeper truths leads people down wrong paths, and then they teach others these same errors. Yet these types refuse to listen to those of us who present the facts, its always the message board warriors or the Mormon/JW types that go down these roads.

No matter how its presented, even when it overcomes their own take on things, they jut forge ahead, eyes closed, these types can't see because they chose not to see. As per anything secret, its only secret TO YOU GUYS. God writes in ways the average joe CAN NOT SEE on purpose. Jesus stated he spoke in parables so the world hearing they would not hear and seeing would not see. So, why didn't Israel understand the Old Testament Bible that foretold Jesus' coming as a sacrifice? Because they did not WANT TO SEE IT !! Its in there, but in God's own way He forces us to dig these truths out, NOTICE, nowhere does it say on Dec. 25 (just an example we do not know what day he was born on) year 03 at 7 AM that Yeshua will be born. WHY? According to you guys that is how God must write things down, same excuse the Pharisees and Nicodemus gave. The Old Man in the temple saw baby Jesus and he knew but HOW? The wise men knew. The scripture says Yeshua will be born in Bethlehem, it says "My son" will come out of Egypt, how can both be true? Did God confused the Pharisees on purpose? No, that is how He writes, you call it "SECRET" but its not, you just refuse to hear these factoids because God refuses IT spell it out in a manner you think He should. Psstt, He wants you to dig it out, and you are too busy locked into your own understanding, just as the Pharisees were, MOST PEOPLE ARE, so Nicodemus asks how can a man be born again? Which he of course refused to believe.

Its not even hard, to those who will open their minds and investigate all of the pertinent facts. Revelation is hard, the Simple Pre Trib. Rapture is not, that is easy stuff, their can be no other timing, period, nothing else even remotely fits. But like the pharisees you expect God to say it in BIG BOLD WORDS, that is not going to happen, it did not happen with Jesus' birth which practically no one saw coming, and it will not happen with the rapture, but unlike them, we have direct access to the holy spirit, so like that Old Man, many people will understand it. He dug the info out as did the wise men, its here, why can't you dig it out my friend?


That is NOT CORRECT, the After THIS is speaking about the Church Age. The THINGS WHICH YOU HAVE SEEN is talking about the Supernatural Glory of Jesus' Eternal Godhead and Splendor. The THINGS WHCH ARE can only mean the Church Age. The Hereafter can only mean after he Church Age. You denying these facts will not change these facts brother. We know when the transition happens because we see it happen in real time in Rev. 4:1

AFTER THIS (Rev. 2 and 3 the Church Age where 7 = Divine Completion, not after Rev. 1 COME ON, this is why you can never see these things) A DOOR IS OPEN TO HEAVEN, does God have to knock us over the head to show us this is the rapture? COME UP HERE............Again, its astounding you can not see this which should be an easy thing to see..........AND I WILL SHOW YOU THINGS WHICH MUST BE "HEREAFTER" [The Church Age]. As I stated, you do not want to see it. The disciples understood by Nicodemus

Running late, All I have time for today
You have been badly misled.

Where is the rapture in Rev 4:1? Where is the mention of the Church in Rev 4:1? You cannot even show these. That because it is not there. You force it into the inspired text. You cannot even get to B, never mind Z. Pretrib is all man-made theories. There is no authentic divine substance to it.
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B flat B♭

Isn't it obvious ?
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They are always asking you to produce a flat earth model. Well ask them to produce an actual physical 3d globe showing the land masses at 100% accurate size.

Real Country Sizes Shown on Mercator Projection (Updated) - Engaging Data

Cause this ain't it

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He’s a citizen with a Real ID. ICE detained him anyway. Twice.

There is no way one party is going to bring in all of those people in violation of the Constitution and then try and hide behind the Constitution and delay their processing for years until they can take over for good. The missing children need to be rescued and the criminals deported.
Which, again, has nothing to do with my argument.
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Can not being in the correct denomination cause someone to not be saved?

this has worried me, do I need to be a Catholic to be saved, or a Protestant? Or does the denomination have nothing to do with it?
The bare minimum for adults for Salvation according to Scripture and Tradition.

Water Baptism

John 3:5 Jesus answered: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

The Eucharist

John 6:54 Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.
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He’s a citizen with a Real ID. ICE detained him anyway. Twice.

The opinion that matters is at the ballot box, and Donald Trump was elected. You will have the opportunity to voice your opinion in 2026 and 2028. The election is the opinion that matters .
Skewed public opinion polls do not carry the weight of law Laugh all you want, your amusement numbs your mind to the truth
What truth?

BTW- As an independent I voted for Trump (really against Harris) in the last election but am not a groupie like you. I’m still centrist while you have jumped all the way to far right. The minority opinion, if you even want to call it that, is not subversive.
Oh and even the Pope says countries have the right to protect their borders. Biden did not

Pope Leo Rebukes Pro-Migration Advocates
Your arguments really is all over the place and your Strawman continues. There is nothing wrong about protecting the border but there is everything wrong by treating people inhumanely. That is your pope’s message.
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

With regards to the nonsense of the ancient Egyptians using pyramids to 'focus or amplify' electromagnetic energy, all objects including pyramids can exhibit electromagnetic resonances.
These resonances occur when an external electromagnetic wave matches one of the natural oscillation modes of the object.
In conductive materials this involves free electrons oscillating collectively while in insulating materials like limestone or granite, the response is much weaker and consists mainly of small polarization shifts rather than free electron motion.
At resonance the frequency of the electromagnetic radiation matches the frequency of the oscillating electrons or polarization shifts resulting in an increase in the amplitude of the oscillation.

The internal chambers of the Great Pyramid have different dielectric properties than the surrounding limestone and granite walls, so can alter the distribution of electromagnetic fields and support their own weak resonance modes. Inside the chambers, electromagnetic fields can form weak standing-wave patterns due to reflections off the walls to form constructive interference with the incident radiation creating regions where the field is slightly stronger and is normal cavity resonance found in any enclosed space.

It is blatantly obvious the ancient Egyptians were completely unaware of the physics by simply comparing the interiors of the Great Pyramid with the second largest pyramid that of Khafre.

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Khafre’s pyramid contains intrusive tunnels created by tomb robbers but would show a far weaker electromagnetic field enhancement than Khufu’s because it lacks internal chambers and therefore dielectric discontinuities which cannot support internal standing-wave resonant modes.

If the ancient Egyptians were aware of the physics they would not have constructed Khafre’s pyramid with the internal chamber below the pyramid where enhancements would have been negligible.
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