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All I can say is that, the Bible is
indeed an educational object and it does not tell of a globe. Even
modern cartography, in all of its wonder, states that the globe
earth is just another possible projection.

By Paul Hart.
His name is Pauly Hart, and he is just as deluded as you are.
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Dear Pete Hegseth, I’m Grateful the Japanese Navy Spared My Grandfather’s Life

Oh, it's a trick question. How many wars have been formally declared since WWII? I'll bet Congress declared them.
The answer is none. The last time congress executed their power to declare war was for WW2. So when you think about all the wars and conflicts the United States either started or got involved, it was not because Congress declared war. So the notion that we cannot be at war with drug cartels because "only congress can declare war" is nonsense.
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ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations

Did you just say they were on public assistance? If so, then they can pay for stuff.
Public assistance does not have an infinite supply. You say we need young workers to replace the aging population, more people on government assistance does not help with this issue
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Probably lots of reasons.
Not being able to believe in a God of love when there is much suffering, would be a chief reason.
Being let down by the church, is another - after all, what must God be like if his followers/representatives behave so badly?
Perceiving that the church has too much wealth when there is much poverty, may be another reason.
And sadly, even meeting other Christians - those who tell people they are going to hell, those who insist that church members tithe, those who say that people will have to give up parties/smoking/drinking/gambling or they can't be a Christian.

Maybe even people who claim the earth is flat, and everyone except themselves, is wrong.

Yep lots of reasons maybe they are more interested in Hollywood movies about space & no longer believe as they should or maybe they are believing in science more than God, yes lot's of reasons.

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Do Your Actions Speaks Louder then your knowledge?

People fail to realize that if the laws (10 Commandments) was nail to the cross, their would be no church today, even on the first day of the week, which is not written in the law. But it is very strange that people say there is no law, Jesus did it all, and refuse to follow what’s written in the Bible. That the day to go to church is on the seventh day of the week, Saturday. Then they say or quote, that the laws are written in our hearts, if that’s the case for some people, then you would know in your heart what day the Sabbath is on. Also it’s very spiritual that it’s written in the law, remember the sabbath day on the seventh day of the week.

So you're saying it is OK to steal and kill and to commit adultery and to bare false witness, etc...those things that you're saying that we have to separate from, and it's OK to do those things, because we don't have to keep the law. You say it causes division, because we under grace. But, Paul say in Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? NO, we should not sin! Because people who read and understand the word of God knows that Paul say in Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Maybe the teachers who do not obey the word of God are the ones not to listen to. Something else we have to understand something here, because this law Holy. Paul say in (Rom. 7:7,12) (v.7) What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, THOU SHALT NOT COVET. Paul asked a question, is the law sin? He said God forbid, he said the only way that he knew what sin was, was by the law. (v.12) Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Why in the world would a Christian want to do away with something that God said is holy.

This is true and God had Peter to clearly warn you about some of Paul’s writing. Now in (2Peter:3:15-16) (v.15) And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; (v.16) As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Now you need to take heed to this warning, you can’t ignore all the bible and just concentrate on one or two verse out of the writings of Paul. Because some of Paul’s writing is hard to be understood.
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RFK Adjusts Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendations; Democrats Lose Their Minds

CF has been flaky for me the last two days, so I lost much of my last post. But I feel it's important to talk about one of those things that I lost: Healthy Vaccinee Bias.

Basically, it goes something like this:
  • A mostly-healthy, low-risk population is vaccinated.
  • A retrospective observational study is conducted.
  • Very few people get sick ard/or die.
  • THE VACCINES WORKED! THE HEAVENS REJOICE! THE MEDIA DOTH DECLARE THAT THE VIRUS HAS BEEN DEFEATED! ALL HAIL SCIENCE!
What studies like this fail to account for is that even if the mostly-healthy, low-risk population had not been vaccinated, they would still have had very few people get sick and/or die. We're back to correlation != causation. But in the case of these observational studies (funded by industry, natch) , correlation IS causation. We gave the vaccine, people didn't get sick, ergo, the vaccine was effective. This is why there is often not a comparator to unvaccinated populations.

They tried this during COIVD. Studies were awash with healthy vaccinee bias. It worked for a little while. Who can forget the government propaganda, "The Pandemic of the Unvaccinated"? Until the real-world demonstrated that people who were vaccinated were getting sick just as much as people who weren't vaccinated. Fully vaccinated populations experienced outbreaks of infections. Odd, if the vaccine is supposed to "protect" you. Then came the pivot. You'll still get COVID, but you won't die. But people who weren't vaccinated weren't dying either. And no matter how many industry-funded studies there were, reality set in. That's one of the reason why tCOVID vaccine uptake dwindled each year and is now in the low 20% range.

The authors and organizations that write and publish these studies know precisely where their bread is buttered. They know the average person doesn't understand the difference between relative risk and absolute risk. They know the average person doesn't understand healthy vaccinee bias. So they publish studies with the "right" results to keep their funders happy.

Here is a great article that demonstrates how the industry has captured our healthcare systems.

"Our healthcare system isn’t about health—it’s about business.
And in this business, harm isn’t an accident. It’s built into the system.
The more I uncovered, the more I realized:
We aren’t just patients. We are customers.
And we are all trapped in Big Pharma’s spider web of influence."

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Zohran Mamdani taps ex-con rapper who served 7 years for armed robbery as criminal justice adviser on transition team:

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Zohran Mamdani taps ex-con rapper who served 7 years for armed robbery as criminal justice adviser on transition team:


Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has picked a controversial rapper who did seven years in state prison for armed robbery to advise him on the criminal justice system, The Post has learned.

Mysonne Linen, 49, a Bronx convict-turned-activist who was found guilty of two felony heists in the late 1990s, was appointed by the democratic socialist to sit on his mayoral transition’s “criminal legal system” committee — just one of many questionable picks.
I am not surprised. I have no doubt that Mamdani will have very many more extreme picks.
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ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations

The only refugees the Trump administration apparently recognises white south Africans fleeing a fictitious genocide.
Yeah it really put a strain on our resources letting those 90 people in our country
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Do Your Actions Speaks Louder then your knowledge?

No historical evidence exists to prove your conspiracy theory. It’s all in your head. The early church began keeping the Lords day in remembrance of Jesus resurrection from the very beginning of the church. Only the legalists and the unbelieving Jews continued to keep the law.

The legalists use the law to instill fear on their adherents which invalidates the saving grace of Jesus redemptive sacrifice.

Paul teaches about the newly converted Jews who started preaching a different gospel by insisting that Christian had yo keep the law. This was an argument that Paul fought in the early churches.

“I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel, which is not just another account; but there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭1‬:‭6‬-‭7‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

These verses talk of his visit to Jerusalem depicted in Acts 21 where he almost lost his life even though he only preached the true gospel to those that were if reputation (leaders of the church including James. He ended up running indeed because the legalists wanted to kill him for preaching grace instead of the law.


“Then after an interval of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also. It was because of a revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear that somehow I might be running, or had run, in vain. But not even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭2‬:‭1‬-‭3‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

The law that you preach does not justify and never will justify anyone. You preach gospel of works of the law. Cephas and Peter were being swayed by the legalists and were embarrassed of preaching the gospel of good news to the Jews.

“But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For prior to the coming of some men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and separate himself, fearing those from the circumcision. The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews? “We are Jews by nature and not sinners from the Gentiles; nevertheless, knowing that a person is not justified by works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law; since by works of the Law no flesh will be justified.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭2‬:‭11‬-‭16‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬


Like Paul you need to die to the law so that you might live for God. The law that you promoted will never declare the Christian righteous (justification), therefore your promotion of the law renders Christ sacrifice worthless. Think about that for a bit as you condemn all Christians that do not follow your law. Your condemnation means nothing.

For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.””
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭2‬:‭19‬-‭21‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬
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No need to fellowship now.....peace in Jesus name
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RFK Adjusts Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendations; Democrats Lose Their Minds

Well then, that's that. I don't see any point in further discussion since your mind is made up no matter what.

As opposed to your open-mindedness... :rolleyes:

But OK then. Nice talking to you!

Oh look! A graph with no sourcing. Cool.

Perhaps your eyesight is failing you. There is source listed right on the image. It's a bar chart showing the number of VAERS reports over the years. If you don't trust the chart, you can query CDC Wonder yourself to verify. :rolleyes:
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ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations

It is about knowing the difference between immigrant and refugee. a refugee seeks refuge until the danger he is fleeing from is over,

relieved he returns. Matthew 2:13-14, Matthew 2:19-20.
The only refugees the Trump administration apparently recognises white south Africans fleeing a fictitious genocide.
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