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Morality without Absolute Morality

My apologies I thought if I starred *solely* it would be obvious that was my insertion.

Let the record show. *IMPEACH TRUMP*
Got it.

You say that you can insert anything you want into another person's quotes as long as you put the lie in asterisks. I disagree, but if that is the way you play the game, I guess two can play that game too.

Please stop altering what people said when you quote them back.

Please. Please. Please.

I will remove the edit I made to your post if you remove the edit you made to my post. Deal?
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Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

As opposed to your methodology using verses to eliminate ALL the multiple verses that don't fit your position?
Do you even know what hermeneutics is? You use verses completely out of context which is why is so simple to refute your position.
What makes you think the statement of 1 John 4:7 is eliminated by what comes after?
Is not eliminated, the meaning and interpretation is clarified. Verses are not read and interpreted in an island.
What makes you think you can draw a line between God and Love? You think Love requires some contrived doctrine attached to make Love valid? I don't think so.
I’m not the one drawing a line it is you drawing the line and teaching a false doctrine devoid of biblical backing. You make things up as you go.
Tiny created you just make the God of all creation completely worthless for anyone unless "that tiny little person" makes God valid.
This is a perfect example of your inability to have a civil conversation. I’m not wasting my time any longer.
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The Saving results of the Death of Christ !

Christs death ensures for all whom He died, deliverance from this present evil world[Salvation] according to the Will of God !

Gal 1:4-5

4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

That fact Glorifies God the Father ! 3
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What did they teach you in school , flat or round earth?

Why is it ? If teachers were to teach that the earth is level (which some may believe) then they would find themselves out of a job.
This has actually happened to several teachers.
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I had a science teacher, tell me last school year that she believed in a flat/stationary earth. But was teaching what the curriculum from the school was, which was a globe earth. This is in a private school not a government public school.

I get quite a few people telling me they also believe in a flat earth. They tell me because of the back of my truck.



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BUSTED - 12 False theories refuted:

Bible Prophecy states many times the hard times we will all face before Jesus Returns. 1 Peter 4:12,, Isaiah 17:14 In the evening all is terror, in the morning it is gone. Such is the fate of our enemies, the lot of our plunderers.

Good and evil WILL be found within all of us. We can especially BANK ON the latter.
Don't you want to know what God has planned for His Peoples? Before Satan and his minions are cremated.
Already stated by Paul. ALL of Israel shall be saved.

As to your flesh only sight I wouldn't give 2 cents worth of credence.

The JEW is a JEW inside the box. That's where the Son of Promise will arise from. Inside. And it will be quick, and enmasse ala 1 Cor. 15:51, 2 Cor. 3:18

The Spirit of the Lord will CHANGE US and DESTROY our enemies, the devil and his messengers.

All this lollygag nonsense about physical temples and physical tribes are simply external physical sights that have NO PLACE in understanding spiritual things other than to prove their hollowness of understandings
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US Citizens detained for hours during massive immigration raid that empties Chicago apartment building in the middle of the night

Cruelty is the point.

Or creating real estate opportunities. Terrorize the neighborhood, force the residents to sell cheap and then move in, "gentrify" the neighborhood and sell at premium price.
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Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

It's not about them worshipping themselves, that's nonsense. Have you not read the entire book of Revelation?
Many times. Even read the whole thing out loud for the supposed blessing. Have you?
It's about those that worship them and take the mark, etc. When they are cast down it's by the wonders they produce that they are able to deceive the world. All those whose names are not written in the book of life will worship him. That's biblical.
Ah, but you see you ONLY see the above with an external physical eye, which has nothing to do with what's really going on INSIDE.

We do engage a world that can not be seen with adversaries that can not be seen. Would you agree?

IF so then I'd suggest to get off the flesh sight page and get on with a real close look, inside
We are talking about people that actually don't want to have anything to do with God. They would rather go the way of Satan.

In your flesh eyes God is completely incapable of freeing the captives and you give zero credence to the ability of the CAPTOR a very real UNSEEN captor, and you just lay it all on the slaves of Satan. Even though the vast majority of them have no clue of their status. Just like we didn't when we didn't know. See Eph. 2:2 for a reminder of WHOM we were divided from.
Sadly, the people that even choose to follow him at the end is said to be as the sand of the sea. They have no desire to repent. (as we see in Revelation) God certainly wants them to. That's why he's so long suffering.
Your God is only effective upon a choice and can do nothing without said choice, which places God solely at the WHIM of the chooser, which is why such proclamations are so lame and weak.

The trumpet of the Gospel is that God saves the captives and condemns their CAPTORS. And no one will have one little toot to the contrary about at the end. IF they toot contrary now it's not even the person tooting it. It's the enemy in them.
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US Citizens detained for hours during massive immigration raid that empties Chicago apartment building in the middle of the night

No, but he did wonder about all of the Germans who were moving into Pennsylvania keeping to their ways and refusing to “learn the King’s English!”
Even then immigration was an American bugaboo!

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Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

It is not a story. I really am not God.
Yes, but you certainly claim to be dead set on a position you claim to be from God, that technically doesn't even exist in the entirety of the Bible

You do realize that there is not one named example of any person in hell now or in the future? Do you know this?

One might think if said "doctrine" of people burning alive forever would be deserving of at least ONE named example?

Do you realize that there is not even ONE named person even threatened with such a fate in the entirety of the Bible?

Don't bother citing the same old scriptures without a named person being attached. I think we'd both agree that the devil and his messengers are slated for that fate and actually perceiving that we all have internal temptations of the TEMPTER we can easily apply those scriptures to our own faces and it would NOT be directed to us, but to our adversary. A complex thought, I know. Since you will encounter your own adversary in processing the information and most of the time the adversary will WIN.
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Prayers for the Departed

Friday

O LORD God almighty, I pray Thee, by the Precious Blood which Thy divine Son shed on this day upon the wood of the Cross, especially from His most sacred hands and feet, deliver the souls in purgatory, and in particular that soul for which I am most bound to pray: that no neglect of mine may hinder it from praising Thee in Thy glory and blessing Thee forever. Amen.

Our Father .. Hail Mary .. De Profundis & Eternal Rest

(Invoke St. Nicholas of Tolentino, Patron of the Holy Souls)
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The Testing of Your Faith

“In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.” (1 Peter 1:6-9 NASB1995)

A Parable of Sorts

The Lord Jesus is giving me a physical illustration of this today, with a spiritual parallel, so this will be kind of like a parable of sorts. And here is the physical situation:

About two weeks ago I started having very sharp pains in my chest, on the left side, where a tumor has been located in my lung for the past 11 years. It had not grown in the first two years, so they never looked at it again. Nine years later it has now been discovered that the tumor is nearly doubled in size, and that the sharp pain in my chest is located in the exact location of the tumor. But I also have labored breathing and chest pressure, so it is under consideration that the tumor could be what is causing all of this.

A series of tests was ordered for me by my doctor, and yesterday I had my first test, which was a breathing test. I am breathing at 44% of 100% breathing capacity, and so the doctor diagnosed me with COPD, stage 3. But this was without considering the tumor and its role in my breathing issue. And today he wants to run a more vigorous breathing test, and I just realized last night that he wants to give me a drug in this process, but after I had already told him that I don’t take medications, so that has to change.

Next week I am lined up for 4 more tests including an MRI of my brain, an ultrasound of my thyroid, an ultrasound of my heart, and a PET scan of my entire body to check for cancer. All these involve some kind of electronic imaging or radio waves, and the last one involves them putting a radioactive tracer in my body to show up any potential areas of my body where cancer might be detected. I had this done 11 years ago, and I survived it then, so I pray I will survive it again, but 4 of these in a row might be quite rough.

The Spiritual Parallel

The passage of Scripture speaks of being distressed by various trials which test our faith to see whether or not it is genuine God honoring faith which will result in genuine biblical salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

So, here is the parallel. I have a particular set of symptoms that I am aware of, but without these tests I have no way of proving they exist so that they can be resolved. Yes, I know that my God is my healer, and he could choose to just heal me, but that is not the course he has decided on for me at this moment. And these tests will have an element of pain and risk involved in them, but they are necessary in order to discover what is really going on inside my body, in order to make a correct prognosis, in order to know the correct way in which to resolve these issues, all under God’s direction.

And this parallels over to what this passage is teaching. We need our faith to be tested so that we can see where we have issues that need to be resolved so that we can find the correct solutions (biblical solutions) and to put those into practice. For some people, although they profess faith in Christ, they are still walking in sin, in sinful addictions, and the only way they will ever be free of their addiction to sin is to go through a painful process of testing and examining what is in their hearts so that they can get victory over darkness.

And yes, that will be a painful process, but without the examinations which look closely at what is going on inside the person, and to identifying the problem (the cancer, the tumor, spiritually speaking), and to learning the correct path for getting the sin cancer removed from the heart, there will never be victory over sin and freedom from bondage. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person (see Luke 6:45; Matthew 15:17-20).

Masking The Sin

Now, going back to my situation for a moment. I just realized last night that the additional breathing test scheduled for today is intended to be followed by an unknown (to me) medication to see if that improves the breathing. Now, I have been pharmaceutical dependent free for 17 years, by the grace of God, and I made clear to them yesterday that I do not take medicines, for drugs can be harmful, especially since it is known that I have a lung tumor, and it can just mask the situation and then not really deal with the problem.

And this, sadly, is what is often being done on a spiritual level to solve sinful addictive practices, to mask over the problem and then to not really get to the root of what is causing the sin issue. And this might be done via the use of literal drugs (narcotics) or via psychology or false teachings and false gospel messages which give people a false hope of salvation from sin and of eternal life with God. And they do this via diluting the gospel to make it less offensive and more comfortable for the sinner to continue in deliberate sin.

But the only way to true biblical freedom from our slavery to sin is to do the heart examination, to see what is in our hearts which is preventing us from surrendering our lives to the Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, and then to follow God’s biblical instructions on what we must do to be free from our addiction to sin. And his only resolution is that we must, by God-gifted faith in the Lord Jesus, die with Christ to sin, and now follow him in obedience to his commands. We must repent of (turn away from) our sins and have a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior.

For if we continue to hold on to whatever is stored in our hearts, i.e. that which is against God and his holiness, and which is leading us into sin, then we will never be free from our slavery to sin, and so we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. But if we let the Lord show us what is stored up in our hearts, and if we follow his solution for getting the evil out of our hearts, and so we repent of (turn from) our sins and we now obey our Lord and his commands, in practice, then we have life in Christ.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

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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The Testing of Your Faith
An Original Work / October 3, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Pray Jesus Christ stirs up people to play more physical sports & exercise as (1Tim 4:8) bodily exertion is of little value,but at least has some value

Playing video games is quite addictive, & possibly as addictive as social media. Furthermore, in the cases of Violent video games like "Call of Duty" or "Doom" that can involve watching gory killings, it can be spiritually, mentally, emotionally & psychologically harmful.

Therfore, Pray Jesus Christ stirs up people to play more physical sports & exercise as (1Tim 4:8) bodily exertion is of little value,but at least has some value as opposed to video games:

The Tea App

There actually are Christians on dating sites. There are dating sites that are specifically for Christians.

Seeking someone isn't forcing God's hand. It's really not much different than intentionally gathering with others with the hope of meeting someone.

Hookup culture is real, even among Christians, and there are a lot of people who use dating apps for that purpose, but not everyone who uses dating apps are doing that. Those who do use it for impure purposes are easy to spot and weed out quickly. Often making it clear in your profile that you don't want that is enough to get a lot of them to avoid you because most of them don't want to waste their time.
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Pope Leo XIV comments on Cupich’s plan to bestow award on Senator Durbin

Try to keep in mind that the Catholic Population in the West makes up only 1/3 of Catholics. 2/3'ds live
in oppressive societies where the death penalty is abusively given for things like blaspheme.

So, when the Pope's speak against the death penalty, they know that their message goes out to all the
Catholic world and most aren't living in the west.
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Weekly homilies

Saturday, October 4 2025

26th OT



Bar 4:5-12, 27-29

"You provoked your Maker with sacrifices to demons and not to God."



Those who are angered and distant from Love are those who offer sacrifices to demons. They provoke and harm themselves.





Luke 10:17-24

"Rejoice because your names are written in heaven."



Pure grace. Our names are written in heaven.



Let us simply accept that we are in the kingdom of God, in the Heart of God, at this moment.



Biblical texts: NAB-RE

Normand Thomas.
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Trump Calls For Ilhan Omar’s Removal From Congress

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