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Trump pardons Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, all fake electors for their attempt to overturn 2020 election, pardon official says

Many of the pardon's Biden gave are questionable as well it's not a one sided thing.
Feel free to share your list. I mean of course there will be some...these are people who broke LAWS.

So which ones do you think are questionable?
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WHY HYDOR IS NO LONGR NEEDED. ??

This is what 1 Cor 1:15 says to ALL. !!

# 1 LEST // ME is a DISJUNCATIVE PARTICLE NEGATIVE and means NEVER WILL BE

# 2 ANYONE // TIS. is an INDEFINITE PRONOUN. in the NOMINATIVE CASE , in the SINGULAR

# 3. SHOULD. SAY //. EIPON. in. the AORIST TENSE , in. the ACTIVE VOICE. , is a SUBJUNCATIVE in. the SIGNULAR

# 4. THAT. //. is a CONJUNCATION

# 5. I HAD. BAPTIZED //. BAPTISMO. in. the AORIST TENSE. in. the ACTIVE VOICE. in the INDICATIVE MOOD in. the SINGULAR

# 6 IN. //. EIS. is a PREPOSITION

# 7. MINE OWN //. ENOS is a POSSESSEIVE PRONOUN is an. ACCUSATIVE CASE is a SINGULAR

# 8 NAME. // ONOMA. is a ACCUSATIVE CASE inv. the SINGULAR. in. the NEUTER


# A That is why Paul would NEVER WATER BAPTIZED NO ONE. because he did not have the AUTHORTY. to water Baptized ANYONE !!

# B. AND the only. ONE. , the 11 disciples in. Matt 28:16 were sent to BAPTIZE. all Nation , which. I says were all JEWS

in the name of. of the FATHER and the SON. and the HOLY SPIRIT !!

And Paul did not have the AUTHORTY. to baptize ANYONE !!

# A And I say that ANY PREACHER of any ASSEMBLY DOES NOT. HAVE that AUTHORTY EITHER

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Newsome pushed back against Democracy to achieve his political goals

I'm not particularly interested in TX politics.
Newsome asked his constituents to vote on it first. They approved.

Abbot didn't.

It's curious, seems to me you're unwilling to outright condemn Abbot, but more than willing to condemn Newsome, but their intentions and their tactics couldn't be more different.

-- A2SG, not to mention who they answer to....
Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. If the democrats cared about free and fair elections,, they wouldn't be moving to gerrymander an already gerrymandered state. Abbot isn't being punished by Newsom gerrymandering CA, voters in CA whose local issues are going to be drowned out by the inclusion of voter bases whose interests are far removed from the localities are the ones who are going to lose. Saying that Newsom went to the voters doesn't excuse it, because his sole intent in the plan is to make elections in CA less fair.
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Amethyst Crystals

To collect for beauty purposes is fine. Using them for pagan or superstitious purposes would be a sin.

You sound fine!

God bless
Im just afraid I might be tempted to meditate with them again or start believing that they can calm me down, which I think New Agers believe about amethyst. I think that according to them it’s supposed to be a calming stone.
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Transgender ex-lawmaker, first in state's history, pleads guilty to federal child sex abuse charges

The media is starting to get pressure to stop covering up violence by transgenders.
Yeah. I'm SURE Republicans and the angry, angry Christians wouldn't have put every single instance of violence from transgender people into the national spotlight.

Again.
They're just not that violent.

Sorry.
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Morality without Absolute Morality

The same way all of us always have.
That's not an answer.
Awareness is good, understanding how "theory of mind" works in decision making and moral formation is better.
So you say, but it is just another illegitimate move from a state of affairs to how things ought to be
Once we realize that there is no such dilemma we can move on to actually dealing with moral reality.
If there is no such reality, then there's no point talking about morality at all. Just imposing our will to the extent that we are able, because if morals aren't objective than there's no reason to bother with them.
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Transgender ex-lawmaker, first in state's history, pleads guilty to federal child sex abuse charges

No it's not. It's reporting all the events that were happenningt bvefore.
Indeed. The mainstream media reported this case 2 years ago.

[New Hampshire case]

and there were signs even before that.

She's got issues. I don't expect her star to rise in the party.
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The Saving results of the Death of Christ !

Another one of the saving results of the death of Christ is in order that, those He died for will receive the adoption of Sons, which requires sending the Spirit into their hearts Gal 4:4-6

4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

All for whom Christ died, He redeemed Gal 3:13 and each one of them will in Gods good time , will be given the Spirit into their hearts confirming, validating their adoption of Sons. They will know God as their Father ! 8
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The Schumer Shutdown


Looks like there are brave Democrats who know it is time to open the government - here are their names.

Washington — Seven Democratic senators and one independent who caucuses with Democrats voted late Sunday to reopen the government and end the shutdown.​
Three of them have consistently voted for Republicans' short-term funding patch — which passed the House in mid-September — to keep the government funded until Nov. 21 at current levels. The measure narrowly advanced in the Senate after it secured the support of five more Democrats with the expectation that it will be amended to extend funding until Jan. 30.​
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Why the Lutheran Church is the Ancient Church

Rev. Stefan Gramenz is a Lutheran pastor and liturgical scholar working to recover the historic treasures of the Church for the English-speaking world. He serves with the Lutheran Missal Project, a collaborative effort to make the Lutheran liturgical heritage accessible to pastors and congregations today.

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Does the Hebrew grammar of Daniel 9:24–27 support Christian Widener’s “double seventy-weeks” interpretation?

Examples in Scripture

1. Exodus 24:6 —
“And Moses took half (חֲצִי) of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.”
→ Literal half-portion of something divided.


2. Joshua 8:33 —
“And all Israel… stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests… half (חֲצִי) of them over against Mount Gerizim and half of them over against Mount Ebal.”
→ Physical division of people into two halves.


3. 2 Samuel 19:40 —
“And all the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half (חֲצִי) the people of Israel.”
→ Numerical half.


4. Daniel 9:27 —
“…and in the middle (חֲצִי) of the week he shall cause sacrifice and offering to cease.”
→ Same word; here it means the “halfway point” of
the prophetic week.
You just proved my point. So you divide the week in half (3 1/2 years) you don't ADD it to the week to make 10 and change. It's not Half + full week, it's just half OF the full week.
חֲצִי is a noun. So in the middle of what? שָׁבוּעַ the week.
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Deal Reached To End The Government Shutdown

...another take away: Trump has no qualms about cutting off food aid to the American people.

First he refused to fund SNAP.
When multiple states sued him and won in court, Trump agreed to only partially restore SNAP.
When some states found ways to restore full funding, Trump ordered the states to stop else face consequences.
Trump is still asking the USSC to rule on whether the POTUS can refuse to fund programs that Congress has authorized.

He doesn't care.
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Trump opens the door for sanctions on Nigeria over persecution of Christians

Sanctions aren't all he's considering.

Trump threatens to cut off aid to Nigeria, possible military action over claims of 'killing of Christians'

"If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, "guns-a-blazing,"

Trump caught own allies 'off guard' with military threat based on Fox News story: report

The Washington Post on Sunday published a new report called, "Trump’s ‘guns-a-blazing’ threat to Nigeria shocked key players, aides," in which the outlet claims that "Trump’s threat to go 'guns-a-blazing' into Nigeria concerned U.S. military officials in Africa and surprised even those who had been pushing the issue."

Referring to Trump's new priority as "seemingly out of the blue," the report states that "the president’s initial post followed a meeting in Washington between his top advisers and members of the faith community, and after he watched a Fox News segment on the topic aboard Air Force One, according to three people with knowledge of the situation."
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Does the Hebrew grammar of Daniel 9:24–27 support Christian Widener’s “double seventy-weeks” interpretation?

2025 CE → Beginning of the 70th week (final 7 years)
• Covenant people prevail at first; rise of end-time opposition
The 7 years of Daniel 9:27 coincide with the 7 years following the Gog/Magog event of Ezekiel 38-39.

The 7 years are the 7 years of Ezekiel 39:9.

So the key thing to remember is the Gog/Magog attack on Israel event, then the 7 years.
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