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Continuous stone tools use and manufacture in one location 2.75 million years ago.

What about the finding of continuous use in the same location?

Is that not significant ,or is that something that was already known or assumed to be the case even if not directly ascertained till now. ?
Of course it's significant. But we have evidence of human structures earlier than that. I don't think anyone was surprised that humans would stay in a place that had all the resources they needed, or that they'd be making tools, possibly for trade. Interesting, but not a surprising find.
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Spiritual Israel + End times

Re-reading the verse in an inclusionary light would invoke one of the curses at the end of the book, so I wouldn't recommend it.
I was basing it off of what you said "The 144,000 are unmarried men, virgins." Which draws more implications. If this is not your point, then can you reframe or expound on it? Because based on what you claim, those issues I see come up. Warning me to believe something doesn't make sense when I literally following what you said and this is a discussion. I'm trying to understand your points while also draw my own conclusion. So if your interpretation is literal that these are men only, then my argument for that is expounded on what I stated to counter your interpretation. We are supposed to study the word are we not? Your answer comes off like, "If you don't agree with me, then you'll get one of the curses at the end of the book while I'm not going to back up my statement." That's not the way to have any discussion really..

The new testament fulfills what the old testament proclaimed. Manifestation meaning the new testament fulfillment of the old concept.

The old testament was a shadow of the things to come, the body casting said shadow is the manifestation. Much like how the elements of the temple all pointed to Christ.
I agree with that but help me understand how you link the 144,000 as a manifestation of the OT. There is no OT mirror of a bunch of unmarried virgin men anywhere in the bible when it comes to tribes. Anytime God had a remnant of people he was saving, it was based on their spiritual state, not being married/unmarried or even virgins. So I'm really failing to see any of your points.
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Young earth vs Old earth?

Ah no I'm not confusing anything. Genesis 1 tells us that God created man. But we know that man was made of dust. When God created the blacksmith, or Jacob, The Bible doesn't say that God transformed them, it explicitly states that God created them as I cited in passages above.

But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. Isaiah 43:1

See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc. Isaiah 54:16

God doesn't merely transform Jacob or Israel or the blacksmith etc. God explicitly creates them.

In fact, it's the same Hebrew word as used in Genesis 1. "Bara".

And to create does not explicitly mean "ex nihilo".

I created a sandwich. But that doesn't mean that I therefore made a sandwich appear out of thin air. I can create a recipe. I can create a football team. I can create a work of art. I can create a piece of furniture etc.

And God can create things this way too.

This is a simple and commonly overlooked misconception about Genesis that has plagued the church for a long time.
We believe that God creates each soul individually at conception. After His animating act, the bodies begin their material transformation from egg and sperm and develop into fully formed bodies. Does the acorn create the oak tree? No. It is the seed with the potency to transform under the correct condition to become an oak tree.
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The Mandami effect

It will be interesting to see how things are going in NYC a year from now. Hopefully it won't end up being a hard lesson for NY citizens.
Mandami cannot fulfil half of his campaign promises since a city mayor lacks the authority for those changes. The rest may be possible, but would require two or three years, so significant change in NYC seems unlikely.
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Trump federalizing DC police, deploying National Guard in capital crime crackdown

“I could feel it through my ballistic vest,” the agent testifies. “The sandwich…exploded all over my uniform. I could smell the onions and the mustard.” As Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz might have testified....

Does this man have any self-respect?
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end the filibuster?

I am not American, so there is something you need to explain to me.
Trump on Truthsocial
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The Democrats will terminate the filibuster once they can . So it seems to be that the Democrats don't like the filibuster. Right.
Also Trump, on the same Truthsocial:


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Do I understand this correctly that it is Republicans that are playing games and hinder the re-opening of the country by not giving Democrats what they want?
But also:
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So Democrats want to terminate the filibuster, which would allow Republicans to pass legislation and sail to victory, yet the same Republicans block this?

I am confused.

Morality without Absolute Morality

Now I have read the article, it is rich in hypotheticals and possibilities but there is not one calculation or simulation that describes the increase in fitness for humans by adopting a forced-sex mating strategy so what conclusions are one to draw from it? Do you know if anyone have put down their concrete assumptions and made any calculations?
The article is more of a summary of the issues, you'd have to dig into the citations to get more of the research data.
An evolutionary approach also requires that the propensity to rape would be heritable, do you know if that have been investigated? Do rapists even on average get more offsprings than non-rapists? Especially for humans.
Not necessarily, strategies need not be heritable to improve fitness. Nor does it need to result in more offspring. All that is needed is that it increases the statistical likelihood of genes surviving, which is explained by the manner in which rapists are able to copulate with more females by bypassing parental mate selection.
So now the argument goes from "It's a reproductive strategy that is highly successful" to possibly relevant.
It is a successful reproductive strategy that improves fitness. How successful isn't all that relevant, the only issue is whether we can draw a straight line from fitness to morality.
I really wish that evolutionary psychologists would focus on what is explained by evolutionary psychology instead of what can be explained by evolutionary psychology (which of course is almost everything, only limited by the ingenuity of the psychologist).
Considering that there is very little demonstrated regarding heritability of psychology in general, evolutionary psychologists wouldn't have much to talk about if they didn't engage in conjectural discussions and debate.
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Are professed Christians that worship our Lord on Sunday instead of Saturday sinning?

Aren't you supposed to rest and do nothing on a Saturday? The Sunday ritual in many interpretations is work.
I can if I want to, not because I’m commanded to.
Besides, we are free to live any day unto the Lord now, not just one out of seven.
Absolutely!!!!
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The Mandami effect

It's quite genius, actually. There is no infighting. All force is directed towards the opposition. Modern conservatives are willing to accept the good with the bad, while the left is routinely tearing itself apart because of minor disagreements and can't find it's direction because it believes that the direction actually matters.
I'd be more inclined to think "accept the bad with the even worse"
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Are professed Christians that worship our Lord on Sunday instead of Saturday sinning?

Israel is the assembly (church)
No.

Origin and history of church


church(n.)​

Middle English chirche, from Old English cirice, circe "place of assemblage set aside for Christian worship; the body of Christian believers, Christians collectively; ecclesiastical authority or power," from Proto-Germanic *kirika (source also of Old Saxon kirika, Old Norse kirkja, Old Frisian zerke, Middle Dutch kerke, Dutch kerk, Old High German kirihha, German Kirche).
This is probably [see extensive note in OED] borrowed via an unrecorded Gothic word from Greek kyriakē (oikia), kyriakon doma "the Lord's (house)," from kyrios "ruler, lord" (from PIE root *keue- "to swell," also forming words for "strong, powerful").
Greek kyriakon (adj.) "of the Lord" had been used in reference to houses of Christian worship since c. 300, especially in the East, though it was less common in this sense than ekklesia or basilikē. An example of the direct Greek-to-Germanic transmission of many Christian words, via the Goths; probably it was used by West Germanic people in their pre-Christian period.

How does this help you? Nothing here about Israel being the church.
In Greek mythology, Circe (/ˈsərsiː/;[1] Ancient Greek: Κίρκη, romanized: Kírkē, pronounced [kírkɛː]) is an enchantress, sometimes considered a goddess or a nymph.[2] In most accounts, Circe is described as the daughter of the sun god Helios and the Oceanid Perse. Circe was renowned for her vast knowledge of potions and herbs. Through the use of these and a magic wand or staff, she would transform her enemies, or those who offended her, into animal

Are you now into pagan gods?
Yahshua was commissioned for none but Israel.
Yep and Israel rejected the messiah so the branches were cut off.

““Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. Behold, your house is being left to you desolate! For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, ‘Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ””
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭23‬:‭37‬-‭39‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Until Israel declare Jesus their Lord and Savior they will remain estranged from Christ.
The renewed covenant is with Israel.
There is no renewed covenant. The covenant of blood is with the church not with Israel,
We've covered this ad nauseam.
And you keep getting it wrong. Repeating an incorrect opinion does not make it come true.
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Maybe you'd never guess...

but many of us probably would have...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/politics/argentina-bailout-investors.html


That the reason billions were chucked at Argentina was to help american billionaire investments in Argentina far right government keep from going cheeks up.

Trump administration: protecting American Billionaires again!

Hey! Maybe American conservatives will look through Argentina's shopping cart and suddenly care where there tax dollars go!

Are professed Christians that worship our Lord on Sunday instead of Saturday sinning?

The Torah is forever. We have been over this.
You go ahead and believe that. I don’t.

“But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the Law, being confined for the faith that was destined to be revealed. Therefore the Law has become our guardian to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. For you are all sons and daughters of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭3‬:‭23‬-‭29‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

We are no longer under the guardianship of the law. Nor are we Israel.
He called us to follow him.

Ask any practicing Jew if he fulfills the law; and he will answer in the affirmative.

All of the Torah has not been fulfilled; but we are to fulfill our part, in our time.
Of course they will but that is not what the scriptures teach. No one can work for salvation. No one can earn justification. All of the Torah has been fulfilled in Christ through His sacrifice on the cross.
(CLV) Lk 24:44
Now He said to them, "These are My words, which I speak to you, still being with you, for all must be fulfilled that is written in the law of Moses and the prophets and psalms concerning Me."

The Torah was not finished when Yahshua was killed. It was dogma (doctrine of men) that was nailed to the stake.

The Torah is forever. Yah said it. Yahshua repeated it.

I will trust in them over the doctrine of men.

“But when the fullness of the time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons and daughters. Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba! Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are not gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles, to which you want to be enslaved all over again? You meticulously observe days and months and seasons and years. I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭4‬:‭4‬-‭11‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

The argument in whether the believer is under the law of permeated the early church and Paul addressed the argument masterfully. The law is contrary to the gospel of good news. The law negates Jesus sacrifice for the propitiation of the believer’s sin through faith in Him. Your argument was defeated 2000 years ago.
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‘Traditional family values’ Michigan lawmaker Bryan Posthumus appears in adult hookup sites

Gonna play devils advocate here, but.. this was more than 10 years ago, and years before he got into politics. Perhaps he turned over a new leaf?
I agree that that is worth considering.
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The 2025 Government Shutdown Thread

Refusing to negotiate under extortion type coercion has nothing to do with being against the people.
It does in this case. Republicans are holding firm on ending health care subsidies for people who need them and refusing to negotiate on it.

That's just worn out left-wing propaganda. "The democrats are for the poor, and the republicans are only for the billionaires". Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. The democrat politicians also have swampland and a bridge to sell you.
Then tell me how Republicans are working for "the poor" by refusing to even consider extending health care subsidies while their bill cuts taxes largely benefitting those billionaires you mentioned.

-- A2SG, go ahead, make your case.....
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Young earth vs Old earth?

Not without being created. God did create ex nihilo. But that doesn't mean that Genesis must tell that specific story.

Jacob was created materially, but that never stopped God from creating Jacob again later in the Bible. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. God can create things as many times as he wants, materially, and non materially. Ex nihilo and ex materia.

But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. Isaiah 43:1

See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc. Isaiah 54:16

God created a blacksmith. Is this in contradiction with God creating him materially, simply because the blacksmith was born of a mother?

No.

This confuses a lot of people. But the simple solution is to understand that God can create things in many ways and is not limited to creating things only 1 time.

Just like I can create a chair by cutting down some trees. And then I can take that chair and can turn it into a bench etc.

And this doesn't mean that God didn't originally create ex nihilo. It's just a matter of which creation the story is talking about.

So if God says that He created a blacksmith. It's illogical to counter by saying "well how did God create this man if he was already created?" Or "because God created the blacksmith, that means that the blacksmith materially existed without being created".

These counter arguments don't make sense because God can in fact create ex nihilo and then later on take that which already materially exists, and can create it again. And again, and again etc.

And someone could ask, well why doesn't Genesis talk about ex nihilo material creation?

And to that I would say, hundreds of times God creates things throughout the Bible using pre existing material. Is God not allowed to do that with the formless earth (by taking it and giving it form)?
I think you might be confusing "created" with "transforming". The Word of God transforms people’s lives: Revelation 21:5: “Behold, I am making all things new”.
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The 2025 Government Shutdown Thread

Refusing to negotiate under extortion type coercion has nothing to do with being against the people. That's just worn out left-wing propaganda. "The democrats are for the poor, and the republicans are only for the billionaires". Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. The democrat politicians also have swampland and a bridge to sell you.
The GOP is trying to take away healthcare, and the Dems are trying to preserve it, while the GOP is concealing Trump's presence in the Epstein files.. It really is that simple.
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Are professed Christians that worship our Lord on Sunday instead of Saturday sinning?

(CLV) Jn 16:7
"But I am telling you the truth. It is |expedient for you that I may be coming away, for if I should not be coming away, the consoler will not be coming to you. Now if I should be gone, I will |send him to you.

(CLV) Jn 16:8
And, coming, that will be exposing the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judging:

What is sin?

(CLV) 1Jn 3:4
Everyone who is doing sin is doing lawlessness also, and sin is lawlessness.

What is righteousness?



Definition of righteous

1 : acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin
Do you not know what justification is? Do you not know what Christ work on the cross actually accomplished?

“But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, but it is the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in God’s merciful restraint He let the sins previously committed go unpunished; for the demonstration, that is, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭3‬:‭21‬-‭26‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Justification comes apart from the law. We cannot earn justification through rule keeping or our own good works. The law never justified anyone.

Justification is only made possible by Christ sacrifice in blood. And it is given free by the grace of God through faith in the Son.

Christ paid the price for our sins.

“and He Himself brought our sins in His body up on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by His wounds you were healed. For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.”
‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭2‬:‭24‬-‭25‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

We are declared to be righteous forensically (legally) because “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God”

“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin in our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭21‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Even the prophet Isaiah knew what Jesus would accomplish in the cross many years later. What a wonderful prophesy.

“¶However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself bore, And our pains that He carried; Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted, Struck down by God, and humiliated. But He was pierced for our offenses, He was crushed for our wrongdoings; The punishment for our well-being was laid upon Him, And by His wounds we are healed. All of us, like sheep, have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all To fall on Him.
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭53‬:‭4‬-‭6‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Justification does not excuse our sin, ignore our sin, or endorse our sin. Rather, our sin is fully punished, Christ having taken our penalty for us. He was our substitute.

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all time, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;”
‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭3‬:‭18‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Your name Webster secular definition of righteousness does not take into account Jesus sacrifice,
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Continuous stone tools use and manufacture in one location 2.75 million years ago.

It's been known that hominids were making tools millions of years ago.

This isn't news. That's been known for a very long time.
What about the finding of continuous use in the same location?

Is that not significant ,or is that something that was already known or assumed to be the case even if not directly ascertained till now. ?

I think the article I linked may have suggested that until now the use and manufacture may have been thought to be sporadic in nature rather than "industrial" and "centralised" as seems likely here.

You don't see this as especially significant?
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The 2025 Government Shutdown Thread

Refusing to pay the ransom. Or negotiate with extortionist (so to speak).

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A prominent case of refusing to negotiate with extortionists is the 1973 Khartoum embassy siege, where a statement by U.S. President Richard Nixon said that the U.S. would not negotiate. This solidified the "no concessions" policy for the U.S. - Google
So much for the idea that Congress is supposed to work FOR the people, rather than against them, huh?

-- A2SG, unless you can justify how intentionally making health care less affordable is for the people....
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