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Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was replying to your Post 52, where you had posted a link to another video, and an image of a still from it. I was asking if, like the video you linked to in Post 49, this one was from the "Guiding Head of the Zion Colony". If so, who is he? What is the "Zion Colony" of which he is the "guiding head?" I hope that is clearer.

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Hunt for Brown University shooting suspect underway

Uh-oh.....

Reports now saying that the shooter "shouted something" prior to the killing.

I guess it's getting close to the time we forget this whole little thing even happened. Time to sweep it under the rug, right? Isn't that what we're supposed to do now?
Isn’t that what we do after every shooting?
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What ever do you mean ?
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was replying to your Post 52, where you had posted a link to another video, and an image of a still from it. I was asking if, like the video you linked to in Post 49, this one was from the "Guiding Head of the Zion Colony". If so, who is he? What is the "Zion Colony" of which he is the "guiding head?" I hope that is clearer.
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Kirk Cameron Takes Heat for His Annihilationist View on Hell

You know, the Jehovah's Witnsses went so far as to coe up with their own "translation" of the Bible that didn't poke any holes in their Arian Christology. Maybe your lot need to do the same thing based on your understand of what Scripture really means as opposed to what it actually says.
It is insults like this, bad spelling, multiple quotes within the one post, and your rhetoric that show you are frustrated. If need be, take a step back.
NOTE: You have quoted me 17 times in the last 2 posts you have made, and I have not had a chance to respond. What is that about????
And in my view, any doctrine that presents God as a pitiless monster (yeah, I said it again, because it's accurate),
How we speak about God matters. Calling Him a ‘pitiless monster’ reveals far more about our assumptions than about His character.

My view does not diminish God; it exalts Him. God is infinitely holy, infinitely just, and infinitely worthy. Because of who He is, sin against Him is not trivial. It is cosmic rebellion. Eternal punishment does not make God cruel; it magnifies His holiness and justice (Isaiah 6:3; Psalm 99:9).
At the same time, this view magnifies God’s mercy. If eternal judgment is truly deserved, then the cross becomes infinitely glorious. Christ did not save us from something small or temporary, but from real and dreadful wrath (Romans 5:8–9). Reducing judgment reduces grace.

I would never dare to accuse God of cruelty for doing what He Himself says is just. Scripture commands us to tremble before Him, not to put Him in the dock of human moral preferences (Romans 9:20). God is not answerable to us. We are answerable to Him.
Eternal punishment does not make God a monster. It reveals that He is holy, just, and merciful beyond measure, and that sin is far more serious than we like to admit.
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I Realize My Problem, What Now?

Honestly I don't know if you have the wrong view of God, of marriage, or both.

Marriage is not going to complete you, and the love of a person will never compare to God's love.

Marriage is nice if it happens, but to hold in higher regard than God's love is basically idolatry.

I think you need to speak with your Pastor/Priest pretty urgently because this view of marriage is symptomatic of something far worse going on.
Dude, it’s not about the magnitude of the love, it’s about the exclusiveness of it. God loves everyone equally. Also, marriage won’t complete me. It’s simply a love I want because it’s one that’s exclusive. Also, I will not tolerate your accusations of idolatry, leave that at the door. God is the one true God, there is no other. I am complete in Christ, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t want marriage.
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Is this another video from the "Guiding Head of the Zion Colony"? Who is he? What is the Zion Colony? Without such information, the rest of us have no way of evaluating how trustworthy the video is.
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NT texts inspired outside the protestant canon

Here is my list of NT texts outside the protestant canon that are inspired. I believe the internal dates, and claims of authorship of all these texts.

The follow internally date to before 70 AD:

Gospel of Nicodemus
History of Joseph the Carpenter
Protoevangelium of James
Didascalia Apostolorum Teaching of the Apostles.
Acts of Barnabas (not epistle of Barnabas or Gospel of Barnabas)
3 Corinthians (letter only)
Didache
Apocalypse of Peter
Revelation of the Magi.
2 Clement

The following have no internal date but I believe they were written pre 70 AD, and are therefore inspired:
Pseudo gospel of Matthew (Jerome said written by Mathew the apostle).
Acts of Peter, and Paul (different than apocryphal acts of the apostles). I believe was written 65/66 AD.

Possible
Infancy gospel of Thomas. Some manuscripts say written by Thomas the Israelite which I assume to be Thomas the apostle.
Gospel of Barthelemew : uses gamatria references wisdom of Solomon which internally is written by Solomon, and also uses gematria. If one is real I assume the other one is too I am just skeptical of gematria. I like both.

All are on audiobook on YouTube.


Daniel 9 gave a series of events to happen, and ended with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, and one thing that was going to happen by then was vision, and prophecy would be sealed up aka inspired scripture would stop then so that is why NT texts with internal dates before 70 AD are essentially claiming to be inspired, and some have prophecies of 70 AD associated phenomena in which case they are automatically claiming to be inspired. I'd recommend listening to all of the above on audiobook or they are all on websites as text or annas archive is the free e book website. These texts are incorrectly labelled as pseudepigrapha, and a lot are in the multi volume books called NT apocrypha which contains a lot of books I do not believe were written pre 70 AD.

For OT ones the most important ones are 1 Enoch, Assumption of Moses, Life of Adam, and Eve, and there are a lot more.

Woman fatally shoots man after break-in

Authorities said one of the women suffered a knife injury, although women managed to barricade themselves in another room, the report states. The woman who was uninjured retrieved a firearm and opened fire on the intruder, fatally striking him. - Woman fatally shoots man she had protective order against after break-in: cops

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