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Will Russiagate scandal forever taint Obama’s legacy?

We can only hope.

This is treason in the highest and HRC and Obama should be in jail.

If we end up with Trump as a forever president, as dictatorships go (though at his age "forever" is a stretch) don't worry you'll probably get your dream of imprisoning political opponents and dissident voices.

And all of us anti-Trump folk will get to live out our lives in concentration camps and reeducation centers.

Daddy Trump will make the "leftists" pay for exercising their constitutional guaranteed free speech. Because in Trump's America, dissent is the same thing as treason.

MAGA utopia at its finest.
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Newsome pushed back against Democracy to achieve his political goals

Well, morality is a subjective thing, while laws are objective. You can view his actions as immoral if you so choose, but that's only according to your personal moral framework. Others may view the morality differently, and their views are no less valid than your own. Given that, Newsom reacted to an unfair attempt to increase GOP representation in Texas, at the behest of Donald Trump, and asked the voters if they agreed with his plan to counter that. They did. Whether or not that shows integrity or a lack of it depends on individual opinion, I guess.
If this turns into a gerrymandering tit for tat exercise, democrats cannot win . Just look at the red on the US map vs the blue.
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Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

The Greek texts are the original texts of the scriptures. According to what I have read, Greek culture had permeated the world and the language was used frequently in the culture. I have to laugh when you accuse the Greeks of bringing pagan beliefs in to the translations, since the very idea of a god who would burn his enemies forever without mercy is exactly that - a pagan belief!


There is a difference between ending life on this earth and torturing someone without mercy. Just because a life is ended on this earth does not mean that it is not an act of mercy. When you use the word "elect" I get a whiff of that nasty heresy called "Calvinism" which in itself presents a God who is a monster, since only a monster would create sentient beings for the sole purpose of suffering forever without relief. Reasonable human beings don't even do that, yet Calvinists without shame present God who is worse than the best of mankind. Sheeeesh!!




We know plenty about Him because Christ is the revelation of the Father to us. Therefore, anything that is less than Christ is not a true representation of God. Now tell me that Jesus would ever sanction the eternal torture of people. Stand at the Cross and say that.




I was not raised in Orthodoxy. I left Calvinist heresy years ago and only recently converted to Orthodoxy. All other denominations are teaching things that are not found in the original writings of the Early Fathers of the Church. I assume you do understand the difference between truth and error?
You have read lies, because the original scriptures are not in Greek at all. Greeks didn't exist when the OT was written. The only reason some of the NT was written in Greek was because Greek was a common language 2000 years ago, because Greece was located at the crossroads of the major trading routs 2000 years ago.

So the truth is, many traders from different countries traded inn that area so they learned Greek to make trading easier for everyone. Bu the sad reality is the Greeks have always been pagan, and most still are to this day. So we can dismiss your Greek Orthodox heroes as religious hypocrites, just as the Scribes and Pharisees were who Jesus identified as the " children of the Devil".

I notice you reject what the Lord Jesus taught, but you embrace the heretics who deny the doctrine of hell, (which Jesus taught).
I notice you deny the bible doctrines of "election to salvation" and "Reprobation", (which the Lord Jesus taught), but you embrace the teachings of the heretics who reject what the Lord Jesus taught.

You can accuse God of being an evil monster, but God is not mocked, because every man will reap what he sows.
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B flat B♭

They did fake it.
Well you have to say that, because they saw the 24 hour sun. Dean Odel publicly said that if there is a 24 hour sun at the Antarctic, then the earth is a globe.
The trouble is that neither he, nor you, want to admit that a number of people saw the 24 hour sun for themselves. That would destroy your beliefs and he would have to publicly admit that he was wrong. Obviously neither of you are willing to do that - so the best thing to do is to accuse others of lying.
They haven't as the moon is flat & not a sphere
Charles Duke - and others - proved it was when they walked on it.
You don't want to believe that either, so you accuse them of lying. Even though one is a born again Christian and has no reason to lie.
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B flat B♭

As I edited my last post, I did watch it. And the guy is clueless.

Not only does he not give any alternative for where satellite tv signals come from (which is what I have been asking you), he claims a satellite would not be able to "keep up" with the earth, like a flag been let go from a car would not keep up with the car. In space, there is nothing to slow the satellite down - no atmosphere, no friction, nothing. It's not the same as a moving car on the road. You start something moving at a particular speed in space, it will keep going at that speed with only minor corrections over time.

If that's the caliber of the people you are listening to, stop it! As I have said in my last post, the guy is either a deceiver or one of the least knowledgeable people on earth.

So again, please give me a rational alternative as to where satellite tv signals come from if not from satellites in geostationary orbit over the earth, and don't give me any more videos which show a complete lack of any understanding of facts, let alone addressing the issue I have been asking you for.

OK - So you refuse to watch the videos for the truth, well stop asking me to explain them.
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Weekly homilies

Homily Thursday, November 13 2025

32nd OT



Ws 7:22 – 8:1

"Wisdom is the reflection of eternal light, the spotless mirror of the power of God."



"Wisdom is the radiance" of God's Love and intelligence, it passes through all hearts and leaves joy and peace in its path.



Lk 17:20-25

Jesus says: "The coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed."

This has the merit of being clear. We cannot observe the kingdom of God. Jesus tells us this in every possible way. All his messages lead to this reality. With earthly examples, we cannot touch God, the kingdom of God.



Each person must take a further step to enter the kingdom of God:



Realizing, accepting, and welcoming joy and peace within us means constantly returning to the Love of God and remaining in it.



Let us welcome God's life, love, joy, and peace within us. In this way, we are with God, who is always with us.



Let us observe and listen within ourselves; God is there.



Biblical texts: NAB-RE

Normand Thomas.
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Who then can be saved?

According to the Holy Bible (Gods Word) "only those who are indwelt and led by the Holy Spirit" enfure to the end. In other words 'the elect of God". Now how hard was that to understand, that's what the gospel of the Lord Jesus is all about.

I get the sense that you don't believe the gospel of the Lord Jesus, and you prefer the Jacobs Arminius version
You have no idea what you’re talking about.

“If we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He also will deny us;”
‭‭2 Timothy‬ ‭2‬:‭12‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
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B flat B♭

Just a small correction, my work didn't involve satellites. One of my hobbies/interests has always been radio and tv. So my experience with satellite tv is purely from a personal interest and learning how to set up the equipment and learning what it is designed to do.
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Who then can be saved?

God is not evil. Commanding someone to do what they cannot do is defined as evil in Exodus chapter 5. When pharaoh commanded Israel to gather their own straw and yet make the same amount of brick, that was called evil by Moses because they were asked to do an impossible task.

"....now, God commands all men everywhere to repent.... " Acts 17:22-31. Verse 31 being the key verse.

Paul said, in Athens Greece, on Mars hill, that God now commands all men everywhere to repent.

That is an evil thing to command, according to scripture, if all men everywhere can not possibly repent.

God is not evil, He has made a way for all men everywhere to repent via the death and resurrection of His Son, therefore repentance, for every man, begins at belief that Christ died and rose from the dead.
The commandments were given to show mankind that it's impossible to keep any of them. You have forgotten who and what you are. Don't you know that you and everyone else was born dead in sin, and you inherited a fallen sin nature from your parents?????.

Why are you blaming God for your sin, God didn't make you sin. You sin because you are a sinner, just as the rest of mankind is. Haven't you ever read;
Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

You conveniently ignore the fact that God is under no obligation to save any sinner. We all deserve to burn in hell, but thank God He chose to save some for Himself.

God commands all men everywhere to repent, so they are without excuse. That way He has the legal right to take vengeance on them.
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Verses that screen superficial believers out of the Kingdom of God

Doubting again.

If I am not willing to be crucified with Christ, I cannot be saved.

What perplexes me is that some people hear the gospel, immediately believe in a saving faith way, and go on their way rejoicing. Like the Ethiopian eunuch.

To me, being saved, living the Christian life and walking the Christian walk means being unbearably squashed. What is perplexing to me is that the NT talks about the “joy” of a believer.

There are paradoxes in the supernatural realm. One has to do with free will versus election. Apparently, these are two sides of the same supernatural coin. Both are true at the same time.

Another paradox is the concept of salvation in a moment versus the daily walk. As Delvianna said, faith is something to be done CONTINUALLY. To me, that means: mess up at any point and you are out the door of the kingdom. But the NT talks of conversion-in-a-moment and the security of the believer. It also says, those who persevere to the end will be saved.

Between my own unwillingness to be crucified and the paradoxes, I am blown away by the gospel.
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Be Instructed Judah

God will not save anyone who hates Jesus.
keras, the Jews attitude toward Jesus is going to completely change. Also, do you know that modern day Jews (Judaism) consider Jesus a "failed messiah" ? They don't "hate" Jesus. They just don't believe that he is the messiah, nor do they believe in the gospel of salvation in Christ, nor do they believe that Jesus is the LORD their God.

Scripturally impossible.
Jewish Israel is very well defended. Gog will attack an undefended people.
The land of Israel, as a nation, was desolate until the Jews returned following WWII, Israel is not capable on its own to defend itself against the size of the Gog/Magog attacking force.

Look at Ezekiel 38. Does it say that Gog/Magog is going to attack a nation that formed following a solar flare event that destroyed it's previous population ?
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Who then can be saved?

And this brings us right back to Genesis 6:5 where God obviously didn’t want man to be evil. He grieved in His heart that man was so evil. But I know your position on this, this is just a mystery that no one can explain. Except the vast majority of Christianity has no problem explaining it because it doesn’t conflict with their theology.
I thought I already cleared this up for you. I told you that God is not the Author of evil, but He does allow evil doers to do their wicked work for a time. Then He torments them is the lake of fire for all eternity, so God sill wins.
They do their thing for a short time but God does His thing forever, that's a bargain. I love it, just as I love everything else that God does.
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Who then can be saved?

What does this have to do with 1 Corinthians 2 & 3? Are you suggesting that the Corinthians Paul is addressing in chapter 3 aren’t true believers? I’m not bundling anyone together I’m only talking about one particular group, the group of people Paul was addressing in 1 Corinthians 3. Paul specifically said that these people had the Holy Spirit in them and that they were holy in that very same chapter.

“Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬-‭17‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

But of course you’ll ignore that to because that’s what you do whenever the scriptures contradict your theology. The fact is that Paul just told them that they are NOT SPIRITUALLY APPRAISED EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT. You can’t accept that and maintain your theology so those facts just get swept under the rug as if they don’t exist so that you can hold on to your theology that takes precedence over what the scriptures actually say.
That's more twisted theology nonsense.
Who is "If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬-‭17" referring to. Let e guess, you believe that it's referring to those who are born again believers, who are indwelt and led by the Holy Spirt.

You believe that the Holy Spirit leads some born again believers to destroy their temple, and that's very sad and blasphemous on your part. ‬
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