It depends on whether they are following Christianity or the Will of the Father. The elohim put in charge of this world failed, the House of Israel failed, and Christianity is failing to do what only the Son of God did, put the will of the Father first without any input from self.

Always in His Presence said:

And the leaders in question were appointed by whom?

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The sitting president, for a five year term, unless removed for cause.

she likely didn't know the specific details of His crucifixion beforehand but experienced the joy of His resurrection, emphasizing that she, like all humans, had to trust God's unfolding plan. She likely didn't despair but trusted.

Servus said:

Criticism of the Christian position that killing those boatmen was a righteous act is the opposite of what some are wrongfully accusing me of. Is constantly besmirching and falsely accusing Christians your only reason for being here?

BTW here's a little something to ponder:

This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’” 1 Samuel 15:2-3

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Yes, we're aware that when God says to kill them all, not only is it not murder, but it is a sin to be merciful. However, neither Donald John nor Pete H.are God; neither have His authority.

Fervent said:

They are isolated quotes without context by their nature. There's nothing to prove, because it is the nature of quoting that the words are taken out of their original context.

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In other words just because you said so. I see.

Fervent said:

Sort of, but their treatment was as Apostolic tradition and didn't embrace a sola scriptura approach, simply treated the texts as the normative element of a wider tradition.

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They treated the Holy Scriptures as Holy. Every decision they made confirmed with scripture and was derived from scripture. The tradition aspect was always secondary.

Fervent said:

So how do you determine what qualifies as Scripture?

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I think you now need to start answering questions instead of asking them. You should be aware that all books of the NT had been circulating the churches from the time of their writing and considered inspired. The council merely recognized what God had already determined.

Fervent said:

No, it supports inspiration not that the Scriptures are wholly distinct as if they descended from heaven one day fully intact in their present form. They hold a special place in tradition, but cannot be removed from tradition without doing violence to them,

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No. Tradition is secondary to scripture. The fact of the scriptures uniqueness and recognized as God’s spoken word from the beginning trumps tradition fully. As I stated before all churches have traditions but, if tradition does not conform with scripture, then you have a heretical cult. The text used to expose heresy has always been the scriptures not tradition.

Fervent said:

That is a post-Origen translation, and doesn't establish what the contemporary meaning of the word was when Paul used it.

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Again, just because you say so does not work.

Fervent said:

No, its not about the origin at all. God-breath is about life-giving power in its present form which is why Paul goes on to list the ways it is useful.

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I disagree. Prove your point.

Fervent said:

Because I am drawing my understanding of the words meaning from texts that pre-date the shift towards understanding it as inspiration that began with Origen.

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Inspiration has been understood from before Origen. I gave you quotes that proved that but, of course, you rejected them just because they don’t agree with you and without evidence.

JohnB445 said:

I do take advice from AI, but I learned to not treat AI like it is perfect in its answers.

I asked AI about forgiveness, it said it's a good thing, but not good to forgive those who are not remorseful, and who are still malicious.

I would find it hard to forgive those people, and very hard to forgive someone who took pleasure in hurting me.

What does the Bible say, am I supposed to really forgive a murderer that killed my mom and dad if it happened? It did not happen just as an example, what if the murderer doesn't take any accountability has no remorse, and the murderer took pleasure in his crimes. Am I still supposed to forgive?

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Biblical Example: God forgave humanity before we repented, setting the standard for us (Romans 5:8).
Your Own Freedom: Holding onto bitterness harms you; forgiving frees you from the offender's power over your life.
Spiritual Condition: Jesus links our receiving God's forgiveness to our forgiving others, making it a vital part of Christian life (Matthew 6:14-15).
Attitudinal Forgiveness: It's about adopting a heart posture of readiness to forgive, giving up revenge and ill-will, even if the person never changes.

Forgiving people does not mean if they do not change that you have to keep them in your active life ... if there is no change then you can choose not to be around them and you should pray for them
Praying for Them: This spiritual step helps you fully release them and trust God with the outcome, an act of love and non-retaliation

Forgiving doesn't force you to restore the relationship, which requires mutual effort (reconciliation).

Ok so sorry about not posting an update yesterday we didn't get home until late and I was busy.

So the nucala worked pretty much from the moment my pulmonologist gave the injection. My pulmonoligst said this was impossible so I asked both google ai and chatgpt what could have gone on and they both said that nucala starts working by blocking il5 receptors immediately and can start opening airways from immediately after the injection is given and many people report starting to feeling relief right after the injection which is what happened to me.

Today I'm feeling and breathing MUCH better as was I yesterday so thank you for your prayers they worked. However my nighttime gasping still hasn't improved in fact, last night it got significantly worse. I'm going to have my wife check in with a pharmacist before we leave for Ohio tomorrow and see what they say. Maybe it will improve over time? But I'm REALLY glad my insurance doesn't have to pay for another biologic. Nucala was plenty expensive enough on its own.

Little children are trusting of their caregivers as we should be trusting of ours... God. Should little children become Christians? Yes, if that means followers of Jesus and the will of the Father, for they are for the most part already there, or at least willing to learn how to love others as self. No, if it means institutionalized Christianity, which like the rest of the world, draws them away from the Father and back into the wisdom of the world of man and man's will. Why exacerbate the process already being started by adults in a child's life?

RDKirk said:

I've said before, there are Saul Goodmans in the military.

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It's kind of saying the legal department of a firm "authorized" the companies COO to embezzle money.
As if as long as it's "authorized" then a unlawful act is deemed lawful.

SabbathBlessings said:

The whole law James is speaking about is the Ten Commandments. You can see this by the very next verse, James only quotes and contrasts the Ten Commandments

James 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law

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I believe the whole Law incudes the Pentateuch; which has been removed by God, and the Jews who do not believe in Christ presently have no Covenant. Like Jesus, James was still teaching the Law until 40 years when the Romans destroyed the second Temple. With no Temple they cannot continue in the Law, i.e. sacrifices, etc. . "He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second" (Heb 10:9).

Yes, the Law, often referred to as the Pentateuch, consists of the first five books of the Bible—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—and contains laws and instructions given by God to the people of Israel. It is considered both a legal framework and a historical narrative that guides the moral and spiritual conduct of the community. Bible.org

If we want God to forgive us then we need to be forgiving also.

It's not my private interpetation i


No it's not opinion ... it's from scripture

1. 1 Deuteronomy 31:16: “The Lord said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers.”
2. II Samuel 7:12: “When thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers.""
3. I Kings 1:21: “When my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers.”
4. I Kings 2:10: “David slept with his fathers.”
5. I Kings 11:21: “David slept with his fathers.”
6. I Kings 11:43: “Solomon slept with his fathers.”
7. I Kings 14:20: “Jeroboam...slept with his fathers.”
8. I Kings 14:31: “Rehoboam slept with his fathers.”
9. I Kings 15:8: “Abijam slept with his fathers.”
10. I Kings 15:24: “Asa slept with his fathers.”
11. I Kings 16:6: “Baasha slept with his fathers.”
12. I Kings 16:28: “Omri slept with his fathers.”
13. I Kings 22:40: “Ahab slept with his fathers.”
14. I Kings 22:50: “Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers.”
15. II Kings 8:24: “Joram slept with his fathers”
16. II Kings 10:35: “Jehu slept with his fathers”
17. II Kings 13:9: “Jehoahaz slept with his fathers”
18. II Kings 13:13: “Joash slept with his fathers”
19. II Kings 14:16: “Jehoash slept with his fathers”
20. II Kings 14:22: “The king slept with his fathers”
21. II Kings 14:29: “Jeroboam slept with his fathers”
22. II Kings 15:7: “Azariah slept with his fathers”
23. II Kings 15:22: “Menahem slept with his fathers”
24. II Kings 15:38: “Jotham slept with his fathers”
25. II Kings 16:20: “Ahaz slept with his fathers”
26. II Kings 20:21: “Hezekiah slept with his fathers”
27. II Kings 21: 18: “Manasseh slept with his fathers”
28. II Kings 24:6: “Jehoiakim slept with his fathers”
29. II Chron. 9:31: “Solomon slept with his fathers”
30. II Chron. 12:16: “Rehoaboam slept with his fathers”
31. II Chron. 14:1: “Abijah slept with his fathers”
32. II Chron. 16:13: “Asa slept with his fathers”
33. II Chron. 21:1: “Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers”
34. II Chron. 26:2: “The king slept with his fathers”
35. II Chron. 26:23: “Uzziah slept with his fathers”
36. II Chron. 27:9: “Jotham slept with his fathers”
37. II Chron. 28:27: “Ahaz slept with his fathers”
38. II Chron. 32:33: “Hezekiah slept with his fathers”
39. II Chron. 33:20: “Manasseh slept with his fathers”
    
    In Job, believed to be the oldest book in the Bible, death is again referred to as sleep:
40. Job 7:21: “Now shall I sleep in the dust”
41. Job 14:12: “They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep”
    
    In the Psalms, death is a sleep:
42. Psalm 13:3: “Lest I sleep the sleep of death”
43. Psalm 90:5: “Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep”
    
    Daniel promises a resurrection of the sleeping dead:
44. Daniel 12:2: “Many of they that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake”
    
    Jesus described death as “sleep”:
45. Matthew 9:24: “The maid is not dead but sleepeth.”
46. Mark 5:39: “The damsel is not dead but sleepeth”
47. Luke 8:52: “She is not dead but sleepeth”
48. John 11:11: “Our friend Lazarus sleepeth”
    
    At Jesus’ crucifixion:
49. Matthew 27:52: “Many bodies of the saints which slept arose”
    
    Luke reiterates I Kings:
50. Acts 13:36: “David...fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers”
    
    Paul describes death as sleep:
51. I Cor. 15:20: “Christ is risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that sleep”
52. I Cor. 15:51: “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed”
53. I Thess 4:13: “I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope”
54. I Thess. 4:14: “If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus”

timothyu said:

And the righteousness of man is revealed in our following His will alone and putting no other gods before Him, including ourselves.

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Yes, as it is written "And that "ye put on" the new man, "which after God" (Not man) is created "in righteousness and true holiness".

Thanks! I'd forgotten today was the 6th. One of my seasonal decorations is a little St Nicholas, complete with bishop's robes, that I add to our household decorations on December 6. Time for him to take his place on the dining room shelf!

Servus said:

Criticism of the Christian position that killing those boatmen was a righteous act is the opposite of what some are wrongfully accusing me of. Is constantly besmirching and falsely accusing Christians your only reason for being here?

BTW here's a little something to ponder:

This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’” 1 Samuel 15:2-3

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You know there's been a whole New Testament written since then, and the rules by which Christians dispersed in the world are different from the rules of the Israelites within the boundaries of the specific physical territory granted to them in those days.

Then they do not understand the Gospel, the price paid or the seriousness of our sin.

FenderTL5 said:

Read the very next verse after the one you posted, it tells you.

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Because they will be counted among the lawless. Rev. 1 also touches on this topic

Always in His Presence said:

JAG - The Secretary of War and the Navel Commander disagree -

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I've said before, there are Saul Goodmans in the military.

Studyman said:

as this is where the righteousness of God is revealed

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And the righteousness of man is revealed in our following His will alone and putting no other gods before Him, including ourselves.

What if other myths of origin were also taught and kids could take their pick? But then I suppose at some point actual science will have to be involved if students want to be trained for careers that actually do something.

Servus said:

Obama had a lot of people killed. Including the done strike on a wedding taking place.

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Obama did not order, "Destroy that wedding." That was a case of mistaken targeting. We thought--honestly--that it was something else.

And mistaken targeting happens. It happened more than once in my time in service where I was able to observe later, "that was not what we thought it was." Even an Iraqi wedding party in one case in the 90s. I was even myself involved in the targeting in one case of the Persian Gulf War "that was not what we thought it was" to the deaths of several hundred women and children. "It was not what we thought it was."