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SO HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE SAVED ??

The people of Israel and all mankind have always been God's children.

Blinded as we all are, in total or in part to the fact, by the covering God placed on us all.
And most will never believe Heb 9:18 I know that it is. your choice. and ROM. 10:9 and 1 0. is the only to be saved

and only Jesus shed BLOOD on. the. CROSS can anyone be saved , so keep reading Paul.

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Street Preaching

I was referring to general regard, not my personal view which is more nuanced. What passes for street preaching most times is understandably annoying to most folks, such as driving by in a car with a PA system declaring everyone is going to hell.
So more so the method of operation that is in question I guess you are alluding to here.

Maybe something along this approach:

2 Corinthians 5:18-19 (NIV)
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

Instead of bashing them over the head with Hell and damnation.

I think I'd have to agree some of the street preaching I've seen leaves a bitter taste more so by the delivery of the message in not being in line with this passage and Christ's approach. I think the God who is love is understated (1 John 4:8) and while there is a place to tell people to repent I think it is often emphasized too heavily, more so than Christ did even though He did do so (Luke 13:3).

I know for me personally, damnation and condemnation never made me love God more nor pulled me away from sins as a youth, but realizing how loved I am by God worked wonders in my life. (Romans 2:4)
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Clinton's avoiding deposition

Let's remember former president Clinton held a place with Epstein no one else did. Why do I say that - his portrait was the only portrait of a president Jeffrey displayed in his home. Wonder how much it cost him?
Clinton's been saying he's fine with releasing the Epstein files, because he has nothing to hide.
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CNN Dem Panelist Shocks Jennings with Major Admission on Lawfare Against Trump

I do think they were out to get Trump.
And elements of his NY trial were unconstitutional imo.

But I also think hes actually guilty of many types of illegal fraud and cheating that are entirely worthy of prosecution. And then theres the election interference felony case in GA. Thankfully that one is slowly getting back on track.
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Teens Who Savagely Attacked Well-Known DOGE Staffer Avoid Jail Time

One guy. Watch the video. ONE guy shouted that.
The video I saw had many people shouting that.
No one was ever going to get to Pence to murder him.
Because cooler heads would have prevailed? Or because the one cop had to use deadly force to keep the would-be assassins at bay?

Pence didn't even trust the Secret Service agents assigned to drive him.
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St. Elizabeth of Hungary (November 19) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231) was a princess renowned for her deep piety, charity, and love for the poor. Married young to Ludwig IV of Thuringia, she lived a life of prayer and generous service, using her royal resources to found hospitals, feed the hungry, and care personally for the sick. After Ludwig’s death during a crusade, Elizabeth embraced even greater austerity, placing herself under spiritual direction and devoting her widowhood entirely to works of mercy. Though she faced misunderstanding and hardship, her unwavering compassion and humility won widespread admiration. She died at just twenty-four, and her sanctity was quickly recognized, making her one of the Church’s most beloved models of Christian charity.

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Trump live updates: President expands ‘narco’ boat strikes to Pacific Ocean as 8th boat is struck

"Fishermen" working working out of hi-speed cigarette boats? Smells fishy to me.

The claims of relatives and residents of the innocence of those killed running drugs seems a bit illogical to me.
In dozens of interviews in villages on Venezuela's breathtaking northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had indeed been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists or leaders of a cartel or gang.
If the boats somehow made It the umpteen miles to the US mainland, is it still ok to blow them up? If they landed and were shipping them by truck to somewhere, is it still ok?

I don't get what the difference would be.
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Prince Andrew gives up royal titles after string of scandals

Sarah Ferguson’s new children’s book ‘pulped’ after scrutiny over Jeffrey Epstein links

Copies of Flora and Fern: Kindness Along the Way, which was set to be published in October, have been sent for recycling

“It’s not been delayed, it’s being pulped,” one publishing insider told the Daily Mail. “It’s an acknowledgment of the inevitable. No one is going to want to buy it.”

The news follows a period of scandal for Ferguson, 66, who earlier this month lost the title Sarah, Duchess of York after King Charles stripped Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of his remaining titles. She is also expected to lose her long-term home at Royal Lodge in Windsor, where she has lived for decades with her former husband, despite their separation.

In September, the Mail on Sunday published emails from 2011, in which Ferguson privately described Epstein as her “supreme friend” and apologised for “letting him down”, despite having publicly called her association with him “a gigantic error of judgment”. The messages were sent less than two months after she had insisted she would “never have anything to do with [Epstein] again”, amid pressure over the ties she and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had maintained with him – including a £15,000 payment Epstein made to help settle her debts.
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Clinton's avoiding deposition

I'm going to guess you never paid much attention to Congressional investigations before.
Your mind reading machine is still busted.
Scheduling delays are common. s are requests for time to pull materials together. The interview subpoenas go back to before the Epstein shutdown started.
And continue with the Clinton's still evading the subpoena
I don't know if they are scared or not, nor do I care.
I didn't ask if you did and could care less if you do/don't
I also have no interest in protecting Bill Clinton, nor constructing a rubric to determine if Clinton or Trump is the biggest sex pest. Good riddance to both.
Clinton was on the jet 26 times - Trump 7 - Trump threw Epstein out of his property - Clinton gave to his birthday projects. Trump helped open and investigation on Epstein - Clinton traveled with him.
AI facts, LOL. Idiots, real or artificial, don't know things.
Proven true on this forum daily. The question is who are the idiots? The ones that use AI or the ones that don't use AI? The ones that quote AI or the ones who dismiss the searchable AI results before viewing them
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Origin of Life

I don't think anyone can fully define "life" from an academic standpoint.

But the best way to describe it, in my opinion, is: "the miracle of life".
Hovind made a rather poor attempt. I gave you a more comprehensive list of requirements. Again, do you think that you need all of them to be classed as alive?
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Then I hope it is obvious to you that flights from Sydney to Santiago make absolutely no sense on your flat earth map, being a shorter flight than Sydney to Los Angeles, yet make perfect sense on the globe.
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I really don't understand flight paths & have no idea about them, whether it be on a globe or on a F/E.
But I'm willing to learn.
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CNN Dem Panelist Shocks Jennings with Major Admission on Lawfare Against Trump

Schumer could come right out and say they completely framed the guy, and it still wouldn't make any difference. They've had 'Trump is pure evil' drilled into their heads too much by now.
I tend to think of rapists who brag about assaulting women and make fun of handicapped people as ethically compromised. Especially if they also try to catch glimpses of teenagers changing backstage at beauty pagents before jetting off to hang out with his really GREAT friend who traffics teenagers. A preponderance of suggestive evidence when there are also direct accusations, is not something you can just "dismiss out of hand cause you don't like it".

And if a Democrat did those things, you would (rightfully) also say they were awful people.

I mean, you guys act SHOCKED and dismayed that people might think Trump is a bad guy.
Why? Why is it surprising that we see the things he says and does and has been convicted of and think "boy, his critics are really out to lunch"?


IMO, you are believing who you want to believe.
Yes. And you are believing who YOU want to believe. This is not a groundbreaking idea.

Fantine is listening to people who know what they are talking about because they are smart and understand economics and politics.
This comment is a great distillation of the "post truth" age where any random talking head fool online can be as learned and informed as someone who went to school for 8 years and has worked for decades in teh field.

She listed the people SHE believe.

Who are the people YOU believe on this topic?
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Are the Jews Israel, or is the church Israel? Or does it depend on the context of the passage?

Not true. Not all Israel was blinded. Only "part" of Israel was. If you study the whole thrust of Romans 9-11 you will see that Paul is comparing the chosen elect (the election) within Israel to those who are "blinded." In Romans 11:1-5, Paul identifies “his people which he foreknew” as a spiritual “remnant according to the election of grace.” This is in complete contrast to the blinded natural majority of Israelis who reject Christ. There is no way they can be deemed God’s chosen people, God’s elect or the people of God, regardless of how loud or often Dispensationalists claim such.

We see this in Romans 9:6-13: “For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.”

What this is saying is, those who are not saved have no right to consider themselves as true Israel. The apostle here identifies two Israels; one spiritual, elect and believing, the other natural, ethnic and containing both believers and unbelieving. One is true spiritual Israel (“the children of God”/“the children of the promise”), the other is merely “children of the flesh.” Basically: national theocratic Israel was a political entity in which a believing spiritual remnant – true Israel – abode. It is only those Jews who belonged to that remnant within ethnic Israel that were true Israelis in God’s eyes. Through the cross, and since the cross, only those Jews and Gentiles who embraced Christ were enjoined to that remnant that are considered His chosen people. These have been joined together on an equal basis in Christ.
Paul was not saying that the church - made up of both Gentile and Jewish believers - is Israel.
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I'm sorry to be a pain, I know I can be very skeptical at times but I do listen to all your clever comments & have taken many on board. :)
Then I hope it is obvious to you that flights from Sydney to Santiago make absolutely no sense on your flat earth map, being a shorter flight than Sydney to Los Angeles, yet make perfect sense on the globe.
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The Lord's Wrath - How will it Happen

And do you have a guess as to an identity of said AC?
No. we will know soon enough.
Unlikely.
As set out in Revelation 6:12-17, then many events, leading up to the glorious Return. in Rev 19:11.
The Lord is not a sun spot nor is a coronal mass ejection the Lords Day of wrath
A knee jerk reply totally lacking in scriptural or scientific support.
God doesnt need the sun to cause issues. He can just command these things to happen and they will.....
God does that, He commands the sun to send out a consuming fire to judge the peoples. Psalms 50:1-6
The extremely wide of the mark prophesies are because of bad interpretation of scripture..
Your unintelligible comments and failure to prove what I point out from the Prophets- wrong, is your bad.
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California judge frees second murder suspect without bail as DA warns 'people's lives' are at risk



“I’m not going to reverse myself on Mr. Aguilera. Mr. Sandoval is going to be released on SORP over the people’s objection,” Ramon said, referring to the acronym for supervised release.

Deputy Public Defender Jennifer Redding, who represents Aguilera, said after the hearing: “I am very glad that Judge Ramon continued to follow the law and apply long-standing legal precedent and constitutional principles. He did the right thing.”

Redding told Ramon in court that prosecutors had nothing more than unproven criminal charges to justify the continued jailing of her client, and along with Deputy Alternate Defender Kristin Carter, who represents Sandoval, characterized the DA’s case as mostly circumstantial. She referenced a preliminary hearing over the summer — which ended with the defendants being held to answer for murder and gang charges — and highlighted the hearing judge’s skepticism of the strength of the charges.​

The DA is not happy. Bail is to ensure that defendants show up for trial, not to make revenue or punish.
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Unfortunately I've been too unwell to get up during the night to view them but they've apparently been pretty spectacular. I posted a link which had photos taken from all over Australia a while back in this thread.

Ar - I hope you feel better soon, and I mean that. :praying:
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