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iluvatar5150 said:

Yeah, instead in his first term, he just let a bunch of foreign dignitaries stay at his DC hotel to curry favor and in his second term, is using his likeness to sell merch and cryptoscamps.

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Didn’t do him any good as evidenced in my signature.

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comana said:

Tik Tok is built on an algorithm that feeds off what users engage with and also rewards bad content because people engage with it whether in agreement or outrage.

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Of course. That's why there may be reason for concern. Also because people may be introduced to thoughts they might not have thought of otherwise.

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SabbathBlessings said:

I have provided Scripture and each turn, you use your words as if it’s equal to God‘s. This mindset cannot be reasoned with.

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You have not provided a verse that shows that people kept the Jewish sabbath prior to Moses or a post crucifixion verse that requires the Christian to keep the 4th commandment. Your mindset cant be reasoned because you can’t support your error with scripture. Is really very simple either you provide the verses, and therefore the proof, or your doctrine is just plain wrong.

Bradskii said:

I don't like it when people lie.

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I don't like it when people reply to a post of mine just to vent hate and anger without responding to specifics contained in the post to which they replied. Don't waste my time. Go to your safe space and do that to a stuffed teddy bear.

Bradskii said:

I understand that politicians 'avoid the truth' sometimes. And tend to bend it a little on ocassions.

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As I've shown, you're bending the truth almost 180 degrees.

Bradskii said:

But Trump doesn't do that. And you know that as well as do. He treats us like morons. He lies as naturally as he breathes. He simply can't be trusted. Now if he was the guy who ran the local pub or someone in a local council position then I could care less. But he isn't, is he.

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He's our duly elected president, and you should show some decorum and respect that. And who is "us"? You're Australian. Why on Earth do you care about a structure in America? Relax. Have a drink. Have a smoke. Go kiss your wife. Kiss a kangaroo. Find an Australian forum where you can complain about something actually important, like the fact that someone's lied to you and conned you into thinking that leftover brewer's yeast is fit for human consumption.

When Americans lie as you do, it's abominable. When foreigners like you do it, it's abominable and bizarre.

Bradskii said:

And you should care a lot more than youn seem to. I don't understand why you don't.

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You should care a lot less. I don't understand why you don't.

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Chesterton said:

Anyone here aware of the big TikTok trend where people on EBT are threatening mass thievery of food from stores come November 1st? They're saying that if they don't get their free food, it's still going to be free because their just going to walk into the stores and steal it. I mean, many people do that already but they're talking about doing it en masse. And they say if it takes violence, that's what it takes. Through compilations I've come across hundreds of these videos. And of course these aren't the elderly, the sick, the disabled. These people look (and talk) as if they're quite capable of doing a days work, but just refuse to. You think this is all just them venting their entitlement or do you think there's trouble ahead?

Unfortunately I can't post any of the videos because I can't recall a single one which wasn't laced with profanity from start to finish.

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Tik Tok is built on an algorithm that feeds off what users engage with and also rewards bad content because people engage with it whether in agreement or outrage. Many people post rage bait because at the end of the day they make a couple bucks. Don’t take even a few hundred copy cat posts as a sign of a movement. There are thousands of of new videos posted to this platform daily that are not of this nature.

Having said that that, my experience today is many videos on how to feed a family on minimal dollars with the coming missed EBT checks on the horizon. Choose to promote the positive instead of those who only want negative attention.

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JulieB67 said:

You must be joking. Even your translation spells it out. Setting ablaze and let's continue -"so that it will leave them neither root or branches. There's nothing left. Do you really have to have it spelled out for you? They will be resorted to nothing but ashes. That's what a fire does.

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where does the verse say anything about ashes?

JulieB67 said:

We are told time and time again, it's life or death. And this verse tells us without a doubt it's death. It's not life. Both body and soul destroyed in hell. That's eternal punishment, that's eternal destruction. That's the second death. There's not two books of life, one for heaven and one for hell. There's one book of life.

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Actually we don’t. That is your erroneous interpretation. The second death describes those not found in the book of life and thrown in the same lake of fire as the beast, the false prophet, and satan which will be tormented for eternity. No where in the verses does it teach annihilation or that the fate of the wicked is any different.

JulieB67 said:

Again, I only see one side getting everlasting life in that verse.

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And you are wrong. I see that you didn’t address the verse from Daniel 12 that I posted. I guess it doesn’t agree with annihilation. Here it is again.

“And many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.”
‭‭Daniel‬ ‭12‬:‭2‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Can’t suffer everlasting contempt if the person has been annihilated, right?

Servus said:

So even while on vacation he probably still puts in a lot of work hours.

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This is true for every president.

Servus said:

And all for free since he doesn't take a salary.

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Yeah, instead in his first term, he just let a bunch of foreign dignitaries stay at his DC hotel to curry favor and in his second term, is using his likeness to sell merch and cryptoscamps.

Are there any objections to us all being friends?

Lost Witness said:

The mark isn't going to be external at all.
I mean....one man dies and goes to be with the Lord..
The other dies and goes into everlasting punishment.
The system hasn't changed.

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Just letting you know, the thread you are responding to is in the Eastern Orthodox subforum. You are welcome to post in fellowship and ask questions, but as with all the congregational subforums you are not allowed to post anything contrary to the teaching of that particular congregation.
I'm not saying you've done that, just be aware of where the thread originated before responding.

keras said:

The 10 Northern tribes of the House of Israel, are now the Western nations and their identity can be established by how each tribe has received the blessings as Prophesied by Jacob and Moses.
They are the Chrisian peoples, who generally abide by Gods Commandments and our presence in the world has been and still is, a calming and peaceful influence.
That we fight each other sometimes, is a sad reflection on us and shows hao successful Satan is - if allowed to be.

WE are the peoples that Jesus came to save, Matthew 15:24, and we do display the proper fruit of the Spirit; Matthew 21:43

Since Jesus came, the entire New Testament teaches that DNA has no value, Salvation is entirely dependant on individual acceptance of Jesus and His Commandments.

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Not being disrespectful here, but please consider what I am about to tell you. I think you are sincere in your beliefs, but you can be sincerely wrong. That's not say other refutations against you here are not wrong - most of them are. They are just as confused as you are.
The so-called "lost" northern tribes of Israel are often confused with the TRUE lost sheep of Israel. The true lost sheep are NOT you nor the Western nations. If you don't know who those people truly are, then you're just one of the unregenerate in this world who THINKS they're one of the lost sheep.

I'm not going to explain or reveal anything to you as this is not my calling - only God reveals and teaches. But what I will share is found in Luke 15:1-7, The parable of the lost sheep. If you really understand what this parable is saying, then you'll find out that your statement about the Western nations being the remnant of the lost tribes of Israel, to be untenable.

In Matthew 15:24, Jesus states, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Jesus also says that "For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost" in Matthew 18:11, John also states that "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." It's important to understand that coming to someone is not the same as being to sent to someone. There is difference. Knowing this truth helps unlock the meaning of the parable of the lost sheep and who those sheep actually are. If you find what I'm saying to be dis-jointed and hard to follow, it is - to the carnal mind. If your are honest with yourself, I implore you to seek God out for the truth on this matter.

Also seriously consider what you said: "Since Jesus came, the entire New Testament teaches that DNA has no value, Salvation is entirely dependant on individual acceptance of Jesus and His Commandments." Western nations do have a purpose, but it's not to be the lost sheep of the house of Israel!

All the best in Christ.

SabbathBlessings said:

I can’t help but wonder how God feels about this argument, He actually tells us Eze22:26. The God of Creation, blessed, sanctified and made holy the seventh day Sabbath from Creation part of God’s perfect plan before sin Gen 2:1-3, Exo 20:11 He codified the Ten Commandments written by God, not man, Exo 31:18 He asked us to Remember the Sabbath day because He knew man would forget Exo 20:8-11, God kept the Sabbath Exo 20:11 Gen2:1-3, Jesus who is God kept the Sabbath Luke4:16, as it is the Holy Day of the Lord Isa 58:13 He said it is a sign between God and man Eze 20:20, a sign of His sanctification Eze 20:12 meant to be a blessing Isa 56:2 made for man Mark2:27 And everyone who loves Him and wants to join themselves to Him Isa 56:6 and tells us in the 4th commandment, who the God is of the other 9 commandments Exo20:11. Man comes along and says thats not good enough, makes one do backflips over the Scriptures, yet will keep Sunday holy when there is zero Scripture, not a commandment, of God unlike the Sabbath, not the day that God sanctified unlike the Sabbath. It’s truly nonsensical.

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And yet you can’t provide a verse pre Moses that shows that the sabbath was being observed or a post crucifixion verse that requires the Christian to observe the 4th commandment. I keep asking you for these verses. It should be simple for you to post them since you believe that the 4th commandment is a moral commandment and those that don't observe it are sinning and in danger of loosing their salvation. Don’t you see the nonesense of your argument? Do you honestly think that God is going to sen believers to hell because they worshipped Him on the wrong day? Legalism much?

rambot said:

A quote from Chuck Kirk.


Now I look at this quote and I get seriously confused. I cannot understand why a person would have a problem with empathy.

How would the Good Samaritan Help someone that thinks their terrible without it?

How can Jesus heal someone without it?

In my view, empathy connects us and allow people sympathy to flow more greatly. It creates stronger bonds between strangers.

So help me understand how and WHY empathy is bad.

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Because its an unqualified word that could mean different things. Its a subjective attempt to describe a natural human sense that as humans we can know what it is like to be a human. More a conscious awareness than any particular word meaning. Empathy seems to best capture this sense and knowledge.

I think it may relate to the idea that we are made in Gods image. Unlike other creatures where perhaps only the emotional aspect is displayed. Humans go deeper than that. We are spiritual and by extenstion moral beings. We are born with a sense of empathy. Studies done show babies can destinguish the cry of another baby in distress.

But I think unqualified empathy. That is not grounded in something outside human emotion and rationalisations can be distorted. As humans we can rationalise all sorts of reasons why some deserve more empathy than others. But empathy in Christ is grounded in the radical idea that your putting yourself below others for the sake of a greater good that is beyond human ideas.

Delvianna said:

Genesis 2:2-3:

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Doesnt work. God recognized the day but did not required it until the tablets of stone. Remember that there were no scriptures until Moses wrote the Torah around the 15 century BCE.

Delvianna said:

Exodus 16:29 This was BEFORE mt sinai

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The Lord said to Moses. God was telling Moses what was yet to come. Is there any verses that show thst people kept the sabbath before Moses?

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John 14:15

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Which commandments? The law or the two commandments that Jesus gave the church?

Delvianna said:

Jesus Didn't abolish the sabbath.
Mark 2:27-28

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Jesus fulfilled (completed) the law. Jesus is the Lord of the sabbath and He is now our sabbath rest (Heb. 4). There are NO post crucifixion verses that requires the Christian to keep the 4th commandment. A

Delvianna said:

How can Jesus be Lord of the Sabbath if we aren't supposed to follow it anymore?

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‘Because Jesus came to FIRST preach to the Jews so He went to the temple to worship on the Jewish sabbath. Also, and probably more important, Jesus fulfilled the law perfectly which means the He kept EVERY law perfectly including the 4th commandment.

Delvianna said:

Or why would God abolish it when it was made FOR us.

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Not abolished but fulfilled (completed). The terms of the first covenant, like a contract, do not apply to the new covenant unless they are specified. Jesus quoted 9 of the ten commandments while talking about His two commandments but He never talked about the 4th commandment as being summarized in the two love commandments.

Delvianna said:

So because it was a command to keep the Sabbath holy, that command then would never cease. It was around before Moses and the 10 commandments and Jesus is still Lord of the Sabbath today and as he said, if you love him... keep his commandments.

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Keep His two commandments not the 613 laws of the Jewish law which included the 10 commandments. Tell me, are the vast majority of Christians that worship on Sunday living in sin? Are the vast majority of Christians that worship on Sunday and do not repent for breaking the 4th commandment living in sin and therefore in danger of not being saved?

DragonFox91 said:

He does not come w/ a pitchfork & devil horns but w/ a loving smile & sweet-talk

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So true That will be his MO. As Paul states he's transformed (disguised in the Greek) as an angel of light...

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Hvizsgyak said:

What if these false Jesus' arrive the same way Jesus said He would return?

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I believe Satan and his will try and mimic the return of Christ in some way. That's why Paul states one must have the full gospel armor on and in place to fight the wiles of the devil. Whoever is here during that time must be able to stand during that "evil day". Christ tells us he comes at an hour most do not expect. That's why knowing the timing is so important. We don't know the day or hour but Christ lays out the signs and Paul is another witness to what must happen before our gathering back together.

And in 1st Thes we are told people will be stating peace and safety and then bam, destruction, the true Christ returns. We have to be on watch and not fall away to the fake. And we have to heed the warnings by both Christ and Paul on not to be deceived by any means. There's a reason the foolish virgins don't make it even though they were waiting and there's a reason that Christ turns people away that stated they did things in his name. So we have to be careful and know the fake comes first. It's very important. Apostasy and the man of sin will arrive first and proclaim to be God. And will show wonders that will have the entire world follow after him.

We have to stay on watch and when the real Christ returns there will be no doubt at all. And like some say, pinch yourself. If you're still in a physical body, Christ has not returned. In that twinkling of an eye, all are changed.