And who did Cain build cities for ?

When God Marked Cain who was going to kill him ?

Yeshua HaDerekh said:

OK. The last part is that all the surrounding countries were made from land they got the same way Israel did. Your example is not really relevant because the US is a country and so is China. The land in the US is part of the US.

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Not all countries surrounding Israel were formed in the same way. Egypt has existed for ~5000 years in roughly the same place with few gaps (and once controlled all of what is Israel today, about 3300 years ago). Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon were formed through mandates to Britain (Jordan) and France (Lebanon and Syria) that Israel and Palestine were. That does not justify a war of conquest.

ozso said:

There's nothing stopping Americans from contributing to numerous organizations that send food and aid to other countries.

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Indeed, with the tax cuts Americans should be able to choose the organizations to donate to that will best help those in need instead of organizations loyal to the Democrats.

Guojing said:

I already said Israel has fallen today, that is why salvation has come to us gentiles (Romans 11:11)

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I would argue that's not "why".. God doesn't do "plan Bs". The prophesies make clear the WORLD was always the plan.

Hentenza said:

Why would it brother. The facts are true.

Why do you defend her so? Is she your hero?

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I’m not defending AOC, I am calling the metric silly.

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:

How much waisted taxes will go into rebuilding a prison there? Personally I think they should tear it down and turn it into beautiful island.

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Bill every member of the Democratic Party for allowing criminals to come into our country and even giving them goods to make their life here easier.

When the normal man goes through fire, they usually become a denizen. When a Believer does, we come out something quite different.

"And they said to Him, “Grant that we may sit, one on Your right and one on Your left, in Your glory.” But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”
And they said to Him, “We are able.”

And Jesus said to them,

“The cup that I drink you shall drink...

and you shall be baptized..

with the baptism with which I am baptized."

He didn't say count the cost for no reason, and when you cross the threshold.. and the Adversary know you aren't coming back, you find out what it's like when hell pours out it's fury on you.
But... on the other side of that fire, you become a refined Creature equipped in a whole new way.
Hang in there, the sun will rise again!

The children of ethnic Israel are not the children of God. Only the believers and followers of the promised Seed are the children of God. The children of the flesh are those who have denied Jesus Christ, following the wrong paths, the children of the promise are the only ones who have the Holy Spirit anointing in their lives and their birthright in God. Romans 9:8

Most Jews may have descent which comes from their lineage of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. But when they turned from their true inheritance and embraced the Babylonian Talmud, they lost their birthright in God. Matthew 21:43

Jesus came to redeem the lost sheep of the house of Israel, the Northern 10 tribes. But we know from the whole message of the New Testament, that salvation is open to people of every race, nation and language, who believe in Him. John 3:16

Luke 1:68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for He hath visited and redeemed His people. Jesus came to bring redemption to the sons of Judah, but instead they cried out, "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" The Jews have suffered the consequence of this rejection ever since.

When Jesus spoke of Israel, it was always in the positive. When He spoke of the Jews, it was always in the negative. The separation that happened in King Rehoboam’s time still remains to this day. The great spiritual and physical rejoining of Christian Israel and Messianic Jewry, prophesied in Ezekiel 37, awaits fulfilment.

When Jesus walked the earth those who were His enemies were the religious Jews. There were three main sects of the Jewish religion: the Sadducees, the Pharisees and the Herodians:
The Sadducees were the keepers of the ancient laws. The name Sadducee means "righteous." They did not believe in the resurrection of the body, nor did they believe in retribution in a future life. The Jewish priests embraced the Sadducee's religion.

The name Pharisee means "separatist." The main tenets of this religion is that the soul will never perish and the wicked will be punished with eternal torment. In other words, they believe the lie the serpent spoke to Eve in the garden that "Ye shall not surely die." The scribes embraced the Pharisee's religion.

The Herodians were those who loved the Greek way of life and followed the dictates of Herod (secular government). They did not adhere to the Jewish law. Their only loyalties were to Rome.

These same three beliefs have infiltrated the church system today. The religious Sadducees today, no matter what name they go by, still want to keep the old law. They keep the Sabbath, observe the ritualistic holidays and dietary laws.

The religious Pharisees are those who are separatists, teaching the eternal lost soul of the wicked, believing they are the only righteous ones, and have made doctrines and creeds to live by. If their people go to any other church, they are reprimanded.

The religious Herodians are those who think mankind can bring about a utopian society by their own efforts and shun all teaching of righteousness with their "if it feels good do it" attitude, but still maintain their belief in a God. Call ‘him’ Gaia or ‘her’ Mother Earth, they all follow ancient paths of Satanic deceit.

Matthew 23:13-15 But woe unto you, scribes, Pharisees, all hypocrites! For ye shut up the Kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

This certainly describes the modern Jews who have closed up the Kingdom of God to their people. As Jesus stated they would not enter in themselves, and they hinder all those who want to go into the Kingdom realm.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

PloverWing said:

I am approximately the same age as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. (Obama is my age, and Clinton is a bit older.) A lot of the Christians of my generation went through a journey in the first few decades of our lives regarding same-sex marriage, as we reflected deeply on Scripture and Christian ethics and people's experiences. Following CF rules, I won't talk here about the reflections that went into that journey. But I can imagine that Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton had journeys that were similar to mine, and that they emerged with similar ethical convictions.

It's possible that they were politicians seizing on what was popular, as your post suggests. Politicians do that. But it's also possible that they had a genuine change of heart, as many in my generation did.

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Yeah, most, especially on the left, abandoned Christian sexual morality and embraced the morality of the sexual revolution. I have no doubt that most progressives went through that journey. Doesn't justify it though.

BobRyan said:

You have value because of God - not because of your goodness.

1 John 2:2 Jesus "is the atoning sacrifice for our sins and not for our sins but for the sins of the whole world"

That means that the lake-of-fire death in hell owed for each and every one of your sins - was paid for personally by Christ Himself.

The value of an object is determined by the price someone is willing to pay for it. Christ paid a huge price for you - no matter what you think of yourself.

He wants to do a miracle -- the one at the end of 2 Corinthians 5. "If anyone is in Christ He is a NEW CREATION old things passed away all things become new".

Salvation is NOT simply a minor improvement on the old-you - it is an entirely new creation

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I always think of it as He got ripped off in the purchase.

but the fact that it was a purchase is probably the biggest reason I'm no actual threat to myself.
destruction of someone else's property.

eclipsenow said:

Except - it's all made up by those evil Democrats! That would make it one of the biggest political scandals in American political life - one of the dirtiest, most muck raking bottom-of-the-barrel schemes imaginable. Books and documentaries and history teachers should be talking about it for generations.

Oh - but it's also really boring - why are people so obsessed with it?

Which one is it Donald?

One of the dirtiest political misinformation conspiracies in American history - or boring?


Also - he says he doesn't draw?

Then what's all this?

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There's been one devastating case of the century against Trump after another, that was going to ruin him and put him behind bars for sure. None of which went anywhere. They've all been nothing burgers. I've been saying that along with many others for nearly 10 years. "But he was convicted of 34 felonies!" But he was never sentenced. Therefore that had zero effect. How could anyone be surprised that many dismissed "he's totally guilty, but we're going to let him walk" as a nothing burger? All of the other detrimental cases that surely would've ruined him and put him behind bars, were dropped. Since the judicial system lets him slide, why shouldn't the public? Donald Trump is going to finish out his term as President, for a second time, and then retire in luxury. And none of this sort of stuff is going to change that in any way whatsoever.

prodromos said:

That was trivially debunked, but you don't watch the videos that debunk your sources, do you?

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Link please.

Hentenza said:

I guess you do need the glasses. Tell me which unbiased news source would print a diatribe at the end of their article titled “at this dangerous time of dissent”. The guardian is nothing but a bull horn for the far left. They wouldn‘t know what unbiased is even if they ran smack into it.

Again, compare the guardian article to the one I posted. Your emotional fear is unfounded and typical.

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I would suggest that you concentrate on the facts. But I guess that maybe you think that an opinion which you don't like renders them invalid.

It doesn't.

You might invest in a DAW, where you can get your ideas down and develop songs you want to get out.

BCP1928 said:

Careful--you're beginning to sound like Bernie

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Nah. When I say fair wage it doesn't mean the same thing as Bernue and others like him.

RileyG said:

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Thank you; you are very kind.

dlamberth said:

What's cool, at least to me, is that science can describe HOW God embed coal into His creation.

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I can too.

I can even name Who did it, when He did it, how He did it, why He did it, how long it took Him to do it, who witnessed it, and other things.

Can science do that?

Fantine said:

And every dollar taken away from both groups is a win-win for the billionaires' coffers

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Actually not, because homelessness adversely impacts property values. Anyone invested in real estate has a vested interest in helping the homeless.

BobRyan said:

ceremonial sacrifices were added after the Gen 2:2-3 Sabbath was "made for mankind" (Mark 2:27) and so it was only AFTER the Gen 3 fall of mankind that the animal sacrifices are put in place - see Gen 4.

Prior to that the Sabbath was kept without any animal sacrifices.

Heb 10 -- all animal sacrifices end at the cross.

Is 66:23 for all eternity after the cross in the New Earth - "from Sabbath to Sabbath shall all mankind come before Me to bow down"

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SabbathBlessings' assertion was that God never issued a commandment that man cannot keep. As I responded, that is patently false simply because there are innumerable commandments in the Bible which nobody has been able to obey since the Temple was sacked by the Roman emperor Titus in A. D. 70.

To be certain, there have been various alternatives to these commandments which have been promoted and accepted. Many Jews sincerely believe that various pious works substitute for blood sacrifices.

BobRyan said:

Your article notes that the Nicene creed changed nothing in the Bible and added nothing to it.

"proof" for any given doctrine is not "The creed", it is scripture.

The fact that the Trinity - Triune God head is in scripture - is itself sufficient. The fact that the Nicene creed affirms it - is "good for the Nicene creed" but that is not what proves that the Trinity doctrine is correct.

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Apparently not, since the Arians using the same canon of Scripture embraced a totally heretical doctrine. Which is why the Creed was promulgated - to differentiate between Christianity and Arianism and to ensure no Christians acquainted with the Creed would fall for the heresy of Arius. This is why most churches read the Nicene Creed, the Apostles’ Creed or the Athanasian Creed every Sunday, usually the Nicene.

Fervent said:

Perhaps, but are we sure that God has a specific intention for every trivial decision we make? It seems to me doing God's will is more about maintaining our integrety and preserving our witness rather than following a specified path. As for whether or not an event like your car breaking down falls under God's will for your life, that's a question that has done little good other than to foment division. If we lived as if everything that happened was God's will, we'd have no motivation to do anything because any action we take might put us at odds with God's will. So what does God will? Good for all who love Him and are called according to His purpose.

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Excellent points. Some do say they hear the trivial. Perhaps so, sometimes God may just want to fellowship with you, give someone the assurance of something small to build their faith for something later, or just to love on them. I admit too that the main path to hearing God is to let the word of God show you your character and conduct. Still, if there are some significant decisions, of course ask the Lord.