Delvianna said:

Don't negate the promise to Abraham of the "seed" which will never die which means ethnic Jews (biological descendants of Abraham). We don't replace Israel, as Paul says, we gentiles are grafted in. The original branches are still there and will always be.

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Abraham has physical descendants as well as spiritual descendants, so you are correct.

Abraham had 2 seed, spiritual and physical, while Jacob only has one seed, that is physical

God promised numerous descendants to Abraham in a number of places in Genesis

Genesis 12: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

Genesis 15 (our favourite passage): 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Genesis 17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Genesis 22: 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

Notice how God specified to Abraham that his seed will be of 2 groups:

-Stars of the heaven
-Sand upon the sea shore.

While for Jacob, it was found in Genesis 28

12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

13 And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;

14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Here is the critical alteration in the promise of numerous descendants to Jacob can be found. While Abraham was promised seed that will be the stars of heaven, Jacob had no promise of that.

Instead, God promised Jacob specifically that his seed shall be as the dust of the earth

It is Jacob's seed that became Israel, which is also Abraham's physical seed.

ranunculus said:

You downplay his actions and call it merely boorish, I'll call it fascistic when a single leader is demanding complete unchecked power while siccing the military on his own constituents and using his crypto coin grifts as slush funds for dark money and foreign government bribery, among a myriad of other crimes.

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Call a man a Nazi long enough and people start believing it.

ranunculus said:

Maybe you missed the sarcasm indicator denoting the facetious nature of my comment but would you like you an actual prediction?

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You predicted Trump family flees to Russia. You mean you think he won't?

Spiritual Jew said:

I'm saying that if we have true faith, then our works will reflect that.

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this is the same as saying works are necessary for your faith to be true.

Would you agree with that?

Well then let the Vatican take them in. People don't exist for the sake of redistributing their own income & letting their own standard of living fall apart. We have a legal pathway.

Spiritual Jew said:

It took time for Jewish believers, including James, to fully understand that they were now under the new covenant rather than the old covenant.

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James was the head of true Israel, the remnant that believed in Jesus as their Messiah.

The resurrected Christ never told any of them that the Law is now optional for them. Instead he continue to tell them "to obey everything he commanded (Matthew 28:20), which includes obedience to the Law.

It is rather arrogant of you to claim that they were incorrect for more than 20 years after the cross.

Heavenly Father, Holy is Your Name, we pray You will heal April and restore her mightily, in the Name of Jesus, as only You can do. Amen and Amen.

Glory to God!

Chrystal-J said:

I find these suicides horrifying. People were upset when the cult "Heaven's Gate" committed mass suicide, but this is ok?

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Agreed. It’s sad, really.

Vambram said:

Jesus Christ would condemn the sinful teachings of the LGBTQ agenda.

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Evidenced by His stance in the gospels?
Withdrawn, believe what you’d like about your Deity.

Good.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it really means to follow Jesus with our whole lives — not just on Sundays. Many of us may feel we love God sincerely, but we still find ourselves caught in the weekly grind, serving money more than Him without even realizing it.

I just made a video exploring what full-time devotion to God could look like in the modern world — practically, spiritually, and relationally. It also shares some of my own testimony of how Jesus’ teachings changed my life.

If this topic resonates with you, you’re welcome to watch and share your thoughts:
[Serve God Full-Time — YouTube Video]

I’d genuinely love to hear how others have wrestled with this calling.

Grace and peace to all.

pasifika said:

Sure it refers to Christ blood but how are you going to receive it (Christ blood) at the present time?

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We already received it by the grace of God through faith as a result of His ultimate sacrifice for the propitiation of our sins.

SabbathBlessings said:

You have not posted one verse that says God's commandment meant Moses

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What do you mean? The Mosaic law WAS given to Moses to give to Israel.

SabbathBlessings said:

or that Moses is God

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Nope. He isn’t.

SabbathBlessings said:

or that God's people do not need to keep God's commandments.

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Never argued that so Strawman. The thing is that now we walk in the Spirit which guides us and shows us the way to repentance which is something that the law never could do.

SabbathBlessings said:

Or that God made a mistake when He stated clearly what we eat has some serious consequences. Isa66:17

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No mistake. He gave that command to those under the law, Israel. He did not give that command to the gentiles. In fact, you can read which commandments were repeated to be part of Jesus two love commandments and the dietary laws were not,

SabbathBlessings said:

When Jesus literally tells you what the parable He is speaking about means Mark7:20 Mat15:15-20 faith is about believing Him. But just like those before us, didn't either Mat15:14 probably best I take His advise on this as well.

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Jesus literally tells you that He fulfilled the law and that all foods are clean. Literally.

Still waiting for that verse that shows that the Mosaic law was given to the gentiles.

Say it aint so said:

No they aren't. To understand what is legal and illegal is why they are consulting attorneys prior.

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I'm sorry but you appear to not understand how the military chain of command and the UCMJ works.

essentialsaltes said:

Oh and some bonus Derrick Evans:

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Strange that he thinks that antagonizing other people is Christians growing a backbone.

Trump's affect on "alpha male" Christians is depressing.

"To whom much is given, much is required".

BPPLEE said:

in my own experience it was a problem. They just went to another agency

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I LOVE unions.

But dang if they do far too much to protect bad eggs.

(I don't see it as much as a teacher but when I was working as a counsellor at a govt. facility for youth, there were people being protected and coddled. I did not like that).

Clare73 said:

That is the logical consequence of the sovereigny of God (Ro 9:19-24).

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Ok so God created them in a fallen state knowing that they are incapable of meeting His expectations unless He was to intervene and enable them, then punishes them for failing to meet the expectations that He already knew that they were incapable of meeting when He created them?

Brother Del said:

Sir, I have not failed. Because I wasn't trying to convince you of anything to begin with. I presented for your observation, an alternative view. Do with it what you will.

I have no arguments to make. Why would I argue with anyone about the shape of the earth? Especially when I know already that any such argument would surely be in vain.

Standing water is always level. The molecular structure of water does not allow for it to curve over a ball. That's not an argument, its an observation.

NASA actually means to deceive in Hebrew. Again, not an argument, just an observation.

No matter how far above the earth a person goes, the horizon always rises to eye level. This would not be so if the earth were a ball. Another observation.

Satan is a liar, and the whole world, with the exception of a few faithful believers, are completely under his control. Now that's an argument. And it cannot be refuted.

Believe what you will. Search the scriptures. Draw your own conclusions. Or trust what you have always been told. It matters not to me one iota. Neither will it even slightly diminish the love I have for you in Christ.

Be well. Be blessed. Be at peace.

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You do realize that thousands of airplanes a day travel around all areas of the globe, right? You do realize that if you are in one of these thousands of planes that fly every day cruising at 35,000 feet that you can clearly see the curvature of the earth, right? Have you ever been on a plane?

Heck, let’s have some fun. Go to a pier and watch ships disappear in the horizon. What do you see? You see the bottom of the ship disappear first and then progressively disappear from bottom to top until the top of the ship disappears. Do you know why that is? Because of the curvature of a spherical earth.

The fact that the earth is a sphere is not up for debate since it has been fully proven. Any other argument going against a fully proven fact is just absurd.

God created a spherical earth that spins on its axis every 24 hours and goes around the sun every 365 days. God created every other planet in our solar system and beyond to also be a sphere. The sun and the moon are spheres. Therefore the earth is a sphere.

rjs330 said:

Nah, this us the garbage the Democrats have been feeding the blacks for decades. Much like the more recent claims of "the GOP is full if Nazis". Utter junk. Its a shame they've been able to bamboozle people like that.

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So you are going to dismiss what I'm telling you about my own community? Democrats don't have to tell Black people anything. We have eyes and ears.

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Philosophers like Aristotle and Pythagoras had already rejected the polytheistic beliefs of Ancient Hellenes and paved the way for the Hellenistic nation to embrace Christianity.

I mean, he does like anti-semites, right?

/s

Daily Fail reporting...

US 'contractors' arrived by boat on Monday at Playa Bagdad, driving signs into the sand near where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico [sic].

Alarmed witnesses quickly alerted officials and heavily armed Mexican security personnel rushed to the scene on trucks mounted with machine guns in a terrifying standoff.

The Pentagon, in a deeply embarrassing statement, admitted that its troops were mistaken when they landed on the beach.

The Mexican personnel watched as the Americans drove six signs into the ground, which said: 'Warning: restricted area.'

Written in English and Spanish, they claimed that the beach was the property of the US Department of Defense [sic] and had been declared restricted by 'the commander'.

The US Embassy in Mexico shared a comment from the Pentagon on Tuesday which confirmed that personnel had been sent to mark 'National Defense Area III'.

'Changes in water depth and topography altered the perception of the international boundary's location,' the statement said. 'Government of Mexico personnel removed six signs based on their perception of the international boundary's location.'

The Pentagon added that contractors would 'coordinate with appropriate agencies to avoid confusion in the future.'

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum declared on Tuesday that the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), a binational agency that determines the border between the two countries, would arbitrate the dispute.

partinobodycular said:

Ah, so at least you figured out the riddle. Now as for the proper interpretation of Revelation 13:18, methinks I don't care.

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No understanding for you then.

AV1611VET said:

Christ died on the cross for him, didn't He?

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I think that's a moderatorable offence to comment either way.

So, final FINAL words: Matthew 7:20. Anyone with eyes and the internet knows Hovind's fruits and we know them well.