• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

DOJ Quietly Deletes Study After Charlie Kirk's Death That Says Right-Wing Extremists Engage in 'Far More' Political Violence

"Download full issue" of "NIJ Journal Issue 285: Domestic Radicalization, Violent Extremism, and Terrorism"
gives one:

View attachment 370206

They are at least consistent. Again, a comment on removals?
It's their content and they can take it down if they want to.

Do you normally read NIJ journals? Or was the People magazine article the first you ever heard of them?
Upvote 0

A conversation about unity.

According to your church - I doubt the Lord sees it the same way.
What did the disciples who were celebrating the Passover with Jesus truly believe? Did Jesus ask for a declaration of faith before he shared bread and wine with them?
Those disciples of Jesus who did not believe His words of eating His true Body and drinking His true Blood walked away. They found His words too much of a "hard saying" to accept.

1 Cor 11:29 For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself. RSVCE
Upvote 0

Israel-Hamas Thread II

Back to the present day, the wholesale slaughter of Palestinians and the destruction of Gaza is a "real estate bonanza" for Smotrich

Israeli leader: Gaza a "real estate bonanza"- War on Gaza Day 711

"The Gaza Strip is becoming a real estate bonanza,” and the plan is “on President Trump’s desk,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said at the “Real Estate Center” conference. According to Smotrich, negotiations have begun with the U.S. regarding a business plan for Gaza.

“We paid a lot of money for the war, so we need to decide how to divide the percentages of the land in Gaza. The demolition phase is always the first phase of urban renewal. We did that, now we need to start building.
Seems like it's not about Hamas but about making a profit for Smotrich at least.
Upvote 0

There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

Archeologists study artifacts, their contexts, and clues to how and why they were made.
And what do they claim made these precision vases in the hardest of stone. The method on the wall. Yet we have already agreed that the method on the wall does not match the signatures and some other method such as a sophisticated lathe was used. Where is the lathe on the wall pictures.

The wall pics show vases being made in softer stone like alabasta which we have plenty of inferior works as examples from all over the world. But they don't explain the precision granite vases which strangly enough happen even before the potters wheel.
Your vase measuring engineers seem to spend a lot of time ignoring the actual archeological context and conclusions. Precision tool making is not suggested by anything but (and I don't even there, but that is the issue at question here) these artifacts which these engineers claim require precision tools to make.
Actually you also recognised the modern signatures. So did others. You don't have to be an engineer or an archeologists to recognise this. Actually Flinders Petrie was the first archeologist to discover these before the onset of modern tech and he thought no existing tech or method available in his time could have made those signatures.

He spoke of there being tremendous pressure on the cutting mechanism to be able to cut into the granite yet remain perfectly still.

There is no other evidence for such tools. No texts describing them. No drawings. No tools found in the ruins of a workshop or the tomb of a craftsman. Nothing. All we have is this particular interpretation.
What, we just worked out what sort of device may have been used such as some sort of sophisticated lathe. We certainly went beyond the wall painting method.

I don't know how the vases were made. All we have is the witness marks which point to some sort of sophisticated lathe tyo be able to achieve such precision.
What we do have are lots of "junk" left over from the manufacturing process that shows failed objects and the leftovers from core drilling. Here is a fun article:

Yeah I have seen this one. They once again show the wall method into softer stone which no one is saying did not happen. As I mentioned it seems it was like there were two different industries. One with plenty of common softer imprecise vases and one with a smaller amount of precision vases.

As though like a specialist sector in precision works that everyone tried to copy. That happened in the earliest times in predynastic Egypt.
or this "familiar" image with the ring from the drilling process clearly visible:
How do you know its from a drill bit. Its a pretty big one. It may be just a design. A glyph. Is is a perfect circle lol. So was this made on a lathe. But I think you meant this one

1758181358636.png


slate_dish_1.jpg




Why would that be needed?
I am pointing out how an antiques expert is no more knowledgable on precision tooling and engineering than an archeologists.
Upvote 0

ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live after comments on Charlie Kirk

Yeah, that's usually how censorship works. You make one person an example and the rest fall in line.
It's got nothing to do with censorship. Mainstream NBC news is telling the truth about Tyler Robinson being a supporter of the political left.
Well as long as it brings you some happiness it was all worth it.
It does. I'm smiling ear to ear over Kimmel going down in flames. And I can't want to see who's next. Burn woke burn, muhahaha.
Upvote 0

Take a stand on political violence

But if nobody is calling for the actual the pain and suffering of others, physically, then we probably shouldn't get too excited.
So if someone is abusing their wife, controlling her life, dictating what she can.and can't do, controlling where she goes and when and who she meets without physically harming her then we shouldn't be concerned.
...and believe that calling a trans person, for example, their birth sex is a violation of some kind of right, and sometimes even place it at the same level as calls for physical violence.
If an adult had a problem as regards their gender then it's literally nothing whatsoever to do with you. As you say, it doesn't harm you. So just move on, thanks very much.
Upvote 0

Elongated Skulls of Paracas, Peru Possible Origins Are Amazing

It's not a genetic feature. It is (weird) cultural practice.

No, he's talking about the Peruvian skulls having the same genetic markers as those found in graves in the Black Sea area, showing that the two populations were distantly related. Which he then extrapolates, badly, to say that Black Sea populations migrated to Peru, hence why the head binding is present. None of which follows.
Upvote 0

Transcript of Kirk's killer's messages has been revealed

Obviously. FYI, they have done multiple press conferences laying out a lot of evidence that points to Robinson being a hard left ideologue. Now, we are starting to learn that he may not have acted alone. Last I heard, over 20 people are being investigated as co-conspirators.
You seem to be listening to some crazy far right space laser preaching podcast because you can find all statements issued by the FBI on their website and there is no mention of Robinson being a leftist or having a co-conspirator.
Upvote 0

Limited atonement !

I find it hard to believe that your doctrine can hold to the notion that a person cannot even desire to seek God if he is not born again, but then at the same time say you don't know when you are born again. By that logic, wouldn't it be when you seek God?

But that is the problem in this passage for your view. Because Nicodemus was seeking God, but was not yet born again.

We know Nicodemus wasn't born again because Jesus included him in those who needed to be. And Jesus certainly DOES know what is in a man.

John 2:25​
25 and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. (NKJV)​
Man by nature does not seek God Romans 3:11
  • Like
Reactions: David Lamb
Upvote 0

Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin's transgender roommate 'hates conservatives and Christians,' relative says

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 gives a 75 percent chance that the FBI-released text messages allegedly sent between Robinson and Twiggs (the alleged shooter's domestic partner) are AI generated. OpenAI's ChatGPT 5 gives the probability at 65 percent. Human commentators across the political spectrum also have found the dialogue strange, as if it is trying to fill in plot holes.
Upvote 0

Pastors, Evangelical leaders react to the killing of Charlie Kirk: 'A Christian martyr'

Wow. I sincerely hope not.

There are a lot of aspects of his life that do no coincide with how I think christians should comport themselves.

American Evangelicals have mostly been colonized by the Republican Party/MAGA, to the point they conflate advocating against immigrants and trans people with Christian witness.
Upvote 0

Eric Trump on Charlie Kirk’s Legacy and the Radical Left – “This Could Have Been the Greatest Mistake These People Have Ever Made” (VIDEO)

I will answer that question in an appropriate thread. Until then, to be continued.
Please let me know when that happens, so I don't miss it.

-- A2SG, can't read everything, everywhere, ya know....
Upvote 0

Former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters faces possible prosecution after supporting banned Palestine Action

You seem to not understand what legal means in the context of the legal power of a court.
Oh I do. You very obviously do not understand these things within the context of Islam...
Upvote 0

Are Some Prayers An Exercise In Futility?

I am doing well.But when you mention gender wars,I do not. I do not want to sound blasphemous. But NOW I know why Jesus did not get married while he was on earth. He (Jesus) had to already suffer enough. I have heard that,"You have to take the bitter with the sweet". But in my life of 71 years, so far I have seen more bitterness than sweetness from women. For example,In High School, I was always being interested in science,and was a B student. When I told a girl that I wanted to be a Biology Major in collage. She told me,"Oh, you just want to be like those White boys" But I did not get into any fights or picked on in school,because I was also the Co-Caption of the football team.
  • Friendly
Reactions: bèlla
Upvote 0

Filter

Forum statistics

Threads
5,875,191
Messages
65,361,308
Members
276,193
Latest member
RaptureReady17