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The goal of Christianity in 'Not' to stop sinning!

The more of God you know, the more of God is revealed through you, and naturally, the less you will sin. No effort, no fuss, no worries.
You were doing so good! Til the end. Not that I'm disagreeing with you but will throw in a slight complication about the above.

The notions of sinning "less" are also a scriptural and reality fantasy. Why?

Paul described the sin that dwelt in him as "no longer I" twice in Romans 7:17-21, concluding therein with the fact that whenever he did good, evil was in fact still present within him and that IT did it's sinning things, outlined in detail earlier in the chapter, vs. 7-13.

Paul also claimed that he was, in the present tense sense of the term, "I am" the chief of sinners, basically putting himself at the top (or bottom if we prefer) of the heap of sinners, 1 Tim. 1:15

Jesus nailed this subject quite solidly in Mark 7:21-23 stating quite deadly accurately that "evil lawless thoughts" defile us all. The same things Paul pointed to in Romans 7:7-13

Yes, sin has a life (or anti-life if you prefer) of its own that does operate in everyone. This is why we're no better than any given sinner, Romans 3:9, and that every mouth and the whole world is shut up in GUILT.

Yes, guilty as charged. Every last one of us, no exceptions. (Yes, Jesus was/is the ONLY exception)

Anyway, to delve further in to this topic we should start to look at the WHY.

Paul introduces us to the fact that he had a "messenger of Satan" in his own sorry hide. He also tells us that temptation was in his flesh, Gal. 4:14, which ties in quite nicely to all the above scriptures with the addition of AN ADVERSARY, a very real "other agent" that was not Paul. There was Paul and there was an adversary, a messenger of Satan in his flesh. Now it gets interesting donut?

How did that agent get in his flesh? Well, that's an unseen story, but Jesus, thank God, at least shows us the "how."

Where the Word is sown, Satan enters the heart to steal it. Mark 4:15 is just a fact. And it's not something we ever rid ourselves of. The only temporary promise of the Gospel is DOMINION OVER that adversary, not eradication of.

Paul, Apostle as he was, I am certain was viciously attacked by said adversary constantly and continually. Hence when he claimed the seat of the chief of sinners, he was not just looking at himself. He was speaking of himself and THE ADVERSARY, the messenger of Satan in his flesh.

John said no differently when he said SIN is "of the devil," 1 John 3:8

So there you have it. The composition of mankind in a nutshell.

You have people, whom we are commanded to love

and

We all have an adversary, us, others included, whom we do NOT have to love, but can and should resist.

Now life gets very interesting from here.

Good luck to all in the wrestling match, well, not the other parties for sure. But to all people.

I have great hope that all people will come through the sieve intact, sans the other parties. Basically half of us will get through, the other half of me will definitely not. I have to throw out the damnation scriptures as a reminder to "my adversary" quite often. Daily in fact.
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

So have anyone measured the 10 kN vibrations in the pyramids? This presupposes that the pyramid vibrates, this is directly measurable. Why doesn't those proposing it just measure if it is the case or not?
I thought the electromagnetic wave effect at the location of the pyramids has already been established with the Schumann resonance frequency.
Resonating electromagnetic waves with a frequency of around 8 hertz which can be measured in the Earth's atmosphere. This natural phenomenon is called the Schumann resonance frequency.

This causes a constant vibration in the quartz crystals. So any further effects are building on this. The way the stones are located in relation to each other. The granite chambers are under tremendous pressure and the addition of certain acoustics and all sorts of activity can be produced.

The modelling that the findings are theorised on has only just been done. Still further modelling is needed. Then this has to be physically applied. Getting access to the pyramids for testing is another story.

I think so far the only on site testing has been on acoustics which shows piezoelectric effects concentrated in the granite chambers. In fact from memory the effect increased as it reached the Kings chamber. So the design at least for sound energy was intentional I think. The chanting and all that.
The authors mean to put the hypothetical system in an area with geothermal and seismic activity.
Yes and I think there are some papers on the granite and basalt stones showing evidence of thermal and/or stress damage. But also I think the reflective outter casing if white or bright would have radiated.

They may have harnessed natural weather events such as thunder storms and lightening. But just the location with so much quartz crystals and underground water ways. It was an active location in many ways and potentially it seems unreal that the Egyptians would not of at least come to understand all these natural events going on around them.
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the myth of flat earth debunked again

Sorry - What were the qustions again ?
Isn't this your thread? Aren't you reading the posts? A couple of the questions I directly asked you. So please don't treat me like an idiot.

Just see posts 1262, 1319 and 1324.

Any time you're ready, cariad.
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Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe











Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

Not what I said, but your outlook tells you otherwise. Yes, death was the result of A&E putting their will ahead of the Will of God. It was a factory built safety in case we went rogue like the elohim previously. The dead were dead as resurrection never became a thing until 2000 years back. Choice was what Jesus gave us as to whether we follow the Will of God or our own in achieving the Kingdom. Those that died before Jesus still had been told all through the OT of the same choice, the same choice given A&E. The difference is now, yes, we still will die as soon as we put our will first and we all do, but now we get a chance to repent and find life again, having understood and shown we are worthy of the Kingdom and accept His will over our own. That understanding was not available to A&E as they had not yet taken the knowledge to be able to understand. They were restricted to 'don't touch' as they had no way of understanding why. We do and should make the right decision, not thinking we can have it both ways, pulling a rabbit out of the hat on our deathbeds but lacking the fruits to prove our allegiance to the will of God.
Man, you sure used a lot of sticky tape to hold your theology together. It's like the patchwork on a Mosaic Quilt, it's inconsistent and incoherent. Makes no sense at all and it's unbiblical.

I don't know who the "elohim" are that you're referring to. If you mean the "Angels who sinned" then just refer to them as Demons or fallen Angels.

I don't know what you mean by "the resurrection never became a thing until 2000 years back". If you're suggesting that those who died before Christ came into the world, were under a different covenant, then you're wrong again. God only made two covenants with mankind. The first was "the covenant of the law", only Adam and eve were under that covenant. And the rest of mankind is under thew "covenant of grace".

No third covenant was ever made so we are under the same covenant as Abraham (He is a born again Christian), just as Job, Moses, David and all those who lived before Christ came were.

The only difference between Moses and myself, is Moses placed his trust in the coming Messiah and he was saved by the same Lord Jesus who saved me. But I look back and Moses looked forward. None of us met the Lord Jesus,, but both of us were saved by Him.

God never gave anybody a choice, you have no choice. There is no such thing as free will, because everyone is born into slavery to Satan. Nobody can escape Satan's grip on them, if God doesn't free the captive, then nothing else can.

There is no difference now, the only difference is, I know more than Moses and Abraham put together, they would have loved to know what I know but it was hidden from them. I have the completed canon of scripture, while they only has fragments.

The biggest problem with your theory, is that you failed to take onto consideration the fact that a leopard cannpt change his spots. Just as the natural man can't change his nature. We can only act according to our nature, we are all born with a sin nature, so we sin because we are sinners by nature.
You can't, change your own nature, because you don't have access to the reprogram your operating system Only God has access because He knows the the password.
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Last Sunday After Pentecost








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Judge orders Texas schools to remove Ten Commandments displays

A federal judge behind a 2014 ruling that deemed Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional has ordered the removal of Ten Commandments posters in seven school districts.

U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunctionmandating the removal of Ten Commandments posters from classrooms in Fort Worth, Arlington, McKinney, Frisco, Azle, Rockwall and Mansfield Independent School Districts, which were named in a lawsuit filed by multifaith and nonreligious families in September.

Attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and Freedom From Religion Foundation filed the suit on behalf of 15 families whose children attend schools in the affected districts.

Continued below.
Thanks for raising this significant issue again.

There's little doubt that the Texas law violates the Supreme Court's 1980 decision specifically banning the posting of the 10 Commandments in public schools. The ACLU, AUSCS, FFRF, and liberal judges opposing the new Texas law are legally justified with their lawsuits and stay orders, however...

I think the 1980 Supreme Court decision, like many others during the past 75 years, was a grave mistake that not only opposes God but also betrays the Founding Fathers' intent of America's freedom of religion. Anyone reading the Congressional comments of the First Amendment drafters and Joseph Story's "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States" (1833) can appreciate that the liberal Supreme Court Justices overturning America's Christian heritage for secular values has been both shameful and destructive. It has literally undermined the Bible's authority in our culture and degraded the nation's moral values.

I hope this law does move up the ladder to the Supreme Court again, and I pray that the new conservative Justices will overrule the 1980 ban as was done with Roe vs Wade. We need God's hands in the country's affairs, and we need our children being influenced by God, the Bible, and the 10 Commandments rather than secular beliefs that counter the very foundations of the Christian faith.

People need to understand that we have religion in the public schools today - a faith based system of naturalism, materialism, and relativeism. There is no separation of church and state, just a societal choice as to which religion will be supported.
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‘Just atrocious’: Trump’s polling numbers just hit a new low

If only Kamala had gotten elected, then we would be in good shape as millions of illegals keep flooding across the border.

Where do you think economies come from? The sky? Bad economies require bad decisions by business people. They need to go out of business, so businesses who make good decisions can take over. That process is cut short by government interference when it tries to make the economy better.

What really happens if the people via the government keep interfering with the economy over many decades? All those bad decisions accumulate until the economy stops working normally, then it is ready for a depression. This takes about 60 to 80 years of stability. We are at 80 years now.

The damage was already done before Trump got elected. It's too late now.
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The Miraculous Medal Novena

Day 6... 11/23/25

O Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of Our Lord Jesus and our Mother, penetrated with the most lively confidence in your all-powerful and never-failing intercession, manifested so often through the Miraculous Medal, we your loving and trustful children implore you to obtain for us the graces and favors we ask during this Novena, if they be beneficial to our immortal souls, and the souls for whom we pray.

(Privately form your petitions here.)

You know, O Mary, how often our souls have been the sanctuaries of your Son who hates iniquity. Obtain for us, then, a deep hatred of sin and that purity of heart, which will attach us to God alone so that our every thought word and deed may tend to his greater glory. Obtain for us also a spirit of prayer and self-denial, that we may recover by penance what we have lost by sin, and at length attain to that blessed abode where you are the Queen of angels and of men. Amen.
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When You Lose Interest In A Series You Once Liked

I don't know if the internet is the cause, but I find it almost impossible to watch more than 10 or 15 minutes of a movie or tv show before I have to find something else to do. Yet I'd watch YouTube! shorts for hours if I'd let me. I've got the attention span of a three year old.
Yeah that might have ruined us. But then again it seems to me that flipping through yt shorts isn't much different than channel surfing. A little while ago I saw that Roku has Law & Order. But it's live streaming and I didn't want to be tied down to sitting through a whole episode without being able to pause it.
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Do you keep the Sabbath? (poll)

That is your interpretation of the Scriptures. God anointed Apostles for us to obey, not a book for us to interpret as our limited minds see fit.
Scripture has right interpretation and wrong interpretation. Jesus being tempted by Satan in the desert proves that beautifully. Satan quoted scripture to Jesus in order to tempt Him to sin.
Satan’s interpretation was not wrong, but is was incomplete and misleading in an attempt to get God to contradict Himself. Jesus rebuked him.
I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, and I subject myself to Apostolic teaching, of which we have a record over the last 2,000 years.
Has anyone referenced any of that? Did the Apostles teach the scriptures the way they are being taught today? I don’t see a concrete reference that they did. We even have evidence that they taught contrary to what is being promoted by modern Christians that rely on sola scriptura.
Have modern Bible readers received direct commission from God to go and promote their interpretation and compel obedience? If you are honest, you would have to confess no, but you believe your interpretation is correct.
So what am I to do? Subject myself to those personally anointed by God or subject myself to the opinions of others on what the scripture should say?
Jesus gave the great commission to the Apostles telling them to teach all that I have commanded YOU. He did not hand out gideons bibles and tell them to go into all the world and give them this book and let them figure things out on their own. The Bereans used the scriptures to test Paul, when Paul was shown to be true, they obeyed the Apostle. They did not start an independent Berean congregation

If y’all want to believe modern prophets in no way connected to the Apostles and follow independent thought that is your choice. Do you know where the word heresy comes from? It is derived from the Greek word for choice, hairesis.

It’s ironic that the 1960s counter culture began with growing long hair. You can even hear the song about it from the play Hair, a celebration of freedom of thought and even modern people call themselves pro-choice Ironic that they all sing of the glories of heresy

I whole heartedly agree with your last statement, Sabbath blessings. Jesus is the author of salvation to all that obey Him. It does not say to all that obey you.
To command obedience, one must have Apostolic authority, not free choice independent thought. The Apostles were anointed with tongues of fire, and spread their anointing through the laying on of hands. We have the direct line of apostolic succession all the way back to Peter. What commission from God do you have that we should believe you rather than them?
In order for you to hold yourself above the Apostles, you should at least know what they taught. Have you read Iraneus, demonstration of the Apostolic preaching? Have you read the Catechism of the Catholic Church and all the references included with the teaching?
If not, then you are speaking from independent thought or free choice aka heresy. I don’t follow that choice, I obey God as your final quote states
I admit that my own thoughts can be in error and I submit to being corrected by apostolic teaching. We do not subject ourselves to the choice of men.
I never wrote the Ten Commandments- that's God's Testimony that the Holy Spirit personally wrote Deut4:13 Exo31:18 Rev15:5, something He said He would not change. No where in the entire Bible were the apostles commissioned to change God's times and laws and teach another gospel than what God commanded.

Have you ever dated someone that did all kinds of things for you? Gave you everything, but what you asked. I think we can do that to God. But Lord Lord did I not do this in your name, but Lord Lord did I not do that in your name, only for Him to say I do not know you Mat 7:21-23 because you did not do what I asked.1John2:3-4 God wrote out what He asked plainly in Stone - than wrote it in our hearts 2Cor3:3 Heb8:10 Changing a jot or tittle, yet alone a whole commandment or two, is no longer doing what He asks, but our own will. Its really that simple. We can follow the crowd, or be faithful to what God actually said that comes with His power of His sanctification and blessings. Something no church has the power to do, despite their claims.

... you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.
—The Faith of Our Fathers, by James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, 88th edition, page 89. Originally published in 1876, republished and Copyright 1980 by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., pages 72-73.

If you want the sanctification of God- keep the Sabbath- if you want your own sanctification and believe your church has more power than God- one to remove His sanctification and than transfer to a day God made for works and labors Exo20:9 by all means keep going in the direction your heading. We are told whoever we obey is who we serve (worship) Rom6:16 so I guess it will get sorted out in God's time.

To command obedience, one must have Apostolic authority, not free choice independent thought. The Apostles were anointed with tongues of fire, and spread their anointing through the laying on of hands. We have the direct line of apostolic succession all the way back to Peter. What commission from God do you have that we should believe you rather than them?
This is a misunderstanding of Scripture. You will not find one verse in the entire Bible where the apostles changed God's times and laws- that is something they understood to be bad Dan7:25 and not something they ever did in words or in actions. They faithfully kept every Sabbath in church with both Jews and Gentiles just as Jesus said- My house will be a house of prayer for all nations Mat21:13 and that is on the Sabbath- just like Jesus did who was theirs and our example to follow Luke 4:16 for those who want to join themselves to God, love His name(God) and to be His servants and holds fast to God's covenant- that He said He would not alter His words Psa89:34 not a jot or tittle Mat5:18-19

Isa 56:6“Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant
7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.


This is what Jesus said who has all authority

Mat 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go [c]therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” [d]Amen.

No wonder why the apostles observed every Sabbath decades after the Cross with both Jews and Gentiles as Jesus predicted

Acts 13:42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

Acts 13:44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God.

(fulfillment of Jesus prophecy that My house will be a house of prayer for all nations)

Acts 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.

Because God does not change. The Sabbath was from the very beginning made for man started at Creation Exo20:11 and will continue on for eternity where all of God's saints (saved) will continue the Sabbath for worship but instead of in spirit since sin separated man from God, it will be before the Lord Isa66:22-23

We do not want to miss this! But if we are so opposed to God's holy day now, will we suddenly want to once He returns? If God was going to force His will on people we would not be in the mess we are in today a world full of sin and sorrow. We can follow traditions, but it doesn't come with the sanctification or power of God, no wonder why Jesus told us to obey God's commandments over man Mark7:7-13 Mat15:3-14 and the apostles never taught anything different Col2:8

I do wish you well and hope you will consider what God says because while there may be temporary great authority on this earth- its not equal to God's.
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Needing a pastors counsel

I don't feel like I can pray right anymore. I'm scared I'm going to hell. I hallucinated audible demons. I have diagnosed schizophrenia but it felt so real.
I pray that God directs a pathway for you, both spiritually and physically, and pray that in Jesus' name.

Are you on a prescribed medicine, and taking it ?
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"Under Title X of the US Code, the President has plenary authority..."

Headlines from a few papers do not clarify what the actual situation is like compared to say 10 years ago.
Sensationalism to cloud the mind, hey?

But compare it all to decades and decades of data and see what you get.

Also - just let Trump send the military in anywhere he wants to - and see what you get!

Be careful what you wish for!
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MARK OF THE BEAST - REVELATION 13-14; 17; 18

Yes and no.

Other apocalyptic symbolism of the time shows us that it works by dressing up the political entities of the day as villains, and the 'goodies' somewhat as universal archetypes.

So there are specific warnings to specific churches - but at the same time we know from history that there were 10 main churches in that area. John chose 7. Why? It's the perfect number. It's the universal number.

So just as Paul wrote to the Corinthians a few times - and it was specifically to teach and rebuke and encourage them - but also us today - so too Revelation works like that.

But you haven't answered the main issues above.

Is John saying "Toughen up princess" to his generation or not? Is he patronising their struggles by saying "You just wait till you see what starts in 1948, and all the failed and ridiculous prophecies that my letter will generate around then!"
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