GoldenBoy89 said:

Idk. Our president is 80 and golfs every weekend. It doesn’t seem like it’s that hard of a job.

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He's 79. He will be 82 when he leaves office.

Warden_of_the_Storm said:

What's amazing is your lack of knowledge and your lack of desire to actually learn...

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Says someone who thinks we live on a flat earth.









































Oops - Sorry I meant a spinning ball

Eating early sounds extra brilliant.

BRLLI

linux.poet said:

The world's population has grown by 3 billion in 32 years?!

I learn something new every day.

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Same here! I suspect the population will rise steadily, and eventually go down. I cannot be sure. Just my opinion.

soldier of light said:

It's like I'm an outcast and misfit.

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So am I. But we are not alone, GOD and Christ are with us, they have made their home with us, tabernacle in our temporary dwelling of flesh. There are also others like us scattered to the four winds but extremely few in number. All who live GODLY in Christ Jesus suffer persecution. You seem to handle it well.

biblelesson said:

Most scriptures you referenced are taken out of context

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IF we believe Jesus' statement that man shall live by every Word of God there is no such thing as taking anything out of context because everything applies to everyone

biblelesson said:

you use those scriptures to support you, not what they truly mean.

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Well of course I use the scriptures for understandings of facts therein. There is no other way other than applying our own imaginations, if that's your preference?

biblelesson said:

It would take too much time to correct all of what you have said, so I will only address this part!

Adam was in a natural body - that’s true. But, his body was not a corrupted body?

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Paul states how Adam was created, cited to you multiple times now. I really don't care if you accept those facts or not.

Adam was never meant to occupy a wet dust body for eternity anyway, per Paul.

biblelesson said:

1 Corinthians 15:44 KJV
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Before the fall, Adam had not undergone the change

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Already showed Adam was a sinner just like the rest of us, from the moment he was created because it was never an account of just Adam or Eve, but the tempter tempting them within. You only see Adam and Eve. Not my problem that you can't seem to connect the dot of evil thoughts and evil words to the defilement they both showed before they ate, and that defilement was of the devil, a sin. Mark 7:21-23

A lot of freewillers mistake sin as being only the external act and that is not the case, per Jesus.

You may love your own story more than the scriptural account. And that's fine with me. I'm not the guardian of your mind or the ruler of your beliefs.

I just don't think they exist in scripture. I'm interested in what scripture says.

I need to wear mine more often.

Anyone else surprised? Anyone? Bueller?

Lost4words said:

Bigfoot is real...

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Do SEVERAL of them exist? Surely the one "found" in the 60s is long deceased by now...

CLEEB said:

When Adam and Eve gained the knowledge of good and evil then they knew they were naked and obviously knew that this was not good because they attempted to cover themselves.

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It's not, IMO, that they knew that nakedness was wrong; it's that, with their loss of innocence they thought it was wrong. They thought they were wrong, in their essence, as God made them. They now knew something foreign: they knew shame. And we've never gotten over this and will not get over it in this fallen world; shame of self is part of the exile from God that we all experience in this world. JMO, tho.

essentialsaltes said:

Yes, atheists are banned from Scouting.

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Oh. That's too bad.

ChubbyCherub said:

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Personally, I'm a very open book and have no fear of judgment because I know that we are all sinners and I do not judge others for their sin but try to instruct them in the ways of Christ.

That being said, I am reading that many are embarrassed or ashamed so this once popular action is not very popular, anymore?

I'm not sure it was ever popular in Protestant churches but I haven't lived since the beginning of when they were formed so am not an authority on this point.

Furthermore, is this why Catholics confess to priests?

Thanks, as always, for helping me! I know I always have lots of questions but you all are very good to me with your assistance.

God bless.

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(posting in fellowship)

A little known fact.

Private confession isn't just in the Catholic Church.

The Orthodox Church, all other Eastern Churches (Oriental, Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East etc), Lutheran, Anglican/Episcopalian also offer private confession to the priest or minister followed by absolution, as well.

I will not comment further because I am NOT non-denominational, I am Catholic.

Peace

Phil G said:

Second, I have already stated, as per my own experience via short wave radio reception, and per the experience of ham radio operators, the ionosphere is notoriously unreliable to skip radio signals. One minute there is clear reception, the next it has faded. The reliability to receive signals via skipping off the ionosphere is very dependent on the time of day, the weather and other such influences.

Satellite tv signals are extremely reliable, far more reliable than any signal skipped off the ionosphere. Since I have already told you all this, if you had even used the remotest of intelligence to research the facts, you would know this.

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Adding to Phil G's response:

The ionosphere only reflects frequencies below 30MHz, such as short wave. Higher frequencies, as used by TV and satellite, are not reflected (or bounced).

soldier of light said:

Jesus seems to say that a clean body is one who Christ has cleansed from sin. Note that Judas wasn't clean. Jesus is talking about his sin not his hygiene. So why the foot washing? It must be spiritual as well? What does it represent? Or is it just a simple act of servitude?

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Jesus said, let him who is greatest among you be the servant of all. Yes, Jesus was indeed demonstrated this spiritual principle. After the foot washing he said, John 13:14 Carnal minds take this literally but Jesus is giving an example of love and service to others. It was common practice in those times to wash the feet of a guest in your house to show hospitality and be a gracious host since traveling in sandals would cause the feet to be dusty and dirty. This is not a practice today. Today we may offer food or drink and a comfortable chair to sit in. It is showing love and service to others. Some churches practice foot washing without this understanding and since it is not a common practice today makes people feel uncomfortable. They have no understanding.

Guojing said:

Jesus never said anything, even after he rose from the dead, that the Law is now optional for any of them (Matthew 28:20).

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Did you miss Jesus explaining that He fulfilled the law, became the Lord of the Sabbath, and taught His disciples that He was instituting two love commandments that encapsulated all of the law and the prophets?

Guojing said:

So if obedience to the Law was required to enter the kingdom before the cross, it continue to be required after the cross.

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Not in the way you mean it. Several passages of Scripture clearly establish that the coming of Christ has brought an end to the Mosaic Law.

Romans 10:4, “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.”

Christ fulfilled the Ten Commandments by living a perfect and sinless life and so when man trusts in Christ as his Savior, Christ’s righteousness is imputed to that individual so we have justification (Romans 4) resulting in the fact that the Law can’t condemn us (Romans 4:4-8; 5:1, 7:1-6, 8:1).

Christ fulfilled the ceremonial ordinances, the shadows and types of His person and work, by dying on the cross for us and in our place.

Christ also fulfilled the Social Law, but now He replaces it with a new way of life fitting to our new salvation.

The believer now is under God’s new law, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:2-4).

Therefore, the doctrine of justification by means of faith in Jesus Christ upholds the Law for three reasons:

(1) Jesus Christ’s death on the Cross satisfied the demands of God’s Law that required that human sin be judged (Romans 3:26).

(2) Jesus Christ’s death on the Cross establishes the Law by fulfilling the purpose of the Law in driving men to Jesus Christ as their Savior (Galatians 3:24).

(3) Jesus Christ’s death on the Cross establishes the Law by providing believers the capacity to obey the Law through the ministry of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:3-4).

This is why I have stated in the past that the Holy Spirit gives us the knowledge of sin and the way to repentance since the law is not able to. This is why there is no longer condemnation for those in Christ (Rom. 8:1).

Thanks for sharing!

johnnypapa said:

Newman Guide adds Catholic elementary, secondary, graduate school sections

www.catholicworldreport.com

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Thanks for sharing!

Lord have mercy!

Gene2memE said:

Countries wanting membership need to meet the organization's criteria on democracy, rule of law, free markets and human rights. So, there's a limited set of countries that are eligible for membership.



OECD is useful because they have specific data sharing and reporting standards. So you know you're getting a like-for-like comparison. It's not selective, it's limited/exclusive. The countries that are compared in OECD are the only ones that can be compared in OECD data - because they're the only ones that the OECD receives data on.

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There's no reason Uruguay shouldn't be included.

essentialsaltes said:

Texas A&M committee rules professor's firing over gender identity lesson unjustified​

The internal committee ruled that the university didn't follow proper procedures and didn't prove there was good cause to fire Melissa McCoul, who was a senior lecturer in the English department with over a decade of teaching experience.

[The professor's lawyer believes it will have go to litigation, as the school may not listen to its own committee.]

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Good! Professors should be allowed to have academic freedom.

FireDragon76 said:

Hate implies preference more than it does the kind of negative affective emotions and judgements we associate with the word hate in the modern world. Jesus isn't addressing what we think of today as self-loathing and self-harm. He's just saying there's a hierarchy of goods, with our life being situated within a set of values

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The word is hate. No sense trying to water it down.

I think we can all agree that God hates evil and we all have evil in our hearts. Not hard to hate ourselves if we recognize the presence of the tempter tempting us within.

Yep. Hate

That's pretty awful. I wonder if he has some form of dementia?

seeking.IAM said:

The evening news and any other talking head telling me what I should think and believe.

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I feel like I don't watch cable anymore.

wing2000 said:

...and President Trump will secure the great oil fields of Venezuela for the American people. Drill, baby, drill!

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The oil will be throwing garlands at the feet of American troops as liberators.