Valletta said:

Ford backs President Trump’s new auto tariffs, calls them a win for America​

https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/ford-backs-president-trumps-new-auto-tariffs-calls-them-a-win-for-america/

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We'll, it's a win for Ford, there's no doubt about that. But from the White House:

'Therefore, of the 16 million cars bought by Americans, only 25% of the vehicle content can be categorized as Made in America.'

And that's because the ones Made in America are more expensive. Now you're going to have less choice in what you buy and what will be available will be more expensive. Like the man said, it's a good deal for Ford. It ain't a good deal for you.

Servus said:

Simply mentioning Mariology being a crucial component of Christianity would not have required writing an exhaustive theology. If one wants to go with argument from silence regarding the complete absence of what supposed to be a crucial component of Christianity, that can be applied to just about anything the Bible and the early church never taught.

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There is no "complete absence", Marian theology pops up exactly where we would expect it to. It would have been jarring in the course of dealing with other issues for the NT authors to have developed Marian doctrines that had no bearing on the topics they were dealing with. But as @The Liturgist rightfully points out your claim is factually inaccurate since several of the authors you mentioned do develop Marian doctrines, such as Justin Martyr in the Dialogue with Trypho where he parallels Jesus/Adam and Mary/Eve. There is no silence on the topic, Marian doctrines are spoken of in exactly the kinds of places we would expect them to pop up.

How many of you believe you understand the significance of God tearing the temple curtain from top to bottom at the moment of Christ's death? If I go by what I hear being taught in our churches, social media platforms, podcasts, and books I've read, I would hazard a guess that very few do. If you did you would most likely be at odds with the rest of the Christian community. Most often it seems that conformity will always trump over truth. If someone hears the same thing a thousand times by a thousand different people, then it must be true.

At the moment of Christ's death, God tore the temple curtain, 60ft tall and 4inces thick, from top to bottom. Why?

This curtain stood as a physical representation of the barrier that stood separating man from God. Within the temple it separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place where the presence of God dwelt. No one was allowed into the presence of God. Only the High Priest, and only once a year after he had been cleansed of his sins, could he then enter into God's presence. In other words, no one guilty of sin is allowed into the presence of a Holy God. And it is this truth alone that makes the tearing of the temple curtain so significant yet overlooked.

Two major truths were revealed when the temple curtain was torn that most people miss.

First, the barrier that stood between man and God was removed. If there is no more barrier separating man from God, then anyone can now enter into the presence of God. If anyone can now enter into the presence of God, then everyone must already be cleansed of their sins. Something the Israelites of the day would have understood this to mean (the good news of the Gospel). No one still guilty of sin can come into the presence of God. This has never changed. It remains as true today as it was before Christ's death. What has changed is we've all been cleansed (forgiven) of our sins. We've all come into the world forgiven of our sins with an invitation to enter into a relationship with God, free of any guilt or shame. Which brings me to the second truth that was revealed....

Forgiveness of sins does not save us. These are not the same thing, but two uniquely different, and separate, events. From our perspective, forgiveness is a historical fact. It is a completed act that holds true for all of mankind. The shedding of blood can only forgives sin, it cannot save us. It does not bring about new spiritual life (a relationship with God). It simply makes the possibility of salvation a reality. Salvation only happens when we choose, of our own freewill, to enter into a relationship with God through faith. You can be forgiven and not be saved, but you can't be saved without having first been forgiven.

Also, Salvation is not salvation if it is only temporary. That would merely be a reprieve from your current condition, not a permanent reality. For example; say we both jumped out of an airplane and your parachute didn't open, but I caught you and held on to you with my parachute open, but before we landed I decide to let you go. Were you saved when I first caught you? No. It was just a reprieve from your current condition. In the end, you were just a messy spot on the ground. Salvation must be a permanent reality (eternal) or it is not salvation.

So of course, for salvation to be eternal, there can be no possibility of losing it. For this to be a reality, all sin would need to be forgiven before salvation could be offered. Likewise, forgiveness cannot take place after or even at the moment of salvation. It must happen before salvation. Remember, forgiveness is what makes entering into God's presence possible in the first place in order to receive salvation.

Dikaioumenoi said:

It seems you didn't actually read the argument. What kind of action is "creating the possibility of success"? Does the Father merely attempt to create that possibility, with the real risk of failure? Or is the Father necessarily successful in that act?

The Father's drawing is an enabling action. The conditional statement tells us nothing about who ultimately comes. So if the drawing can fail, then you are saying God can fail in His attempt to create the very possibility of coming. The creation of that possibility is what the drawing is. "No one is able to come unless drawn." The success of the drawing is the precondition for the possibility.

So is the Father's act of enablement necessarily effective, or not? If it is, your definition of ἑλκύω collapses your own position. If it is not, then the possibility of salvation itself becomes uncertain.

You keep trying to leap to a criticism of the Calvinist conclusion that drawing equals being saved, without recognizing that that argument rests on the grammar of the text, not on the semantics of ἑλκύω. The semantic core of ἑλκύω is a decisive movement from one position to another. That is consistent with a non-Calvinist reading of John 6:44, because the decisive movement ἑλκύω describes there is a change of position from inability to ability.

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Creating a possibility does not entail guaranteed success, nor is there any reason to condition the statement in such an all-or-nothing manner. It is only by introducing pre-conceived notions that any such requirement is even within the realm of consideration. The sole criteria for the possibility of success is God's intention, with no force being required. There is no precondition, your position is an artificial construct of your own creation and not a genuine problem in the text.

Christians in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, are protesting a new local government election law that denies religious minorities the right to directly elect their own representatives and undermines democratic participation through non-party elections.

The Punjab Local Government Act 2025, which will govern long-delayed local polls expected in late December, requires residents in more than 4,000 union councils covering rural and urban areas to directly elect nine general members but fills four reserved seats — for minorities, women, laborers or farmers, and youth — through a party-driven “selection” process. Christians, who constitute the bulk of minority population in Punjab, argue that the change entrenches political marginalization for already vulnerable groups and violates constitutional guarantees of equality and local empowerment.

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hedrick said:

Normally, including our church, what changes are the kind of thing printed in the bulletin, not Scripture.

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I am sorry if my post read as if I was accusing your church of trying to change what the Bible says. I was thinking the change in liturgy which you posted about made the Bible harder to understand, rather than that such a change actually amounted to changing the Gospel itself. I admit I posted my point by editing it into John 3:16, so it could look like I meant to say your Pastor was changing the Bible.

stevevw said:

For me its music. Music can be spiritual and it can take you to places beyond your surrounding world.

I play the guitar and write songs as a past time and therapy really. I can be learning a song or trying to write a song and be taken away for an hour or two and I feel like I just arrived back on planet earth lol.

I think the beauty of an art like music or painting or any art where you can detach yourself from the world and be taken to some transcendal place is a doorway to spirituality if it is for God or in the spirit of God.

I often get visions or rather concepts of something beyond the world. Or insights about self or the world that cannot be articulated in everyday interactions. In fact they are hard to put into words. Thats why art and for me music is a form of communication. But both ways. It sort of opens the mind to what is beyond.

One sentence I think that captures how music can take me into Gods presense would be a song I have not finished from years ago called 'Shadow of my soul'. The first verse is

I hear a voice thats far away calling out my name and though I can't see anyone I can hear it just the same.
Its singing songs that talk to me calling me back home and penetrates my very being to the shadow of my soul.

Sorry two sentenses but it only makes sense with the whole verse.

But just the song title takes me to a place where it is that the shadow of my soul exists and its where I can expand my world from the world I live in and it brings me peace beyond the world.

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Steve, that line “penetrates my very being to the shadow of my soul” lands deep—I totally get it.
David’s harp did the same for Saul: one strum and the tormenting spirit lost its grip, because the music carried something (or Someone) bigger than the room.
I’m wired deeply creative too, and whenever I hand the work back to God that same “doorway” stops being escape and becomes embrace—like the Spirit slips inside the art and hands us a glimpse of the real country we’re made for.
Would love to hear the rest of Shadow of My Soul when you finish it; until then, keep letting that far-away Voice call you (and all who believe and trust Christ) home.

Servus said:

I agree that taking Communion is a sacred and solemn occasion, and we should examine ourselves before partaking.

However Paul made it very clear what the unworthy manner was. And it's virtually impossible to repeat it when taking Communion in church these days.

The Communion is known as the Eucharist. And Eucharist means "Thanksgiving". And in Paul's time the Eucharist was like the feast Americans have on Thanksgiving Day.

It was a big banquet. And some were being selfish and depriving others. Selfish and committing gluttony. Treating the Eucharist like a pagan pig-out. Which is clearly spelled out in 1 Corinthians 11.

Considering how Communion is taken in church these days, it's virtually impossible to partake in an unworthily manner as Paul described, by hogging the Eucharist and pigging out on it, and getting drunk on the sacramental wine.

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Thank you, Servus, for your comment and your evident love for God’s Word.
I get the Corinthian pig-out scene—but I think the principle travels:

Any greed, bitterness, or unforgiveness toward another believer is the same heart-condition Paul flags.

“Examine yourself” still means: clear the heart before you lift the cup—even if the portions are now bite-size.

DaisyDay said:

Generally, $0.00 for simply appearing as that is considered a part of their public service.

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So then how do we have congressmen who make the same salary I do, increasing their net worth $4 million in a period of 5 years.

He didn’t die in Palestine and the 12th century dating is the correct date.

Darwin's great discovery was how it happens. Nothing in evolutionary theory is about "it just happened." It's a sad commentary on science education in the U.S. that so many people actually believe that story. Darwinian theory turns out to have useful applications in engineering, as engineers are now using evolutionary processes to solve problems that were not possible to solve using design. Turns out, God knew best.


It's directly observed today. It happened the way we see it happening now. God is a lot smarter and more powerful than most creationist think He is.

eleos1954 said:

It's "interpretation" of things seen ...

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Nope. Directly observed facts. We see evolution proceeding exactly as it always has. Perhaps you don't know what biological evolution is. What do you think it is?

eleos1954 said:

God does state His creative power is seen and we are without excuse.

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But YE creationists still attempt excuses.

eleos1954 said:

While it (the theory) can describe what happens, the ultimate "why"—the origin of the chain of events or what drives the universe—is a question science cannot answer and may lie outside the realm of natural science.

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Of course it does. You have that much right. Even Darwin just supposed that God created the first living things. Science is too weak a method to consider the supernatural. It can neither support nor deny God.

DaisyDay said:

Are you a truck driver?

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My job does require a class A CDL, as one requirement among many, but I'm not a semi-truck driver, no.

Kjelete said:

Even with space-exploration now it`ll end one day anyways. They probably never find aliens ether, but that`s another story.

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Of course not, since we live under a dome. I’m a firm believer that society should be governed by a genetically superior race of people, among whom God was born. As it was in the days of Ptolemaic cosmology.

Landon Caeli said:

What if the magazine publishers began sporting toothbrush mustaches?

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Less subtle than using Nazi jargon, I suppose.

But that was enough. I imagine there are some 20th century historians on staff at Harvard. Those guys seem to have not realized what that would mean for them.

Lukaris said:

Acosta was a bipartisan, swamp holdover during the 2008 Epstein sweetheart plea deal. Trump has had a lot of conflicts with former officials and his relationship with Acosta was not personal although Trump considered Acosta as a competent labor seceretary.

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A prosecutor who had saved his pedophile pal from serious consequences. It's notable that when the story became known, Trump tossed Acosta overboard. And of course, there's that birthday letter to Epstein that we can't post here. Trump is looking for the magic bullet that will end this slow train wreck, when the only thing that could (in principle) save him is to release all the unredacted files.

When the Miami Herald reignited public outrage in 2018 over Epstein’s plea deal, Bondi remained silent. She issued no public condemnation, launched no investigation, and maintained legal inaction despite growing evidence of systemic failure.

Then, unexpectedly, Bondi emerged on the national stage.

In 2020, she was appointed to President Trump’s impeachment defense team.

“The Price of Looking Away: How Bondi and Acosta Benefited from the Epstein Cover-Up”

“Promoted by Silence: The Strange Rise of Pam Bondi and Alex Acosta After Epstein”

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More rabbits will be pulled from the magic hat of course.

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He's hoping. But so far, nothing has worked.

I watched Fr Chris Alar often on YouTube. I like his talks!

Thank you all. I last became assured this past Thursday. Because God/Christ does not waver, I think I can trust in that and in Him.

As God’s people, we were all given free will to choose if we are for or against Him. A common question I hear often is “I don’t see how a loving God could send someone to hell. Why would he want to punish one of his creatures for all eternity?” The simple answer is that God does not want us to go to hell. He “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:4). It’s our very own actions and decisions in our everyday life that cause a separation from God. Hell is not a punishment that God imposes, but rather a separation that has been willfully chosen by a human person.

An individual may choose to remain separate from God. If the individual chooses to remain separate from Him, God will not force a union upon them. But as long as we are alive, we can still choose to turn to the Lord.

There is no offense, however serious, that the Church cannot forgive. There is no one, however wicked and guilty, who may not confidently hope for forgiveness, provided his repentance is honest. Christ who died for all men desires that in his Church the gates of forgiveness should always be open to anyone who turns away from sin (CCC 982).

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In order to turn away from sin, we must not only run to God, but we must also avoid anything that turns us away from Him. “If any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17). We must first acknowledge our attachment and desires for material things of this world. These material things do not last long and only distract us to what is important which is Jesus Christ. To detach yourself from the world, repeat this prayer to God:

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FredVB said:

There are instructions. But we should both see that in the new covenant we who are saved are not saved according to our following instructions. It is with repentant faith coming to Christ. God is gracious, but would lead us, and it is desirable that we grow more, which is with learning God's will and doing what is for us to do according to that. Admittedly there will always be more to learn, in this life. There is much for it. If we assume we know all of it we are not open in the way to grow anymore. There is less reason to be left remaining here, then.

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That's cool May we all continue learning and growing ✝

Grace and peace to you, my man!

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" the Bible was created hundreds of years after the time of Jesus “by a pagan emperor for political reasons.”"

True but only if one considers the emperor was unifying the empire after civil war and this religion was a tool in doing so. It had helped in his winning the war against the latin side of the empire when using crosses on armor to convince opposing soldiers who were Christian to surrender or switch sides rather than fight their own..

“Jesus wasn’t a Christian. He was a Jew. And he didn’t come to create a religion.”

Fact.

" be honest with ourselves and start listening to the truth that is behind it,”

True

"Jesus’ priority was people’s hearts, not churches, denominations, or dogma."

True. It is man that likes to institutionalize everything. His 'church' was built upon the rock solid foundation of God's truths, not man's.

“deeply flawed men, written, rewritten, translated, re-translated, filtered through kings, priests and politicians.”

As scholars and the oldest texts, the Dead sea scrolls, have shown

“argued over by 45,000 different Christian denominations who all swear they’re the ones who are right for 2,000 years"

Undeniable

“Kids do not need theological degrees. They need simple truth.”
“The gospel that Jesus taught is not about control; it’s about freedom,”

See Jesus' mention of children and His feud with the Sanhedrin. One suggests simple truth and the other calling out human government and control disguised as humans using of God.

"Dr. Eric Mason, founder and senior pastor of Epiphany Fellowship in Philadelphia, commented on Allred’s post, “I cannot even believe he made all of these fallacious [claims,] say the Bible was written by Constantine.”

That was never said that I can see. Is this then false witness?

"Jesus was indeed a Jew, Huff acknowledged, and Jesus was not a Christian because Christians did not exist yet. They derived their name from Jesus. And it is true he did not come to start a religion. “He came to fulfill that which was prophesied about him already,” said Huff."

Agreed

“Those first Christians were Jews who believed in Jesus as the Messiah........... they didn’t cease to become Jews. They weren’t converting to a new religion.”

Exactly, but they were indeed what would be the first of the new movement which would eventually be called Christian.

" Because they were and already had been considered authoritative Scripture for centuries.”

Some, not all. The idea was to weed out what did not fit, especially with Hellenistic thinking, in order to unify what would become a controlling governmental religion within the empire, dictating authourity over the rebellious factions of the religion to eliminate dissent.

"he said that no one would live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God,” said Huff. "

Huff tries to take scripture that refers to the OT and apply it to the NT. Misappropriated.

"Huff encouraged his viewers to take Allred’s advice to listen for the truth and to do their own research."

True.

“voted on by bishops under a pagan emperor,” “didn’t even exist in [Jesus’] lifetime,” and “is not God.”

True but not only was the compilation eventually used as a unifying tool within the empire's religion but also became our prime source of the Will of the Father and the story of His struggle with adversity in both us and elohim..

"and he strongly suggested that knowledge and education were antithetical to truly knowing God."

Yes, if it means having to adhere to strict doctrinal shackles of man, rather than the freedom to continually seek God as we are commanded to do. There is no final say by an institution. Salvation is a personal goal, not to be guided by human agenda rather than the Kingdom which they rejected in the Empire's time.

"Any time you question the authority, the first people to rush to its defense are the ones who treat their degrees like divine credentials,” said Allred, “as if God speaks louder to men with titles than men without.”

Such has always been the way of man, especially those who seek power. Every governing body of man seeks the same while the Kingdom of God is the opposite. Is it any wonder that the more man learns to think for themselves that authourity increases surveillance. Today is a prime example of power fearing for itself. Its time is coming to an end as the will o God will replace the selfishness of mankind.

“Theological certainty is spiritual death. And it was those who claimed to know God and speak for God, who ultimately crucified God’s son."

Absolutely, or Jesus wouldn't have said to continually seek God. He wouldn't have disputed the clergy. He wouldn't have said God's Will be done, not man's. And yes they did crucify Him just as they have always destroyed that which offends their notion of authourity.

As for the people's comments, God has always had to face opposition by those who would rather defend the world and the authourity and institutions of man over God's simple truth. Worldly is as worldly does and will always defend self before the will of God..

But the bottom line is both of these people are distracting us, as did the church and all politics since, from the real message of God's Will overcoming the will of both man and elohim. Jesus accomplished as a servant to God what the House of Israel failed to do when they were given the chance to serve the Father. Mission was accomplished and it is senseless to focus on human discrepancies rather than promote what was accomplished. I am sure the Adversary would prefer to keep quiet its failure and seek to control the narrative by promoting argument over human political history, drawing us back into the world. The good news (gospel), first and foremost, is that the Kingdom overcame the elohim controlled nations of man and adversity to the Father. It precedes all other gospels.

BelieveItOarKnot said:

That's pretty funny.
How many scriptural citings would you like for loving our neighbors as ourselves? I can count at least 10 citings in the N.T. alone, all stemming from the O.T. where there are several more

Even funnier it never made the cut of requirements of any creed

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Hebrews 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. NKJV

Above is our OT removal of sins. If we depend on the OT rules for salvation the blood of bulls and goats, is our purification, The only reason God accepted their blood is because those offering them believed God would send someone to save them from their sins. They looked forward to the coming of the Messiah.

Hebrews 5:7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, 8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, 10 called by God as High Priest "according to the order of Melchizedek," 11 of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. NKJV

Jesus became the author of eternal salvation to those who obey Him. The author, creator or writer, of eternal salvation.

Hebrews 9:16 For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives. NKJV

Jesus wrote His testament, the New Testament, with His blood when He was crucified. Be sure to note that it is a New Testament, the New Testament, that God promised in the OT. It went into effect when Jesus died.

Hebrews 8:13 In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. NKJV

The OT is obsolete. The true Israelis are now under the NT as well as anyone who believes in Jesus. An obsolete covenant will not provide salvation. In the NT we do not look forward from the OT.


Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. NKJV

Obsolete covenant laws cannot make anyone righteous who believe in Jesus. Anyone who claims righteousness from the law, does not believe in Jesus. By the NT rules they will not be saved by trusting the OT laws.

John 15:5 "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. NKJV


Jesus being the author of the New Testament wrote the commandments we are to obey. The first and greatest commandment is that we believe in Him and we must abide, remain in Him, to be fruitful. If we do not stay in Him, we will not be fruitful and will be cast out, by the Father, and burnt.

John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." NKJV


Jesus also gave us another new commandment. We are to love other disciples as Jesus loved us.

Now as children of God we are expected, to the best we can, to be like Jesus. If we do that we will continue to live physically. The Father wants us to further Jesus' kingdom, to do that we should resemble Jesus.

BelieveItOarKnot said:

I asked if you believe our "unsaved neighbors" are going to burn alive forever or be permanently annhilated.

I don't believe either happens to our neighbors, so you have my answer. Where's yours?

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Revelation 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. NKJV

From the white throne some will go to live on the new earth and some go the lake of fire. Do they burn for an eternity? As Jesus stated in Matthew 25: 41 the lake of fire was made for the spiritual being who rebelled. What happens to flesh and blood in the lake of fire I do not know. I do know that flesh and blood cannot live there.

Isaiah 66:22 "For as the new heavens and the new earth Which I will make shall remain before Me," says the Lord, "So shall your descendants and your name remain. 23 And it shall come to pass That from one New Moon to another, And from one Sabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worship before Me," says the Lord. 24 "And they shall go forth and look Upon the corpses of the men Who have transgressed against Me. For their worm does not die, And their fire is not quenched. They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh." NKJV

Verse 22 states this is the new earth and new heavens after the white throne judgment. Verse 24 does say corpses, or dead bodies, of the men who have transgressed against God. So, Hades will torment them, and the lake of fire may kill them and leave their bodies intact.

I say some may burn eternally and some will be dead.

So, I say all one needs do to avoid going to Hades and the white throne judgment is to “keep believing in Jesus and to love Jesus' disciples as Jesus loved them.”

Dan1988 said:

Thanks for raising this important question. Many Christian Denominations teach that you can't be sure that you are saved, until judgement day.

But Gods Word reveals that believers can be sure of their salvation, in advance. If we believe what Gods Word reveals about the matter, then we can be 100% sure of our salvation.

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Romans 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors — not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." NKJV

We can be sure we are saved when we are sons of God. Those who put to death are sons of God. To do that we must accept discipline.

Hebrews 12:7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. NKJV

If we do not put to death the sins of the flesh, we have not accepted discipline.

Dan1988 said:

Romans 10:9-10 If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

As we can see in the verses above, salvation is not a complicated set of requirements to fulfill in order to earn salvation, (as most Christian Denominations falsely teach).

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God does not lie. The Israelis were His children prior to Jesus' coming. If you drop down a couple of verses to;

Romans 11:18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in." 20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. NKJV


They were cut off because of their unbelief. If we do not continue to believe in Him. We also will be cut off.

Dan1988 said:

God is not the Author of confusion, so salvation is extremely simple and anyone who simply confesses the Lord Jesus with their mouth and believes in their heart that God has raised Him from the dead, will be saved.

I love the simplicity and the verses and the promise of salvation. Notice there are no good works or keeping the law, required for salvation.
I believe the above, so I'm 100% sure that I am saved, the only way I could lose my salvation is if God lied and we know that's impossible.

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Yes, we can be 100% sure of our salvation if we are putting to death sins of the flesh.

John 10:4 And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers." NKJV

We are His sheep. His sheep are the only ones who follow His voice to be disciplined. If we are without discipline, we are illegitimate and not sons. Illegitimate children have no inheritance in His kingdom.

Aryeh Jay said:

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Yup

JohnB445 said:

I am learning more about the Bible.

What happens in the future? Where there be an eternity of people being on Earth then dying later to be judged or will there come a point where there is no longer a need to judge and either people are in heaven or hell. And there are no more people left for God to judge?

If that is the case, what happens next? Is it possible for another rebellion to occur and people get kicked out of heaven? Remember the angels rebelled from the very beginning.

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Judgement takes place in heaven ... the records of all peoples lives are stored there .... when Jesus returns all judgement for all time has taken place and the 1st resurrection (of the saved) occurs ... those are taken to heaven for 1,000 years and afterwards the 2nd resurrection (of the lost) takes place (of the condemned)

Hell is the grave .... there is no "burning place" for eternity. The masses are dormant in the grave until resurrected.

What caused the rebellion in the first place? .... believing lies ... in heaven we will know the complete truth and also there will be no temptation because satan is destroyed.

James 1:14-15 describes how temptation arises from within an individual, not from God. It states that each person is tempted when they are "dragged away by their own evil desire" and lured in by their own cravings. Once this desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and the result of sin is death.

• Origin of temptation: Temptation does not come from God but from our own sinful desires.
• The process: These desires "drag you away" and "entice you".
• The outcome: When these desires are fulfilled, they lead to sin, and the consequence of sin is spiritual death.

Satan, described as "prowling around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour" (1 Peter 5:8), is a key instigator of temptation. He tempts us by twisting God's gifts and using our free will to try and lead us astray.

There won't be any temptation in heaven (satan destroyed) and we will know the complete truth and therefore sin will never rise again.

Delvianna said:

"Some that illegally crossed the border into the United States, some that came in through visa waiver and were prohibited from working, some that had visas and overstayed their visas." link

Out of the 330 people detained, 316 South Koreans have been deported, the rest were Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian. link

Sounds like illegals and people who broke the law to me. If you break your visa agreement, the US has the right to deport you.

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The people suing were there on proper visas.
And part of the problem with the other visas is a fewfold. The Trump admin was insisting that the work on the factory be finished by the end of the year, so workers were needed on a quick schedule to accomplish that. Problem with that was, the time it takes for the states to process visa applications is long for the type they'd need and previously, for these sort of cases, the US government had allowed other types of visas be used, even if they didn't allow work by letter, because it was deemed necessary to get the people in. So there's been an understanding between companies and the state that this is ok in these cases.