Oompa Loompa said:

It got an illegal immigrant to become a school superintendent and live in the country for decades. All this shows is that fake documentation is far more sophisticated.

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I’d be interested to know how that one worked, too. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone in that position was actually set up as a contractor and had their own LLC. I don’t know how common that arrangement is for school superintendents, but it’s common for other executives, like CEO’s.

ThatRobGuy said:

It has to do with data sharing capabilities between certain nations.

Here in Ohio, there was that story about Anthony Emmanuel Labrador Sierra.

Used his real name, just changed the year of birth on his forged documentation, and posed as a 17 year old (despite being 24) and got put into foster care and enrolled in the local high school (and played two sports)

It's because the US didn't have robust data sharing systems with Venezuela, therefore, they was no systems in place to authenticate documentation other than "eyeballing it".

In doing some searching, Montenegro isn't one of the entities we have bilateral data sharing with, they're not part of the visa-waiver program. And even the EU/Interpol only have "indirect access" to their data. (whatever that means)

Certain cities/states doing the "Sanctuary" thing (and skipping certain checks) does complicate matters a bit.

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In this case, there wouldn’t be any need to share information with another country because it’s the US who issues visas and other documents related to the ability to stay and work. If his visa expired 10 years ago, how did he get work authorization using his real name?

GoldenBoy89 said:

Well duh. I thought it was the GOP that wanted this thing to end.

I guess I was wrong.

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They didn't even want it to start. That's why the GOP continues to vote to reopen the government. If the Democrats would simply agree to cooperate, the government would be open. Simple!

Apple Sky said:

What are they then ? You can't seriously believe this is something they just simply made up ?

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Almost every Christian has read the Sermon on the Mount, yet very few truly understand it. Today, I am writing this article in the hope of helping them. May God bless His people.
In this passage, Jesus first proclaims nine blessings to His disciples (Matthew 5:3–12), then provides teachings on conduct (Matthew 5:13–7:20), and finally emphasizes the necessity of putting these teachings into practice (Matthew 7:21–27). What Jesus said aligns with the Christian experience: grace comes first, making faith possible (Romans 10:14), and by abiding in faith and demonstrating corresponding actions, one can ultimately be saved (Romans 6:19; Romans 13:11–14; James 2:14–26).
Let’s begin with the nine blessings. Among them, the first two point to Jesus’ first coming, the next two point to His second coming, and the remaining five point to the conduct of Christians between these two comings.
The first blessing is given to those who are poor in spirit. They lack the Holy Spirit (the Spirit can also be translated as the Holy Spirit), belong to the flesh, are under the law, and do not receive God’s favor (Galatians 3:1–5; Romans 1:11). Jesus’ first coming brought the gospel of forgiveness; those who believe will receive the Holy Spirit, who is the believer’s guarantee of the kingdom of heaven (Ephesians 1:14).
The second blessing is given to those who mourn. They grieve over their transgressions (Joel 2:12–13), and the gospel can comfort them.
The third blessing is given to the meek. They keep themselves from evil and trust in God to do good (Psalm 37:1–11). Christ’s second coming brings righteous and comprehensive judgment, at which time these people will inherit the kingdom of heaven (Isaiah 57:13).
The fourth blessing is given to those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. Their longing will be satisfied through Christ’s judgment (Revelation 6:9–11).
The fifth blessing is given to the merciful. They forgive their brothers in Christ who have sinned against them, thereby preserving themselves in God’s mercy (Matthew 18:35).
The sixth blessing is given to the pure in heart. Their hearts are filled with truth, not loving false doctrine (1 Timothy 3:9; 2 Timothy 2:22–23). They know God (Galatians 4:9; 1 Corinthians 13:12).
The seventh blessing is given to peacemakers. They love their brothers in the Lord who hate them. Because they possess the nature of the heavenly Father, Jesus calls them sons of God (Matthew 5:44–45).
The eighth blessing is given to those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake. They are hated by the kingdoms of the earth, but they will inherit the kingdom of heaven.
The ninth blessing is given to those who are persecuted for Christ’s sake. They will receive a great reward from heaven.
After interpreting the nine blessings, it is time to interpret the Lord Jesus’ teachings. Jesus first instructed His disciples on how to preach the gospel (Matthew 5:13–16), then told them that the gospel does not contradict the law but fulfills it (Matthew 5:17; Jesus atoned for humanity’s sins on the cross, enabling the righteousness of the Law to be imputed to those who believe). Finally, by emphasizing that God’s righteousness — represented by the Law — remains unchanging, He required His disciples to practice righteousness (Matthew 5:18–20) and provided corresponding teachings (Matthew 5:21–7:20).
According to the teachings of the Lord Jesus, Christians have two roles in evangelism: one is salt, and the other is light. Salt symbolizes God’s righteousness and judgment (Genesis 19:26; Zephaniah 2:9), while light symbolizes God’s forgiveness (Matthew 4:16; John 1:4). Therefore, when sharing the gospel, Christians must first lead people to confess their sins before proclaiming God’s forgiveness. Some Christians, seeking to please outsiders, preach only God’s love without proclaiming confession. They are salt that has lost its flavor.
Regarding how to practice righteousness, Jesus offered teachings that diverged from the legal traditions of His day. These legal traditions instructed the Israelites on how to treat others under the same law, so Jesus’ teachings should also be understood as instructing His disciples on how to treat others of the same faith.
The first teaching was to avoid anger toward one’s brother. Jesus did not mean that those who became angry had no hope of entering the kingdom of heaven, but rather that they should make peace with their brother as soon as possible (Matthew 5:23–26).
The second teaching is to avoid lusting after women. Jesus meant to forbid disciples from worshiping idols in their hearts. In the Bible, adultery often signifies the sin of betraying God and turning to worship idols (Exodus 34:15; Numbers 25:1–2; Ezekiel 16:17; Matthew 12:39–42; Revelation 2:20). If a person worships idols in his heart, he has already betrayed God. Idol worship is a grave sin, and those who commit it will be cast off by God (Matthew 5:31–32), just as in Jeremiah 3:8, where the adulterous Israel was divorced by the Lord.
If we assume this teaching refers to matters between men and women, we cannot explain why the consequences of this sin are so severe — even to the point of gouging out an eye or cutting off a hand to avoid it. King David committed adultery with Bathsheba, yet God did not command him to inflict bodily harm. When a member of the Corinthian church committed sexual immorality by taking their stepmothers, Paul did not instruct him to harm himself. In Matthew 18:8–9, Jesus also taught to pluck out the eye or cut off the hand to avoid sin. There, the sin referred to causing a brother to fall away from the faith; here, the sin should likewise refer to causing someone to fall away from the faith. Idolatry is precisely such a sin.
The third teaching is to avoid swearing. Jesus meant for His disciples to steer clear of boasting. In 1 Corinthians, we see how boasting caused some church members to be esteemed while others were looked down upon, ultimately leading the church into division.
The fourth teaching is to avoid confronting evil people. Jesus meant that if a fellow believer wrongs you, you should endure it. From the text, the wrongdoing here is not grave sin (Matthew 5:39–41).
The fifth teaching is to love your enemies. Jesus meant that if a brother in the Lord hates you, you should love him and pray for him.
The sixth teaching is to avoid hypocrisy, concerning almsgiving, prayer, and fasting. When speaking of prayer, Jesus taught His disciples how to pray and warned them that if they did not forgive others’ offenses, the Heavenly Father would not forgive them either. Here, “offenses” does not refer to all sins, but specifically to those committed by disciples in daily life after believing in Christ due to fleshly weakness or momentary confusion (just like daily bread). Christians should forgive such offenses, for they themselves are not immune to committing them. As for grave sins, Christians have no obligation to forgive. Though some Christians may have committed them before conversion, they will not commit them after conversion unless their faith is false (1 Corinthians 6:9–11).
The judges and David showed no tolerance toward the nations seeking to destroy or oppress Israel (Hebrews 11:32–34). Even when Christians committed grave sins, the apostles showed no tolerance (1 Corinthians 5:13; 3 John 1:10). These instances of intolerance are recorded in Scripture as examples. The gospel is the gospel of forgiveness for sinners, but only those who believe receive forgiveness, while unbelievers are condemned (John 3:18). Jesus did not proactively forgive (heal) the Canaanite woman’s daughter until He saw the woman’s faith (Matthew 15:21–28). On the cross, He forgave those who crucified Him because they did not know He was the Son of God, but instead thought He had committed blasphemy (Luke 23:34; 1 Corinthians 2:8). As for the scribes who understood the Holy Spirit’s work yet went out to slander Him, Jesus showed them no tolerance (Mark 3:28–30). Therefore, for universally recognized grave sins like murder, rape, kidnapping, or robbery — regardless of who commits them against Christians — Christians bear no obligation to tolerate them. Brothers, let no one deceive you any longer!
The seventh teaching is to avoid coveting wealth. Coveting wealth leads to valuing money over the Lord. This is the same as idol worship. Idol worship is a betrayal of faith and will cause one to lose the light of life.
The eighth teaching is avoid judging others. Jesus meant not to judge brothers in the Lord. As for unbelievers, Christians should judge them so they may be saved.
The ninth teaching is to avoid casting pearls before swine. Jesus meant that Christians should value themselves. If someone rejects the gospel or goodwill shown by Christians and instead attacks them, Christians should not continue to offer these good things to such people.
The tenth teaching is to be kind to others.
The eleventh teaching is to guard against false prophets. Christians can recognize them by their deeds (Matthew 3:8). Any prophet who does not act according to Jesus’ teachings is a false prophet.
These are the teachings of Jesus. After reading them, we understand that Jesus’ burden is light (Matthew 11:30) and does not exceed human capacity. Some believe that since the Pharisees and scribes diligently followed the law, Christians must adhere to an even higher standard to surpass them. But did they ever truly practice the law? The hypocrisy (Matthew 23:23), the extortion of property (Mark 12:40), the oppression of the righteous (Matthew 23:34), and the slander of the true doctrine (Matthew 12:22–37) — even the upright among the Gentiles would not do such things. How much easier, then, is it for you to surpass them?

Soyeong said:

The content of a gift can be the experience of doing something such as giving someone the opportunity to experience driving a Ferrari, where the gift intrinsically requires them to do the work of driving in order to have that experience but where doing that work contributes nothing towards earning the opportunity to experience driving it.

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The gift would be the opportunity. If the person refused to drive the car, they would have rejected the gift; thus, the analogy would be if we do not do the good works God prepared for us beforehand, it would mean we have rejected his gift of salvation. The gift precedes everything. We do the good deeds because He has saved us and not to earn salvation. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 We are not saved in sin; we are saved from sin.

Soyeong said:

Similarly, the content of God's gift of eternal life is the experience of knowing Him and Jesus (John 17:3) and the gift of God's law is His instructions for how to have that experience, not for how to earn it. In Luke 10:25-28, Jesus affirmed that the way to inherit eternal life is by obeying the greatest two commandments and something that we inherit is a free gift (Exodus 33:13, Matthew 7:23).

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Yes, and Jesus also commanded us to be perfect as God, so how is that working out for us? If we think this precedes salvation, we have already utterly failed. But it is by Christ's one free gift that we are perfected for ever while still being made holy.

Soyeong said:

Our salvation from sin would be incomplete if we were only saved from the penalty of our sin while our lives continued to be directed at being doers of sin, so there is an aspect of our gift of salvation that we are experiencing in the present by repenting and redirecting our lives towards be a doer of God's law. In Titus 2:11-13, it describes the salvation that grace brings as being trained to do those works, so that the aspect of our gift of salvation that we are experiencing in the present.

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Our salvation would not have happened if we live lives of approving and practiceing sin. That would be a rejection of God's salvation as surely as Eve eating the fruit of the forbidden tree or Adam's distrurst of God's salvation because of his fear of losing Eve. Salvation is salvation from sin and it is a gift of God lest anyone should boast. Our actions are a result not a cause of salvation. The cause is Christ.

Soyeong said:

God graciously making us into a doer of good works is the aspect of His gift of salvation that we are experiencing in the present.


Child of someone is metaphorically someone who is in their likeness through being a doer of works that embody their character traits, such as with John 8:39 where Jesus said that if they were children of Abraham then they would be doing the same works as him. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact likeness of His character (Hebrews 1:3), which he embodied through his works by setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to God's law, so that is also what it means for us to be children of Abraham and children of God. This is why those who are not doers of righteous works in obedience to God's law are not children of God (1 John 3:4) and why Paul contrasted those who are born of the Spirit with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to God's law (Romans 8:4-14), so again it is about what is happening in the present.


There is not a disconnect between being righteous and being a doer of righteous works. If someone is not one, then they are also not the other.


That does not direct contradict Scripture because Scripture doesn't say that Christ fulfilled the law for us because we could not. According to Galatians 5:14, anyone who has ever loved their neighbor has fulfilled the entire law, so countless people have done that. If Christ fulfilled the law for us, then he would be experiencing the gift of salvation instead of us.

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It is God that gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor 15:57

Romans 8:3–4​

“For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,
that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”

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Soyeong said:

Jesus saves us from sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so Jesus graciously teaching to experience being a doer of it is the way that he securing our gift of saving us from not being a doer of it. If Jesus obeyed the law on our behalf, then he would be taking away his gift of us getting to experience fulfilling the righteous requirement of the law.

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❤️ Romans 5:6–8 — Christ died for the ungodly​

“For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

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Meaning:
We had no strength to save ourselves — no righteousness to commend ourselves — and yet that’s exactly when God showed His love.
Salvation begins not with our worthiness, but with God’s mercy.

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✝️ Romans 5:10 — Reconciled while we were enemies​

“For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.”

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Meaning:
We were not neutral toward God; we were opposed to Him.
And yet reconciliation was accomplished before we sought Him — He took the initiative.

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Ephesians 2:1–5 — Made alive while we were dead​

“And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
in which you once walked according to the course of this world, …
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).”

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Meaning:
Dead people can’t make themselves live again — salvation is entirely an act of divine grace.
We didn’t climb up to God; He stooped down to us.

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Titus 3:4–7 — Not by works of righteousness​

“But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us,
through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.”

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Meaning:
Our salvation is not a reward for good behavior — it’s the overflow of divine kindness toward those who least deserve it.

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️ 1 John 4:9–10 — Love defined by His initiative​

“In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

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Love didn’t start with us — it began with Him.
God didn’t wait for our affection; He loved us first and paid our debt completely.

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John 1:29 — The Lamb who takes away sin​

“Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”

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The mission of Christ — to remove sin’s guilt — was set in motion before anyone repented or believed.
Grace is always proactive, never reactive.

Hans Blaster said:

This is ringing familiar. I believe the sesech were mining the roads or something on the way to Savannah. Sherman tried to cure them of that tactic.

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Today it's called using human shields.

Hans Blaster said:

Looked it up. Was making war materiel. Burnt down. Army of the Tennessee went through there. I used to live 2 km from there.

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Burning it down wasn't the problem; shipping civilians, mostly women, against their will is. It's why there's not much complaint about the soldiers heating track rails and bending them around trees; that was to prevent it's use to transport material and troops, and bending the rail prevented simply connecting it back together.

Hans Blaster said:

Soldiers were doing the right thing. Sherman didn't have the logistics to support them. Not sure what the atrocity is here.

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Oh? Telling them to leave without so much as a suggestion of where they could go and what they would do? The only time Sherman tried to address it was out near Savannah, and that led to the rumor of "40 acres and a mule." It was later determined that Sherman had exceeded his authority.

To see the problem, consider what happened to the Union officer Jeff Davis (no relation to the Confederate president) at Ebenezer Creek. His unit was crossing a pontoon bridge and a large number of emancipated slaves were following when the received word that Joe Wheeler was bearing down on them. He got his unit across and, to protect them, cut loose one side of the bridge and pulled it in to their side of the shore. With no place to go and Confederate calvary bearing down, the former slaves panicked. Many died trying to cross. Davis' first responsibility was to his mission, but that's not how the Northern press saw it. He already wasn't the most popular officer in the Union Army, and Ebenezer Creek didn't help his career much.

So it was that when I learned that the first US military governor of the Alaska Territory was Jeff Davis, I couldn't help but wonder if what happened at Ebenezer Creek was why he was sent to administer "Steward's Folly:" A command as far away from the rest of the army as possible.

None of this would have happened had the slaves not been encouraged to leave. Not to remain slaves, but to at least come to an understanding that they were no longer slaves and would be compensated for their labor - as apparently one farmer offered to do. His former slave replied they had to leave because they were told to do so. I can't help but wonder how many who did as the soldiers urged and left ended up coming back simply because there was no where else to go.

BCP1928 said:

It's not the evidence but the value judgement. The Naqadan culture was not "primitive." You have to paint it as "primitive" so you can fit in your "lost technology from some ancient vanished culture."

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Stop turning everything in politics and morality. Just deal with the evidence lol. You actually acknowledge that your making a value judgement. If thats the case then did it ever occur to you that your value judgement may be your own lol. That is being projected.

That your using a subjective determination to dispute the evidence. Thats not science and you complain about those who propose alternative knowledge as being unscientific.

Ok lets take the trigger word 'primitive' which is a common word used to describe prehistory cultures. Lets call it a less advanced culture as far as tech was concerned compared to modern times. Before the wheel the methods were less advanced as far as making round stuff.

BCP1928 said:

No degree of truth has ever been established to show that the biblical flood was based on a real event nor that Plato's Atlantis was based on a real city-state.

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Yes there is. Not just the biblical flood but every flood story from all cultures. Are you saying they just purely made this up. Like hey we need to create a false story to make out religion more interesting.

No all these cultures are basing their flood myths on a real flood event. In fact we have evidence for massive flooding around 8,000 to 14,000 years ago that had mega flooding. We see the evidence in the landscape. Scientific studies have been done.

The question is why would not ancient culture at that time who survived or who were decendents of the people of that time not create a story about such an event.

Yes, Noah's Flood May Have Happened, But Not Over the Whole Earth

Now if this mega flood happened locally why would cultures not record such an event. Its based on a real event. Just like the possibility that during those mega floods a city that was well advanced in that time or looked upon as a great city that was looked to was then wiped out in a relatively short time. Then as time goes by this becomes legend.

This is what I am talking about with hard or hyper skepticism that it even blinds people from the real possibility that these legends are based on real events that may be the basis. All the cultures themselves and not the so called whackos are the ones saying these ancients had advanced knowledge that could create these great works.

The hard skeptics are actually the ones relegating these ancients to certain ways by insisting that all these myths and legands are make believe and not based on some reality.

BCP1928 said:

So Native Americans had CNC machining, too?

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Lol I just told you I never said that they actually had CNC maching and you double down. Typical. You can't handle dealing with the hard evidence in the ground.

BCP1928 said:

Instead, you want to skip the discovery and fabricate a fairy story about ancient lost technology from some mythical ancient vanished culture. But be careful. It's possible that those pots came from Mesopotamia--the Naqadans traded with them extensively--but if you want that to be the story you will have to prove that the Mesopotamians were "primitive" too.

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Ok at least the idea of vases being traded is attempting to link them back to a culture who may have had the ability to make them. Which supports that some sort of turning was involved and not just by hands.

But even then at 3,600BC the potters wheel that existed in Mesopotamia was the slow version that had lots of wobble. We find tons of examples of softer vases and copies from this method. Some are pretty good but never at the level of these vases.

BCP1928 said:

The only assumption I see is right in that paragraph above.

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Then your very selective in assumptions which is sort of supporting my point. That your assumptions have no basis in reality.

BCP1928 said:

I used "Atlantis" not because I believe in the Atlantis legend in particular or because I think you do, but merely because "lost technology from some ancient vanished culture" takes too long to write. If you don't like your made up "lost technology from some ancient vanished culture" being called "Atlantian" why don't you make up your own name for it too?

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Saying "lost technology from some ancient vanished culture" is completely different to saying "lost knowledge from Atlantis". Your using a baited word that is well know to represent whackery. Your qualifying all investigation into lost advanced knowledge as whackery by simply adding that word and you know it lol.

That is you and not me or anyone who serious investigates lost advanced knowledge. In fact its even a study subject in rediscovering the lost Indigneous knowledge of cultures at University lol. Its something the cultures are trying to do and rediscover. Your actually the one creating the conspiracy.

I have read and agree.

eretz Israel is the land of Israel, the nation of Israel.

The promised land of Israel began when the 12 tribes in their Exodus from Egypt, crossed the Jordan river, to populate the promised land in the areas designated for each tribe. And thus the nation of Israel begun.

Always in His Presence said:

No I have not.

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I'll let others reading the thread make up their own minds whether that is true or not.

Always in His Presence said:

In fact I am at the point of repeating the same thing over and over.

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You passed that point from the start of our interaction.

Very good opinion! A complete journey of faith.

Dan Perez said:

And you do have a FALSE ISRAEL , IN A VERSE ??

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Not all the offspring of Israel, are truly Israel. Romans 9:6b
....they claim to be Jews, but they are actually a synagogue of Satan. Revelation 2:6b

And what does God say He is going to do with them?
Bring those who did not want Me for their King and slaughter them... Luke 19:27
Those who were born to the Kingdom, will be thrown out into the dark.... Matthew 8:12

Get this: The Jews have had almost 2000 years to get right with God. They remain stubborn and obdurate as ever. God will Judge and punish them and only a Messianic remnant will survive. They won't say much. Ezekiel 16:63

Time you and all who have false ideas about Jewish Israel, STOP posting lies and unscriptural rubbish.

Hentenza said:

The emotional fallacy comes from “attempting” to show an absurdity that is not present.

Strawman. No one here has argued that God is powerless and that people are too dumb.

Learn your fallacies.

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<ROFL> Hey, I'll just let you make 'em up as you go. It's more entertaining that way.

Have you ever heard the parable of the Good Samaritan?

RileyG said:

Since I am not Orthodox, Eastern or Oriental, I'm not sure if I have much opinion on a unification. With that said, I would love to learn more about it.

Peace

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It should be of interest to you vis a vis the prospects for EO and OO reunion with the RCC.

Maria Billingsley said:

The Supreme Court did act.

AI Generated

The Supreme Court's most prominent action on behalf of Donald Trump was the 2024 decision in Trump v. United States, ruling that a former president has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts within their core constitutional purview, and at least presumptive immunity for other official acts. The Court has also frequently ruled in favor of the Trump administration in emergency motions, often limiting nationwide injunctions issued by lower courts.

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That was a different case entirely than Trump v. Anderson, the one that was actually about the disqualification clause.

This is why people shouldn't be trusting the answers an AI spouts out at them, at least without verification. They get things wrong all the time and can give you opposite answers depending on how you phrase your question.

Fantine said:

Trump is so transparent.

Cross the 34 times convicted felon and you will live to regret it.

So far, his track record is 100%. Everyone he's gotten indicted is 100% innocent. In a city like D.C., a Trump indictment is the surest sign of integrity I can count on.

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Pssst. The man was indicted by a grand jury in Maryland. Not a Trump anyone in DC. BY Judge Theodore D. Chuang who was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 8, 2014,

DaisyDay said:

No, he has not always had a problem with incoherent speech. He is in a lot of videos throughout the decades - look at his earlier ones and you'll see that he used to speak in whole paragraphs with complex clauses without meandering off subject. His vocabulary has been drastically decreased while his repetitious ranting has increased.

I am likewise baffled.

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Right... I guess I wasn't thinking that far back. I was thinking more about his first term (especially during the COVID pandemic), which wasn't that long ago. And even when compared to then, the frequency seems to have increased.

I wasn't aware of his father's dementia and Alzheimer's. That's... concerning.

Episode 35 is in preliminary activity mode as of this morning (HST). Spatter and pooling in the north vent. (The one that has fountained at an angle for the last few episodes and the primary focus of the eruption since at least mid summer.)

The south vent had very little activity going back several episodes, but in episode 33 it had a few large overflows while the north vent was sending out its tilted fountain. In the last episode (34) the south vent started fountaining not long after the north vent and sent up the highest fountains yet at 400 m. For the first time since activity moved to the North vent, the South vent has had the first overflows starting about 8 hours ago at 7:30 am HST visible in "V3" cam linked in post #20. Other view are available in post #12 and #68. Big show expected in the near future.

SDAs believe in the postTrib rapture where all saints are literally taken to heaven after the tribulation. And before the literal millennium

But I don't think this forum defines that as "post Trib Rapture" for some odd reason.

David Lamb said:

Jesus is called "the last Adam." However, nowhere in the bible does the bible make any mention of Mary being the "New Eve."

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You are right that the Bible never explicitly calls Mary the “new Eve.” However, the idea is drawn from biblical typology—a method used by early Christians to interpret Scripture as a unified story in which Old Testament figures foreshadow New Testament realities. Early Church Fathers like Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian emphasized this parallel: Eve’s disobedience was undone by Mary’s obedience; as Eve was the “mother of all living” in the natural sense, Mary becomes the “mother of all the living in Christ” in the spiritual sense.

David Lamb said:

And God is eternal. It is just misleading to call Mary "mother of God."

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Are you Nestorian?