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Day 6, Proverbs Chapter 6
- By Leaf473
- Proverbs - A Chapter a Day
- 93 Replies
Bible Gateway passage: Proverbs 6:16-19 - The Message
Seven Things GOD Hates - Here are six things GOD hates, and one more that he loathes with a passion: eyes that are arrogant, a tongue that lies, hands that murder the innocent, a heart that hatches evil plots, feet that race down a wicked track, a mouth that lies under oath, a troublemaker in...
At the end there, it says a troublemaker in the family. Interesting!
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Jesus' strategic self-disclosure
- By tonychanyt
- Bibliology & Hermeneutics
- 0 Replies
Jesus was careful and strategic about telling people who he was. In the first year of his public ministry, he interacted with a Samaritan woman by the well in Jn 4:
Jesus declared to her that he was the Messiah. She, in turn, told her townspeople about Jesus.
Jesus claimed to be the Messiah. They didn't stone him. They actually believed him.
Meanwhile, he wasn't so straightforward with the Jews.
Two years later, Mt 16:
People were confused about Jesus' identity. Peter knew better:
Peter knew Jesus was the Son of Man, the Messiah, and the Son of God.
Jesus didn't want to advertise that he was the Messiah. Even so, they tried to stone him at least twice (Jn 8:59, 10:31, Lk 4:29) when he made some self-disclosures. He wanted to control the timing of it.
Finally, they arrested Jesus and took him to the Sanhedrin. Mt 26:
The high priest wanted a clear answer from Jesus.
Jesus did not deny it.
Still, Jesus humbly called himself the Son of Man.
To them, it was blasphemy.
The consequence of calling yourself the Messiah and Son of God was death. Sure enough, they crucified Jesus the next day.
The Samaritans had no problem with Jesus calling himself the Messiah. Some Jews had a problem with Jesus implying himself to be the Messiah and Son of God and tried to stone him. Finally, the high priest would not tolerate that and demanded the death penalty. In all this, Jesus was strategic about his self-disclosure and level of publicity: how much to say and to whom.
NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis
- By RileyG
- Gamers Zone
- 5 Replies
Sonic the hedgehog
Donkey Kong
Some dolphin game I can’t recall the name of
Donkey Kong
Some dolphin game I can’t recall the name of
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Trump's 2nd butler PA Speech: fact-checking
- By Stephen3141
Fact-checking Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania
Former President Donald Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the first assassination attempt against him,
www.politifact.com
PF Politifact fact-checking grades many of Trump's assertions at this speech,
as FALSE.
Trump's language, painting the previous Butler shooter as a "cold-blooded
assassin", is a rhetorical device. What the FBI has learned about this guy,
is that he was an alienated loser, who couldn't qualify to joing a local
shooting club. The facts of the Butler shooting, suggest that the shooter
didn't have much of a clue, what the preparation of an assassin, would
have been. That Trump would use this language, suggests that he is
addressing people who also, don't have much of a clue what a "cold-blooded
assassin" does.
I would regularly ignore politician's assertions that they survived some
event, because God had some sort of great things for them to do.
It is a very hazardous thing, to tell God what HE must have meant, by letting
someone survive through some event. As Jesus commented on the collapse of the
Tower of Siloam, and I paraphrase, "Don't look for some explanation of why those
killed in the collapse of the tower were more EVIL people than everyone else.
Because, unless you all repent of your sins, you ALL shall likewise die in
your sins." We do not see Donald Trump referring to the advice of Jesus.
Because this remains a Christian apologetics site, I include the passage...
1 At that time some people who were present there told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. 2 He said to them in reply, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? 3 By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did! 4 Or those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem? 5 By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!”
New American Bible, Revised Edition. (Washington, DC: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2011), Lk 13:1–5.
Note that Jesus' warning about attributing evil to those who are
killed in disasters, or attributing blessings of God to those who
survive disasters, is followed by Jesus' teaching about a fig tree
that does not bring forth good fruit. It is not what the metaphoric
fig tree SAYS, but what fruit it produces.
Note that in the parable, the fig tree that was under the threat of
condemnation, was allowed to live one more year. Metaphorically,
no doubt, it said to itself, "I was allowed to live, therefore I am
putting out high quality fruit." Of course, the owner of the orchard,
knew differently.
Trump seems to regularly identify SURVIVING as a mark of being pleasing
to God. He does this with members of the military. Those who die in battle,
he has called "losers". Those who came back alive, he calls "heroes".
Why would Trump NOT interpret the actions of some nutBar shooter, in the
same way?
But, this is not how the Bible sees death, in a disaster.
What’s behind the viral photo of Pope Francis venerating a chair?
- By RileyG
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
- 12 Replies
AmenI pray for him. When he gets it right he nails it. It’s the other things that bother me. We must all pray for discernment.
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testing
- Testing 1,2,3...
- 1 Replies
That was a beautiful performance. I saw it live yesterday, while watching the rally. A very moving moment.x.com
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When Sinless?
- By RandyPNW
- General Theology
- 13 Replies
Good point. However, people have physical bodies, and angels have spirit-bodies, apparently?
So when people die and lose their physical bodies, they cannot commit sins on earth, where physical bodies must exist in order to commit sins. When people die and lose their bodies they are purely bodiless spirits, and exist in an as-yet unfulfilled state, as Paul argued that we are "naked" in that state until the resurrection.
2 Cor 5.For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
So for me, it really appears as if after we die we remain "unclothed" with our glorified bodies until the Coming of Christ. It just isn't very explicit for me, which is why I asked the question.
Angels seem to live in a different dimension, though Satan apparently committed his sin of tempting Adam while adopting a physical body on earth, ie the serpent. But this is pretty hypothetical.
Yes, I agree that it is normal for God to speak to us via people and events, or circumstances. We have to determine how God's love approaches each situation that confronts us. That's quite a challenge!
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