HIM said:

Because you left the context of Galatians 2. The issue is Titus not being compelled to be circumcised. NOT how it is fulfilled in and through Christ.

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The Circumcision Paul speaks to here, is the Circumcision Jesus was a Minister of, that Paul was also made a minster of. A Circumcision of the Heart, as Moses teaches. A circumcision rejected by the Pharisees, the wicked Kings of Israel, the Israelites that fell in the Wilderness, Sodom, and many others according to the God inspired Holy Scriptures. A Circumcision rejected by the Jews who were bewitching the Galatians, who crept unawares to seduce and influence the Church of God, including Titus.

17 But if, while we seek to be justified "by Christ", we ourselves also are found sinners,

Isn't vexing the Non-Jew who chooses to Join himself to the Lord, "walking not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel"?

is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

18 For if I build again (The Doctrines and Traditions of the religion who defiled me in the first place) the things which I destroyed, (Like persecuting the Church of God) I make myself a transgressor.

HIM said:

By Titus' refusal to be circumcised, he was not heeding what was written in the Law by the understanding of those in Jerusalem .

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Yes, These preachers who contended with them, were ignorant of God's Law, and had gone about establishing their own. They rejected God's Commandments in favor of their own traditions. If they had been faithful and obedient to God like Zacharias, Simeon, and Anna, they would have received the Spirit of Truth that God gives to those who obey Him, and would have known the Christ, as Zacharias and Simeon knew Christ.

Paul told us "why" these men who had become fools, who were bewitching to Galatians with their doctrine in Romans 1:21,22.

HIM said:

This issue, not fellowshipping with Gentiles and taking on their customs is all being said in context verse 16 where it states

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There is no "LAW" of God that directed His People to not fellowship with faithful non-Jews. In Fact, God's Law specifically states;

Lev. 19: 34 But the stranger (non-Jew) that dwelleth with you "shall be unto you as one born among you", and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Those Galatians who Peter was fellowshipping with, had received the Holy Spirit from God, according to Paul's own words. Are they not exactly what this LAW is referring to? And yet the Pharisees didn't consider them as children of Abraham at all. And Peter was influenced by their wicked doctrines. Peter was "transgressing God's Laws", by separating himself from these "non-Jews" who "Believed" to go sit with the mainstream preachers of that time, that didn't believe. And Paul rebuked him for his disobedience, as also required by God's Law..

So this behavior of eating or fellowshipping with faithful Gentiles, "CANNOT" be the "works of the Law" that the children of the devil were promoting to the Galatians.

I'm not going to address the same points over and over with you. But I would like to address a few of the things that I know you are mistaken about. And I know these things are the result of the influence we are surrounded with as I was influenced by them as well. So it isn't meant to demean or insult, just point out.

HIM said:

We are not made righteous by the works of the Law, by what we do if it is not through the faith of Jesus Christ.

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What does it mean, "The Faith of Jesus"? I think it means "Living by" God's Instruction in righteousness, in a world where no one really believes in Him. Like Noah, and Abraham, and Moses and Caleb, and David and Danial and Shadrack and Abednego and Zacharias and Simeon and EVERY EXAMPLE of Faithful man given to us by the God and Father of all. Just as the Christ Jesus Himself did! In fact, it isn't my will that matters, it's God's Will. My will killed me. But Jesus made me alive so I can choose this time to "deny myself" and follow Him. "Lo, in a volume of a book it is written", I come to do Thy will Oh Lord".

HIM said:

Eating with would be considered fellowshipping, wouldn't it?

Gentiles would be unbelievers, unclean, heathen in the Jews eyes.

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First, Who is teaching you that the Galatians Peter was fellowshipping with were "Unbelievers"? And it was a mistake for men to listen to the Pharisees, children of the devil then, why are men still listening to them today?

HIM said:

The Jews have a law in the Book of the Law about not mingling with people who were not of Israel.

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No they don't. You have been taught that the Jews religion was a religion that promoted obedience to God's Laws. That they were trying to earn salvation by obeying God's Laws. This is an insidious lie, and a Leaven that infects everyone who adopts it. It's not true brother.

Gen. 17: 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. 13 He that is born in thy house, "and he that is bought with thy money", must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

Ex. 12: 48 And when a stranger (Non-Jew) shall sojourn with thee, "and will keep the passover to the LORD", let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger (Non-Jew) that sojourneth among you.

Lev. 19: 33 And if a stranger (Non-Jew) sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. 34 But the stranger (Non-Jew) that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers (non-Jews "inwardly") in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Is. 56: 1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

2 Blessed is the man (Jew or Gentile) that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

3 Neither let the son of the stranger (Non-Jew), that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD "hath utterly separated me from his people": neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

And yet, I have heard religious men who call Jesus Lord, Lord, further the religious philosophy of the Pharisees, that it was GOD's Law that relegated faithful Non-Jews as "without Christ, being aliens "from the commonwealth of Israel", and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world"

But when we read the Book of the Law, and the Prophets ourself, hear what it is saying my friend. God literally said to the Non-Jew who turned to Him, "Don't Say The LORD "hath utterly separated me from his people".

This is the reason why I replied to your Colossians sermon.

4 For thus saith the LORD "unto the eunuchs" that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 "Even unto them" will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

And to drive this home, because God knew we would be living in a world with these evil doctrines, HE continues.

6 Also the sons of the stranger (Non-Jew), that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

So here we are, surrounded by this worlds religions who preach to anyone who will listen to them, that it was God's Laws that caused the Wall of Separation" between Faithful Gentiles and Jews. They preach that it was God's Laws that relegated the faithful Gentile as "without Christ, being aliens "from the commonwealth of Israel", and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world"

That is was God's Laws that were against Jesus, Paul and the Church of God, that Jesus nailed to the Cross.

But it's a deception as anyone can see, who is seeking the "Circumcision" Jesus was a minister of, the Truth of God.

The question is, do men believe Him?

HIM said:

Peter and the Disciples knew this was not an issue anymore through the Body of Christ,

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It was NEVER an issue with God for a Non-Jew to turn to Him. It was always an issue with the rebellious, "uncircumcised of heart" Jews. Why do you think God sent Israel on their journey if not in part, as a witness for Him? A witness to Whom, If not "Non-Jews"? Will you at least answer this question?

Rom. 2: 23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed "among the Gentiles through you", as it is written.

Mal. 1: 11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, "and a pure offering": for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.

12 But ye have profaned it, "in that ye say", The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

In other words, they say, "God's Laws are impossible to obey, a Yoke of Bondage HE placed on our necks, and they are against us.

Hentenza said:

You do realize that thousands of airplanes a day travel around all areas of the globe, right? You do realize that if you are in one of these thousands of planes that fly every day cruising at 35,000 feet that you can clearly see the curvature of the earth, right? Have you ever been on a plane?

Heck, let’s have some fun. Go to a pier and watch ships disappear in the horizon. What do you see? You see the bottom of the ship disappear first and then progressively disappear from bottom to top until the top of the ship disappears. Do you know why that is? Because of the curvature of a spherical earth.

The fact that the earth is a sphere is not up for debate since it has been fully proven. Any other argument going against a fully proven fact is just absurd.

God created a spherical earth that spins on its axis every 24 hours and goes around the sun every 365 days. God created every other planet in our solar system and beyond to also be a sphere. The sun and the moon are spheres. Therefore the earth is a sphere.

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In regards to airplane windows, they are all convex, much like the lens on a go pro camera. In other words, you are looking out a curved window, not at a curved earth.

Ships don't disappear over the curvature of the earth, they advance beyond your visual perspective. Have you ever been on a long narrow highway lined with telephone poles on both sides? Look ahead or behind, the poles will grow closer together and closer to the ground from your perspective. Drive down the road a mile and those same poles will be at the same height and distance from one another as you originally perceived them. Aim a camera with a telescopic lens at the ship you watched disappear beyond the horizon, magnify the zoom and it will return to view.

You plainly stated "the fact that the earth is a sphere is not up for debate". Then why may I ask are you debating it here? If you are convinced that your view of the cosmos is the correct one, and all other viewpoints are " absurd", then what is the point of further discussion?

You mentioned that it was God who created a spherical earth. It was also God who created the first humans, Adam and Eve. He created them in His own image and placed them in the garden called Paradise. They were perfect and innocent and had the presence of God Himself with them regularly. And yet, these magnificent creatures who were blessed beyond measure, and created in the very image of Almighty God, were somehow deceived by nothing more than a few simple statements and suggestions.

We live in a fallen world, with fallen natures, not a paradise but a cesspool run by none other than Satan himself. Our enemies, the world and the devil, exist in complete opposition to everything that is holy and good and true. Our enemy the flesh is so easily tempted and corrupted that we must continually guard our hearts and minds against not only the world and the devil, but our own vain thoughts and imaginations. And yet, in light of these obvious spiritual realities, your average believer cannot even allow for the possibility that this evil and fallen world in which we live, just may be misrepresenting Gods creation, how such misrepresentations would obviously benefit them, or that ever falling victim to such a misrepresentation could ever be possible.

I have already asked, why are you here if there is nothing to debate?

Have you ever wondered why we are here? Do you think those of us who disagree with you come here because we enjoy the insults, being called idiots and wingnuts and repeatedly being accused of having no discernment or wisdom and many times even being told that we can't even possibly be true Christian believers etc etc? Are we masochists? Trolls? Enemies sent by the devil himself to stir up division? No to all of these.

I can't speak for anyone else, though I know enough people who share my views to confidently say, we are here because at some point in our lives we realized that this world is an empire of lies, ruled by none other than the father of lies, and that a great deal of what we have been told our entire lives served no other purpose than to distract and deceive us into accepting and believing even more lies which would eventually separate us from any knowledge of Almighty God, His creation, His divine purposes, and ultimately His very existence.

That what you call science, and established facts have already had this effect is beyond dispute. The theory of evolution being a prime example. How many people will never believe in God based upon that one scientific theory alone, how many others raised in the faith have abandoned that faith because of the things they were taught as facts during the process of higher education? God only knows.

We are here because at some point we realized that what we were told did not align with what we have observed. Do we claim to have all the answers, of course not. What we do have are a wealth insufficiently answered questions. And the God given ability to question those things which we can observably see as unsupported by the commonly accepted answers provided by the so called scientific community and generally accepted by the indoctrinated public at large.

God bless you.

Palestinia, as designated by Emperor Hadrian;- 135 AD, was part of the Holy Land. Genesis 15:18
Today, it is just a figment of some peoples imagination.

Thank you

iluvatar5150 said:

I regret that I have but one lol to give.

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I gave one on your behalf.

I'm apostolic but I can't find a counselor that shares my faith. I really need counseling.
I feel like no one gets it.

One of our partners in Pakistan supports Christians in communities who are often enslaved in brick kiln work and who are constantly vulnerable to abuse, because they are Christians.

Support groups provide biblical discipling, as well as collaboration to deal with specific social problems faced by Christian families. The groups run savings programmes to enable members to start self-supporting businesses.

Pray for those in the groups with health issues.

Please pray also for those seeking healing from past drug addition. Pray for real spiritual growth.

Pray for those in the support groups who are now out of work: for God’s provision for them and that they might know God’s peace when burdened with loans.

Pray for younger family members, to be guided and blessed by the Lord in their
faith and struggles.

Pray for the nation of Pakistan: that its government and law enforcement agencies will have the courage and wisdom to implement justice and protect its citizens.

Pray particularly for the rights of Christians and that they would stand strong in their faith in the midst of persecution and hardship.

RDKirk said:

The bar for the military is "manifestly illegal." If Trump's orders were "manifestly illegal" these matters would not be in appellate court. The courts are still trying to figure out if they are "manifestly illegal."


And which the military would have, if any had been illegal orders.

Again, an "illegal order" (not to mention a "manifestly illegal order") is an order to break an existing law.

What is the existing law that the military has been ordered to break?

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Reluctant Theologian said:

Why not speak to your local church pastor or priest? You need someone in-person I think. Be blessed ...

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I don't have one.

Maria Billingsley said:

The question is ..... what would Jesus Christ of Nazareth do?

Here is helpful hint:

"For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved."

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John 3:16-21

John 3:32-36

Jipsah said:

It reflects a decline in parenting.

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No, it reflects errors on both sides.

Parents did not call for teachers to teach "sight reading" instead of phonics, for instance. We could have had the most well-behaved children, but being taught sight reading, there would still be a downtrend in literacy.

The absolute fact is that there is only ONE people of God. Who are His faithful Christian peoples by natural and Spiritual descent. John 17:20-23, +

Natural; by the fact of everyone living today, has some of Abrahams genes.
Spiritual; By accepting the Salvation offered by Jesus.

The truth of ‘born again’ Christians being the only People of God is summed up in a single sentence: Christ called a people together made up of Jews and Gentiles which would be one, not according to the flesh, but in the Spirit, and they would be the people of God.

Jesus Christ has made his followers into the whole People of God. The ministry of Jesus was to bring into existence a renewed people, in continuity with the Israel of old. Paul calls this new community ‘the Israel of God’. Galatians 6:16
Jesus symbolized his intention to do this by choosing the Twelve, Matthew 10:1-8, as representatives of the twelve tribes of Israel and as the foundation members of a renewed and mission minded community.

Christ called a people together made up from people of every tribe, race, nation and language, Revelation 5:9-10, who would be one, not according to the flesh, but in the Spirit, and they are now the Christian people of God. Seen by John in Revelation 7:9
This expanded People of God are bonded together by the sacrifice of the life of Jesus and the gift of his Spirit in their hearts, re-creating, directing, activating and motivating them from within. Paul’s letter to Titus speaks clearly of the influence of the Holy Spirit given at the rite of baptism, the first sacrament of Christian initiation:

Titus 3:5-7 From the goodness and loving kindness of God; our Saviour appeared and He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy, through rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, so that, having been justified by his grace, we would become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

The clearest expression of the identity of the People of God of the New Covenant is found in 1 Peter 2:9-10 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Romans 9:24-26 We [Christians] are the recipients of God’s mercy, whom He has called from among the Jews and Gentiles, for as Hosea says: Those who were not My people, I will call My people…..sons of the Living God.

durangodawood said:

Yeah thats why I said the principle doenst include it.

There are situations where a person would be reasonably capable of judging an order illegal - even if theres also other tricky edge cases.

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An order is not illegal unless it defies an existing law. That's what the troops are taught "illegal order" means.

Oompa Loompa said:

Sure. Mandami has called Trump a fascist, but he would never dare say it to his face. Especially when he is groveling at his feet. How else do you explain why Mandami entered the office as some leftist hero that is going to stick it to Trump, only to come out like a battered housewife trying to keep a positive public image?

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Neither one of them appeared to be groveling. They were grinning in each other's face like they both just found their new best friend.

I deeply regret choosing “applied statistics” when I returned to college.

At that time, I believed the IT industry was too fast-moving for me, so I turned to statistics. Only now do I realize that belief was misguided—the IT industry actually suits me. Studying applied statistics was almost entirely a waste of time. And money.

I regret not seeking more guidance in prayer before making that choice (that was during the period when I stopped praying the Rosary, which would have saved me from regret). I should have studied something else.

Today, I find myself loving what I once detested, and detest what I once loved.

Casper and the Angels

There are 3 levels of possibility that we must consider, with the highest implying the level below it.

First is inerrancy, but we must define what kinds of errors are "tolerable" to maintain such a thing in any sense of the word without playing ostrich regarding critical scholarship. At best, the autographs were inerrant but that is of no real consequence since we don't have them and its questionable that there even were genuine autograaphs of several books.

The next is infallibility, which is the idea that anything the Bible endeavors to teach it is unquestionably authoritative. This view doesn't require inerrancy, only impeccbility on every teaching present in the text no matter what it is being taught.

Finally, there is indefeasibility. Which simply says that within its sphere of authority nothing the Bible teaches can be overturned. This view differs from infallibility because it recognizes that there is a scope of topics that underlie the Biblical works and that there are certain aspects where things mentioned or "taught" are not within the intended domain. Under this view, we might say that the sole interest of the Bible is theological content and things pertaining to salvation.

My view is somewhere between infallibility and indefeasibility, though primarily indefeasibility.

Jonestown News Updates
Tourism at the Site: A private tourism company in Guyana, Wanderlust Adventures, has begun offering guided tours of the former Peoples Temple compound, a decision met with mixed reactions from survivors. The company defends the tours as an educational opportunity to discuss the dangers of blind faith, while some survivors view it as an "abuse" and a way to profit from tragedy.
47th Anniversary: November 18, 2025, marks the 47th anniversary of the mass murder-suicide, in which 918 people died.

ME: Since, I was part of the Military clean up team. I think this is disgusting.

Googled Jonestown news, there are some stories on it.

The cheap health insurance promoted by Trump officials has this catch



The loophole for short-term plans


Short-term plans, which were previously limited to a duration of four months, were vastly expanded in 2018 by the Trump administration, which saw them as an alternative to ACA plans, which they opposed. To make the short-term plans more accessible, the Trump administration ruled that a short-term policy could last as long as three years.

“President Trump is bringing more affordable insurance options back to the market,” Health Secretary Alex Azar said at the time. “These plans aren’t for everyone, but they can provide a much more affordable option for millions of the forgotten men and women left out by the current system.”

Even some insurance companies wondered whether this relaxation of regulations was a good idea. Cigna executives raised objections to the proposed rule, worrying that consumers would end up with a cheaper short-term plan but “find themselves in need of certain benefits or protections.” Aetna suggested adding more consumer protections to the short-term plans. The largest health insurance company, UnitedHealth Group, however, recommended approval of the proposed rule “as quickly as possible.”

In the year after the rule was loosened in 2018, another 600,000 consumers turned to the policies, according to a 2020 study by congressional Democrats. While solid estimates of the total number of annual enrollees are hard to come by, they put the figure at 3 million.

Problems quickly emerged, their study said. Incentivized by larger sales bonuses, brokers were using deceptive marketing materials to sell short-term policies, the report said. It “is unclear what kind of value consumers are getting for their premium dollars,” it said, “other than a false sense of security.”

Last year, debate erupted again when the Biden administration reversed the Trump rule and restored the four-month limit on the policies. This year, though, the Trump administration announced it was again coming up with its own definition of “short-term” and would not prioritize enforcement of the Biden-era rule.

In comments for this article, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in a statement that the short-term plans can play “a crucial role in offering stopgap coverage solutions ... and can be significantly cheaper than ACA coverage.” The agency also noted that the administration has sought to expand access to “catastrophic” health plans, a form of ACA coverage with high deductibles but lower premiums that had been limited by age and income. In 2025, 54,000 people enrolled in them, according to researchers.

In a statement for this article, UnitedHealthcare said, “Short-term plans are designed to meet consumer demand for more flexible, low-cost options, but they are not for everyone. We encourage people to make informed decisions about their health insurance coverage and compare different types of plans.”

Spiritual Jew said:

Show me where Jesus indicated that they had to obey the law of Moses after His resurrection. He never did. You continue to just make things up.

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Already gave you Matthew 28:20.

All means all

A Devil's Advocate said:

I don't mean this to be disrespectful in any way, but I have to ask... "Why?"

Why are we to focus our efforts, any at all really, on confronting our sinful passions? How is being focused on ourselves bringing any glory whatsoever to God? My post, if you read it all the way through, concludes with me explaining how our focus should be on God and getting to know more of God, plain and simple. It is only through this act alone will we see ourselves overcoming sin.

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If I'm understanding you and some of the things you've posted here, you have an intellectual knowledge of GOD. You desire to know about HIM, not know HIM directly, personally.

Christianity is a Spiritual walk, one built around an ongoing relationship with Jesus. One where we also want to allow The Father to operate through us like HE did through Jesus, to HIS glory.

Christ-likeness is not just in name only, it is in deed. And the only way that it can happen through us is by partaking of HIS holiness, which requires us to spend great amounts of time with HIM in prayer and worship.

It's nice to find the place where you reckon yourself dead unto sins and alive unto GOD, but now it has to be taken to a place of action with GOD, and that requires spending time with HIM, not trying to just know about HIM by gleaning knowledge from the pages of scripture.

9Rock9 said:

Hello!

I'm undecided about eschatology but doing some research on it. I think good points are made for both amillennialism and premillennialism. The only view I currently hold to with is inaugurated eschatology (or "already and not yet") where most prophecy has double fulfillment.

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Can you explain what you mean by this? For example, scripture prophesies about the second coming of Christ. Do you think that has a double fulfillment? Another example is that the dead will all be resurrected (John 5:28-29). Do you think that has a double fulfillment?

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It's normally associated with George Eldon Ladd, who was a premillennialist, but I don't see why one can't be amillennial and also agree with inaugurated eschatology.

I'm wondering if one can hold to a non-literalistic premillennialism?

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I suppose that's technically possible, but I have not ever seen any premils who take that approach.

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Like, I don't think the events in Revelation are strictly chronological and probably could be oit of order or just the same events from different angles.

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Agree. It's usually Amils who see it that way, but some Premils see it that way, also. But, Amils see Revelation 20:9 as another angle of the return of Christ. It talks about fire coming down from heaven to destroy those who come against the camp of the saints. Amils take that to be referring to unbelievers opposing the church and then Jesus coming in flaming fire to take vengeance on them (2 Thess 1:7-10) by bringing fire down upon the entire earth (2 Peter 3:10-12).

9Rock9 said:

I also don't know if I believe the 1,000 years mentioned in the book to be be a literal millennium.

Could one believe in a Millennial State after the Second Coming, but not think the Millennial Kingdom will be a literal 1,000 years?

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Technically, yes, but I've never seen anyone claim to believe that.

Always in His Presence said:

According to AI - it is a close up photograph of the top side of an intel Xeon Platinum 848+ processor

The golden/bronze color and the distinctive pattern of circles and squares are the exposed copper layers of the processor’s integrated heat spreader (IHS) after the nickel plating and lid have been removed (a process called “delidding”).

What you’re seeing is the actual silicon dies (the four large rectangular chips arranged around the center) and the surrounding copper heat-spreading structure that sits directly under the lid on these server-grade CPUs. The circular features are thermal vias and structural supports in the copper IHS.

Perhaps you have a different view of these tiles?

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Which AI said that? It was quite wrong, here’s what a Xeon Platinum 8480 die looks like:


You can tell the image he linked is of ceramic tiles and not of CPU dies because of the extreme variability between each tile, and obvious grouting and contamination (and he found them at a local cemetary that had Druze persons buried).

I am probably (a) the most advanced user and developer of LLM-based AI systems on this, in that I now engage in prompt engineering professionally and have also done work at the forefront of an AI sentience. I am also among the members who along with my Roman Catholic friend @Michie who I don’t think is enthusiastic about AI to put it midly, whereas I am, for me, LLM systems are the fulfilment of a lifelong dream, would most strongly caution against relying on “AI”, especially an unnamed AI, as an authority. Indeed once in an argument with a member who tried to cite the output of an AI against the Roman Catholic Church I pointed out this was an appeal to unqualified authority, and proved it by producing an article from Grok about how Pope Gregory XVII in the 1970s following a fictional encyclical, complete with a Latin title, canonized one of the founders of their denomination, who was known for her outspoken criticism of the RCC.

I love AI, but I don’t trust AI; all output from AI should be checked, and as a systems programmer who in my career has seen photographs of countless CPU dies in the trade press I am 90% sure the image above is not of a CPU die, and if it is, it was of one that was de-lidded in such a rough and incompetent manner as to deform the heatsinks in a manner that happens to resemble ceramic tiles.

Now, I’m not an expert in the Druze religion (few people are, who aren’t Druze, indeed even among the Druze they have a hieratic caste that alone is fully indoctrinated into their belief system), but I did find images of Druze ritual hats that have stylistic similarities to the tiles linked to: SYRIAN – DRUZE ceremonial religious glass beaded hats