FreeinChrist said:

at least 10 others have been re-arrested.

From

At least 10 pardoned insurrectionists face other criminal charges - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

At least 10 January 6th insurrectionists pardoned by President Trump have already been rearrested, charged or sentenced for other crimes.

www.citizensforethics.org

Andrew Taake - arrested for solicting a minor

Edward Kelley - arrested and convicted for plotting the murder of FBI agents who investigated his J6 offences

Emily Hernandez - serving 10 years for a 2022 drunken driving incident that killed one.

Daniel Ball - Arrested for gun possession. He had a history of domestic violence.

David Daniel - possession of child porn

Shane Jason Woods - convicted of reckless homicide and drunk driving

Theodore Middendorf - convicted of sexually molestation of a 7 year old in 2024

Taylor Taranto - illegal gun possession and threatening to blow up a building

There are two more.

Now this fellow.

Trump should have been more judicious in who he pardons.

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Three of ten of them, nailed as pedophiles. What is going on with those guys?

Apple Sky said:

Why are being so horrible ?

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I’m not being horrible. You’ve been horrible to me, but I’m giving you the opportunity to give evidence for your claims, which you obviously don’t like having to do.

And it’s time your attitude changed like @prodromos has alluded to.

CoreyD said:

Well you just struck the cord that inspired the OP - the cord that asserts the truth cannot objectively be presented by any of us, but "it's only another opinion".
The OP is created for the purpose of laying that satanic lie to rest.
The question is not philosophical at all.

To make such a claim is to diminish or invalidate Jesus' words at John 4:23, 24; John 17:17... as well as a few other texts, including 1 Timothy 2::3, 4.

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Pressing the question is not the same as making a claim.

CoreyD said:

It's simple.
You tell the person asking, Christians don't know what truth is.
Now only would you give them mixed emotions - whether to be puzzled or laugh, but you would have added to the confusion and perhaps the meaninglessness of Christianity today.

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A dash of humility goes a long way.

CoreyD said:

Do Jesus' followers know the truth?

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The question isn't do, but how?

CoreyD said:

Can Jesus' followers know the appropriate method for making the identification?

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You tell me

CoreyD said:

Can Jesus' followers answer the question?

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It takes engaging with it to make a determination

CoreyD said:

From your response and another poster, it seems the OP isn't being read in full, or the comments aren't being connected, or linked to each other. Or something...

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the thread had been ongoing for a while when I jumped in, so my response wasn't directly to the OP

CoreyD said:

Acts 17:1-4, 10-12
It was Paul's custom, to reason with people from the Scriptures; explaining and proving by giving evidence of what was true. Acts 17:2, 3
The result:
Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few leading women. Acts 17:4

Those in Berea examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
The scriptures were what revealed truth to them. They could compare what Paul said, with the scriptures to see if what Paul said was in line with truth.
The scriptures were like a measuring rule.

Did the Bereans find the truth?
Was it clearly outlined in the OP what method led to their finding it?
It wasn't John 17:17, which says what the truth is.

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This is exactly the circularity I was referring to

GloryToHisName said:

Thank you in advance for your grammar-based analysis. I look forward to your insights.

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Untrue, the 70th week has yet to come upon Israel God rent or left the temple when Jesus died. Israel MUST ACCEPT the Messiah before the 70th week can end.

A Devil's Advocate said:

Have you ever raised someone from the dead? Have you ever walked on water, given the blind sight or cured someone of their disease? Have you ever raised yourself from the dead? In all honesty, do believe you ever will?

Do you honestly think living in the twentieth century, within a culture where your understanding of language, the present world around you, and God Himself, that you are interpreting scripture the same way the audience of the day, who scripture was written directly too, would have understood it?

I'm not saying it wasn't written for us, but it certainly wasn't written to us. The very fact that we can have so many different and conflicting understandings is proof of this reality.

If you understand the very foundation upon which the Gospel is built, but certain scriptures later on appear to contradict this, isn't it more likely we have miss understood those pieces of scripture?

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I haven't, but GOD did through me on some of those things.

Christianity is a Spiritual walk of faith, of which Jesus is our only true example to follow, just like Paul did.

I'm not here to argue and debate. Enjoy what you have so far been able to achieve with GOD. Laters.

We learned some witnessing techniques to Common objections from people. False religions claim the Bible is corrupt. But it is still powerful enough to be effective, to change, to bless. Then pastor preached a little directly from 1Tom 4. It is well with us so we want to spread it around and get some people saved before the church is taken to the clouds and bless some and give them eteternal security for living now.

JimR-OCDS said:

Not faith but often an ego-identity attachment, or superstition.

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Try not to judge others.

boughtwithaprice said:

With all due respect, I love Mexican culture. I don’t like being singled out because of my race, but if my race was associated with increased criminal activity, that only means that I have to
try harder to prove myself, which I am all too happy to do

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But this kind of mind set leads to all kinds of absurd ideas. Think about it for a minute. Whites commit 69% of all rapes and 74% of all sexual crimes. Should the police stop all whites for suspicion of rape or sexual crimes? Blacks commit 52% of all robberies should all blacks be stopped for suspicion of robbery?


Do you see the absurdity? There is no difference in the look of an illegal alien or a legal alien or citizen walking or driving down the street. There is no sign hanging from their necks identifying them either way. In general, a brown Mexican born here looks no different than one that did not.

Look, I have no problems deporting every illegal alien criminal living in the US which is what Trump ran his campaign under. But the bedrock of our justice system is probable cause and due process. Everyone in the US that is accused of a crime needs to go through the judicial system not just arbitrarily adjudicated guilty. What Trump is doing parallels to what we did to the Japanese during WWII. If our judicial system is not for everyone then the system fails everyone. Who knows another president might decide that Christians need to go and Trump is setting precedence.

boughtwithaprice said:

There are many criminals crossing the southern border, not just Latinos. The border must be secure. Bexar county may have voted for Harris, but it was due to propaganda.

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Agreed.

boughtwithaprice said:

What does the democrat party do? Play identity politics. We are sick of it and are not falling for it anymore: I do not have Latino American or that idiotic Latinx, nor African American friends. I have American friends, and we all love our country
The same is true in Our Catholics Churches here in San Antonio. Scripture says there is no
Jew nor Greek, but here we say there in no Anglo nor Latino, black nor white, we are one in the body of Christ Jesus. We respect the laws of the nation in which we reside. We do not claim exemption from law due to race.

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I did not vote for Harris because of where the Democratic Party its been heading for quite some time. Trump, at the time, was the lesser of two evils but an evil nonetheless. My vote was against Harris but not for Trump. Both parties are operating at their respective extremes and that needs to change.

boughtwithaprice said:

I’ll grant you that there are right wing crazies and there are left wing crazies. I admire that you are centrist. I am centrist in that Christ died for all people, not identity politics because it is evil in that it attempts to divide and demonize.
That is the very thing Christ preached against. He said love your enemies and pray for those that persecute you, not practice identity politics
Division plays into Satan’s hands. Is Christ divided? God forbid!!

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He also said to love the your neighbor and not oppress the stranger. I don’t think that we should demonize a whole race merely because some have crossed the border illegally.

““You shall not oppress a stranger nor torment him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭22‬:‭21‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Michie said:

Here’s a roundup of the latest Catholic education news in the United States:

Notre Dame drops ‘acceptance and support for Catholic mission’ from staff values​

The University of Notre Dame has dropped acceptance and support for its Catholic mission from the list of staff values it has held for the past 20 years.

The university’s leadership announced new updates to its staff values at its Fall 2025 Staff Town Halls on Oct. 29 and 30, according to a press release. Human Resources President Heather Christophersen said the new values were “an expression of how we seek to advance Notre Dame’s mission as a global, Catholic research university.”

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Notre Dame drops ‘support for Catholic mission’ from staff values

Here’s a roundup of the latest Catholic education news in the United States.

www.catholicnewsagency.com

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The Catholic colleges listed on he 'Newman Guide' wouldn't do that.

Jipsah said:

It meant what it said to those to whom it was written. Remember them ? Almost nobody seems to remember the folks to whom the Revelation was explicitly written.

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Imagine if someone ran around saying that 1 Corinthians had to be written to their particular church in the 21st century for it to MEAN anything?

That's what these people are doing with Revelation

camille70 said:

Epsteins brother said it wasn't Clinton, but didn't say who it was. Other people have said it was a donor with rhe nickname Bubba.

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Don't believe it. Clinton may be a slimeball, but even he has limits.

A Heavenly Mindset​

Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth.
—Colossians 3:2

As believers in Yeshua, we must live for the age to come. We cannot allow our temporal circumstances or how people treat us to define who we are in God or distract us from having a heavenly perspective. We must set our focus on eternity even in the midst of tests and trials.

We must keep our eyes on the eternal prize. This world is not our home. Like Abraham, we are called to set our sights on the majestic city “whose architect and builder is God.” We must continually look toward heaven. All our thoughts and actions should be filtered through an eternal mindset.

Beloved one, we are not of this world, and it can never satisfy us. Let us stop trying to gratify ourselves with the fleeting pleasures of this life and instead live each day realizing that we are on a supernatural journey. Eternal life is our calling, and heaven is our destination. As we age, we see more and more how temporary our earthly life is. Many of us have family and friends who have already passed away. So let’s live for what will endure. Soon Messiah will return, and for those who have lived for Him, our final home will be in a place where God will wipe every tear from our eyes and there will no longer be any suffering, pain, or death.


(Rabbi Kirt A. Schneider, Entering His Presence (Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2023), Used by permission.)

J Natl Med Assoc 2022 Dec 27;115(1):15–17

The impact of COVID-19 vaccinations on stillbirth rates among pregnant women in the Metro-Detroit area​

Infection by COVID-19 increases maternal morbidity and mortality prompting both the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine to strongly recommend vaccination during pregnancy. Limited data exist assessing the risk of intrauterine fetal death (IUFD) associated with COVID vaccination during pregnancy.

This was a retrospective chart review at a large multisite hospital system in Metro Detroit which reviewed data from 13,368 pregnancies. We compared IUFD rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated patients. The rate of stillbirths among unvaccinated women (0.75%) was not statistically different from those who were vaccinated (0.60%). Individuals with government insurance were less likely to be vaccinated and more likely to have IUFD in comparison to patients with private insurance. The rate of stillbirths among Black women was significantly higher than among White women at a rate of 1.1% compared to 0.53% (p=0.008) with no difference in stillbirth rates among vaccinated vs unvaccinated racial distribution.

Apparently, the results from your study couldn't be reproduced by other studies. Not a surprise.

eleos1954 said:

the millennium is the thousand-year reign of Christ with His saints in heaven, during which the wicked will be judged and the earth will be desolate.
A resurrection begins the 1,000-year period.
This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection (Revelation 20:5, 6).
It is called the first resurrection. The saved blessed and holy from all ages will be raised in it.
The rest of the dead [those who were not saved] did not live again until the thousand years were finished (Revelation 20:5).
All who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation (John 5:28, 29).
The second resurrection takes place at the close of the 1,000-year period. The unsaved will be raised in this resurrection. It is called the resurrection of condemnation.

Please notice: The resurrection of the saved begins the 1,000 years. The resurrection of the unsaved ends the 1,000 years.

EVENTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 1,000 YEARS:

• A devastating earthquake and hailstorm (Revelation 16:18–21)
• The second coming of Jesus for His saints (Matthew 24:30, 31)
• The saved dead raised to life (1 Thessalonians 4:16)
• The saved given immortality (1 Corinthians 15:51–55)
• The saved given bodies like Jesus (1 John 3:2; Philippians 3:20, 21)
• All the righteous caught up into the clouds (1 Thessalonians 4:17)
• The living wicked slain by the breath of the Lord’s mouth (Isaiah 11:4)
• The unsaved dead remain in their graves until the end of the 1,000 years (Revelation 20:5)
• Jesus takes the righteous to heaven (John 13:33, 36; 14:2, 3)
• Satan bound (Revelation 20:1–3)

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Keeping in mind that Revelation is prophcy, which is given in riddles (Nu 12:6-8) not spoken clearly and subject to more than one interpretation, which "millennium" is not in agreement with NT apostolic teaching (1 Th 4:16-17) of Christ (Lk 10:16).

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.

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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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.